What is Queen Hatsheput's beliefs?

Answer 1

It is sometimes said, she ruled for her stepson Tutmosis III because he was too young. In the Egyptian ideal, a man should rule under the Divine Right of Kings which was a device to solve disputes about who should be 'Head-of-State' like Presidents of America or kings and queens of Britain, Norway, Thailand etc. The problem in Egypt was that after the Hyksos were expelled by the Ethiopians helping the Egyptians expel them, the two nations decided to form a United Kingdom of Egypt and Ethiopia to present a united front against future marauders and invaders from Asia. The Ethiopians had no qualms about a woman ruling as queen. The Egyptians did. When Thutmose I died, Thutmose II reigned with his wife and princess Hatshepsut at his side. He died early-on, so Hatshepsut and the Ethiopians, quiet reasonably under the covenant between the two nations, insisted she should continue ruling on her own.

However, behind all this is the problem of false Egyptian chronology. These events did not take place in the 15th century BC but in the 10th Century BC. Solomon was king in Israel and Hatshepsut went to visit him. The Israelites called her Queen Sheba of Ophir (Auphirah or Africa). A Sheba was one who dwelled and ruled somewhere and a Soper was a scribe. Her name, either Sheba or Shepa (or Hat-sheba-sut/Hat-shep-sut), probably reflects both meanings although the root Semitic words do this anyway.

As The Bible shows, it was King Saul of Israel who defeated the Amalekites or the 'Hyksos' who were so powerful at the time. Kings David and Solomon were therefore friendly with Ahmose, Thutmose I, Thutmose II and Hatshepsut.

However, behind even all this, the Biblical account strongly suggests God organised events in such a way that these circumstances should arise. He did this because His Son Jesus referred to the Queen Sheba-Hatshepsut when He condemned the Jewish leaders who rejected Him. Jesus called her "The Queen of the South". Jesus' contemporary, although the man was probably just a child at the time, Josephus Flavius, wrote, "The Queen who came to see Solomon was ruler of Egypt and Ethiopia". He was quite correct despite modern editors' protests.

Essentially, Queen Hatshepsut was 'The Queen of Sheba' although the Biblical Hebrew reads "Queen Sheba of Ophir". The enigma of a woman ruling highly male chauvinistic Egypt is solved by realising the "voice from a god" that she heard one day who requested her to "go to Punt, My Land, My Divine Land" or the "Holy Land". The voice must have been that of the God of Israel - Jehovah. The Bible says He is The One True God. The New Testament said the Son of God, Jesus, is "The Way, The Truth, The Life", i.e., He is the only way to God. Hatshepsut-Sheba realised Jehovah is the One True God. Who today realises Jesus' claims? The false Egyptology and its false chronology is being used today to get people to doubt the words of God and Jesus.