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Group Guide Use this guide to help your group discussion as you meet this week. TranscriptGood morning. My name is Mike and I was going to walk out the back door, but Isaac had to mention my name in the prayer, so I decided to go ahead and come on up here today. I am not one of the pastors here, but I am an elder in training. Over the last several years in my life, I've been exercising the calling of God that I feel on my life and in my heart toward pastoral ministry. It's something that I have felt growing for a long time. A few months ago, I was asked to participate in the elder training process. I am working this calling out. I'm not just a pastor when I want to be. I am working this calling out with my friends, with my community group, and under the guidance of our elders here. They've given me this opportunity this morning.I have a day job. I am a physician kind of by training, and that's what I do Monday through Friday throughout the week. Over the last several years, I have had the opportunity to teach in different settings here in our church. I've been able to teach some of your children in the kids city setting. We actually do an assembly similar to this, and we do 60 to 70 minutes of teaching and they don't complain. So no, we do just a couple short minutes of teaching with them and then we break out into classrooms and teach, and I've gotten to share the Scriptures with them there.I had the opportunity to share the Scriptures with some of your teenagers in the student night setting. Just this last semester, I was able to teach alongside Isaac Hill, who heads that up, and we were working through the Gospel of John. We were blessed by that, and we were thankful to be able to share that with the teenagers in that setting.I've also been able to teach some of you next door in the Sunday school setting just last week. I was able to do that. Our brother Scott Hill faithfully teaches that class week after week after week. That meets in our other building at 9:30. It's an excellent opportunity to study the word together, and he's let me teach alongside him and he's given me the opportunity to fill in for him when he steps away.I was asked or I was given the option to pick the text that I wanted to, and I decided to pick something from the New Testament. We've been going through Samuel, right? We've been going through Old Testament narrative, and I was thinking, well, maybe let's step away from that and let's go into the New Testament for a little bit and spend a week here. I thought, what specifically would our congregation want to hear? And I thought, well, maybe something with a lot of imagery, a lot of pictures, a lot of symbolism, something that's got parts of it that are hotly contested and debated. And so, of course, I landed on Revelation. But I decided maybe something a little bit different would be more appropriate for our setting.Today, we are going to be in the Gospel of Luke. We're going to be in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 6, verses 27-36. Before we start, I'm going to pray and ask for the Lord's help.Father, we thank you for the opportunity to study the Scripture this morning. We've really got nothing apart from it. It tells us of you, and it's our privilege to be able to know it, to study it, and to have our lives changed from it. You know that I am a man desperately in need of grace, and I pray that you would meet me with your grace this morning in Jesus' name. Amen.So let's open up our Bibles to Luke chapter 6, verses 27-36. This is on page 53 in the blue Bible. The blue Bibles are under the seats in the rows in front of you and you can grab those, and if you don't have a Bible you can actually keep that. We want you to have a copy of God's word.Like I said, we are stepping out today from the Old Testament narrative in Samuel, narrative of David, of Saul, of the Israelite people, of Samuel himself at that time, and now we're kind of jumping into the New Testament narrative in the Gospel of Luke. This is the story of Jesus Christ.Just briefly for some context, Luke wrote this gospel around 58 to 60 AD. It is a defense of the Christian faith. It tells the story of the Christ on earth and it shows us Jesus's mission which was to bring salvation to people as well as fulfill some of the Old Testament prophecies that were written about him. Luke himself was a physician, so we can infer he was smart. He was probably pretty cool. I'll leave it there. He was a companion to the Apostle Paul, and Luke spent years interviewing eyewitnesses, people who walked alongside Jesus. And he compiled all of that into this gospel account.What we're going to look at today, this section does mirror another section in a different gospel. And that's common for that to happen. But it mirrors some similar teaching more familiar you might have heard called the Sermon on the Mount which is Matthew 5 through 7. This passage in Luke has some similarities to it.So what we're going to study or what we're going to look at is what Jesus has to teach his followers about kindness and compassion. We're going to begin in verse 27.“But I say to you who hear,Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also,and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.Give to everyone who begs from you,and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.”Now, we probably hear all that and think, "Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. That sounds good. That sounds fine." Especially when we hear that last verse, right? Because we can latch on to that because we've heard it before. That's one of those phrases that sort of has permeated and passed through our culture through generations. And it's something known as the golden rule.Parents teach an aspect of this to their kids, right? When you hit your brother or when you're deciding, should I hit my brother? I want you to think, do you want your brother to hit you? And even at a young age, you can conceptualize that pretty well. I don't want to get hit. I'm not going to hit my brother.Teachers in a classroom setting, right? As kids are going from, especially in younger ages, as they're going from being just at home to now interacting with people from other families, teaching them how to interact with those people, how they would want to be interacted with. And there's even probably some level in our workplaces that we apply this teaching, right? If you are wondering, should I put that in the email to everyone? Should I put that thing about my coworker in there? Maybe think, would you like to read that about you? Right? If you do that, that's probably a fairly safe way to navigate those different interactions.So, we've heard this many times and we usually just agree. When was the last time you saw on CNN, golden rule is being revoked? We're anti-Golden rule, and the golden rule is canceled. Right? You don't see that happening. I actually did this week and Googled, is the golden rule outdated or something to see? I did find an article, but it was on a website I hadn't heard of, so I didn't click on it. I decided that that was probably not something that was being spread through the masses at large, so this would actually still make sense.But if we are really going to understand what Jesus is calling us to do and really understand the weight of these statements, we have to go back and think about who he's commanding us to act this way towards. He says,“Those who hate you, those who curse you, those who abuse you,those who strike you, and those who take from you.”Guys, this is not a call to be nice to your friends. This is not a call to be kind to the person that you sit next to on Sundays at church. This is a call to be kind to the people who absolutely cannot stand you.Now, we have a tendency probably in our minds to think or to wonder, is Jesus overselling this, right? Is he going really far in how he's talking to us? But if you do half of that, it's probably fine. We have a tendency to think maybe this is just for effect. But to help us understand that, let's think about who he was talking to, who was standing in the crowd. That was a mix of Jewish people probably from Jerusalem and from Judea.These are the people whose ancestors we read about when we studied the book of Exodus. These are the people who were enslaved by the Egyptian Pharaoh who never had a day off to rest from work, who made bricks to build up that kingdom, never seeing an ounce of the glory, an ounce of the honor for their own. Even when they were about to escape from Egypt, the Pharaoh in his final act sent his army out to die, trying to retrieve them and bring them back under oppression.After that, they wandered through the wilderness for many years and they went through this cycle of oppression with other nations and judges, and God raised up judges for them. They turned from what God had said to them to do and they went back to their sin, and they're in this constant cycle of oppression.And then right up to where we're studying on Sundays, these kingdoms said, "We want a king. We want a king." And they were given one. God relented, they were given a king. Ultimately that kingdom is fractured, and nothing comes of it, and they end up being dissipated and occupied by other nations, right? The Babylonians, the Persians—throughout history, these really prominent, massive empires occupied and oppressed this people group.And now when Jesus is talking to them, they're under occupation still. They're under occupation from the Roman Empire. So he said all these things to a people that were hated, that were cursed, that were abused, that were struck, and that had every single thing taken from them. Jesus is not overstating or overselling this at all. This would have actually directly applied to the people that he was talking to that day. It would have probably been felt very deeply and viscerally by them. And this thing He was calling them to do would have seemed truly impossible.Now, this teaching calls them into kindness, right? But what does it have to do with us? Two days ago, we celebrated a holiday that exists to show that we are not under another empire, that we are not subject to another regime. One of our pastors spent time giving missiles to people to shoot into the air just so they could show that a British soldier could not come into their house without a warrant and take their stuff and make them cook for them.So we are not exactly under, in our current day and age, the oppression of another outside regime. Why this teaching still brings to bear on our lives is because things like hate, abuse, and stealing have been permeating cultures throughout all of time and they absolutely exist in our culture today. Even if you personally haven't experienced something like that or something that extreme, the point Jesus is getting at is not to minimize what you've walked through in your life actually, but to emphasize just how great the thing that he's calling us into is.So I want us to go back through that text again and think about each one of these directives. Love your enemies. Love is sometimes a wishy-washy word or a phrase that our culture doesn't always know what it exactly means. But we do have some biblical data that tells us patience, kindness, not envying, not boasting, not making yourself out better than someone else. We have some terms for love that we can use.Most commonly in our culture and in the Bible, we think about love in the sense of husbands and wives, spouses. That's a fairly easy example for us to grasp what love probably looks like. So here Jesus says,"Love your enemies."And tags it right up next to doing this. Or he says to love and tags this right up next to doing this to your enemies.This is not like I'm driving down the road and somebody cuts me off in traffic and I say, "You know, I see him later," and I just wave them along. I'm going to be the bigger person. This is saying somebody's flying down the road and sideswipes me and I drive off the road and I hit a tree and I'm severely injured and my car is totally destroyed and I'm in the hospital for months and when I finally recover, I've got nothing left in my name. I barely have a car to drive. I'm going down the road and I see that same guy and his lane's ending and he's in trouble if he doesn't get over and I let him in. That's loving your enemies.Doing good to those who hate you means improving the well-being of the person that actively hates you. When people hate us, we probably do one of two things. We either hate them back. "You're going to get into me. I'm going to get after you," like we're buttheads and have fights over things like that, or we just say, "No, you're not going to bother me. You're going to take the high ground and not say anything." And even we see this play out in kids in middle school and high school. There are either fistfights or people pretend like they don't hear what you say because that way it looks like it didn't bother me, and then at home they deal with the fallout of that.But what doing good to those who hate you is, is when your neighbor comes to you and says, "I'm building a fence on my property and it's going to go five feet into your property line and I don't really care." No matter what you say to him, he's going to do that. One day you come home and it's not five feet on your lawn, it's 10 feet on your lawn. And if you live in a subdivision, that's a lot. So you are seriously out some space. And then when he comes home from work the following day, you're in his front yard. You've cut it perfectly. You're edging right along the driveway. You've got the leaf blower, and you're cleaning it off and you're making it look perfect.That's actually improving the well-being of a person who hates you.Bless those who curse you. Now, we don't have a great frame of reference for this currently. Blessing and cursing. I would wager that most of you who said bless this week meant it in the context of a sneeze. But that is not really what blessing is here. Blessing is I am praying for God's favor to be put on another person.One of the famous examples we have comes from the Old Testament book of Numbers. God says to Moses,"Go pronounce this blessing on your brother."And it's"The Lord bless you and keep you;the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace."That's an actual blessing—wanting blessing for another person.Cursing is also not the way we use it today or cussing. It's a little bit different than what we use today. Cursing is not foul language, rude gestures, inappropriate conversation, as we have it in our context. Cursing is more like the opposite of blessing in that I want your total ruin and total destruction to be brought down on somebody. We do have some Bible examples of cursing. Even just when sin entered in the world, God cursed the earth. And so you can look at different times in the Bible where we see cursing. But