Certainly there are several features that apply.
• Egypt was one of the main powers of the time, 1400 BC.
• The pharaohs of Egypt considered themselves divine.
• This pharaoh defied the God of Israel and his messenger, Moses.
• He certainly died a violent death, by drowning.
• Persecuted God’s people.
• God raised him up to show His glory in him. Website design By BotEap.comThe Egyptian could have risen up, and God has planted His own people in their midst. Slaves for many years and an important part of Egypt’s economy, Pharaoh is bound and determined to keep God’s people where he is. The confrontation that follows is a well-known biblical story. Website design By BotEap.comOne question that arises is the ultimate identity of the pharaohs of the Bible. There are three, you know. One raised Joseph from prison, a later one “knew not Joseph”, at the time Moses was born. And forty years later, there is the so-called “Pharaoh of the Exodus.” There are a variety of opinions as to his historical identity, but quite a few biblical scholars have settled on Thutmose II as the man in question. Wikipedia: Website design By BotEap.comThutmose II (1493 or 1492 to 1479 BC). Alfred Edersheim proposes in his “Bible History of the Old Testament” that Thutmose II is best qualified to be the pharaoh of the Exodus based on the fact that he had a short and prosperous reign and then a sudden collapse with no son to succeed him. His widow Hatshepsut later became first regent (for Thutmose III) and then pharaoh in her own right. Edersheim states that Thutmose II is the only pharaoh’s mummy to show cysts, possible evidence of plagues that swept through the Egyptian and Hittite empires at the time. Website design By BotEap.comIt is interesting to me to see how much in common the “antichrist” figures of the story share. John’s angel in Revelation saw seven kings that described the last antichrist. He said that five were fallen, or dead, in the days of John. He lets us search for those five. I think Thutmose could well be one of them, for the reasons stated above. He stands alongside the likes of Nimrod, Sennacherib, and Antiochus Epiphanes as men who hated God, God’s purposes, God’s people, God’s authority. Website design By BotEap.comSuch a man lived in the days of John. Yet another may come in our own time. But sure, Website design By BotEap.comThutmose II definitely fits the mold.