“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”

Isaiah 55: 6-7

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Trump’s Presidency and the Exodus have a Lot in Common

This SnyderTalk editorial is lengthy. I did not have a choice. Here’s why.

Yahweh is doing things now that are like the things He did during the Exodus. Therefore, to understand the events unfolding today, you must understand what He did during the Exodus.

Below is a lengthy excerpt from His Name is Yahweh: Revised Edition with references. The excerpt comes from chapter 3 titled “Yahweh Declares His Name”. You need to read it. Thankfully, I wrote the book, and I own the copyright. I’m allowed to do this. Click on the book’s title above, and you can see the manuscript for the entire book in PDF format. You can buy the book from Amazon in paperback or eBook by clicking here.

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Excerpt from Chapter 3 of His Name is Yahweh: Revised Edition

Yahweh Meets Moses on Mount Sinai

Exodus 3: 2 says that the Angel of Yahweh appeared to Moses as a blaze of fire in a bush that was not consumed.  Exodus 3: 4 says that the Angel of Yahweh is Yahweh.  Keep this fact in mind because the Angel of Yahweh is the personification and manifestation of Yahweh.  Christians refer to Him as the Messiah.  The preincarnate Messiah met Moses on Mount Sinai.

Moses turned aside to take a close look at the bush.  He could have simply looked at it from a distance in amazement, or he could have run away from it since it was such an unusual and possibly frightening sight.  Instead, he walked right up to the bush.  He got so close to it that Yahweh stopped him and told him to take off his shoes because he was walking on holy ground.^[1]  The ground was holy because of Yahweh’s presence.

Yahweh called out to Moses from the burning bush and said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.”^[2]

When he realized who was talking to him, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to gaze at Yahweh.  Moses’ mother had probably taught him about Yahweh’s awesome power and about His absolute purity.  He knew that compared to Yahweh he was a filthy wretch.

Yahweh told Moses that He was sending him as His emissary to the Children of Israel and to Pharaoh.  He also told Moses that He would deliver the Israelites from bondage in Egypt personally and take them to the land that He promised to give Abraham and his descendants.

At first, Moses was reluctant to assume the responsibility perhaps because he had tried to help his Hebrew relatives 40 years earlier, and they had asked Him, “Who made you a prince or a judge over us?”^[3]  When they asked him that question, Moses did not know how to respond.

In all likelihood, Yahweh had been working in Moses’ life at that point, and he understood what he was supposed to do.  However, he did not understand the details.  He did not know who was giving him the job or when he was supposed to do it.  Forty years later on Mount Sinai speaking from a burning bush, Yahweh told Moses about the role he would play in the redemption of the Children of Israel.

Yahweh Reveals His Name

Yahweh ordered Moses to return to Egypt and tell the Children of Israel, “Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.”^[4]

Once the Children of Israel knew who had sent him, Yahweh assured Moses they would respond positively to his message.  Then He said, “…this [Yahweh] is My Name forever, the Name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”^[5]

This is an important point.  The first command that Yahweh gave Moses was to tell the Children of Israel His Name.  Obviously, He never intended for us to forget it because forever means without end.  Yahweh certainly did not want us to conceal His Name in the Scriptures by substituting the titles “LORD” and “GOD” in its place.  People did that on their own initiative, and as I said before, Satan must have inspired them to do it.

At that moment, Yahweh could have instructed Moses to tell the Children of Israel not to say His Name.  If saying His Name had been a problem, He would have.  He must have known how they would respond when they learned that Moses had come in His Name and that Yahweh was going to rescue them.  Yahweh’s Name was about to spread through their community faster than a brush fire in the desert.

Yahweh’s Name is important.  It draws a sharp distinction between Him and every god created by men, and it identifies Him as the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  It also distinguishes between Him and any human being called “lord”.  Yahweh is not a god or a lord.  He is the One true Elohim and the Adonai and Master of all creation.

Moses Goes to Pharaoh

After Moses delivered Yahweh’s message to the Israelites, he went to Pharaoh and told him that Yahweh, “the Elohim of Israel”,^[6] had said to let His people go to serve Him.  Pharaoh must have been amused with Moses because he had fled from Egypt 40 years earlier, and now he was back giving orders.

