Exodus/Moses

Exodus

  By

Gary DeVaney

Exodus (Controversial) Topics:

God's Premeditated Plan

God's Motive for His 10 Plague Destruction

God's 10 Plagues

Scenario / Parable - Little Pharaoh

To the honest and realistic Human Being: If you are going to promote, support and finance the Biblical God, at least know what the Biblical God is documented, by Bible C&V, to have done.

To best depict the character of the Biblical God, fictional or not, Exodus is my favorite Book in the Bible. Regards, Gary DeVaney

Moses

1391–1271 BC?

Exodus 2:12 When Moses saw no one was watching, he killed an Egyptian and hid his body.

Ah, a candidate suitable for the murderous work of the Biblical God.

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.

Moses & Zipporah Meeting At A Well

Isn't Moses and Zipporah meeting at a well parallel to, or a re-cycle of, the Jacob and Rachel meeting at a well 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.

God Spoke To Moses As A Burning Bush

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"? Is "fire" associated with Hell? Is Satan associated with Hell? If God is in the "Burning Bush" - is God also Satan?

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 & Honey".

My Torah notes claim that about three million (3,000,000) people came out of Egypt and about 2/3rds of them were Israelites.

Out of the 3,000,000 people that God led out of Egypt, only 2 leaders, Joshua and Caleb, actually got to possess "The Promised Land".

That means except for Joshua and Caleb, God murdered all 3 million of them. Why? God murdered them due to God's disappointment with them. They did not wholy obey God. God's "chosen" did not murder all the land-owners who God wanted murdered. So, God murdered them. Do you realize that God broke His "sacred" promise to each of the 3,000,000 individuals, over 20-years-old, who God led out of Egypt - including Moses, Aaron and Miriam? Knowing this, do you still insist that God did keep His "sacred" promise to all of the individuals who did not make it into "The Promised Land"?

"The Promised Land" was "The Land of Canaan". Didn’t Noah curse the land named after Canaan, Ham’s son, in Genesis 9:24-28?

Would God or would Satan take His "chosen people" into a "cursed land"? Wouldn't one think that only Satan would do something like that?

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 no "Satan" or "Devil" has not been mentioned so far on any page of the Bible? Why?

II Samuel 24: The anger of The Lord was kindled against Israel and God moved David against them to say go number Israel and Judah.

"Satan" is not introduced until the 13th book of the Bible.

1 Chronicles 21:1 A SATAN rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

Satan was accused of ordering the census in 1 Chronicles 21:1 that God ordered in II Samuel 24. Due to King David's obeying and taking the census, God punished David by murdering 70,000 of God's own "chosen" people.

The Old Testament is written testimony which documents that a self-confessed angry, jealous and murderous God destroyed 3,000,000 of those whom He chose to bring out of Egypt.

God murdered His 3,000,000 "chosen people". God murdered them because they did not eagerly kill all of "The Land of Canaan" / "The Promised Land" inhabitants in order to steal their land. Could a "good" God ever do anything like that? 

Battered Woman Syndrome: 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.

God's "Chosen" were victims of a Battered People Syndrome. 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

Ecclesiastes 10:19 Money Answers All Things

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 Confucius 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 - gary@gdevaney.com - 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?

G: 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 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: 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 Biblical 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

Amram & His Father's Sister Jochebed?

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? Doesn't that prove that the Biblical God is a hypocrite?

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 chattel. 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 greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

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!

Exodus 7:1 God tells Moses: I will be making you as a god to Pharaoh. Aaron, your brother, will be your prophet.

Do you think maybe Moses invented his God to get the superstitious to follow him?

What one word defines "god" in every context? How about the word "authority"? Test it.

Exodus 7:3-5 God said: I will make Pharaoh obstinate. He will show his powers; I will show Mine…

God Hardened Pharaoh's Heart

Could God's motive be: "And Egypt will learn Who is God around here?"

Exodus 7:5 The Egyptians will know that I am God.

Yep! Looks like it.

Exodus 7:7-12 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.

7:13 God, then, hardened the Pharaoh's heart.

What? The Biblical God made Pharaoh into a puppet by changing his feelings and mind so that Pharaoh could not obey Moses?

God documented his evil, murderous agenda: I will make Pharaoh 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?

What kind of "good", "loving" and "just" God would do that?

What kind of "good, loving and just" people could or would worship, support, promote and finance such a God - fictional or not?

Are Christians truly "good, loving and just" people?

Do Christians truly know what "EVIL" is?

Is the Biblical God EVIL?

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 does that mean? Why would God do that? Then, 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 and possessed by Satan? Is this Biblical God also Satan?　

God's 10 Plagues

God Also Killed Pharaoh's First-Born Son

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 the Biblical 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 insane Biblical God?

Exodus 7:17 God predicted: In this you shall know how I am God.

Once you know the insane, evil behavior of this God, what are your views concerning this God? If you condone this God's behavior, what does that say about you, the believer?

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 these (God's C&V) "hardening the heart" motives many 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)

God's Lice

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.

God's Flies

Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh became obdurate, would not let the people go.

Again, God's doing? God made Pharaoh disobedient and then God punished all the Egyptians for it.

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

God proves to prefer, pick and choose and to discriminate concerning Human Beings.

Romans 9:17 God said to Pharaoh: The purpose I raised you up was to show My power so My name might be declared throughout all the Earth.

Note: Romans 9:17 documents that God is inflicting all these plagues and doing all this murdering just to let everybody know who is God around here. Who and where is "evil" Satan, so far, according to these (selected and controversial) Bible scriptures?

5. Exodus 9:6 God killed all the livestock of Egypt; none of Israel.

God Killed All The Livestock Of Egypt

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.

God Caused Boils On Man & Beast

Exodus 9:12 But, God made Pharaoh obstinate and he would not listen to Moses just as God had foretold to Moses.

Exodus 9:14-16 God will send torture and murder on the Egyptians - so that they will know that there is none like God on Earth - and that God's name be declared throughout all the Earth.

No! Not our loving, perfect Christian-worshipped God! Tell me it’s not true!

7. Exodus 9:23-25 God murdered, by hail, every man and animal that was outdoors.

God Murdered By Hail

Why? What did those men do?

Why all those innocent animals?

God's Christian believer's defense: 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 9:29 Now, you may know how the Earth is God's.

Exodus 9:34-35 Pharaoh became stubborn, yet again, as God had foretold.

Exodus 10:1 God said to Moses: I have made Pharaoh and his advisors stubborn so I may do what I have done. Torah

God, again, told Moses that He made Pharaoh stubborn so that God can torture and kill Egyptians.

Exodus 10:2 God said: You will be able to tell your children how I made fools out of the Egyptians. You will then fully realize how I am God. Torah

What? The Biblical God wants you to tell your children about the torture and mass-murder God committed on the Egyptians?

Sorry believers and defenders, but the Torah, Catholic and King James versions all show this Biblical God to be one sick, sick puppy.

Believer: Never! God is great! God is good! Praise God! You can be saved in the blood of Jesus Christ!

Can't a believer stick to the topic? If you condone all this murder, pain and torture, what does that say about you?

8. Exodus 10:12-19 God covered the land of Egypt with locust. God drowned all the locust.

God Covered Egypt With 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.

God Caused 3 Days Of 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, murderous 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.

This is a redundant, and an official, reminder that the Israelites robbed Egypt of its wealth.

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.