Let’s talk about the Red Sea crossing.
First off, there’s no way I’m going to try and explain the splitting of the Red Sea via offering up some kind of natural or scientific explanation.
This was an incredible miracle of God that minus the Lord’s hand would simply have been impossible.
Sometimes I think it’s important to remind ourselves that we worship a God who performs miracles and that minus the Lord’s intervention the parting of the waters would not have happened.
However, it is fascinating to explore the event from a purely geographic perspective.
We know from ancient times there was a well-traveled trade route that stretched across the center of the Sinai Peninsula.
And although I can’t say for sure, there’s a high possibility that Moses not only used this trade route when he fled Egypt after killing the Egyptian guard…
…but it’s also likely the same route he led the Israelites through after rescuing them from Pharaoh’s hand.
Here’s the thing.
This trade route eventually connects to a long and winding river bed that goes through a hilly wilderness area that ends at the gulf of Aqaba.
The gulf of Aqaba is an enormous and very deep part of the Red Sea that’s kind of shaped like a finger.
It is this huge and very deep finger that separates the…
…main part of the Sinai from the Arabian Peninsula.
Here’s another thing.
At the end of this finger (called Pi-Hahiroth) is a beach that’s more than big enough to contain a population of 2-3 million Israelites.
And across from this beach on the opposite shore is another beach that again would have been of sufficient size to contain 2-3 million fleeing Israelites who would have gathered and then turned around to watch the waters coming crashing down on the Egyptian Army.
Now here’s what I want you to know.
In some areas, the Gulf of Aqaba is very deep.
I’m talking up to 1000 feet in some spots.
From a purely physical or logistical perspective, when God split the waters and dried up the bed of the sea, if there was too steep of an incline from the beach shore to the sea bed…
…or if it was too uneven or rocky…
…a couple of million people comprised of children, the disabled and the elderly would NOT have been able to travel through.
However, what do we find when we examine each side of the gulf?
I’ll tell you what we find homies.
We find that that the seabed portions of the gulf on both sides near the beaches are raised.
In fact, they are only about 50 feet under the water and they are wide and pretty flat.
My point is…
…if the gulf of Aqaba was drained of all its water (which is what God did), we would see a perfect land bridge connecting the two large beaches across the gulf.
Can I get an “Amen” here?!
The Lord knew exactly what he was doing when He led Moses to that exact spot He did just before the waters split.
Anyway, it wasn’t my intention to provide some kind of natural explanation for what happened but the geography is fascinating.
The fact of the matter is this was a miracle of God.
Period.
To say otherwise is to harbor a perverse and anti-Godly spirit of unbelief.
Because of this miracle, the Israelites were freed from Pharaoh’s clutches forever.
The time is now 1350 BC and exactly 430 years have passed since Jacob came to Israel to meet his son Joseph in Egypt.
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