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Some of you may remember when I described my abduction in December 2015, and my subsequent encounter with the 3 tall beings at an unknown location, possibly a craft.The 3 beings showed me, or what I interpreted as otherworldly entities coming to Earth, landing a massive circular craft in the area of the Nile Delta, and expanding into various civilizations, conveying their knowledge and influence over multiple millennia.The civilization that these 3 beings seemed most interested in showing me was Ancient Egypt, around the time of Amenhotep III's reign during the 18th Dynasty. The scenario seemed to suggest that there was a profound sighting of a large, bright disk in the sky. The priests refused to interpret the sighting, but Amenhotep and his advisors believed it to be a God or Divine Deity. Years later, his son Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhnaten, determined this UAP was the Sun God, Aten. This resulted in his decree that the official Egyptian religion would be based on worshipping the one God, Aten, and the beginning of monotheism.Since my abduction, I have been fascinated with world religions and interpretations, in particular, ancient beliefs and how those beliefs manifested.So, this evening, I would like to discuss, along with input from the chat audience, the subject of extraterrestrial influence on man's beliefs, customs, and religion.Please write your comments and/or questions in CAPS. You can post these thoughts at any time, and we will attempt to conduct a discussion as seamlessly as possible. I appreciate your cooperation.Hi. My name is Lon Strickler. I hope that you enjoy listening to Phantoms & Monsters Personal Reports. I have a question for you. Have you ever had an unexplained sighting or encounter? Do you have photographic and/or video evidence of your experience? Would you like to share your unique story with our readers and listeners? Please feel free to forward your account to me, either through my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com or call me at 410-241-5974. You can also visit my website at https://www.phantomsan...​ and use the contact link on the homepage. Your personal information will be kept confidential if requested.I have been a paranormal and anomalies researcher & investigator for over 45 years. My reports & findings have been featured in hundreds of online media sources. Several of these published reports have been presented on various television segments, including The History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens,' Syfy's 'Paranormal Witness', 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,' Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America,' and, more recently, 'Unsolved Mysteries' on Netflix. I have been interviewed on hundreds of radio & online broadcasts, including multiple guest appearances on 'Coast to Coast AM.'One of my encounters was featured on Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America' television show for 'The Sykesville Monster' episode. I am a published author of 9 books on various cryptid & supernatural subjects.In addition, I am an intuitive who has worked with hundreds of clients who sought help with their personal hauntings and unexplained activities. I never charge for my services.If you feel that I can help answer your questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks for your consideration.Do you have a report or encounter that you would like to be read on 'Personal Reports' & featured on the Phantoms & Monsters blog? Contact me at ⁠lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com⁠Would you like to help us out? ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lonstrickl0⁠⁠Phantoms & Monsters Homepage & Blog -⁠ ⁠https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com⁠⁠Books by Lon Strickler - ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B009JURSD4⁠⁠You can also support us by using PayPal at ⁠https://bit.ly/4bXQgP8⁠Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#God #extraterrestrial #religion #paranormal

Some of you may remember when I described my abduction in December 2015, and my subsequent encounter with the 3 tall beings at an unknown location, possibly a craft.The 3 beings showed me, or what I interpreted as otherworldly entities coming to Earth, landing a massive circular craft in the area of the Nile Delta, and expanding into various civilizations, conveying their knowledge and influence over multiple millennia.The civilization that these 3 beings seemed most interested in showing me was Ancient Egypt, around the time of Amenhotep III's reign during the 18th Dynasty. The scenario seemed to suggest that there was a profound sighting of a large, bright disk in the sky. The priests refused to interpret the sighting, but Amenhotep and his advisors believed it to be a God or Divine Deity. Years later, his son Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhnaten, determined this UAP was the Sun God, Aten. This resulted in his decree that the official Egyptian religion would be based on worshipping the one God, Aten, and the beginning of monotheism.Since my abduction, I have been fascinated with world religions and interpretations, in particular, ancient beliefs and how those beliefs manifested.So, this evening, I would like to discuss, along with input from the chat audience, the subject of extraterrestrial influence on man's beliefs, customs, and religion.Please write your comments and/or questions in CAPS. You can post these thoughts at any time, and we will attempt to conduct a discussion as seamlessly as possible. I appreciate your cooperation.Hi. My name is Lon Strickler. I hope that you enjoy listening to Phantoms & Monsters Personal Reports. I have a question for you. Have you ever had an unexplained sighting or encounter? Do you have photographic and/or video evidence of your experience? Would you like to share your unique story with our readers and listeners? Please feel free to forward your account to me, either through my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com or call me at 410-241-5974. You can also visit my website at https://www.phantomsan...​ and use the contact link on the homepage. Your personal information will be kept confidential if requested.I have been a paranormal and anomalies researcher & investigator for over 45 years. My reports & findings have been featured in hundreds of online media sources. Several of these published reports have been presented on various television segments, including The History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens,' Syfy's 'Paranormal Witness', 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,' Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America,' and, more recently, 'Unsolved Mysteries' on Netflix. I have been interviewed on hundreds of radio & online broadcasts, including multiple guest appearances on 'Coast to Coast AM.'One of my encounters was featured on Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America' television show for 'The Sykesville Monster' episode. I am a published author of 9 books on various cryptid & supernatural subjects.In addition, I am an intuitive who has worked with hundreds of clients who sought help with their personal hauntings and unexplained activities. I never charge for my services.If you feel that I can help answer your questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks for your consideration.Do you have a report or encounter that you would like to be read on 'Personal Reports' & featured on the Phantoms & Monsters blog? Contact me at ⁠lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com⁠Would you like to help us out? ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lonstrickl0⁠⁠Phantoms & Monsters Homepage & Blog -⁠ ⁠https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com⁠⁠Books by Lon Strickler - ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B009JURSD4⁠⁠You can also support us by using PayPal at ⁠https://bit.ly/4bXQgP8⁠Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#God #extraterrestrial #religion #paranormal

Sermon Summary: Temporary Residents, Eternal Home Chris's sermon this week delved into Genesis chapters 46 and 47, picking up the narrative of Jacob and his family's move to Egypt to escape the severe famine in Canaan. He structured his talk around six key "episodes" or scenes within these chapters, ultimately drawing out four significant takeaways for the congregation in Sheffield in 2025. Chris began by addressing the crucial question of relevance: how can a text written potentially 16-18 centuries before Jesus, set in a vastly different culture, speak to us today? His answer lies in the belief that the Bible is "God-breathed," inspired by God, who continues to speak through its pages to those who approach it with humility and an open heart. He emphasized the Bible's unique authority, stating that any teaching, including his own, should be disregarded if it contradicts scripture. Furthermore, Chris highlighted Romans 15:4, reminding listeners that the scriptures were written for our encouragement, hope, and perseverance in our Christian walk. Drawing a parallel to the London Marathon, he likened the Old Testament heroes of faith, including Jacob (mentioned in Hebrews 11), to a crowd of witnesses cheering us on in our own race of faith (Hebrews 12:1). Moving into the text, Chris outlined the six episodes: God appears to Jacob (Genesis 46): Despite being called to the Promised Land, God instructs Jacob to go to Egypt, a seemingly counterintuitive command. The journey to Egypt (Genesis 46): Jacob and his family undertake the journey. Reunion with Joseph (Genesis 46): Jacob is reunited with his son Joseph, whom he long believed to be dead. The brothers meet Pharaoh (Genesis 47:1-6): Joseph presents a delegation of his brothers to Pharaoh. They identify themselves as shepherds seeking temporary residence due to the famine. Chris noted their subservient tone ("We your servants") while also highlighting Joseph's prior coaching to secure their desired outcome. Pharaoh's response is directed to Joseph, granting them permission to settle in the land of Goshen and even offering positions managing his livestock if they possess special skills. Jacob meets Pharaoh (Genesis 47:7-10): Joseph then brings his father Jacob to meet Pharaoh. In contrast to his sons, Jacob seems to possess a greater sense of authority, even blessing Pharaoh twice. Pharaoh inquires about Jacob's age ("How many are the days of the years of your life?"), to which Jacob replies that he has lived 130 "hard years" and that the "days of the years of my temporary residence are few and hard." Chris emphasized Jacob's use of "temporary residence" (or "sojourner" in some translations), a significant theme throughout the chapter. Despite his hardships (fleeing his brother, losing his mother and wife, believing Joseph dead), Jacob's encounter with Pharaoh reveals a man carrying moral authority. Joseph's leadership during the famine (Genesis 47:11-26): This lengthy section details Joseph's strategic management of the famine. He provides the best land of Egypt, the region of Ramesses (another name for Goshen), for his family. As the famine intensifies, Joseph collects all the money in Egypt and Canaan in exchange for grain, eventually moving to exchange livestock and then land and the people themselves for food, making them Pharaoh's slaves. The priests are the only exception, receiving direct provisions from Pharaoh. Joseph then establishes a system where the people receive seed to plant and keep four-fifths of the harvest, with one-fifth going to Pharaoh. The people express immense gratitude for Joseph saving their lives. Chris acknowledged the potentially unsettling nature of this narrative, where Pharaoh's wealth increases significantly. However, he pointed out that the Egyptians willingly entered these arrangements and were grateful for survival. He also noted that their situation as "slaves" differed significantly from typical understandings of slavery, as they continued to live on their land and retain 80% of their produce, a potentially lower tax burden than experienced today in the UK. Chris cautioned against a literal "lift and drop" application of Old Testament narratives, using the example of the hand-under-thigh oath later in the chapter as a practice no longer relevant. He stressed the importance of respectfully engaging with the text while discerning its enduring message. Jacob prepares to die (Genesis 47:27-31): The Israelites settle in Goshen, acquire property, become fruitful, and their population grows rapidly, fulfilling God's promise in Genesis 46:3 that they would be prosperous in Egypt. Jacob lives for another 17 years, reaching the age of 147. As his death approaches, he calls Joseph and makes him swear an oath (placing his hand under Jacob's thigh) not to bury him in Egypt but to take him back to Canaan to be buried with his ancestors. Joseph agrees and takes the oath. Chris highlighted the significance of being buried with his ancestors, noting the memorial in Hebron revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims as the family grave of Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Rebekah, and Jacob. He also pointed out that the hand-under-thigh oath was a family tradition, previously used by Abraham when sending a servant to find a wife for Isaac. Jacob's focus on being buried in the Promised Land underscores his deep connection to it. From this passage, Chris identified four key takeaways for the congregation: Depending on God: Chris found Jacob in his final chapters to be an "appealing and beautiful character," contrasting him with figures like Solomon who started well but finished poorly. Despite his past flaws and hardships, Jacob is "finishing well," which Chris attributed to his dependence on God. He affirmed that while we hold onto God, it is ultimately God who holds onto us. He referenced Lauren Daigle's song "Hold On To Me" in this context. Chris encouraged the congregation to have the "desire to finish well" in their own lives, noting that many around us do not. Do to others as you would like them to do to you: This "golden rule" of Jesus is reflected in the cycle of blessing within the narrative. Jacob blesses Pharaoh, and through Joseph, both the Egyptians and Jacob's family are blessed. Chris expressed his hope that the church's activities are a blessing to the local community and encouraged individuals to be a blessing in their families, workplaces, and among their neighbors. He then referenced Deuteronomy 23:7 (in some translations, this is Deuteronomy 23:7-8 or Deuteronomy 23:7), "You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt," noting its counter-cultural message in contemporary politics. Remember you are temporary residents: Chris drew attention to Peter's words in 1 Peter 2:11, "Dear friends, I warn you as temporary residents and foreigners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very soul." He connected this back to the potential reasons for Joseph choosing Goshen – to protect his family from the idolatrous Egyptian culture and the risk of assimilation. He emphasized the importance of identity: if we truly believe we belong to God, there are certain things we should avoid. Identity acts as a protection against temptation and evil, echoing Jesus' prayer, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Matthew 6:13). Where is your true country?: Chris explored the legal concept of "domicile" – permanent home – contrasting it with "residence" and "citizenship." He posed the question: where is our true home as Christians? Like Jacob, we are temporary residents in this world; our true home is with God. He quoted Hebrews 13:14, "For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." He concluded with a powerful quote from C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle, where a character entering heaven says, "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now."1 Chris shared that Karen had read this passage at Anne's funeral and expressed his hope that it would be read at his own, emphasizing the Christian understanding of our ultimate belonging in God's presence. Chris concluded with a prayer, thanking God for his mercy and love, acknowledging human failings, and expressing the desire to understand and embrace the truth of our eternal home in God. He then invited those who wished for prayer to come forward. Bible References: Genesis 46 Genesis 47 Romans 15:4 Hebrews 11 Hebrews 12:1 1 Peter 2:11 Matthew 6:13 Hebrews 13:14 Deuteronomy 23:7 (or Deuteronomy 23:7-8 depending on translation) Transcript Let's wait for the PowerPoint to appear on the screen. Great, there it goes. So we're continuing with Genesis and continuing really where we were a fortnight ago with the move of Joseph and his family, or Joseph's already there, the move of Jacob and the family into Egypt. So a few things I want to do today. I'm going to kind of walk us through the chapter and bring a few things out, and then at the end I'm going to kind of identify, I think, four things that I think we can particularly take away from this chapter. And after I finish speaking, we're also going to have an opportunity for people who want to be prayed for to come forward and be prayed. I'm not going to make a big deal of that, but we do believe in the work of the Holy Spirit, and if you've come and you would like prayer, then we'd be more than delighted to pray for you and pray that you will encounter God. But before I get into the chapter, I just want to go on to the next slide, because that's quite important, isn't it? We've been spending all this time studying this chapter, and Genesis is set, and nobody's exactly sure when, but probably 16 to 18 centuries before Jesus was born. And it's set in a very different culture and part of the world. So how can that be relevant to us living in the UK in 2025? So that is a very important question. And I think that the start of the answer to that question comes from our understanding of what the Bible is, and that is that we believe that the Bible is inspired by God. Paul actually used the phrase, God breathes—that the Bible is God breathed. And that God speaks through his Bible to us, and he actually continues to speak today through his Bible to us. And that if we approach it with the right attitude, if we come to it humbly and respectfully, not looking to pick arguments with it, but open to any nourishment going, then God will meet us and speak to us through the Bible. And so that's why Genesis is relevant. We also say that the Bible has unique authority. If I as a preacher, or indeed any other preacher here or anywhere else, says something to you that is not in agreement with the Bible, then feel free. In fact, definitely ignore what is being said by me or any other preacher. The Bible has the final authority on difficult points. But there's also something, I think, when we're looking at these Old Testament stories, about recognizing that these were written to inspire us in our Christian walk. Romans 15, verse 4 says something like, the Scriptures were written so that for our encouragement and hope, and to encourage us to persevere in the Christian life. Today is the London Marathon Day, isn't it? And over the past 20 years or so, I spent quite a few times at the finishing line, not of marathons, I will admit, but the finishing line of Iron Man races, and waiting for family members and friends to run the race. And you always stop by, you know, runners, some of them looking completely done in, would kind of turn the corner and see the finishing line ahead of them, and also hear the crowd at that point all clapping and cheering and shouting. And they would kind of brighten and pick up pace and cross the line. And that's kind of the image that the writer to the Hebrews has. In Hebrews 11, there's a long list of Old Testament heroes of faith. And Jacob, who we're particularly thinking about today, is on that list. And at the end of it, the writer goes on, he says, Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses, let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. And it's almost like these Old Testament heroes, with all their difficulties in their lives, are part of the crowd that is cheering you and I on in our race. And so we do say that Genesis is very relevant. Let's just pray briefly. Father, we do just pray, Father, that the goodness that you've got for us in your Word, Lord, that we would receive that today, Lord. We don't want to miss out on any good thing that you've got for us in your Word for us today, and in fact, every day. Amen. Next slide. So, Genesis 46 and 47 are really part of one story. And you can remember about a fortnight ago, Andy took us through Genesis 46. I kind of divided it up into what I'm calling episodes, probably more like scenes, really. But episodes one, God appears to Jacob and says to him, I want you to go to Egypt. And that must have felt really odd, because he called to the Promised Land, and God is saying, No, I want you to go to Egypt. But nevertheless, God speaks to him. So that's episode one. Episode two is he journeys to Egypt. And episode three, he's reunited with a son he had long believed dead. He's reunited with Joseph. And then today we have episode four, a meeting with Pharaoh of the brothers, a delegation of brothers meet Pharaoh. Episode five, Jacob then himself meets Pharaoh. Episode six, quite a longer section, all about Joseph's leadership during the famine that is affecting Egypt at this time. And in the final episode there, Jacob prepares to die. So let me read the chapter. It's been, I think, necessary but still a shame as we've been going through Genesis. Time has just been a pressure to read the whole chapter, but we go off to a good start today, and I want to read it to us, because this is God's Word. This is God-breathed. Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen. Joseph took five of his brothers with him and presented them to Pharaoh. And Pharaoh asked the brothers, What is your occupation? They replied, We your servants are shepherds, just like our ancestors. We have come to live here in Egypt for a while, for there is no pasture for our flocks in Canaan. The famine is very severe there, so please, we request permission to live in the land of Goshen. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Now that your father and brothers have joined you here, choose any place in the entire land of Egypt for them to live. Give them the best land of Egypt. Let them live in the region of Goshen, and if any of them have special skills, put them in charge of my livestock too. Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. How old are you? Pharaoh asked him. Jacob replied, I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years, but my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors. Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving his court. So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt, the land of Ramesses, to his father and brothers, and he settled them there just as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph provided food for his father and his brother in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children. Meanwhile, the famine became so severe that all the food was used up and people were starving throughout the lands of Egypt and Canaan. By selling grain to the people, Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he put the money in Pharaoh's treasury. And when the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. Our money is gone, they cried, but please give us food or we will die before your very eyes. Joseph replied, since your money is gone, bring me livestock. I will give you food in exchange for your livestock. So they brought their livestock to Joseph in exchange for food, in exchange for their horses, flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle and donkeys. Joseph provided them with food for another year. But that year ended and the next year they came again and they said, we cannot hide the truth from you, our Lord. Our money is gone and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give you but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your very eyes? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We offer our land and ourselves as slaves to Pharaoh. Please give us grain so we may live and not die so the land does not become empty and desolate. So Joseph brought all the land, bought all the land of Pharaoh for Egypt and all the Egyptians sold in their fields because the famine was so severe and soon all the land belonged to Pharaoh. As for the people, he made them all slaves from one end of Egypt to the other. The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests. They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh so they didn't need to sell their land. Then Joseph said to the people, look today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields. Then when you harvest it, one fifth of your crop will belong to Pharaoh. You may keep the remaining four-fifths of seed for your fields and it's food for you, your households and your little ones. You have saved our lives, they exclaimed. May it please you my Lord to let us be Pharaoh's servants. Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on this land. Only land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh. Meanwhile the people of Israel settled in the land of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, they were fruitful and their population grew rapidly. Jacob lived for 17 years after his arrival in Egypt so he lived 147 years in all. As the time of his death drew near, Jacob called for his son Joseph and said to him, please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request. Do not bury me in Egypt. When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors. So Joseph promised, I will do as you ask. Swear that you will do it, Jacob insisted. So Joseph gave his oath and Jacob bowed humbly at the head of his bed. Amen. So yes, if we can have that slide. Oh, can we go back to, can we go back a few slides to nearly the beginning? I think it's going to be the first couple of hours. Let's keep it back. That's it. So here we are in what I was calling episode four, and Joseph's taken a delegation of the brothers to meet Pharaoh. And we can probably picture the scene about, I mean, Pharaoh is the leader of a superpower. And they're really quite a small tribe from Canaan. And they are looking to be economic migrants. That's definitely what we call them today. They've come because there's no food left in their land, so they're coming as economic migrants. So it's kind of a subservient tone to it, isn't it? We're your servants, Pharaoh. But also kind of stressing things that they want. You know, we're shepherds. By the way, we've got flocks, but if you would let us stay for a while. And actually, at the end of the previous chapter, we see that actually Joseph had coached them to say this. Joseph was good at managing his boss, and he's prepared this. So this speech is important. Because, you know, this is a difficult moment. Pharaoh could have sent them away. So that's the first of the episodes. And you see that they're coming to live in Egypt for a while. So they're not saying, we're coming here to settle permanently. We're coming for a while. I'll mention that briefly, because that kind of phrase, for a while, or other versions of it, are quite important to this whole chapter. So I'm just picking out the first time it appears. Next slide. And this is interesting, actually, because you remember the brothers were speaking to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh's reply is addressed to Joseph. Now, you know, there's a couple of possibilities. One, of course, it's simply that Joseph is kind of the head of the delegation, isn't it? He's still the important guy. And so Pharaoh speaks to somebody of, you know, Joseph's number two in the land. So Pharaoh naturally speaks to him, not to the brothers. But it's also possible it might just be a side meeting. You know, in my career, I saw things like that. You know, somebody very senior would listen to what people had to say, and then have a kind of separate meeting with their inner group of most senior people and make a decision. And that's what kind of is happening here. Pharaoh is sitting down with his number two, and he's making a decision. And he's choosing to let them stay. And there's quite a mention of the word Goshen. I don't know if you picked that up as I was reading it, but Goshen, I think if you take the end of 46 and 47, it gets mentioned something like eight times, something like a lot of times. And Goshen is the place that Joseph has definitely engineered for them to be. So he's told them to go in Joseph. He's mentioned it to Pharaoh himself that they're already there. And then they've asked if they can stay in Goshen. So they definitely are after Goshen. And why is that? Well, I think at least three possibilities, or some mixture of them. One is simply that Joseph just thinks it's going to be a really good place for them and their flocks. So it can be as simple as that. The second possibility, though, is that Joseph is doing this in some ways to protect them. Because at this time, the kind of main center, the kind of equivalent of London, Egypt at that time, a place called Memphis. So Memphis is a big urban center with all the, so that's where the main stuff is happening. So Joseph doesn't want them in Memphis. He wants them kind of on the edge of the territory, and up in the kind of northeast corner of the Nile Delta is Goshen. And is he wanting them to protect them from the Egyptians to some extent? There have been hints, more than hints, actually, of prejudice of Egyptians towards Canaanites through the last couple of chapters. Egyptians didn't eat with Canaanites. Even Joseph didn't eat with them. And apparently they regard shepherds as pretty abominable. So they don't want to kind of mix with shepherds, because they're kind of sophisticated urban people. So is Joseph protecting them in that sense? And if that was right, he probably had seen something that is definitely there, because the whole book of Exodus is based on the fact that these Israelites end up getting very badly treated in Egypt. So, you know, racial prejudice is alive in this situation. I guess a third possibility is one that actually he wants to protect them from the Egyptians, but in a different sense. Does Joseph see that there's a risk of assimilation, that if they're just mingling in with all the Egyptians, that they will pick up Egyptian ways of life and Egyptian habits and start to live like Egyptians? They assimilate, and then they start worshiping Egyptian gods, and suddenly they're distinctive as the people of God has gone altogether. So it may be some mix of those factors. I'm not going to be too definite about it, because the Bible doesn't tell us. So it's conjecture to an extent, so I don't want to lay too much weight on that. But nevertheless, it's something like that that is going on. Next slide. And then we have Joseph brought in his father to see Pharaoh. And it's only because the tone of this one is slightly different, whereas the brothers were deeply respectful, kind of, you know, bowing and like that before Pharaoh. Jacob seems to carry a lot more authority in that situation. And that may be because he's given the respect due to an older man. It may be that, actually, Jacob carries some moral authority that somehow he's just present in the room when this is going on. There's also—not so much in this translation, but in some of the original language—that Jacob by this time has got some mobility issues, because it talks about Joseph bringing him in to see Pharaoh and then making him stand before Pharaoh. Now, you know, it might simply be that he's presenting him, but kind of sometimes I've seen in that that maybe actually Jacob had to be helped into the room and then helped to stand before Pharaoh. And then he has this conversation with Pharaoh, and Pharaoh says, How old are you? Again, the literal question that Pharaoh asked him is quite—Pharaoh says, How many are the days of the years of your life? How many are the days of the years of your life? And Jacob replies, The days of the years of my life—no, the days of the years of my temporary residence are few and hard. The days of the years of my life are 130 years, but they've been few and hard. And it's interesting that having been just asked, in a sense, for a number, he's introduced this phrase, temporary residence. And in some translations, you'll get that translated as sojourner. That's a kind of less common word these days, but it means temporary residence. And, you know, again, we heard that earlier, and one of the features of this chapter is that this thought of temporary residence is quite important to what this whole chapter is about. But Jacob blesses Pharaoh—in fact, he blesses Pharaoh twice. So he's not, in a sense, in a cringing situation. He's actually taking authority in the situation, and Pharaoh almost seems respectful of Jacob. You might think it odd to hear somebody who's 130 and whose son has become the number two in Egypt describe his days as being few and hard, but that is the expression that Jacob uses. And there's a lot in that, because if you think about Jacob's life, he undoubtedly had had a hard life. You know, he's had to run away from home while still quite a young man, immediately after his father's death, because otherwise he's at risk of being killed by his own brother. He had been particularly close to his mother, Rebekah, and he never sees her again. He gets tricked into an arranged marriage that proves unhappy, and he becomes the head of quite a dysfunctional family. The wife he deeply loved dies early in childbirth, and then the son that he's particularly close to he believes has been died, and he's lived with that belief for many years. So Jacob has had a hard life, but nevertheless there is something very beautiful, which I'll come back to, I think, about the Jacob we now see before us. Next slide. So, with the authority of Pharaoh, Joseph gives them the land in the region of Ramesses. Apparently that's just another word for Goshen, so it's the same place. And Joseph provides food for his father and his brother. Again, we see that Joseph is continuing to behave graciously in all this that he's had. He's been through very difficult episodes in his life directly at the hands of his brothers, but he's been continuing to behave graciously in this situation and providing for them all. Next one. And then the next section, which is actually the longest in the chapter, and you had me read it, really running from 13 to 26, is about the famine and what happens with the Egyptians during the famine. And that can strike us as a bit hard, because it's quite clear in all this, Pharaoh is getting very much wealthier. And so we can think, well, it's kind of not sure how I feel about that section. However, people who have kind of studied this deeply said, you know, first of all, you can see that the Egyptians are asking for this, and they seem very grateful. So what they're asking for is what Joseph gives them. He undoubtedly is responsible for saving perhaps even millions of lives, certainly many, many lives who are starving to death, and Joseph is instrumental in their being saved. And the end result for people who are being described as slaves doesn't sound much like slavery as we would understand it, because they're still living on their own farms, and they get to keep 80 percent of all that they grow and produce. So there's a kind of 20 percent flat rate tax and everything else is yours. Well, that's kind of probably not would have been your mind idea of what slavery would ordinarily look like. I mean, in this country today, I think the burden of taxation on people of average income is about 30 to 35 percent. So, you know, they're facing a much lower rate. Comparisons, of course. I don't suppose the NHS was up to much in Egypt. I don't suppose there was a state pension, so all the rest. But anything, just it's a little bit of an aside, but I think this kind of passage is helpful. I meant every word of what I said about the Bible being God's word and God speaking to us through it and about the authority of that word absolutely mean every word of that. But it doesn't mean that we lift and drop everything in the Old Testament and just say we take that on board. It doesn't mean that, say, the way in which Joseph managed that famine is instructive for us in how we might manage a situation today. There's another odd detail about a vow later in this chapter that you might have picked up about putting your hand under somebody's thigh while making a promise. We don't do that. There's a good reason. You know, it's not, so it's not lift and drop, but it is kind of hearing the voice of God and dealing with the passage respectfully. So that was a bit of an aside. Next slide. And the people of Israel settled in the land of Goshen, and there they acquired property and were fruitful and their population grew rapidly. And you remember what I said at the beginning about the previous chapter and about what Andy preached about was it must have felt very, very strange, particularly to Jacob, when having been called to the Promised Land and believed that that's where they belonged to be told to go to Egypt. But in that, God had promised, and it's in chapter 46, I think it's verse 3, he said, I am calling you to Egypt and you will be prosperous there. And this is God keeping this promise, and that is a promise that we've seen at earlier points in Genesis. So this has all been part of God's plan. God's timing in the way that he works can frequently be deeply puzzling to us, because to an extent his ways are not our ways, but God is keeping his promises, and that's what this verse is about. Next. The time of his death do near, Jacob called for his son Joseph and said, please do me this favor, put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me, and don't bury me in Egypt. Take me home and bury me with my ancestors. And it almost seems quite a formal little thing for a father and son discussion, but you sense behind it all that Jacob, this is very, very important to Jacob, so he's very insistent about it. He doesn't want there to be any misunderstanding. He doesn't want there to be any wriggle room that would mean that after his death something different would happen. He wants Joseph to understand very definitely that he intends to be buried with his ancestors in Egypt, in Canaan. Actually, if you know this, there's a memorial today in Hebron in the West Bank, which is honored by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, which is the family grave so people believe of Abraham and Isaac and Sarah and Rebekah and Jacob. So this is very important to him, and in this reference to putting your hand under his thigh, he's recalling a bit of family history because his grandfather Abraham had used that same particular formula when sending a servant out to find a wife for who's to be Jacob's father. So he is, and he's thinking about the promised land is what Jacob's thinking about. And as we think about the application of this to us today, we'll definitely come back to that thought. Let's have the next slide. So the first thing I think that we learn from Jacob is about depending on God. I do find Jacob in these last chapters to be a deeply appealing and beautiful character. You know, there are plenty of examples in the Bible, and indeed in church life, of people who have a good start or a good middle with God but finish badly. Solomon would be an example of that. You read the early years of Solomon and how he gets made king, and he says some glorious things, and you think it's absolutely wonderful. But by the time of his death, he was a shadow of the man of faith he'd been when he was younger. Jacob is finishing well. Yes, he's had some bad days. Yes, some of the problems of his dysfunctional family have been of his own making. Yes, he had often been deceitful. Yes, he did days when he felt completely hopeless and sometimes strikes us as being quite self-pitying. What does that tell you? It tells you he's like you and I. But he's finishing well. He's finishing well, and that's about depending on God. Of course, we depend on God. We hold on to God because God is holding on to us. But there is something beautiful. By the way, I love that. If you're familiar with the song Hold On To Me that Lauren Daigle thought, beautiful lyrics. Anyway, that's again an aside. Next slide. I don't think I've warned you this. There's going to be some C.S. Lewis. I think Jacob would have loved this. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time. We shall, of course, be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the earring cupboard. It's a magnificent quote. But you get the sense of that's the kind of thing that Jacob's thinking. And it's beautiful, and it's about holding on to God. And I do hope you put that in your heart, the desire to finish well. There's plenty around of us who are not finishing well. Make that your life's work to finish well. Next one. Do to others as you would like them to do to you. That's, of course, the golden rule. That's Jesus. But we see in this chapter a kind of cycle of blessing. Jacob is blessing Pharaoh. And through Joseph, the Egyptians and Jacob are being blessed through the famine, through the work of Joseph. And the people of God are also being blessed, you know, treating others as you would like them to do. And I think it's great that we as a church, I hope that the things that we are doing as a church are a blessing to the community around us. You know, whether it's the library, the drop-in, the hub, whatever it is, I hope that we're a blessing to the community around us. I hope you're a blessing in your family and in your workplace and amongst your neighbors, called to be a blessing. But in this particular context, we can see actually that the Israelites did get this message. Let's look at the next verse, which is not one of the best known. You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I think quite a few political parties, that's never going to get on the manifesto, is it? But you know, it's important to treat others as you'd have them treat you. Next slide. Dear friends, I warn you as temporary residents and foreigners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very soul. Here we see Peter, and he's not the only one of these, Peter picking up on this temporary resident thing. And it becomes quite important in the New Testament, and both Peter and the book of Hebrews definitely on it big time. And you get something of what was possibly in Joseph's mind about the choice of Goshen. He's protecting them from this deeply idolatrous culture of the Egyptians. But you see, identity is important to that. You know, if you're living in a country, but you're not pretending to be there forever, there's some stuff you wouldn't get involved in, because actually that's not your long-term home. Some stuff you're not going to do. And there's something about who we are, who do we, if I really believe myself, I am, in Bob Dylan's words, the property of Jesus. If I belong to God, and if my future is with him, then there are some things that are dangerous to me that I ought to be avoiding. You know, Jesus prayed, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because temptation and evil are very real things. But identity is one of the tools that we use that protect us from temptation and evil. Next one. Where is your true country? There's a concept in law, not only actually in English law, but it's in a number of other countries as well, including Nigeria, I believe, called domicile. And domicile means permanent home. And it's distinguished from, say, residence. Residence is the place you happen to be living. So if you're in the UK for more than six months, you're regarded as resident here. And citizenship is usually about, well, who gives you your passport? So it's about, you know, kind of legal status. But domicile meant something more like permanent home. It's actually probably the deeper of the concepts. And permanent home is something that also kind of sticks to you. So you could go and live abroad for 25 years and come back to the UK, and the UK would say, your domicile was always in this country because your strongest roots and who you felt yourself to be belong to this country. So domicile is about true home. And the very real sense in which, as Christians, we're saying, so where is my true home? Where do I truly belong? Do I understand and see myself to be in this world, as Jacob put it, as a temporary resident? But my true home is with God in hand. There's that difference from temporary residence today, true home and sense of belonging. And the writer of Hebrews says precisely that. Hebrews 13, verse 14-ish. Your permanent home is not in this life. Our permanent home is with God. And we'll have another C.S. Lewis quote. The last battle, I still think the last battle, although it's in a sense a children's book, it's still one of the best things written about the life everlasting. And I commend it to you. But this is a phrase when they've kind of got into heaven effectively, and someone says, I have come home at last. This is my real country. I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. And it's that sense of belonging to our true country. We are temporary residents here. We belong to Jesus. We belong to God's people. And our true country is yet to be. And actually, Karen read this at Anne's funeral, and I hope someone will read it at my funeral. So let's pray, and then I'll hand back to Steve, and we'll give an opportunity if you'd like to be prayed for. Father, we thank you for your great mercy and love, Lord, for all our feelings and shortcomings, for all our messed up-ness, for all the mistakes that we've made in our life. You are faithful, and we can depend on you because you are holding on to us. But Lord, we do want to understand the truth about things, Lord. We do want to receive your truth into our lives, Lord. We do want to know in our hearts where our true home is. Lord, we thank you for Jesus, and we thank you for all that lies ahead of us. The best is yet to be. We thank you for Jesus. Amen.