blessing and cursing are paired together.So this is saying that while you are actively praying and asking God, "Will you give him 10 children who each have 10 children? Will you give him everyone in his family who is healthy? Would you make him live to be a hundred and fifteen, and pass away sweetly with his family surrounded by him? All his businesses, tens upon tens upon tens would have success and he would be rich and all the world's goods."While you're asking that for a person, that same person is hoping that you're totally and completely destroyed off of the earth. While you're hoping for his peaceful end with him surrounded by his family, he's hoping your bloodline comes to an end, that you never find a partner, that you never have a child, and that your last name is totally and utterly destroyed.That is blessing the people that curse you.Pray for those who abuse you. This one is probably a little challenging for us to hear. The word abuse sits pretty heavy on our shoulders and even when we hear it, we recoil. Some of you have actually experienced real abuse in awful, awful ways.Jesus here says,"On your knees, intercede before the Father on behalf of the person who inflicted you this pain. Pray for those who abuse you."To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also. Just sort of by way of explanation, this is not a little essay on pacifism. Should we fight in wars? Should I defend myself in my house? Striking someone on the cheek is really meant to symbolize or show disrespect. That's what it meant in this cultural context.And I think we probably have that translate to our cultural moment today. I don't know if I was at an award show—the Tonys, the Grammys, maybe the Oscars—and somebody got up and said something disrespectful about my wife's hair, I might get up and slap that person, and that would be a sign of disrespect given back to them. And I think everybody would be able to do that. And of course, I would go on to win best actor.This is when the guy at work puts you down, mocks you in front of everyone, and then later the boss comes to you and says, "Hey, you know, so and so, he's actually up for a promotion. What do you think?" And this is you saying, "You know, I think he's pretty good at his time management skills. I think he's got good computer skills," and you start highlighting different things about him that he doesn't deserve to have highlighted about him, but you start highlighting these positive things. Instead of returning disrespect with disrespect, you give respect to him and speak honorably about him.And from the one who takes your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you. And from one who takes away your goods, do not demand them back.So a cloak is like an outer covering like a jacket. A tunic is more underneath. It covers you from the shoulders down to the hips or ankles depending on how homeschooled you were. So this is saying be radically generous to the people who steal from you.So, you're at the beach, you're on vacation, and you're walking down the street, and somebody picks your pocket and takes off, and you take off after them and you call the police and you got this guy. You caught him and the police look at you and say, "Well, he stole from you. Do you want to press charges?" And you say, "No." In fact, I had $100 in my wallet, but I'm going to write you a check. I'm going to write you a check for $200. Because this is what it means that when somebody takes your cloak not to withhold your tunic from them.Also,"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."This really does summarize all of these directives well, guys. Sometimes we have such a strong desire for justice and it really, really irks us to see these perpetrators get away with things. But I do want to remind you that in the book of Hebrews, we're told,"There is no creature hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account."God will make these things right. People who commit injustices will be held accountable.What he has not done is asked us in this text to mediate out and give out that justice. He teaches us to love. He teaches us to do good and he teaches us to give not just to the people that like us. Not even just to the people that are kind of indifferent to us or tolerate us, but to the people who absolutely cannot stand us and actively choose to oppose us.Next here in the passage, he's going to talk to us about how the world accomplishes this. We're going to pick up in verse 32."If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners and get back the same amount."I think Jesus chooses to give us this explanation here because we sort of gravitate towards this, right? We want to be nice to the people that like us really. Well, if your friend calls you on the phone and they've had a rough day and they're going on and on and you're listening and being empathetic and encouraging them, at the end of the call, they say, "Wow, thank you. You were so kind. Thank you for listening." You might think, "Yeah, you know, I guess in just in the friend group, I'm the kind friend. Yeah, that makes sense."Or if your co-worker, who you actually do get along with, who helps you out, gets a busy project thrown at them and they're going to be there late and you say, "You know what? I'm going to pitch in and help them take some of that workload off them." And then a few weeks later, you hear them talking and they're saying, "Yeah, you know, he pitched in and helped me right when I needed to. He sacrifices himself. He's so kind." You might think, "Yeah, I am the dependable co-worker. I am kind. I do that. Yeah."Or if your friend forgets their wallet when you go out to lunch and you spot him and then you think, "Well, now I've got insurance if I ever forget my wallet and I'm out with him." Or if he asks, "Can I—he's going to buy pizza." I don't have to chip in because I already kicked in and gave it to them. We encounter these kind of circumstances all the time.And this is probably how we think without realizing. We trick ourselves into thinking that we are more kind than we really are. And the reason is because the people we like to be kind to are the people that like us. And so Jesus here very directly is saying that if you're kind to people so that you can just be praised and rewarded, then you are no different than the people who don't follow Christ or don't know Christ because even they are capable of that.Jesus calls us into sacrificial kindness and sacrificial giving. He calls us to do this to our enemies. And he rebukes the kindness that results in our own advancement in our own gain.In World War II, on December 20th of 1943, a German pilot by the name of Franz Stigler was flying in German airspace and he encountered a very badly damaged bomber flown by an American pilot with an American crew. He could see holes from multiple bullets in this plane and he could see the crew looked weak and near the point of death. And he had a moment where he could have gone different ways. He could have shot that plane as an enemy out of the sky, reported it back, and been awarded for what he had done. But that's not what he did.He flew up alongside the wing of this badly damaged American plane and escorted it out of German airspace because he knew that a German anti-aircraft gun would not shoot up at a German plane. He escorted them out to safety and they landed in Switzerland. After that moment finished, the two pilots got out and saluted each other and then the German pilot flew back into Germany. This was never publicized because at the time telling people that an enemy showed kindness isn't good for the war effort.We don't want to think that our enemy is capable of that, right? But interestingly, in the early 2000s, years after, they were actually able to meet and they became friends and they remained friends until they both passed away just a few months apart from each other in the same year. I think this is just in a small way an example of what it means to look like to be kind or to be compassionate to your enemies.Now go back with me if you will to the crowd. The crowd that stands there before Jesus. Imagine being one of those people who has been taught since birth from grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, all the cycles of oppression that have kept that people down. And even as they walk out of town to hear Jesus talk, they pass by Roman soldiers who are an ever-present reminder to them of the inescapable enemy that always lurks where they are.And Jesus says,"Love those people."Some of the people that followed Jesus were even part of zealous religious groups who wanted to commit political violence and wanted to commit assassinations. And they're standing there listening to Jesus."Love your enemies."Even you guys put yourself in that position, right? Imagine standing there and think to yourself, Jesus just said,"Love the guy who put me down so he could get a promotion.Love the girl that used to bully me in school.Love the person that inflicted the most emotional pain and suffering or even physical suffering that I've ever experienced."What would you be thinking? You would be thinking what they were thinking.Why? Why on earth would we ever do it? They're awful. They are horrible. Why would I ever love them? And if I wanted to, how could it be possible that I could be capable of that?And as the tension rises in their minds and as the tension rises in our own minds and these questions develop, Jesus tells us the answer:"But love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful."Jesus says that in order to be kind to our enemies, we must understand that God himself was kind to us. See, the answer we come up with is, "Oh, when they apologize to me, then I'll be kind." When they start changing their actions and I actually see it, then I'll be kind. But Jesus says,"No, kindness to your enemies can only be achieved one way, and it's by understanding God's kindness to you."Follow this with me. Jesus here teaches,"Be kind to your enemies."He roots that kindness in God's kindness to us. Why does that actually make sense? Romans 8:7-8:"For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.Those who are in the flesh cannot please God."It makes sense because before we knew Jesus Christ, we were God's enemies. And you might not think that's possible or you might think, "No, that's too much." Well, God, the infinite, existing before anything else for all time, spoke a world into existence, put people on that world to worship him. And I'm not even talking about going through the Ten Commandments and you lied. I'm sure you did. No, no, no, no. I'm talking this God is worthy of our worship at all times. And every time we sit and enjoy our house and we enjoy our family and we enjoy our truck and whatever, and we don't roll it up into worship of the almighty God, we have sinned and we are God's enemy.Is it that serious? Absolutely. It's that serious. The only way that we can be kind is to understand that God forgave his enemies. And the people that were standing there that day, they've got no idea what's about to come. That he would go through a total sham of a trial and be convicted of a crime that he did not commit.That he would be physically tortured, beaten, assaulted, that he would be given a purple robe and a crown of thorns, total mockery, so that he might feel shame. And they would make him pick up the cross and walk up the hill, put it up, and they nail him to it and hang him up there in front of everyone to see to execute him.And while he's up there, we have his words recorded for us:"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."The beauty of the gospel is that Jesus Christ died for his enemies.Romans 5:9-11, we read it this morning:"Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.But more than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation."The story of the Bible is the story of God's kindness to us. So if you today don't know Christ in that way, that's the type of kindness I'm inviting you into. If you do know Jesus, he really does want you to be kind like this. Let's take time to ask the Spirit to reveal the areas where we overlook this teaching.So, who hates you? Who have you hated? Who curses you? Who have you wanted to see destroyed? Who has abused you? Who has disrespected you? Who has taken from you your time, your money, whatever it is? Is it really important that we be kind to these people? Yes.Romans 2:4-5:"Do you despise the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?"Kindness is crucial, but we need the help of the Spirit in order to do this. We cannot do it on our own. In our sin, we try to be kind and sometimes it doesn't work. And sometimes we try to be kind and we actually end up being rude and it goes the total opposite direction.This is not how we naturally think about being kind. We think, well, it's genetic. Have you met that family? They're all smiling. That's not my family. We're sarcastic. We don't do that. We think someone is kind because they don't have the stress we do. If you had my job, you'd understand. I'm way too stressed out to just be kind to everybody I meet. I use it all up at work.We think we don't have to be kind. Look at my kids. I spend all my time raising those kids, teaching those kids, and trying to be kind to those kids. I don't have leftover to give to the people outside of that. We think when things get better, then I'll be kind. My retirement account's in good shape. My bank account's in good shape. When my house is the house I want, everything's fixed up. When I'm good, then I'll be kind to other people.This text would suggest otherwise.We're going to have the band go ahead and come back up here as we close. I think that when Jesus says in verse 36,"Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful,"that actually sums all of this up really well.What is mercy? Mercy is having compassion and kindness on someone whom it is within your power to punish. Our prayer today should be that God would help us to know in our minds and feel in our hearts the depths of the mercy he poured out on us in Christ so that we may reflect that mercy to the world around us.Some of you need to consider that you are an enemy of Christ but that he died for you and he is welcoming you into his kindness. Some of you have basked in his kindness for years and not for a second thought about how you might reflect that kindness to other people.If God would go so far as to die on the cross, then you can pray a blessing on a person that's cursed you. You can be kind to the people that make your heart race when we say words like enemy and abuser. The world can't do this. They can be kind to who's kind to them. Only the people of Christ can be kind to their enemies.By God's grace, may we be a people who understand the mercy of God in our lives. And may this translate into us being merciful and kind to the world around us.

