God gave Mankind the Alphabet

The following is an article about how God gave us the alphabet in 1440 BC when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. God told Abraham (Abram) in Genesis 12:3 (NKJV) "…in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed". Many Christians correctly consider that God was talking about Jesus. However long before Jesus walked the earth, God blessed all the people of the earth by introducing the alphabet through Moses. God used a new book "The Writing of God" which has a lot of archeological and scientific stuff in it, to make me aware of how God blessed us with the alphabet. The only fact that most scientists seem to agree upon is that the use of the alphabet started between 1500-1400 BC. Every thing we know is communicated by use of the alphabet, including numbers. Originally the alphabet was used for numbers and is still used that way with the original alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet. We have a remnant of this practice with what we call Roman Numerals, like XVIII is 18. If you consider any education area like Law, Medicine, History, Science, etc. and then imagine how much we would know without the alphabet, you might realize how important the introduction of the alphabet was to mankind. This email and your Bible would not be possible without the alphabet. Prior to the alphabet there were some types of pictorial writing, like hieroglyph and cuneiform, which Moses would have known, being educated in the Egyptian royal household. These old writing systems were clumsy and often involved hundreds of symbols compared to 20-30 in most alphabets.

Back in 1987 after feeling accomplished about learning Greek the previous school year, I was on an outdoor track at school and God said to me, "Now I want you to learn My language". God helped me with the Holy Spirit to know instantly that He was talking about Hebrew but today I understand more fully why God called it "My language". As I continue to learn more, it seems like I am just beginning to learn, I often feel like I am still a baby Christian or maybe a toddler. In the Hebrew text we used in school, I saw the association between the Hebrew letters and Greek and even English but I didn't realize then, that Hebrew was the first alphabet. Even the English word "alphabet" comes from the first 2 Greek letters "Alpha" "Beta" which come from the first 2 Hebrew letters "Aleph" "Beit". By contrast, Korean people who trace their history back to 2333 BC only developed their Korean alphabet in 1446 AD, which enabled them to be free from the clumsy Chinese characters.

In 1450/40 BC (see 1 Kings 6:1 to verify the date) God gave Moses the 10 Commandments written by God (Exodus 32:16) in Hebrew on the Mountain of God in Midian where Moses saw the burning bush (Exodus 3:1-4) and where God told Moses to return with the Israelites from Egypt (Exodus 3:11-12) to "worship God". Yes, it is possible that Moses created the alphabet and taught God how to write it. More likely the 40 days Moses spent with God on the mountain may be where Moses learned the alphabet from God and we know that during the next 40 years Moses is credited with writing the Torah or the first 5 books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Only Genesis and the first part of Exodus would have been from oral tradition or directly communicated from God. Someone else would have written the last few verses of Deuteronomy, as it records Moses death. Also during the 40 years of wandering, apparently Moses was teaching the children of Israel how to read and write. Because in Deuteronomy 27: 1-4 (NIV), we discover that Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people of Israel to obey all the commandments and to use large stones covered with plaster and "Write on them all the words of this law…" after they crossed the Jordan. Obviously if they told them to write the words of the Law, they knew how to read and write. Probably they normally used papyrus or skins as a writing surface, which would explain why we don't have copies today, as they deteriorate over the centuries. Writing on stones covered with plaster is easier than carving stones.

Understanding that God originated the alphabet with the Ten Commandments, doesn't explain how it spread to the rest of the world. Remember the Philistines who were frequently giving the Israelites a hard time in the Bible and even ruled them (Judges 13:1) at times? They are also called Sea People as they are ancestors of the Greeks and through their conquest were possibly able to spread the alphabet to the Phoenicians. Although this may appear to be a logical explanation, Eupolemus, (also mentioned in 1Maccabees 8:17) a Jewish historian is the most credible source who states in 158/7 BC that Moses "first wrote the laws for the Jews and then taught the alphabet to the Jews who passed it on to the Phoenicians who passed it on to the Greeks". As men and women of God it is easy to see from scripture that God originated the alphabet and the rest of the world will know it when the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments that God wrote on "both sides" are recovered (Exodus 32:15-16).

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