Jewish communities were spread throughout the Nile Delta and along trade routes. Many Jews settled in Egypt for economic opportunities, military service, or as refugees from persecution.

Gas output dropped 20% y-o-y to 4.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) in January, marking its lowest monthly level since December 2016.Dana Gas, one of the key producers in the Nile Delta, plans to launch a USD100 million project to develop production after receiving the rest of its outstanding dues. The European Union has agreed to fast-track the approval and disbursement of the second phase of the its macro-financial assistance and budget support program, worth EUR4 billion.The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) has launched the first phase of a new digital services platform for investors.The House gave the initial thumbs up to the entirety of the re-drafted Labor Act, with the bill's final approval by the legislative body penciled in for an upcoming session. The Customs Authority is preparing to launch a pilot operation of a new system for inspecting goods based on AI to combat customs evasion at ports, by creating a unified database for the prices of imported goods at all Egyptian ports.Tarek Sultan, Vice Chairman of Agility, a company specializing in supply chain services, infrastructure, and innovation, said his company intends to invest USD60 million to establish modern customs and logistics facilities in the Suez Canal Economic Zone.The German Development Bank (KfW Bank) intends to provide financing worth EUR52 million to the Ministry of Electricity to finance clean energy transition projects, sources at the German Embassy said.ORAS (FV: EGP425.00, OW) announced that its 50-50 joint venture with Técnicas Reunidas has signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract to build the Qurayyah IPP Expansion Project, a large-scale 3 GW combined cycle gas-fired power plant in the Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia. The value of projects undertaken by Egyptian contractors in Iraq jumped to USD12 billion, according to the Chairman of the Egyptian Federation for Construction and Building Contractors. CLHO (FV: EGP9.00, OW) issued 4Q24 results. 4Q24 attributable net profit amounted to EGP191 million, down 8% QoQ but up 78% YoY. FY24 attributable net profit came in at EGP723 million (+73% YoY). CLHO is currently trading at FY25 multiples of P/E 15.2x and EV/EBITDA of 7.4x.ADIB AGM approved increasing issued and paid-in capital from EGP6 billion to EGP12 billion, an increase of EGP6 billion through distributing 1:1 bonus shares.DSCW reported 4Q24 bottom line of EGP80 million (-53.2% YoY, -75.0% QoQ). This brought FY24 bottom-line to EGP901 million (+101.1% YoY).DSCW BoD approved the establishment of Dice for Ready Made Garments in Morocco for the trade and distribution of ready-made clothing. Also, it proposed shares distribution for FY24 at a rate of half a share for each original share.Weekly Commodities Update

This week we are learning about what happens when a magician tries to apply his skillset in an active war zone with the tale of Jasper Maskelyne.Determined to serve during WWII, Jasper ended up in Cairo where the British were facing off against the tactical might of Rommel in the deserts surrounding the Nile Delta.What follows is a story of increasingly sophisticated (and almost unbelievable) deceptions which, according to Jasper, were crucial in turning the tide of the North Africa conflict......of course that is if you believe Jasper.Guest Host: Emma Heathcote Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may recall that the Hebrews were said to be building the storage cities of Pithom and Rameses.  You can read this in … Exo 1:11  So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses. Problem.  We have studied that the Hebrews left Egypt in 1446 B.C. and Rameses the Great (a.k.a. as Rameses II), the supposed pharaoh of the Exodus as per the late date (the wrong date) did not come to power until 1279 B.C. reigned until 1213 B.C.  So there are no cities named Rameses in the Nile Delta in 1446 B.C.  The city, later called Rameses, is called Avaris in the 15th century B.C., the time of the Exodus.  You can visit this site today.  It is called Tel el-daba.  So, what's going on?  Also, in this lesson, we deal with the city of Dan in the days of Abraham.  The events in chapter 15 are close to 2091 B.C. when Abraham and Sarah entered Canaan.  The city of Dan was named by the tribe of Dan – Dan is the son of Jacob the grandson of Abraham – when they moved north and captured the city of Laish (pronounced Lay Esh).  This is clear when we read … Jdg 18:29  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish. So, Abraham comes to a city called Dan, as we read in the Bible, and the city of Dan is not even there yet!  This is nuts!  What is going on?  Is the Bible wrong? Was it written later in 3rd or 2nd century B.C.?  We need to find out and again show the truthfulness of the Bible.  In lesson 30 in Genesis 15 we then come across this verse … Gen 14:17  Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.   Who is this guy?  There are some who say it's Jesus!  That's crazy.  Some rabbis say it is Shem or the son of Shem the son of Noah.  Consider a few references from ancient Jewish (non-biblical) literature … Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, a priest most high." (Pirke De Rabbi Eliezari) "And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Rashi, Commentaries, Genesis 14:18) "And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Talmud, Tr. Nedarim32) That Melchizedek is Shem or his son is a major error since Melchizedek is the king of Salem.  Salem is probably Jerusalem.  At this time when Abraham and Melchizedek meet, Salem is a Jebusite city.  The Jebusites are a clan of the pagan Canaanites.  The rabbis show they dismiss real history and make up their own opinions which are in total conflict with historical truth. So, who is this guy?  Not Jesus.  Not Shem.  Not the son of Shem.  How do we understand this enigmatic Bible character?  Come and join us in lesson 30.  Come and do what your Lord commanded you to do if you are a TRUE Christian, a real disciple of Rabbi Yeshua. Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0  

In this episode of Echoes of War, Craig and Gaurav explore the Battle of the Nile. The Battle of the Nile (August 1–3, 1798) was a pivotal naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars. It took place in Aboukir Bay near the Nile Delta, between the British Royal Navy, commanded by Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson, and the French fleet, supporting Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt. Napoleon aimed to disrupt British access to India and expand French influence in the region. The French fleet, under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys, anchored in a defensive line close to the shore. Nelson, arriving after a relentless search, employed bold tactics, to attack the French fleet in detail and utilize the winds and French disposition in his favour. The Royal Navy scored a decisive victory. By the battle's end, 11 of 13 French ships of the line were captured or destroyed. The British suffered relatively light casualties with no ships lost. The victory had far-reaching consequences: it isolated Napoleon's army in Egypt which forced his return to France in 1799 and army to surrender in 1801. It halted French plans for further eastern expansion. It strengthened British naval dominance, and bolstered morale across Europe. The Royal Navy which had initially vacated the Mediterranean sea due to overwhelming odds, would now control the sea for the next century. However, Nelson's greatest moment was yet to come.

*Key news articles for today*The government is planning on offering up stakes in its majority-owned Port Said Container and Cargo Handling Company (PSCCHC) and Damietta Container and Cargo Handling Company (DCHC) on the EGX during 1Q25. The sources expect the government to offer 20-25% stakes in each company, with the IPO's private placement focused on attracting major companies like the UAE's AD Ports and DP World. Kuwait renewed a USD2 bn Central Bank of Egypt deposit certificate due for repayment in April for another year. Egypt's non-oil exports rose to USD33.35 billion during 10M24, an increase of 12.2% compared to the same period last year. MPs approved 22 of the 44 articles in the draft cash-based subsidies bill to establish a Takaful and Karama fund to provide cash-based payments to those under the poverty line, funded by the state budget, private contributions, foreign grants and loans, and investments. The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a USD170 mn loan to fund local energy and infrastructure leader Hassan Allam Utilities and Saudi renewables giant ACWA Power's 1.1 GW wind farm in the Gulf of Suez, set to be the largest of its kind in the Middle East, according to a statement from AfDB. The loan would fund 16.0% of the entire USD1.1 bn project. The Prime Minister issued a decree setting the selling price of natural gas supplied for electricity generation at USD4 per million British thermal units, to electricity production companies affiliated with the Ministry of Electricity or other companies. The Prime Minister also issued a decree to pay the value of natural gas consumption in USD for free zone and economic zone projects. The House gave its final nod to five energy exploration bills authorizing the Oil Ministry to contract with local and international companies to explore for oil and gas across Egypt in the Mediterranean, in the Nile Delta, and in the Western Desert. Transport and Industry Minister Kamel El Wazir called on Mermec to establish a factory to localize the production of signalling and control systems for railways. Egyptian National Railways finalized an agreement with Spain's high-speed train manufacturer Talgo to supply seven new luxury sleeper trains, following the recent delivery of six similar models. A EUR200 mn loan to import sleep trains from the company was given the presidential thumbs up in August after being passed by the House in June. State-owned Holding Company for Roads and Bridges is looking to secure USD500 milliin worth of railway projects with the Iraqi government as a part of Iraq's plan to spend USD100 billion on infrastructure over three years.  MASR (FV: EGP8.11, OW) 1) aims to build two hotels in Taj City in 2025, 2) aims to invest EGP20.0 billion in construction work in 2025, 3) signed a contract with Majid Al Futtaim to open a Carrefour branch in Taj City, and 4) expects to start collecting rental income in 2027.Banking United Bank has concluded its retail and private offerings, with its retail offering that closed yesterday being oversubscribed 59x. CICH announces the completion of the issuance of securitization bonds for Al-Tawfeek Lease and Tamweel Mortgage Finance amounting to EGP1.5 and EGP1.8 billion; respectively.  FWRY (FV: EGP13.00, OW) announced that its fully owned subsidiary, Fawry MSME, BNPL's portfolio onboarded over 50,000 merchants to its service, facilitating 750k transactions with a total value of EGP2 bn. 

True to form, Tutankhamun from the Nile Delta has selected the pyramids as this week's topic. Were these structures named after the shape or was it the other way around? Were they meant to be that shape in the first place or did they just run out of bricks? If they've REALLY been there for thousands of years how come they aren't totally covered in graffiti tags and pictures of willies and stuff? For answers to all these questions and more why not try Wikipedia or Reddit or something? For a lukewarm take - press play.Join our PATREON for ad-free episodes and a monthly bonus episode: www.patreon.com/threebeansaladWith thanks to our editor Laura Grimshaw.Merch now available here: www.threebeansaladshop.comGet in touch: threebeansaladpod@gmail.com @beansaladpod

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Sarah Davis was a corporate risk manager who began to chafe at the limitations on her life.Sure, she had a safe job and a comfortable income. She ran marathons (3:38 PR — damn!) and was living the dream in Bondi, Australia.But something was missing.When Sarah interrogated herself, she realized that she wasn't living as big or as bold as she wanted.Did risk management always have to be about minimizing risk at all cost? Or could the principles of risk management inform and guide actual risk taking?Could she use her professional skill set in tandem with her experience in surf sea kayaking and her love of travel and her pursuit of novelty to do something big and bold and amazing?In our conversation, we talk about the life lessons learned as she became the first woman to paddle the Nile River from its headwaters in Rwanda all the way to the Nile Delta in Egypt.I hope you're inspired to step outside of any comfort zones that have got you stuck. I hope you're inspired to identify a passion project and pursue it. And I hope you stay safe and well the whole time!A couple of the quotable quotes from this episode, as identified by AI:"Control the controllables""Life is for living"LinksSarahJDavis.comPaddle the Nile: One Woman's Search for a Life Less Ordinary, by Sarah DavisInstagram: @sarahpaddlesSarah's LinkedIn profileSarah's YouTube channelClick to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Continue the journey through the ancient tomb architecture of Early Dynastic Egypt that paved the way for the pyramids. Uncover recently discovered predynastic tombs in the Nile Delta and explore Saqqara's grand necropolis. From the tombs of elite Egyptians to the monuments of Merneith, the first woman to rule Egypt, and the Step Pyramid of Djoser, we'll reveal the powerful afterlife rituals and artistic traditions that shaped Egypt's iconic burial monuments.Links See photos related to episode topics on Instagram Loving the macabre lore? Treat your host to a coffee! Head over to the show notes page to see photos!Affiliates Motion

Head of the Trade Ministry's Commercial Representation Authority discussed potential investments in Egypt with representatives from major Indian companies.The IMF said that Egypt may abandon quarterly fuel price increases in exchange for a firm commitment to raise prices to levels “Cost recovery” by the end of the year.The Ministry of Finance is considering raising the zero bracket of income taxes for individuals to EGP45,000 annually instead of EGP40,000 currently.Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has reappointed Ahmed El Sheikh as the chairman of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) for another one-year term starting 26 August, and appointed Noha Khalil as acting CEO of the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (SFE) fund, following the resignation of Ayman Soliman.The CBE reported a net income of EGP22.8 bn in FY2023-24, compared to losses of EGP86.3 bn in the previous fiscal year. This marks the first time that the bank has turned a profit since it was last in the green in FY 2016-17.The Oil Ministry is rolling out a batch of incentives to help ramp up oil and gas output by encouraging investment in exploration, drilling, development, and production. The new incentives offer foreign entities an increased share of the natural gas or crude oil produced from their concessions in Egypt, provided they increase production through new investments in exploration and development.Khaleda Petroleum Company, on behalf of the American Apache Company and the EGPC, announced the investigation of a new petroleum discovery in the Western Desert.We downgrade our FV for SUGR to EGP77.6/share down from EGP92.7/share, maintaining Overweight recommendation, given the decline in volumes from the strong base of 2023. SUGR is currently trading at 2025f P/E of 6.0x.DSCW reported an outstanding 2Q24 consolidated financial results, where attributable net profit recorded EGP366 million (+250.6% YoY, +210.1% QoQ). This brings 1H24 bottom-line to EGP484 million (+300% YoY). DSCW is currently trading at 2024f P/E of 4.6x.DSCW is looking to snap up a controlling stake in Twin Top Real Estate Investment Company.Auto sales in July climbed 42.2% MoM to 11.4k vehicles. The total number of vehicles sold is the highest reported since August 2022. Passenger car sales saw the biggest jump, rising 50.7% from June.CIB has inked an agreement with the Chemicals & Fertilizers Export Council (CEC) that will see it provide financial and strategic support to local chemical exporters in a bid to boost the competitiveness of the sector's exports. A local consortium led by Abu Tartour For Phosphoric Acid will set up a USD1.2 billion phosphoric acid production plant. The project will be carried out over a 36-month period and aims to produce 900k tons of phosphoric acid a year. Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) is inviting bids for 12 new oil and gas exploration blocks in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta. The offering includes 10 offshore and two onshore areas.ETEL is in advanced talks with NTRA to expand the legal framework to allow unregulated companies to own cell towers.FAIT will sell its entire 48.57% stake in Giza Paints and Chemical Industries in an EGP32.3 mn transaction.CNFN is planning, with Global Auto for Cars, to increase the capital of their subsidiary “Global Contact Finance” to EGP75 million in 3-month period.  ORHD sold a commercial building in O West to Seoudi Supermarket for EGP332.0 million.35 billet smelters are negotiating with the Ministry of Industry and Transport to obtain licenses to produce steel rebars, which will enable them to import manufacturing supplies and compete in the local and export rebar markets. 

Between 2500—2200 BCE, Egypt witnessed a period of surprisingly high rainfall. While the Old Kingdom was much wetter than today, archaeologists have found strong evidence for huge downpours, sweeping across northern Egypt and flooding tombs, cities, and forcing the ancients to adapt… This episode is a brief epilogue to the Decline & Fall of the Old Kingdom series. Intro music: Michael Jackson – Stranger in Moscow (Instrumental Version). Outro music: Toto – Africa (Bardcore) by Stravitticus. Logo image: Rain spout/gutter at the pyramid complex of Niuserrra (c.2400 BCE). Photo by Kairoinfo4u. References used in this episode: K. W. Butzer, ‘When the Desert Was in Flood: Environmental History of the Giza Plateau', AERAgram 5 (2001), 3—5. K. W. Butzer et al., ‘Urban Geoarchaeology and Environmental History at the Lost City of the Pyramids, Giza: Synthesis and Review', Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (2013), 3340—3366. K. O. Kuraszkiewicz, ‘Architectural Innovations Influenced by Climatic Phenomena (4.2 KA Event) in the Late Old Kingdom (Saqqara, Egypt)', Studia Quaternaria 33 (2016), 27—34. S. Rzepka et al., ‘Preliminary Report on Engineering Properties and Environmental Resistance of Ancient Mud Bricks from Tell el-Retaba Archaeological Site in the Nile Delta', Studia Quaternaria 33 (2016), 47—56. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why did it all go so wrong? We've explored the historical overview of Old Kingdom decline; but what was driving it? There are three major factors that caused this fall. Two originate in the climate, the third comes from the political structure of the kingdom and its society. From the deserts of Sahara to the depths of the Nile, we uncover the causes of decline… Note: An extended version of this episode is available at Patreon.com/egyptpodcast. The History of Egypt Podcast: Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music and interludes by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net. Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com. Logo image: The “Starving Bedouin” from the Pyramid of Unas. Photo by Sarah Murray. Select Bibliography: M. Bárta, Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old Kingdom (2019). B. Bell, ‘The Oldest Records of the Nile Floods', The Geographical Journal 136 (1970), 569—573. K. W. Butzer, ‘When the Desert Was in Flood: Environmental History of the Giza Plateau', AERAgram 5 (2001), 3—5. K. W. Butzer, ‘Landscapes and Environmental History of the Nile Valley: A Critical Review and Prospectus', in E. Bloxam and I. Shaw (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology (Oxford, 2020), 99—124. N. Kanawati and J. Swinton, Egypt in the Sixth Dynasty: Challenges and Responses (2018). K. O. Kuraszkiewicz, ‘Architectural Innovations Influenced by Climatic Phenomena (4.2 KA Event) in the Late Old Kingdom (Saqqara, Egypt)', Studia Quaternaria 33 (2016), 27—34. M. van de Mieroop, A History of Ancient Egypt (2nd edn, 2021). N. Moeller, ‘The First Intermediate Period: A Time of Famine and Climate Change?', Egypt and the Levant 15 (2005), 153—167. J. C. Moreno García, ‘Climatic Change or Sociopolitical Transformation? Reassessing Late 3rd Millennium BC in Egypt', in J. C. Moreno García et al. (eds), 2200 BC - A Climatic Breakdown as a Cause for the Collapse of the Old World? 2 vols (2015), 79—94. S. Rzepka et al., ‘Preliminary Report on Engineering Properties and Environmental Resistance of Ancient Mud Bricks from Tell el-Retaba Archaeological Site in the Nile Delta', Studia Quaternaria 33 (2016), 47—56. J.-D. Stanley et al., ‘Nile Flow Failure at the End of the Old Kingdom, Egypt: Strontium Isotopic and Petrologic Evidence', Geoarchaeology 18 (2003), 395—402. P. Tallet and M. Lehner, The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids (2021). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before we move into more familiar territory we watch the grapevine exit the Fertile Crescent to the Nile Delta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important and most celebrated buildings of the ancient Mediterranean. It was a great hub of learning and literature and made Alexandria one of the ancient world's foremost centres of knowledge and culture, and the jewel of the Nile Delta. But when was it built? And where did all the books come from?In today's episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr. Islam Issa about the story behind one of histories greatest libraries. Together they explore why Alexandria's reigning dynasty - the Ptolemies - were so obsessed with acquiring knowledge and uncover whether it really did burn down in a great fire. This episode was produced by Joseph Knight and edited by Aidan Lonergan.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code ANCIENTS - sign up here.You can take part in our listener survey here.

