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Waking up this Saturday morning, I didn’t expect that my Bible story about financial freedom will be upvoted by the curators on Hive, LeoFinance, and other front ends, and particularly @leo.voter. Consequently, I got motivated to continue this morning with the third part of this series on The Way to Financial Freedom. I also intend to submit this present article to the Zealy campaign to complete The Writer Quest under Weekly Side Quests.
Before I proceed, let me just share with you the first two articles I published in this series to provide a sense of continuity. I consider this important to consider the specific context I have in mind to avoid possible misconceptions:


The Way to Financial Freedom Part 1


The Way to Financial Freedom Part 2


After providing the links above to my previous article, I now feel at ease to resume the second part of our content in this story taken from the Old Testament. This time, I want to share an overview of three basic principles taken from Exodus Chapter 1 about the evil of tyranny and oppression.
Three Basic Principles
Political oppression is a result of ignorance, vs. 1 -8.
To apply this insight to our time is unthinkable for our generation prides itself on living in The Information Age. But the kind of ignorance I am referring to based on our story is not the lack of technical or professional information, but the absence of historical knowledge. As the popular saying goes, “Ignorance of the past is bound to repeat its mistake.” And this is the kind of ignorance that we see here.
For your information, there is a long time gap between the closing of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and the opening of the second book, Exodus. During that interval, Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died. And at the same time, Genesis concluded with a moderate size of Israel prospering in Egypt while Exodus starts with a nation-sized Israel suffering slavery in Egypt. And the primary cause of this slavery was ignorance of the past. Particularly, it was ignorance of Joseph and how his God saved Egypt and made its name great. Such ignorance resulted in a risky decision that would endanger the future of the nation. Pharaoh committed not only an erroneous economic decision by enslaving productive people but also placed Egypt in great danger by challenging the God of Israel.
Notice here is the difference between the Pharaoh of Joseph's time and the Pharaoh of Moses' time. Both were kings, but their response to the God of Israel was different. In the case of the Pharaoh of Joseph's day, he acknowledged Joseph's access to accurate secret knowledge, and he honored him and his family, granting Joseph power and authority over Egypt. That Pharaoh bowed down to God's sovereignty and God's word. As a result, God blessed his kingdom.
In contrast, the Pharaoh of Moses' time was ignorant of Joseph and his deeds and oppressed the Israelites with forced labor. Such a mistake was both an economic disaster and a direct challenge to the God of Israel.
We see in this story that ignorance of the past is a very dangerous thing. Many people, particularly policymakers, ignore not only the lessons of the past but also the applicability of God's law in our time. As a result of this kind of ignorance, the world now is in a serious crisis. And instead of returning to God and his law and sound economic practice, civil governments continue to despise either knowing or unknowingly the law of God in their destructive monetary and public policies.
Take for instance the zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and negative interest rate policy (NIRP). Such policies were not only punishing the savers but robbing the people of their savings. These policies discourage saving and promote borrowing. As King Solomon said, "The borrower is a slave to the lender" (Proverbs 22:7). And so, debt is a form of slavery and it is very popular in our time. Today, the entire global economy is operating based on debt. Nations, corporations, and families are immersed in debt. Debt is the modern version of ancient oppression and slavery.
I think not until our generation will return to the serious study of God's law and apply it to our time, we cannot escape the present crisis. I also believe that the study and application of God's law must first start with Christian families and Christian churches. Through the witness of the Christian Church, society will be changed.
Oppression is promoted through popular political speech, vs. 9-14.
Pharaoh said, "Look, the Israelites have become much too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country." Something is wrong with this political speech. The King didn't like the Israelites, particularly their growing number. The King was afraid that the Jews might join their enemies and leave the country. And so, to prevent the dangers caused by population growth, war threat, and massive exodus, Pharaoh came up with a solution: slavery.
