History
The Merneptah Stele (also known as the Israel
Stele or Victory Stele of Pharaoh Merneptah)
The stela was made to commemorate a victory
in
a campaign
against
the Labu and Meshwesh Libyans and their Sea
People allies, but a short portion of the text
is devoted to a campaign in the Levant. It
was discovered at Merneptah's mortuary temple
at Thebes and is now in the collection of the
Egyptian Museum at Cairo.
Israel In Egypt
Revisionists insisted there was no such
entity as "Israel" until at least the
9th century BCE. Yet a well known Egyptian inscription
(The Israel Stele) dates to about 1210 BCE and
clearly identifies an Israel in the land of Canaan
as
a people that
had to be reckoned with. The inscription, which
depicts the victories of Pharaoh Merneptah in
Canaan, reads in part:
"
Israel
is laid waste, his seed is no more."
How do revisionists react to this inscription?
Dismissively. They denigrate
it as the only known reference. But one unimpeachable
witness in the court of history is sufficient.
Pharaoh Merneptah
His throne name was Ba-en-re
Mery-netjeru, which means "The Soul of
Ra, Beloved of the Gods". Ra
is the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt.
Deu 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes
unto heaven, and when thou seest the
sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host
of heaven, shouldest be driven
to worship them,
and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath
divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Scriptures
Genesis 47:27 And Israel
dwelt in the land of Egypt,
in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions
therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Exdos 3:10 Come now
therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh,
that thou mayest
bring forth my people the children of Israel
out of Egypt.
Isaiah 11:16 And there
shall be an highway for the remnant of his
people, which shall be left,
from Assyria; like as it was to Israel
in the day that he came up out of the land
of Egypt.
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