The farther back we go in our History, the closer we get to the source. The ancients who walked the Earth in its early years, still maintained the memory of GOD. There was no one who could convince them that GOD did not exist. The best they could do was to convince them that GOD did not have their best interest at heart, or that He indeed was trying to keep them from their best life. In those days, GODS WRATH WAS SWIFT. But, as time went on, and the memories of humanity grew more ambiguous, the influences of the world and the workers of iniquity were harder to resist. Rebellion became a common driving force.
Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. The people began to rebel against God. Though they were created to worship GOD. So they found or created their own gods to worship. Gods who would allow them to unleash their inner rebellion and commit any manner of sin that their hearts desired. Evil flooded the world.
But God was raising up a people through whom he would demonstrate who He is, what he expects from us, WHY we need saving, and HIS plan for our salvation. His Laws were introduced through his chosen people and though they tried to live by them, they always failed. His temporary plan was forgiveness through the sacrificial offering. This demonstrated that as one man had to die to GOD to bring sin into ALL MANKIND… blood sacrifice was the only way to forgiveness…but that the blood of animals could only purchase temporary redemption. He promised that there would be one coming who would pay the ultimate price and we would be free from sin forever.
THROUGH MOSES, God gave the world the TEN COMMANDMENTS
Deuteronomy 6
6 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.
19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
20And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
But Israel rebelled and fell into sin. So GOD sent Prophets to warn them and to teach them the importance of keeping God’s commands. But they did not listen. They continued in their sin and even KILLED the PROPHETS.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world who did not know GOD were not given the Law. They waxed worse and worse following their evil desires. They had their own gods that they served and their own Prophets.
In antiquity, the followers of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras trumped any doctrinal dispute by saying “Ipse dixit”––“He himself has said it.” Rather than demonstrating the strength of his argument, a Pythagorean would simply invoke the great master in order to end the debate. Today we call this logical fallacy the “appeal to authority,” yet we continue to indulge it. Only now, our master is science or, more often, what appears to be science.
The rise of modern science in the seventeenth century was driven by testing and rejecting such appeals to authority. Whether scripture, tradition, or Aristotle, authority could not be allowed to substitute for logic and evidence.
Yet the success of science has ironically given it an authority we too often accept without question. The provisional conclusions of research frequently are announced as definitive before the scientific community has adequately vetted them. But the prestige of science and its scholarly institutions can often obscure just how tentative the claims of much research are. When professional advancement, political advantage, or ideological gratification are bound up in the acceptance of new ideas or alleged truths, the temptation to suspend one’s skepticism becomes powerful and sometimes dangerous. SOURCE
We live in a world of REBELLION. Those who reject GOD and His plan, rebel against ALL AUTHORITY! Against all restraint. Against ALL LAW. Man is born into SIN, born with a propensity to SIN because we have a SINFUL NATURE which came upon humanity because of the sins of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Anyone who has not accepted God’s Gift of Salvation and embraced Jesus/Yeshua is just a puppet to the devil and their own lusts.
MODERN SCIENCE is ANTI GOD. They want to proved CREATION NEVER HAPPENED, THAT NOAH NEVER CARRIED GOD’s CREATED CREATURES THROUGH THE FLOOD, JONAH NEVER GOT SWALLOWED BY A WHALE FOR THREE DAYS AND OF COURSE MOSES through whom we received GOD’s COMMANDMENTS, is a fairy tale.
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2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth (an Egyptian word, signifying “the place where sedge grows.” “sedge, reed, rush,” ), between Migdol (This name “the tower” is applied to two places on the east frontier of Egypt. Egyptian military lookout post) and the sea, over against Baalzephon (Meaning Lord Of The Hidden Things, Lord Of The North, Lord Of Darkness Etymology. From the verb בעל – ba’al, to be lord, and the noun צפון – sapon, north or darkness, from the verb צפן – sapan, to hide.) : before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.
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EXODUS 15 THE SONG OF MOSES
15 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
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Now those who will not accept the Word of God and reject His plan of Salvation hate those who believe. They will do anything to convince believers that God does not Exist and the Bible is a book of fairy tales.
They laugh at the story of the Exodus and present all manner of explanations for the Rqd Sea Crossing. In my mind, I cannot fathom why they put so much time and energy over a fairy tale.
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Did the Israelites actually pass through the Red Sea on their way out of Egypt?
I Kings 9:26 shows that King Solomon based a “navy of ships…on the shore of the Red Sea.” In this verse, the Hebrew for “Red Sea” is yam suph—which is the same name given to the Red Sea in Exodus 15, verses 4 and 22. Thus, the verses must be talking about the same body of water. Did Solomon store his navy on a marshy, shallow lake?
