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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EGYPT

Part VIII

The analysis identifying the Amalekites as the Hyksos dynasty, which ruled Egypt after Israel 's Exodus, helps to characterize the true state of the conflict with the many Canaanite tribes, as Israel entered the promised land.

In Part IV of Escape From Planet Egypt, we noted how the Amu (an Egyptian term for the Hyksos seen in their inscriptions) controlled Egypt during the period when the Judges ruled Israel. In this regard, an Islamic scholar from the late 8^th century tells us that when the Amalekites fled Arabia for Egypt, a branch of them also moved into Syria.

"The Amalekites reached Syria and Egypt and took possession of these lands, and the tyrants of Syria and the Pharaohs of Egypt were of their origin" (Ages in Chaos, page 84).

Thus, Amalek was the superpower of their day, with allied Canaanite tribes functioning as surrogates for their many battles with Israel.

During the time of the Judges, and after many wars with the various Canaanite groups, when the prophet Samuel (who was the last of the Judges) was old, the Israelites united under their first king.

The reader may recall that when Israel chose to follow a king, the LORD was displeased as the nation He had chosen sought to become like the Gentile nations who all had kings. After the Exodus, Moses endeavored to mold the nation into a theocratic power under the leadership of the LORD. The Israelites needed to move as one, in order to obey God's instructions via Moses, and subdue the people in the promised land.

However, throughout most of the period when the Judges ruled the emerging nation, the tribes were fractured, and more vulnerable to the resistance fielded by groups they encountered. The unification of Israel occurred in a political sense when the last of the Judges anointed Saul as the first king of the nation.

"And Samuel called the people together…[and said] Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes" (I Samuel 10:17,19).

Further, whenever the people turned back to the LORD, in what seemed like a perpetual cycle of backsliding, followed by defeat at the hands of their enemies (with God subsequently rescuing them when they repented), the victories were short lived.

As the New Testament tells us everything that happened to Israel during the Old Covenant era foreshadows the life of the Spiritual Israelite in Christ, this double-minded nature clearly anticipates the lukewarm Christian condition.

"Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition" (I Corinthians 10:11).

When the LORD acquiesced to the desires of the people to give them a king, He told the prophet Samuel to anoint Saul as king.

"And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them" (I Samuel 8:7).

This sequence manifests what becomes a recurring Spiritual pattern, wherein the prophet instructs the people to obey the Spirit inhabiting the political power – an entity imaged in the book of Revelation as a beast:

"And [the prophet] exerciseth all the power of the [political] beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to [obey] the first beast" (Revelation 13:12).

This prophetic cycle begs a further analysis. As the Scriptures conclusively tell us that nothing happens unless the LORD allows it, these events address what some scholars call the "permissive" will (as opposed to the "perfect" will) of the LORD.

Even though God details to Samuel the many negative consequences which will develop in Israel under the leadership of an earthly king (and He instructs Samuel to sternly warn the people of these things in I Samuel 8:9), the people chose to follow "the Spirit of the world" (I Corinthians 2:12), instead of the Holy Spirit hosted by Samuel the prophet.

"Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel: and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we may be like all the nations" (I Samuel 8:19).

Christian Media has repeatedly enumerated this prophetic pattern – most notably in a work entitled the 6,7,8 Cycle.

It is crucial that we understand this prophetic pattern, as it has been with us since the very beginning. Briefly, the number 6 represents the natural order, the creation, and the finite nature of man (who was created on the 6^th day). Thus, the choice to depart from the LORD's divine plan for Israel as His mediator to the Gentile nations (under the Old Covenant), ties the move to conform to the ways of the world to the number 6. 

As most of us know, after Saul is installed as king, He is going to intentionally disobey the LORD's explicit instructions to eradicate the evil, as personified by Saul's victory over the Amalekite capital city of Auaris (see Part IV of Escape From Planet Egypt for details), and their king Agag.

Israel was finally in the position where they could completely destroy the wicked power of the Amu-Hyksos-Amalekite dynasty of Agag, which orchestrated the many wars against the Israelites described in the book of the Judges – but Saul disobeyed, and instead of executing Agag in accord with the LORD's commands, he took Agag prisoner.