Summary Angie Gad (LinkedIn, Website) joined Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss her career in intelligence analysis. Angie is a first-generation Egyptian-American.  What You'll Learn Intelligence The role of state fusion centers to national intelligence How counterterrorism analysis evolved after 9/11 The connections between ISIS and Far Right Extremists The mental health implications of counterterrorism  Reflections The importance of diversity of thought and experience Personal identity in professional life And much, much more … Quotes of the Week “I think that's what drives me as an analyst. I love to understand why extremists do what they do, what leads them, what are the motivators and the driving force behind their actions and their thoughts and their radicalization.” – Angie Gad. Resources  SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* Telling Americans About China (and Intelligence) with Sara Castro (2024) The Eye of Horus: Egyptian Intelligence with Dina Rezk (2023) Leader, Lecturer, Analyzer, Nerd with Jorhena Thomas (2023) The Counterterrorism and Counter WMD Strategist with Dexter Ingram (2022) *Beginner Resources* What Is Counterterrorism? National Museum of American Diplomacy, YouTube (2023) [5 min. video] What is Intelligence Analysis and Why is It So Important? National American University (2020) [Short article] Role of Fusion Centers, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (n.d.) [Short brief]  DEEPER DIVE Books Compassionate Counterterrorism: The Power of Inclusion In Fighting Fundamentalism, L. Al Olaimy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019)  Black Flags: Rise of ISIS, J. Warrick (Doubleday, 2015) Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis & National Security, T. Fingar (SUP, 2011) Primary Sources  United States of America v. Ammon BUNDY, Jon RITZHEIMER, Joseph O'SHAUGHNESSY, Ryan PAYNE, Ryan BUNDY, Brian CAVALIER, Shawna COX, Peter SANTILLI (2016) National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (2013)  Progress Made and Work Remaining in Implementing Homeland Security Missions 10 Years after 9/11 (2011) Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States (2011)  9/11 Commission Report (2004)  Targets of Suspicion: The Impact of Post-9/11 Policies on Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the United States (2004) American Psyche Reeling From Terror Attacks (2001) *Wildcard Resource* The Rosetta Stone was originally found in the Nile Delta of Egypt in 1799. The priceless piece of human linguistic history has been on display at the British Museum since 1802.  The question of the potential repatriation of the Rosetta Stone back to Egypt is one of the most highly discussed topics in the museum field today. Read more about the Egyptian campaign to reclaim their ancient artifacts here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reference this lesson and find out more here: https://evidence4faith.org/portfolio/where-is-mount-sinai/Join us in Israel: https://evidence4faith.org/israel/The Hebrews are now free from Pharaoh's army and headed to Mount Sinai, also called Mount Horeb throughout the Bible. If you search online or in a variety of Bible atlases, you will find a dozen mountains identified as Mount Sinai. Which one is correct? One of the challenges with identifying locations from the past is that names can change, and established traditions can obfuscate actual evidence. Similar to how we identified the most likely candidate for the Red Sea crossing in the previous episode, we will go through the clues from the Bible and compare them to what we find in the field to help identify the most likely place for the Biblical Mount Sinai.Developed & Hosted by Michael Lane. Produced & Edited by Charlotte Fohner.SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY:The Exodus Itinerary Sites Their Location from the Perspective of the Biblical Sources. Michael D. Oblath, 2004.Did the Israelites Cross the Red Sea or the Sea of Reeds? Gly Williams, 2016. Science and the Miracles of the Exodus. Colin Humphreys. “Europhysics News” 2005.The Miracles of he Exodus: A ScientistsDiscovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories. Colin Humphreys, 2009. The Israelites in Egypt: An Archaeological Outlook on the Biblical Exodus Tradition. Jonathan D. Bless. University of Wisconsin La Cross, 2011.Exegetical and Contextual Facets of Israel's Red Sea Crossin. R. Larry Overstreet, 2003. The Location of the Sea the Israelites Passed Through. Ferdinand O. Regalado, 2002. Gold of the Exodus. Howard Blum, 1998.In Search of the Mountain of God: The Discovery of the Real Mt. Sinai. Robert Cornuke & David Halbrook, 2000.Evidence for an Ancient Egyptian Frontier Canal: The remnants of an artificial waterway discovered in the northeast Nile Delta may have formed part of the barrier called “Shur of Egypt” in ancient texts. Amihai Sneh, Tuvia Weissbrod, & Itamar Perath, “American Scientist”, 1975. The Wadi Tumilat and the “Canal of the Pharaohs”. Carol Redmount, “Journal o Near Eastern Studies”, 1995.The Route of the Exodus from Egypt. George Robinson, 1901. The Lost Sea of the Exodus. Dr. Glen A. Fritz. “Geotech” 2016.The Route of the Exodus, the Location of Mount Sinai and Related Topics. Randall Styx, 2002.Where Did the Red Sea Crossing Take Place? Chrsitopher Eames, 2021.The Sacred Bridge. Anson F. Rainey & Dr. R. Steven Notley, 2005.Histories. Herodotus.Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book II.Finding Etham. John Shreier, Biblical Research, August 21, 2019.ADDITIONAL ART, FILM, & PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Stock Music provided by lynnepublishing and SplashStudio /

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Reference this lesson and find out more here: https://evidence4faith.org/portfolio/where-is-the-red-sea-crossing/We last left the Hebrews trapped on the beach between the sea and the Egyptian army. There are several locations that have been suggested for the crossing of the Red Sea and it is impossible to get a consensus on where the exact location was. We do have clues from scripture, archaeology, history, and even marine biology and bathymetry, that can help us narrow down the most likely place this event could have happened. This video looks at those clues and explains why we think the best candidate for the crossing is at Nuweiba Beach in the Gulf of Aqaba.Developed & Hosted by Michael Lane. Produced & Edited by Charlotte Fohner.SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY:The Exodus Itinerary Sites Their Location from the Perspective of the Biblical Sources. Michael D. Oblath, 2004.Did the Israelites Cross the Red Sea or the Sea of Reeds? Gly Williams, 2016.Science and the Miracles of the Exodus. Colin Humphreys. “Europhysics News” 2005.The Miracles of the Exodus: A Scientists Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories. Colin Humphreys, 2009.The Israelites in Egypt: An Archaeological Outlook on the Biblical Exodus Tradition. Jonathan D. Bless. University of Wisconsin La Cross, 2011.Exegetical and Contextual Facets of Israel's Red Sea Crossin. R. Larry Overstreet, 2003.The Location of the Sea the Israelites Passed Through. Ferdinand O. Regalado, 2002.Gold of the Exodus. Howard Blum, 1998.In Search of the Mountain of God: The Discovery of the Real Mt. Sinai. Robert Cornuke & David Halbrook, 2000.Evidence for an Ancient Egyptian Frontier Canal: The remnants of an artificial waterway discovered in the northeast Nile Delta may have formed part of the barrier called “Shur of Egypt” in ancient texts. Amihai Sneh, Tuvia Weissbrod, & Itamar Perath, “American Scientist”, 1975.The Wadi Tumilat and the “Canal of the Pharaohs”. Carol Redmount, “Journal o Near Eastern Studies”, 1995.The Route of the Exodus from Egypt. George Robinson, 1901.The Lost Sea of the Exodus. Dr. Glen A. Fritz. “Geotech” 2016.The Route of the Exodus, the Location of Mount Sinai and Related Topics. Randall Styx, 2002.Where Did the Red Sea Crossing Take Place? Chrsitopher Eames, 2021.The Sacred Bridge. Anson F. Rainey & Dr. R. Steven Notley, 2005.The Exodus Revealed: Search for the Red Sea Crossing, Discovery Media Productions, 2001MUSIC CREDITS: Stock Music provided by mv_production, & lynnepublishing / Pond5-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DONATE: https://evidence4faith.org/give/ WEBSITE: https://evidence4faith.org/NEWSLETTER:

In New Kingdom Egypt (c.1500 - 1150 BCE), the pharaohs and their agents had many dealings with people of the Mediterranean. These include the ancient Cretans (the "Keftiu" or Minoans) and the Mycenaeans (the "Danae" or "Danaeans"). And from the time of Amunhotep III (c. 1400--1362 BCE), we have tentative evidence for Egyptian embassies visiting these islands. From Memphis to Mycenae, Karnak to Crete, we go in search of international relations. Compilation of previously released material. Logo image: Bull-leaper "taureadors" from an Egyptian palace, fresco fragments excavated at Tell el-Dab'a (ancient Avaris) in the Nile Delta. Image adapted from M. Bietak et al., Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab'a (Avaris) and Knossos (2007). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liebe Leute, ihr hört in dieser Folge ein Gespräch zwischen uns und Zetnus, einem bekannten Mapscripter in Age of Empires II. Von ihm stammen bekannte Maps wie Canberra, Eye, Nile Delta, HyberRandom, Rivulet, auch die Turniermap "Sheepfold" von The Grand Melee und viele mehr. Er nimmt regelmäßig an Mapscripting Wettbewerben Teil und hat ein ausführliches Handbuch geschrieben, wie das Mapscripting funktioniert. Im Gespräch erzählt uns Zetnus, wie er überhaupt zu seiner Arbeit gefunden hat, er erklärt in groben Zügen, wie das Mapscripting überhaupt funktioniert und auch, wie Auftragsarbeit aussehen kann. Vor allem gewinnen wir einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Logik des Mapscriptings. Zwei Maps - Canberra und Hyperrandom - haben wir uns dafür noch mal etwas genauer angesehen. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Hören des Interviews! Felix & Christian Ihr möchtet unser Projekt unterstützen? Dann geht das hier: steadyhq.com/de/startthegamealready/ Homepage: www.startthegamealready.de Discord: discord.com/invite/SYp9dCXYsK Timecodes: 00:00 Vorstellung des Gastes 04:14 Seine Anfänge im Scripting 19:10 Bekannte Mapscripter 25:01 Wie funktioniert Scripting? 34:40 Handschriften 41:50 Canberra 45:40 Hyperrandom 01:05:25 Scripting Discord und Dokument Interessante Links zu Zetnus: Zetnus Maps: https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Zetnus Zetnus bei Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/zetnus Making of Elysium: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/ZKEtGQBuqxcLug Mapscripting Handbuch: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jnhZXoeL9mkRUJxcGlKnO98fIwFKStP_OBozpr0CHXo/edit Musik: www.purple-planet.com This content was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires II, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

Waren die Menschen der Kykladen-Kultur die berüchtigten Piraten, vor denen sich das griechische Festland schützen wollte? Und welche Auswirkungen hatte der Ausbruch Theras auf die Ägäis und den Rest des Mittelmeerraumes? Im 1. Teil über die Kykladen-Kultur erkunden wir ihre Anfänge als auch ihre Blütezeit. Darunter fällt als sehr prominentes Beispiel die Insel Thera, heute Santorin, welches durch einen Vulkanausbruch beinahe zerstört wurde. Außerdem wollen wir herausfinden, ob es sich bei der Kykladen-Kultur wirklich um Seeräuber gehandelt hatte. ------- Quellen: - Brodie, Neil, A Reassessment of Mackenzie's Second and Third Cities at Phylakopi. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2009 - Bruins/Van der Pflicht/MacGillivray, The Minoan Santorini eruption and tsunami deposits in Palaikastro (Crete): Dating by geology, archaeology, 14C, and Egyptian chronology. In: Radiocarbon, 2009 - Davis, Jack L., Minoan Crete and the Aegean Islands in: The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, 2008 - Doumas, Christos, The N.V. Goulandris collection of early cycladic art, 1969 - Ebd., Akrotiri, Thera – Some Additional Notes on its Plan and Architecture. In: Krinoi kai Limenes (...), 2007 - Ebd., Thera, Pompeii of the ancient Aegean, 1984 - Ekschmitt, Werner, Die Kykladen. Bronzezeit, geometrische und archaische Zeit, 1993 - Forsyth, Phyllis Young, Thera in the Bronze Age, 1997 - Gernot, Wilhelm, Die Ägyptische Chronologie, 2004 - Hubert, Stefanie, Hanglage und Meerblick. Zur frühkykladischen Haus- und Siedlungsarchitektur. In: Kykladen - Lebenswelten einer frühgriechischen Kultur - Ivanova, Mariya, Befestigte Siedlungen auf dem Balkan, in der Ägäis und in Westanatolien, ca. 5000-2000 v.Chr., 2008 - Jensen, Mari N., Dating the Ancient Minoan Eruption of Thera Using Tree Rings, 2018  - Knappelt/Evans/Rivers, Modeling maritime interactions in the Aegean Bronze Age. In: Antiquity, 2008 - Ebd., The Theran eruption and Minoan palatian collaps – new interpretations gained from modelling the maritime network - Lichter, Clemens, Von nichts kommt nichts. Steinzeitliche Vorgänger der Kykladenkultur. In: Kykladen - Lebenswelten einer frühgriechischen Kultur, 2011 - Marinatos, Minoan Threskeiocracy on Thera. In: The Minoan Thalassocracy (...), 1984 - McCoy/ Heiken, The Late-Bronze Age explosive eruption of Thera (Santorini), Greece. Regional and local effects. In: Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity, 2000 - Molloy, Barry P. C., Martial Minoans? War as Social Process, Practice and Event in Bronze Age Crete. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2012 - Paliou, Elefteria, The Communicative Potential of Theran Murals in Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (...). In: Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2011 - Playvou, Clairy, Akrotiri Thera – an architecture of affluence 3500 years old, 2005 - Polinger Foster/ Ritner, Text, storms and the Thera eruption. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1996 - Renfrew, Colin, The Emergence of Civilisation. The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC, 1972 - Schneider, Thomas, Lexikon der Pharaonen, Artemis & Winkler, 1997 - Stanley, Daniel J., Volcanic shards from Santorini (Upper Minoan ash) in the Nile Delta, Egypt, 1986 - Sullivan, D. G., Minoan Tephra in Lake Sediments in Western Turkey. In: Thera and the Aegean world, 1990 - Von Beckerath, Jürgen, Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägypten. Die Zeitbestimmung der ägyptischen Geschichte von der Vorzeit bis 332 v. Chr., 1997 - Darthmouth College: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/aegean-prehistory/lessons/lesson-4/ - Thera Foundation: Composition and Provenance Studies of Cycladic Pottery with Particular Reference to Thera. - Übersetzung Unwetterstele: https://nefershapiland.de/ahmose-stelen.htm - Neue Erkenntnisse Ausbruch: https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/santorini-vulkan-katastrophe-entraetselt/ Musik: - Sound Effect by Placidplace by Pixabay - Ebd., SamuelFrancisJohnson from Pixabay - Ebd., by Pixabay

Millions of residents chased out of their homes. Trillions of dollars in extra damages. A tenth of coastal crops destroyed. That's what some developing countries could face from coastal flooding by the year 2100, according to a recent study. Several regions could be especially hard hit, facing costs of more than five percent of their total economies.Researchers looked at possible coastal flooding at 9,000 locations around the world. They forecast what could happen by the years 2050 and 2100 under worst-case forecasts, with temperatures climbing by up to seven degrees Fahrenheit. The higher temperatures will raise sea level, and could generate stronger cyclones with higher storm surges.The researchers also considered whether countries could afford to protect themselves by building seawalls, improving drainage, planting mangrove forests, and taking other actions.Without good countermeasures, the global cost of flood damage could add up to almost three percent of the worldwide economy. And the number of people flooded out could rise from 34 million in 2015 to 246 million in 2100. With good countermeasures, though, the impact could be limited to less than half of that.Developed countries have the resources to protect themselves. But developing countries could face much more expensive futures. And the worst damage could be inflicted on the Nile Delta in Egypt and similar regions in western Africa and Asia—regions that can't afford our warming climate.

After learning about climate emotions, and seeing climate doomism proliferated in the media, Stella knew she wanted to have Isaias on the show to unpack this and understand how it's connected to the fashion industry.In this episode, Isaias Hernandez (who you might also know as @queerbrownvegan on social media) unpacks  the complexity of climate emotions and the harms of climate doomism narratives, and discusses why  “evidence-based hope” is essential for reorienting action and working towards equitable solutions for the fashion industry - and how we can all cultivate this hope in our own lives. Hit play to dive in! ***EPISODE SPONSORS:Osei-DuroOsei-Duro is a slow, artisan-made sustainable fashion brand based in Ghana using handmade textile techniques to create contemporary garments that are true works of art.Their colorful, bold-printed clothing is hand-dyed and sewn in Ghana by small-scale artisans and manufactured to support the local apparel industry. And they have extended sizes, with many styles going up to 4X.Osei-Duro's clothing is made with care — and the people behind these garments treat each other with the same care and respect. The small business pays full-time wages for a 4-day work week and offers numerous benefits including full health insurance and maternity coverage.Get 20% off sitewide by using the code CONSCIOUSSTYLE20.KotnKotn is a slow fashion brand that's taking transparency to a new level with their fully traceable supply chain. The brand sources the cotton for their collection directly from over 2,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the Nile Delta in Egypt and ensures living wages and fair working conditions along every step of the way, from seed to final stitch.Each piece from Kotn is made ethically and transparently with natural materials — like long-staple Egyptian cotton, recycled cotton, and linen — by people earning living wages.Get 15% off sitewide from June 20th to August 31st, 2023 by using the code CONSCIOUS15.***SHOW NOTES:https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/isaias-hernandezMENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Online Platform: Conscious Fashion CollectiveOnline Community: Conscious Fashion Collective MembershipVideo: Is it too late to save the planet? Evidence based hope vs climate doomism with Elin KelseyPodcast Episode: EP88: What Is Regenerative Fashion? With Safia MinneyWebsite: DessertoWebsite: The Or FoundationWebsite: Elin KelseyArticle: What is the Climate Scale?Article: New York therapists see surge in eco-anxiety as smoke fills skies: ‘Every client addresses it'Article: 12 Materials Of The Future That Could Change The Face Of FashionResource: The United Nations' Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook***CONNECT WITH ISAIAS HERNANDEZ:

How can we reimagine the traditional role of fashion designers in a world filled with fashion waste? And how can we rethink our primary role as consumers in a way that allows us to become contributors to collective well-being instead? It's no secret that we live in a world with far too much clothing. If we are to work towards a more sustainable fashion industry, we need to unpack the ways that fashion brands and designers can pivot away from the mainstream business model of take-make-waste and embrace alternative sustainable fashion business models that limit waste. And our mindset as consumers plays a pivotal role in this too.In this episode, we hear from Mahdiyyah Muhammad who is a sustainable fashion designer, circular fashion strategist, and educator. We're talking about the realities of designing, building a business, and engaging with fashion and style in our current fashion system where all we need is less — less resource extraction, less consumption, less clothing waste, less focus on passing trends, and less exclusivity.But, as you will hear from Mahdiyyah, to make this happen, we need more community. Cultivating community is essential for sharing resources and ideas, and creating meaningful connections, as well as making the slow fashion movement more accessible and inclusive.***EPISODE SPONSORS:KotnKotn is a slow fashion brand that's taking transparency to a new level with their fully traceable supply chain. The brand sources the cotton for their collection directly from over 2,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the Nile Delta in Egypt and ensures living wages and fair working conditions along every step of the way, from seed to final stitch.Each piece from Kotn is made ethically and transparently with natural materials — like long-staple Egyptian cotton, recycled cotton, and linen — by people earning living wages.Get 15% off sitewide from June 20th to August 31st, 2023 by using the code CONSCIOUS15.JuliemayJuliemay offers a natural alternative to the synthetic-heavy lingerie market. They use GOTS-certified organic pima cotton as their main fabric, line all of their products with Mulberry peace silk' and do not use harsh chemicals in production.The brand is accredited by AllergyUK to be friendly for people with allergic reactions to synthetic fibers and who have sensitive skin. This is something that I have become personally really interested in since I started to experience psoriasis after wearing synthetic undergarments myself a few years ago. Additionally, Juliemay has bras for a wide range of circumstances, like post-surgery bras or bras that offer back support. Juliemay also supports several environmental and social impact nonprofits.Use the code SOCIAL15 for 15% off at Juliemay!***SHOW NOTES:https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/mahdiyyah-muhammad***TRANSCRIPT MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Online Platform: Conscious Fashion CollectiveOnline Community: Conscious Fashion Collective MembershipOrganization: Fashion Takes ActionPodcast Episode: EP17: More Creativity, Less Consumption: Tips from Slow Fashion Stylist Alyssa BeltempoPodcast Episode: EP83: What is Circular Fashion Design? With Carmen GamaPodcast Episode: Black Material Geographies: Colonialism's Afterlife & Upcycling FashionDatabase: Upcycle Web DirectoryWebsite: Threads of HabitArticle: 7 Alternative Sustainable Fashion Business Models Changing the Status Quo***CONNECT WITH MAHDIYYAH MUHAMMAD:

What if designers could go all the way back to the source of the fibers their garments are made from? Many of fashion's favorite fibers — and our favorite garments — begin on farms. From cotton to wool, hemp, and linen. But, often, designers are so far removed from the places where these fibers are produced. Bringing designers back to the source would result in greater transparency and traceability in fashion that would allow designers to make choices that are kinder to people and the planet.The fast fashion system thrives on building one, uniform, global fashion system that requires a lack of transparency and traceability to continue perpetuating its profit-seeking harms. On the other hand, a more equitable future of fashion will comprise multiple regional and local textile systems that are each in tune with the contexts of local communities.But what will it take to get there, in practice? Well, in today's episode, Stella chats with Laura Sansone, who is passionate about creating regional and regenerative textile systems. Laura is an Assistant Professor of Textiles at Parsons School of Design and she is the creator of New York Textile Lab (@nytextilelab) a design and consulting company that supports environmentally responsible textile methods and bioregional systems of production.TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE***EPISODE SPONSORS:KotnKotn is a slow fashion brand that's taking transparency to a new level with their fully traceable supply chain. The brand sources the cotton for their collection directly from over 2,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the Nile Delta in Egypt and ensures living wages and fair working conditions along every step of the way, from seed to final stitch.Each piece from Kotn is made ethically and transparently with natural materials — like long-staple Egyptian cotton, recycled cotton, and linen — by people earning living wages.Get 15% off sitewide from June 20th to August 31st, 2023 by using the code CONSCIOUS15. JuliemayJuliemay offers a natural alternative to the synthetic-heavy lingerie market. They use GOTS-certified organic pima cotton as their main fabric, line all of their products with Mulberry peace silk' and do not use harsh chemicals in production.The brand is accredited by AllergyUK to be friendly for people with allergic reactions to synthetic fibers and who have sensitive skin. This is something that I have become personally really interested in since I started to experience psoriasis after wearing synthetic undergarments myself a few years ago. Additionally, Juliemay has bras for a wide range of circumstances, like post-surgery bras or bras that offer back support. Juliemay also supports several environmental and social impact nonprofits.Use the code SOCIAL15 for 15% off at Juliemay!***SHOW NOTES & LINKS:https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/laura-sansone***CONNECT WITH US!

Egypt and Turkey officially agreed to restore diplomatic ties and reinstate ambassadors. EGX Head revealed that there are talks with a large number of private companies to list them on the stock exchange, in the petrochemical, energy, and tourism sectors. Trading treasury bills on the EGX for primary dealers should start in 3Q23, with plans to make it available for individual investors later next year. SKPC's (FV: EGP22.8, OW) BoD approved the financial valuation reports submitted by the independent financial advisor, Baker Tilly for SKPC and Ethydco. The company will announce the final swap ratio once it is approved. According to Al-Mal newspaper, sources declared that the swap ratio will be around 1.5x and that SKPC's value per share after finalizing the deal will reach USD1.5/share (EGP46.35/share). This figure is miscalculated since it simply adds the valuation of both entities and divides by SKPC's current number of shares. In reality, once the acquisition takes place, SKPC will issue new shares to be swapped for the remaining 80% ownership in Ethydco, which means that the valuation of the new entity will be recalculated. We remind you that we valued Ethydco's Enterprise value at 1.87x SKPC's enterprise value, but Ethydco's equity value is 1.22x SKPC's value, due to the difference in debt profile between both companies since Ethydco's outstanding debt is USD250 million.Multinational energy firms Eni, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP will spend a combined USD1.8 billion to drill 35 gas exploration wells in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta over the next two years.ESRS (FV: EGP54.60, OW), Egyptian Steel and Suez Steel companies fixed their ex-factory prices of rebars during July at c. EGP32k/ton, according to local media. The fixing came as a result of the relative stability in FX rate in the recent period, in addition to the slowdown in global steel prices.Egypt plans to offer 5G licenses soon and is currently studying the technical and financial requirements, according to local press.The Tax Authority will start the fourth phase of its rollout of the new e-receipt system on 15th of July 2023. Newly onboarded businesses will be required to start issuing e-receipts for all business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions from this date.Egypt could collaborate with Turkey and Iran in the fields of electronics manufacturing and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing).Total contractual proceeds of a number of Egyptian contracting companies operating in foreign countries exceeded USD2 billion during the past two years mainly in Saudi Arabia and some African countries.The general authority of Damietta Port intends to invest EGP1.9 billion during the current FY23/24. PRDC reduced its stake in UNIT from 35.06% to 17.74%.COMI has appointed Muhammed Omar Khan as its acting chief operating officer after Mohamed Sultan stepped down after more than 8 years in the position.