Reading further in I Kings 9 proves that this was not so. Solomon’s ships were manned by “shipmen who had knowledge of the sea” (v. 27)—men who had experience sailing the oceans. After their voyages, they returned with much gold—“four hundred and twenty talents” (v. 28), or 22 tons. Why would Solomon employ such highly trained men just to row across a shallow marsh for a few sacks of gold? The answer, of course, is that he would not. His ships were oceangoing vessels capable of hauling much cargo.
Exodus 14:21-22 offers even stronger evidence that crossing yam suph was not tantamount to wading in a small lake. Notice the description of what the Israelites witnessed: “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left” (NKJV; emphasis ours throughout). The setting is fairly clear when one reads these verses.
Also in Exodus 14, notice verses 28 and 30: “And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them…Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.” Other verses (Ex. 15:4; Heb. 11:29; Deut. 11:4) also prove that the waters of the Red Sea swallowed up Pharaoh’s army, drowning all of them in the process. Surely, at least one of Egypt’s finest soldiers would have been able to swim ashore had he only been passing through a shallow marsh.
Let’s consider the song that Moses recorded after this miraculous escape: “Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces. And in the greatness of Your excellence You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth your wrath which consumed them like stubble. And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright like a heap; and the depths congealed in the heart of the sea” (Ex. 15:4-8, NKJV). The Psalmist also wrote of this event: “He rebuked the Red sea [yam suph] also, and it was dried up: so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness” (Psa. 106:9).
We can now see that yam suph—the Red Sea—was the body of water through which the Israelites passed—not some marshy, reed-filled lake. The crossing of the Red Sea is a tremendously inspiring miracle to which all Christians can look for meaning.
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Did Moses really lead the Israelites across the Red Sea? How did he part its waters? How come no Israelite drowned, but Pharaoh’s charioteers all perished? Scientists have found proof of the biblical event 3000 years ago recorded in Exodus.
It appears the Chosen People did walk seven days through desert and wadi (dried up riverbed) till they reached the shores of the Red Sea. Scholars cannot explain the pillar of cloud that escorted the Israelites by day and pillar of fire by night.Those can only be credited to the Divine. But the cloud apparently shielded from intense day heat, it was noted, and the fire from night chill and attacks. And the Israelites came upon an exact spot in the Red Sea where a natural formation — a submerged land bridge — spanned both sides. Archeological finds further show traces of the crossing.
But first, some geographical notes. The Red Sea is an elongated inlet of the Indian Ocean separating Asia and Africa. It opens south to the ocean via the Gulf of Aden. At the north end is the Sinai Peninsula, bounded west by the Gulf of Suez and east by the Gulf of Aqaba. It got its name, in Greek originally, from the reddish reflection on the water of the rich surrounding soil. Ancient Egyptians explored the Red Sea about 2500 B.C. for trade routes to Punt.
From biblical account, the Israelites trekked from the Land of Goshen in northeast Egypt, moving south via Succoth, then east onto Wadi Watir. The passage through the wadi was narrow, with deep ravines on each side. No wonder the pursuing charioteers could not ride around the pillar of fire to conduct night raids; the slopes were too steep for their horses.
Then the Israelites exited at Nuweiba beach. The area is big enough to hold the two to three million fleeing Israelites. But the Pharaoh thought there was no more escape from his pursuing army.
Sonar tests in the 1970s of the Gulf of Aqaba, fronting Nuweiba beach, revealed the underwater land bridge several meters deep. It isn’t a smoothly concreted span, more like a rough protrusion on the seabed. But the bridge connected the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian coasts in one of the narrowest segments of the Red Sea.
When Pharaoh’s chariots closed in, the Israelites must have thought it was their end. The ruler had changed his mind about setting them free, and wanted them back as slaves. He would exact vengeance for the ten plagues and the death of first-born infant sons.
Then “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry [ground]: and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left (Exodus 14:21-22).”
The crossing took the whole night. At daybreak the Egyptians followed. At some point on the land bridge the chariot wheels got stuck on what must have been sand, slowing down the pursuers.
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength … the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.”
Researcher Ron Wyatt led divers to the underwater land bridge near Nuweiba beach. A slew of artifacts amazed them: the remains of chariot wheels and bodies, and human and horse bones. Other divers found similar items near the Saudi Arabian side. Since 1987 Wyatt has found three intact four-spoke gilded chariot wheels. Coral does not grow on gold, so the shapes — of the same sizes — have remained distinct. The wood beneath the gold overlay has disintegrated, though, making the artifacts too fragile to move. Photographs have been taken, and new technologies are awaited to salvage the remnants.
