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2012年10月4日 星期四

Ipuwer Papyrus





We find additional details of Ipuwer Papyrus – a surviving Egyptian scribes (Papyrus Leiden 334) 

The door keepers say: “Let us go and plunder.”
Indeed, the face is pale, what the ancestors foretold has arrived; the land is full of confederates, and a man goes to plough with his shield. (2:19:25)
Indeed, the plunderer everywhere, and the servant takes what he finds. 

Indeed, the Nile overflows yet none plough for it. Everyone says, “We do not know what will happen throughout the land.”

Indeed, poor men have become owners of wealth and he who could not make sandals for himself is now a possessor of riches. (2:19:50)

Indeed, noblemen are in distress, while the poor men is full of joy. Every town says, “Let us suppress the powerful among us.”(Let us suppress the powerful among us. Liehtheim: “Let us expel our rulers.”) (2:20:08)

Indeed, great and small say: “I wish I might die.” Little children say: “He should not have caused me to live.” And the servant abandons his household and men will say: “Cakes are lacking for most children; there is no food. What is the taste of it like today?”

Indeed, magnates are fighting over the spoil of the robber, and all his property is carried off. Indeed, men eat herbage and wash it down with water; neither fruit nor herbage can be found and is taken away from the mouth of the pig. No face is bright because of the hunger.

Indeed, everywhere barely has perished and men are stripped of clothes, spice and oil; everyone says: “There is none.” The storehouse is empty and its keeper is stretched on the ground. Indeed, the writings of the scribes of the cadastre are destroyed and the corn of Egypt is common property.

Indeed, the laws of the Council chamber are thrown out; indeed, men walk on them in public places and poor men break them up in the streets.

Behold, he who could not build a boat for himself is now the possessor of a fleet; their erstwhile owner looks at them, but they are not his.

Behold, he who slept wifeless through want [finds] riches, while he whom he never saw stands making dole. 

Behold, he who had no property is now a possessor of wealth and the magnate praises him.

Behold, the poor of the land have become rich and the erstwhile owner of property is one who has nothing.

Behold, he who had no loaf is now the owner of a barn and his storehouse is provided with the goods of another.

Behold, the chiefs of the land flee; there's no purpose for them because of want.

Behold, no officers are in their right place like a herd running at random without a herdsman.

Behold, he who had no yoke of oxen is now the owner of a herd and he who could find for himself no ploughman is now the owner of cattle.

Behold, he who had no grain is now the owner of granaries, and he who had to fetch loan-corn for himself is now one who issues it.

Behold, he who had no dependents is now an owner of serfs and he who was a magnate now performs his own errands.

Behold, he who once recorded the harvest now knows nothing about it while he who never ploughed for himself is now the owner of corn; the reaping takes place but is not reported. The scribe sits in his office but his hand are idle in it. Indeed, gates, columns and walls are consumed by the fire.

Indeed, towns are destroyed and upper Egypt has become an empty waste. Indeed the builders of pyramids have become cultivators and those who were in the sacred bark are now yoke to it. Gold is lacking and materials for every kind of craft have come to an end. What can we do about it? All is ruin!

Indeed, laughter is perished and is no longer made; it is groaning that is throughout the land, mingled with complaints.

Behold things have been done which have not happened for a long time past; the king has been deposed by the rabble. The statues are burned and their tombs destroyed.

Behold, the land has been deprived of the kingship by a few lawless men. How comes it that every man kills his brother? The troops whom we marshaled for ourselves have turned into foreigners and have taken to ravaging. Lower Egypt weeps; the king’s storehouse is the common property of everyone. All is ruin!

History encoded in myth after disasters


Based on human history and the Bible, Planet X visited the earth twice, including 3500 years ago when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, and also 4600 years ago in the time of the Noah’s Ark!

The two visits of Planet X brought about great disasters to humans at that time! Especially in the time of Noah, the destruction is the greatest! According to the Bible, only the 8 members of Noah’s family and livestock and animals survived at that time! Therefore, after this catastrophe, humans could only rebuild their lives in ruins and cope with basic survival needs!

Hence, the historical record at that time was not complete and mostly passed on orally or recorded in mythical stories for the next generation! Up till now, if contemporary people want to search for the history of these events, they can only do so through cultural myths!

Just like researches on the ancient floods:

According to the research of the scholar, Mark Isaak: 254 major ethnic groups in the world, involving 84 languages ​​of different regions, throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, East Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands, North America, Central and South America, it was found that the great flood was recorded in each of their ancient legends and as devastating flood worldwide in all them.

Comparing the “legends” of more than two hundred ethnic groups and the Bible, you can find the following interesting phenomenon:

95% of the legends say: the flood was caused by a great disaster.
95% of the legends say: it was a worldwide flood.
88% of the legends say: only one family was saved in the flood.
70% of the legends say: the family was saved by a boat.
67% of the legends say: not only humans but also animals were saved.
57% of the legends say: after the flood, the ship landed on mountain top.

These ancient civilizations include:
Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China!

