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If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, February 26, 2021
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Parting of the Red Sea Bible Verse:Exodus 14: 22-31 (KJV) "nd 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. 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. 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, 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. 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, Aand 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. 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. 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. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. 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. Exodus Map - Hammond Exodus Map 2 " Message:
There is not much to say about this wonderful story, as what happened is clear from the face of the text. Moses raised his staff, God parted the sea, and the Hebrews — having packed up their camp, and so with all of their baggage and animals — traveled safely to the opposite shore. They walked on dry land, bravely, as the sea formed walls of water on either side of them.
When the Egyptians tried to pursue, the wheels of their chariots got stuck and came off. The Egyptians lost their nerve and tried to reverse course: but before they could get back, morning arrived, the Hebrews were by then safely across, and God pulled the plug on the walls of water. Thus, Pharaoh’s army — in the words of a great old Gospel song — “got drownded.”
There has been a huge amount of scholarship over the past hundred years, attempting to show how this might have happened naturally, but if you see this kind of speculation and think about it for a minute, you will see that it is utter nonsense. If someone doesn’t trust the account in Exodus — if Exodus is wrong, a fable, a fiction — why do they think the Hebrews were ever in Egypt in the first place? There is no other record of it. If you do trust Exodus, on the other hand, no natural phenomenon can possibly explain what happened.
The one point at which the Old Testament may not agree with modern usage is that the Hebrews might have crossed a body of water no longer called the “Red Sea.” But the border between Sinai and Egypt is littered with deep bodies of water (just look at the Hammond Map, linked above); these may have connected to the Red Sea over 3,000 years ago, or they may have been known as the Red Sea collectively.
The Bible, for example, talks about Paul sailing out of the harbor at Ephesus — but Ephesus is five miles inland! (I was recently there, which is why this one comes to mind.) Is the Bible wrong? No — 2000 years ago, Ephesus was a port. The geography has changed. Both geography (and especially shoreline and shallow sea geography) and nomenclature have changed. The “Red Sea” that Moses crossed @ 3500 years ago might not even exist today.
Meditation : Prayer : And now let me go forth praising you, O Lord, with all my heart, telling of all your wonders, with my words and in my actions. I will be glad and rejoice in you this day. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.......Amen |
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