Ten Plagues: The Heart-Wrenching Weeping and Moaning of Animals after the Intergalactic Upheavl
- Scientific-evidence of the Plagues
- Grievous Animal Disease aimed at the Egyptian 'gods'
- Hints of Intergalactic and Climatic Upheaval
- Animal Disease a Devastating Blow to the Egyptian Economy
- 'Admonitions of Ipuwer' Papyrus
- The Kolbrin 'Bible'
- Bioterrorism and Egypt the Land of Plagues
- Epidemiology and DNA of the Plague Pits
- The Egyptian Conspiracy
Do animals cry?
As a shepherdess, I have the heart wrenching experience to watch my animals cry. When my beloved dog the Moshe got cancer, after his initial collapse, large tears welled up in his eyes and gently rolled down his golden cheeks, until they plummeted to the ground. It is common for animals with a weaponized disease to cry. It does not matter the species they cry and they moan. Quite possibly, their tears flow easier than you or I would allow. There is nothing more agonizing than helplessly watching as your pet, animal companion, or your God provided animal food provision suffers. We do not know if this plague strike immediately- allowing animals to cry, although this is what Scripture indicates, or if it was a slower progression resulting in annihilation.
The Bible does not provide elaborate details of this plague of animal disease that occurring about 1470 BC and impacting a population of about 2.5 million. The plagues were a panoramic gladiatorial type encounter between Thutmosis III- Pharaoh of Egypt representing a pantheon of Egyptian gods, and Moses- leader of the Hebrews representing God. Curiously, the plague of livestock or animal disease does not refer to just one disease, but was overall very severe.
According to scientific evidence provided in: The plagues of Egypt: what killed the animals and the firstborn? Hoyte HM.
The showdown plagues between Thutmosis and Moses in or near Pharaoh's palace. This appears to have been the palace at Memphis, the old capital, near the southern apex or beginning of the delta, not the one at Thebes, 600 km further to the south along the river.
Grievous Disease aimed at the Animal 'gods'
Animals were afflicted with some type of grievous disease. We do not know the exact nature of this plague. In the pantheon of Egyptian gods they worshiped three types of bovine gods:
- Hathor-a mother goddess in the form of a cow
- Apis-a bull god, another fertility symbol
- Mnevis-the sacred bull of Heliopolis
This plague was a direct attack on the demons associated with these gods. Moreover, we also know that the cow was a sacred animal in Egypt
God commands Moses and Aaron to go to Pharaoh, the seat of his throne of power, in the Name of God, without authorization or fear, and without the presence of heavy security guarding the throne, in essence catching him off guard in a form of asymmetrical warfare. As Christians we will need to follow this template in these days.
Recapping, we have seen two plagues associated with water, two plagues involving earth, and now we two plagues more than likely associated with the air.
As we enter a deeper look at this livestock disease it is important to note that the Egyptians practiced the forbidden Black Arts of the nephilim hat included advanced technologies many of which we are just rediscovering.
As we move ever deeper into Revelation we are returning to pagan practices. The Egyptian worshiped livestock to the degree that they did not eat them. The Egyptians relied heavily upon grains, vegetables, and fruits. This is a pantheistic and Hindu practice that is being promulgated around the world by the United Nations. So great is the hatred of God and livestock that they have begun to ascribe animal-like attributes to things such as glaciers, in what is called bio-inspired.
Glaciers do not calve, cows calve.
If the world goes down this road and the forecasts of climatic changes prevail, with a decrease in availability of plant life type foods what will people eat. History clearly shows us that this cycle is destructive to kingdoms and empires.
Intergalactic and Climatic Upheaval
Circumstantial or scientific evidence appears to show that climatic changes play a significant role in the events of history, whether they are directly by God or God allowing the Egyptians to modify their weather and climate. Weather was a factor in many of the plagues including this one.
Murrain or animal disease can occur from a change from the normal in the air's heat or cold. This change causes an untold numbers to die in an instant, as the spirit of life which resides in the heart depends upon air. We have seen evidence of this with the woolly mammoths that died with fresh flowers in their mouths and stomachs. I can see biblical precedent for this view in Psalm 147:
15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Anyone familiar with Immanuel Velikovsky’s book Ages in Chaos will know that he used the Papyrus Ipuwer to support his claim that the Exodus was a real historical event. Velikovsky has been given a hard time by scholars. His ideas concerning the cataclysmic history of our planet and his maverick suggestion that Venus was once a comet (Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval), his attempt to shorten Egyptian chronology (Ages in Chaos), his uncomfortable perception that human beings effectually blot out their traumatic ancestral experiences (Mankind in Amnesia), and his use of comparative mythology to arrive at his conclusions, have all put him well beyond the academic pail for many decades according to Graham Handcock.