The Egyptians believed Pharaoh was god on earth.  In his eyes, Moses was nothing and the Children of Israel were less than nothing, except for the fact that he wanted them to continue making bricks.

Pharaoh looked at Moses and arrogantly said, “Who is Yahweh that I should obey His voice and let Israel go?  I do not know Yahweh.”^[7]

Pharaoh was right.  He did not know Yahweh.  That was the problem.  If he had known Yahweh, he never would have treated the Hebrew people so harshly, and now he decided to teach Moses a lesson by imposing an even heavier burden on them.

From that moment forward, he proudly proclaimed, they would be required to gather the straw used in brick making, but their daily quota would remain the same.  Until that time, the Egyptians provided the straw, and the Hebrews made the bricks.  Thus, Pharaoh made their backbreaking task even more difficult.  He did not realize it, but he was begging Yahweh to teach him a lesson.

The Children of Israel were incensed when Pharaoh increased their workload, and they let Moses know it.  They blamed him because he was Yahweh’s emissary.  He had told them that Yahweh would deliver them, but instead of setting them free, Yahweh allowed Pharaoh to punish them severely even though they had done nothing wrong.

Moses was dumbfounded, and he presumptuously said, “Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”^[8]

Yahweh’s response to Moses is revealing.  He simply told Moses to give the Children of Israel this explanation:

“I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage.  I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.  Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your Elohim; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.  I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a permanent possession; I am Yahweh.”^[9]

The essence of Yahweh’s explanation is this: “I am Yahweh.”  In truth, “I am Yahweh” says it all.  These verses hint at the importance of His Name.  In some ways, the significance of His Name is a mystery because most of us don’t place much weight on names, but Yahweh does.  He wants us to know that His Name sets Him apart.  Yahweh is the Sovereign of the universe—a fact that Pharaoh is about to learn.

The Ten Plagues

The ten plagues were a ten-part lesson designed to teach Pharaoh, everyone in Egypt including the Israelites, and the rest of the world that Yahweh is the One and only Elohim.  According to Charles Ryrie, the plagues demonstrated Yahweh’s power and the utter uselessness of these Egyptian gods:

• Plague 1—Hapi (thought to be the spirit of the Nile) and Khnum (thought to be the guardian of the Nile).
• Plague 2—Heqt (thought to have the form of a frog) and Hapi.
• Plague 3—It’s not clear in this plague which Egyptian god Yahweh is mocking.
• Plague 4—Uatchit (a god thought to appear as a fly).
• Plague 5—Ptah (thought to be the creator), the Apis bull (thought to be the incarnation of Ptah), and sacred cows in general.
• Plague 6—Sekhmet (a goddess thought to have healing powers) and Serapis (another god thought to have healing powers).
• Plague 7—Seth (thought to be the protector of crops) and Nut (thought to be the goddess of the sky).
• Plague 8—Isis (thought to be the goddess of life) and Seth.
• Plague 9—Ra (thought to be the sun god).
• Plague 10—Osiris (thought to be the giver of life) and Pharaoh (thought to be god on earth).^[10]

Yahweh spoke the universe into existence.^[11]  He could have destroyed Egypt simply by saying the word, but He did not.  Yahweh wanted to teach these lessons, and He told Moses to write it down as a permanent record and as a warning to the world that disobedience is costly.  At the end of the lessons, Pharaoh would die.

The First Plague—Turning Water into Blood

Yahweh introduced the first plague with these words:

“By this you shall know that I am Yahweh.”^[12]

Moses instructed his brother Aaron to strike the Nile River with his staff, and it turned into blood.  Then he told Aaron to stretch out his staff over the waters of Egypt, and all the streams and ponds in Egypt turned into blood.  Pharaoh responded by asking his magicians to perform a similar sign through trickery, and they did.  So, Pharaoh hardened his heart, and he did not let Yahweh’s people go.

The Second Plague—Frogs

Seven days later, Yahweh instructed Moses to deliver this message to Pharaoh:

“Let My people go, that they may serve Me.  But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.”^[13]

Pharaoh refused to obey Yahweh so Aaron stretched out his staff over the rivers, ponds and streams, and frogs came up out of the water and covered the whole land of Egypt.  Pharaoh asked his magicians to perform a similar feat, and they did.  But he summoned Moses immediately and promised him that he would let Yahweh’s people go if Moses would ask Him to remove the frogs from the land.