Fr. Mitch looks at the oracles from the Lord in Isaiah, and how Judah's trust in the Egyptian Pharaoh, led to the mentality of “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”

Send us a textFear has always been a powerful political tool. In this eye-opening examination of Exodus 1:15-16, we uncover how an Egyptian Pharaoh's campaign to "Make Egypt Great Again" escalated from systemic oppression to outright genocide when his fear-driven policies failed to curb the Israelites' remarkable growth.The story begins with a ruler who "did not know Joseph" – a disruptor with an agenda fundamentally at odds with his predecessors. Driven by paranoia about Israel's increasing numbers, he implements a systematic oppression campaign designed to break their will through crushing taxation and forced labor. But God's promise proves stronger than Pharaoh's schemes: "The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and grew."What happens when a tyrant's plans backfire? Rather than changing course, Pharaoh doubles down on cruelty. We witness his chilling pivot to genocide as he commands two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, to kill all newborn Israelite males. This represents not only one of history's first recorded attempts at selective genocide but reveals another insidious tactic – recruiting members of the oppressed community to participate in their own destruction.The parallels to modern authoritarian playbooks are impossible to ignore. Fear-mongering about demographic changes, scapegoating minority populations, escalating cruelty when initial tactics fail – these strategies have remained remarkably consistent across millennia. Yet so has the ultimate lesson: oppression born of unfounded fear inevitably produces the opposite of its intended effect.Join us as we explore this pivotal moment in Exodus and consider what it teaches us about recognizing and resisting the age-old patterns of tyranny that continue to emerge in our world today.Support the show

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Archaeologists Discover Tomb of Unknown Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Please Subscribe + Rate & Review KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson wherever you listen! --- KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen. --- Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson – KMJ’s Afternoon Drive Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram --- Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another edition of Think Theory Radio's "Awesome Archaeology!!!" For the first time in over a hundred years and Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb has been found! Ancient mug scientifically proves ancient Egyptians use of psychedelics in ritual use! Does the world's oldest clay tablet map show the location of Noah's Ark?! Plus, discoveries of a 200,000 year old bed, fossil of a Chinese dragon, tablet with unknown language, & much more!!!

New York Times bestselling author FIONA DAVIS returns to BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss THE STOLEN QUEEN, her addictive new novel that transports us from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back! We loved talking about the The Met, the world famous museum in New York City, particularly the Greek/Roman exhibits and the Met Gala! Our protagonist shared many qualities with the female Egyptian Pharaoh, Hathorkare. Were they both marginalized because of their sex? What secrets about their pasts needed to be unearthed? It is amazing how timeless certain issues can be! We talked about the power of a curse over Charlotte's life and whether she was projecting onto it some of her own feelings of self worth. We loved talking about the fresh ideas that one character brought to Diana Vreeland and The Met Gala. This conversation will leave you breathless!You can find more of your favorite bestselling authors at BOOKSTORM Podcast! We're also on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube!

There's something about that Egyptian, maybe the way he walks? Anyway, I feel like we are soul mates across time and I must move to Egypt immediately and YOU CAN'T STOP ME DAAAAD! Welcome to the world of Dorothy Eady.Join Linz and Chris as they crack open the tomb containing this bizarre love story between a young British lady and a mummified Egyptian Pharaoh. I mean some like them older but Jyeeeeez.  A fitting episode 69 for us.Support the showSupport us on Patreon

In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled upon one of the most pristine tombs of an Egyptian Pharaoh ever found: the tomb of King Tutankhamun. That discovery became a pop culture sensation and revolutionized our understanding of Ancient Egypt. Learn more about King Tutankhamun, aka King Tut, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Plan your next trip to Spain at Spain.info! Sign up at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to get chicken breast, salmon or ground beef FREE in every order for a year plus $20 off your first order! Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Ben Long & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

King Tutankhamun may be the best known Egyptian Pharaoh. The discovery of his tomb in 1922 created a wave of "Tut-mania" that has made him a fixture of pop-culture ever since. But even though his treasures are among the most visited museum objects in history, the details of his life remain obscure. This may be because King Tut's successors actively tried to erase him from history. Why was this young monarch's name omitted from the official Kings List and carved out of monuments? Is this all just the fallout of an elaborate murder plot and a coup for the Egyptian throne? Tutankhamun lived through one of the most tumultuous periods in Egyptian history, so why was he written out of the official story? Tune-in and find out how Britain's most dangerous driver, a mummy's curse, and Steve Martin all play a role in the story.

