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Bondage of Egypt
What was the "Bondage of Egypt"?
Israel entered into the bondage of Egypt when they waived a right to a portion of their labor[2] in order to receive the free bread[3] of the Pharaoh through a social safety net provided to the masses through legal charity instead of Pure Religion.
The place Egypt
Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments still sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including the colossal Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza and the hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings tombs in Luxor. The capital, Cairo, is home to Ottoman landmarks such as Muhammad Ali Mosque.
The word Egypt
The word translated Egypt in the Bible is Mitsrayim from the Hebrew word matsowr רוצמ MemTzadikVavReish[4] meaning besieged places or a place where we were besieged by masters.
It is from the Hebrew word tsuwr TzadikVavReish[5] which is the Hebrew word meaning "to bind, besiege, confine". By adding the letter Mem which has to do with something that flows that is automatic. That which binds becomes like water flowing everywhere in the land.
The same word Egypt which means bondage is connected to other words that also begin with the letter Mem, like Altars and Tribute.
The slaves of Egypt were under a constant state of their labor flowing to the government as a form of sacrifice.
Sacrifice of Egypt
Egypt, Altars, and Tribute have to do with the idea of sacrifice. The people in the "Bondage of Egypt" had to sacrifice a portion of their labor to the government of Pharaoh every year.
The people who went into the "Bondage of Egypt" did so because there was a famine or dearth and they need the welfare assistance of the Pharaoh who gave it if the people would give him a portion of their labor.
Going under tribute
The Pharaoh offered benefits in hard times in exchange for a portion of their labor but he gained more and more power over the Israelites and all of the people who lived in the land Egypt.
Those who signed up for his benefits system of social welfare through the power of the State became a part of his house[6], and he became the benefactor or ruling father of the people.
The Israelites went into bondage because they depended upon the Pharaoh to be their Benefactor.
The Greek word Φαραώ Pharao is of a foreign origin.[7] and actual means "naked'. The word for Naked often means without authority.
The Pharaoh had no authority over the people of all of Egypt at first as a ruler who they had to serve with their labor.
Coming out of bondage
Originally the Pharaoh was not a ruler who could force contributions of the people of that land for their welfare. He was naked of that authority.
Moses was the actual heir to the throne of Egypt. The Pharaoh at the time of that "Bondage of Egypt" was actually called Tut Moses. When the Israelites left that "Bondage of Egypt" they created a form of government that had no form of Taxation, tribute, or forced sacrifice.
Moses came to set the captive free.
The Pharaoh was called Tut Moses but the people called their deliverer Moses because he and they were drawn from the flow of water.
Freedom and equality
The people of early Israel were a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The people were equal. No one could tax their neighbor or even rule over their neighbor or oppress the stranger in their midst.
Later we would see the Levites were also said to be naked and they needed the people to sew them "breeches" or "underwear" which represented the idea of a limited covering of authority.
Israel at first was a Republic in its purest sense. The Pharisees misinterpret the ancient scriptures through Sophistry and the modern Christian is under much of the same strong delusion.
In Israel the Levites collected the sacrifice of the people but that was not Taxation because it consisted of only freewill offerings.
Things forgotten
The people were warned to never go back to that "Bondage of Egypt" but they did starting with electing to have a commander in chief in 1 Samuel 8.
They had been warned about the dainties of rulers and the danger of covetous practices and consent for gain.
The masses are again deceived by private interpretation of the ancient scriptures through Sophistry and the modern Christian have become workers of iniquity through the [[covetous practices] of legal charity.
The people became legally enslaved by their consent accepting the Benefits of his government. The sold themselves and their children as a surety for debt. In such systems of all the people having One purse, what should be for your welfare becomes a snare.[8]
The Israelite people were in the Bondage of Egypt and owed tribute to the government of Pharaoh in the form of a portion or percentage of their labor. Like other systems of bondage a Corvee system of service to a government is a form of "voluntary servitude" that is just the same as slavery if the subject is surety for debt because the end result is the same.
The bondage is voluntary because it is by consent but if there is debt one may not just be able to UN-volunteer.
Only if the Pharaoh exceeded what was "just, right and fair" according to the terms was that servitude was called oppression.
That bondage in the beginning was just because Joseph's brothers sold him into bondage and so it was only right for them to go into bondage, too. As we judge to do to others becomes just if it is done by others to us.
Setting the captive free
In the Kingdom of God, the tithe flows through freewill offerings of charity of, for and by the people of society, but in the cities of Cain and Nimrod and Egypt they flow by force of the men who call themselves Benefactors and who exercise authority one over the other in the form of taxes. These men are the Fathers of the earth. The same was true with Herod's system of Corban, which John the Baptist and Christ opposed.
That bondage of Egypt was simple and consisted of at least two elements.
The first is they might have livestock and land but they did not own what today would be called the "beneficial interest" to the exclusion of all else. They shared ownership in a sort of legal title. They had an "apparent title" but the Pharaoh actually held what could be called the "equitable title" today but that legal title “carries no beneficial interest.”