What is the process like to create a regenerative conscious fashion label? What does it mean to create long-term partnerships in a localized supply chain that are beneficial for people? Or to make clothes that are beneficial for the earth?In this episode, Stella interviews the founder of slow fashion brand LilaBare, Ria Ana Sejpal, about building a Kenyan fashion brand, rethinking traditional supply chains, and the value of building long-term relationships with the people involved in them.Plus they cover how Ria measures the impacts of the garments LilaBare creates and how size-adjustable gender fluid clothing can make sustainable fashion more inclusive. ***EPISODE SPONSORSKotnKotn is a slow fashion brand that's taking transparency to a new level with their fully traceable supply chain. The brand sources the cotton for their collection directly from over 2,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the Nile Delta in Egypt and ensures living wages and fair working conditions along every step of the way, from seed to final stitch.Each piece from Kotn is made ethically and transparently with natural materials — like long-staple Egyptian cotton, recycled cotton, and linen — by people earning living wages.Get 15% off sitewide from June 20th to August 31st, 2023 by using the code CONSCIOUS15.***JuliemayJuliemay offers a natural alternative to the synthetic-heavy lingerie market. They use GOTS-certified organic pima cotton as their main fabric, line all of their products with Mulberry peace silk' and do not use harsh chemicals in production.The brand is accredited by AllergyUK to be friendly for people with allergic reactions to synthetic fibers and who have sensitive skin. This is something that I have become personally really interested in since I started to experience psoriasis after wearing synthetic undergarments myself a few years ago. Additionally, Juliemay has bras for a wide range of circumstances, like post-surgery bras or bras that offer back support. Juliemay also supports several environmental and social impact nonprofits.Use the code SOCIAL15 for 15% off at Juliemay!***SHOW NOTES:https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/ria-ana-sejpal-lilabare***RESOURCES MENTIONED:Podcast: EP88. What Is Regenerative Fashion? with Safia MinneyPodcast: EP31. The Reality of the Secondhand Clothing Trade with Nikissi SerumagaPodcast: EP61. Behind Fashion's Waste Crisis in the Atacama DesertPodcast: EP29. Compostable Clothing, Natural Dyes, and Localizing Fashion Systems with Lydia Wendt***CONNECT WITH RIA ANA SEJPAL AND LILABARE:

It's time for an urgent shift in fashion. And not just towards a path of doing less bad, but of bringing positive change. Not just less harmful fashion. Not even just more sustainable fashion. But building a regenerative fashion future. Recently I read the book Regenerative Fashion: A Nature Based Approach to Fibres, Livelihoods, and Leadership*, by Safia Minney. And this book could not have come at a better time for me. I was feeling discouraged and overwhelmed by the weight of it all and the stories and changemakers highlighted throughout this book was the inspiration that I needed. So I am super grateful that I was able to have the author, Safia Minney — who has been a disruptor in the fashion space for decades — onto the show. You may know Safia Minney as the founder of fair fashion brand People Tree, or you may know her as an activist, consultant, thought-leader, or author of books like Slave to Fashion and Slow Fashion.  In this episode, Safia Minney discusses the themes of her latest book on regenerative fashion, including regeneratively grown fibers and decarbonization, but also regenerative leadership and regenerative relationships, the importance of revitalizing artisan crafts and textile traditions, why living wages and a just transition are central to regenerative fashion, and how our current economic systems are completely at odds with a livable future. Hit play to dive in!*Bookshop.org affiliate link***ENTER THE PODCAST BOOK GIVEAWAY HEREIf the link is not clickable in your podcast player, here is the URL: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6490c7a33b413b66d0ce7727 Giveaway closes July 6 at 4pm CDT. Winner will be announced in July 8th's newsletter.***EPISODE SPONSORS:Brook ThereBrook There creates organic cotton bralettes, underwear, and slip dresses ethically cut and sewn by their team in Massachusetts. Their GOTS-certified organic cotton is even milled and dyed domestically in the US too.Brook There has a beautiful range of colorways — from ballet pink to bright orange to versatile neutrals, which are all colored using low-impact fiber reactive dyes.***KotnKotn is a slow fashion brand that's taking transparency to a new level with their fully traceable supply chain. The brand sources the cotton for their collection directly from over 2,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the Nile Delta in Egypt and ensures living wages and fair working conditions along every step of the way, from seed to final stitch.Each piece from Kotn is made ethically and transparently with natural materials — like long-staple Egyptian cotton, recycled cotton, and linen — by people earning living wages.Get 15% off sitewide from June 20th to August 31st, 2023 by using the code CONSCIOUS15.***SHOW NOTES:https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/safia-minney***CONNECT WITH SAFIA MINNEY:

Rachel Ashegbofeh Ikemeh is a Whitley Award-winning conservationist and Founder/Director at the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, a grassroots-focused conservation initiative that has been dedicated to the protection of fragile wildlife populations and habitat across her project sites in Africa's most populous nation. Rachel won the award in 2020 for her work on chimpanzee populations in Nigeria and is aiming to secure 20% of chimpanzee habitat in Southwest Nigeria. She is also the winner of the National Geographic Society Buffet Awards for Conservaton Leadership in Africa, a Tusk Conservation Awards Finalist.She works to protect some of the most highly threatened forest habitats and primate populations in southern Nigeria. For example, Rachel's determined efforts has helped to bring back a species from the brink of extinction – the rare and critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey, also, considered one of 25 most endangered primates in the world. She has helped to establish two protected areas and have also taken on the management of these PAs to restore habitats in these very highly threatened ecosystems which are also areas of high-security risks in the country.Rachel is the Co-Vice Chair for the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group African Section and Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS) education committee. Through her strategic positions in these networks, Rachel has been committed to championing the need to increase conservation leadership amongst Africans as she co-founded the African Primatological society in 2017. She's trained the 55 persons that make up her team from local institutions and local communities. "There's no question, we are in a state of conservation emergency. And we have a real situation on our hands and it's so fragile that if we take a step back, we could say goodbye to two types of chimpanzee species and the forest is also on the brink of disappearing forever. And when I started as a conservation researcher, there was kidnapping and insecurity throughout the Nile Delta region, and it was immersed in a lot of oil politics and civil conflicts. Kidnapping and insecurity ran throughout that region. Let's not forget that Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation now. We are over 200 million people in the country, and it's a growing population of young people who are looking for means of livelihood and on the lookout to find space to live. So parts of the forest within one year would suddenly become a new village."https://swnigerdeltaforestproject.org.ngwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

"There's no question, we are in a state of conservation emergency. And we have a real situation on our hands and it's so fragile that if we take a step back, we could say goodbye to two types of chimpanzee species and the forest is also on the brink of disappearing forever. And when I started as a conservation researcher, there was kidnapping and insecurity throughout the Nile Delta region, and it was immersed in a lot of oil politics and civil conflicts. Kidnapping and insecurity ran throughout that region. Let's not forget that Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation now. We are over 200 million people in the country, and it's a growing population of young people who are looking for means of livelihood and on the lookout to find space to live. So parts of the forest within one year would suddenly become a new village."Rachel Ashegbofeh Ikemeh is a Whitley Award-winning conservationist and Founder/Director at the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, a grassroots-focused conservation initiative that has been dedicated to the protection of fragile wildlife populations and habitat across her project sites in Africa's most populous nation. Rachel won the award in 2020 for her work on chimpanzee populations in Nigeria and is aiming to secure 20% of chimpanzee habitat in Southwest Nigeria. She is also the winner of the National Geographic Society Buffet Awards for Conservaton Leadership in Africa, a Tusk Conservation Awards Finalist.She works to protect some of the most highly threatened forest habitats and primate populations in southern Nigeria. For example, Rachel's determined efforts has helped to bring back a species from the brink of extinction – the rare and critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey, also, considered one of 25 most endangered primates in the world. She has helped to establish two protected areas and have also taken on the management of these PAs to restore habitats in these very highly threatened ecosystems which are also areas of high-security risks in the country.Rachel is the Co-Vice Chair for the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group African Section and Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS) education committee. Through her strategic positions in these networks, Rachel has been committed to championing the need to increase conservation leadership amongst Africans as she co-founded the African Primatological society in 2017. She's trained the 55 persons that make up her team from local institutions and local communities. https://swnigerdeltaforestproject.org.ngwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Rachel Ashegbofeh Ikemeh is a Whitley Award-winning conservationist and Founder/Director at the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, a grassroots-focused conservation initiative that has been dedicated to the protection of fragile wildlife populations and habitat across her project sites in Africa's most populous nation. Rachel won the award in 2020 for her work on chimpanzee populations in Nigeria and is aiming to secure 20% of chimpanzee habitat in Southwest Nigeria. She is also the winner of the National Geographic Society Buffet Awards for Conservaton Leadership in Africa, a Tusk Conservation Awards Finalist.She works to protect some of the most highly threatened forest habitats and primate populations in southern Nigeria. For example, Rachel's determined efforts has helped to bring back a species from the brink of extinction – the rare and critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey, also, considered one of 25 most endangered primates in the world. She has helped to establish two protected areas and have also taken on the management of these PAs to restore habitats in these very highly threatened ecosystems which are also areas of high-security risks in the country.Rachel is the Co-Vice Chair for the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group African Section and Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS) education committee. Through her strategic positions in these networks, Rachel has been committed to championing the need to increase conservation leadership amongst Africans as she co-founded the African Primatological society in 2017. She's trained the 55 persons that make up her team from local institutions and local communities. "There's no question, we are in a state of conservation emergency. And we have a real situation on our hands and it's so fragile that if we take a step back, we could say goodbye to two types of chimpanzee species and the forest is also on the brink of disappearing forever. And when I started as a conservation researcher, there was kidnapping and insecurity throughout the Nile Delta region, and it was immersed in a lot of oil politics and civil conflicts. Kidnapping and insecurity ran throughout that region. Let's not forget that Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation now. We are over 200 million people in the country, and it's a growing population of young people who are looking for means of livelihood and on the lookout to find space to live. So parts of the forest within one year would suddenly become a new village."https://swnigerdeltaforestproject.org.ngwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

"There's no question, we are in a state of conservation emergency. And we have a real situation on our hands and it's so fragile that if we take a step back, we could say goodbye to two types of chimpanzee species and the forest is also on the brink of disappearing forever. And when I started as a conservation researcher, there was kidnapping and insecurity throughout the Nile Delta region, and it was immersed in a lot of oil politics and civil conflicts. Kidnapping and insecurity ran throughout that region. Let's not forget that Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation now. We are over 200 million people in the country, and it's a growing population of young people who are looking for means of livelihood and on the lookout to find space to live. So parts of the forest within one year would suddenly become a new village."Rachel Ashegbofeh Ikemeh is a Whitley Award-winning conservationist and Founder/Director at the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, a grassroots-focused conservation initiative that has been dedicated to the protection of fragile wildlife populations and habitat across her project sites in Africa's most populous nation. Rachel won the award in 2020 for her work on chimpanzee populations in Nigeria and is aiming to secure 20% of chimpanzee habitat in Southwest Nigeria. She is also the winner of the National Geographic Society Buffet Awards for Conservaton Leadership in Africa, a Tusk Conservation Awards Finalist.She works to protect some of the most highly threatened forest habitats and primate populations in southern Nigeria. For example, Rachel's determined efforts has helped to bring back a species from the brink of extinction – the rare and critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey, also, considered one of 25 most endangered primates in the world. She has helped to establish two protected areas and have also taken on the management of these PAs to restore habitats in these very highly threatened ecosystems which are also areas of high-security risks in the country.Rachel is the Co-Vice Chair for the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group African Section and Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS) education committee. Through her strategic positions in these networks, Rachel has been committed to championing the need to increase conservation leadership amongst Africans as she co-founded the African Primatological society in 2017. She's trained the 55 persons that make up her team from local institutions and local communities. https://swnigerdeltaforestproject.org.ngwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

"There's no question, we are in a state of conservation emergency. And we have a real situation on our hands and it's so fragile that if we take a step back, we could say goodbye to two types of chimpanzee species and the forest is also on the brink of disappearing forever. And when I started as a conservation researcher, there was kidnapping and insecurity throughout the Nile Delta region, and it was immersed in a lot of oil politics and civil conflicts. Kidnapping and insecurity ran throughout that region. Let's not forget that Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation now. We are over 200 million people in the country, and it's a growing population of young people who are looking for means of livelihood and on the lookout to find space to live. So parts of the forest within one year would suddenly become a new village."Rachel Ashegbofeh Ikemeh is a Whitley Award-winning conservationist and Founder/Director at the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, a grassroots-focused conservation initiative that has been dedicated to the protection of fragile wildlife populations and habitat across her project sites in Africa's most populous nation. Rachel won the award in 2020 for her work on chimpanzee populations in Nigeria and is aiming to secure 20% of chimpanzee habitat in Southwest Nigeria. She is also the winner of the National Geographic Society Buffet Awards for Conservaton Leadership in Africa, a Tusk Conservation Awards Finalist.She works to protect some of the most highly threatened forest habitats and primate populations in southern Nigeria. For example, Rachel's determined efforts has helped to bring back a species from the brink of extinction – the rare and critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey, also, considered one of 25 most endangered primates in the world. She has helped to establish two protected areas and have also taken on the management of these PAs to restore habitats in these very highly threatened ecosystems which are also areas of high-security risks in the country.Rachel is the Co-Vice Chair for the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group African Section and Member of the International Primatological Society (IPS) education committee. Through her strategic positions in these networks, Rachel has been committed to championing the need to increase conservation leadership amongst Africans as she co-founded the African Primatological society in 2017. She's trained the 55 persons that make up her team from local institutions and local communities. https://swnigerdeltaforestproject.org.ngwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.org IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Each week, we give the world globe a spin, and see where we land. Then we take the kids of Australia on an audio excursion to visit that country and its people. LINKS: Your Shortcut to Ancient Egypt: https://www.squizkids.com.au/squiz-kids-shortcuts/ancient-egypt/ Map of Egypt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#/media/File:EGY_orthographic.svg Remembering the Ever Given: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/ship-blocking-suez-canal-could-be-stuck-for-weeks/100030056 Map of the Nile Delta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Delta Recipe for Koshari: https://amiraspantry.com/egyptian-koshari/  

CBE: Foreign currency private sector deposits increased during March by about USD471 million to reach USD16.5 billion by the end of March, and added USD884.6 million in 1Q23. Individual deposits increased by about USD293.9 million in March, to reach about USD29 billion, and added USD500 million in 1Q23. The government will establish an emergency fund for day laborers and workers in the informal economy. The government will transfer the irregular workers' social insurance dues to the fund for reimbursements in case of emergencies. AMOC released negative 3Q22/23 financial indicators showing an 18% YoY growth in consolidated net profit before minority interest, recording EGP416 million compared to EGP352 million in 3Q21/22, but lower 31% QoQ than EGP606 million recorded in 2Q22/23. The stock is currently trading at FY22/23e PE of 4.8x and EV/EBITDA of 3.5x.Shareholders in PACH have until the end of today's trading session to decide whether to sell their shares to National Paints Holding (NPH) (EGP39.80/share) or Eagle Chemicals (EGP39.00/share).  30% of shareholders of PACH approved National Paints' acquisition offer EGP39.80/share. The Oil Ministry has extended its tender for 12 exploration blocks in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta until the beginning of June. The Parliament's Energy and Environment Committee has approved a draft bill that would allow the Oil Ministry to contract Eni subsidiary IEOC to launch oil and gas exploration operations at three East Mediterranean concessions.The Sovereign Fund of Egypt has prequalified 17 consortiums, out of more than 25 applied, to bid in its upcoming tenders for renewables-powered desalination projects. The SFE is planning to have three or four of these plants tendered by 3Q 2023. Prequalified bidders include: ORAS, SWDY and Taqa Arabia.MPs yesterday gave preliminary approval to legislation that hands tax exemptions to local and international companies working on the Dabaa nuclear plant.The Ministry of Transport will announce in a month the winning consortium to implement the Abu Qir metro project in Alexandria Governorate, with investments of c. EUR1.5 billion. According to the sources, qualified consortia include SWDY - German Siemens, the French Alstom - Arab Contractors - Hassan Allam - Concord, ORAS - Colas Rail, and a consortium of Chinese companies.HELI Board approved adjusting the second and third installments of the EGP0.22/share cash dividends to EGP0.04/share and EGP0.13/share, respectively, instead of EGP0.10/share and EGP0.07/share, respectively.EFG Hermes has launched a new trading system on Microsoft's cloud computing service, Azure, which should be much faster than the former system. Asset managers Azimut and Evolve Investment Holding have gotten the greenlight from the Financial Regulatory Authority to launch a gold-backed investment fund. According to local media, Egypt's sugar imports are expected to rise by 12% YoY during 2023/2024 to reach 930 thousand ton from a previous 830 thousand ton. Saudi electronics retailer Extra (United Electronics Company), has shelved plans to establish a subsidiary in Egypt.Transport Ministry-affiliated AlKahera Company for Ferries and Maritime Transport and Korean shipbuilder Dae Sun will build two multi-purpose container ships under an agreement signed yesterday.

Dr. Ehab Meselhe is a Professional Engineer and Professor in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering at Tulane University. Born in Egypt, in a small town at the tip of the Nile Delta, he spent the first part of his career studying the Nile basin. Ehab left Egypt to study Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, there earning his master's and PhD.It was the University of Louisiana at Lafayette that brought Ehab to Louisiana, where he was a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering for 15 years. One of Louisiana's leading experts on coastal systems, Dr. Meselhe has nearly 30 years of experience researching coastal wetland hydrology, sediment transport, and computer modeling of coastal wetland systems. Ehab holds particular interest in the integration of physical, ecological, and social processes for inland watersheds' riverine, deltaic, and coastal systems.  Serving as Louisiana's technical lead for the 2013 Mississippi River Hydrodynamic and Delta Management Study, Ehab's work in predictive modeling has also contributed heavily to Louisiana's $50 billion 2017 Coastal Master Plan. Ehab has worked as an educator, researcher, and practitioner with extensive experience working with academic institutions, government agencies, and the private sector. Ehab strongly believes that the next generation of scientists and engineers need to be taught to collaborate and seek public input in order to develop solutions for large-scale issues related to local and global coastal land loss.  

In memory of the late Paul Komar, this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast is a rerun of the original episode from November 2018. Co-hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Paul, emeritus Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University, where he discusses his research on coastal processes, climate controls on U.S. West Coast processes, and resulting erosion problems. Paul shares his experiences in the field of oceanography, his investigations along the West Coast of the United States, the Nile Delta of Egypt, and the coast of New Zealand, and his two books including Beach Processes and Sedimentation published by Prentice-Hall. Paul, 85, passed away on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. This rerun is a tribute to his contributions to the field of oceanography and in honor of his memory.

What's it like to come of age in a Muslim Brotherhood family in Egypt's Nile Delta? Abdelrahman Ayyash recounts his childhood, political awakening, and disenchantment. Ayyash recounts his early history cocooned in a Brotherhood community that took care of its members' schooling, moral training, social life, and career counseling. And he recalls with stark frankness his shock, as a young blogger and political activist, at the political rigidity of the movement in which he'd been raised. Ayyash's personal journey from a young movement standout to dissident, critical researcher opens Broken Bonds, a five-part special season of the Order From Ashes podcast. The remaining episodes of Broken Bonds explore the triple crises facing the Brotherhood, the organization's likely resurgence, and how observers and policymakers mischaracterize the Brotherhood and its significance. Broken Bonds explores the evolution of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood from the apex of its power, when it won Egypt's presidency in 2012, to the organization's disarray and marginalization today. The podcast season is a companion to a new book, Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, 2013–22, published in February 2023 by TCF Press. Broken Bonds is part of “Faith and Fracture,” a TCF project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. Participants: Abdelrahman Ayyash, fellow, Century International  Thanassis Cambanis, director, Century International

Scholars Dr. Titus Kennedy and Bart Ehrman pose debates using evidence of Israelites slavery in Egypt, the exodus and wandering of the people in the desert for 40 years. Kennedy (proof for) https://youtu.be/d_3Plj2e7FY versus Ehrman (against) https://youtu.be/1h0Gf61xWLk Dr. Titus Kennedy is an archaeologist and historian who has put forth a theory regarding the presence of Hebrew slaves in ancient Egypt. In this essay, we will examine Dr. Kennedy's theory in detail, including the historical and archaeological evidence that supports it. Background The story of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt is one of the most well-known narratives in the Bible. According to the book of Exodus, the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years until Moses, under the guidance of God, led them to freedom. However, the historical veracity of this story has long been a matter of debate among scholars. Some historians have argued that there is no evidence of Hebrew slaves in Egypt during the time period described in the Bible. They point to the fact that there are no inscriptions or other written records that mention the Hebrews in Egypt, and that there is no archaeological evidence of a large group of slaves living and working in the country. However, Dr. Titus Kennedy has put forth a different theory. According to Kennedy, the Hebrews were not slaves in the traditional sense of the word. Instead, they were a group of people who lived and worked in Egypt as part of a larger community of Semitic-speaking peoples. Dr. Kennedy's theory is based on a careful examination of the available historical and archaeological evidence. According to Kennedy, the Hebrews were part of a larger group of Semitic-speaking peoples who migrated to Egypt during the Middle Kingdom period (circa 2000-1700 BCE). These people were known as the Hyksos, and they are often identified with the "Asiatics" who are mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions from this time period. According to Kennedy, the Hyksos were not a unified group, but rather a collection of smaller tribes who shared a common language and cultural identity. Kennedy argues that the Hebrews were one of these tribes. They migrated to Egypt along with other Semitic-speaking peoples, and they settled in the eastern Nile Delta region. Here, they lived and worked alongside other groups of foreigners who had also migrated to Egypt, including Canaanites and other Semitic-speaking peoples. According to Kennedy, the Hebrews were not slaves in the traditional sense of the word. They were not owned by individual masters, and they were not forced to work against their will. Instead, they were part of a larger community of foreigners who were allowed to live and work in Egypt as long as they paid taxes and provided labor for the government. Kennedy suggests that the Hebrews may have been involved in a variety of different occupations, including farming, construction, and other forms of manual labor. They would have been paid for their work, but they would also have been required to provide a certain amount of labor to the government each year. This system of labor was known as corvée labor, and it was common in ancient Egypt. Under this system, the government would require a certain number of laborers to work on various projects, such as building temples or clearing irrigation canals. These laborers would be provided with food and shelter, but they would not be paid for their work. Kennedy argues that the Hebrews were part of this system of corvée labor. They would have been required to provide a certain amount of labor to the government each year, but they would also have been free to work in other occupations and to earn a living in other ways.

Does naturereveal or conceal the truth of Hashem? This is the fundamental point ofdeparture between the believer from the non-believer. Through the prism of ourparsha it will become apparent how this modern-day religious-secular divide isthe very same kulturkampf that was waged upon the Nile Delta in the story ofYetzias Mitzrayim.

Pitch: Do Not Ignore Laggards; Money Rotation Will Eventually Happen. In 2017, all well-managed company stocks have gone up significantly post-flotation, even the ones that were negatively exposed to a weaker local currency. Some ideas: ORHD, CNFN, EKHOA, CICH, MCRO, QNBA, CIEB, JUFO, ISPH, CANA, CLHO, EAST, ADIB  Core inflation which strips out volatile items such as food and fuel rose to 24.4% YoY in December from 21.5% a month earlier.*Main takeaways from the IMF press briefing*Egypt is receiving USD700 million from the IMF over the course of 2023, with two USD347 million tranches scheduled for March and September.Egypt faces a USD17 billion financing gap over the next four years.The government has secured assurances that the USD 28 bn in GCC deposits at the CBE will not mature before the end of the loan program in September 2026.The CBE will remain committed to a “durably flexible” exchange rate.Public investment projects will take a backseat.The government also is committed to more private sector involvement, ending subsidized lending programs, changing local fuel prices in line with movements in the global markets, and introducing tax reforms (details next week).The World Bank has revised down its growth forecast for Egypt this fiscal year to 4.5%.The central bank is currently targeting an inflation rate of 7% (± 2%) by 4Q 2024. ESRS raised the price of rebars by EGP2,535/ton to EGP25,985/ton (including VAT).Abu Dhabi Ports company is in talks with the Egyptian government to take over the development and management of the Suez port "Port Tawfik" under a usufruct contract. COMI is to launch an 18-month CD, where savers can opt for a one-time payment of 22.5% or a monthly interest rate of 20.0% annualized. CNFN targets a 70% growth in its financing portfolio in 2023. From EGP11.36 billion in 2022, with plans to expand in the Gulf in 2023.ETEL is to receive new frequencies worth USD125 million to support its network within days.Deputy Finance Minister announced that three foreign entities expressed interest to produce cars in Egypt after the announcement of the production strategy by the government.The expats' car import scheme will conclude on Tuesday, 14 March. Marsa Alam received its first charter flight from Milan's Malpensa Airport yesterday. Apex International Energy will acquire shares in six producing oil concessions in the Western Desert from Eni. ExxonMobil has acquired two offshore blocks in the Nile Delta, with operations scheduled to begin in 2023.

