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Podcast Summary, Episode #2: The Exodus

The Exodus

 

The story at the present:

 

  1. Ron Wyatt and Jonathan Gray in the 1970’s discover an 18th dynasty chariot wheel on a “subsurface land bridge” in the center of the Red Sea. They took it to Nassif Mohammed Hassan, the director of Antiquities in Cairo, who verified the authenticity of this wheel, however shortly thereafter this evidence disappeared.
  2. Modern day divers, such as Peter Elmer, continue to dive this land bridge looking for artifacts despite men such as Richard Rives, the president of Wyatt Archaeological Research in Tennessee, cautioning against discovering coral and calling it chariot wheels.

 

The story of the past:

 

  1. Transforming the staff to a serpent (Exodus 7:10): A simple magician’s trick still performed in Egypt today.
  2. The waters of the river will be turned to blood (Exodus 7:17): A natural, yearly occurrence of the Nile known as inundation wherein the water is flooded by monsoons in Ethiopia and the Southern Sudan. 
  3. Gnats, Flies, Frogs, Pestilence, and Incurable Boils (Exodus 7:26-9:12): Afflictions of the lower communities of a large society of the past viewed from the eyes of a desert people coming to a land with inundation.
  4. Hail (Exodus 9:13-9:35): Cairo receives .39 inches of rain a year. Phoenix receives .7 inches in January and 7.9 inches a year. Any large storm would have caused unease among the Egyptians and could have been blown out of proportion by this visiting people.
  5. Locusts (Exodus 10:1-10:20): Locust plagues are common. Twentieth-century plagues occurred in 1926-1934, 1940-1948, 1949-1963, 1967-1969, and 1986-1989. 
  6. Darkness (Exodus 10:21-10:29): Most likely a memory of the Thera volcano which becomes incorporated with the legend. 
  7. The Parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 13:17-15:21): A story stolen outright from the Egyptians, taken from a period roughly a thousand years before the Exodus occurred with a Pharoah known as Sneferu. (The Spirit of Ancient Egypt, Ana Ruiz, Published by Algora Publishing, 2001.)

 

Taken altogether, we have a visiting people who are looking on the natural occurrences of Egypt with awe and incorporating these as well as some of Egypt’s own histories into their own legend. Even the Greeks looked up to Egypt and many claimed they could trace their generations to this great society.

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