Moses allowed Pharaoh to choose the specific time that the frogs would be removed to show him that “there is no one like Yahweh our Elohim.”^[14]  Pharaoh said tomorrow, and the next day the frogs were gone.  Still, Pharaoh refused to obey Yahweh.

The Third Plague—Gnats

Yahweh told Moses to instruct Aaron to stretch out his staff and strike the dust on the ground, and it would turn into gnats.  He did it, and gnats covered the whole land of Egypt.  Pharaoh’s magicians tried unsuccessfully to copy this plague, and they went to Pharaoh and said, “This is the finger of Elohim.”^[15]  Even though Pharaoh’s servants were beginning to understand that Yahweh is Elohim, Pharaoh did not believe it, and he did not let Yahweh’s people go.

The Fourth Plague—Flies

The first three plagues showed Pharaoh that Yahweh is Elohim, and they were inflicted on the entire land of Egypt.  However, Yahweh made an important distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians during the fourth plague.  He instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh that if he did not let His people go, swarms of insects would cover Egypt, but they would not swarm in Goshen where the Children of Israel lived.  Yahweh said,

“But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of insects will be there, in order that you may know that I, Yahweh, am in the midst of the land.  I will put a division between My people and your people.  Tomorrow this sign shall occur.”^[16]

Once again, Pharaoh refused to let Yahweh’s people go so insects swarmed throughout Egypt and devastated the land, but they did not swarm in Goshen.  Pharaoh softened his position a bit after he saw the damage caused by the insects.  He summoned Moses and told him that he could sacrifice to Yahweh, but he would have to do it in Egypt.

Moses reminded Pharaoh that they intended to sacrifice cattle to Yahweh.  Since the Egyptians believed cattle were gods, they might be attacked.  Pharaoh reluctantly agreed to let them go, and Moses warned Pharaoh not to renege on his promise again.  But it was no use.  Pharaoh changed his mind and refused to let Yahweh’s people go.

The Fifth Plague—Disease on the Livestock

Yahweh told Moses to warn Pharaoh that if he refused to let His people go “the hand of Yahweh will come with very severe pestilence on your livestock,”^[17] but He said that the plague would not affect the Hebrew livestock.  Yahweh gave Pharaoh a day to make up his mind, but he still refused to let His people go.

The next day, Yahweh inflicted a disease on the livestock in Egypt, and many of them died.  Pharaoh sent his scouts to Goshen to find out if any of the Hebrew livestock had survived.  They reported back to him that all of their animals were alive and well.  Still Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let Yahweh’s people go.

The Sixth Plague—Boils on Men and Animals

Yahweh told Moses to take soot from a kiln and to throw it into the air in front of Pharaoh.  Immediately, it became a fine dust that covered the land of Egypt.  It caused boils to break out on men and animals.  Boils broke out so badly on Pharaoh’s magicians that they could not stand in his presence.  Still, he refused to accept Yahweh’s authority.  Pharaoh had a stubborn, unyielding heart.  Yahweh was furious with him.  For the first time, Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let Yahweh’s people go.

The Seventh Plague—Hail

Yahweh’s anger was growing by the moment.  He said,

“This time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.  For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.  But, indeed, for this cause I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power, in order to proclaim My Name [Yahweh] through all the earth.”^[18]

Yahweh instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh and his servants to bring their animals in from the fields to safety because the next day He would send a hailstorm the likes of which no one had ever seen.  By now, many Egyptians believed Moses and feared Yahweh.  They quickly brought their animals inside for cover.  Those who did not believe Yahweh turned a deaf ear to His merciful warning and were destined to suffer great loss.

The next day the storm began, but it was not a typical hailstorm.  Hail and fire (not lightning) mixed together rained down from heaven.  Ordinarily, water and fire cannot coexist, but this time they did.

