King Tut - 19 year old Pharoah

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The world of history is going wild at the unveiling of the Mummy of the 19 year old Egyptian King Tutankhamen. (TUT)It is not surprising that people are captivated about his life and death. King Tut is said to have died under mysterious circumstances 3000 years ago.

In Egypt the first born son of the Pharoah was automatically regarded as a king and even god. The 10 plagues metted out to the Egyptians by Jehovah the God of the Isrealites,were all targetting Egyptian gods!(Exodus Chapter 8-10)

1. Hapi the god of the Nile, Egypt's lifeline turned into blood and forced the Egyptians to dig for drinking water.

2. The frog was a symbol of fertility, So the plague of frogs, besides embarrassing such fertility gods as Osiris, Ptah, and Sebek, even humbled the Egyptian gods of creation.

3. The magic-practicing Egyptian priests were unable to duplicate the third blow as they had the first two. Thoth, lord of magic, had lost his magic touch. And Geb, god of the earth, was unable to prevent “the dust of the earth” from turning into pesty gnats.

4. Starting with the fourth blow, a line of demarcation was drawn between Goshen, the location of the Israelite community in Lower Egypt, and the rest of the country. While Goshen was untouched by the plague of gadflies, other sections of Egypt were brought to ruin. Buto, a tutelary goddess, and the god Horus were clearly unable any longer to control happenings in that part of the land for which they were responsible—Lower Egypt.

5. Hathor was a cow-headed goddess. Nut, the sky goddess, was also depicted as a cow. How humiliating for both when pestilence caused “all sorts of livestock . . . to die”

6. Thoth is said to have known “all the magic formulas necessary to heal the sick.” And Amon-Ra, was a physician “who dissolves evils and dispels ailments.” But both of these quack healers were unable to prevent “boils with blisters [from] breaking out on man and beast,” even upon “the magic-practicing priests,”

7. The gods Shu, Reshpu, and Tefnut helped control the weather. But no more than today’s weather forecasters could they prevent the thunder and hail that in blow seven pelted man, beast, and vegetation and that “shattered all sorts of trees of the field.”

8. What the hail failed to destroy was eaten up by the locusts. What a defeat for Min, god of the harvest, who, holding a thunderbolt in his right hand, supposedly controlled thunder and lightning! Both slipped from his grasp during these two plagues.

9. “A gloomy darkness began to occur in all the land of Egypt for three days,” a ninth blow. Ra, the sun god; Sekhmet, the goddess who wore the solar disk; and Thoth, the moon god, literally had their lights put out.



10. The mother of all blows. And what an outcry when the Egyptian firstborn were suddenly struck dead, leaving “not a house where there was not one dead,” including the “great house” of Pharaoh!

Since Pharaoh was a supposed offspring of the sun god Ra, the unexpected death of his firstborn was equal to the death of a god. What a stunning defeat for Bes, protector of the royal house, and Buto, defender of the king!

TEN times it rained upon them, TEN times the Egyptian gods were humiliated!

Furious and unabatted Pharoah rushed after the Isrealites! Only for him to die at sea!

As King Tut lies in his mordern, climate controlled glass case in a bid to preserve whats left of him, I cannot help but ponder about what the psalmist wrote in the 96th chapter.

"For Jehovah is great and very much to be praised. He is fear-inspiring above all [other] gods. For all the gods of the peoples are valueless gods;But as for Jehovah, he has made the very heavens."