ITS INTERESTING HOW EGYPT IS PARADIGMATICALLY LINKED WITH THE FALLEN WORLD DUE TO THE EXODUS FROM IT, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT IT HISTORICALLY -- EGYPT DID THE BLESSINGS DECLARED FOR ISRAEL TO CHOOSE BETTER THAN ISRAEL EVER DID

ITS ONLY IN EXODUS THAT THE PHARAOH IS THE GUY WHO CHOOSES TO PUT HIMSELF OVER GOD

IN GENESIS THE PHARAOH OF ABRAHAM'S TIME KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE ONE GOD THAN ABRAHAM (WHO THINKS HE IS A REGIONAL SPIRIT OF THE PLACE LIKE SAY ATHENA THE GODDESS OF ATHENS, AND HAS NO POWER TO PROTECT ABRAHAM AND HIS WIFE IN EGYPT) AND JOSEPHS PHARAOH HUMBLES HIMSELF TO SERVE THE ONE GOD IMMEDIATELY, DISCERNS THE SPIRIT IN JOSEPH AND AS A RESULT -- EGYPT IS THE ONE BRONZE AGE EMPIRE SPARED THE FAMINES AND APOCALYPTIC CHAOS OF THE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE

IT IS THE ONE GREEN AND VERDANT PLACE FULL OF FOOD

THATS WHY THE SEA PEOPLES FLEEING THE COLLAPSE OF THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION TRY TO CONQUER IT IN THE FIRST PLACE (AND FAIL AND SETTLE IN THE AREA)

GOD REVEALS HIS CHARACTER, HIS NAME TO THE NATIONS OF HUMANITY THROUGH EGYPT AS A BLESSING

THEN IN EXODUS -- AS A CURSE FOR THEIR REBELLION

THEN ISRAEL IS GIVEN THE SAME DEAL, THAT THEY WILL BE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND GOD WILL REVEAL HIS NAME THROUGH THEM, EITHER AS A BLESSING OR AS A CURSE, SO CHOOSE THE BLESSING

AND UH

I CANT THINK OF A LONG PERIOD OF BLESSING IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL

ITS LIKE THERES ONE GENERATION THATS FAITHFUL, THE ONE THATS BROUGHT FROM A TRIBULATION, MAYBE THEIR CHILDREN SO TWO GENERATIONS AT MOST, AND THEN ITS BACK TO WORSHIPING LOCAL CANAANITE GODS AND RAPING AND PILLAGING