In his first visit to Nuweiba in 1978, Wyatt found a Phoenician style granite column lying on the seafloor. Inscriptions had eroded away, so he could not establish the importance of the find. In 1984 a second identical column was found on the Saudi coastline opposite Nuweiba — this time with inscriptions intact. In Phoenician (archaic Hebrew) script were the words: Mizraim (Egypt), Solomon, Edom, death, Pharaoh, Moses; and Yahweh. It appears that King Solomon had put up the columns to commemorate the crossing.
Saudi authorities have since removed the column on their side, replacing it with a flag marker. A host of other evidence has been found on the Saudi shores, including remains of altars, pillars and the golden calf.
It was a miracle of the ages, the parting of the Red Sea for the Israelites. Now modern science is claiming a feat that if true is almost as miraculous – figuring out how Moses may have done it and where.
Scientists and others have tried for decades to recreate the mystery of the Israelites’ escape from the advancing cavalry of the Pharaohs. Fifty years ago Cecil B De Mille deployed his own special effects wizardry to create a cinematic version in the Ten Commandments.
Now researchers at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) claim to have used computer modelling to reconstruct the various wind and wave combinations that could have produced the dry land bridge described in Exodus.
Just forget about the Red Sea. Their conclusion relocates the scene of the Israelites escape to the Nile delta.
The researchers determined that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have driven back the waters on a coastal lagoon in northern Egypt long enough for the Israelites to walk across the exposed mud flats before the waters rushed back in, engulfing the Pharaoh’s cavalry.
“The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus,” Carl Drews, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics. The wind moves the water in a way that’s in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in.”
Drews, who spent years studying the story of the crossing, relied on research by earlier scholars on the ancient geography of the area to reconstruct the likely locations and depths of various Nile delta waterways.
He used computer simulations to try to re-create the conditions that might have swept away the waters to expose dry land.
He ruled out the Red Sea as a location because it runs from north to south which does not readily fit the description in Exodus of an east wind sweeping the waters to one side.
He eventually concluded that steady 63mph winds from the east over a digitally reconstructed lake along the Mediterranean near today’s Port Said could have swept the waters back to the western shores exposing wide mud flats and creating a land bridge that would remain high and dry for four hours.
Other researchers have tried to reconstruct one of the most mysterious events described in the Bible.
Earlier studies have speculated that a tsunami could have caused the rapid retreat and advance of the Red Sea. But that does not fit with the account in the Bible of a gradual parting of the seas overnight under a strong east wind.
Other theories include a wind setdown with powerful winds lowering water levels in one area.
A Russian study suggested that hurricane strength winds from the northwest could have exposed a small reef near the modern-day Suez canal which would have given the Israelites their crossing.
But the Israelites would have been blown away by the gale force winds, Drews noted. And the book of Exodus mentioned an east wind.
“If you are going to match the biblical account, you need the wind from the east,” Drews told Discovery News.
His work, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, is part of a larger research project on the effects of wind on water depths, and the influence of Pacific typhoons on storm surges.
The Crossing of the Red Sea forms an episode in the biblical narrative of The Exodus.
It tells of the escape of the Israelites, led by Moses, from the pursuing Egyptians, as recounted in the Book of Exodus. Moses holds out his staff and God parts the waters of the Yam Suph (Red Sea). The Israelites walk through on the dry ground and cross the sea, followed by the Egyptian army. Once the Israelites have safely crossed Moses lifts his arms again, the sea closes, and the Egyptians are drowned.
No archaeological, scholarly verified evidence has been found that confirms the crossing of the Red Sea ever took place. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist and formerly Egypt’s Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, reflected scholarly consensus when he said of the Exodus story, which is the biblical account of the Israelites’ flight from Egypt and subsequent 40 years of wandering the desert in search of the Promised Land: “Really, it’s a myth… Sometimes as archaeologists we have to say that never happened because there is no historical evidence.”
But the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have been working together and creating theories on what could actually have caused the parting, if it actually happened.
They believe wind could have parted Red Sea for Moses: Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Koran, the U.S. researchers suggest.
Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, show wind could push water back at a point where a river bent to merge with a coastal lagoon, found the team at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder said.
“The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus,” Carl Drews of NCAR, who led the study, said in a statement. “The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics. The wind moves the water in a way that’s in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in.”
