A phenomenon that has the Christian world up in arms, Joyous celebration is the prophecy in Genesis 22: 17-18, which says: “I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
For years, the world has been searching the scriptures, to determine, who the seeds of Abraham are: the people who holds the blessing of the entire earth, for every nation. The people whom the world knows as Jews, the Caucasian who was given the privilege to inhabit Israel by the United Nations decision in 1948, sold the world a lie. They did not speak it directly, however, they did everything in their power, to give everyone the impression that they are the chosen people of Yahweh, they were Jews of the bible, the decedents of Abraham the keeper of the creator’s blessing to the world.
The bible give many clues that directly points to and reveal to all, who are the chosen people, but the world refuse to accept the fact that the people who perfectly fit Yahweh’s description, the people who are the Keeper of the world’s blessing from the creator do not match the people they can readily accept in such a role. I am going to take this time, to go step by step to reveal to you who represents Israel the chosen or who are the Israelite of the Bible. One of the most potent bible texts that help us identify who Yahweh chosen people or the Israelites are is Genesis 15: 13 - Then the LORD said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
For many years, many bible scholars, one of whom I am not, have claimed that the Story of Exodus marked the fulfillment of Yahweh’s prophetic words to Abraham: as is outlined in Genesis 15: 13, and therefore marked the fulfillment of this prophecy. Unfortunately for those people, they are wrong. It is true that Israel spent 430 years in Egypt; it is also true that Israel was enslaved while in Egypt.
And it is also true that those Israelites of Genesis 15: 13 and the chosen people with whom the promise of Yahweh resides are one and the same. But History, the Roman Catholic Church and the other enemies of God have erased the member of the Israelites from the knowledge of man. That is why there is such confusion in trying to determine who these people are.
But there are also some important pieces of historical and biblical evidence, we must consider as well as the breakdown of the prophecy, which will give us a better understanding of what appear to be a simple prophecy but the most misunderstood prophecy. Let us take our time and begin with the breakdown of this prophecy in order to get a clear understanding of it. Genesis 15: 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
The first and very important is:
Your decedents will be a stranger in a foreign land. From biblical account, Abraham, Isaacs and Jacobs have been no mad with no land of their own, therefore every place they sojourned was foreign land. Abraham’s home land was the land of Ur, but Yahweh told him (Abraham) to leave Ur and for the duration of the patriot’s life He (Abraham) and his clan became nomads.
So in order for the first part of the prophecy to be fulfilled the Israelites must have occupied their own land and have become a nation. This will be the land of promised which was promise to them by Yahweh. When Israel went into Egypt they were still nomads. Therefore the Israelites were squatting on Canaan land with the good graces of the Canaanites. When Israelite when into Egypt their status did not change; it was just another nomadic sojourn. Israel was foreigners when they were in Canaan, they were foreigners when they left Canaan and they were foreigners when they arrived in Egypt.
The second part of the prophecy said, they will be oppressed for four hundred (400) years. The question we must now answer here is; was Israel slaves in Egypt for four hundred years. The answer is no; we can arrive at this by doing some simple math addition and subtraction.
According to the book of: Exodus 12: 40, we can all agree that from the evidence in the bible Israel spend 430 years in Egypt. But we must never forget that Israel went into Egypt as free men on the invitation of the King of Egypt, a sign of his gratitude to his servant Joseph a member of Israel. As is outlined in Genesis 45: 17 & 18 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan, 18 and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’
The arrival of Jacob or Israel and his clan of 70 people, to Egypt, Mark the emergence or the beginning of Israel in Egypt. Joseph was in Egypt some thirteen years before he was elevated to become Pharaoh’s second in command. Let us do some simple arithmetic; Gen.37: 2 tells us Joseph was 17 years old when he was sold into slavery by his brother, Gen.41:46 Joseph was 30 years when he answered the dream of Pharaoh and assumed second in command of all of Egypt.
This is so because Joseph was a part of Israel, he was not the patriarch of Israel and therefore his stay in Egypt meant nothing to this prophecy. So Israel did not go into Egypt as slaves. The question is when did Israel became the property of the Egyptians to oppress and enslaves? Were Israel slaves in Egypt for four hundred years as the prophecy outlined?
Read Genesis 45:6 and you will conclude that nine years after Joseph was appointment as Pharaoh’s second in charge, he revealed himself to his brothers, and pharaoh extends an invitation to his father and his house hold to come to Egypt. When Israel arrived in Egypt Joseph was approximately 39 years old. Another thing in Genesis 47: 9, when Jacob/Israel was asked by Pharaoh, Jacob give his age to be 130 years old; he spent 17 years in Egypt and die at 147 which is also mentioned in Genesis 47: 28.
We must also bear in mind that Joseph was the first of Jacob’s sons to die; according to genesis 50: 22 Joseph die at the age of 110 years old. When we consider the fact that Israel meaning Jacob and his entire clan went to Egypt when Joseph was 39 years old, we can subtract 39 from 110 and we will get. 71 years. Now if all the years Israel as a nation spent in Egypt is 430 years, let us take 71 years from that number and we are left with 369 years. So here we see a falling short of the 400 years of slavery to 369. This means that the enslavement of Israel in Egypt could not be the revelation of the prophecy given to Abraham. But there is more the biblical and historical evidence shows that Israel spent even less time that 369 as slaves in Egypt. We will examine this in the nest chapter.
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