Exodus
by
Gary DeVaney
Moses
God's Premeditated Plan
God's
Motive for His 10 Plague Destruction
God's 10 Plagues
Scenario / Parable - Little Pharaoh
Exodus 2:12 When
Moses saw no one was watching, he killed an Egyptian and hid his body.
Ah, a candidate suitable
for the bidding of the Biblical God.
Earlier time-dating: 1270
BC
Later time-dating:
1460 BC = Confusion.
Azizah Y. Al-Hibri:
MOSES KILLED SOMEBODY. And, if God could choose such people as prophets, we have a chance of being saved, of God blessing
us despite our mistakes.
Exodus 2:15-21 Pharaoh
heard what Moses did and sought to kill him. Moses fled, met some women at a well and he married Zipporah.
Isn’t Moses and
Zipporah meeting at a well parallel to, or a re-cycle of, the Jacob and Rachel story in Genesis 29:10-11?
Exodus 3:2 God's
Angel appeared to Moses in the heart of a fire in the middle of a (miracle) bush that burned but was not consumed.
What? God's Angel
appeared to Moses in the heart of the fire? All this time, I thought that God was the "fire" in the "burning bush"!
Didn't you?
Is God "fire"? Isn't
"fire" associated with Hell? Isn't Satan associated with Hell? If the Angel in the "Burning Bush" is also God, is God also
Satan?
Hummm, if the question is the
highest form of thought, am I guilty of "circular-thinking"?
Exodus 3:14-15 God replied
to Moses: I Will Be Who I Will Be. This is how I am to be recalled for all generations. Torah
Who, in conversation today, calls
God: "I Will Be Who I Will Be"? Aren't we one of the "all generations" God referred to?
Exodus 3:17 God
promised to take Moses' people out of Egypt into a "Land of Milk and Honey".
My Torah notes claim that about three million (3,000,000) people came out of Egypt and
only about 2/3rds of them were Israelites.
Can you pretend
for a moment that: Out of the specific 3,000,000 people that God led out of Egypt, only 2 leaders, Joshua and Caleb, actually
got to possess "The Promised Land". Pretend that God broke His "sacred" promise to each of the other, almost 3,000,000 individuals,
including Moses, Aaron and Miriam. If this happened, in reality, would you then still insist that God did keep
His "sacred" promise to all of the individuals who did not make it into God's "sacred and holy" Promised
Land?
"The Promised Land" was
"the land of Canaan", wasn't it?
If so, didn’t Noah curse the land named after Canaan, Ham’s son, in
Genesis 9:24-28?
Would God or Satan
take His "chosen people" into a land we now know was documented to be "cursed"? Wouldn't one think that only Satan would
do something like that?
Recorded history
has proven that God's "Promised Land" has experienced extreme murder, theft, and destruction since Biblical times. I can't
wait to see what God's "Heaven" will amount to be. If God is "fire" - I'll bet that Heaven is HOT!
Hummm. Again, is
this God also Satan? Does this God do the murderous deeds that Satan is typically accused of and credited for? Have
you noticed that "Satan" has not been mentioned so far on any page of the Bible? Why? Because, the ancient Israelites claimed
that God did it all.
A
battered-woman is dominated and controlled by physical, mental and emotional abuse. She must account for her time and
all decisions are made for her. Her god makes himself more important by shifting the blame and responsibility for his
violent and abusive action on her while he righteously uses abusive means to control her. The battered victim seldom
complains or reports the batterer due to fear.
The Old Testament is written testimony which documents that a self-confessed angry, jealous and murderous God
destroyed almost all 3,000,000 of those whom He chose to bring out of Egypt.
Wait to see
why God murdered His 3,000,000 "chosen". I'll bet you will suggest that God murdered them because they did not eagerly kill
all the Promised Land inhabitants in order to steal their land. Do you really "believe" that a "good" God could or would ever do anything like that?