The MPC will meet today to decide on policy rates in Egypt. We think inflationary pressures accompanied by the weakening FX and general risk aversion attitude by investors towards the EMs in general, and, more importantly, commitments implied by the IMF loan might induce the CBE to respond by a potential considerable hike, maybe 200bps.According to the Minister of Planning, the government allocated EGP302.2 billion to social protection programs during FY22/23, an increase of 17.6% compared to EGP251 billion actually paid in FY20/21.Non-petroleum exports increased to USD30.4 billion during the first 10 months of 2022, growing 12% YoY. Building materials imports increased by 8% YoY to USD5.75 billion. Steel rebars are currently sold at EGP27.5-30k per ton, higher than ex-factory price by EGP3.5-6k per ton.Alexandria Mineral Oils Company (AMOC) and Paint and Chemical Industries (Pachin) have each decided to delist their global depository receipts (GDRs) from the London Stock Exchange.Paint and Chemical Industries (Pachin) will respond to the takeover offer from Dubai-based National Paints Holdings (NPH) as soon as early January.Egypt exported EUR 1.5billion worth of fertilizers across the Mediterranean during 10M2022, almost triple that of 2021, according to the Chemical and Fertilizers Export Council.Energy companies can bid for 12 new oil and gas exploration blocks in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta starting next week in an international tender set to be launched by state-owned Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS).Oil prices increased by more than USD2/bbl on Wednesday after data showed a larger than expected draw in U.S. crude stockpiles. Brent crude is currently trading at USD82.62/bbl.FRA data revealed that insurance gross premiums increased to EGP42.24 billion (+12.4% YoY). The value of financial leasing activity amounted to EGP64.69 billion (+11.2% YoY), while consumer financing increased by 84.4% YoY to record EGP21.05 billion. Microfinance balances reached EGP35.48 billion (+45.3% YoY). Lastly, mortgage jumped to EGP11.45 billion by the end of September 2022 (+106.9% YoY), while securitization bond issuances also jumped 5 times to reach EGP34.8 billion.

Joseph, successful journey is an important one in the book of Genesis. His story also functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, a son of Jacob, and his wife Rachel was known as “the righteous one.” He was also favored by his father. His jealous brothers sell him into slavery, and he ends up incarcerated, yet he rises to second in command in Egypt and saves Egypt during a famine. Jacob's family travels to Egypt to escape the famine, and it is through him that they are given leave to settle in the Land of Goshen (the eastern part of the Nile Delta). Journey along with us as we share how Joseph went from prisoner to prince and then to billionaire status and how you can learn from his story and start, grow and scale your business in any economy or circumstance. Genesis 37:5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. You will also discover: -Joseph's wealthy background. -Specific secrets for gaining enormous wealth. -Why you should keep quiet about what you picture. -How Joseph's wealth consciousness expanded in Egypt; how yours can, too. -The wealth lessons Joseph learned from Potiphar. -The wealth power of injustice. -The prospering power of discipline. -Two secrets for getting results through picturing. Life as a billionaire. -The prospering power of forgiveness. Lavish abundance during seven years of plenty. -The riches that a famine brought. -The prosperous power of giving, and of giving thanks. Miraculous abundance. -The greatest wealth secret of all revealed in the book of Genesis -Joseph, billionaire meditation -How failure is not an option when creating wealth with faith, focus, and our father. After you watch go to www.biblebusinessacademy.com/call and let's discuss your business calling and what it takes to get you where you desire to be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biblebusinessacademy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/biblebusinessacademy/support

More than 200 years ago French soldiers uncovered a slab of granite in the Nile Delta which became the key to understanding the history of ancient Egypt. The Rosetta Stone is inscribed with ancient Egyptian and Greek text, and hieroglyphs. Before it was translated, no-one realised that hieroglyphs were a form of written language. After the French surrender of Egypt in 1801, the artifact was taken to the UK, and ever since, it's been one of the main attractions at the British Museum in London. The museum is holding a major exhibition on hieroglyphs, with the stone as its centrepiece, but there are calls from Egyptian scholars for it to be taken back to its place of origin. However, the British Museum says there has been no formal request from the Egyptian government to return the Rosetta Stone. So this week on the Inquiry, we're asking: Is it time for Britain to return the Rosetta Stone? Presenter: Tanya Beckett Producer: Ravi Naik Researcher: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty Editor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards Broadcast Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson (Image: The Rosetta Stone on display in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum: BBC Images/European Photopress Agency/Neil Hall)

The Egyptian Old Kingdom collapsed, leading to a period of turmoil and instability in the Nile Delta. But in Canaan, the good times rolled. The middle bronze age is known as the "Canaanite golden age," a time of unparalleled freedom and prosperity in the Land of Israel. We recount their incredible achievements. Becoming Outlaws: True Stories of Divine Encounters with Ken McMullenAs many as three-quarters of Americans believe in the paranormal. This excludes most...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Dignity and RespectI was adopted by Cult leader God Father Divine in 1962Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Unlikely as it may seem, Moses is now the leader of over a million Hebrew slaves. What happens next is one of the most incredible sequences of events in the Bible, and one which cements in the Israelites' minds that God is a) powerful and b) very much has their backs.  Over and again, later books in the Bible turn their readers minds back to these events that play out in the Nile Delta as Moses and Aaron lock into a furious battle of wills against Egypt's stubborn king.This is the Bible at its most epic. The onslaught against Egypt is about to begin.Credits:Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffChapters covered:Exodus 7-11

Season Two is here!And with it, the Bible leaps forward 400 years.The bucolic idyll of Egypt under Joseph's benign rule is a distant memory and the white noise that permeates the dust and clay of the Nile Delta is the groaning of a million Hebrew slaves.CreditsWritten and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffChapters covered: Exodus 1-3

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 20 - When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth In this episode, my terrific guests David and Will from The Common Descent podcast, who chat with me about: The Common Descent Podcast, "Spook"lative evolution, Croc Month, Snake Month, Dinosaur Walk Museum, Pigeon Forge Tennessee, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion, Star Wars prequels, fan reception, audience reception, monster movies, Godzilla, Crocodiles in Jurassic Park, crocodile gizzard stones, archosaurs, dinosaur cousins, nesting, infant rearing, archosaurs chewing, allogator courtship practices, mating dances, Prehistoric Planet, carnotaurus mating dance, snakes, Clever Girl, velociraptors, Robert Muldoon, velociraptors opening doors, forked tongues, phylogenetic deductions in Jurassic Park's dinosaurs, Mike Bowman, healthy Mesozoic ecosystems, conservation attempts, equilibrium, complexities of ecosystems, and a lot more! Plus dinosaur news about: Reappraisal and new material of the holotype of Draconyx loureiroi provide insights on the tempo and modo of evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs Insights into paleoecology of the Bajo Barreal formation(upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina Featuring the music of Snale snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases   Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.  Outro: Latebloomer. The Text: This week's text is When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, spanning from pages 87 – 92. The group enters the Visitor Center and Donald Gennaro presents the tasks set out for the consultants during their inspection of Hammond's island. Malcolm's mathematical principles reveal that they needn't concern themselves with escaped dinosaurs. Hammond and Malcolm have a tiff, just before Tim and Lex arrive for the tour.  Discussions surround: Costa Rican infant mortality rates, the Aswan Dam and Nile Delta, zoos, Contrivances of plot, Chaos Theory, Hubris, Crichton tropes, Hammond's god complex, Due Diligence, and Kids on Helicopters, and more! Side effects:  Cotton mouth and dry eyes. And the muchies...  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers, brings the clan of Jacob to Egypt where they settle in the rich Nile Delta at Goshen.

Joseph, success journey is an important one in the book of Genesis. His story also functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, a son of Jacob and his wife Rachel. Known as “the righteous one,” he was favored by his father. His jealous brothers sell him into slavery in Egypt, where he eventually ends up incarcerated; after correctly interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh, however, he rises to second in command in Egypt and saves Egypt during a famine. Jacob's family travels to Egypt to escape the famine, and it is through him that they are given leave to settle in the Land of Goshen (the eastern part of the Nile Delta). Journey along with us as we share how Joseph went from prisoner to prince and then to billionaire status and how you can learn from his story and start, grow and scale your business in any economy or circumstance. Genesis 37:5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. You will also discover: -Joseph's wealthy background. -Specific secrets for gaining enormous wealth. -Why you should keep quiet about what you picture. -How Joseph's wealth consciousness expanded in Egypt; how yours can, too. -The wealth lessons Joseph learned from Potiphar. -The wealth power of injustice. -The prospering power of discipline. -Two secrets for getting results through picturing. Life as a billionaire. -The prospering power of forgiveness. Lavish abundance during seven years of plenty. -The riches that a famine brought. -The prosperous power of giving, and of giving thanks. Miraculous abundance. -The greatest wealth secret of all revealed in the book of Genesis -Joseph, billionaire meditation -How failure is not an option when creating wealth with faith, focus, and our father. Download FREE report, "How To Build A Business With Biblical Principles," Click here to download now. BibleBusinessAcademy.com BelieveAndGrowRich.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biblebusinessacademy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/biblebusinessacademy/support

Petroleum Minister Tareq el Mulla and CEO of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation Abed Ezz el Regal and CEO of Natural Resources Activities at the Italian company Eni Alessandro Politi signed a deal on oil exploration and exploitation in the Gulf of Suez and the Nile Delta, with total investments exceeding dlrs 1 billion.The Petroleum Ministry says that under the deal, Eni company is abiding by spending at least additional dlrs 20 million to dig four wells.The ministry says the deal falls within the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry's strategy on increasing production rates and facing the natural decline in the wells via using the latest technologies in oil-producing areas.The ministry's strategy also aims at encouraging partners to pump more investments into the field of oil and gas exploration and back the country's proven oil reserves.

Petroleum Minister Tareq el Mulla and CEO of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation Abed Ezz el Regal and CEO of Natural Resources Activities at the Italian company Eni Alessandro Politi signed a deal on oil exploration and exploitation in the Gulf of Suez and the Nile Delta, with total investments exceeding dlrs 1 billion.The Petroleum Ministry says that under the deal, Eni company is abiding by spending at least additional dlrs 20 million to dig four wells.The ministry says the deal falls within the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry's strategy on increasing production rates and facing the natural decline in the wells via using the latest technologies in oil-producing areas.The ministry's strategy also aims at encouraging partners to pump more investments into the field of oil and gas exploration and back the country's proven oil reserves.

Petroleum Minister Tareq el Mulla and CEO of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation Abed Ezz el Regal and CEO of Natural Resources Activities at the Italian company Eni Alessandro Politi signed a deal on oil exploration and exploitation in the Gulf of Suez and the Nile Delta, with total investments exceeding dlrs 1 billion.The Petroleum Ministry says that under the deal, Eni company is abiding by spending at least additional dlrs 20 million to dig four wells.The ministry says the deal falls within the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry's strategy on increasing production rates and facing the natural decline in the wells via using the latest technologies in oil-producing areas.The ministry's strategy also aims at encouraging partners to pump more investments into the field of oil and gas exploration and back the country's proven oil reserves.

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the year 331 BC, fresh from his conquest of Egypt, Alexander the Great established a new city in Egypt named after himself.  This new city, situated on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, at the end of the Nile Delta, would go on to become one of the most important cities in the world, and Alexander's city is still alive and vibrant today. Learn more about Alexandria, the "Bride of the Mediterranean" on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. http://www.audibletrial.com/EverythingEverywhere   -------------------------------- Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere   Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EEDailyPodcast/ Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

On this special rebroadcast, Peter A. Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Paul Komar, emeritus Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University, where he has been on the faculty since 1970. He received a M.S. degree in Geology at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Professor Komar's research interests have focused primarily on coastal processes, including investigations of wave-induced nearshore currents and the resulting transport of beach sediments. His recent research has centered on the climate controls on U.S. West Coast processes and the resulting erosion problems, including those associated with occurrences of major El Ninos and a progressive increase in North Pacific wave heights. As well as having undertaken research along the West Coast of the United States, Professor Komar's investigations have included the Nile Delta of Egypt and the coast of New Zealand. He is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and two books including Beach Processes and Sedimentation published by Prentice-Hall (1976 and 1998). Paul gave the keynote address at the ASBPA Awards Luncheon at the 2018 National Conference, where we recorded this show.

A ship graveyard, a sunken ship, and a fruit basket? Our contestants take a voyage to the bottom of the sea to discuss finds from the Nile Delta and ask the important questions like, what is the connection between fruit baskets and death, and how did Iron Age maritime insurers stay in business?

Actor Rufus Jones guest presents this week alongside regular supersub Anna Bogutskaya. Anna reviews Candyman, which is a direct sequel to the 1992 horror Candyman; Our Ladies, about a group of Catholic schoolgirls in 1990s Scotland; The Nest, starring Jude'Law, about an entrepreneur and his American family whose life begins to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor; darkly comic thriller The Toll, which stars Michael Smiley and Iwan Rheon; Souad, Ayten Amin's film about two teenage sisters in Egypt's Nile Delta; Demonic, which is about a young woman who unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces are ruthlessly revealed, and The Last bus, which stars this week's guest Timothy Spall. Plus we'll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What's That Film. Rufus and Anna also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents'. . Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 27th August: 12.10- Correspondence 25.15- Welcome 29.30- Box Office top ten 51.40- Soad Review 1.00.01- Tim Spall and The Last Bus review 1.16.16- Our Ladies Review 1.24.52- TV Movie of the Week 1.30.16- TV Movies of the Week, so bad it's bad! 1.34.53- The Toll review 1.41.23- Candyman review 1.52.13- Demonic review 1.58.30- The Nest 2.05.25- DVD of the Week

July 15, 1799 (approximately). In the town of Rashid on the Nile Delta, French soldiers and Egyptian laborers are rebuilding an old, falling-down fort, when someone spots something unusual. It's a jagged black rock, inscribed with what looks like three different types of writing. This stone—the Rosetta Stone—will become the key to deciphering a language that had been lost for thousands of years. Today: the race to unlock the secrets of hieroglyphs. How did two scholars manage to decode a language that no one in the world spoke? And when modern people could finally read the messages left by a long-dead civilization, what were we able to learn? Special thanks to our guest, Edward Dolnick, whose book, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone, comes out in October 2021. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Frank goes out to lunch with his teammates. Then, they head to the Nile Delta located in Egypt, where they must find and identify a series of fish (and even a crocodile).

The Sphinx of Giza is a monumental statue consisting of two distinct parts: a human face (that of a pharaoh wearing the nemes, the emblematic pharaonic headdress) and the elongated body of a lion. This Sphinx stands in front of the pyramids of the site of Giza, upstream of the Nile Delta in Egypt, near the modern city of Cairo. The Sphinx of Giza is 73 meters long, 20 meters high, and 14 meters wide. It is the largest monolithic monumental sculpture in the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I am joined by Ben and Mackenzie Sehl, husband-and-wife team who founded KOTN with their co-founder Rami Helali. The inception of the Toronto-based clothing brand started because three friends wanted to be able to buy wardrobe basics that didn't affect their values (because it seemed you always had to give in to something). When they initially set out to rebuild the Egyptian cotton industry, they didn't realize how fragmented it truly was. Nevertheless, Ben, Mackenzie and Rami have managed to create a brand of sustainable, high-quality cotton basics that are also affordable, while ultimately starting a movement that aims to improve the quality of life for the people of the Nile Delta in Egypt—including their farmers, weavers, and factory owners. In this episode, we chat about how the two met, balancing working together 24/7, the struggles and challenges they've faced as young entrepreneurs, where they see the future of fast fashion, and why sustainability is so important to them. We also end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions such as what they enjoy the most and what they dislike about their jobs, their fav travel spots, and their fav KOTN items. Check out @kotn, @mackenzieyeates and @benjaminsehl Follow my podcast IG! @wellnowwhatpodcast

If you've listened to this show for a while you've heard me reference his book, "Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism for the 21st Century".  So I FINALLY got to speak with the author and academic Andres Malm.   From the Lund University: Why did our economy become so dependent on fossil fuels? What roles have they played in the historical development of capitalism? What are the forces perpetuating this dangerous thing we refer to as business-as-usual – and how can they be defeated? These are, broadly, the issues I try to approach in my research. More specifically, I am looking at the rise of coal as a source of mechanical energy in industrial production and transportation in nineteenth-century Britain and its Empire. My PhD thesis, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, defended in 2014, examines the transition from water-wheels to steam-engines in the cotton-mills of northern England and Scotland and draws some lessons for today: to make a very long story very short, capital required a source of energy amenable to concentration in space and acceleration in time. It still seems to do so. In 2016, Verso published my book Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, based on the thesis. It received the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for that year.   I am working on a sequel, provisionally entitled Fossil Empire, on how Britain deployed steamboats, railroads and their shared foundations – mines and depots of coal – to subjugate and integrate the peripheries of the nineteenth-century world-economy. I focus on Egypt/the Levant, India, China and West Africa. As it happens, these regions hold some of the people most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming – particularly sea level rise – now and in the near future. I have recently made forays into environmental philosophy; in 2017, Verso will publish my The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World, a theoretical essay on how to understand nature and society and their intertwinement in the light of climate change, criticising currents such as constructionism, hybridism, new materialism and post-humanism and advocating a more activist, dialectical alternative anchored in historical materialism. I have also worked a bit on ecocriticism; a recent paper in Forum for Modern Language Studies, which won the annual essay prize of that journal, proposes a new way of reading fossil fuel fiction. I have conducted research on the political ecology of vulnerability and adaption to sea level rise in the Nile Delta, as well as on solar-power in Morocco. I am working on a book about the politics of wilderness in a changing climate and involved in a collective project on geoengineering. I am, in short, interested in a wide range of aspects of the power relations of a rapidly warming world in urgent need of cooling down. I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism. I manage the masters' programme in human ecology at Lund University, known as Culture, Power and Sustainability.   You can find Andres Malm's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/authors/1960-andreas-malm   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out.  We appreciate each and everyone of you.  If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!    Become a patron now : https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast https://ww.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d    

You may recall that the Hebrews were said to be building the storage cities of Pithom and Rameses.  You can read this in …Exo 1:11  So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.Problem.  We have studied that the Hebrews left Egypt in 1446 B.C. and Rameses the Great (a.k.a. as Rameses II), the supposed pharaoh of the Exodus as per the late date (the wrong date) did not come to power until 1279 B.C. reigned until 1213 B.C.  So there are no cities named Rameses in the Nile Delta in 1446 B.C.  The city, later called Rameses, is called Avaris in the 15th century B.C., the time of the Exodus.  You can visit this site today.  It is called Tel el-daba.  So, what’s going on? Also, in this lesson, we deal with the city of Dan in the days of Abraham.  The events in chapter 15 are close to 2091 B.C. when Abraham and Sarah entered Canaan.  The city of Dan was named by the tribe of Dan – Dan is the son of Jacob the grandson of Abraham – when they moved north and captured the city of Laish (pronounced Lay Esh).  This is clear when we read …Jdg 18:29  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.So, Abraham comes to a city called Dan, as we read in the Bible, and the city of Dan is not even there yet!  This is nuts!  What is going on?  Is the Bible wrong? Was it written later in 3rd or 2nd century B.C.?  We need to find out and again show the truthfulness of the Bible. In lesson 30 in Genesis 15 we then come across this verse …Gen 14:17  Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. Who is this guy?  There are some who say it’s Jesus!  That’s crazy.  Some rabbis say it is Shem or the son of Shem the son of Noah.  Consider a few references from ancient Jewish (non-biblical) literature …Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, a priest most high." (Pirke De Rabbi Eliezari)"And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Rashi, Commentaries, Genesis 14:18)"And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Talmud, Tr. Nedarim32)That Melchizedek is Shem or his son is a major error since Melchizedek is the king of Salem.  Salem is probably Jerusalem.  At this time when Abraham and Melchizedek meet, Salem is a Jebusite city.  The Jebusites are a clan of the pagan Canaanites.  The rabbis show they dismiss real history and make up their own opinions which are in total conflict with historical truth.So, who is this guy?  Not Jesus.  Not Shem.  Not the son of Shem.  How do we understand this enigmatic Bible character? Come and join us in lesson 30.  Come and do what your Lord commanded you to do if you are a TRUE Christian, a real disciple of Rabbi Yeshua.Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - click here for the teacher's background

IntroductionWe have a longer text to go through today, so I’m just going to read it and then we’ll dive in.The HourglassI have an hourglass here that is going to represent our life. When a man or woman is born, that moment when that baby slips out of the shoot and takes it’s first breath represents the turning of the glass and the sand begins to fall. With every minute of your life, a grain falls through that tiny crack. You can see the pile accumulating at the bottom of the jar. But here’s the thing about life. Nobody knows how much sand is in the glass. You don’t know how much is left. It could be 30 seconds, 30 minutes, 30 years, or more. But the rate at which that remaining sand empties is fixed. Minute by minute, hour by hour, that sand empties. The pile grows at a fixed rate.And then one day, time runs out. All of those things we worked so hard for, the years and years of education, the work projects that you were so proud of, the years of paying down that mortgage, the years of investing, the gadgets and trinkets aquired, the trading up of furniture, cars, houses, it’s all reduced to a pile of sand at the bottom of an hour glass.And interestingly, most of what we spent time doing in life does very little to prepare us for what we will experience in that moment. There is coming a day when we will realize that the end is drawing near and for most this will summon up feelings of tremendous fear. Here’s the question we are dealing with this morning: How will you deal with that fear? How will you deal with the knowledge that the end is coming soon? When you hear the death chains rattling, how will you find peace and security when all the things that normally stabilize you are cut away?Today in our text we find Jacob in his final days. And he speaks with lucidity. His life has taught him lessons that he’s ready to impart. Jacob is prepared to die in peace.JacobNow to really appreciate his peaceful deathbed condition we have to remember how little peace Jacob experienced in his life. Seeing Jacob trusting God with total security upon his deathbed is certainly not what we would have expected.Just spend a couple minutes with me in your mind thinking about the life of Jacob. Jacob is one of those guys, that if you met him when he was 20 years old, I don’t think you would have liked him. He wore his insecurity on his sleeve. You can’t understand Jacob until you realize that his entire life was a quest for security and peace. Jacob was absolutely ruled by the fear of being unaccepted. He was so needy. He just longed for acceptance and approval, and this longing for acceptance created great unrest and shaped every aspect of his life.Some people, when they feel rejected or insecure, they recoil in hurt and shrink back. Others do the opposite. Other people fight. Jacob was a fighter. He responded to insecurity by quarreling with everyone he met. He was always in conflict with people. Always. Think about Jacob’s life. Jacob came out of the womb fighting. He came out clutching his twin brother’s heel. And that would become a metaphor for his entire life, clutching at the heel but never quite obtaining. He wrestles away his brother’s birthright for a pot of soup. Then when his father dies, he cons away his brother’s blessing. He had to fight with Esau to get his father’s love and he never got it. He’s got this wily scheme where he struggles to get the wife he wanted. He’s got this gimmicky strategy where he deceives with goats and herds and struggles and wrestles to get the career he wanted.And by the time you get to the Joseph narrative you see all this unresolved insecurity expressing itself in relationships inside the home. The love-starved wives are in conflict with him and each other. The love-starved brothers fight and wrestle with one another, a mirror image of their love-starved father who wrestles with himself and God. Jacob scratched, bit, and clawed to find security, grasping at the heel. And he suffered.By the time we get to the end of Jacob’s life, which is the passage we read today, we see that all that suffering softened him. We see a portrait of a softer Jacob whose body is old and crippled and brittle but his heart is supple and fleshy; we see sheets of scales flaking off and falling to the ground. He has finally stopped trying to manipulate and blame others and instead he simply trusts the Lord and in so doing experiences incredible peace.So today we are going to learn from Jacob three lessons of a man whose life had been changed by the peace of God. We will learn from Jacob how to finish life with security.How do we die of cancer without fear? It’s not easy. If ever there is a time when the security anchors of your life are cut away, it’s when you hear the death chains rattling. What can you cling to in moments like these?As humans, when we sense instability, we reach for what we know. It’s no time to experiment with new centers of security. Dangerous times, unfamiliar times. These are not times for risk. It’s time to go with what you know works. In moments like these we return to time-tested strongholds.Jacob’s hourglass was nearly empty. He’s got just a pinch of sand left in the top of the glass. What time-tested stronghold does he shelter beneath? What security blankets does Jacob reach for?This first point is an observation of what he does not reach for. He does not reach for Egypt. And just that is absolutely shocking, because so much good had come from Egypt. Egypt had been very kind to Jacob. Egypt had literally saved his life. The food, the land, and the bounty in times of famine. Keep in mind the geography of the narrative. Jacob is coming down from the hill country of Judea in Israel. Here’s a picture of what the area around Shechem looks like today.I mean this is rocky, thorny, hard land. Not a lot of water. You have to scratch out a living up here. As a shepherd you have to live a nomadic life moving from hill to hill. You have to move your flocks around according to the season. In the best of years it’s arid. And when the drought hits, you can imagine whatever little vegetation exists here is just baked and scorched into carbon gravel. So they are starving to death in this hot desert. And you remember the narrative. Joseph’s brother’s go to get Jacob, and bring him where? To Egypt! Here come the carts so full, you could imagine the grain spilling over the side rails and the axles bending. Joseph’s family comes down they are given the best of the land. The well-watered plains of goshen. So here’s a picture of modern day goshen. Would you rather live in Shechem or Goshen?The Nile Delta is flat and you have rich, thick grass in loamy soil totally free of rocks. I mean, in a time when most of Jacob’s buddies back in Canaan are starving to death, his tribe is living off the fat of the land.I mean what’s working here. What’s the time-tested stronghold here? Is Canaan working or is Egypt working? “Everyone in Egypt is being so kind to me. We were welcomed in a royal parade. I mean, I know the whole promises of God thing, but man this is nice.”Do events like these not condition a man to think, “When in crisis, flee to Egypt for safety?” Of course! There would have been a huge temptations here for Jacob in these moments of crisis to reach for Egypt.But here’s our point: Jacob finished the race of life, Distrusting Egypt’s Generosity. Here’s where we see this in the text. Jacob sees his son Joseph and you have this strange custom where he takes Joseph’s hand and places it on his thigh and he makes his son Joseph swear, “Don’t bury me here in Egypt.” He’s so deadly serious. You could imagine Joseph saying, “Dad, is Egypt so bad? I mean look at all Egypt has done for you? Is it so bad? Why do you feel the need to be carried clear back to that desert?”Here’s the thing that Jacob got right. Yes, it was Egypt’s grain that saved his family’s life. Yes, it was Egypt’s soil that grew the crops they needed to live. Yes, it was the water that came out of Egypt’s Nile that quenched their thirsty mouths. But it was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that made Egypt and conscripted its resources to save his chosen people. You see, he recognized that the blessings of this world are owned by God. When we are given gifts from the world, we are not to thank the world, we are to thank God. The checks of blessing we receive are signed by men, but the banker is God.And the application for us is a good one. Your paycheck has your company’s name on it, but the giver is God. The inheritance comes from your parents or grandparents, but the giver is God. You get a tax return from the IRS, but the giver is God. It’s a fundamental way in which you view blessing. This becomes even more obvious as we drill into the details of what Jacob says next. Not only does he say, “Bury me in Egypt,” he goes further. Then Israel said to Joseph,I’m not sure how this would have been heard by Joseph but it sure feels strange to my ear. Joseph is the sovereign of Egypt. Joseph without question lives in a palace of kings. One of the suggested locations where Joseph lived is in the goverenor’s palace discovered in the city of Avaris. Here’s a rendering of that palace based on the archaeological evidence. If it’s not this, is certainly something like this.I mean, Joseph is living in straight up luxury. Joseph is living in opulence like you couldn’t believe. “Why is dad bringing up this tiny little plot of land?” This has got to feel to Joseph like dad is giving him a coin collection he won in an arm wrestling match. Yippidy do.But what’s going on here? Yes, Jacob is distrusting the generosity of Egypt. That’s the negative. But here’s the positive.Why would Jacob think that Joseph would be even remotely interested in his piggy bank, in this little piece of rocky land a hundred miles away? Does Jacob really expect Joseph to trade Egypt for a rocky hillside that daddy captured with a handmade bow and arrow?Here’s the answer. Yes, he does. Why? Not because there is value in this one little plot of earth. Because the maker of the actual earth has promised to bless his people here. This is the seed of blessing promised to generations previous. If you remember clear back in Genesis 35, God appeared to Jacob in a dream and said to him:So now Jacob, these many years later, believes this promise. Jacob is re-ratifying a promise made to his father and grandfather about this land. Now we get way more insight into the psychological framework of Jacob and how he thought about this promise if we read Hebrews chapter 11. It’s such a perfect complimentary text to where we are today. Jacob believes that one day, the land given to him will be the soil upon which a tremendous kingdom is built. He believes this in a way that alters his perspective of reality and every aspect of his decision making. Look at how this faith in the promises of God is articulated in Hebrews chapter 11. Now it starts out with Abraham.So here these patriarchs are, living in tents, they are in a ghetto. They are homeless in a foreign land. But they believe God. They believe that this land is given to them. The text goes on to say:Do you see what’s happening here? Jacob is looking at the hill he captured with the bow and he says, “This is the foundation of a great city.” You can imagine Joseph and Jacob sitting there. The great building projects of Egypt spread out before them. The great pyramids, the testament to the power of Egypt rising out of the desert sand and Jacob whispers in Joseph’s ear, “You see these pyramids? They ain’t nothing compared to what God is going to do. Do you remember that rocky slope I told you about, the one I captured with my bow? One day, that’s going to make Egypt look like a lego city. I’m trusting in the promise that God gave to me. Give me all of Egypt or this rocky slope. I’ll take the slope.”And perhaps he looks at Joseph with hope. “Joseph, maybe that’s where you build your palace. Joseph, perhaps God is raising you up to move my people back and establish the kingdom promised.” Now that wasn’t God’s plan but you can hear in Jacob’s voice the hope. “Joseph, I’m going to die, but the promise of God will live on through you.”He wants Joseph to carry his body back so he can see the land for himself. He wants to make an impression on his son. We are exiles and foreigners. This is not our home. We belong elsewhere. Jacob said we are strangers and exiles here in Egypt. Bury me in Cannan. This is not about geography. This is about theology. The Hebrews passage goes on to say:Jacob wasn’t ashamed of his puny little coin collection because he knew the value. This was amazon.com at 25cents a share. The promise of God was behind it. It would develop into a great nation not because the land itself was anything. The land was nothing. It was because the God of the land. Jacob died with a gleam in his eye. He believed the promise.The blessing to his sons had this promise in mind. This same promise Joseph would pass on to his children.And his children to their children. And 400 years later a man named Moses would make the same decision based on the same promise.Hebrews goes on to say:You don’t give up Egypt for nothing. You cannot yearn for another land while holding onto Egypt. You give up Egypt for something greater! Choosing God means abandoning Egypt. That’s what Moses did. He chose a life in the desert with grumblers because that was a greater reward than Egypt. He was looking forward. He was looking to the reward.Abraham trusted the promises of God, Isaac did it and now Jacob did. And now the question turns to us. Jacob was an outsider. He was an exile in Egypt who knew that as good as it was, Egypt was not the home God promised to him. The gods of Egypt were not his gods.We too are exiles in a land that is not our home. For us it’s not Egypt with the leeks and garlic and Nile Delta, it’s Idaho with potatoes and Panda Express and the Sawtooths. Some of you have fled here as exiles from a foreign land. I know from experience, Idaho has been nice to me. I had a wonderful childhood in Eagle working on farms. I get to hike the Sawtooths every summer. I love breathing clean air. I get to replinished my soul in Cascade and McCall. I love watersports and snow sking. We start to love Idaho, don’t we?And it’s easy to make Idaho our home to grow our roots deep into Idaho. The longer you live, the more you adopt the values of the place. It just kind of soaks into you. But Idaho is not our home. Why? Here’s the simplest reason. When we die, we no longer live in Idaho. You don’t call a motel your home because you are only there for a moment. Home is the place you live forever. Heaven is our home.Jacob dies with security because he is anchored to the promises of God, truths which are not cut away in death. He’s able to trust in the promises of God. This promise of God that one day a nation will rise up in this land is binding him to this moment. He can die in peace knowing that God will carry out his promise to generations yet unborn. Why does he want to be buried in Canaan? It’s his statement of faith that I want my bones to be in the physical location where God has promised to one day establish his people for an eternal kingdom.The other thing we see Jacob doing as he prepares to die is bless his children. We see it here as he blesses Joseph’s two sons and then all of chapter 49 is Jacob blessing his other sons as he prepares to die. In these chapters, don’t forget Jacob is very old. His body is riddled with pain. We see him groaning just to sit up. We see him leaning heavy on his staff. His body is broken. We see in the text here that he is blind. The man is about to die. He’s not buying green bananas if you know what I mean. He knows he’s only got a pinch of sand in that hourglass.But in those last weeks of his life, his perspective is marvelous. For Jacob, as he faces into the reality of his uncooperative body, the frailty he is forced to confront is not something to be fought off. It is something to be understood. It is a reminder for him that it is time to prepare to die. And what comes to mind at that point? I must bless my children.Now, I’m not sure many in Jacob’s shoes would have said that. I think many who had lived Jacob’s life would have said, “I’m about to die. It’s time to curse my children.” Think about what Jacob had been put through as a father. Let’s just rewind the tape a bit. Let’s rewind for just a moment to that great reveal where Joseph declares who he is. Remember back with me. They are in the palace. The golden cup had just been discovered in Benjamin’s sack. And for that reason, Benjamin has a noose around his neck, so to speak. Joseph is pretending to be all stern and he’s ready to administer the royal sentence but he can’t bear it any more. He breaks down, takes off his head dress and speaks in perfect Hebrew, “Guys, it’s me! It’s your brother Joseph!”Here’s an honest question: is this a good day for the brothers? You can imagine the choking stares, the blinking disbelief, the silence. You can imagine the horrifying realization that this thing you thought you had completely covered up, is now staring you in the face. It’s so unexpected. You had zero time to prepare. You haven’t even had one second to prepare an I’m sorry speech. You are just caught naked.This represents a day of reckoning. They have to swallow hard. The tables are totally turned and they have to realize they are at Joseph’s mercy. That’s bad enough. But think about what’s coming next. Think about part two. I think part two is much worse. After they hash this out at some level, they are now commissioned to go back and tell their father that Joseph is still alive. Now that news has some implications if you know what I mean.You couldn’t say, “Dad, guess what, Joseph’s still alive. I thought he was eaten by a wild animal, but we found him and he must have escaped. He’s alive!” That story doesn’t work because Joseph knows the truth. So it’s got to be more like this, “Hey Dad, Remember when you were mourning and we had that whole funeral for Joseph? Well, I kind of knew he was still alive. In fact, we all knew. We just let you cry your guts out for weeks on end. I mean, I know it sounds awful, but we were going to slit his throat with a knife and kill him but we decided instead to sell him for cash. Well, we got that money from selling Joseph to the Ishmaelite traders. And truth be told, every year when we had that little memorial service, and you cried your guts out. But, we all smiled behind your back because we knew he was still alive. And you know how you haven’t seen your son for a couple decades and how you can never get that time back and how you’ve had no relationship with him. Well, that’s kind of our fault. And we knew it and did nothing about it.”Like, whose gets the short straw to communicate that one?And the text says Joseph sent them off with the instructions, “Don’t quarrel along the way.” Now why do you suppose he said this? We don’t have to even wonder. There’s not even a hint of a question. To tell Dad that Joseph is still alive means also telling him that there has been a family wide conspiracy against him for the past 20 years. He’s been the target of a giant cover-up where he’s the fool. He’s the last to know. Of course they are going to quarrel. Of course they are going to blame one another. “I told you it was a bad idea. I told you not sell him.”And can you imagine how badly Jacob was hurt by that deception? How much anger must he have felt? He must have had to fight not to hold in bitterness and resentment. There is some serious soul work that needs to be done on Jacob’s part! But now here he is at the end of his life, ready to bless his children. He doesn’t breath a word of it. Not one word of it comes up. It’s actually quite impressive. The reason is, once again, he’s looking to the promises of God.Here’s what the old Jacob has learned. He’s now completely convinced that no matter what something looks like on the surface, God will turn it into good. Earlier in his life he was completely convinced that the worst thing that could have happened to him, did happen to him. His son Joseph was taken from him. But now he sees how this terrible evil was redeemed for his great good. And the lesson. Whatever you see in front of you today is no indication of what is coming tomorrow. He knows that God will make a great nation out of these failures.There there’s this strange scene where the hand of blessing goes onto the younger instead of the older. Certainly not according to custom! But this just once again reaffirms that you can’t trust how things appear.Sometimes it looks like something it is so bad, it could never be redeemed for good. But other times it looks so good, so certain, it looks like it could never fail you and then at the very last moment the hands of blessing are crossed and the weak are made strong and the strong serve the weak.Jacob totally distrusts what his physical eyes see and he totally trusts what he has been told to believe by his faithful God. In his final moments, he has the least amount of physical sight but the greatest spiritual sight. He sees more clearly in those final moments than he has ever seen. And he wants to pass that clarity onto his children. “It’s not what it appears to be children. Egypt will go down. Things are not what they appear to be. We don’t trust what we can see. We trust what we know, what we have been told.” He is trusting in the great God of all glory. And you hear that trust coming out in the way he blesses his sons.So practically for us what does this mean? It means using your death as the platform upon which you preach a sermon of everlasting life. You have a unique message to speak before you die. As a pastor, I’ve been at the bedside of many people before they’ve died. And I remember just weeping at the beauty of what some of these saints said as they faced death. If those same words were said in a church foyer, that’s one thing. If they’re said sitting at death’s door, it’s quite another.Man, let me just get real for a moment. It may be that if I outlive you, I’ll be doing your funeral. And if not me, then one of the other pastors or elders or some minister of the gospel. Make our job easy!Do you have a will? I hope so, it’s an important thing to have. And if you have one, it likely contains information regarding the functional financial elements of your estate. Good. But that stuff doesn’t really matter. I hope your will also contains letters, notes, what you want to tell people. Do you have letters you want opened? Don’t you want to be like Jacob here and encourage your children and grandchildren to stay faithful to Jesus Christ? Don’t you want to extol how faithful he has been to you and how wonderful it is to be his child? Don’t you want to publicly marvel at the blessings of the covenant keeping God?I love how Jacob blesses his children, “The God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.” What can you communicate to the next generation about the faithfulness of God? You can write this letter at any time. We do not when exactly we will die, but we do know that we will die, so either way we can prepare.Can you paint a portrait of the faithfulness of God such that others can look to the God you trusted in and be strengthened? You see all through the Bible we read of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob gets the title “Patriarch” and because of that we tend to view him as this great man. But he was not great. God did something great to Jacob. So when we say, “God of Jacob” we mean God of the insecure. God of those who are craving for men’s approval. God of those who time and time and time again repeat their failures. God of people who need to be rescued from finding their hope in this world.We will come to the end of our life. The sands of time will run out. In those dying moments God may give you some unique opportunity to pass on your experience of how God has been faithful to you to the next generation so that when people say, “God of Jason” they think, “Man, if God can redeem that train wreck, he can redeem anything.” Let’s trust in that God. Let’s run to that God.

The HourglassI have an hourglass here that is going to represent our life. When a man or woman is born, that moment when that baby slips out of the shoot and takes it’s first breath represents the turning of the glass and the sand begins to fall. With every minute of your life, a grain falls through that tiny crack. You can see the pile accumulating at the bottom of the jar. But here’s the thing about life. Nobody knows how much sand is in the glass? you don’t know how much is left. It could be 30 seconds, 30 minutes or 30 years or more. But the rate at which that remaining sand empties is fixed. Minute by minute, hour by hour, that sand empties. The pile grows at a fixed rate.And then one day, time runs out. All of those things we worked so hard for, the years and years of education, the work projects that you were so proud of, the years of paying down that mortgage, the years of investing, the gadgets and trinkets aquired, the trading up of furniture, cars, houses, it’s all reduced to a pile of sand at the bottom of an hour glass.And interestingly, most of what we spent time doing in life does very little to prepare us for what we will experience in that moment. There is coming a day when we will realize that the end is drawing near and for most this will summon up feelings of tremendous fear. Here’s the question we are dealing with this morning:How will you deal with that fear? How will you deal with the knowledge that the end is coming soon?When you hear the death chains rattling, how will you find peace and security when all the things that normally stabilize you are cut away?Today in our text we find Jacob in his final days. And he speaks with lucidity. His life has taught him lessons that he’s ready to impart. Jacob is prepared to die in peace.JacobNow to really appreciate his peaceful deathbed condition we have to remember how little peace Jacob experienced in his life. Seeing Jacob trusting God with total security upon his deathbed is CERTAINLY not what we would have expected.Just spend a couple minutes with me in your mind thinking about the life of Jacob. Jacob is one of those guys, that if you met him when he was 20 years old, I don’t think you would have liked him. He wore his insecurity on his sleeve. You can’t understand Jacob until you realize that his entire was a quest for security and peace.Jacob was absolutely ruled by the fear of being unaccepted.He was so needy.He just longed for acceptance and approval.And this longing for acceptance created great unrest and shaped every aspect of his life.Some people, when they feel rejected or insecure, they recoil in hurt and shrink back. Other do the opposite. Other people fight. Jacob was a fighter. He responded to insecurity by quarreling with everyone he met.Recounting of Jacob’s LifeHe was always in conflict with people. Always. Think about Jacob’s life. Jacob came out of the womb fighting. He came out clutching his twin brother’s heel. And that would become a metaphor for his entire life, clutching at the heel but never quite obtaining.He wrestles away his brother’s birthright for a pot of soup. Then when his father dies cons away his brother’s blessing.He had to fight with Esau to get his father’s love and he never got it.He’s got this wily scheme where he struggles to get the wife he wantedHe’s got this gimmicky strategy where he deceives with goats and herds and struggles and wrestles to get the career he wanted.And by the time you get to the Joseph narrative you see all this unresolved insecurity expressing itself in relationships inside the home. The love-starved wives are in conflict with him and each other. The love-starved brothers fight and wrestle with one another, a mirror image of their love-starved father who wrestles with himself and God.Jacob scratched, bit and clawed to find security, grasping at the heel. And he suffered.Conclusion of Jacob’s LifeBy the time we get to the end of Jacob’s life, which is the passage we read today, we see that all that suffering softened him. We get a portrait of a softer Jacob whose body is old and crippled and brittle but his heart is supple and fleshy; we see sheets of scales flaking off and falling to the ground.He has finally stopped trying to manipulate and blame others and instead he simply trusts the Lord and in so doing experiences INCREDIBLE peace.So today we are going to learn from Jacob three lessons of a man whose life had been changed by the peace of God. We will learn from Jacob how to finish life with security.How do we die of cancer without fear? It’s not easy. If ever there is a time when the security anchors of your life are cut away, it’s when you hear the death chains rattling.What can you cling to in moments like these?As humans, when we sense instability, we reach for what we know. It’s no time to experiment with new centers of security. Dangerous times, unfamiliar times. These are not times for risk. It’s time to go with what you know works. In moments like these we return time-tested strongholds.So Jacob’s hourglass was nearly empty.He’s got just a pinch of sand left in the top of the glass. What time-tested stronghold does he shelter beneath? What security blankets does Jacob reach for?This first point is an observation of what he DOES NOT reach for. He does not reach for Egypt. And just that is absolutely shocking. Because so much good had come from Egypt. Egypt had been very kind to Jacob. Egypt had literally saved his life. The food, the land, the bounty in times of famine.Keep in mind the geography of the narrative. Jacob is coming down from the hill country of Judea in Israel.Here’s a picture of what the area around Shechem looks like today.I mean this is rocky, thorny, hard land. Not a lot of water. You have to scratch out a living up here. As a shepherd you have to live a nomadic life moving from hill to hill. You have to move your flocks around according to the season. In the best of years it’s arid.And when the drought hits, you can imagine whatever little vegetation exists here is just baked and scorched into carbon gravel. So they are starving to death in this hot desert. And you remember the narrative.Joseph’s brother’s go to get Jacob, and bring him where? To Egypt! Here come the carts so full, you could imagine the grain spilling over the side rails and the axles bending. Joseph’s family comes down they are given the best of the land. The well-watered plains of goshen. So here’s a picture of modern day goshen. Would you rather live in shechem or goshen?The Nile delta is flat and you have rich, thick grass in loamy soil totally free of rocks. I mean, in a time when most of Jacob’s buddies back in Canaan are starving to death, his tribe is living off the fat of the land.I mean what’s working here. What’s the time-tested stronghold here? Is Canaan working or is Egypt working? Everyone in Egypt is being so kind to me. We were welcomed in a royal parade. I mean, I know the whole promises of God thing, but man this is nice.Do events like these not condition a man to think, “When in crisis, flee to Egypt for safety?” Of course. There would have been a huge temptations here for Jacob in these moments of crisis to reach for Egypt.But here’s our point. Jacob finished the race of life, Distrusting Egypt’s Generosity. Here’s where we see this in the text.Jacob sees his son Joseph and you have this strange custom where he takes Joseph’s hand and places it on his thigh and he makes his son Joseph swear, “Don’t bury me here in Egypt.”He’s so deadly serious. You could imagine Joseph saying, “Dad, is Egypt so bad? I mean look at all Egypt has done for you? Is it so bad? Why do you feel the need to be carried clear back to that desert?”Here’s the thing that Jacob got right. Yes, it was Egypt’s grain that saved his families life. Yes it was Egypt’s soil that grew the crops they needed to live. Yes it was the water that came out of Egypt’s Nile that quenched their thirsty mouths.But it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that made Egypt and conscripted it’s resource to save his chosen people. You see he recognized that the blessings of this world are owned by God. When we are given gifts from the world, we are not to thank the world, we are to thank God. The checks of blessing we receive are signed by men, but the banker is God.And the application for us is a good one.Your paycheck has your company name on it, but the giver is God.The inheritance comes from your parents or grandparents, but the giver is God.You get a tax return from the IRS but the giver is God.It’s a fundamental way in which you view blessing. This becomes even more obvious as we drill into the details of what Jacob says next.Not only does he say, “Bury me in Egypt” He goes further.Then Israel said to Joseph,I’m not sure how this would have been heard by Joseph but it sure feels strange to my ear. Joseph is the sovereign of Egypt. Joseph WITHOUT question lives in a palace of kings. One of the suggested locations places Joseph in the goverenor’s palace discovered in the city of Avaris. Here’s a rendering of that palace based on the archaeological evidence. If it’s not this, is certainly something like this.I mean Joseph is living in straight up luxury. Joseph is living in opulence like you couldn’t believe. Why is dad bringing up this tiny little plot of land?This has got to feel to Joseph like dad is giving me his coin collection he won in an arm wrestling match. Yippidy do.But what’s going on here? Yes Jacob is distrusting the generosity of Egypt. That’s the negative. But here’s the positive.Why would dad think that Joseph would be even remotely interested in his piggy bank, in this little piece of rocky land a hundred miles away? Does Jacob really expect Joseph to trade Egypt for a rocky hillside that daddy captured with hand made bow and arrow?Here’s the answer. Yes, he does. Why? Not because there is value in this one little plot of earth. Because the maker of the ACTUAL earth has promised to bless his people here. This is the seed of blessing promised to generations previous. If you remember clear back in Genesis 35 God appeared to Jacob in a dream and said to him.So now Jacob, these many years later, believes this promise. God has re-ratifying a promise made to his father and grandfather about this land. Now we get way more insight into the psychological framework of Jacob and how he thought about this promise if we read Hebrews chapter 11. It’s such a perfect complimentary text to where we are today. Jacob believes that one day, the land given to him will be the soil upon which a tremendous kingdom is built. He believes this in a way that alters his perspective of reality and every aspect of his decision making. Look at how this faith in the promises of God is articulated in Hebrews chapter 11. Now it starts out with Abraham.So here these patriarchs are, living in tents, they are in a ghetto. They are homeless in a foreign land. But they believe God. They believe that this land is given to them. The text goes on to say.Do you see what’s happening here? Jacob is looking at the hill he captured with the bow and he says, this is the foundation of a great city. You can imagine Joseph and Jacob sitting there. The great building projects of Egypt spread out before them. The great pyramids, the testament to the power of Egypt rising out of the desert sand and Jacob whispers in Joseph’s ear. You see these pyramids? They ain’t nothing compared to what God is going to do. Do you remember that rocky slope I told you about, the one I captured with my bow? One day, that’s going to make Egypt look like a lego city. I’m trusting in the promise that God gave to me.Give me all of Egypt or this rocky slope. I’ll take the slope.And perhaps he looks at Joseph with hope. Joseph, maybe that’s where you build your palace. Joseph, perhaps God is raising you up to move my people back and establish the kingdom promised.Now that wasn’t God’s plan but you can hear in Jacob’s voice the hope. Joseph, I’m going to die, but the promise of God will live on through you.He wants Joseph to carry his body back so he can see the land for himself. He wants to make an impression on his son. We are exiles and foreigners. This is not our home. We belong elsewhere. Jacob said we are strangers and exiles here in Egypt. Bury me in Cannan. This is not about geography. This is about theology. The Hebrews passage goes on to say,Jacob wasn’t ashamed of his puny little coin collection because he knew the value. This was amazon.com at 25cents a share. The promise of God was behind it. It would develop into a great nation not because the land itself was anything. The land was nothing. It was because the God of the land.Jacob died with a gleam in his eye. He believed the promise.The blessing to his sons had this promise in mind. This same promise Joseph would pass on to his children.And his children to their children. And 400 years later a man named Moses would make the same decision based on the same promise.Hebrews goes on to sayYou don’t give up Egypt for nothing. You cannot yearn for another land while holding onto Egypt. You give up Egypt for something greater! Choosing God means abandoning Egypt. That’s what Moses did. I choose a life in the desert with grumblers because that has greater reward than Egypt. He was looking forward. He was looking to the reward.Abraham trusted the promises of God, Isaac did it and now Jacob did.And now the question turns to us. Jacob was an Outsider. He was an exile in Egypt who knew that as good as it was, Egypt was not the home God promised to him. The gods of Egypt were not his gods.We too are exiles in a land that is not our home. For us it’s not Egypt with the Leeks and Garlic and Nile Delta, it’s Idaho with Potatoes and Panda Express and Sawtooths. Some of you have fled here as exiles from a foreign land.Idaho has been nice to me.I have a wonderful childhood in Eagle working on farms.I get to hike the Sawtooths every summer.I love breathing clean air.I get to replinished my soul in Cascade and McCall.I love watersports and snow sking.We start to love Egypt, don’t we?And it’s easy to make Idaho our home to grow our roots deep into Idaho. The longer you live, the more you adopt the values of the place. It just kind of soaks into you. But Idaho is not our home. Why? Here’s the simplest reason. When we die, we no longer live in Idaho. You don’t call a motel your home because you are only there for a moment. Home is the place you live forever. Heaven is our home.Jacob dies with security because he is anchored to the promises of God, truths which are not cut away in death. He’s able to trust in the promises of God.This promise of God that one day a nation will rise up in this land is binding him to this moment. I can die in peace knowing that God will carry out his promise to generations yet unborn.Why does he want to be buried in Canaan? It’s his statement of faith that I want my bones to be in the physical location where God has promised to one day establish his people for an ETERNAL kingdom.The other thing we see Jacob doing as he prepares to die is bless his children. We see it here as he blesses Joseph’s two sons and then all of chapter 49 is Jacob blessing his other sons as he prepares to die. In these chapters, don’t forget Jacob is very old. His body is riddled with pain. We see him groaning just to sit up. We see him leaning heavy on his staff. His body is broken. We see in the text here that he is blind. The man is about to die.He’s not buying green bananas if you know what I mean. He knows he’s only got a pinch of sand in that hourglass.But in those last weeks of his life, his perspective is marvelous. For Jacob, as he faces into the reality of his uncooperative body, the frailty he is forced to confront is not something to be fought off. It is something to be understood. It is a reminder for him that it is time to prepare to die. And what comes to mind at that point? I must bless my children.Now, I’m not sure many in Jacob’s shoes would have said that. I think many who had lived Jacob’s life would have said, “I’m about to die. It’s time to curse my children.”Think about what Jacob had been put through as a father. Let’s just rewind the tape a bit. Let’s rewind for just a moment to that great reveal where Joseph declares who he is.Remember back with me. They are in the palace. The golden cup had just been discovered in Benjamin’s sack. **And for that reason, Benjamin has a noose around his neck, so to speak. Joseph is pretending to be all stern and he’s ready to administer the royal sentence but he can’t bear it any more. He breaks down, takes off his head dress and speaks in perfect Hebrew, “Guys, it’s me!** It’s your brother Joseph!”Honest Question: Is this a good day for the brothers?You can imagine the choking stares.You can imagine the blinking disbelief.You can imagine the silence.You can imagine the horrifying realization that this thing you thought you had completely covered up, is now staring you in the face.It’s so unexpected.You had ZERO time to prepare. You’ve hadn’t even one second to prepare an I’m sorry speech.You are just caught naked.This represents a day of reckoning. They have to swallow hard. The tables are totally turned and they have to realize they are at Joseph’s mercy. That’s bad enough.But think about what’s coming next. Think about part two. I think part two is much worse. After they hash this out at some level, they are now commissioned to go back and tell their father that Joseph is still alive. Now that news has some implications if you know what I mean.You couldn’t say, “Dad, guess what, Joseph’s still alive. I thought he was eaten by a wild animal, but we found him and he must have escaped. He’s alive!” That story doesn’t work because Joseph knows the truth.So it’s got to be more like this: Hey dad, Remember when you were mourning and we had that whole funeral for Joseph? Well, I kind of knew he was still alive. In fact, we all knew. We just let you cry your guts out for weeks on end.I mean, I know it sounds awful, but we were going to slit his throat with a knife and kill him but we decided instead to sell him for cash. Well, we got that money from selling Joseph to the Ishmaelite traders.And truth be told, every year when we had that little memorial service, and you cried your guts out. But, we all smiled behind your back because we knew he was still alive.And you know how you haven’t seen your son for a couple decades and how you can never get that time back and how you’ve had no relationship with him. Well, that’s kind of our fault. And we knew it and did nothing about him.Like, whose gets the short straw to communicate that one?And….the text says Joseph sent them off with the instructions, "Don’t quarrel along the way." Now why do you suppose he said this? We don’t have to even wonder. There’s not even a hint of a question. To tell dad that Joseph is still alive means also telling dad that there has been a family wide conspiracy against him for the past 20 years. He’s been the target of a giant cover-up where he’s the fool. He’s the last to know.Of course they are going to quarrel. Of course they are going to blame one another. I told you it was a bad idea. I told you not sell him.And can you imagine how badly Jacob was hurt by that deception. How much anger must he have felt? He must have had to fight not to hold in bitterness and resentment. There is some serious soul work that needs to be done on Jacob’s part!But now here he is at the end of his life, ready to bless his children. He doesn’t breath a word of it. Not one word of it comes up. It’s actually quite impressive. The reason is, once again, he’s looking to the promises of God.Here’s what the old Jacob has learned. He’s now completely convinced that no matter what something looks like on the surface, God will turn it into good. Earlier in his life he was completely convinced that the worst thing that could have happened to him, did happen to him. His son Joseph was taken from him. But now he sees how this terrible evil was redeemed for his great good.And the lesson. Whatever you see in front of you today is no indication of what is coming tomorrow. He knows that God will make a great nation out of these failures.And you have this strange scene where the hand of blessing goes onto the younger instead of the older. Certainly not according to custom! But this just once again reaffirms that you can’t trust how things appear.Sometimes it looks like something it is so bad, it could never be redeemed for good. But other times it looks so good, so certain, it looks like it could never fail you and then at the very last moment the hands of blessing are crossed and the weak are made strong and the strong serve the weak.Jacob totally distrusts what his physical eyes see and he totally trusts what he has been told to believe by his faithful God. In his final moments, he has the least amount of physical sight but the greatest spiritual sight. He sees more clearly in those final moments than he has ever seen.And he wants to pass that clarity onto his children. It’s not what it appears to be children. Egypt will go down. Things are not what they appear to be. We don’t trust what we can see. We trust what we know, what we have been told.He is trusting in the great God of all glory. And you hear that trust coming out in the way he blesses his sons.So practically for us what does this mean. It means using your death as the platform upon which you preach a sermon of everlasting life. You have a unique message to speak before you die. As a pastor, I’ve been at the bedside of many people before they’ve died. And I remember just weeping at the beauty of what some of these saints said as they faced into death. If those same words were said in a church foyer, that’s one thing. If said sitting at death’s door, it’s quite another.Man, let me just get real for a moment. It may be that if I outlive you, I’ll be doing your funeral. And if not me, then one of the other pastors or elders or some minister of the gospel. Make our job easy!Do you have a will? I hope so. That is the responsible thing to do. And if you have one, it likely contains information regarding the functional financial elements of your estate. Good. But that stuff doesn’t really matter. I hope your will also contains letters, notes, what you want to tell people? Do you have letters you want opened?Don’t you want to be like Jacob here and encourage your children and grandchildren to stay faithful to Jesus Christ. Don’t you want to extol how faithful he has been to you and how wonderful it is to be his child? Don’t you want to publicly marvel at the blessings of the covenant keeping God.I love how Jacob blesses his children, “The God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day” What can you communicate to the next generation about the faithfulness of God.You can write this letter at any time. We do not when exactly we will die, but we do know that we will die… because we know that we can prepare for when.Can you paint a portrait of the faithfulness of God such that others can look to the God you trusted in and be strengthened? You see all through the Bible we read of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.Jacob gets the title patriarch and because of that we tend to view him as this great man. But he was not great. God did something GREAT to Jacob. So when we say, God of Jacob we mean God of the insecure. God of those who are craving for men’s approval. God of those who time and time and time again repeat their failures. God of people who need to be rescued from finding their hope in this world.We will come to the end of our life. The sands of time will run out.In those dying moments God may give you some unique opportunity to pass on your experience of how God has been faithful to you to the next generation so that when people say, “God of Jason” they think, man, if God can redeem that train wreck, he can redeem anything. Let’s trust in that God. Let run to that God.