Is there such a thing as a curse imposed on anyone who disturbs the rest of an Egyptian Pharaoh? It sure seems like it... but what does science say? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 1956 film The Ten Commandments in honor of Passover. Based on the 2nd chapter of the Bible Exodus, the Hebrews have been slaves to the Egyptians for over 400 years. The Egyptian Pharaoh commands to kill all the Hebrew babies to prevent them from potentially overpopulating them. One Hebrew woman builds a basket for her baby and places him in the Nile River to hide away from the soldiers. The Pharoah's daughter finds him and raises him as her own son calling him Moses. Years later, Moses believes that he's a prince and helps conquer lands and building cities for the Pharoah Seti I. Meanwhile, the Pharoah's son Rameses is jealous of Moses' accomplishments. Even Rameses' future arrange wife Nefretiri loves Moses more than him. But Moses then discovers that he is not an Egyptian prince, but a Hebrew slave. He is eventually banished and becomes a shepherd in Midian. Another few years passed and God tasks Moses to go back to Egypt and free the Hebrew slaves and take them to the Promise Land. But it won't be easy since Rameses is now the Pharoah and is refusing to let the Hebrews go. When the film premiered in theaters, it was a huge success making $122 million dollars out of a $13 million dollar budget. It received critical acclaim for its story, actors, music, and special effects. Nowadays, it's a cinematic classic that gets played on TV during Passover every year. What did they think of the film? Listen and find out. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support

You'll never believe what the original working name for “vegan” was. Plus, which ancient Egyptian Pharaoh had a major soft spot for animals? Was the philosopher Plato vegan-curious? And why did Roman gladiators eat a mostly vegetarian diet? This week, it's Jamie and Justina's Excellent Adventure into vegan history!

Amr ibn Al-Aas (ra), Session 60 The Fox of The Arabs  Sayyidaa Hajar (raa), The Kings Daughter Alyoon, the ancient name of Egypt The Battle of Al Faramaa A fierce battle that lasted for 1 month. The Battle of Bilbees and The End of Arthaboon Amr (ra) enters peace talks with the Primates of The Egyptian Church... The Priests state, 'No other than the known Prophets (as) have regard for such relations.... Sayyidaa Hajar (raa) was the daughter of our king and belonged to Ahlul Manf who were the ruling family. However, The Ahlul Aynush Shams Kingdom attacked them, killed many of them, seized the kingdom and the rest of them were forced into exile. Manf was the name of the City of the Egyptian Pharaoh, originally the Copts called it Manaafah, Surah 28 v15. Then Sayyidaa Hajar (raa) became the wife of Ibraheem (as) indeed his coming was most welcome...(Taareekh).

Today's Mystery:The uncle of a wealthy heir calls Johnny in to protect his nephew, who wants to go on an expedition to Egypt to unearth the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh.Original Radio Broadcast Dates: September 3 and 4, 1956Originating from HollywoodStarring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paul Dubov; Alan Reed; Richard Crenna; Virginia Gregg; Ben Wright; Forrest Lewis; Eric Snowden; Barney Phillips; James McCallion; Les TremayneWhen making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.comBecome one of our Patreon Supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.netThank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Joel, Patreon Supporter Since July 2021Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call at 208-991-4783Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

Today's Mystery:The uncle of a wealthy heir calls Johnny in to protect his nephew, who wants to go on an expedition to Egypt to unearth the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh.Original Radio Broadcast Dates: September 3 and 4, 1956Originating from HollywoodStarring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paul Dubov; Alan Reed; Richard Crenna; Virginia Gregg; Ben Wright; Forrest Lewis; Eric Snowden; Barney Phillips; James McCallion; Les TremayneWhen making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.comBecome one of our Patreon Supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.netThank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Joel, Patreon Supporter Since July 2021Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call at 208-991-4783Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 125. Witness Josiah's vigorous efforts as he destroys altars and idols throughout the land, including the notorious altar at Bethel. His actions fulfill a prophecy, marking a significant moment in Judah's history. The episode reaches a climax with Josiah organizing a grand Passover celebration, unmatched in its scale and devotion. Despite his reforms, we learn that Judah's fate is sealed due to past transgressions. The story concludes with Josiah's untimely death in a battle against the Egyptian Pharaoh, an event that deeply affects the nation and the prophet Jeremiah.  Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/  Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds.  And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abraham and Abimelech, Abraham Lies Again For reasons not revealed, after being given the promise that in a year's time Sarah will have a son, and after sodom & gommorah were destroyed, Abraham moved his caravan south near Gaza. Abimelech was king in that area. Like Abraham did twenty years before, he lied (or half truthed) about Sarah being his sister. Abimelech took 90 year old Sarah as a wife. This was a precarious situation because it was during this time that Sarah needed to be conceiving through Abraham so they could have a child within the year that God promised they would. One might excuse Abraham for not initially remembering the events of 20 years before when he did a similar thing with the Egyptian Pharaoh. One might excuse Abraham for being fearful for his life if it was known that Sarah was his wife. But when Abimelech took it to heart and indicated he was going to take Sarah as his wife Abraham should have spoken up. All is well that ends well? By the end of this Biblical account it looks like Abraham made out pretty well. But surface reading could be deceiving. This was not a time when Abraham was a good example. More to the story One might wonder why this story is in the Bible. Certainly we can learn from Abraham's mistakes, but is there more to it than just that? Yes there is, and this story is no exception. There are some very profound insights hidden in this story that demonstrate that this story is bigger than just Abraham lying and everything working out fine in spite of it. This account, like everything in the Bible, has deep significance in understanding God's work for humanity, and for God's calling upon us individuality. Good news Once again in this sermon Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky helps us find the “good news” in the story. Join us in finding out what that good news is and how it applies to your life. Come along for the Adventure, you will stay for the Shalom – ShalomAdventure.com You can also view all and any of Shalom Adventure videos in one convenient, easy to navigate, site.