The Biblical "Exodus" proves to be a "battered people" story.
Exodus 3:19-22 God
said: I know the Egyptian King will not allow you to leave unless he is forced. I will demolish Egypt; then, the Pharaoh will let you go. You will not go empty handed of
silver and gold. You will drain Egypt
of its wealth and give it to yourself and your children. Torah
The Holman Bible Dictionary:
The Jews robbed Egypt of its wealth
and of its first-born.
What? God ordered
theft? Does the Biblical God say here: Thou shalt steal - on My terms? Is this what you consider to be moral
or legal? If you were an Egyptian, how would you feel about this new God's morality and It's sense of law?
The ultimate
moral: "Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you."
(Can you think of a better moral? If
so, please submit it to - garydevaney@earthlink.net - along with any corrections you may have.)
Exodus 4:10 Moses tells
God he can't represent Him to Pharaoh because he is slow of speech, slow of tongue.
What? Moses, God's chosen
spokesman, has a speech impediment?
Exodus 4:11 God
said to Moses: Who gives one man speech and makes another deaf and dumb? Who gives sight to one and makes another blind? Is
it not I, the Lord?
Is God boasting
to Moses that He / God (no Satan or Devil) causes mankind's saddest afflictions? Is this really a "loving God" that
Christians pray to? Who admits, right here, that God
Himself, is mankind’s
greatest adversary (Satan)? Adapted from: Paul Winchell's book: "God 2000, Religion Without The Bible", 1982.
(This book, by Paul
Winchell, started me on my study and investigation of the Holy Bible in 1982. Gary DeVaney)
Exodus 4:21-23 God said
to Moses: "Then, I will make Pharaoh obstinate so that he won't let My people go. Moses, go tell Pharaoh, that by refusing,
I will ultimately murder his first-born son."
This was
God's specific confession: Exodus 4:21 proves that all the future murdering, pain and anguish is but the agenda of this
wicked, evil God. Do you know anyone who worships, promotes and supports this God?
Exodus 4:23-24 God tries
to murder Moses, but, his wife, Zipporah, saves him by cutting off a piece of their son's (Gershom) foreskin. (circumcision)
Why did the Biblical
God want to kill Moses? Can anyone trust a "supreme leader" / God of such inconsistency? And, if God really tried
and failed to kill Moses, what does that say about this unchanging God? What does this say about what God really
thought of Moses?
Azizah
Y. Al-Hibri: Muslims circumcise too. Islam has the Qur’an, which one interprets for oneself as Islam does
not have “clergy”.
It
is interesting that Islam has no clergy. Each Muslim has the responsibility to learn the Koran for himself.
Exodus
4:27 God spoke to Aaron in a straight-forward manner.
Why?
How come no magic?
Exodus 5:1-22 Moses
and Aaron went to Pharaoh and stated that their God demanded he let their people go. When God schemed and made the Pharaoh
obstinate, God caused the Hebrews a heavier workload which made them suffer and complain.
Exodus 5:22 Moses asked
God: Why do You mistreat Your people? You have done nothing to help Your people.
Is Moses admonishing,
questioning and teaching God morality? Careful Moses! You’re petting a deadly Cobra.
Exodus 6:2 God told
Moses His name was Jehovah (KJV) which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not know him by.
Why did God use “I
Am” (KJV) earlier stating that would be His name, forever His title for all generations?
Could this "I
Am" be the definition of "EGO" / "GOD"?
Is "EGO" and
"GOD" the same?
Is it EGO that seeks authority when promoting
GOD?
EGO / GOD
1. I am the value
2. I am the authority
3. I am more important
4. I am entitled
Personal perspective:
Bart Floyd called me once a while back and asked: "Gary, you've studied most of the religions of the World, how many Gods
do you think there have been throughout history?"
My answer was instinctive: "Almost
one GOD for each EGO."
