Bible Discussion Thread

The new pharaoh feel toward Joseph's family and why did he feel that way?

Hi Bobbye.

I've heard it taught by Chuck Missler that this Pharoah may have not been an Egyptian.

Here's his reasoning.

Acts 7:18. Till "ANOTHER" king arose, which knew not Joseph.

There is two words for another in the Greek. allos and heteros.

allos means "one of the same."

heteros means "one of a different kind."

If you gave me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I asked for another/allos sandwich, you would give me another peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

If I asked for another/heteros sandwich, you would give me another but different sandwich, perhaps a turkey sandwich.

Stephen uses heteros in Acts 7:18. signaling the Pharoah was a different kind of Pharoah, perhaps not an Egyptian.

Perhaps an Assyrian.

Isaiah 52:4. For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

The Assyrians was a brutal people. This is why Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh. "The capital of Assyria."

Perhaps worthy of some research.

God bless.

Amazing theological in depth look into the 2nd Pharaoh and Assyrians. Although, it's not confirmed 100% that the new Pharaoh was Assyrian; it would not surprise me. How many generations of Pharaoh's came from the time of the death of Joseph until the birth of Moses? There's a very big difference between the Pharaoh who reigned and appointed Joseph and the Pharaoh during the days of Moses. To speak of the Assyrians or even to be specific - Nineveh - there's quite a history there too. I know that with Jonah it was commissioned to Jonah that some may be saved. But if you read forward, Nineveh had a certain fate before it too.

Amen Daniel.

It's not 100 percent but provocative.