Climatologists studying the ancient climate at the time have discovered a dramatic shift in the climate in the area occurred towards the end of Rameses the Second's reign. They have studies stalagmites in Egyptian caves rebuilding a record of the weather patterns using traces of radioactive elements contained within the rock.
They found that Rameses reign coincided with a warm, wet climate, but then the climate switched to a dry period.
Professor Augusto Magini, a paleoclimatologist at Heidelberg University's institute for environmental physics, said: "Pharaoh Rameses II reigned during a very favorable climatic period." [much like America and the world up until about 2005]
"There was plenty of rain and his country flourished. However, this wet period only lasted a few decades. After Rameses' reign, the climate curve goes sharply downwards. There is a dry period which would certainly have had serious consequences."
Climate is but one switch that God used as a trigger for the first of the plagues.
The rising temperatures could have caused the river Nile to dry up, turning the fast flowing river that was Egypt's lifeline into a slow moving and muddy watercourse a perfect storm for the Nile turning to blood. Whether your take the position that the Nile turned to actual blood or merely took on the look of blood Scripture does not tell us. What is known is that whether the waters were literal blood or something akin to Red Tide the contaminated waters created a death spiral.
Scientists, of course, such as Stephan Pflugmacher, a biologist at the Leibniz Institute for Water Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, this to a toxic fresh water algae such as what we are witnessing today in both fresh and sea waters around the globe. He states that the bacterium known as Burgundy Blood algae is known to have existed 3,000 years ago and still causes similar effects today.
The scientists also claim the arrival of this algae set in motion the events that led to the second, third and forth plagues – frogs, lice and flies.
Professor Werner Kloas, a biologist at the Leibniz Institute, said: "We know insects often carry diseases like malaria, so the next step in the chain reaction is the outbreak of epidemics..."
But Dr Robert Miller, associate professor of the Old Testament, from the Catholic University of America, said: "I'm reluctant to come up with natural causes for all of the plagues. The problem with the naturalistic explanations is that they lose the whole point.
"And the whole point was that you didn't come out of Egypt by natural causes, you came out by the hand of God."
Imploring Mankind to Consider God
Figure 7: Thunderstorm of Hail and Fire: Seventh Plague of Egypt, John Martin, 1823, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMartin%2C_John_-_The_Seventh_Plague_-_1823.jpg
In Exodus 9:1, God commands Moses to use anew tactic with Pharaoh. This new strategy involves imploring Pharaoh to consider his stance and let the people of God go free. This word in the original language indicates extended dialogue and persuasive techniques to get Pharaoh to reconsider; because once this plague is unleashed there is no 'turning back,' for it is instantaneous.
Next God addresses failure to let His people ago in a different way challenging Pharaoh's hold on the Hebrews in verse 2. Moses declares to Pharaoh that God has a 'dog in this fight' and is not a mere outside meddling in someone else's affairs. The biblical precedent can be found in Proverbs 26:17, He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own Is like one who takes a dog by the ears.
Repeated Distinction
In verse 4, we see that God highlights for a second time that He will distinguish between His people and the Egyptians. This time He extends his protection to the Hebrews livestock and property.
We do not know for sure, but many animal diseases are airborne. The tendency of an airborne disease is that it will spread through the air, infecting all those in its proximity. Goshen and Egypt are adjacent territories with the air quality shared between both provinces. God's wondrous separation between the two lands was so precise that only Egyptian animals died-even if surrounded on both sides by the animals of the Hebrews.
Through these plagues in general there may be an inconvenience, but nothing of God's people shall utterly perish. This can be a great comfort to us in these days of judgment.
The Lord has a fixed time or on occasion a season general for his judgments as we see in verse 5. With the Plagues of wild beasts, hail and locusts the fixed day was one day before onset. This allowed time for dialog with Pharaoh in the attempt to get him to change his mind. This animal or livestock epidemic was different, because as mentioned, once the decree is issued and the destructive work begins, the animal disease is instantaneous. We can determine through this narrative that in God's judgments some will have a fixed time while others we will only know a general season. What is critical is that we be not like Pharaoh and harden our hearts to the message of Jesus Christ but rather bend our will, like a reed, to His will-repenting of the sins in our lives.
Pharaoh even sent investigators, Exodus 8:1-7, to find out if the Israelite's were suffering along with the Egyptians, but the result was a hardening of his heart against them.