I'm betting that
the human concept of Ego and God is synonymous. I view that although an Atheist has an ego, Atheists don't
promote their authoritative ego through the claim of any authoritative god.
God's Premeditated Plan
Exodus 6:1 God said to Moses:
Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. He will be forced to let them go. He will be forced to drive them
out of his land.
Doesn’t God admit, right
here, that it is Pharaoh’s land?
Exodus 6:7-8 God said: I will
take you as My Own people and you shall have Me as your God. I will give you the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I Am God.
Some feel all warm and fuzzy
about this passage. Why? Isn’t this God guilty of bias discrimination? What about the Egyptians and other people? Later,
this God claims to play no favorites. One sorry thing is, some religious people want God to be discriminatory towards
them and adversarial towards others. Is religion just the authoritative voodoo of egocentric monkey-minds?
MOSES IS A PRODUCT
OF INCEST
Exodus 6:20 Amram took
Jochebed his father’s sister for his wife. She bore him Aaron and Moses (and Miriam). KJV
Now, this is shocking! Moses is credited to have
written the Torah / Pentatauch (the first 5 books of the Bible).
Leviticus 18:12 God commanded: You shall
not have sex with your father's sister. Torah & Catholic & KJV
If Moses wrote Leviticus, - then Moses did not
"honor his father and mother". Moses exposed their sin of incest. The Biblical God commanded against and forbid this specific
sexual union in Leviticus 18:12.
If God does NOT change and God condemned Moses'
father - aunt incest, why was Moses selected as God's favored hero?
Were you ever taught in Sunday
School or during a church service that Moses, another of God’s chosen leaders and models, was also a product of incest?
Who would have “thunk” it?
Actually, Miriam, Moses' and
Aaron's sister is not listed as being born in Exodus 6:20 in either the Torah and KJV. Rabbis claim that women were
considered irrelevant and equivalent to chattle. The Catholic version did include Miriam's birth along with
Aaron's and Moses'.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "The Bible and the Church
have been the gratest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
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At this time, I would request that each and every
Christian stop for a moment and personally define the word EVIL for himself and for herself. Try to get totally
passionate concerning your personal definitions of EVIL!
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Exodus 7:1 God tells Moses: I
will be making you as a god to Pharaoh. Aaron, your brother, will be your prophet.
Do think maybe Moses invented
his God?
Exodus 7:3-5 I will make Pharaoh
obstinate. He will show his powers; I will show Mine…
Could God be saying: "And Egypt will learn Who is God around here?"
Exodus 7:7-13 At this time, Moses
was 80-years-old. Aaron was 83 . God told Moses - and Moses directed Aaron to throw down his rod. Aaron's rod become
a serpent. Then, Pharaoh's priest's rods became serpents.
Moses' and Aaron's snake ate all the Pharaoh's priest's snakes. God, then, hardened the Pharaoh's heart.
What? The Biblical God made Pharaoh
into a puppet and changed his mind so that Pharaoh could not obey? God said: I will make him refuse to release
My people; then, I will murder, torture, inflict plagues and diseases on all the Egyptian people, which will include
the "innocent" their children and their animals.
Stop! Please! Think
about THIS for as long as it takes:
What? The Biblical God would
do all of this murderous, heinous cruelty - just to let them (or us - thousands of years later) know Who is God
around here? What kind of "good" and "just" God would do that? What kind of good and just people could
or would worship, support, promote and finance such a God? Are Christians truly good and just people? Do Christians
truly know what "EVIL" is? How does this Biblical God and His deeds measure up to your personal definition of EVIL?
God will make Pharaoh do what?
God will make Pharaoh refuse God and disobey Him? What’s that mean? Then, God will do what? Isn’t
the Biblical God saying that this is all premeditated on His part? If someone were to announce that he planned these
things against the United States of America
today, wouldn't most Christian Americans accuse him as being evil, possessed by Satan? Is this Biblical God also Satan?