This is wrong because the Israelites came to Egypt a generation ago as free people. Egypt has been blessed economically through the productivity of the Jews. By making them slaves, Pharaoh was depriving them of their basic human right, to live free. And not only that, Pharaoh expected the Jews to remain productive to contribute to the national economy under tyrannical rule. Pharaoh wanted economic growth despite his violation of God's law. Such public policy would certainly end in disaster.
All the human capital of the Jews was focused to serve Pharaoh's end. It was such a great waste of human capital. Like Pharaoh, many socialists in the past such as Hitler, Mao Zedong, Lenin, and Stalin committed great mistakes by wasting both the lives and the resources of their people under tyrannical rule. Many central planners these days ignore the lessons of the past and they keep repeating the mistakes of the past. These modern versions of tyranny are wasteful and ultimately self-destructive.
Again, as God's people, we must know what the law of God says about these things. Without such knowledge, we will unknowingly embrace ideas that are in reality disastrous not only to us and the society at large but also to the next generation. Only the law of God can give us the wisdom to discern whether a political speech is consistent with the teachings of the Bible or not.
Oppression is justified through unjust laws, vs. 15 – 22.
Pharaoh thought that by oppressing the Jews, their number would decrease. But the Bible said, "The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so, the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites." Realizing that his original plan failed, Pharaoh came up with another evil plan: to kill the Jewish boy infants. However, the midwives feared God and did not obey what the King told them. This is an example of civil disobedience against a tyrannical law. And so, Pharaoh made a wicked law: throw every boy that is born into the Nile. The law has been weaponized to kill infants. Yes, legislators no longer make laws with the outright intent of killing people, but they are done nevertheless in a more subtle way. A scrutiny of many laws in our time, and you will see how destructive they are to life, freedom, and property.
Here, political leaders make laws to justify their tyranny and oppression. The order of Pharaoh was legal as far as Egyptian law is concerned. Without the law of God, there is no way we can say whether such a law is just or not. Nations' laws are under God's law. If political leaders are making laws against the law of God, we as Christians should follow what the Hebrew midwives did. In the New Testament, Peter said, "We must obey God rather than men!" Many politicians these days think that the law of God has nothing to say about public policy, and so they make laws and policies, which are contrary to God's law. Popular examples of these include abortion, same-sex marriage, and the current monetary system. In the eyes of God, these are murder, immorality, and theft. By making these kinds of laws, civil governments have made sins legal.
And so, we see that Exodus chapter 1 teaches us that ignorance of the past results in oppression, popular political speech promotes oppression, and unjust laws justify oppression. This type of oppression did not stop in Moses' time. The spirit of the Pharaoh of Moses’ time still lives especially in a time of crisis where we live right now.
When governments and politicians ignore the law of God and make humanistic laws and economic decisions, nations suffer from a new kind of slavery. Yes, by knowing the truth that is in Jesus, we are now set free from the power of sin, including legal plunder. And one of its most subtle forms is the existing monetary system of fiat currency. To explain the character and nature of fiat currency would require longer elaboration, which is impossible for us to achieve in this short article. What I intend to do is to offer you a way to understand our current situation for you to find a way out of financial slavery. And there is no better way to do that than to understand what is currently happening in the world of finance and technology. And that will be the topic for the next three articles.
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Today is Friday and my free day. After nine days, now I think I have the time to continue the second part of what I started about The Way to Financial Freedom, and as I mentioned in my first post, what I will do this time is share a story taken from the Bible that will somehow provide us with lessons to give us guidance on how to achieve this vision of financial freedom.
In sharing this story, I would like to divide my content into two parts:


