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Babylonian
Ellu
, Cornish
El
, Incan
Illa
, Hebrew
Elah
, and Muslim
Allah
all had their varying words for the physical shining brightness of the gods who descended down to mankind.
     
    Was it this same light that was passed on to Moses during his close encounters with
Elohim?
     
General and King
     
    It is vital to establish exactly what it is that Moses would have experienced during those first 40 years of his life in order to have an understanding of what influenced him when he became the leader of the wilderness-wandering nation of Israel later in life. The culture, education, and religion of Egypt would have had an intensely engraining influence on the man, despite the Bible telling us that he made a conscious choice to identify himself with his own people—which alone tells us that he was being raised as an Egyptian, living as part of the royal family of 18th Dynasty Egypt in Thebes, near Luxor, roughly 400 miles up the Nile, south of present-day Cairo. Moses was less Hebrew than he was Egyptian, so for him to make a cognitive choice to identify himself with his slave people of origin, was nothing less than altruistic. Perhaps even heroic.
     
    But was his identification with the Hebrews an “act of faith” on his part, as the New Testament Book of Hebrews tells us, or was it in an attempt to look for opportunities to
rule
them?
     
    There is a traditional tale in Jewish mishnah that speaks of Moses leading an army, under orders of the Pharaoh, to quell a rebellion in Nubia. Once the rebellion is squashed, and thousands of rebels aredead, Moses takes the throne for his very own, much to the chagrin of the ruling family in Nubia. Word gets back to the Pharaoh, who hastily reprimands Moses, telling him to relinquish the throne to the vassal ruling family, and to get himself and his army back to Egypt. Moses, of course, abdicates the short-lived monarchy, and returns to the courts of the Pharaoh.
     
    Desiring a position as the ruler of a people was in Moses’ blood. He was raised as a prince, and his Egyptian queen step-mother raised him to be the next Pharaoh.
     
    I cannot emphasize enough how utterly important it is, in dissecting the story of the Watchers descent to Mount Hermon and their offspring the Nephilim—to have an understanding of what Moses would have been exposed to in the royal tutilage and religious philosophies of 18th Dynasty Egypt.
     
The Traditional Story
     
    Moses was born a slave, but adopted by a queen of Egypt, where he grew up as a palace kid, enjoying an upbringing that afforded him a royal education and lifestyle. What we know from the biblical account is that as he grew older, he began to identify himself more and more with his own people, and arrogantly saw himself, from his lofty position in the royal courts of Egypt, as the prophesied deliverer of the Hebrew people from bondage. Taking matters into his own hands, he murdered an Egyptian taskmaster and fled for his life from the wrath of the Pharaoh. He spent the next 40 years as a shepherd in the land of Midian, where he married the daughter of Jethro, the high priest of Midian, and lived to the age of 80 as a sort of outback, off-the-grid shepherd.
     
    It was at the age of 80 that he saw a miraculous vision of God in the form of a burning bush, and was called out to return to Egypt and lead the Hebrews out of slavery. Moses balked and attempted to get out of any task that would bring him back to the land where he had spent the first half of his life and where he was wanted for murder. But God assured him that those who sought his life were long since dead and hiscrimes forgotten. Moses returned, and, in a series of coercive plagues leveled against the land of Egypt, finally convinced the pharaoh to set the Hebrews free after the plague of the firstborn took the life of the Pharaoh’s son. Under Moses’ leadership, the Hebrews left Egypt
en masse
overnight in an event called the Great Exodus, which has been celebrated ever since