God's 10 Plagues
After each plague, Pharaoh
would have let the Israelites go. But, after each plague, God forced Pharaoh to change his mind. Then, God
punished all the Egyptians, including the innocent children, and their animals. Is this God insane? Absurd? Diabolical?
Psychotic? If you are "God-fearing" haven't you shown courage to have read this far? Are you still afraid to judge this heinous
Biblical God?
1. Exodus 7:20-21 The river changed
into blood. The fish died.
Exodus 7:22 God made Pharaoh
remain obstinate.
Clue: Don’t miss God's
C&Vs motives 10 times over.
2. Exodus 8:1-10 Aaron / God
brought frogs upon the Egyptian people and their land and the (guilty) frogs died and stank.
This is taken from the Catholic
version. Sometimes the KJV, Torah and the Catholic version is off a verse or two - but they basically all say the same things.
Exodus 8:11 Pharaoh was still
stubborn as God had scripted.
Did you see this one?
3. Exodus 8:12 God brought lice
upon the Egyptian people and their animals. Torah (8:16 KJV)
Exodus 8:15 God still
forced Pharaoh to remain stubborn.
How about this one?
Can you imagine for a moment
that you are an Egyptian or do you insist that you are a Lieutenant on God's side - right or wrong?
4. Exodus 8:17 God infested swarms
of flies upon the people of Egypt.
Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh became obdurate,
would not let the people go.
Again, God's doing?
God's
Motive for His 10 Plague Destruction
Exodus 8:18-19 So that you
may know that I am God right here on Earth I will make this distinction between My people and your people. Catholic. KJV
= Exodus 8:22-23
Note: God is inflicting
all these plagues and doing all this murdering just to let everybody know who is God around here - and
- God does discriminate.
Who and where is Satan, according
to the scriptures, so far?
5. Exodus 9:6 God killed all
the livestock of Egypt; none of Israel.
Exodus 9:7 Pharaoh was still
obstinate under God's spell.
What? Whose spell? God casts
spells? Aren't "spells" cast by evil entities? Are "The Gospels", God's spells?
6. Exodus 9:10 God caused festering
boils on man and beast.
Exodus 9:12 But, God made Pharaoh
obstinate and he would not listen to Moses just as God had foretold to Moses.
No! Not our loving God! Tell
me it’s not true!
7. Exodus 9:23-25 God murdered,
by hail, every man and animal that was outdoors.
God’s believer / defense
critic: Those animals were sinful, damn-it!
Exodus 9:27-28 Pharaoh cried:
I'm guilty, God is just. We have had enough. I and my subjects have been wrong, we have sinned. I will let you go!
Exodus 9:34-35 Pharaoh became
stubborn, yet again, as God had foretold.
Exodus 10:1-2 God said to Moses:
I have made Pharaoh and his advisors stubborn so I may do what I have done. You will be able to tell your children how I
made fools out of the Egyptians. You will then fully realize that I am God. Torah
Sorry ye believers and defenders,
but the Torah, Catholic and King James versions all show this Biblical God to be one sick, sick puppy.
8. Exodus 10:12-19 God covered
the land of Egypt
with locust. God drowned all the locust.
Exodus 10:20 God again,
made Pharaoh obstinate, so he would not let the Israelites go.
9. Exodus 10:21-22 Magic: Three
days of thick darkness.
Exodus 10:27 God made Pharaoh
obstinate so that he would not let them go.
Exodus 11:1-2 God ordered Moses:
To ask of the Egyptians for their gold, silver, jewels, and clothes (before God lays "the big one" on them).
The Holman Bible Dictionary:
In leaving Egypt, Israel
ROBBED the most powerful nation of their time of its first-born sons and of its wealth. It is a redundant, and
official, reminder.
Exodus 11:4-5 Moses said: Every
first-born of this land shall die from the first-born of Pharaoh to the first-born of the slave-girl in the hand-mill.
WHAT?
What responsibility does a first-born
baby and his mother have to do with God's insane and murderous intent?