A general background of the book where we get our story


And the three basic principles about the evil of tyranny and oppression.


In this article, I just want to share the first part and we will continue the second part in the next article. The second part by the way will be further subdivided into three sub-topics. However, for now, let me go straight to the general background of the book of Exodus, the second book in the Old Testament.
General Background of Exodus
At this point, I am going to start with a story taken from Exodus about the experience of the Israelites during the time of the man of God known in biblical history as Moses. After sharing this story, I would like to relate this to our current situation and to the kind of education that we need to achieve financial freedom that only a few have the privilege to achieve.
In exploring the book of Exodus, we find relevant insights from its first chapter. Chapter 1 tells us the story of the threat to people’s personal and economic freedom by an abusive civil government. But before I share with you the details of this story, I would like first to provide a general background of the book.
The transliteration of the Hebrew title for the book of Exodus is "w’ elleh semot," which means "And these are the names." That's how the Jews gave titles to Old Testament books. They used the first couple of words and that would be the title of the book.
As for its theological message, it is all about the presence of God with Israel as Savior and King. This message is developed throughout the forty chapters of the book.
We see the presence of God in Israel as Savior and King from 1:1-18:27 displayed in the historical act of exodus out of Egypt. There we see God as Divine Warrior.
In 19:1-24:18, we see the presence of God in Israel as Savior and King by the giving of the Law. In that Law, the holiness of God as Israel’s Savior and King is highlighted.
Exodus 25:1-40:30 shows us the institution of the Tabernacle. In modern times, it’s like a place where people go for public worship. This institution shows the abiding presence of God in Israel as their Savior and King.
The book’s first section is all about God's act of setting His people free from the power of an abusive government, the government of Egypt. Many liberation theologians appeal to this theme to justify a socio-political and economic ideology that considers the free market social order as their enemy. This to me is a misuse of the book. Their model does not fit the story of Exodus. The kind of bondage that the Jews suffered was not the bondage under a free market social order, but under the tyranny of a civil government, the state of Egypt.
The story of Exodus 1 is all about the themes of slavery and freedom. These themes are also related to tyranny and oppression.
I think that's it for now for our general introduction of the book where we will be basing our story. In the next article, I am going to touch on three basic principles about the evil of tyranny and oppression.
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𝗔𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮 : Human Civilization began in Afar

The Afar Region is also known for its historic finds of Lucy, the genesis of human ancestors. Scientists believe that human civilization began in Africa and Lucy's remains date back 3.2 million

The Afar People: Warriors, Artists, and Keepers of Ancient Traditions

The Afar, also known as the Danakil, is an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa, mainly residing in Eritrea, Djibouti and the Afar Region in Ethiopia. The Afar have acquired a reputation as a warrior tribe due to their involvement in various conflicts in the region over the past centuries. They are closely related to the Omo and Beja peoples, who are their neighboring communities.

The Afar people are known for their small handcrafted articles made from silver and bronze. They often use metal from used cartridges to create these beautiful pieces of art. This artistic tradition has been passed down from generation to generation and remains an important part of their cultural heritage.

The Afar people have a rich history and are considered the sister culture of the ancient Ta-Seti people. The Ta-Seti culture is among the founding branches of the eastern Bejaw or Beja People, while the Ta-Antyu (Puntite) Utjenet Culture is the progenitor of the Afari and Tigre cultures. The Land of Punt played a pivotal role in the development of Egypt's pre-dynastic civilization and played a significant role throughout dynastic Egyptian history.

The Afar people have an economy based on livestock, keeping cows, sheep, and goats for meat and milk, and donkeys, horses, and camels for transportation. A man's wealth is often assessed by how many animals he has. The political system of the Afar people is based on tribal chiefs and warlords.

The Afar people are mostly Muslim, and their religious beliefs and practices are an important part of their daily lives. They sometimes use a papyrus root called burri, which is mixed with milk to make a porridge. The Afar people's culture and traditions have stood the test of time, and they continue to preserve and celebrate their heritage.
The Afar language is predominantly spoken by the Afar people in Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar Region of Ethiopia as their mother tongue. According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 2.6 million Afar speakers worldwide

# Some of the beautiful faces of ancient Egypt. Many modern Egyptians are dopplegangers (look-a-likes) of their ancestors. Some are are so close in resemblance you'd literally think it's a painting of that modern Egyptian.
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SOME FACTS ABOUT AFRICA

1. Modern Humans are believed to have originated in Botswana, within the past 200, 000 years ago, solidifying the "Out of Africa Theory.

2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only spanish speaking country.

3. Morocco is the most visited African country.

4. Nigeria has the richest Black person in Africa, Aliko Dangote.

5. Samuel Eto’o was formerly the highest paid Footballer in the world, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011.

6. The nothern most part of Africa is Cape Angela in Tunisia .

7. Lesotho is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation.

8. There was a dinosaur discovered in Niger , believed to have been there around 115 to 105 million years ago. It was named Nigersaurus.

8. Burkina Faso is a leader in African art and culture and hosts the largest craft market in Africa.

9. Nigeria has won more football cups than England.

10. Zimbabwe’s former President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was the world’s most educated President with 7 University degrees, two of them are Masters.