Religious texts differ a little in the tale, but all describe Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt ahead of a pharaoh’s armies around 3,000 years ago. The Red Sea parts to let Moses and his followers pass safely, then crashes back onto the pursuers, drowning them.
Drews and colleagues are studying how Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges and other effects of strong and sustained winds on deep water. His team pinpointed a possible site south of the Mediterranean Sea for the legendary crossing, and modelled different land formations that could have existed then and perhaps led to the accounts of the sea appearing to part.
The model requires a U-shaped formation of the Nile River and a shallow lagoon along the shoreline. It shows that a wind of 63 miles per hour, blowing steadily for 12 hours, could have pushed back waters 6 feet deep.
“This land bridge is 3-4 km (2 to 2.5 miles) long and 5 km (3 miles) wide, and it remains open for 4 hours,” they wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE.
“People have always been fascinated by this Exodus story, wondering if it comes from historical facts,” Drews said. “What this study shows is that the description of the waters parting indeed has a basis in physical laws.”
However, some scientists claim the event DID actually occur.
Not too long ago, a Swedish scientist known as Dr Lennart Moller led a team of researchers and an American TV crew in the footsteps of Moses and the Israelites as they tried to escape from the Egyptian Army.
At one point, the TV crew and the scientists investigated the bottom of the Red Sea and weirdly, they came across dozens of ancient Egyptian relics belonging to the Egyptian army.
More proof for the parting of the Red Sea stems from Dr Ron Wyatt, an archaeologist who in 1978 claimed to have photo-evidence of golden chariots and fossilised human and horse bones on the bottom of the sea bed.
Just as the burning bush could have been a Dictamnus albus, a flowering shrub that grows to a height of about two feet. Native to a wide swath of Europe and Asia, including Israel, it’s commonly called “fraxinella,” “dittany,” and, more pertinently for our story, “gas plant” and “burning bush.”
Due to strong beliefs in religion at that time the weird phenomena would have undoubtedly been credited to God and thus documented as if God had indeed conducted the miraculous acts.
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More papers on the topic:
“sea” and Suph meaning, Red? Reed? END? There is great debate and mystery regarding this name. Here is what we find in the ABARIM Publications
Suph in Hebrew ספף
MeaningReeds, Border MarkerEtymologyFrom the noun סוף (sup), reed, from the verb שפף (sapap), to mark a border or reach across it.
Root ספף (sapap) has to do with creating, marking or temporarily reaching through the border between two essentially distinct realms that nevertheless have a common origin; this border circles around the smaller of the two so that this smaller realm sits within the larger. It’s the verb that describes any such formation from the palisade around a tribal territory to the fence around a single house, the skin of a person or even the cellular wall of a eukaryote.
Noun סף (sap) means threshold or sill (and is also the word for a kind of goblin or based bowl). Verb סוף (sup) means to come at an end. Noun סוף (sop) means end. Noun שפה (sapa) denotes the edge of things. Noun סופה (supa) describes a violent storm (perhaps a tornado, in form comparable to a goblin or based bowl).
Noun סוף (sup) refers to reed, which grows at, and thus marks the border between water and dry land. From reed comes papyrus, and books mark the border between the howling outer dark and the enlightened space within. The industrial production of papyrus, of course, was an absolute marvel and a milestone in information technology (easily comparable with the invention of floppies and disk drives in our age).
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Red Sea Parted “Naturally”?
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- USA Today: “Study seeks to explain the parting of the Red Sea”
Drews has proposed that a 63 mph wind blowing for 12 hours could have pushed back a wall of water.
The courses of rivers and the locations of shorelines do change over time, and using satellite imagery to suggest a site where a branch in the Nile River delta once drained into a coastal lagoon, Drews has proposed that a 63 mph wind blowing for 12 hours could have pushed back a wall of water, exposed a land bridge, and held it for the crossing. This effect, called wind setdown, is sort of the opposite of storm surge. On the one hand, the wind setdown concept is somewhat more refreshing than the popular claim that the Israelites waded through a “reed sea,” inevitably leading to the joke about a little boy being amazed that God could drown the Egyptian army in six inches of water. The wind setdown idea is not inconsistent with the biblical fact (Exodus 14:21-22) that God caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night—after all, God created the wind and the water and can command them to behave as He chooses. However, the existence of a physical explanation for a miraculous phenomenon is not necessary and the demand for one prior to believing a biblical miracle is foolhardy.
The parting of the Red Sea was a miracle. It was an extraordinary act of God (Exodus 14). Yet, God used a force of nature—wind—to bring about this miracle. But there is no need to come up with a naturalistic explanation of a supernatural event.