In the deutero-canonical^[19] book Wisdom that is included in Catholic Bibles, King Solomon^[20] said this about the seventh plague:

“Even more wonderful, in the water—which quenches all—the fire raged fiercer than ever^[21]….For the whole creation, submissive to your commands, had its very nature re-created, so that your children should be preserved from harm^[22]….A new attuning of the elements occurred, as on a harp the notes may change their rhythm, though all the while preserving the same tone; and this is just what happened^[23]….fire reinforced its strength in water, and water forgot the power of extinguishing it….”^[24]

What a sight that must have been.  But in the land of Goshen where the Hebrew people lived there was no storm at all.  For the first time Pharaoh feared Yahweh.  Hurriedly he sent for Moses and pleaded with him to ask Yahweh to call off the storm.  He said, “I have sinned this time; Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.”^[25]  Pharaoh told Moses that if Yahweh would stop the storm, he would let His people go.

Moses did as Pharaoh requested, but he knew Pharaoh’s fear of Yahweh was normal human fear—not fear leading to obedience to Yahweh.  Sure enough, when the storm ended Pharaoh broke his word again.

With these plagues, Yahweh was demonstrating His sovereignty over the forces of nature and nature itself.  He was also displaying His superiority over the most powerful principality in the world.  No king or god can prevent from happening anything that Yahweh wills to happen.

Yahweh is in control.  The Exodus experience became an enduring lesson for all of mankind about the omnipotence of Yahweh.

The Eighth Plague—Locusts

Yahweh told Moses,

“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am Yahweh.”^[26]

This would not be a normal locust infestation.  They would come in such a massive swarm that they would literally cover the ground.  Nothing is beyond Yahweh’s reach: not insects, not bacteria, and not viruses.

By this time, Pharaoh’s servants were afraid of Yahweh, and they begged him to let Yahweh’s people go.  Pharaoh called for Moses and told him that he could take the Hebrew men with him but that he would have to leave the women and children behind to ensure their return.  Moses rejected Pharaoh’s offer, and the locusts descended on Egypt.

The locusts devastated the remaining vegetation.  Pharaoh begged Moses to remove them.  Again, he admitted that he had sinned, and he promised to let Yahweh’s people go.  Yahweh caused a strong wind to blow the locusts out of Egypt, but when they were gone Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart.  He did not let Yahweh’s people go.

The Ninth Plague—Darkness

Without notifying Pharaoh in advance, Yahweh told Moses to stretch out his hands and darkness would cover Egypt for three days.  It was not ordinary darkness, though.  It might have been a severe sandstorm, and it could have been darkness along with thick, moist air.

Some people have speculated that ashes from the volcano on the Greek island of Santorini may have caused the darkness following a stunning eruption at about the time of the Exodus, but no one knows for sure.  This much is certain, though.  Pharaoh knew that his chief god, Ra the sun god, was obliterated for three days and that the people of Egypt were angry with him for exposing them needlessly to Yahweh’s unrelenting hand.

Pharaoh called for Moses and told him to take all his people with him, but to leave the animals in Egypt.  Again, Moses refused Pharaoh’s offer because they needed the animals to make sacrifices to Yahweh.  Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart once more, and he did not let His people go.

The Tenth Plague—Death of the First-Born or Passover

The tenth plague was different from all the others because this time Yahweh targeted the first-born of every living creature.  It would touch every home in Egypt, including Pharaoh’s house.  The tenth plague was different in these respects as well:

• Yahweh came in Person to execute it.^[27] He used the tenth plague to demonstrate His sovereignty over life and death and to show Pharaoh, Egypt, and the rest of the world that there are consequences for rebellion against Him.
• Yahweh used it to re-emphasize that He “makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel”.^[28] In a broader sense, He was showing that He differentiates between His people and everyone else.
• Yahweh used the tenth plague, or Passover, to teach us a lesson about redemption and salvation, and He commanded us to celebrate Passover every year forever.^[29]

Passover is the day that Yahweh redeemed His people, when He passed over their houses and spared them from the death penalty.  But the penalty for sin is death.  Yahweh told Adam that he would surely die if he disobeyed Him,^[30]  and Yahweh cannot go back on His Word.  The blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and lintels of their houses was, and still is, symbolic of the sacrifice Yahweh made to secure our salvation.