On this day in 1799, an inscribed stone which had been uncovered in the wall of the Fort of St Julien at Rashid in the Nile Delta was brought to the attention of the French Army officer in charge of the fort. The discovery of the 'Rosetta Stone' was to lead to a re-understanding of an Egyptian hieroglyphic script which had effectively died out by the 4th century AD. Produced by Brian Byrne. Photo Attribution: © Hans Hillewaert, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Psalm 111:1, 5 (AMP)PRAISE THE Lord! ….. _ 5 _ _ He has given food and provision _ _ to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; _ _ He will remember His covenant forever _ and imprint it [on His mind].At the beginning of the lockdown we have emphasised God's Protection.Now, after the lockdown it's time to emphasise God's Provision.The Covid-19 lockdown and its ensuing lack of productivity has resulted in a considerable economic downturn. The effect of this economic downturn has not fully realised yet, largely due to a massive government spend-up.We are now in "faith territory" concerning God's provision for our livesThe need to walk by faith is stronger today than it was, say, last yearThis is a good time to look to God and His faithfulness in a renewed way, and build up our faith on His wonderful promises.Psalm 111:5 tells us that our God is a covenant-keeping God.Our God is also a prayer-answering God.When Jesus Christ died on the cross and shed His own blood, He confirmed God's New Covenant (Agreement) with His peopleThis covenant includes access to God's provision for our lives. Phil. 4:19God is able to fulfil His covenant with His people irrespective of the economy around us. (God is not limited by the economy of the world)Genesis 26:1–6 (NKJV)_ There was a famine in the land , besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. 2 Then the Lord appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you._ _ 3 **Dwell in this land, _ and _ I will be with you and bless you** ; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and_ _ I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;_ _ 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." 6 _ _ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. _There was a famine in Canaan in Isaac's dayThe prevailing thinking of the day was that if things are tough in Canaan, just go down to Egypt (Abraham went to Egypt in a famine. Gen. 12:10)(The Nile Delta in Egypt [incl. Goshen] was very fertile even without rain)God told Isaac:Do not go down to Egypt (like your father did)Dwell in this land (even though there is a famine in this land)I will be with you and I bless you (despite the famine)The moral of the story:God is able to bless you and prosper you in post-Covid-19 (famine) daysYour prosperity is not determined by what's around you (your environment)Your prosperity is determined:By what's in youand by what's on youAbraham was a covenant man (Genesis 15:18)His son Isaac also became a covenant man with God (Genesis 17:7)The blessing of God also came on IsaacThe blessing of God also formed his thinking within himHidden Object Lesson:If your father is/was not a prosperous man, don't follow him to EgyptGod said: Live in the land of which I will tell you (Genesis 26:2)Do what I will show you, not what you saw your father do!Genesis 26:12–14 (NKJV) _ Then Isaac sowed in that land , and_ _ **reaped in the same year a hundredfold; _ and _ the Lord blessed him**._ _ 13 The man_ _ began to prosper , and_ _ continued prospering _ until he _ became very prosperous; 14 for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him._Isaac sowed in the land & reaped a huge harvest despite the famineGod blessed himIsaac began to prosperHe continued prosperingUntil he became very prosperousGenesis 26:15–33 (NKJV)Now _ the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father , and they had filled them with earth._ _ 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we." 17 Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there._ _ 18 And_ _ **Isaac dug again the wells of water _ _which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them.** 19 Also_ _ Isaac's servants dug in the valley , and_ _ found a well of running water there. 20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him._ _ 21 Then they dug another well , and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name Sitnah._ _ 22 And_ _ **he moved from there and dug another well, _ _and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."** 23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba._ _ 24 And_ _ the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; _ do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham's sake." _ 25 So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and_ _ there Isaac's servants dug a well. 26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phichol the commander of his army._ _ 27 And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?" 28 But they said, "We have certainly seen that the Lord is with you . So we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you,_ _ 29 that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace._ _ You are now the blessed of the Lord. ' " 30 So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank._ _ 31 Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32 It came to pass the same day that_ _ Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water." _ _ 33 So he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day._In that part of the world, wells of water meant "prosperity"The Philistines (satan) tried to stop Isaac's prosperity by filling in the wellsAbimelech became jealous & felt threatened by Isaac & sent him awayAfter Isaac moved away, he re-dug the wells of his father AbrahamHis servants dug another well & found water but the Philistines claimed itHis servants dug still another well but the Philistines claimed that one tooIsaac moved again and dug another well, this time he was able to keep itThen God appeared to him again and re-affirmed His blessing on his lifeAbimelech visited & said: We have certainly seen that the Lord is with youThen his servants dug still another well & found water once againIsaac called this new well "Shebah" which means "oath" or "seven"Proposition : Each well represents a business!Isaac wasn't satisfied when he "began to prosper"He continued to apply himself and "continued to prosper", until he "became very prosperous"Don't limit yourself or the blessing of God on your lifeRobert Kiyosaki , author of the book called "Rich dad, poor dad" speaks about the 7 streams of income of millionaires.Earned Income – (wages/salary)Profit Income (business)Interest Income (investment)Dividend Income (shares)Rental Income (property)Capital Gains (property)Royalty Income (intellectual property)Ecclesiastes 11:2 (NIV)_ Invest in seven ventures, _ yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.Be: Diligent Proverbs 10:4Industrious 1 Kings 11:28Resourceful Proverbs 1:4 GNBFrugalGenerous Proverbs 11:25Don't be: Lazy Proverbs 10:4Lavish yourselfOverly cautiousHave: An above-average work ethicAn above-average decision-making processThere is a need to disciple God's people in the area of:MoneyMoney managementMoney makingLuke 16:8 (KJV)… the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Nile delta case study

Chris and Kate talk about how important the Nile Delta region is to Egyptology.

This episode follows the footsteps of the children of Israel on an unforgettable journey of discovery. This journey reveals fascinating physical evidence for the Exodus, including: the remains of 3,800-year-old Hebrew settlements in Egypt's Nile Delta; Egyptian records of the Israelites bondage under Pharaoh; the precise route they may have followed to freedom; their crossing site on the shores of the Red Sea; and the location of Mt. Sinai."Support the show (https://www.hope-of-israel.org/donationpage.html)

This concluding episode documents the underwater bridge the robotic camera discovered that runs from the beach at Nuweiba to Saudi Arabia, and how it was fully capable of providing a pathway for Moses and the Israelites to cross. Finally, the route taken by the Israelites from the Nile Delta to the mountain of Sinai is re-examined with remarks about the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea. (We disagree with the method used for the dating of the Egyptian dynasty -- but this is a minor point in the overall presentation). Support the show (https://www.hope-of-israel.org/donationpage.html)