“Talk is cheap.” “Actions speak louder than words.” “Easier said than done.” We've all heard these phrases before — and nobody questions their point. We all tend to agree that in most cases, according to conventional wisdom, it is easier to say stuff than to do stuff.And I think the writer of Hebrews would also agree with that, which is why in Hebrews 11, when he wants to show us what real faith looks like, in the example of Old Testament saints he does not give us a list of quotes they said, but he describes things they did. He tells us about actions they carried out. And beginning in verse 4, he is just working his way through the Old Testament storyline. If you remember, he starts with Abel, then Enoch, then Noah, and then he gives extended attention to Abraham, which we saw last week — and the writer doesn't mention everybody he could, and he doesn't say everything about those he does mention — but he hits the highlights and his main message is the same. He's saying: This is how faith looks. Faith has consequences.And we understand this. We get this. I think it's intuitive. A couple weeks ago after our service, I was talking with someone about Hebrews 11 and he said: “The examples of faith in Hebrews 11 make me wanna do something.” I think that's the bull's-eye sentiment we should have. The writer of Hebrews would hear that and say “Exactly!” And I think that's especially the case when it comes to our passage today, Chapter 11, verses 23–31, which focuses in on Moses.Structure + OutlineNow in terms of the structure of this text, in today's passage there are seven total examples from the ‘Moses generation' — just like there were seven total examples from the ‘Abraham generation' in the previous passage: there were four examples connected to Abraham directly, and three examples from people who came after him – Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph (see vv. 20, 21 22). In today's passages the writer is running that same 4:3 — there are four examples connected to Moses directly, and then three from those who came after: the people who crossed the Red Sea (v. 29), the people who march around Jericho (v. 30), and Rahab hiding the Hebrews spies (v. 31).There is a lot here that we could talk about, but what I'd like to do for today is to take this focus on Moses and focus in even more on one example from his life, in verses 24–26. Let me read these verses to you again. Look at these verses with me if you can. Hebrews 11, verse 24: “24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” Now within this focus on Moses, I want to tell you three observations of his faith that I think are especially relevant for our church right now. Moses displays his faith by:A deliberate decisionA costly associationA peculiar valuationThat's our outline. And now before we dig in, let's pray again and ask God to help us.Father in heaven, by your grace alone, in your providence, we are here in this moment with your Holy Scriptures opened before us. We ask, by the power of your Spirit, open our hearts to hear from you. In Jesus's name, amen. Moses displays his faith, #1, by …1) A Deliberate DecisionWe see this right at the start verse 24: “By faith Moses, when he was grown up…” Now that might seem like an odd thing to say, but it makes more sense when you contrast it with verse 23 which starts, “By faith Moses, when he was born…”So these are different times in Moses's life. There's Baby Moses in verse 23 and Grown-up Moses in verse 24. And the writer of Hebrews points out examples of faith in both times, but it's important to notice in verse 23 that it's not really the faith of Moses on display, but it's the faith of his parents. “By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents…” See, Moses was entirely passive there. The being hidden was not his idea.Some of you have seen the animated movie, The Boss Baby. It's a funny movie, has some meaningful moments, and central to the whole plot is that this family has a newborn baby that acts like a normal baby around adults, but then acts like an adult when the adults are not around. The baby was sent by a higher unknown organization, and as a newborn he knows right away that he has a certain mission to accomplish.It's a funny movie, and what makes it funny is that the idea of a baby thinking like an adult is silly. It's all pretend. In real life, babies are cute, but they're not that smart — which is why you have to ‘baby proof' your house and tell them to not eat dirt (and things like that). Babies can only do baby things … including Baby Moses. Baby Moses did not hide himself. Baby Moses did not have the faith to not fear Pharaoh. That was his parents. But when Moses was grown up — that's different. Grown-up Moses has agency. He's able to do things on his own, including to have his own faith that he himself displays. That's what we see in verse 24. Verse 24 is the faith of Moses himself, not his parents.Now why is this relevant for our church?For the KidsWell it's because we have a lot of kids in our church — like hundreds — and there's a range of ages, from newborns all the way up through high school. And in this service there's a lot of the younger kids in childcare, but there's a lot of kids in here too — and I want to speak for a minute to you kids. Kids in the room, listen up. This is for you. One thing that I'm pretty sure you all have in common is that your parents have faith. In fact, the faith of your parents is a big reason you're here right now. Now that doesn't mean that you don't have faith yourself. Many of you do. Many of you have been baptized based upon the profession of your faith. But still as kids, as tweens and teens, you live at home under the authority of your parents, a lot of your faith is rightly influenced by them. But see here's what happens: As you get older, and as you become more independent, eventually you're gonna come to a time when you make all your own decisions about life and all this. You will no longer be passive in faith, but by your faith you will make deliberate decisions … like Moses did. Grown-up Moses in verse 24 is refusing one thing and choosing another — and you're gonna have to do the same. So kids, I wanna tell you something and I hope you never forget this: The two most powerful words you have are Yes and No. And your life, in large part, is going to be the outcome of how you use those words. What you say Yes to and what you say No to will form you into the person you become — and as Christians we say Yes and No by faith. As grown ups, starting where you are now, as you get into adulthood, by faith make deliberate decisions that display your faith in Jesus. Remember Jesus loves you, and make deliberate decisions by faith.We see the faith of Moses do that here, which meant for him, #2 …2) A Costly Association Verse 24: “By faith, when Moses was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin.” Now in order for this to make sense to us we need to know a little more about the story of Moses. It's been a while since we've been in the Book of Exodus together, so this is a refresher: When the Book of Exodus opens, the people of Israel were enslaved in Egypt, but their number continued to multiply and spread. There were so many Hebrews that the Pharaoh felt threatened, so he put a death warrant on all the Hebrew male children. He commanded all his people to throw the Hebrew sons into the Nile River. Well, Moses's parents defied Pharaoh. They hid him for three months, and then they built him a raft, and so rather than he be thrown into the river, they floated him down the river in the raft and he was found by Pharaoh's daughter, and she took pity on him and drew him out of the water. Now this was an amazing story in Exodus but to keep it short, Pharaoh's daughter ended up adopting Moses as her son. And we could imagine that being the son of Pharaoh's daughter — being the grandson of Pharaoh — had some perks. Notice the parallel in verse 24 between being “called the son of Pharaoh's daughter” and “enjoying the feeling pleasures of sin.” Those go together.Moses would have grown up in a palace. He most likely, literally, had a silver spoon in his mouth. He had the best education possible, and became mighty in his words and deeds, the Bible says (see Acts 7:22). And we can imagine that the older he got, grown up Moses, he would have been afforded pretty much whatever he wanted. He would have had easy access to the “fleeting pleasures of sin.”But look what the writer of Hebrews says: instead of all that, Moses “chos[e] rather to be mistreated with the people of God.”Moses's Fork in the Road And if you have the Book of Exodus in mind, you might be thinking: When exactly did that happen?Well, I am 99% sure it happened in Exodus Chapter 2 when Moses defended one of the Hebrew slaves who was being beaten by an Egyptian. Y'all remember this? Moses killed an Egyptian who was beating up the Hebrew guy. This is a big part of Moses's story. It's why he had to flee Egypt. Well, if we go back to Exodus Chapter 2 to read this story, it comes right after the birth story of Moses, and the story starts, Chapter 2, verse 11: “One day when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens…” And in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the word there for “grown up” in Exodus 2:11 is the same word used here in Hebrews 11:24. And what's going on in Exodus 2 is that when Moses “went out to his people” he presumably went out from the palace. He left the Egyptian palace and went down to the streets where his people were burdened. So see, there's already an association happening in Exodus 2. But when he saw the Egyptian beating the Hebrew, that was a fork in the road for Moses. Who is he? Is he an Egyptian — Pharaoh's grandson? Or, is he one of the Hebrews?Is he with the powerful, the opulent, the movers and shakers of the day, or is he with the slaves, the-carry-your-lunch-pale-to-work, mistreated Hebrews?Is Moses with the Egyptians and all their drip or is he with the insulted people of God?Moses chose the people of God. He avenged his fellow Hebrew, and in fact, in Acts Chapter 7, in the famous speech of Deacon Stephen, he says that when Moses avenged the Hebrew he thought that the Hebrews would know that he was there to save them (see Acts 7:25). That was a watershed moment for Moses. He associated himself with the people of God, not with the Egyptians, and it cost him. He had to flee the palace and live in exile for forty years until he saw the burning bush.Moses chose to associate with the people of God, and he paid a high price. What kind of price do you think you'd be willing to pay?Let's just think about this for minute. Do you think you would still associate with Christians — or to get more practical — do you think you'd still associate with this local church if it cost you more than it does right now? How much of a cost is too much?Mr. By-Ends and the Negative WorldThere's an incredible character in the book Pilgrim's Progress I need to tell you about. His name is Mr. By-ends. Christian and Hopeful meet him as soon as they become friends and right away they're put off by some of the things he says, so they ask him more questions to try to get to know him. And he admits that he's not as “strict” as other pilgrims, and he says that he basically operates by two principles. He says he's speaking for himself and his relatives — Mr. Smooth-man, Mr. Facing-both-ways, Mr. Any-thing, and Mr. Two-Tongues — and he says our two principles are: First, we never strive against wind and tide; secondly, we are always most zealous when Religion goes in his Silver Slippers; we love much to walk with him in the street, if the sun shines, and the people applaud him.In other words, Mr. By-Ends is the epitome of a “fair-weather Christian.” He only acts like a Christian when it's easy. He wants to be a Christian when it's very low cost, very high direct benefit.And I think his character is super relevant for us today because we live in a unique time of our nation's history. We live in what's been called a “negative world.” It's the idea that since around 2014, American society, at large, has come to have a negative view of Christianity. In other words, especially in the higher ranks of society, among the educated, in a lot of the places where y'all work, associating with Christians is a social negative. Christian morality is despised and mocked and called bigotry (no matter how nicely we try to explain it). Now there are certainly other places in the world where it's harder to be a Christian, but within our own nation's history, for the first time, claiming to be a Christian is not a social benefit — but it comes with a cost (source).And there's a correlation here to what's been called “The Great De-churching.” There's been a study, recently published, that reports that fewer Americans go to church today than at any other point in our nation's history. The study claims that about 40 million American adults used to be part of a church, but they stopped involvement (source). And there are several different theories why, and one of them is that it cost more. Active faith, regular Christian rhythms and life, being involved with a local church, cost more than it used to … and for Mr. By-ends and those like him, the cost is too much. Well, Moses knew it was going to cost him, and still, by faith, he chose to associate with God's people. Talk is cheap, the cost is in the action. He chose the cost of that association.And the writer of Hebrews understands what these early Christians are dealing with. A few weeks ago, back in Chapter 10, we saw that the writer encourages these early Christians in their faith by telling them to recall what they've already endured. Already, Chapter 10, verse 33, they've been “publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, sometimes being partners with those so treated.” And now in Chapter 11 he wants them to make the connection: They have shown the same kind of faith that Moses did. Can you imagine anything more encouraging for these early Hebrew Christians? The writer wants them to know that they have faith like Moses. They would have heard verse 24 about Moses and thought: “That's us.”And I want y'all to know the same applies to us today. What we read here about Moses, and what our Christian ancestors understood and displayed, is in the ‘spiritual genetics' of our faith. Church, I want you to know that true faith will endure whatever the cost. Turn up the heat, come what may, true faith will be displayed.Moses displayed his faith by (1) a deliberate decision that meant (2) a costly association because of, #3 …3) A Peculiar ValuationThis is verse 26: “He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” Now the first question here is: How is verse 26 connected to verse 25? We know there's some kind of connection — this the same train of thought. Verse 25 says that Moses chose rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin — and now the first verb in verse 26 is going to tell us the reason he made that choice. Verse 26 says that Moses chose to be mistreated with God's people because he considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt. Moses considered the reproach of Christ more valuable. That's why he made the choice he did.We can see this in the text, but What is the reproach of Christ? Is the writer of Hebrews saying that in Exodus 2 Moses actually knew about the future suffering of the Messiah and he made a conscious decision to align himself with that suffering?The answer is Yeah, sorta. Hang with me here. …Same Package of SufferingThe first thing I want you to see is the connection between the mistreatment of the people of God (in verse 25) and the reproach of Christ (in verse 26). Do you see how they're parallel? If we look at these verses together, it seems like the mistreatment of God's people and the reproach of Christ are talking about the same thing. They're the same package. Y'all see that? Now where's that come from?Well, a lot of times in the Bible, God's people and God's Messiah are described as having solidarity. God's Messiah takes on the identity of God's people. Now we know Jesus did that ultimately on the cross as our substitute, and he also did that at clear points throughout his earthly ministry. We actually see this hinted at in the Old Testament. For example, let's go to Psalm 89, verse 50. Turn there if you can. Psalm 89. I want you to see this. Read with me or listen closely to Psalm 89:50–51, “Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,51 with which your enemies mock, O Lord,with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.” There's a parallel between the servants of God and God's anointed. God's people and God's Messiah. What is said of God's people is said of God's Messiah. They're both mocked.Now listen to these verses in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament that the writer of Hebrews would have read). In Psalm 89 he would have read: Remember, O Lord, the reproach (oneidismou) of your servants, which I have borne in my bosom, [even the reproach] of many nations; with which your enemies have reproached (ōneidisan), O Lord, with which they have reproached (ōneidisan) your Christ … Again, there's the same parallel between God's people and God's Messiah, and the Hebrew word for “mock” is translated into Greek as “reproach.” God's people and God's Messiah are both reproached. And that Greek word for “reproach” in Psalm 89 is the same word the writer of Hebrews uses in Hebrews 11:26, “the reproach of Christ.” The writer of Hebrews has Psalm 89 in mind in Hebrews 11, so, is he saying that Moses was thinking about the reproach of God's people or the reproach of Christ himself? The answer is Yes. When Moses chose solidarity with God's people in their reproach, he also chose solidarity with Christ in his reproach — because it's the same reproach. The reproach and insults and ridicule of Christ on behalf of his people is reproach, insults, and ridicule that we choose when we bear his name. And this reproach still exists today. Joe Rogan is one of the most influential men in the world — because millions of men listen to his podcast — and he routinely insults Christianity. He says Christianity is the easiest of all religions to mock. He says it's reproachable. The reproach of Christ is still a thing. Now does that make us move toward Jesus or shy away from him?The Greater WealthWell see, Moses didn't just move toward this reproach, but he said that this reproach of Christ is better than the treasures of Egypt. The reproach of Christ is more valuable than the treasures of Egypt. And that's the peculiar valuation — it's odd. Reproach, insults, suffering, culminating in a shameful execution on a Roman cross — how is that better than anything? That sounds horrible. Get me outta that! I'd rather do anything than to go through that! And yet Moses looked at it: that reproach and the treasures of Egypt … and he said, I'll take the reproach. Far be it from me to boast unless in the reproach of Christ, by which the world and all its treasure has been crucified to me and I to the world. The reproach of Christ is a stumbling block for Jews and folly to Gentiles, but for me — for Moses and those who have faith like Moses — the reproach of Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God (see 1 Corinthians 1:22–25; Galatians 2:20). I'd rather have Jesus than silver or goldI'd rather be His than have riches untoldI'd rather have Jesus than houses or landI'd rather be led by His nail-pierced handThan to be the king of a vast domainAnd be held in sin's dread swayI'd rather have Jesus than anythingThis world affords today And that only makes sense when we, like Moses, by faith, look to the reward (end of verse 26). This reward is future and eternal, not immediate and temporal. This is when we have the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Unlike the fleeting pleasures of Egypt, we must see him who for now is invisible to us but who one day we will see face to face. One day, church, we will be looking at Jesus and everything will have been worth it.That's what brings us to this Table.The TableWe display our faith in Jesus not only with words, but with action — and the same could be said for how God displays his love for us.The Bible says that God shows/demonstrates his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. When we were most unloveable, God acted to show us his love. And that's what we remember at this Table.The bread here represents the body of Jesus; the cup represents the blood of Jesus — together this reminds us of the death of Jesus, the ultimate action of God's love. This morning if you've received that love, if you have put your faith in Jesus, you can display that faith by sharing in this meal. Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us eat and drink together, and give him thanks.