In other words, Passover is not just about redemption from bondage in Egypt.  In a larger sense, it is about redemption from bondage to sin.  That’s why Yahweh commanded us to celebrate it yearly forever.

Yahweh told Moses,

“This month shall be for you the beginning of months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year.  Speak to the entire assembly of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves—each man—a lamb or a kid for each father’s house, a lamb or a kid for the household.  But if the household will be too small for a lamb or kid, then he and his neighbor who is near his house shall take according to the number of people; everyone according to what he eats shall be counted for the lamb or kid.  An unblemished lamb or kid, a male, within its first year shall it be for you; from the sheep or goats shall you take it.  It shall be yours for examination until the fourteenth day of this month; the entire congregation of the assembly of Israel shall slaughter it in the afternoon.  They shall take some of its blood and place it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they will eat it.  They shall eat the flesh on that night—roasted over a fire—and matzos; with bitter herbs shall they eat it.”^[31]

Yahweh refers to the Passover lamb as “a lamb” three times.  He told them to take “a lamb” for each household, and if a household was too small for “a lamb”, He told them to combine families and share “a lamb”.  Everyone will have enough and no one will have too much.  That’s fundamental to Yahweh’s plan for redemption and salvation.

Next, Yahweh refers to it as “the lamb”—the unblemished lamb.  Then, He refers to “the lamb” as your personal lamb:

“It [the lamb] shall be yours [your lamb] for examination until the fourteenth day of this month.”^[32]

Yahweh told the Children of Israel to take “the lamb” into their houses for four days.  During the four-day period, it becomes “your lamb”.  You get to know it.  It becomes part of your family.  You learn about its character and disposition.  In every sense of the word, it becomes “your lamb”.  Yahweh’s redemption is personal as well.  He made a sacrifice for you.  He is your Lamb.

Finally, Yahweh told them to slaughter their personal lamb on the afternoon of the 14^th.  It was as if they were slaughtering a member of their own family.  By that time, the children knew and loved their lamb.  They probably cried when it was slaughtered.

In the truest sense, this lamb is your lamb.  It is dying for your salvation.  Your Lamb’s blood is the only thing that saves your life.  Stated another way, if your Lamb did not shed his blood for you, you would surely die.

To redeem us and to atone for our sins, the unblemished Passover Lamb of Yahweh had to die.  He had to pay the price for our sins to save us.  That’s the most important message contained in the Scriptures.

Yahweh explained the literal meaning of Passover to Isaiah this way: “Yahweh inflicted on Him the iniquity of us all”^[33] and He is our “guilt offering”.^[34]

The Messiah is the Person about whom Yahweh is speaking.  He took the penalty for our sins upon Himself.  As you will see later, the Messiah is the personification and manifestation of Yahweh.

Yahweh is Sovereign

Pharaoh ignored Yahweh again and again.  Finally, He had had enough of Pharaoh’s rebellion and disobedience.  He came down from heaven and went through the land of Egypt killing the first-born of men and animals in homes that were not covered by the blood of the Passover lamb.

As I said at the beginning of this chapter, the Exodus tells about Yahweh revealing His sovereignty and His salvation to the world.  His Name is the Name that is above every name.  In His Name alone we have redemption and salvation.  That’s what Isaiah meant when he said,

“Give thanks to Yahweh, declare His Name, make His acts known among the peoples; declare that His Name is exalted.  Make music to Yahweh, for He has acted with grandeur; make this known throughout the world.  Exult and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great in your midst!”^[35]

An Ancient Egyptian Document May Describe the Exodus

An Egyptian who lived during the time of the Exodus may have preserved a record of the Exodus for us.  A document called the Ipuwer Papyrus describes a time in Egypt when the country was in total chaos.  It was written shortly after the Exodus as a poem.  Many people believe that it is a work of fiction and it may be, but it reads like an eyewitness account of the Exodus.  It describes what we would expect to happen in the real world after Yahweh finished demonstrating His awesome power to the Egyptians.

