A little something about Moses
Though Egypt occasionally produced a native military genius like Thutmose III, they generally could not raise militarily skilled forces from their own population. The land, the river, and the way of life there was, in a thoroughly good analogy, like being raised in a family that never worked and had a fairly large welfare check every month. Their religion focused on the Sun. Moses and the Hebrews were descended from Chaldeans. Chaldeans read the night sky; their learned class read the night sky with a proficiency about equal to modern astronomy. In military ops of the time and region, reading the night sky meant you could navigate anywhere and everywhere. And you moved at night. Back to Egypt of the time: they needed to hire outsiders and mercenaries from such cultures to be their military ops people. BTW, my thinking isn't only relying on the Bible on this. The Mongolians were famously stopped and did not go beyond a certain line between modern Israel and modern Egypt. The Mongolians were stopped by the Mamluks, slaves that had revolted and seized power in Egypt. Please don't picture African slaves. The powerbase of Istanbul had long been capturing non-Muslims from the Eurasian steppes and the Caucasus. The Mamluks were big-ass Kipchak Turk and Circassian stock—sharing the same rugged, harsh-winter DNA as the Mongols—and in a land of short, slow-thinking welfare pussies, they killed anyone they wanted and powned the entire country.
So back to Moses. He fled Egypt, went to a family offshoot of Abraham, the Kenites, which had kept up the big bundle of badass skill sets. The old ruling patriarch in charge of the Kenites taught Moses the method of rulership, which is very importantly an ideal structure for creating a smart military. It was an anti-bribe, equal justice on hard standards (not third-world whims), very 1942 American mil kind of stuff.
Mixed with all the hardcore practical things, a military leader either had to have a seer, one who divines the spiritual realm, or he himself, the military general genius, also had the seer role. This runs through literally all of the pre-modern world. Genghis Khan didn't unify the Mongols; he got a seer to divine this message from God. No seer saying it, no Genghis Khan doing what he did.
Moses didn't just do this role. He was the ultimate, greatest seer in Hebrew history. Modern Jews use Moses' five books as their entire bedrock of spiritual life.
There are a lot of seers and diviners all over the place in that part of history. Moses stands out as taking first place. Second place is not even close.
So Moses comes back to Egypt after not just getting omens from God, but meeting a manifestation of God, and having a much more detailed message from God than any average seer.
Moses comes back to the land of stupid welfare pussies, with their ruler which is really just a Mobile Home Park Boss Stupid Pussy.
Moses does have the skills that could be described as military leader skills. The Biblical record, whether you believe it or see it as fiction, at least follow the story. The exit from Egypt (Exodus) inserts something unique. The God that had been speaking to Moses became their military general. The tabernacle in the wilderness—lose the stupid preacher and church lady lens here—is a model of an Egyptian war camp, mirroring the exact tactical layout used by pharaohs like Ramses II. With one main difference: God is stationed in the center of the war camp in the exact same way a Pharaoh or his general would be.
The Hebrews leave the mobile home trailer park called Egypt and go on to kill a list of descendants of a group God was set on entirely wiping off the planet. Yeah, when reading the earliest moments of the Hebrews once they crossed the Red Sea, God tells them how to behave as a culture, a bunch of best practices to preserve themselves and keep bad influences out, then the very next words are "now go kill ALL of the people on this list."
He had sent a flood to kill them (hey dumb church lady, it was a local flood, and Noah only put the short list of common domesticated farm animals in the boat). A few of these Rephaim/Nephilim had escaped the lowlands of Mesopotamia into the hill country of modern Syria and Israel. These Nephilim descendants didn't just carry the guilt of transgressing Yahweh roughly a thousand years before Moses; the potential for their bloodline mixing into and polluting the wider genetic pool was a real threat. When God forgives and redeems a person, he also allows in that genetic cluster that they are. I'm extrapolating here, but it seems God really wanted this corrupt genetic strain to be eradicated before he redeems globally with the internationally focused act of John 3:16.
The earliest chapters of Deuteronomy are a great recap of what transpired from the exit of Egypt to killing God's list of bad guys. With all I just wrote, look at Deuteronomy Chapters 2 and 3.
The church lady and the sexual perverts that populate the podiums of a lot—not all, but a lot—of podiums of churches undo the realism of God's interventions in our physical reality. In a perverted impulse to honor God, they claim he is magically intervening at the molecular level and can and would do anything. According to the Bible, God is powerful in a way humans are not, but there are physical, biological, and sociological forces that God operates within.
For instance, with Genesis Chapter 6 verses 1-8. The rogue elohim (Sons of God) came down and mated with women. What happens next in the Biblical narrative? Noah, the Flood. Because of Genesis 6 verses 1-8. After the story of Noah and the Flood, what is the very next "story"? The "Tower of Babel."
These are not separate stories. They are not in direct sequence by accident, stupid church lady.
God's group of heavenly assistants (elohim) looked down at hot earth women, gathered on Mount Hermon, and hatched a plot to fuck hot girls down in the valley. They made a vow of secrecy, then got themselves down the hill and had a big old time. Just like a sergeant who gets more mad his men lied to him than the lewd act they did, God cannot have these in his service anymore. They are forever banned from entering God's Heaven again. They are earthbound. Then God works within the realm of physical, geological reality to try and kill them. He sends a flood. Then after the flood, some descendants of Noah think, "God promised not to do that again, but what if he changes his mind? We need to hedge our bets. Create a solution in case God does send a flood again." The solution is fucking obvious: a tall building which the aristocracy can run up into and survive another localized flood.
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