Exodus 12:42 states; “Because the Lord kept a vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep a vigil to honor the Lord for generations to come.” And Psalm 105:1-2 states: “1 Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.”

It is amazing that about 120 generations later, most of the descendants of the original people, and those who have joined themselves to us during our journey, still gather together for the Passover celebration.

Ancient Egyptians made records of major events in their history, yet they never mentioned anything about “Moses” or the “Exodus” because the Pharaohs always ignored times when they were defeated. A good example of this is the Merneptah Stele, erected in Egypt in 1208 BCE, which is an Egyptian victory stele erected by Pharaoh Merneptah that tells how he (and his army) defeated the Libyans, and put down uprisings in Canaanite cities, followed by a claim about the destruction of a people called “Israel”.

The Egyptian inscription describes the Israelites as a stateless group of semi-nomadic men and women inhabiting Canaan at a time when Canaan was under Egyptian rule. Pharaoh Merneptah groups them together with several Egyptian-ruled city states in Canaan that were crushed. The Hebrew’s Exodus from Egypt occurred just a generation or two before this 1208 BCE victory stele.

Pharaoh Merneptah’s totally false claim that Israel had been destroyed is evidence that the Pharaohs were still angry that the Pharaoh of the Exodus had been defeated by the one, and only imageless, God of the........

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