For example,

• It mentions a large group of “foreigners” who lived and worked in the delta region of Egypt, or Goshen. The Children of Israel were foreigners.  They lived in Goshen.
• It says that the Nile River turned into blood and that many Egyptians died as a result.
• It laments the destruction of the land, including all the timber and grain in Egypt, and it grieves about a severe shortage of building material and food.
• It talks about the sudden and unexpected death of the king and a large number of noblemen. That may be a reference to the destruction of Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea.
• It talks about Egypt being a leaderless society and about crime being out of control throughout the country. If Pharaoh and his army had been destroyed, we would expect criminal activity in Egypt to increase because the army, which was also the police force, was not around to prevent it.
• It says, “What the ancestors foretold has happened.”^[36] Joseph foretold the Exodus hundreds of years in advance, and he instructed his brothers to take his bones with them when they left Egypt. Since he was viceroy or prime minister, it is reasonable to assume that the Egyptians were familiar with Joseph’s prophecy and his instructions to his brothers.

Probably the most interesting statement in the Ipuwer Papyrus is this chilling refrain:

“If I knew where god is I would serve him.”

That’s remarkable because the Egyptians did not believe in a god.  They believed in many gods.  Only Joseph and the Children of Israel believed in One Elohim.

It’s reasonable to assume that the people in Egypt were thoroughly familiar with Yahweh by the time the Children of Israel departed, because He had destroyed their land and their leaders.  He had upset their world in ways that we can’t imagine.  Everyone alive in Egypt, Hebrew or Egyptian, knew that the Elohim of Israel is sovereign.  Thus, it should come as no surprise to anyone that after the Exodus some of the Egyptians who survived the onslaught from Yahweh longed to know more about Him.^[37]

Yahweh is Doing Amazing Things Right Now

To understand what has been taking place since Donald Trump was nominated for the presidency, you need to realize two things:

1. Donald Trump is Yahweh’s man for a time like this.
2. Yahweh is using Donald Trump to change America and the world for the better.

There is no other way to explain how a man with no political experience won the GOP nomination for the presidency against a host of well-funded establishment GOP candidates and then defeated a woman in the general election who was considered to be a shoo-in for the presidency.

But it didn’t stop there. Since the day President Trump was inaugurated, the Democrat Party machine, the establishment media, and establishment Republicans have been trying to destroy him, his family, and his administration. It started on Day One. Democrats announced their intention to impeach the president within 20 minutes of his inauguration.

First, we saw a Russia collusion investigation that took 2 and half years to complete and cost about $40 million. It was headed up by Robert Mueller, a man who had been the FBI Director, and staffed with a team of investigators who were all Hillary Clinton supporters. On top of that, renegade FBI agents and DOJ lawyers broke the law to assist Mueller and his team. President Trump was exonerated. It was an epic fail for the president’s enemies.

Second, immediately after the Russia collusion investigation ended in failure, the impeachment investigation began. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi along with House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler fabricated a Ukraine quid pro quo narrative, called disingenuous witnesses, and ended up drafting 2 articles of impeachment against the president, neither one of which had to do with the commission of a crime much less a high crime or misdemeanor.

The Senate impeachment trial ended with a not guilty verdict, but during the investigation in the House and the trial in the Senate, one thing became crystal clear. The Democrat nominee for the presidency, Joe Biden, was guilty of abusing the power of his office to enrich himself and his son in both Ukraine and China. He did engage in an illegal quid pro quo. It was another epic fail for the president’s political enemies.

Third, as the impeachment trial in the Senate was being held, the Covid-19 pandemic was beginning. Democrats ignored it until the Senate failed to impeach, and then they mocked the president for taking swift action to protect the American people by stopping flights from China. They called him a xenophobe and a racist until the pandemic hit the U.S. hard. Then they changed their tune and screamed that the president wasn’t doing enough. They shut down the economy to hurt the president politically, and to this day, they are working tirelessly to prevent the president from reopening the economy.

Fourth, Democrats unleashed their militia groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa after several police shootings of blacks in Democrat-run cities in Democrat-run states. The militia groups proceeded to burn, loot, and kill with impunity while Democrats claimed that President Trump was responsible for the mayhem they concocted and allowed to flourish.

Finally, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and gave President Trump the opportunity to appoint another justice to the court before the 2020 election. Now, Democrats are claiming that the president has no right to make the appointment during an election year.

