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Bible Story: Promise, Failure, Redemption

Wait, God tells the same story over and over in the Bible?   It's the story of Joseph, Abraham, Moses, Paul, even Adam. And of course the story of Jesus. It's the story of the Passover, when God decides that he loves us more than enough to save us from our own disobedience. A sacrifice is made, so forgiveness and peace can ensue. When people tell the Passover story, they often leave out the part that Moses was a royal. He was raised in the Pharaoh's household like the king's own son, adopted by the queen from the rushes. His biological mother was brought into Pharaoh's house to be his nursemaid. All his life he had adopted Egyptian society and Egyptian dress - he lived in the royal palace. In what we now consider 'ancient Egypt', they documented their history very well, so we know a good bit about it. Moses‘s father pharaoh, likely Thutmose the fourth, is the same who, in secular history, had the dream that God came to him and told him that he could be kin...