In conclusion, in Genesis, the Israelites gave themselves to the Egyptian Pharaoh to become his slaves to survive the harsh famine in the land. We now begin the book of Exodus. The Hebrews lived in captivity in Egypt as slaves for 400 years. God heard the cries of Hebrew slaves and set a plan to free them from Pharaoh. Pharaoh became concerned that the Hebrews grew in numbers and multiplied exceedingly. He then decreed that all Hebrew firstborn males be killed while allowing their daughters to live. The midwives obeyed God and did not kill the male babies. God blessed the midwives with their own families. Moses' mother hid baby Moses for a little while until she could no longer hide him. She made a basket to put Moses in it and then placed the basket in the River Nile. Pharaoh's daughter saw the basket and the baby and decided to raise Moses as her child. She also called Moses' real mother to nurse him and pay her wages. God ordained this story to protect Moses from Pharaoh's death mandate and place him directly under Pharaoh's household. This amazing story and the book of Exodus are crucial for understanding our times and how to react when the elites enact unethical mandates.Video at https://youtu.be/KCJ4npvPFdYArticle at https://www.savedandloved.com/post/140-exodus-1-2-birth-of-moses***********Support MrE and his channel at:Apocalypse Watchman by MrE, https://www.bitchute.com/channel/apocalypse_watchman/MrE, https://odysee.com/@MrE:cDonate to MrE at PayPal.me/mrehistoryPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/mremedia***********Multiple ways to support my work:My books: https://www.savedandloved.com/shopDonate to my site: https://www.savedandloved.com/donateBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/savedandlovedDonate at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SavedAndLoved31

Obviously you've seen hundreds of movies in which a fame weary Elvis Presley didn't die and in fact switched places at the peak of his stardom with an impersonator, the real King of Rock and Roll instead winding up in a convalescence home with a cancerous lump on his penis alongside an African American John F. Kennedy, skin dyed by the C.I.A. and with portions of his brain replaced by sand, teaming up to fight the mummified remains of an Egyptian Pharaoh but BUBBA HO-TEP is the best and least typical one. PHANTASM director Don Coscarelli puts down the psychic metal death orbs for a moment to deliver an adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's novella which turns out to be a surprisingly thoughtful meditation on aging and fading sexuality, lamenting the lack of dignity afforded to those in declining health and reminding us that being old does not make you worthless as well as giving us some good gags, some very silly special effects and that deliciously preposterous plot. All that and featuring the always beloved Bruce Campbell and, improbably, civil rights activist Ossie Davis.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at baddadsjsy@gmail.com or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

As the adopted son of the Egyptian Pharaoh's daughter, Moses was nursed and raised by his Hebrew mother. After Moses was weaned, he was delivered to Pharaoh's daughter's house. Moses grew up knowing he was Hebrew, even though he had an Egyptian name, and was raised in an Egyptian household by an Egyptian woman. Moses' Hebrew brothers and sisters were slaves to the Egyptians and were under harsh bondage as foretold by YeHoVaH to Abraham, the patriarch. When Moses was grown, his Hebrew identity conflicted with his Egyptian upbringing leading him to making a decision that branded him as a murderer. This caused Moses to flee to Midian away from both his Hebrew brothers and sisters and the Egyptians he was raised amongst. Join us this week on this intriguing journey intertwining the Hebrew, Egyptian, and Midianite cultures as we follow a conflicted Moses in the message, Moses the Murderer. 

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DON'T MISS OUT!!! "LIES OF MEN & GODS HYPER VIDEO COLLECTION"   This new 3 DVD collection is packed with spine-chilling revelations, dark truths, and so much more!   In this new groundbreaking documentary "Lies of Men & Gods" see how the globalists who control our governments, militaries, and parts of the Vatican are working to condition the masses of the world to accept the premise that Aliens, set to arrive here on earth very soon, are our technological, moral, and even spiritual superiors!   "EXTINCTION PROTOCOLS" will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. This powerhouse DVD brings you face-to-face with the realities of how globalists are.. right now.. plotting the deaths of over 90% of the earth's population! From forced medical interventions, Alien Disclosure, AI Technology, and the end of paper money, to the explosion of crypto currencies and precious metals.. ‘Extinction protocols' covers what you need to know in order to be prepared for what is coming need to know in order to be prepared for what is coming next!   "HUMANITY'S TWILIGHT" is a fascinating DVD that delves into one of the most tumultuous times in recent American history, and how modern-age pandemics are being used by governments of the world to usher in a massive loss of individual freedoms, civil unrest, famine, and even war! This video presentation serves as an outright warning about what's coming in the days ahead!  

