In the 9th plague God brings darkness upon all Egypt for three days. It is a darkness that the Torah says can be "felt" and it was a "thick" darkness. It was so awesome that people did not even move or seemingly travel around for the three days. What is going on?
Some say it was a dust storm from Arabia. They try and make it a natural occurrence. Many try and make the plagues something that can be explained. But, in this case. This darkness is unnatural. One could feel it. It was so thick it...
In the 9th plague God brings darkness upon all Egypt for three days. It is a darkness that the Torah says can be "felt" and it was a "thick" darkness. It was so awesome that people did not even move or seemingly travel around for the three days. What is going on?
Some say it was a dust storm from Arabia. They try and make it a natural occurrence. Many try and make the plagues something that can be explained. But, in this case. This darkness is unnatural. One could feel it. It was so thick it prevented moving around. And, it probably was a blackness, unnatural, since it related to the religion of the pagan Egyptians and the Hebrews who had bought into the wrong story and assimilated into the pagan Egyptian culture.
For the Hebrews they may have seen it in light of what was familiar to them then. It may have been that the Hebrews, and even many Egyptians, as a picture of the Lord bringing back the darkness prior to the creation as understood by the Egyptians. One must study the cosmologies of the Egyptians, their creation myths, to understand how this might relate. In Exod. 12:12 the Lord says He will come against ALL the gods of Egypt. This darkness, this total lack of light, is as if God took all Egypt back to the days before Amun-Ra, the sun god, the god of light, creates himself. This is taking the earth back to primordial state that the Egyptians said was total chaos. Pharaoh's job was to prevent chaos and preserve Ma'at. Ma'at the supreme goddess of truth, order, peace, and harmony and well being. But, Pharaoh could not. But the Lord brought upon all Egypt the chaos that all Egypt lived to stop and preserve Ma'at.
There is a cute video on YouTube that does a good job on the Egyptian creation myths. Here's the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTy49JlgJZE
In Exod. 12:12 the Lord says He will come against all the gods of Egypt. I mentioned the scholar David Padfield who did a brilliant job on relating the gods of Egypt to the plagues. Here's a link to this free resource by David Padfield - https://www.padfield.com/acrobat/history/gods_of_egypt.pdf
Here are key lessons in our podcast series that you may want to review or perhaps listen to for the 1st time. They are ...
Podcast - Exodus - 4 part 2 - dealing with the Biblical support that the Hebrews after Jacob dies and then Joseph assimilated into the pagan Egyptian culture. Thus, God needed to use Egyptian concepts to return His chosen people back to Himself. He needed to teach them by giving them the Torah, His teachings, to get Egypt out of the Hebrews - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wdzur-f82194
Articles - For further study use this link to study the idea that the Hebrews had assimilated into the pagan culture of Egypt. Here's the link - https://www.dropbox.com/home/2019...2020%20Twelfth%20Season/Egypt%20Exodus%20Passover%20Pharaoh%20Moses?preview=Hebrews+Assimilated+into+Egypt.pdf
Podcast - Genesis 5 - the podcast showing how God comes against the creator gods of Egypt - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-67ye7-da9f7a
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
