Chapter 28<\/p>\n
Good Monday Morning to this week 27 of 2020\u00a0<\/p>\n The Nile River<\/strong>, the longest river in the world, called the father of African rivers. It rises south of the\u00a0Equator\u00a0and flows northward through northeastern\u00a0Africa\u00a0to drain into the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea. It has a length of about 6,650km. \u00a0Its most distant source is the\u00a0<\/span>Kagera River\u00a0in\u00a0Burundi. The fact that the Nile, unlike other great rivers known to them flowed from the south northward and was in flood at the warmest time of the year was an unsolved mystery to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.<\/p>\n Now comes an immensely bold but also problematic project to change history. Speaking of the Nile:<\/p>\n The life of Moses had a very moving start in connection with the Nile: or later: or even later then came the lamentations from Isaiah 19.5-8 or Jeremiah 46.7 Of course all over the region, there is endless history to the Nile! Egypt! from whose tombs arose forgotten Pharaohs While the dark shades of forty ages stood like startled giants by Nile’s famous flood. L Byron<\/p>\n Back to the famous vers of Jeremiah used as a promise over so many lives\u00a0 might just have the same relevance then as today:<\/p>\n He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.<\/p>\n Taken for this week, this “water-mass” or “river of light”,\u00a0 “river that will shine”,\u00a0 speaks of a creator that is here to stay in the long run. He planned and created something unbelievable and incredibly enduring and outlasting wars, famines, kings, rulers, and even all the attempts to control the waters.<\/p>\n This creator is in control over your life, your situation.<\/p>\n Wishing you a blessed week! <\/p>\n
\nThe\u00a0Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam<\/b> is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia that has been under construction since 2011, about 15 km east of the border with Sudan. The dam will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa when completed. The filling of the reservoir is scheduled to begin in July 2020. Once completed, the reservoir could take anywhere between 5 and 15 years to fill with water. A decade of arduous talks involving the two downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, and upstream Ethiopia have reached a deadlock with Egypt, \u00a0which is almost entirely dependent on the Nile for its freshwater supplies. So now each country have built their own dam trying to control the river, be it the Assuan of Egypt, the Merowe dam of Sudan, and now the GERD of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
\nNow the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.<\/p>\n
\nMoses and Aaron did as the Lord<\/span>\u00a0commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.<\/p>\n
\nAnd all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.<\/p>\n
\nAnd the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched, and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away. There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more. The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water.<\/p>\n
\nWho is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>The Nile begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. C.C. Colton<\/p>\n
\nPhilemon<\/p>\n