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Kalamazoo SDA Church

The Exodus & God Almighty

Daniel Ferraz

The Pharaoh That Knew Not Joseph

Moses Refused

The Meekest Man in Midian

The Plagues in Egypt

“I AM” Has Sent Me

The Great Deliverance

The plan for prayers is that they get answered.

And the wonderful thing about prayer is that God guarantees through Jesus Christ that they will be answered.

And there's this wonderful passage in the Bible that says, if we know that He hears us, we have the petitions that we ask for.

Now, if I'm talking to a friend, I need to be in the close proximity so that they can hear my voice.

So if I know my friend can hear my voice, I know that they can hear what I'm saying and what I'm communicating.

So if we know that we are close enough to God so that He can hear us, we know that He will give us our petitions.

Now the work that we have to do as his children is to get into a position that we can hear him and he can hear us.

And we may go month after month, year after year, without God answering our prayers apparently, and we just wonder, is this all there is to religion?

I'm reading a book that I want to share with with you elders and we'll probably need to study it through prayer meeting time.

It's a prayer written by a man that was contemporary with Ellen White.

I've been reading this book recently, and he writes, the title of the book is With Christ in the school of prayer.

The only thing that gave him away that he wasn't an Adventist was that he spoke about Sunday school.

Otherwise he would speak about the heavenly sanctuary, Jesus as our high priest, and interceding for us.

He spoke about the chapter in Luke, chapter 11, where the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray.

And 1 of the things that is highlighted is that God wants to bless His people with more than just the earthly things.

He wants to bless His people with spiritual power.

He wants His children to experience divine miracles in their life.

That's the kind of God that the Bible tells me exists.

Friends, I pray that we can know God more so that we know He can hear us.

And it's a powerful thing when we know God hears us because if He hears us, He will answer our prayers.

If we're close enough to Him to know His will and to ask a right, keeping to the conditions, He will answer your prayers.

And if He's not answering our prayers, if He's not answering my prayers, maybe there's something hindering my closeness to God.

Title of the sermon today is actually part 2.

We looked at the amazing account that the Bible gives us.

And 1 of the reasons I'm going into this kind of history and archaeology of the children of Israel and Joseph that brought his father and his brothers into Egypt is because we need to have an answer to people that say these stories in the Bible are just made up and they're exaggerated.

You know, and that they try to explain the miracles by, you know, some natural phenomenon that are described in the book of Exodus.

The story of the Exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt is the most awesome story of deliverance in the whole Bible.

So wouldn't you think that the enemy would try and discredit the account of that story?

Now if we believe the Bible, and there are still some Christians around that do believe the Bible, but there are many seminaries that teach that there are no miracles that can take place because we only believe what we can see.

So we need to have an answer and what we are finding lately in these days that we are approaching the soon return of Jesus Christ is that there are more and more archaeological discoveries that are proving that the Hebrew nation lived in the Nile Delta in Egypt.

It's a hard thing to go and dig in the Nile Delta because it's a flood plain.

And so to dig, you need to put up barriers to keep the water away and be able to discover what is hidden there, what God, I believe, has preserved for our time so that we, as we come close to the second coming of Jesus, can realize that this word is actually true.

And scientists are coming up with evidence that proves it.

And so we looked at this amazing story of how Joseph was taken prisoner to Egypt...

...And he is able to interpret the pharaoh's dream.

And we found out that there is archaeological evidence that speaks about a man who was a leader, a helper, second in command for Pharaoh.

And the Pharaoh is named as Pharaoh Josa.

And he has inscriptions and artifacts that show in this pyramid of Saqqara.

This is the oldest pyramid and it has record that there was a pharaoh there by the name of Joseph and fragments of the statue of Pharaoh were found there and on the base of that Inscription there was a name of a man called Imhotep He was Chancellor of the king of the lower Egypt chief under the king.

He was administrator of the great palace, hereditary lord, high priest, Heliopolis, Imhotep, the builder, the sculptor, the maker of stone vases.

National Geographic writes about this in 1995 that Imhotep was an architect and he also helped build the step pyramid.

So what we're seeing here is evidence that Joseph helped in the building of the largest pyramid in Egypt.

And this, he was actually worshipped 1, 400 years after his lifetime because of the great things that he did for Egypt.

What were some of the great things that he did for Egypt?

The record shows in National Geographic that Imhotep saved his country from a famine, which is exactly what Joseph did with the help of God.

This is the stone that in Aswan, in the Niles, in the cataracts of the Nile, which give account of Imhotep, that this is a copy of archaeological finds of the time of the Pharaoh of Joseph, which we're being told was Pharaoh Joseph.

When we compare the Inscription on that stone to the Bible account, we see that there is parallel.

There's a description of the distress of Pharaoh because he has a dream.

He doesn't know what it is and what it means.

And Joseph, after being 2 years forgotten in prison by the cup bearer, suddenly the cup bearer remembers that there was somebody that helped interpret his dream that got him out of prison and Joseph said to the cup bearer, please remember me when you get free.

And as it so often happens, Even a friend will forget you.

And so he comes and interprets the dream, 7 fat cows, 7 skinny cows, and the 7 skinny cows eat the 7 fat cows.

And Joseph gives the interpretation of the dream.

And he says there's going to be 7 years of plenty, Pharaoh.

You need to stock up with all the grain you can.

You need to build granaries to hold all of this plenty that will be given to you.

The God of heaven is giving you this dream so that you can prepare.

As the Pharaoh said, well, who can we find?

Who can we find that would be so able to do what needs to be done than Joseph?

Pharaoh says this about Joseph, Genesis 41, 40-44, You shall be over my house and according to your word shall all my people be ruled." In other words, Pharaoh is saying, whatever you say, the way we should govern Egypt, you go ahead and we'll do it, Joseph.

Only in the throne will I be greater than you.

And he made him ride in the second chariot.

So Pharaoh has the first chariot and Joseph has the second, which he had.

And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And archaeology is coming up with evidence that shows that there was such a man that saved Egypt from famine.

If we can believe the story of the Exodus, that God was with them, Jesus was with them, and that God parted the Red Sea at 1 of its deepest points and had prepared for them a place where they could go over on dry land.

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The Exodus & God Almighty

The Pharaoh That Knew Not Joseph

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