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Teddy's 1000 Lives -The Day I Became A Pawn IV
Sitting out the following punishments, or ‘plagues’, as they were called, was a nightmare. My siblings and I had to witness some of the most gruesome things imaginable, and it was the innocent who had to carry the burden my father’s stubbornness loaded onto their shoulders. A horrible disease decimated Egyptian livestock severely. Cattle died like flies, where they stood. The poor animals got…
Understanding the Ten Plagues of Egypt for Kids
LORD sent Moses and Aaron to ask pharaoh to let God’s people go so they may worship God in the wilderness, but Pharaoh said no so God sent the 10 plagues on Egypt. After all of that Pharaoh said get out and take your people with you. So, Mose led the people out of Egypt. That is the story of the exodus when the people left Egypt. Here are the 10 Plagues, if you have a bible turn to them. Nile…
I seem to be experiencing a biblical plague of locusts. I keep finding grasshoppers in my apartment and now in my car. It's creepy, and has never happened before. I'll keep you updated if the water in my sink turns to blood. Personally, I would prefer frogs (or possibly one really big frog).
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Sands of Oblivion
“Sands of Oblivion” (2007) buries a bright idea in a banal B-movie. The ingenious plot twists allows this “Egyptian curse” story to filmed on location in California without ever having to pretend otherwise.
The “Sci-Fi Channel original” cribs most of its plot points from Stephen Sommers’ “The Mummy” (1999). The one ray of inspiration is its link to what was once a real-life legend, “The lost city of Cecil B. DeMille”. The great director would release his silent film epic, “The 10 Commandments” in 1923. Thirty-three years later, he remade his own movie, starring Charlton Heston as Moses. The second version was filmed on location in Egypt and at Mount Sinai itself. However, for his first version of the Exodus, DeMille traveled just 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) northwest of Beverly Hills. There he found the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, an 18-mile-long strip of land (20,000 acres) that receives more annual rainfall, but on a clear day can pass for the Saharan Desert. Nowadays it is a national wildlife refuge, home to more than 120 species of rare plants and animals.
DeMille had built on site “the City of the Pharaohs”, which at the time was the largest and most expensive movie set in Hollywood history. The “Egyptian temple”, for example, measure roughly 120 feet in height and 720 feet in width, and was flanked by 21 plaster sphinxes thought to weigh a few hundred pounds each. In addition to the set, which blended ancient Egyptian symbols with 1920s Art Deco style, DeMille also created "Camp DeMille", a tent city with street signs and a 24-hour canteen for 3,500 actors and crew members.
After filming was complete, DeMille decided that he did not want to pay for hauling out the elaborate set. But he had signed a contractor with the Union Sugar Company, which owned the land then, to leave no trace of the production after he left. But that only applied to the surface of the soil, so DeMille had everything buried beneath the sand. For decades, no one knew exactly where this burial site was. But in the early 1980s, a pair of amateur archeologists claimed to have found it, and spent the next 30 years raising money for the excavation. The project was finally completed in 2017, 10 years after “Sands of Oblivion”. Their efforts are chronicled in a 2016 documentary “The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille”.There is an exhibit on the recovery at the Dunes Center museum in Guadalupe, California.
Now, the premise of “Sands of Oblivion” is that DeMille took a trip to Cairo, Egypt, and purchased on the black market authentic Egyptian relics to adorn his “City of the Pharaohs”. One relic bore an authentic curse and the real reason DeMille buried the set was to save the world from the ancient being released by the curse. This all is explained for the viewer in flashbacks which bring the contemporary “action” to a grinding halt, but really are the most interesting part of the movie. Cecil B. DeMille is portrayed by Dan Castellaneta, whose other claim to fame is being the voice of Homer Simpson (Doh!). He gives the best acting performance, really convincing the viewer that this must be what the larger-than-life director was like. The vengeful Egyptian deity is accidentally set free once more, and it is up to a bookish but beautiful archeologist and a former soldier to stop “the power of the 10 plagues” from being unleashed on the modern world.