In this episode, Daniel Holdings, Tom Horn, Derek Gilbert and more discuss the greatest mysteries of our time and expose the elitists and intellectuals who are planning to assimilate mankind under a coming ‘savior,' one whom the prophet Daniel foresaw as “an alien god.”DON'T MISS OUT!!!"LIES OF MEN & GODS HYPER VIDEO COLLECTION"This new 3 DVD collection is packed with spine-chilling revelations, dark truths, and so much more!In this new groundbreaking documentary "Lies of Men & Gods" see how the globalists who control our governments, militaries, and parts of the Vatican are working to condition the masses of the world to accept the premise that Aliens, set to arrive here on earth very soon, are our technological, moral, and even spiritual superiors!"EXTINCTION PROTOCOLS" will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. This powerhouse DVD brings you face-to-face with the realities of how globalists are.. right now.. plotting the deaths of over 90% of the earth's population! From forced medical interventions, Alien Disclosure, AI Technology, and the end of paper money, to the explosion of crypto currencies and precious metals.. ‘Extinction protocols' covers what you need to know in order to be prepared for what is coming need to know in order to be prepared for what is coming next!"HUMANITY'S TWILIGHT" is a fascinating DVD that delves into one of the most tumultuous times in recent American history, and how modern-age pandemics are being used by governments of the world to usher in a massive loss of individual freedoms, civil unrest, famine, and even war! This video presentation serves as an outright warning about what's coming in the days ahead!FOLLOW US!Facebook: @SkyWatchTV @SimplyHIS @EdensEssentialsInstagram: @SkyWatchTV @SimplyHisShow @EdensEssentialsUSATikTok: @SkyWatchTV @SimplyHisShow @EdensEssentialsSkyWatchTV.com | SkyWatchTVStore.com | EdensEssentials.com | WhisperingPoniesRanch.com

Puffed up and powerful personalities who create their own reality are not new. A biography published by Yale University Press, excavates the life of an Egyptian Pharaoh with a massive ego. Book critic Joan Baum has this review.

Driving in major urban areas of America can be a challenge - especially if you haven't done much of it. But my ministry team member was doing a good job of navigating the Chicago area, driving me to a number of locations where I was speaking. In one case, he was following our local host who was leading us to a place where we had never been. Honestly, we had no clue where we were going without him. I got to telling my driver one of my many stories, and he even seemed to be enjoying it. We were in the left lane, and suddenly a car came up behind us in the right lane, flashing his lights. Then he pulled up next to us, waving his arm out the window. It was our host. Apparently, we hadn't been following him for quite a while. So he led us in a daring - maybe scary is the word - U-turn to try to get us where we were supposed to be. I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Reason You May Be Lost." I can tell you why we were lost. We were running ahead of the one we were supposed to be following. That may be why you're not ending up where you're supposed to go. You're running ahead of God - who you're supposed to be following. Obviously, you can't be following Him if you're getting ahead of Him. Right? By the way, we didn't even realize we were headed the wrong direction. We would have eventually, but we would have been farther off course and it would have been a lot harder to get back on track. You may not even realize that you've left your leader, that you're proceeding on your own right now - in the wrong direction. You will eventually, when it's even harder to get back to where you're supposed to be. Sadly, running ahead of God and ending up in a very wrong place is nothing new. The Bible gives us one revealing picture of it in Acts 7, beginning with verse 23. It's our word for today from the Word of God. The Bible says, "When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his fellow Israelites." Now, Moses is a Jewish boy who was providentially raised in the home of the Egyptian Pharaoh as part of the royal family. The Bible continues, "He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not." Instead, this attempt to be a leader for his people actually costs Moses their respect and forces him to flee Egypt for forty years in the wilderness. Actually, Moses had the right idea - he was supposed to be the deliverer for his people. But not yet. It wasn't God's time; it wasn't God's way. Moses was running ahead of the One he should have been following - and the result - disastrous. That might be where you're heading because you have not waited for your leader. Abraham and Sarah couldn't wait for God to give them their promised son in old age, so they figured out their own plan and started so much heartache. Over and over, God's children try to make it happen, and instead they just make a mess. Could it be you haven't been keeping your eyes on the One that you're supposed to be following? Are you maybe running ahead of Jesus, trying to hurry things up - trying to make things happen? Maybe you didn't mean to run ahead of your Lord, but you have - and you're lost and you're getting "loster," whether you realize it or not. But right now, He's pulling up beside you. He's waving you away from the wrong away you're going; waving you back to going where He's going. Keep your eyes on your leader, not your goal. Stay close to Jesus. Be patient and go at His pace, in His time. It's actually the fastest way to get where your life is meant to be.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born at a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God.Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Who was the most powerful woman in history? Was it the only female emperor of China? A female Egyptian Pharaoh who built great temples? Or the Iron Lady who's economic policies are still influential today? Let's discuss this on today's episode of Thinking in English! My Links JOIN THE CONVERSATION CLUB  -- https://www.patreon.com/thinkinginenglish  ENGLISH CLASSES - https://thinkinginenglish.link/  ⁠Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard⁠ TRANSCRIPT - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2023/03/27/219-who-was-the-most-powerful-woman-in-history/ NEW YOUTUBE Channel!!! - https://www.youtube.com/@thinkinginenglishpodcast  INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/)   Blog - thinkinginenglish.blog Vocabulary Diffuse (adj) - spread out and not directed in one place. To relegate (v) - to put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position. Trappings (n) - all the things that are part of or typical of a particular job, situation, or event. To seize (v) - to take using sudden force. To solidify (v) - to become or make something become certain. Feeble (adj) – weak and without energy, strength, or power. Manoeuvring (n) - the action of cleverly planning something to get an advantage. Sweeping (adj) - affecting many things or people; large. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-english/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-english/support

Grave robbing is one of mankind's oldest professions. It's like taking candy from a baby, if the baby was an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and the candy was all the cool sh*t they were buried with. But 33 years ago, a team of Italian archeologists dug up a little more than they could handle. They discovered a hidden necropolis, where those who were buried inside had been NAILED to the earth. Why? It's time for Rory and Kit to investigate...Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.comResearch by Amy GrisdaleEdited by Phil Shacklady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Ilaria Favretto, Affiliate Professor at Kingston University in London, who tells us about the history of workers' protests across Europe. The programme begins with a former union leader describing Italy's 'Hot Autumn' of 1969 when protests erupted. Then, we hear the archaeologist Howard Carter's remarkable account of opening the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian Pharaoh, 100 years ago. In the second half of the programme, we hear about the creation of Pokémon, and the coronation of Denmark's first Queen in 600 years. Finally, an American woman tells us how she became a Muay Thai boxing champion. Contributors: Ilaria Favretto - Affiliate Professor at Kingston University in London. Renzo Baricelli - Italian union leader. Howard Carter - British archaeologist. Akihito Tomisawa - Pokémon developer. Kjeld Olesen - Danish politician. Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai boxer.

In Parsha Bo, we see the continuation of HaShem's using nature to inflict His will on the Egyptian Pharaoh. Have you ever thought critically about how involved HaShem is in nature? Whether back then or today, how do we think about this relationship? In today's episode we're going to talk about 6 types of responses, […] The post IBR Ep 120- Parashah Bo- There Can Be Miracles… appeared first on Out of Ashes Ministries.

The Israelites intimidated the Egyptian Pharaoh, so he used all forces at his disposal to reduce their presence. No matter how much God's enemies oppose His people, they will never fully succeed.

The Israelites intimidated the Egyptian Pharaoh, so he used all forces at his disposal to reduce their presence. No matter how much God's enemies oppose His people, they will never fully succeed.

The prelude to the tenth and final plague makes two things abundantly clear, God is in control and his righteous judgement will bring the Egyptian Pharaoh to his knees. Today, Pastors Clint and Michael explore how the institution of the Passover transforms the Old Testament story of God’s people through deliverance and how the earliest […]

The prelude to the tenth and final plague makes two things abundantly clear, God is in control and his righteous judgement will bring the Egyptian Pharaoh to his knees. Today, Pastors Clint and Michael explore how the institution of the Passover transforms the Old Testament story of God’s people through deliverance and how the earliest […]

This passage emphasizes the mountaintop experience of God promising Moses that he will deliver the people of Israel from the oppressive hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh, while also descending into the dark depths of the broken human soul when the downtrodden people of Israel fail to believe it. Thank you for joining us, we sincerely […]

This passage emphasizes the mountaintop experience of God promising Moses that he will deliver the people of Israel from the oppressive hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh, while also descending into the dark depths of the broken human soul when the downtrodden people of Israel fail to believe it. Thank you for joining us, we sincerely […]