Although each race has large geographical distance, their “legends” match the Bible!
In China, Han Chinese “The Masters of Huainan” recorded: “In a distant past, the four pillars that supported the world collapsed, and the earth cracked and split open. The sky could not cover the entire earth and the earth could not sustain all lives. Fire burned fiercely and continuously. Vast floods poured down incessantly. Fierce beasts ate people. Large vicious birds caught the old and weak.

Afterward, Nüwa mended the sky with refined 5-colored stones; cut off the four legs of a giant tortoise and used them to replace the fallen pillars, killed the black dragon to save the State of Ji, and piled up ashes to stop the flood.”

5-colored stones refer to rainbow, meaning that stones with 5 colors appear in the sky and fill the gaps of heaven. This corresponds to the record of the rainbow sign after the “Noah’s” flood in the Bible.

Afterwards, in the study of these Chinese “legends” by many scholars and media, they found that the legend of “Nuwa mending the sky” was a record of the flood of “Noah”.
Because, experts found that the ancient sound of “Nuwa” matched the sound of “Noah”. In some legends in China, the real meaning of “Nuwa making man” and Chinese people being originated from “Nuwa” is that Chinese people descended from the “Noah” family after the flood.

In 1605 in Beijing, missionary Matteo Ricci of the Jesuits met with Ai Tian, a Jew in Kaifeng believing in Israeli religion, and confirmed that Chinese “legends” coincided with biblical events!

Based on the Chinese Jew, Ai Tian, the Jews had already settled in Kaifeng no later than the Song Dynasty. As for the three Jewish Temple inscription in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the "Koji monument," Masanori monument "and" Emperor Kangxi monument,” they clearly recorded the chart of ancestors of Chinese Jews, including biblical figures:
1. pán gǔ ā|ē dān盤古阿耽 (Adam)
2. nǚwā女媧 (Noah)
3.ā|ē wú luó hàn阿無羅漢 (Abraham)
4. yǐ sī hā以思哈 (Isaac)
5. yǎā|hē|ōjuéwù雅呵厥勿 (Jacob)
6. shí èr zōng pài十二宗派 (The 12 tribes of Israel)
7. Miē shè乜攝(Moses), etc.

Therefore, it is highly possible that some ancient Chinese “legends” recorded ancient history!
Another Chinese ancient “legend” recorded the time of Exodus in the bible and Emperor Yao over the same period.

In ancient time, ten “suns” appeared in the sky continuously and the strong sunlight burnt the soil and crops. Later, “Hou Yi” shot down 9 suns. However, the legend of “Hou Yi shooting the suns” also matches the historical records in the ethnic myths of other cultures.

This is the event of the “shift of the earth’s axis”. The moon stationed in the sky for several days in some regions. In contrast, the sun stayed in the sky for several days in some regions. It is highly possible that the legend “Hou Yi shooting the suns” records the time of Exodus in which the “sun” stayed for more than 10 days and the sunlight burnt the soil and crops!

Therefore, in addition to the record of the flood of “Noah” by the ancient Chinese legend “Nuwa mending the sky”, the legend “Hou Yi shooting the suns” records the history of the “shift of earth’s axis” at the time when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt!

Disasters caused by the sin of man





Deuteronomy 28
15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
According to God’s Law, the land will be judged if it is full of sins. Nature won't work for humans anymore. Rather, natural disasters become people's judgment.

Genesis 3:17-18
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Leviticus 18:24-28
24 " 'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,
27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Isaiah 24:1-6
1 See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants-
2 it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor.
3 The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.
5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 3:2-3
2 "Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.

Ezekiel 33:25-28
25 Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?
26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?'
27 "Say this to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.
28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

Micah 1:1-5
1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah--the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, O peoples, all of you, listen, O earth and all who are in it, that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3 Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads the high places of the earth.
4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
5 All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem?

Zephaniah 1:2-4
2 "I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.
3 "I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.
4 "I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the pagan and the idolatrous priests-

Hosea 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.
2 There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3 Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.

Although the “judgment towards the land because of sins” principle isn’t accepted by scientists generally, they even label it as superstitious, unreasonable and unscientific, obviously, the droughts, crop failures, epidemics and the well-known massive animal deaths are warnings , warning people that natural disasters occur because of people’s sins.
Although scientists and unfaithful Christians don’t believe that, they can't save the land from ever-increasing disasters though!

~ A 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11 last year

~ The worst drought in 60 years in the middle and lower courses of the Yangtzi River last year

~ Mount Etna in Italy erupted violently on May 12 last year

~ Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupted on May 12 this year, discharging to the sky endlessly.

~ A devastating drought occurred in Mexico late last year. 2.5 million people lacked both food and water. 1.7 million cattle died of thirst.

~ Tornado disaster in the U.S. in April this year

~ 900 pelicans and 5,000 dolphins washed to the shore of Peru in May this year.

The Bible has already warned that the land will be judged because of people’s sins. We, as the chosen people, must be alert. We must stay away from sins, lower ourselves and pray, seeking God’s Face.

2 Chronicles 7:12-14
12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.
13 "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.