This current research involving computer modeling is based on the assumption that such an event has a naturalistic explanation, and that nothing supernatural was involved. Regardless of whatever results are found and ideas that are proposed, the researchers have accepted one part of the account in the Bible—that the Red Sea crossing by the Israelites really occurred—but they have already ruled out the rest of the account: that it was the result of a supernatural event. Besides, any such research can never ultimately prove or disprove what happened, and the only way we could know for sure is if there was an eyewitness account. The Bible gives us a record from the ultimate Eyewitness, the God of Creation.
The end of the storm was a natural event miraculously obeying a supernatural God.
When, as recorded in the New Testament, Jesus calmed a storm on the Sea of Galilee, His disciples were amazed that the winds and the sea obeyed him ( Luke 8:24–25 and Matthew 8:26–27). The end of the storm was a natural event miraculously obeying a supernatural God. Yet just a few years later, Jesus arose from the grave. These same disciples were eyewitnesses to the evidence of that miraculous event, an event for which there is no possible naturalistic explanation. We must be careful to avoid limiting our faith to only those acts of God that we can explain according to the laws of the physical world. He miraculously created those physical laws, and He can miraculously use them or override them as He chooses.
2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
| Bethel is a gender-neutral name with religious roots. It stems from Hebrew origins and means “house of God.” In the Bible, Bethel was the placename given to the spot where Abraham built an altar. Source |
3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
| Jericho Meaning Place Of Fragrance City Of The Moon Etymology From the noun ריח (reah), scent or fragrance. From the noun ירח (yareah), moon, in turn from the verb ארח (‘arah), to wander or travel or keep company with. Noun ארח (orah) means way or path.. Source |
5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
| Jordan While the word Jordan is used today for the “Jordan” river as well as the nation of “Jordan,” in the Bible this word is only used for the river. The modern nation-state dates to 1921. Related: Jordanian. Source Jordan river in ancient Palestine; the crossing of it is symbolic of death in high-flown language as a reference to Numbers xxxiii.51. Also a type of pot or vessel (late 14c.), especially a chamber-pot, but the sense there is unknown. The Jordan River is a 156 mile long river that runs north to south, and flows through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. In Hebrew this name is spelled ירדן (yarden, Strong’s #3383). This word is derived from the verb ירד (Y.R.D, Strong’s #3381), which means “to go down,” or “descend.” The name yarden means “descender.” Source |
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
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IF ONE TRULY BELIEVES that the Our Heavenly Father CREATED ALL THINGS… why should ANYTHING THAT HE DOES SURPRISE US? Why would we NOT BELIEVE that HE can work MIRACLES??
YES, it was amazing that GOD parted the waters…and EVEN MORE AMAZING that he made the land dry enough for thousands of people and all their goods including cattle and wagons loaded with the spoils of Egypt to WALK ON DRY LAND, followed by the Armies of Pharaoh in their armor and riding on their chariots!
No matter how they try to explain the parting of the waters, there is NO WAY to explain how the land was completely DRY. The floor of any body of water is thick, porous mud in which men, horses and wagons or chariots would become entrapped. They would not be able to transverse it. The scripture says that GOD removed their chariot wheels to slow them down.
THE CROSSING OF THE RED SEA by the millions of Israelites and all their belongings, and the complete and utter destruction of the armies of Egypt, is NOTHING LESS THAN AN ABSOLUTE MIRACLE!! There is no way to explain it, there is no natural manner in which it could occur. There is no way to reproduce it.
THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN, AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM!
But there are always going to be those who will not believe…
…Jesus recognised that miracles alone will do nothing to convince people that God is serious about caring for us. Miracles were an important part of Jesus’ ministry, and are still important today, but some of the people who watched Jesus heal person after person were the same people who cheered for his execution. And Jesus himself said that even if someone rises from the dead people still won’t believe if they don’t want to. It’s only within the whole picture of what Jesus came to do that miracles really make sense. Source
ALMIGHTY GOD, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, WHO LOVES US SO MUCH THAT HE SENT HIS SON TO LIVE A HUMAN LIFE BEFORE US and SUFFER AND DIE ON THE CROSS to PAY THE PRICE FOR OUR SINS…Is ALWAYS READY TO WORK MIRACLES IN OUR LIVES!! I have seen Him work Miracles for ME so very often!! IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?
WE HAVE A MIRACULOUS, MARVELOUS, MAGNIFICENT GOD. He watches over us NIGHT AND DAY!!