We watched The Mummy from 1999 with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz and were reminded of a simpler time, when unlimited double handguns were the solution to all of life's little problems. @dgoebel00 on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his website. https://youtu.be/fZE8jD6fiZg Synopsis In a story as old as time, grave robbing, gold digging, westerners invade the ancient city of Hamunaptra and steal the life and death savings of a napping Egyptian Pharaoh.  The Pharaoh, played by a man who should be named Billy Zane, but who is actually named Arnold Vosloo gets re-animated and seeks to re-animate his girlfriend so they can fuck from beyond the grave. Brendan Fraser has guns, a dashing smile, and a seething hatred of unspent shells. Rachel Weisz is a bookish librarian who is swept up in this action romp and soon gets more mummy than she bargained for. Review You've probably heard of Indiana Jones and Die Hard - well what if I was to tell you those movies birthed a third, superior movie starring Brendan Fraser?  You would say, “Fill me up, daddy!”  Then I would slam The Mummy into your VHS player and smack your mother in the face before I sent you to the underworld of ecstasy by hitting the “Play” button. The Mummy doesn't give a shit what you think about reality. It sends an army of the undead and a swarm of Egyptian beetles called scarabs to eat you. Scarabs don't eat you alive by burrowing under your skin, but The Mummy doesn't give a shit. It wants you to sit down, shut up, and have a blast - and by god you will. It's a movie that keeps it simple in the most impressive way possible. Any braindead dumb dumb can follow this plot, and that's not a bad thing.  Fraser makes funny faces, and is so handsome that I am unsure of my sexuality. Watch The Mummy (1999)Buy or Rent on AmazonClick here to Watch Weisz reaffirms my sexuality by speaking Hebrew while showing bountiful cleavage. Beni makes for an appropriate slime ball helper to evil incarnate. There's blazing guns, exploding mummies, sexy mommies, bugs that eat you from the inside out, angry Americans, ugly Americans, and CGI from 1999.  What kind of red blooded white female would I be if I scored this any lower than a 10/10? Score 10/10 Disc Review Check out Max's podcast on Youtube.

Egyptologists consider Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, one of the most powerful pharaohs in Egyptian history. Join us as we have a Woman Crush Wednesday about the Egyptian pharaoh who the famous American archaeologist and Egyptologist James Henry Breasted called, "the first great woman in history" that we know about.

I remember my Aunt Reidy who was determined to stay up all night so she could witness her 80th birthday come in because that was a milestone her mother or father didn't have an opportunity to celebrate.  With all the death and dysfunction, life and milestones should not be ignored.There is no biblical mandate against a Christian celebrating birthdays, nor is there anything to indicate we are required to observe them. Scripturally speaking, whether we as Christians celebrate birthdays or not is a non-issue. The Bible does mention two individuals celebrating birthdays: the Egyptian Pharaoh in Joseph's time (Genesis 40:20) and King Herod in Jesus' time (Matthew 14:6; Mark 6:21). Some want to use these two birthday celebrations as evidence that celebrating birthdays is wrong;  because both men were non-believing individuals, so the thought process is that a birthday celebration is seen as some form of a pagan ritual or practice.However, that conclusion is NOT founded biblically in either passage. The Bible does not even hint that it was wrong for Pharaoh or Herod to celebrate their birthdays. The Word of God is consistent and can be trusted, so we have to believe and trust that if the celebrating of a birthday was against the will or mandate of God, He would have made it clear as He does with everything that He finds displeasing.   The Scripture also does not indicate anywhere that a Christian was discouraged from celebrating a birthday.....

"To Every Man an Answer 8/1/2022" from August 1, 2022 by CSN International. 1. Does Luke 17:34-37 describe the rapture? 2. How do we get the reading of Jesus going into Sheol from Ephesians 4:8-10? 3. Is it wrong to hate the Devil? 4. Why did Noah curse Canaan instead of his father, Genesis 9:24? 5. Did Sarah sleep with the Egyptian Pharaoh, Genesis 12:11? 6. Do we forgive the Devil? 7. Can a person mediate between God and man?

What in the world is God doing? Did he just start all this going and go off and leave it? Or is he sitting in a heavenly recliner watching all this like a great, sweeping soap opera? Or is it possible that God has a plan and that he is implementing that plan?There is reason to believe that most of the time, in most of the world, God just lets things run. But there are individuals and circumstances that he seems to steer from time to time. He knows people’s hearts and needs merely to tweak a few things to get the results he is looking for. But once in a while, he finds it necessary to communicate directly.And so it was that the Egyptian Pharaoh had two haunting dreams. I gather these were not some of those dreams that come about from going to bed on a full stomach. Somehow, Pharaoh knew that these dreams were different and important—but why? And what did they mean?

In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Cater stumbled upon one of the most pristine tombs of an Egyptian Pharaoh ever found. The tomb of King Tutankhamen. That discovery because a pop culture sensation and revolutionized our understanding of Ancient Egypt.  Learn more about King Tutankhamen, aka King Tut, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn about how you can invest in art at https://www.masterworks.io/ Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Darcy Adams Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast network Please contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who Was King Tut? Join us today as we learn about the most famous Egyptian Pharaoh, King Tut. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun https://www.thoughtco.com/tomb-of-king-tut-discovered-1779242 Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Doug and Pesach interview Professor Joshua Berman about his recent trip to Egypt, where he explored ancient Egyptian artifacts that help explain many passages in the Book of Exodus. This controversial discussion addresses many similarities between an Egyptian Pharaoh's victory and the Exodus from Egypt that lead to some "Wow!" moments, as well as some difficult questions. Egypt certainly shaped Moses and the Jewish people and this episode explores how much its fingerprints are on the text itself.

Sam tells Ellen about Hatshepsut, the Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt who was the first solo female ruler of Egypt . Meanwhile, Ellen explains the warning signs of a cult to someone who was unknowingly recruited to more than one cult.

The Old Testament is full of stories of God's saving power, redemption, and grace. Moses, a Hebrew/Israelite, grew up in the palace of the Egyptian Pharaoh (leader/king) as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter. While he lived as a prince, his people, the Hebrews, lived as slaves making bricks of mud and straw for Pharaoh's building projects. One day as Moses was visiting the area where his people were working, he saw an Egyptian taskmaster brutally beating one of the Hebrew slaves. Moses was angered by what he saw. When no one was around, Moses found the taskmaster, killed, and buried him in the sand. After Moses realized that his crime had been witnessed and the Egyptians were seeking him, he ran from Egypt and began a new life in a place called Midian. Forty years later, after Pharaoh had died, Moses is watching over sheep and sees a strange phenomenon. He sees a burning bush that does not destroy the bush. God calls out to Moses to approach and take off his shoes because the ground is holy. Moses obeys and God calls him to return to Egypt to lead his people out of slavery to a promised land filled with milk and honey. Moses asks God, who should I say sent me, and what if the Israelites do not believe me? God tells him what to say and gives him the power to perform miracles so the people can see that God is with him. Still hesitant, Moses says that he is a stutterer and cannot speak as a leader. Although God tells him that He will help him, Moses asks God to choose someone else. Angered, God finally tells Moses, fine, He will have Moses' brother, Aaron come and meet him and Aaron will speak for Moses. Moses and Aaron meet after 40 years, Moses tells Aaron everything God has told him. Moses, at the age of 80 returns to Egypt and so begins the journey called Exodus of the children of Israel from slavery and Egypt to freedom and a promised land. How many times have you allowed your past mistakes or sins to haunt you and condemn you so you feel that you are not worthy to become anything but mediocre or a failure in life? Perhaps you had a dream for a business or a calling on your life to be something specific, but you think God is mad at you and you have to continue to pay for your mistakes. Perhaps your confidence keeps getting knocked down because you may still be suffering the consequences of your mistakes and sins.Moses killed a man, hid his sin, and ran away from Egypt's death penalty. God had a purpose for Moses, to lead his people out of slavery into freedom and into their own land. Moses could have become the next Pharaoh had he not killed the Egyptian taskmaster in secret. Although Moses took things into his own hands, God still used Moses, 40 years later to accomplish His plan. Moses had a lot of time to mature and master his negative emotions. When you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior of your life, your sins are forgiven and God does not hold that against you. God can even use your mistakes and turn them around for your good. God wants you to be willing to follow His calling and depend on Him to help you in everything you do. (Proverbs 3:5-6; Jer. 29:11)Prayer for the week:  Dear Heavenly Father, I am praying over this individual's week ahead. I pray that they remember that they are loved by you unconditionally no matter what, faults in all. None of us are perfect lord and we can come to you when we make mistakes or feel bad about the choices we made. I pray that they have the courage this week to step up and keep believing in your goodness over their life and that they have a blessed week in Jesus name amen! -Dayne PS: We just released a limited run of Philippians 4:13 Bracelets. If you would like to support us and pick one up check them out here: 

Listen as Rabbi Karen Glazer Perolman reflects on the events of the 2021 Presidential Inauguration and this week's Torah Portion, Parshat Bo. How does the biblical story of the Egyptian Pharaoh's heart being hardened help us reflect on the ways in which the last 5 years have hardened our hearts? How might we become more open hearted in the weeks and months to come?L'dor Vador - Music & Lyrics by Josh NelsonVocals: Lucy B. FishbeinGuitar: Matthew J. TurkPiano: Pedro D'AquinoPercussion: Eran Fink Violin: Benjamin SutinProduced by Lucy B. FishbeinTheme Music Composed by Matthew J. Turk