What did that baby or his mother
do to God to make Him so heinous?
By designing this cruel
agenda, how does the Biblical God prove to be a God of fairness and justice?
What kind of evil agenda or model
is God trying to teach humanity? What is God's "moral" in this case?
Exodus 12:12 God said: I will
murder every first-born in Egypt, man
and beast. I will judge against all gods of Egypt.
I alone am God.
Contradictory? God will judge
against all gods - but - He alone is God?
Are you conscious and sensitive
as to what is going on here?
Are you on God's side?
Can you explain your attitude
concerning this agenda?
Do you approve of it?
A First-Born
Baby
Parable
Imagine, in a handmill, an Egyptian
slave-girl's small, first-born son looks adoringly into his mother's proud eyes and says to her: Mother, thank you for loving
me. Thank you for giving me my share of nurturing and gentle words. Mother, should my time come to leave you due to accident
or sickness, do not grieve; for, my happiness has been the greatest gift you have given me. And hopefully, I have returned
happiness in the same manner to you. I love you mother.
10. Exodus 12:29-30 God murders
all first-born babies of all Egyptians. . .
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who
don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
Today, many religions celebrate
Passover, the night God murdered all first-born Egyptian babies. The Israelites were directed to slaughter young lambs, without
blemish, and spread their blood on their door-posts so God could determine who to murder and who not to.
"The Passover" was what Jesus
Christ was celebrating when Pilate took Him away to be crucified. How can anyone "sane" today celebrate this absurdity called
"The Passover"? Wouldn’t only a racist celebrate Passover? Who was the Egyptian's adversary? This Biblical God was.
Isn't it immoral to inflict pain
on helpless creatures? This God has Moses make a request for His people to leave Egypt. Pharaoh agrees, then God forces Pharaoh to disagree. Then God punishes
and tortures all Egyptians, murders all their first-born babies and destroys their livestock; all, just to let everybody
know who is boss (God) around here. Is this heinous God your child's model of morality?
Biblical consciousness and sensitivity
for the herd-mentality has not yet become a reality. Believers still stupidly and stubbornly worship, support, praise
and finance this Biblical God.
Check out the heinous cruelty
the Bible and its God spews out. The believer’s herd-mentality re-cycles this cruel legacy as virtue throughout generations.
Can believers wake up and get
a conscience?
The Biblical God is not
a good God and the Bible is not a good model for humanity.
I can not accuse
the Biblical God to be any more insane than the Bible proves its God to be insane, chapter and verse. Gary DeVaney
Exodus 13:17 Pharaoh releases
the Israelites.
Exodus 14:6-28 God then forces
Pharaoh and his army to chase them. God parted "The Red Sea" for Moses and His people, then God collapsed it over the Pharaoh's
Army who had followed the Hebrews into the sea.
Psalm 136:15 But swept Pharaoh
and his army into the Red Sea. Catholic
Psalm 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host into
the Red Sea. KJV
So, did Pharaoh die with his
army?
Most believers presume Ramses
II to be the Pharaoh of this story - but, history does not have any of the Ramses / Pharaohs dying with his army in the Red
Sea.
Can anyone verify if history
claims there was a Moses or an Exodus - as the Holy Bible defines.
Do you tend to believe history or the "infallible" Bible?
"The Bible contains more errors than holes in
a screen door."
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy: C. Dennis
McKinsey.
Again, God's only motive to inflict
all the plagues and murdering was just to let them all know "who is God around here"?
Does anyone sense an ego here?
Fictional or not, was this God:
Loving? Moral? Fair? Or: Insane? Obsessed? Psychotic? Evil?
Any mention yet of any Satan
or Devil?
Does this God deserve worship?
Why?
What kind of sentences would "World
Courts" give this God / Character?
Were the Marquis de Sade, Hitler,
Lenin, Stalin and Cambodia’s Pol
Pot "The Biblical God" incarnate?
