The Curse Of The Mummy Series

King Tut’s grandfather (Amenhotep III) would have been the Pharaoh during the Exodus. Tut’s father (Amenhotep IV) would have become the next Pharaoh some time after Israel went on their Exodus. And King Tut himself would have restored the ancient practice of polytheism once his father died.

Got that???

Ok, but we still have one Pharaoh we haven’t identified.

Who would have been the “new king who didn’t know Joseph” in Exodus 1?

Moses returned to Egypt at the age of 80, so the Pharaoh who ruled when he was born had long since died. So, who was THIS first Pharaoh mentioned in Exodus?

If my math is right that might have been Tut’s great, great, grandfather – Thutmose III.

Thutmose III loved to build things… great monuments, temples, and cities (According to Wikipedia, he built over 50 temples, including what is now the great ruins of Karnak).

That kind of building would have req’d a lot of labor… slave labor… slaves like maybe Israelite slaves.

In addition - Thutmose also hated people that weren’t like his people – the Egyptians.

Years before Thutmose became king, Egypt had been taken over by foreign people called Hyksos. The Hyksos ruled for about 110 years

But the Egyptian people never warmed to these new rulers.

They didn’t fit in. They weren’t “like” the Egyptians.

They lived different, ate different, worshipped different.

And eventually the Egyptians overthrew these foreign Kings

When Thutmose became king he decided to completely remove any remaining threat of the Hyksos and he mounted 23 campaigns to finally destroy what power they still had. He was a mighty warrior that some have called the Napoleon of Egypt.

And like I said – he hated people who weren’t like his people.

Like the Hyksos.

And (perhaps) like the Israelites - because they weren’t like the Egyptians either.

· They lived different

· Ate different

· And they worshipped different than Egyptians did.

Many conservative scholars believe Joseph came to Egypt during the reign of the Hyksos. Thus Israel would have been identified as being part of the hated rule of those foreigners and thus Thutmose III would have sought to destroy Israel because he saw them as posing the same threat the Hyksos had had over his beloved nation.

So THIS is how it would have all played out (according to my way of thinking)

Thutmosis III – was the New King who didn’t know Joseph (Exodus 1:8)

Amenhotep III – (Thutmosis’ great grandson) was the Pharaoh during the Exodus (chapters 3 – 14)

Amenhotep IV – was the 2nd born son who became Pharaoh due to his brother’s death and who forced Egypt to worship only one God.

And King Tut was the king who brought Egypt back to worshipping its many false gods

Now that’s nice but YOU MIGHT ASK “what difference does that make?”

I’m glad you asked

It makes a difference because there are many “scholars” out there who would like you to think that the Bible is unreliable.

They’d like you to think you can’t trust it

That it’s historically inaccurate

That its authors borrowed from other cultures to arrive at its theology.