RESPONSE TO ASSERTION #3 of “Metaphorical Mephisto”
The
following is an extract from the article “Metaphorical Mephisto”
(http://www.nabion.org/html/metaphorical_mephisto.html)
that is critiquing the Biblical Calendar:
Camping’s desire to conform his genealogies to his Codex Leningradis reading of “430 years in Egypt” is a prime
example of his unschooled foundation. Historically, and biblically, “430
years in
The assertion made above is:
The KJV translation is inaccurate when it states that Israel
spent 430 years in Egypt because the covenant made with Abraham was given 430
years before the Law was given on Sinai (Horeb) (Gal
3:17) and so the 430 years must have included the time that Abraham received
the covenant through Israel’s leaving Egypt in 1447 BC when the law was given.
Thus the stay in
The verses in question are:
Ex 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of
Ex 12:41
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the
land of Egypt.
Ga 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant,
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty
years after, cannot disannul, that it should
make the promise of none effect.
When was the covenant
mentioned in Gal 3:17 first given?
When Abraham was 99 years old in 2068 BC:
Ge 17:7 ¶ And I will establish my covenant between me
and thee and thy seed after thee
in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee.
Ge 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger, all the
When was
the covenant next reiterated?
It was given to Abraham’s seed –Isaac when he was 40 years old in 2027 BC:
Gen
26:1 ¶ And there was a famine in the land, beside
the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
thee; for unto thee, and unto
thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy
seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.
When was the covenant
reiterated once more?
It was reiterated to Jacob
just after his 100th birthday in 1907 BC in
Ge
35: 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he
came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob, but
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall
come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it,
and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even
a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil
thereon.
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake
with him,
Ge
48: 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty
appeared unto me at Luz in the
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply
thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to
thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
What was the final
reiteration before the giving of the Law?
It was made again to Jacob
(
Ge
46: 1 ¶ And Israel took his journey with all that he
had, and came to
2 And God spake unto
3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go
down into
4 I will go down with thee into
So the last reiteration of
the Abrahamic covenant was made to
THE END