Chapter 64: The Invasion of the Sea Peoples
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At this time, the Hittites still controlled Syria. But the sea peoples came.
At the end of the 13th century BC, the Philistines of the "sea people" invaded the Hittite territory from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus.
The Philistines were not a people, but a general term for tribal groups, including the Arashia, Casca, Philaegians, and Buligis, had determined that none of them were Semites, but were Indo-European yellow peoples.
According to their routes, the Philistines were Europeans north of the Black Sea, probably from some regions around the Aegean Sea, such as Messenia, Crete, etc., on the Greek peninsula, and some from southern Italy and Sicily.
The "Sea Peoples" was a process of amalgamation of many peoples, and the Philistines took ships and swept the Mediterranean coast, starting from the Hittites on the Aegean coast and continuing to Egypt in North Africa.
The first target of the Philistines was the Hittites.
The Hittite navy fought several naval battles off the coast of Cyprus with the Arachyas, who attacked in the first wave, and repelled the Arachyas.
But this was only the vanguard, and soon the Philistines attacked in a big way, and the Hittite navy was no match for them in terms of numbers or the quality of the soldiers, and soon the Hittite navy was completely destroyed.
The Philistines attacked along all the Mediterranean coastline, wrestling Cilicia and Cyprus from the Hittites, cutting off the Hittites' coveted trade routes, cutting off Hittite-controlled Syria from Anatolia proper, Syria lost control, and the Hittites became a landlocked state.
In this way, the Hittite homeland, Hattusa in the middle of the Anatolian plateau, faced attacks from all sides, and eventually the city of Hattusa was burned down, and the Hittites faced a bloody massacre of the Casca, Philipyans, and Bulgis among the Philistines.
The Hittite Empire collapsed due to the onslaught of the non-Semitic Indo-European yellow Philistinians. The new kingdom of the Hittite perished.
The Hittite kingdom has since disappeared from historical records, and the end of the kingdom was the beginning of the collapse of the greater Bronze Age, and the blacksmiths who had been tightly controlled by the Hittites spread everywhere with the migration of the Philistines, so that the Bronze Age came to a rapid end and the Iron Age began.
The New Kingdom of the Hittite lasted for a total of years.
> Moses' Exodus from Egypt:
Moses, the ancestor of the Israelites, lived in Egypt during the reign of Ramses II.
As mentioned earlier, Jacob and his descendants led the Israelites to settle in Lower Egypt. At that time, although the Israelites had a belief in God, they did not have a monotheistic idea.
After the Reformation in Ekhatun, the Israelites began to come into contact with the monotheistic ideas of Ekhatun. Soon after, however, the Reformation in Ehatun failed, and the followers were persecuted and turned to secret missions. And this religion began to spread secretly among the Israelites.
After hundreds of years of clandestine missions, the Atun faith had a great influence among the Israelites, while the Egyptians were on the decline. This may be due to the fact that the Egyptians have a long history of polytheistic worship, while the monotheistic belief of Atun is too short, and the Israelis are easy to accept this monotheistic belief because they are an alien race and have no religion of their own in history, or the religious system is incomplete.
This religion had a great influence among the Israelites, and this belief in the worship of the god Atun was in strong conflict with the polytheistic worship of the Egyptians, so the Israelites were hostile to the government for a long time because of their status as believers in Atun, not because of ethnic issues, but because of religious issues.
More than 100 years later, the Atun faith has become a belief in God, and the Atun god is no longer believed, and it is still a monotheistic religion. It should be noted that the correct pronunciation of the God of the Israelites should be Yahweh, not "Yahweh." "Yahweh" is a Christian misreading of this sacred name of Judaism after the 7th century C.E., and the Jews do not recognize it. Although the names are different, they refer to the same god, and according to modern names, they are still called God Jehovah.
In the early days of the reign of Ramses II, the Israelites were becoming more and more numerous, and most of them believed in the monotheistic religion of God, which they regarded as pagans. Fearing that they would affect his rule, he commanded all males born of Israel to be thrown into the river and drowned, but these orders were not effectively carried out, so he assassinated them with his own poisonous schemes.
The God that the Israelites believed in did not abandon them, but chose one man among the Israelites to be Israel's deliverer, and that was Moses.
According to the book of Exodus:
At the time of Moses' birth, according to the Egyptian pharaoh's decree, newborn Israeli babies were to be thrown into the river and drowned. His mother, in order to save Moses' life, kept the baby Moses in hiding, and was later adopted as a son by Pharaoh's daughter and educated in the Egyptian royal palace.
Moses grew up to work for the good of Israel, but he was so troubled that he fled to the wilderness of Midian, where he stayed for forty years!
One day, God appeared to Moses in the midst of burning thorns and appointed him as the Savior to return to Egypt to save his people. Here Moses excused himself from God, acknowledging that he knew too little about God to relieve his fellow human suffering.
God then referred to Moses as "the God of Himself"—the meaning of the name [Yahweh]." God made Moses confess that he was the [self-existent] over all things in the universe, that he was in charge of human history, and that he was the god worshiped by Moses' fathers [Yahweh is the God of Moses' fathers, that is, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob......] to deliver and redeem his own people.
God first dealt with his flesh and spirit, and through various encounters, he was able to rely on God wholeheartedly, and when Moses' demands were met, he reminded him of God's kindness with a vision, and promised to strengthen his faith and entrust him with the mission of saving the Israelites. But the responsibility was so heavy that Moses was reluctant to do so at first, with many excuses. But God had strengthened his faith with signs and wonders, and Moses finally made up his mind to carry out God's will and save the nation of Israel.