11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest football club in Africa.

12. Didier Drogba 🇨🇮 is Chelsea’s highest goalscorer in European competition.

13. Johannesburg, South Africa is the most richest city in Africa.

14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play for Algeria , but the selector rejected him, saying they are already many players like him in the team.

15. President Nelson Mandela is regarded as the well known person in the world.

16. President Robert Mugabe was jailed for 11 years for fighting for freedom.

17. Egypt was the first inventer of Paper and Ink.

18. Equatorial guinea has the highest literacy rate in Africa, 95% (2020).

19. In Rwanda There is a better gender equality than England and USA .

20. Somalia got its first ATM on October 7, 2014.

21. South Africa has the most Grammy award winners in Africa.

22. Ethiopia has the most airports in Africa.

23. Ethiopia’s economy is growing faster than China’s.

24. Eritrea’s President, Isaias Afwerki is the least richest President in Africa.

25. Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country, it has existed for over 3,000 years without being colonised.

26. Haile Selassie 1 was the 225th and last Emperor of Ethiopia .

27. Nigeria has the most monarchs in the world.

28. Angola has more Portuguese
speakers than Portugal .

29. President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has ruled Angola since 1979.

30. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is Africa’s longest serving Head of State. He has ruled Equatorial Guinea since August 3, 1979 when he overthrew his uncle, Francisco Nguema. His son,Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is his Vice President and will succeed him if he resigns.

31. George Weah of Liberia is the first man to win World, European and African footballer of the year in the same year.

32. Eswatini is the only remaining absolute monach in the world.

33. The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa followed by Eswatini .

34. The first black African Gold medalist is Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia , who won in 1960 after running barefooted.

34.1. King Sobhuza II of eSwatini , married 70 wives, who gave him 210 children between 1920 and 1970.

35. Zimbabwe is the only country in the world where almost everyone was a billionaire at one point due hyperinflation.

36. Kenya has the highest paid members of parliament. They are paid more than those even in oil rich countries.

37. Botswana has the most valuable Diamonds and the richest diamond mine in the World, The Jwaneng diamond mine.

38. Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence post-colonialism.

39. Ghana was ranked as Africa's most peaceful country by the Global Peace Index. Lake Volta, in the Volta region of the country, is the world's largest man-made lake.

40. Ugandans were ranked as the best English speakers in Africa (2017).

41. Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa and includes the islands of Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia.

42. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with over +200 million population.

43. Rwanda is now the largest producer of Coltan, mineral used to make tantalum using in mobile phones, camera etc.

44. In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world's largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world's cobalt reserves.

45. Malawi is home to the third largest lake in Africa, Lake Malawi.

46. Malawi is the first tea producer in Africa at a commercial scale.

47. Zambia relies on copper as one of its biggest exports.

48. Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park has one of Africa's highest densities of big game.

49. Kenya is the first and only African country to produce USA president, Barrack Hussein Obama

50. South Africa has the highest number of super-rich residents in Africa, with 38,400 dollar millionaires.

51. Gambia produced the highest judge on the international court of justice fatou Bensouda.

52. The highest mountain in Africa is the Kilimanjaro found in Tanzania and second highest in the world.

53. The longest river in the world, the Nile starts from Uganda but it is controlled by Egyptian Government.

54. South Sudan is the Youngest country after it was declared free and independent in July 2011 . She is rich in mineral resources and agricultural products, Petroleum among Others yet her citizens are poor.

55. Cape Town has been voted the best city in the world 7 times, On the Telegraph Travel Award.

56. Liberia was the first African country to gain independence 1847.

57. Cameroon is the first country in Africa to reach the quater finals.

58. Environmentalist Wangare wa maathai of Kenya was the first woman to win Nobel prize.

59. Lesotho is land locked country inside south Africa.

60. Sierra Leone is the country with oldest university with western style and also the oldest church in in western Sahara.

61. Seychelles is the most developed country in Africa

62. Madagascar is the wordl's largest producer of Vanilla.

63. Mozambique is the only one-word country name to feature all 5 vowels.

64. Namibia is home to the world's oldest desert, Namib desert, dating back to 55 mya.

65. eSwatini has the world's oldest mine, Ngwenya mine.

69. Liberia is the first African country to have a female African president

The mummified remains of King Thutmose IV (Menkheperure)

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

The king is now at rest in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The mummy of Thutmose IV was found within the mummy cache of KV35 in 1898 by Victor Loret. The body of the king was moved in antiquity by ancient priests for safety reasons. The king was originally buried within his own tomb (KV43), which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1903.



Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937), upon examining the body of the king, concluded that the king was very ill at the time of death and had seemingly suffered with an illness for a while, sadly describing Thutmose IV as "extremely emaciated".



Many decades later in 2012, the Imperial College London examined the body of the late king, and along with knowledge of some of Thutmose's family dying young (such as his great-grandson Tutankhamun and his two still born daughters), the surgeon examining the king theorized that Thutmose and other members of the family may have possibly suffered with Temporal lobe epilepsy.

Some scholars think that this idea could explain the king's famous Dream Stela, where he describes the Sphinx of Giza as talking to him, as those with Temporal lobe epilepsy do suffer with visions. This idea however is a theory at the present and is not an ultimate conclusion. And it must be noted that the reason for the dream stela could have been propagandist, or simply Thutmose certifying his status as a divine ruler...such as Hatshepsut's writing of her divine birth at Deir el-Bahari. Or... it could have been something the king truly believed occurred to him, without the modern idea that he had an illness causing such a thing.

The king's body measures at 1.64m (5 ft 4.8 in), however, due to his disembodied feet, he was likely taller in life. He was relatively young, with Smith putting his age at death at approximately 28, although more modern scholars suggest mid 30s, perhaps. He has both ears pierced and what appears to be a smile with teeth showing. Most notable is his hair, which is entirely natural, long and parted in the middle, the colour is reddish brown. #history #somee #sme #infowars #cent

Have you been in Africa !!!
Guess where this place?

Btw I was in road trip last year from dubai to Cape Town, ( uae - Saudi Arabia - egypt - sudan - Ethiopia - Kenya - Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe - South Africa ) 17,000 km, 55 days.

I would like to go there again soon

A museum worker looks at a 17th century mummy found in a Hungarian church at the "Mummies - The Dream of Everlasting Life" exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim 27 September 2007. With more than 70 mummies gathered from the four corners of the world, the Museum is presenting the world's largest mummy-exhibition to date. The exhibition highlights the process of mummification as practiced not only in ancient Egypt, but on almost every continent, and over the centuries. The exhibition opens from 30 September 2007 to 24 March 2008. #cent #somee #hivelist #cent #waiv #cine #museum

The mummy of Ramesses II was discovered within the Royal Cache (TT320) #mummy #egypt #somee #pay #sbt #vyb #waiv #cent

Egyptian girls taking selfie portrait in 16K. #AI #somee

Neskhon (“She Belongs to Khons [Khonsu, the Egyptian God of the Moon]”), was a noble woman in the 21st Dynasty of ancient Egypt who died around 969 B.C.

Neskohn was a fairly young woman at the time of her death and was married to Pinudjem II, a high Priest of Amun at Thebes.
At the time of her unwrapping, when surveying her mummy, Neskohn’s figure; plumpness of her physique and well-endowed bust seemed to indicate pregnancy or motherhood to archaeologists, and to this day it is widely believed she was either pregnant or had died during childbirth.
#history #somee #cent #archon

When they ask me about the size of Egypt’s pyramids, I show them this photo. I look so minute, barely taking up the first and half of the second course. These structures are huge! This is Khafre’s pyramid, the second largest on the Giza plateau. Yes, there’s another one even bigger than this! Jaw-dropping!

This is the oldest existing Egyptian mummy. It is over 5500 years old.
The mummy, known as ′′Ginger, is from a young man who died at age 19 (as Tutankhamun) from a knife in the back.
Interestingly, on his right arm you can see a tattoo of a bull - this animal was represented as a symbol of power and virility in Egypt - being the oldest known figurative tattoo in the world.
It can be visited at the British Museum, where it has been exhibited for over 100 years.

The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee is an exhibition art hall. Most humans assume that cats are only interested in Egyptian history but this is not true! We cats love the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. What is more exciting than knights, jousts, and dismemberment! Join me on a visit to the past with Knights in Armor.
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