The pervasive acceptance of a legal title subject to use tax instead of the untaxed fee simple as a true and actual title sought by many early Americans[9] but most modern Americans do not know nor understand the process of their own subjugation was the result of abandoning principles and precepts explained in the Bible by God and the prophets. The abandonment of just weights and measures, what might be called "Real money", set the stage for the New Deal.
We were warned to have "just weights" and measures lest we return to the "Bondage of Egypt"[10] where we had given up the lawful ownership to our property. That bondage allowed the government of Pharaoh to impose a use tax on the property we only held a "legal title" to and eventually even upon our own labor.
Another one of the elements to their bondage is that the people did not own an exclusive right to their labor either. While the people still owned at least 4/5ths of their labor, at least 1/5 or 20% belonged to the pharaoh.
We were told by God that we were never to return to this type of relationship again nor should we give that power to a government.[11]
Egypt was one form of government where the people were a part of a Corvee owing their labor to the government. God told His people (and us) to never return to Egypt nor were their leaders to do anything to cause the people to return to that bondage.[11]
This was to be written down in their Constitution if they ever elected a leader who could rule over them. Unfortunately the people of the world were not taught this by the ministers of the Modern Church.
They have not been taught the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
The modern Christians are in need of repentance.
"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.
- One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.
- If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.[12]
- ↑ 01318 בָּשַׁס bashac [baw-shas’] a primitive root BeitShinSamech; v; [BDB-143b] [{See TWOT on 294 }] AV-treading 1; 1
- 1) to tread down, trample
- 1a) (Poel) trampling
- 1) to tread down, trample
- ↑ Fifth part
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
- ↑ Bread of oppression
- Matthew 16:6 "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees... 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning daily bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
- Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and [of] the leaven of Herod."
- Matthew 16:11 "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?"
- Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
- Luke 12:1 "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."
- Jesus and John the Baptist opposed the leaven of Herod, the Pharisees and of the Sadducees because they misinterpreted the way of Moses and the LORD. They collected the resources for their tables of welfare, their social safety net of free bread and care for the needy of society through forced offerings. Peter, Paul, David, and the prophets have been warned us that such covetous practices were setting a snare and a trap. Herod and the Pharisees had set up a system of legal charity rather than fervent charity which always makes the word of God to none effect so that Christ would say the kingdom of God shall be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits. We should know that their system "degenerates" the "masses" until they become "perfect savages". Legal charity and its benefits and dainties provided through men who exercise authority are the wages of unrighteousness and the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and will curse children.
- ↑ 04693 מָצוֹר matsowr [maw-tsore’] MemTzadikVavReish the same as 04692 in the sense of a limit from 06696 TzadikVavReish to bind, besiege, confine; n pr loc; [BDB-596a] [{See TWOT on 1898 @@ "1898a" }] AV-besieged places 2, defence 1, fortress 1, fortified 1; 5
- 1) "Matsor," a name for Egypt
- 2) (TWOT) siege, entrenchment
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ↑ 06696 צוּר tsuwr [tsoor] TzadikVavReish a primitive root; v; [BDB-848b, BDB-849a] [{See TWOT on 1898 }] [{See TWOT on 1899 }] [{See TWOT on 1900 }] AV-besiege 21, lay siege 3, distress 3, bind 2, adversaries 1, assault 1, bags 1, beset 1, cast 1, fashioned 1, fortify 1, inclose 1, bind up 1; 38
- 1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to confine, secure
- 1a2) to shut in, beseige
- 1a3) to shut up, enclose
- 1a) (Qal)
- 2) (Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe
- 3) (Qal) to form, fashion, delineate
- See 04693
- 1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp
- ↑ 06547 ^הערפ^ Par‘oh \@par-o’\@ of Egyptian derivation, Greek 5328 ~φαραω~ having to do with nakedness; n m; AV-Pharaoh 268; 268 Pharaoh= "great house" 1) the common title of the king of Egypt.
- ↑ 5328 ~Φαραώ~ Pharao \@far-ah-o’\@ of foreign origin 06547 ערפ^, n m AV-Pharaoh 5; 5 Pharaoh =" his nakedness" 1) was a common title of the native kings of Egypt
- ↑ David warned, "Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap." Psalms 69:22
- ↑ In colonial America, “The ordinary citizen, living on his farm, owned in fee-simple, untroubled by any relics of Feudalism, untaxed save by himself, saying his say to all the world in townmeetings, had gained a new self-reliance. Wrestling with his soul and plow on week days, and the innumerable points of the minister’s sermon on Sundays and meeting days, he was becoming a tough nut for any imperial system to crack.” History of the U.S. Vol. 1 James Truslow Adams, p. 176.
- ↑ Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work. (See Real money)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Deuteronomy 17:16 "But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Luke 22:25-26 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.