Jesus started the discussion with the saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's seat” (Mat 23:2). That seems onerous but the hidden history of Moses must be understood.
Moses was most certainly very powerful
during the reign of Pharoah Ahmose I. Several of the family of Ahmose were
named ‘Ahmose.’
Ahmose I established the New Kingdom after the
defeat of the Hebrew friendly Hyksos who were Pharaohs during the royal reign
of Joseph, second only to Pharoah.
The Hyksos are believed to be of
Canaanite origin. They ruled only the delta region of Egypt simultaneously with
the sixteenth and seventeenth dynasties of the Egyptians. Ahmose I established
a ‘New Kingdom’ from the foundation of the fifteenth through eighteenth
dynasties.
Several subsequent names of the Pharaohs
consisted of the root word ‘Mose’ — Thutmose I, II, and III. The name ‘Mose’ is
truly Egyptian. Many linguists accept that “Mose’ means ‘Son of’ or ‘child of.’
For instance, Ahmose (also Amosis) would be ‘child of the moon.’ Mose would
just be child, or son, of whom was unknown to the sister of Pharoah when she
named him.
The name ‘Mose,’ later called ‘Moses’
by the Hebrews, was an Egyptian and royal name as well. His name was basically “son
of Pharoah,’ and Moses was part of the New Kingdom Dynasty.
The Book of Jasher is mentioned in scripture several times. The following is about Moses from that book:
1 And Moses, the son of
Amram, was still king in the land of Cush in those days, and he prospered in
his kingdom, and he conducted the government of the children of Cush in
justice, in righteousness, and integrity.
2 And all the children
of Cush loved Moses all the days that he reigned over them, and all the
inhabitants of the land of Cush were greatly afraid of him.
3 And in the fortieth
year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was sitting on the royal throne
whilst Adoniah the queen was before him, and all the nobles were sitting around
him.
4 And Adoniah the queen
said before the king and the princes, “What is this thing which you, the
children of Cush, have done for this long time?”
5 “Surely you know that
for forty years that this man has reigned over Cush he has not approached me,
nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush.”
6 “Now therefore hear,
O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more reign over you as he is not of
our flesh.” (Jasher 76:1-5)
The New Kingdom era began with
Ahmose I and in Jasher, it states that Moses, at that time (ca 1550),
was King of Cush.
Jesus compared the scribes and
Pharisees to Moses; them sitting on Moses’s seat, the throne of Moses. They
were acting as if they were kings! Moses was sitting on a ‘royal throne’
ultimately in conjunction with Ahmose I. In comparison to the Romans, Ahmose I
was a ‘Caesar’ and Moses a royal king in the House, or Dynasty, of Pharoah.
As far as Pharoah Ahmose knew,
Moses was without father or mother in the manner of the biblical Melchizedek. Speaking
of that ‘priest,’ Paul wrote that he was “King of peace, without father,
without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of
life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually” (Heb
7:2-3).
Melchizedek may have been the
pre-incarnate Jesus and as King of Salem, that did not mean Jerusalem perchance
but just a place of peace.
Moses was a shadow-like figure of
Melchizedek. Although not in Israel, he was very much a King of Peace; his
purpose was to free the Hebrews from the bondage of Egypt, which represents
sin.
The scribes and Pharisees acted
as if they were royalty (Mat 23:4-7). However, unlike Moses, they put the Jews
in bondage. They sat on Moses’s seat in a sense but were very unlike
Moses. God placed Moses on the Cushite Throne, but especially, the Pharisees believed
that they deserved the throne. How so?
Supported by the Pharisees, John
Hyrcanus II was briefly both High Priest and king of the Hasmonean Empire (Judea,
Samaria, and even Nabatea).
The Pharisees perhaps saw themselves,
contrasted to the Sadducees, as heirs to the throne of the Hasmoneans since they
supported Hyrcanus. They saw themselves as royalty and Jesus pointed that out
to them.
Since Moses was not a worshiper
of the Cushite gods but the One True God, he was both a king and a high priest
of Yahweh. Like Jesus, long after, he was the son of the ‘god’ Ahmose I
who was accepted as a god because he reasserted control over Nubia to the south
— Cush — and obtained the gold of that area (Which became Solomon’s gold in
later centuries.)
Certainly, Moses, although his
parentage was unknown… ‘son of _____’, his adopted cognomen was after Ahmose I.
He was the son of ‘blank’ and ‘blank’ and ‘Ahmose’ in the mind of Ahmose.
By all rights, the sons of Moses should
have been kings; their names were Gershom and Eliezer. Their mother was Egyptian,
so they were sent to be with their mother in lower Egypt. Then they disappeared
from scripture. They were meant to be God’s kings but had defiled blood in them,
so Moses essentially adopted Joshua to be his son. As such, Joshua was essentially
the king of Israel, and although not called a priest, he was as much both king
and priest over the Hebrews.
The Mosaic kingship was God
ordained, and being of the House of Abraham, which Jasher makes a king
(of peace — Abraham’s Bosom), Joshua was as much a king of peace as well.
Before long, royal kings evolved
from Abraham and Moses, and most of them were evildoers (e.g, Ahab). The
Pharisees behaved more like the Israelite kings of the northern kingdom than
the ethnarchs of the southern kingdom. They were of the House of Moses, but
evil and more like the House of sinful Ham (the Cushites).
There is much more to the story about
the comparison of the Pharisees to Moses. However, hopefully you get the idea
that Moses was a royal king and the Pharisees sought to be like him in royalty
but not in spirit.
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