Animal Disease a Devastating Blow to the Egyptian Economy
Whether it is ancient times or today a good economy is necessary to make an abundant life. This plague killed the Egyptians' work animals and their cattle. What is unclear is precisely which animals died or whether any animals survived. Verse 3 seems to limit the plague to the livestock left in the field while the animals taken indoors would be spared. However, verse 6 says, all the livestock of the Egyptians died. To complicate matters, verse 10 indicates that many animals were spared, but were affected by the sixth and seventh plagues, along with their Egyptians owners. Another possibility is a generalization meaning most of the livestock. It remains a mystery for us as we look back into the pages of history. One explanation all the livestock of Egypt died refers to the animals left in the fields indicating that the season of this plague took place in the spring or early summer.
Verse 3 names the types of animals to be impacted: horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and sheep.
The Egyptians prided themselves on their fine horses and with this punishing blow not only did God demand freedom for His people but provides clear direction, not only to the Egyptians, but His people as well- for Days of Trouble:
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand. Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.…Psalm 20:7 Berean Translation
The Egyptians used what they considered beasts of burden to bear up their possessions, carry the heavy loads, and get the job done, whatever that might be. Donkeys and camels were in that class of animals while the Hebrew people attended to harsh human labors. There were about one million living in the Nile delta with an average density of about 90 people per km2 of cultivated land, and the Israelite's, working as slave-laborers that were quartered in the land of Goshen.
Egyptian cattle and sheep represented their true wealth. They ascribed a misguided reverence for these animals who they considered deities from the stars; the stars forming constellations verifying their worship while ignoring the True God who created the stars and the beasts of burden.
'Admonitions of Ipuwer' Papyrus
The Ipuwer Papyrus is an ancient document that provides extra-biblical account of the ten plagues in Egypt. It describes a great disaster that took place in ancient Egypt. The oldest copy dates to around 1400 BC, placing it close to the time of the Exodus (circa 1446 BC).
The Ipuwer Papyrus is the sole surviving manuscript of an ancient Egyptian poem officially designated as Papyrus Leiden I-344. The poem is known as The Admonitions of Ipuwer. The new edition is provocatively entitled The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All. Dutchman Giovanni Anastasi purchased the Ipuwer Papyrus in 1828, and it is now housed in Leiden, the Netherlands, at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
It is heartbreaking as we read the account from the Ipuwer Papyrus, this fifth in a series of plagues:
“All animals, their hearts weep. Cattle moan because of the state of the land” (5:5).
“Behold, cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gather them together (9:2–3).
"Behold, cattle stray and there is none to collect them, but everyone fetches for himself those that are branded with his name." No man owned anything. Cattle were left unattended to roam into strange pastures, and men ignored their marks and slew the beasts of their neighbors.
The dust tore wounds in the skin of man and beast in the glow of the Destroyer the Earth was filled with redness. "Vermin bred and filled the air and face of the Earth with loathsomeness. Wild beasts, afflicted with torments under the lashing sand and ashes, came out of their lairs in the wastelands and cave places and stalked the abodes of men. All the tame beasts whimpered and the land was filled with the cries of sheep and moans of cattle."
This imagery suggests a planetary and climatic upheaval of significant proportions, possibly an engagement with Mars, given label, Destroyer the Earth was filled with redness.
The Kolbrin
The Kolbrin is a collection of ancient secular texts dating at least 3,600 years old preserved by alleged secretive groups for nearly one thousand years. They were supposedly written by hybrid of ancient Egyptians and ancient Celts being passed down through Celtic priests.
The ancient texts are said to have been salvaged from the Glastonbury Abbey arson in 1184. It is referred to by researchers as the Kolbrin ‘Bible.’
There is an 'old testament' and 'new testament' containing 11 books. I mention it only because it is an extra biblical account that includes the following:
- Human creation
- Pre-Adamic civilizations
- Mention the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations on Earth before ‘written history.’
- Predicts cataclysmic events that are yet to strike the earth.
- Include fascinating details concerning certain passages such as the Flood and the Exodus.
- The Destroyer as a key figure
“In those days, men will have the Great Book before them [upon its return], wisdom will be revealed, the few will be gathered for the stand, it is the hour of trial. The dauntless ones (the stouthearted) will survive…” Manuscripts 3:10
This will provide you with the flavor of the collection from the Kolbrin:
The Earth is destroyed by fire. Man survives, but he is not the same. The sun is not as it was before, and a moon disappears. A subsequent destruction splits apart the eastern and western mountains so that they stand up in the sea, and tilts the northern land mass over on its side. The lands of the Little People [Homo Floresiensis, discovered in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores], the Giants [giant human skeletons were found in Ancient Greece – see Adrienne Mayor’s The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times. Giant bones have been discovered all over the world, especially in North America. Most recently, skeletons of 9-foot men are being found near Borjomi in Georgia (Caucasus), and near Cagliari in Sardinia], the Neckless Ones and the land of Marshes and Mists are all destroyed.
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