Introduction Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to James chapter 3, we're going to be looking this morning at verses 13-18, and we're going to be looking at the issue of wisdom and the contrast between earthly wisdom and heavenly wisdom. There are two kinds of wisdom that James is going to walk through. He's going to make them very clear how different they are. And the question is, which of those two, earthly wisdom or heavenly wisdom, is going to characterize us individually, and which is going to characterize our church? James is writing to a very complex context. He's writing to Jewish believers in Christ, who have been scattered throughout the Greek-speaking world. And so, they have to deal with the Greek idea of wisdom. We'll talk about that. And also there's the backdrop of Hebrew wisdom, of Biblical wisdom, and now the final complete perfect wisdom that's come to us in Christ. And so, James is writing into that situation because he is very eager that the churches of Christ would be characterized by the kind of wisdom that you just heard read about for us so beautifully. And, Ben, that was great. I don't know that there's anything more. That was one of the best prayers I've heard. That was like a mini sermon on the text. I'm not sure what else there is for me to do as we just see how perfectly these characteristics are in our savior, Jesus Christ. Now let's talk about our context. I. The Timeless Quest for True Wisdom Our Context: The Highest Concentration of U.S. PhDs When I first got here, I heard that the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area had the highest concentration of PhDs in the United States. And I was impressed by that, until as I prepared this sermon, I found out it wasn't true. And I was dismayed by that. I found that actually Bethesda, Maryland has the highest concentration of PhDs in the United States, and that there were four cities in Eastern Massachusetts, around my hometown where I grew up, that have a higher concentration of PhDs than the Raleigh, Durham area. As a matter of fact, friends, we're not even in the top 25. So I don't know who it is that told me that. But we are characterized by a high level of intelligence, a high level of academic achievement, academic pursuit. And as I look at how James characterizes earthly wisdom, what is it but natural intelligence combined with ego, combined with energetic ambition to produce certain effects in the world, and it is effective to produce much in the world. But Christ doesn't want to see that in His Church, that's not going to drive the Church to be what it must be. Now, we human beings, we are enamored with intelligence. You think about how anthropologists imbibing that atheistic evolutionary scheme, talk about the ascent of man. And the final step is to move from, I guess, Homo habilis through Homo erectus up through Homo sapiens, which they tell us is the wise man. The ability to shape our environment by intellectual analysis and by the making of tools and all that. And so, we're so filled with this sense of natural knowledge of wisdom. Now, we Christians know from the Bible how false that lie is. We've not really seen, historically, an ascent of man, but actually quite the opposite. We've seen the descent of the human race from what we were originally intended to be. That our intellectual capabilities came from creation, from the very beginning, in that we were created in the image of God. It says in Genesis 1:26-27, "Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. And so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female, he created them." A Worldwide Esteem and Quest for Wisdom Now, all over the world, human beings have an esteem for intelligence, it's one of the things we esteem the highest. along with physical strength, the power of a warrior to win a battle, but we also esteem the power of a king, an empire builder who is intelligent, shrewd, able to make clever arrangements with other kings to plot strategies and all of this by a shrewd application of intelligence to be able to build an empire. You think about Nebuchadnezzar and how he, with the Jewish exiles, was looking for a certain kind of person who could serve with him in his court, and this what it says in Daniel 1:3-4, "Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility," listen to the criteria, “young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well-informed, quick to understand and qualified to serve in the king's palace. And he found Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, and he found that their intellectual abilities far exceeded anyone else. And so, he drafted them into the service of the Babylonian empire.” So every nation on earth esteems the ability to reason, the ability to analyze and to make shrewd plans. James’ Hebrew Context Now James comes from a Hebrew context. Since we're reading the book of James, we see there's a strong Jewish feel to the book. He's writing to Jewish believers in Christ and he talks about the suffering of the prophets or other examples that would just flow from a Jewish context. And James has that in mind, as well, when he writes about wisdom. There's a strong sense of the superiority of the wisdom of God, flowing through the Jewish nation. Now, before the Jews were born as a nation through Abraham, then Isaac and Jacob, then over centuries in Egypt, and then Moses and the Laws of Moses, before all of that happened, there were intelligent races and nations that were achieving great things. Think about Egypt and the things that they were able to do. It's still a mystery to many how the pyramids were built. The technology is quite remarkable and we only have theories on how they were able to attain it or how they were able to irrigate that whole Nile Delta region with foot pumps, and with irrigation techniques. But it wasn't just the Egyptians. In the orient, the Chinese were able to develop amazing skills with water, with hydrology for example, with dams that they were able to build up and metallurgy, the bronze and the tools they were able to make. So, there's intelligence flowing from the nature of man all over the world. The Jews however, were called out, and went through a certain experience of being lower than the dust as slaves in Egypt, and then they were brought out by a mighty hand, an outstretched arm, to Mount Sinai. And there, God descended from heaven in fire on Mount Sinai. And he spoke to them, and he gave them wisdom from Heaven, from the mouth of God. And Moses went up on Mount Sinai up into the very presence of God, and received from him the same thing that they had just heard the voice of God speaking. And they were written, inscribed on tablets of stone by the finger of God. You remember that Moses broke those tablets out of anger at the idolatry of the Jewish nation, but then after that, from then on, Moses himself stood in the presence of God and gained wisdom from God and wrote it down so the people would have the very words of God to shape their minds and their hearts. And it says in Deuteronomy 4:6-8, "Observe these laws carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say 'Surely, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' What other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?'" In other words, what sets the Jewish people apart is the wisdom of God's Word which has come down from Heaven through the prophets into the hearts and minds of the people, that's what set the Jewish nation apart. What other nation is so wise as this nation to have such laws? Then you remember King Solomon, how when he began as a king, God appeared to him in a vision and spoke to him and said, "What would you have me do for you?" And he said in 1 Kings 3:9, "Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?" And so God was pleased with this request, and told him so. And he lavishly granted this request to King Solomon, He gave him wisdom, He said in 1 Kings 3:12, "I will do what you have asked, I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be." In 1 Kings 4:30, it says Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the men of the East and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. And so, Solomon esteemed wisdom above every other human virtue. He said in the book of Proverbs, he wrote, Proverbs 4:7 and 8, "Wisdom is supreme. Therefore, get wisdom, though it cost you all you have, get understanding. Esteem her and she will exalt you, embrace her and she will honor you." And so from that heritage comes a genre of writing in the Scripture called the wisdom literature. So we have the Book of Job, and we have Psalms and Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, and the focus is living in light of the existence and the holiness of God. That's the essence of the wisdom that comes down from Heaven in the Old Testament, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy one is understanding.” That's the essence of Hebrew wisdom. Now, the Book of Proverbs is intensely practical. God cares very much how you live every day of your life, every detail of your life, your use of time, the way you spend your money, what you do with your tongue. The very thing we just covered in the Book of James last week, the way you talk, the way you raise your children, how you deal with your animals, how you deal with your neighbors. The Book of Proverbs covers all of this practical wisdom. So the wisdom that comes down from Heaven flows out into every area of life, but the centerpiece is the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” James’ Greek Context Now, James is also writing in a Greek context, he's writing in the Greek language. And undoubtedly, even as a Jew, he grew up speaking Greek. It wasn't his mother tongue but it was homebase, he was the half brother of Jesus, and he wrote in polished Greek. And why is that? Well, because of one individual in particular in history, a man you may have heard of: Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great from Macedonia was zealous about everything to do with Greek culture. He thought it was the greatest culture in the world, and in trailing behind his military conquests, he never lost a battle, as he spread Greek military power over that entire region, he also spread a love for Greek culture, Hellenism, a love for Greek philosophy. Now, Alexander had been tutored by a Greek philosopher, Aristotle. And that's just part of the Greek culture, there is a love for philosophy, a love for wisdom. The city of Athens is named after the goddess of wisdom, Athena. Now, you remember what happened when the Apostle Paul went to Athens and preached the heavenly wisdom of the Gospel and then how he went on Mars Hill, the Areopagus, and how there are a bunch of philosophers up there who gathered together and spent their whole time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas. Epicurean and stoic philosophers. And so Paul, they gave him a hearing, and as he began to preach and talk about Christ crucified and resurrected, they said of Paul, "What is this seed picker trying to say?" Sometimes translated, “babbler” in your Bible. I memorized that, by the way, in the Japanese language. When my wife and I were missionaries, I memorized how to say that in Japanese. "What is this babbler trying to say?" I was just entertaining myself as I tried to learn the Japanese language. They never quite got the humor, but I thought it was funny. "What is this babbler trying to say?” But behind that was a tremendous arrogance. They believed they had the quintessential pristine wisdom, that's the Greek mentality. And so when Paul went just a few miles down the road to Corinth, and preached the Gospel there and then later wrote to the church in Corinth, he had to deal with the issue of human wisdom, Greek philosophy. And he said this in 1 Corinthians 1, "The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate. Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" So James in the flow of his Hebrew heritage, but now consummated with the coming of Christ, as Christ comes as the perfection of the wisdom from God that descends from Heaven to earth, he's got to battle that Greek context of human arrogance, being so enamored with human intelligence and human ambition, and he's got to talk about the true wisdom that comes down from Heaven to Earth, and the centerpiece of that wisdom is salvation. The True Wisdom of God: Salvation Through Faith in Christ The wisest possible thing you can do is to save your soul by faith in Jesus Christ. Conversely, the most foolish thing you can do is to lose your soul through sin. This is the centerpiece of the heavenly wisdom that comes down from Heaven to earth. Jesus said in Matthew 16, "What would it profit someone if he should gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Or what would you give in exchange for your soul?" The soul. The eternality of the soul, whether you spend eternity in Heaven or Hell. It is the essence of wisdom that you spend eternity in Heaven through faith in Christ. And the most foolish thing you could do is to lose your soul for some earthly thing and spend eternity in torment, in anguish over your foolish choice. Therefore, Christ crucified, the message of the cross and of the empty tomb, is the centerpiece of the heavenly wisdom. It's the centerpiece of everything God has to say to us. In Colossians it says, "In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Christ is wisdom from God. As it says in 1 Corinthians 1:23, "We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles, but for us who are being saved, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." Are You Wise or Foolish? Now, Christ in his own teachings often spoke of the wise and the foolish. Remember at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, he goes through all of this magnificent teaching and he says, "Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rains came down, and the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand and the rains came down and the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." Are you wise or are you foolish? When you hear the words of Christ, do you take them to heart and put them into practice? Or when you hear the words of Christ, are you foolish and do not put them into practice? Wise or foolish? Or think also about the wise and foolish virgins. Remember? Talking about the end of the world and the waiting we all have to do, we're waiting for the coming of Christ. Second Coming. We're waiting. It's not here yet. And he likened it to five wise and five foolish virgins. And the wise virgins took oil and jars along with their lamps, but the foolish virgins did not, and their lamps flickered and went out before the second coming of Christ, and then they come later and bang on the door to try to get in the wedding feast. And he says, "I never knew you." Wise and foolish. Or think about that, that man whose crops came in like a bumper crop, and he doesn't know what to do because he doesn't have enough barn space, and he says, "I know what I'll do, I'll raze my barns, and I'll build bigger barns, and then I'll take it easy for the rest of my life. And I'll say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have lots of things stored up. Kick back, relax.’" And then comes the voice, the message from Heaven, "You fool. This very night, your soul will be demanded of you, required of you." You have no choice but to give it back. "Who then will get all the things you've stored up for yourself?" So again, the issue of wise and foolish, it always comes down to salvation through faith in Christ. And that's why the Bible was given. This is the centerpiece of all that the 66 books of the Bible have to say. The scriptures are given to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:15, "All scripture is God-breathed." Its task is the same, to save you from your sins through faith in Christ. So, the issue stands before you, individually, each of you before me. Are you a wise person or are you a fool? That's what's in front of us here with this issue of wisdom, heavenly wisdom, and there are a lot of brilliant people who have done brilliant things and have achieved much. And James would say, and we're going to walk through it in a moment, but he'll say, they're doing it out of ego, out of selfish ambition. But they achieved much. And they invented things, and started companies and built empires, they did many things. Some of the greatest names in science and in human culture have ardently rejected the Gospel. Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Thomas Edison. Some of these great individuals, Ben Franklin, achieved great things. Stephen Hawking, who died recently, brilliant, brilliant men. Their names are engraved in stone, literally, in places around the world. But if they didn't know Christ, if they didn't find salvation through faith in Christ, then the Bible would say they're fools. I don't know the final state of any of those, don't know. But if they didn't find salvation through faith in Christ, they're fools. Conversely, the Bible would say the simplest uneducated believer in Jesus Christ, no matter what kind of life they're living economically is wiser than any of those if they didn't know Christ. II. The Practical Test of True Wisdom (vs. 13) The Message of the Book of James Alright, so let's look at the practical test of wisdom. Verse 13, "Who then is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by the deeds done from the humility that comes from wisdom." So this fits the whole Book of James, doesn't it? James is basically, “Show me, it's who he is. You think you're religious? Show me. You hear God's words, do you put them into practice or not? Don't deceive yourself about the state of your soul,” James 1. James 2, "Faith without works is dead." And so now we come to James 3, and he's going to say, "If you think you're wise, if you claim to be wise in the church of Jesus Christ, then you better show it by the deeds you do." That's what he's saying here in verse 13. So he's challenging some who claim to be wise. The Holy Spirit’s Gospel Work Now, I think the Gospel, the Holy Spirit through the Gospel cuts through this claim for unregenerate people, whom He is working on to save. So you stop thinking of yourself as wise, you're convicted. As it says in Isaiah 5:21, "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight." Cuts through all of that and shows you that you're not, and brings you to faith in Christ. So, what he's saying is, If that's happened, if the heavenly wisdom has come down into your soul, it's going to show in the way you live your life, by your good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. So your daily behavior is the final test of wisdom. If you claim to be wise, but you're daily walking in what the Bible calls foolishness, then you're deceiving yourself. He wants you to show it, and not just show it, but it's going to come from a heart state, a demeanor that he's going to walk through, an attitude of soul. So the wise demeanor that he gives here is the humility that comes from wisdom. So the heavenly wisdom makes you humble. Boy, does it humble us, doesn't it? If you've been genuinely saved, you realize how much the theology of the Gospel humbles you to the core of your being. So the Holy Spirit comes down from God and converts individual sinners. And when he converts someone, He does it first and foremost by convicting that person of his or her sins, that they're corrupted, that they're vile in the sight of God, they need a savior. Without that, you can't be saved, you're not going to repent, you don't need Christ. And so what he's going to do, and Jesus describes it so beautifully in what's known as the beatitudes at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5, "Blessed are the... Blessed are the... Blessed are... " He just walks through, but look at what he's talking about. The people the Holy Spirit's working salvation in, the people who are saved by the genuine work of God are spiritual beggars, they're the poor in spirit, they have nothing and they know it, he'll give them the Kingdom of Heaven. These are people who are meek, they are humble because they realize who they really are before such a holy God. They have nothing to commend themselves for. They mourn over their sins. In context, it's mourning over your sin, "I know who I am and it grieves me." And James is going to talk about that in the very next section in James 4. We grieve over sin, it breaks us, it hurts us, we mourn. They hunger and thirst for righteousness, they yearn to be righteous, actually righteous in themselves, they want their lives to be righteous, and they want to be with other righteous people, they yearn for a righteous world. And they're pure in heart because the Holy Spirit's worked that supernatural operation, He's taken out the heart of stone and He's given the heart of flesh, and the heart of flesh, the essence of it is that humility, that perspective realizing who you really are before such a holy God. This is what the Holy Spirit does in you when He saves you. This is what it looks like to be made wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. By contrast, James exposes and diagnoses the wicked worldly wisdom that will kill our souls. III. The Origin, Motive, Nature, and Fruit of Earthly Wisdom (vs. 14-16) The Origin of Earthly Wisdom So look at verses 14-16, the origin and the motive, and the nature and the fruit of earthly wisdom. Look at verse 15, the origin of earthly wisdom, "Such wisdom does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil," or demonic. So it comes from below, James calls it earthly, epigeios, coming from the earth. It has its origin in the earth, the world system, its goals, its prosperity, its power, its methods, that's what earthly means. It is unspiritual, it is natural, it is sense oriented, it's tied to your five senses, the earthly wisdom is. It's not tied to the redeemed nature. Remember what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit because they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." That's a natural man or woman, They don't get the spiritual things, can't discern them. So that's what this wisdom is like. And he calls it demonic or of the devil. At its root, it's motivated and taught by, as Jesus said to his enemies, "your father, the devil." So if you're unregenerate, you're imitating the satanic mindset or demonic mindset. What does that mean? Well you know from Isaiah 14, the Lucifer passage in the KJV, where Satan was enamored with how God made him. He was very impressed with himself and his own beauty, and his own intelligence. And he thought, "You know, I've got what it takes to rise up and topple God from His throne. I know I can do it. I'm a very smart being." Oh, did he underestimate God. The gap between Creator and creature, friends, is infinite. And yet that's the demonic or satanic arrogance and ambition, that's where it comes from. The Motive and Character of False Wisdom: Self-Worship Well, look at the motive and character of false wisdom, it ultimately comes down to self-worship, verse 14, "If you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth." Motivation is why you do what you do. And at the root of earthly wisdom is self-worship. You want people to think well of you to feed your ego, to feed your ambition. James mentions bitter envy or jealousy. The Greek word for bitter is pikrós. Pikrós. I get the picture of a cactus, this prickly cactus. And so this bitter envy or jealousy, it's something pointed, it's sharp, it's pungent, it's acrid, prickly. And so envy, jealousy, cuts and prickles and rankles. A person may hear of someone else being honored or someone else getting the promotion and they seethe with resentment. It comes from pride. And he said, "If that's what characterizes you, do not be arrogant and deny the truth," deny the Gospel, because that's not what a converted person looks like. Worldly wisdom is motivated then and characterized by selfish ambition, whatever advances self-interest, whatever stokes the ego, whatever elevates the person up to the level of worship, being worshipped, adored, honored. Earthly wisdom is about self-gratification, self-fulfillment, what Maslow called Self-Actualization at the top of the pyramid. As you go higher and higher, it's all about you. Selfishness. By the way, I love what Ben did just walking through. How different is Jesus? Amen? Instead of the upward journey, when he found himself in appearance as a man, “he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross.” Very different journeys. The Fruit of Earthly Wisdom Well, the fruit of earthly wisdom is frequently spectacular, it really does achieve much in this present age. Empires actually are built, Nebuchadnezzar really can walk over the palace roof and say, "Is this not the great Babylon I have built by my own greatness?" And so inventions are made, 1% inspiration 99% perspiration, Thomas Edison. Companies can be built, battles can be fought between those companies, empires can rise, others come later and topple them. This is what the history of the world is. Isn't it amazing how Nebuchadnezzar's dream with the statue, in the end the whole thing ends up chaff on the threshing floor And the wind comes. It blows it all the way without leaving a trace. So all of that achievement ends up dust in the wind. Verse 16, "Where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice." Disorder means instability, confusion. God is a very orderly being, He sets things up in a clear order, and so He's at the top, the triune God at the top, and then created beings that He puts in positions of authority, archangels rule over regular angels, all authority comes from God, and so He establishes people in positions of authority. Parents, husbands and wives, parents and children, all of that, that whole structure. There's an order. But selfish ambition seeks to topple that whole thing and you find disorder and every evil practice. And every evil thing is just a broad category for all the bad stuff. All of the bad things that happen in life, all the bad things that happen in local churches, all the bad things that happen in denominations, and in nations happen because of this. “Disorder and every evil practice.” IV. The Origin, Motive, Nature, and Fruit of Heavenly Wisdom (vs. 17-18) A Breath of Fresh Air Now what about the origin, motive, nature and fruit of heavenly wisdom? Verse 17-18, "The wisdom that comes from Heaven is first of all, pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere." Verse 18, "Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness." Oh wow. What a breath of fresh air these verses are. What a breath of fresh air. After all of that nastiness when we look around the world, then this comes, it comes down from Heaven. I can't help but think about the day that Jesus was baptized and he just quietly submitted to the will of the Father, submitted to John the Baptist's baptism. Remember John didn't want Him to, "I need to be baptized by You, and You come to me?, “Let it be so. It is proper for us to fulfill all righteousness.” And as He was coming up out of the water, the heavens were torn open, what a great image in Mark's Gospel, and the Holy Spirit descended like what? Like a dove, comes down on Him. So peaceful. And this voice comes down from Heaven, "This is my Son whom I love. With Him I am well pleased." Every good and perfect gift comes down from God. And so this heavenly wisdom has its origin in the heart of God, in the heart of God. And look at its nature. Motive and Nature of True Wisdom First of all, he said, James says, "It is first of all pure. Above all things, it's pure." It's like if you don't learn anything else about this wisdom, know that it's pure, That is so beautiful, isn't it? Reminds me of 1 John 1:5, "God is light, and in Him, there's no darkness at all." That's what this heavenly wisdom is like, it is a pure light. This heavenly wisdom. It's not got any corruption in it at all, there's no defilement, there's no poison in it, there's no bitterness, there's nothing twisted or disgusting. This wisdom is first of all pure. That makes it intensely because it's intensely God-centered, it's all about knowing God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy. A.W. Tozer had a book, The Knowledge of the Holy, the knowledge of the holy God. That's what this wisdom is all about. And it's so pure, it's so beautiful. And it says it's peace-loving. It doesn't create conflicts, it ends them. I love to think about our heavenly future, and how peaceful that world is going to be. What's it going to be like to be with a multitude greater than anyone could count from every tribe, language, people, and nation, of people who are totally at peace with God vertically, and God's at peace with them, and they are totally at peace horizontally with each other. What is that even going to be like? And so, this heavenly wisdom is like that, it's peace-loving. These people don't create conflicts in their families, they don't create conflicts in churches, they don't create conflicts where they go, they're peace-loving. The Harvest of True, Heavenly Wisdom And then the third word is “gentle.” What one scholar William Barkley says is the hardest single word to translate in the New Testament. So let's skip it and move on to the next one. John MacArthur gives these options: equitable, seemly, fitting, moderate, forbearing, courteous, considerate. I guess I just think of it as it fits the situation perfectly, like Jesus every moment said exactly what was the right thing to say. So there's that sense it perfectly fits, like someone who's been laboring hard on a hot August day out in the field, comes in, and a friend meets them with a hot fudge sundae. A steaming hot dog. No, no, no, no, a big beautiful cold glass of water. It just fits. And so the wisdom comes and just it's seemly, it works, it fits every situation. It is therefore reasonable. These people are characterized by a reasonableness. There's that humility to this, but also a willingness to be moved by biblical reasoning. So therefore these people are readily persuaded from Scripture, they're not stubborn, hard-hearted faction builders. They don't argue and dispute. They're reasonable. And they're full of mercy. They are merciful to others because God has been merciful to them. And so, like in James chapter 2, suppose your brother or sister without clothes or daily food, they don't say "Go, I wish you well, keep warm and well fed." They show them mercy. It's actual good works that flow from this disposition. And it says full of good fruit. It's a rich harvest of fruitfulness. And it's unwavering, it doesn't flicker like a candle. James seemed to have no patience for double-minded people who are unstable. Be who you are, be a Christian, it's stable and strong, this heavenly wisdom. It doesn't flicker like a candle, it's just a strong wise way to live your life. And it's without hypocrisy, it's sincere, it is what it appears to be, There's not a double life, it's not a white-washed tomb, wisdom. It is what it appears to be. Look what he says in verse 18, one of the more fascinating verses, okay? "Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness." That's the translation that I use that smooths out all difficulties. Alright, let's not smooth them out. What does it actually say? It talks about a sowing. A sowing happens. What is sowing? That's where you put seeds into the ground, but if you look at the verse, what's actually sown? Fruit. That's weird, you don't sow fruit, you sow seeds. Ah, yes. But where do the seeds come from? For example, for the next generation of apple trees, where do those seeds come from? Well, they come from inside the fruit. So, I perceive a kind of a cycle that goes on here with this heavenly wisdom. So there's already a harvest in your life, you reinvest it, and you do it as a peacemaker, and the more you take the fruit you've already learned, the fruit that this heavenly wisdom is working in, you sow it back, and a bigger, bigger harvest comes. Jesus talked about thirty, sixty, a hundred-fold. Hundred times what was sown. V. Application Look at Yourself Alright, so applications. Begin by evaluating yourself, look at yourself. Look at yourself in light of the wisdom of Christ crucified and resurrected. Are you born again? Have you received the gift of salvation? If you have received it, there is a wisdom that comes in and just levels you, it humbles you, it makes you realize you needed Jesus to die a bloody death on the cross for your sins. If He hadn't died, you would rightly be condemned to Hell. That's the humility that the Holy Spirit works in you. Has that happened? And then you've seen the beauty of Christ crucified and resurrected, and you're yearning for that, and you want it. So like the thief on the cross, you can say, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom, there's nothing I want more than to spend eternity with Christ in Heaven." Has that happened to you? You've heard right now in this message, even in the last few minutes, everything you need. You're a sinner. The law stands against you. Christ came in your place, died and rose again, trust in Him for the salvation of your soul. So has that happened? But then beyond that, you say, "Well, I've been a Christian for a lot of years." James is only beginning to get busy with you. You know how James is. He's not going to say, "Oh, you're a Christian? Great! Have a great day." That's not who he is. He's going to say, "What's going on in your life? Show it by your good deeds. Do you see more of the earthly selfish ambition, faction, fighting kind of thing, or more of the fruit of the Spirit, heavenly wisdom, peaceable harvest of righteousness? What's actually happening in your life?” We have to especially look as leaders of the church. I'm speaking now to all you leaders because it's like he says at the beginning of the teaching on the tongue, "Let not many of you presume to be teachers." Here, he's like, "If any of you claims to be wise, I have something to say to you." So it seems like he's talking to leaders.What kind of leaders will you be? Are you going to be ego-driven dominator tyrant type leaders, or are you going to be characterized by this kind of humble wisdom? And you might not even be a positional leader, an elder, or a deacon or be a fall teacher, you just might be a leader. You might be an influencer. Yes, but which of these two is characterizing you? And so for us as elders we have to look at ourselves.. I have to look as a senior pastor, I have to look at this and say, "Which of these two is how I'm leading?" Godly Leadership Jonathan Leeman wrote a book on church membership, and he's talking about when you should leave a church, especially in reference to its leadership. And so he draws out what I would call a list of toxic leadership style. And I'll close with that. I don't ever want this in my life, I don't want this here in this church and I want you wise enough for whenever you replace me and the other elders to make certain you replace us with men that are characterized by this heavenly wisdom. So he's saying that these toxic leaders make dogmatic prescriptions in places where Scripture is silent. They bind people's consciences on those things. They rely on intelligence, humor, charm, guilt, emotions or threats, rather than in God's word in prayer. That sounds exactly like the earthly wisdom I've been describing. They play favorites. They punish those who disagree. They employ extreme forms of communication, they use their temper or silent treatment. They recommend courses of action that always somehow improve the leader's own situation, even at the expense of others. They speak often and quickly, they seldom do good deeds in secret, they seldom encourage, they seldom give the benefit of the doubt. They emphasize outward conformity rather than repentance of heart. They preach, counsel, disciple and oversee the church with lips that fail to ground everything in what Christ has done in the Gospel; and they fail to give glory to God. So pray, pray that our leaders would not be that kind of toxic leader. Conversely, pray that we would be characterized by this beautiful, attractive, heavenly wisdom that comes down from God through Christ through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Prayer Close with me in prayer. Lord, thank you for the time that we've had in your word, thank you for what it does to us how it really exposes us, how I cannot preach a single passage in James without feeling deeply convicted to the core. Oh God, I pray, drive away from me and from my brother elders and from all leaders in the church, men and women alike, anyone that you raise up to a position of influence, help us to be characterized by the humility and the peacefulness and the purity that this heavenly wisdom is characterized by and produces. Lord, do this for your praise and your glory. In Jesus' name, amen.

The blue economy must be a priority to protect the oceans from plastics and waste. Hear how you can help in our climate podcast oceans episodeBlues singers usually wail about a lover who ain’t treatin’ them right, but on this episode of the Climate Solutions podcast we sing the blues for the ocean.Our climate podcast oceans episode looks at the unexpected ways in which we’re polluting the oceans—and the way that pollution plays a role in climate change. We also give you a checklist of things you can do to hold back the tide of pollution.Subscribe to the entire series of Climate Solutions from the European Investment Bank, the EU climate bank. Learn what you should do to fight climate change in the oceans, on the road, in your home and even on your digital devices.In the climate podcast oceans episode you find out:· What we need to do on land to save the seas· About 40% of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from trash discarded in or near rivers by the two billion people who lack waste collection services. Of all the plastic arriving in the oceans from rivers, 90% comes from just 10 rivers, mainly in Africa and Asia. · The oceans contain trillions of miniscule pieces of plastic, as well as giant “garbage patches,” the biggest of which, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, covers an area three times the size of France.· What are microplastics? Microplastics are tiny plastic pieces polluting the oceans. Microplastics account for the large majority of plastic debris on the oceans’ surfaces. Microplastics include broken-down plastic waste, synthetic fibres and beads found in personal hygiene products. They harm marine life, which mistake them for food, and they’re consumed by humans through seafood and tap water. · Which of the following is getting a €214 million clean-up backed by the European Investment Bank? My kitchen drain, or the Kitchener Drain, a 69-kilometre network of canals in Egypt’s Nile Delta.If you’ve got something to say about climate in general or this podcast in particular, let me know @EIBMatt on Twitter. And don’t forget to subscribe to Climate Solutions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Everything in life, especially when you’re starting something new, has ups and downs. So do not get demotivated by the first obstacle you come across. Keep going, learn as much as you can and as quickly as you can, and then move forward." -- Ibrahim Shams Meet Ibrahim Shams, the Co-Founder and CEO of Kiliim, an Egyptian social enterprise and a lifestyle brand that aims to revive and sustain the local craft of handmade kilim making in Egypt by introducing modern designs to a time-honored technique. In this episode we cover: - The history and culture around the ancient craft of kilim weaving in Egypt (dates back to a time when Pharaoh's still ruled Egypt!) - The importance of reviving and maintaining the craft of kilim weaving. - The inspiration and journey that led Ibrahim to Co-Founding Kiliim with his wife Noha, who also happens to be Ibrahim's Co-Founder and Kiliim's Chief Designer.  - Why paying fair wages and working with local artisans in Fowwa, a small village situated along the lush Nile Delta, was so important to both Ibrahim and Noha. - How and where they source their materials (sustainably sourced cotton and wool). - The pros and cons of working with your significant other and the challenges of establishing a healthy work/life balance. - And so much more! This was such a GREAT conversation. I know you're going to love it! Ibrahim has such an amazing story to share and he and Noha are truly doing some amazing work! Happy listening! 

With tracks from Tommy Rawson, Books, Sean Colt, Art Alfie, Lerosa, Marmion, Lonely C Feat. Kendra Foster, The Martian, Azzido Da Bass, David Douglas, Third Son, Nile Delta, Renegade Soundwave, Glove, Delphi, Marvin & Guy, Lawrence Lee, Statue, &Me, Shahrokh Dini, Karizma. Contact: dj@ribeaud.ch.

Catch Ritchie Stonian Johnston presenting "The Featured Artist Show" on Smile Radio! Playing the best Independent music from Indie Artists all over the world! On this Show: Ritchie goes through some of the independent musicians that have been featured on the Smile Radio website since we launched our Featured Artist section (www.smileradio.co/featuredartists)   Featuring music from: Jerry Hull, Big Rooster Jeff, The Rumble Skulls, Freeda, Gun Runners, Red Dogs, The Nile Delta's, Saboteurs, Holly Rees, Freya Roy, Ringo and the Wolf, The Kut, Dig Lazarus, Drew Davies, Sabrina Fallah, Your life & Mine, The Greedy Souls, Natalie Shay, Midwich Cuckoos & Octobers!   Catch great music each and every day on Smile Radio, the home of the best, new music, indie artists, featured artists and great entertainment! Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: @SmileRadioYorkshire Twitter: @SmileRadio3 / @StonianJ Instagram: @SmileRadio3   Submit your music to Smile Radio, e-mail Ritchie  - ritchie.johnston@smileradio.co include a bio, social media links, mp3 & tour/gig info, let us showcase you this 2019, the year of the independent artists here on Smile Radio!

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Peter A. Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Paul Komar, emeritus Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University, where he has been on the faculty since 1970. He received a M.S. degree in Geology at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Professor Komar's research interests have focused primarily on coastal processes, including investigations of wave-induced nearshore currents and the resulting transport of beach sediments. His recent research has centered on the climate controls on U.S. West Coast processes and the resulting erosion problems, including those associated with occurrences of major El Ninos and a progressive increase in North Pacific wave heights. As well as having undertaken research along the West Coast of the United States, Professor Komar's investigations have included the Nile Delta of Egypt and the coast of New Zealand. He is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and two books including Beach Processes and Sedimentation published by Prentice-Hall (1976 and 1998). Paul gave the keynote address at the ASBPA Awards Luncheon at this years National Conference, where we recorded this show.

At the end of the third century Christian men and women began to flee the cities and villages of the Nile Delta in Egypt to seek God in the desert. In this podcast, Pete talks about what he believes is their contribution and gift for us today – both in our leadership and in our discipling of others.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump Administration is ill-prepared for Democratic investigations, but a scorched earth is their go-to strategy.On the rest of the menu, a Florida luxury hotel refused to let Black Entertainment Television co-founder and billionaire Bob Johnson into his room last week, because he was wearing sunglasses while black; American racism is seeping into Europe, despite a ban on US white nationalist leaders there; and, African-American preachers are fed up with far right, Prosperity Gospel white Evangelicals, and they have every reason to be.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Egypt unearths one of the oldest Nile Delta villages; and, scientists suspect an unconventional microwave weapon in the mystery attacks on US diplomats in Cuba and China.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appetit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” ― Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/4/1793061/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

Episode 350with Hanan Hammadhosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil YilmazDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudIn this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghouses, and perform other forms of labor negotiate the coercive hierarchies of industrial capitalism in their daily and intimate lives? What can we learn about modes of existence and resistance from considering their experiences, and how do the stories of working-class men and women challenge or nuance the more well-known accounts of gender and family in Egypt that have been based on the middle-class press? « Click for More »

Egypt is a land of ancient treasures and wonders. Pharaohs were honored in death with immense public monuments that we know as pyramids. The Old Kingdom of Egypt built monuments in Giza and the Nile Delta. The New Kingdom pharaohs of Egypt wanted to be buried closer to their dynastic roots and they had their crypts built in the hills of Luxor. This area became known as the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings would end up housing the remains of at least sixty Egyptian nobles. Pharaohs from King Tut to Ramses II have tombs here. There are more than tombs here though. There are tales of curses and hauntings in the Valley of the Kings. How does Downton Abbey figure into this? Moment in Oddity features the Mothman and This Day in History features the first run of the Electromote. Check out the website:  http://historygoesbump.com Show notes can be found here:  http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2015/04/hgb-podcast-ep-43-valley-of-kings.html

Philip Marfleet presents his paper 'Egypt: Migration, revolution, and social change' in Parallel session VI(D) of the conference Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond, 24-26 Sept 2013 For decades Egypt was a source country for migration to states of the Gulf. Now some of its poorest people leave villages of the Nile Delta for the cities of Europe. Despite formal efforts by European authorities to inhibit these networks, greatly increasing the risks for those involved, the pace of migration has intensified and cross-Mediterranean networks have become integral to the life of some communities. This paper examines the rapid emergence and consolidation of the new networks. It considers the development of new social practices associated with migration and the complex outcomes for migrants and for those who do not migrate. The paper also considers the impact of Egypt's revolution upon migration - the effect of societal upheaval and of a huge rise in expectations of social and economic advance among millions of people. It argues that processes associated with the "Arab Spring" continue to stimulate cross-Mediterranean movements and to reshape regional patterns of migration.

With tracks from Trevor Deep Jr., Daniel Dexter, Bo Saris, Project E (Mark E & Nat Woodcock), Frankey & Sandrino, Manhooker, Daphni, Nile Delta, Lindstrøm, Michael Mayer, Bot'Ox, Crackboy, Isolée, Name In Lights, Rey & Kjavik, Lee M Kelsall, Timothee Milton, Blagger, Paperclip People, Traffic Signs and Rone. Contact: dj@ribeaud.ch.

In the fifty-seventh edition, we examine before-and-after satellite images over two harvest seasons in 2012 in the eastern Nile Delta.

Do you know the way to San Jose? We hope so! Cuz that is where we are podcasting from this week. San Jose is home of the Rosicrucian Museum and burial site for many of the Donner party, pioneers who struck out on the Oregon trail, took a wrong turn and got stuck for the winter. Mummies, tombs, and hieroglyphics!At the Rosicrucian Museum, the curators who were decked out in full Egyptian regalia (since we visited on Halloween), led us on a tour of an ancient tomb replica. The hieroglyphs at the tomb's entrance welcome visitors who brought the deceased food. Hey, you get hungry when you're dead and have to wait 20 years before entering the afterlife! Once inside the tomb we learned that the East wall represented birth and life since the sun rises in the east. The south wall depicts scenes of hunting and fishing portraying the deceased as being very skilled. The wall to the west is where the sun sets and so upon it we see the dead meeting the gods of the afterlife. And upon the north wall is a scene of judgment including a scale with a heart weighed against the feather of truth. And on the ceiling was the goddess who eats the sun and gives birth to the moon and then eats the moon and gives birth to the sun each day. Wonder if she gets a tummy ache? The ancient Egyptians believed that whatever is depicted in hieroglyphics becomes true and therefore heiroglyphs were very sacred. And because of this power, only a few scribes were trained in the art. To become a scribe you had to be a boy and a rich one at that. Then you had to attend school, where you get to sit for eight hours copying the same text over and over. And if your teacher felt you weren't quick enough they would beat your back. If you were dedicated and studied hard enough you would become a scribe, one of the most prestigious positions in the Egyptian society. You can visit the Rusicrucian Museum online at http://www.egyptianmuseum.org and find a virtual tour and an audio tour that you can download. Better yet visit it in person whenever you are in San Jose. The Rosicrucian Museum is located in Rosicrucian Park, a picturesque facility encompassing an entire city block. It's the world headquarters of the Rosicrucian Order, a mystical society dating back to antiquity. Many notable historical figures are said to have been Rosicrucians, including Francis Bacon and Benjamin Franklin. The French impressionist composer Claude Debussy was a member of the order, and his music reflects its mystical nature. Isis and the Seven ScorpionsWhile we were at the Rosicrucian Museum we learned this story and thought we'd share it with you. Isis, accompanied by her seven scorpions, makes her way to a town in the Nile Delta. The scorpions Petet, Tjetet, and Matet led the way, Mesetet and Mesetetaf walked beside her, while Tefen and Befen brought up the rear. Upon their arrival to town a noblewoman refused to give them shelter, which angered the scorpions. Meanwhile, a peasant girl offered her humble dwelling to Isis who was seeking refuge. However, the scorpions decide to teach the noble woman a lesson by poisoning her son with their venom. Distraught, the noblewoman seeks help for her dying son. Find out what happens to the boy, what Isis does, and what becomes of the noblewoman and the peasant girl. "Isis and the Seven Scorpions" reminds us of another folktale with seven little guys who care for a maiden... And here is another Egyptian story incase you missed it back in August: Rhodopis, the Egyptian Cinderella. More EgyptianAn introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and numbering. Interactive examples allow users to create hieroglyphic numbers and fractions. Write in hieroglyphics Happy Listening, Dennis, Kimberly and Zephyr Goza