Throughout it all, President Trump has accomplished one amazing feat after another. That’s impossible unless Yahweh is involved. He is protecting the president and the American people while the president’s enemies try to take down His man and destroy our nation.

At this point, nobody knows what will come next, but this much is certain. All of this is just like the Exodus. Yahweh is revealing Himself to the world, and the world is beginning to take notice. In the midst of it all, President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Some people think Yahweh doesn’t have a sense of humor. They are wrong.

If you haven’t read “How Does Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Fit into Yahweh’s Plan?”, you should. Joe Biden’s response to this episode led CNN to call the former vice president a liar. See “Fact check: Biden falsely claims Trump campaign only asked him for Supreme Court list after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died”.

That’s a switch.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

John 17: 22-24

See “His Name is Yahweh”.

[1] Exodus 3: 4-5.

[2] Exodus 3: 6.

[3] Exodus 2: 14.

[4] Exodus 3: 15.

[5] Exodus 3: 15 in the New International Version.

[6] Exodus 5: 1.

[7] Exodus 5: 2.

[8] Exodus 5: 23.

[9] Exodus 6: 6-8.

[10] Ryrie, Charles. Ryrie Study Bible, 1995, p. 101.

[11] Genesis 1: 3-28.

[12] Exodus 7: 17.

[13] Exodus 8: 1-2.

[14] Exodus 8: 10.

[15] Exodus 8: 19.

[16] Exodus 8: 22-23.  Some Bible translations refer to the fourth plague as a swarm of lice or flies instead of insects, and the Tanach refers to it as a swarm of beasts.  I searched diligently to find out how these various interpretations were reached but was unable to find a satisfactory answer.  Thus, I used the New American Standard Bible as my source document.  In any event, in this plague Yahweh is demonstrating His ability to take simple dust and turn it into something powerful with which to inflict punishment on mankind—in this case Pharaoh and all of Egypt.  He was also demonstrating that He distinguishes between His people and everyone else.

[17] Exodus 9: 3.

[18] Exodus 9: 14-16.

[19] “Deutero-canonical” simply means that it is not included in the Bible that Protestants use.  Early church leaders accepted the book of Wisdom as Yahweh’s divinely inspired word until St. Jerome and several other church leaders objected to its inclusion in the canonical Scriptures—the Protestant Bible.  Be that as it may, Wisdom is a wonderful book that should be read by all Christians.

[20] According to The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday, New York, 1985, p. 1042, King Solomon wrote The Book of Wisdom.  Although he is not named in the book itself as the writer, he is clearly indicated.  For example, Wisdom 9: 7-8 says “You have chosen me to be king over Your people, to be judge of your sons and daughters.  You have bidden me build a temple on Your holy mountain, and an altar in the city where you have pitched Your tent, a copy of the holy Tent which You prepared at the beginning.”  Solomon is the person Yahweh commissioned to do these things.  Wisdom 9: 12 says, “…I shall govern Your people justly and be worthy of my father’s throne.”  Again, this verse indicates that Solomon is the writer of The Book of Wisdom, because he succeeded his father David to the throne of Israel.

[21] Wisdom 16: 17 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

[22] Wisdom 19: 6 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

[23] Wisdom 19: 18 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

[24] Wisdom 19: 20 from The New Jerusalem Bible.

[25] Exodus 9: 27.

[26] Exodus 10: 1-2.

[27] Exodus 12: 12.

[28] Exodus 11: 7.

[29] Exodus 12:  14 and 17.

[30] Genesis 2: 17.

[31] Exodus 12: 2-8 from The Stone Edition Tanach.

[32] Exodus 12: 6.

[33] Isaiah 53: 6 from the The Stone Edition Tanach.

[34] Isaiah 53: 10.

[35] Isaiah 12: 4-6.

[36] Möller, Lennart.  The Exodus Case: A Scientific Examination of the Exodus Story—and a Deep Look Into the Red Sea, Scandinavia Publishing House, Copenhagen NV, Denmark, 2000, pp. 145.

[37] For more details about the Ipuwer Papyrus, read Möller’s book The Exodus Case: A Scientific Examination of the Exodus Story—and a Deep Look Into the Red Sea, Scandinavia Publishing House, Copenhagen NV, Denmark, 2000, pp. 143-149.