When Samuel discovered Saul's departure from the clear instructions of the LORD, he expeditiously dispatched Agag to eternity. However, in the interim, presumably before the prophet arrived at Saul's camp where he killed the evil king, the Scriptural account found in the book of Esther tells the story of Haman the Agagite – an indication that Agag was able to pass his Amalekite seed onto an unnamed female while he was detained as a prisoner of Saul.

Scripturally literate Christians know that centuries later, Haman – who is a descendant of Agag -- hatches a hideous scheme to murder the entire Jewish population within the domain of the Persian Union.

Back in Saul's day, where his coronation as the first king of Israel is represented by the number 6 as the "natural man" (I Corinthians 2:14), the abject failure of King Saul to obey the LORD causes Samuel to permanently break fellowship with the king.

Incredibly, even before the debacle over Agag, Saul's actions indicated he was not led by the Spirit of the LORD, and in another very revealing error, he even intruded on the duties of the prophet of the LORD.

After Saul was anointed king, his son Jonathan presumptuously attacked a garrison of Philistines, and killed them. As the Philistines massed to retaliate, all Israel "trembled" (I Samuel 13:7), as the people knew an attack that the LORD had not decreed was not the historic pattern.

For instance, the reader will recall the many times the Scriptures tell us "And the LORD said, go and smite [fill in the blank], for I have given you the victory." In fact, in warning the Israelites against the installation of a king, Samuel recounted the many episodes where the LORD had raised up a champion to deliver Israel from their oppressors.

"And the LORD sent Jerubbaal [Gideon] and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe."

"And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us; when the LORD your God was your king" (I Samuel 12:11,12). 

The reader is advised to notice the Spiritual signature wherein the list of attacks against Israel totaled 5 – and the king which Israel then raised up was Saul – who was the 6^th figure in that sequence.

After Saul's son had taken it on himself to provoke the Philistines, and the Philistines had moved a massive force into the area to retaliate, Samuel scheduled a sacrifice to petition the LORD to defend Israel, but he had not arrived at the time appointed.

At this point, fearful that the LORD had given them over to the Philistines, many of the Israelites deserted Saul's forces, and they were in great disarray.

"When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits" (I Samuel 13:6).

When Samuel did not arrive to entreat the LORD for victory, seeing his support dissipating, Saul encroached on the office of the prophet to make the customary supplication to the LORD. It was at that point that Samuel arrived.

"And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee…But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart" (I Samuel 13:13, 14).

The previous phrase concerning how God desires friends who move in accord with the will of God is familiar to Christians, as the Scriptures describe David with such complimentary language – and David is to succeed Saul as the King of Israel.

Since the Scriptures repeatedly showed King David was the finest king in the history of the LORD's chosen people, the great leader is symbolically identified with the concept of rest – as it was during the reign of David the kingdom found an unprecedented rest.

"And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, [that] the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies" (II Samuel 7:1).

The concept of rest is indelibly imbedded in the Sabbath day, when the Old Covenant commandment required all Israel to rest on the 7^th day. Moreover, since King Saul was associated with the number 6 as we've already shown, His successor David would further be represented by the number 7.

Continuing the equation, the next leader of Israel -- David's son Solomon – would then be associated with the number 8 – hence the formula we refer to as the 6, 7, 8 Cycle.

In the book of Revelation, we find clear cut statements showing the 6 combined with the 7 creates the synthesis of the two – the number 8.

"And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is [comprised of a combination] of the seven, and goeth into perdition" (Revelation 17:10, 11).

This mystical formula is found all over the Bible. It is vividly manifested in the history of Saul, David, and Solomon – and with this sequence, the Scriptures are communicating a profound truth. Saul, as the 6^th -- whose heart is not right with the LORD – is followed by His Spiritual opposite, the chosen of the LORD – (i.e. the 7^th).

In this equation, the 8^th, represented by Solomon, functions as a hybrid of the two. Solomon inherited the grandeur, the wealth, and the power of the kingdom generated by the righteous David – but reverting to the ways of  Saul, he refused to obey the LORD and chose to follow his own devices.

Solomon's scheme for sustaining his dominion was based on his politically useful marriages, where he was joined with the royal princesses of the Gentile nations which surrounded Israel.

"And he had seven hundred wives [which were] princesses…and his [royal] wives turned away his heart…"

"And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD…[in addition to the temple] then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon" (I Kings 11:3, 6, 7).

In other words, Solomon, as the 8^th in the 6,7,8 Cycle, mingled the worship of the LORD, with the religion of the devils. 

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued