We started off the day in Giza. That meant a trip to the pyramids. What a strange feeling to look over the buildings of town and see the pyramids right there. How must that have been for Abraham to come to Egypt - they were 600 years old at that time. How amazing that he was able to keep his faith in the unseen God when so obviously the god of Egypt must be massive because the pyramid was built to be the home of the god who had died in his human form, but was very alive in his god form. And yet Abraham stayed faithful. Not only that, he told of his faith and changed some of the thought in Egypt. King Akenaton in 1351 actually changed Egypt by saying that he was a man, not a god and there was only one god and shut down the various temples except the sun god. He was killed for all that and his son became king, King Tut.
Here we are on camels again! Let me tell you, we are in the Sahara here and in the middle of a heat wave! 112 today. We really felt like the next pic at the end. Things here are soooo ancient. Indeed Joseph came during the middle kingdom - will go see Joseph's place another day - and all theories point to the exodus as during Ramses' reign about 1250. His son even wrote about wanting to follow the Isrealites and wipe them out. Ramses died with an emense amount of salt in his limbs and with his arms looking like they still had the reins of a horse in them. Believed drown!