What is the lesson God gave everyone
here?
Do the people, who do Passover
and still support this God, know what He did?
If the Biblical God is perfect
and this is His track record, what kind of perfection lies in store for those who are chosen to serve God for eternity?
Any debate won’t change the Chapters & Verses and the words of the Bible. Those words just won’t
go away. Check yourself to see if your argument will attempt to discipline or control opposing debaters, to demand that they
conform to your values - even by threat of consequence.
Attitude
check: Are you defending this Father / God or just defending your feelings?
Has
your E G O taken the place of your G O D? Is it really your ego you are defending?
Little
Pharaoh
Parable
A
huge tyrannical father came home one day and grabbed his small son - whose name was Little Pharaoh. He ordered: Do not move
from here to there! If you do, I will severely punish you. Then, the insane father grasped the back of the child’s
neck and pushed him from here to there. He, then angrily, cut off one of the child’s toes, while condemning
him for an act of disobedience. The small, helpless child cried. He did this to his son 10 times until all of the child’s
toes were gone. The child continued crying because his father forced him to limp painfully after him. Then, the angry father
put his child’s head in a ditch and drowned him.
Some
have called me an angry writer.
Concerning the Bible, what possibly could I get angry about?
Ok - I do have my moments. GWD
Romans 9:17-18 (Paul said):
Pharaoh, this is why I (God) raised you up, to show My power through you that My name may be proclaimed throughout the Earth.
God has mercy on whom He wills and God hardens whom He wills. Catholic
Who me - an angry writer?
EXODUS
EXPLAINED
PARABLE
Imagine you have no home of
your own. A "STRANGER" authoritatively tells you that he has chosen you and that he will give you a home of your own. You
want to believe him. He takes you to a distant land and points out a house to you. He now says, "There is the home I give
you." You look and you see people in the house. He says, "Now, you go into that house and kill every man, woman and child
in that house or I will do to you what I thought to do to them."
This is the Exodus story.
How do you like it? How do you like the Biblical God now?
What if the Biblical God gave
your, your wife's and your children's house to His new chosen?
Is your concept of God based on the facts about God as written in the Bible or have you created a God in
your own mind based mostly on selective hearsay? Do you remember God as depicted in the words of the Bible or have you
made up your own God to suit yourself? Is idealistic feel-good a large part of your meaningful or sacred formula?
A mind-set believer would not seek out the truth (facts) when the credibility of their God, Jesus and
the Bible is at stake. Some believers tend to demonize and distort what doesn’t serve them? Is your being loyal to a
belief more important than your being correct and honest? During slavery and exploitation, potential victims formulate a master
/ slave relationship without questioning whether their masters are worthy of obedience, worship and /or kiss-butt. Parents,
bosses, business-owners, Generals, Captains and Sergeants love it. You show me a good religious believer, and I will show
you a good human-sacrifice.
There is one word anyone can put in the place of God and it will fit perfectly 100% of the time. That
word is authority. Why not get out a Bible and prove this to yourself? Find the word God, and put authority in its
place. Does it fit?
The genetic Ego (I am the authority) is built to worship itself and to obey it’s own genes while masquerading
as a God. You are created by your genes. They are your creator.
Other
than nature and the laws of physics, all authority is assumed. Don’t parents, wives, husbands, educators, employers,
supervisors, Gods and all other “assumed authorities” assume that you are to account for your time; that your
behavior requires their approval?
The
ultimate meaning of freedom is unaccountable time. Test it. No authority: Boss, parent, General, Captain,
Sergeant, husband, wife nor God wants you to have freedom (unaccountable time). They all want you to account for your
time to them, obey them and serve them on their terms.
Slavery may consist of many distasteful elements, but one thing must be present for it to qualify, accountable
time. Our genes are so conditioned to slavery that we become addicted to substances like alcohol, drugs, and other
sensory and time consuming addictions.