Which is a repetition of the 1999 movie’s error. The 10 Plagues are from the Bible, not ancient Egyptian mythology. Each plague was intended to demonstrate the power of the God of Israel over the forces of nature worshipped by the Egyptians. Each plague challenged the Egyptian gods associated with the natural elements and aspects of life they governed. Through the 10 Plagues, the Lord showed that it was an easy matter for Him to change all the blessings of the country into curses.
The Nile was the primary source of fertility and life in Egypt. Changing the water of the Nile to blood (Exodus 7:14-24) was a direct strike against Osiris, Egypt’s god of fertility and agriculture. This miracle also challenged other Nile-related gods: Khnum (source of the Nile), Hapi (flooding), and Sopdet (fertility through floodwaters), as well as Nu, Naunet, Tefnut, Nehet-Weret, and the fish-goddess Hatmehit. The plague of frogs (Exodus 8:1-15) mocked Heket, the frog-headed goddess of fertility and water. The plague of lice from the dust of the earth (Exodus 8:16-19): Geb, the god of the earth. The plague of flies (Exodus 8:20-32): pestilence and decay, instead of regeneration and life provided by the god Khepri. Death of livestock (Exodus 9:1-7): Hathor, the cow-headed goddess of livestock, and Apis, bull-headed god of livestock. Boils and sores (Exodus 9:8-12) : Sunu, Sekhmet and Isis, deities associated with medicine and healing. Hail and fire from the sky (Exodus 9:13-35) : the goddess of the sky, Nut. Neither Nut nor Set, god of storms, could defend the Egyptians against the devastation delivered by the true God. Locusts (Exodus 10:1-20): Both Set and Osiris, linked to vegetation and agriculture, were both shown to be powerless as locusts consumed the crops of Egypt. Darkness at midday (Exodus 10:21-29): Ra, the sun god. Death of the firstborn, including the son of Pharaoh (Exodus 11:1-10;12:29-30) : the living god-king of Egypt himself. Pharaoh was believed to be the incarnation of Osiris and his son, the incarnation of the god Horus. In fact, all the plagues challenged not only the power of the gods, but the authority of Pharaoh.
The “finger of God” in the 10 Plagues overwhelms the magic of Pharaoh’s sorcerors (Exodus 8:19). But the Israelites not only are spared the worst of the plagues, they gain their liberty from slavery in Egypt through God’s mercy, their sins forgiven through the sacrifice of a lamb at the institution of the Passover (Exodus 12:1-28; 31-51). For New Testament believers, Jesus Christ, through His sacrifice on the cross, has become our Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:8) and the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea from slavery to freedom a sign of cross from death to eternal life through the water of baptism.
I told my dad today about the Passover frog debate and his response was that it was really one little frog which father bought for two zuzim so I think that puts an end to that
We are at that time of year again, when we are reminded that there is an almost 2000 year old argument about whether or not the Second Plague was a bunch of small froggies or one big kaiju froggie, and I just can't help but imagine a giant Hypnotoad materializing among the pyramids while Pharoah stands on the balcony of his palace with his eyes bugging out of his head and his jaw drops to the floor. I'd draw it if I had any artistic talent.
Malignant Normality: 10 Plagues of Exodus
Rev. Ed Schneider, MPTh The 10 Plagues in Exodus and How they Connect to Us. Chapter 3 What were the foundational purposes of the plagues described within the pages of the biblical witness? To answer this question, one must first understand two words, Theodicy and Hubris. According to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Theodicy and Hubris carry these definitions. “Theodicy is the effort to…
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Unveiling the Power of God: The Ten Plagues vs. the Egyptian Deities
Introduction: In the biblical narrative of Exodus, the ten plagues that struck Egypt are often interpreted as divine interventions aimed not only at demonstrating God’s power but also at challenging the authority of the Egyptian gods. Let’s delve deeper into this intriguing correlation between the plagues and the Egyptian deities, drawing from authentic sources and biblical verses. 1. The Nile…
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