“Out of Egypt”

Recently, well, at least to me, God has emphasized that when He told Moses the Israelites would be brought to worship Him at “this” mountain—in Midian—that’s exactly what He meant and exactly what happened. But mainstream Christianity, though not all, have been distracted by a tradition created centuries after the fact to think that the mountain, Mount Sinai, is in what became to be called the Sinai Peninsula.

 

The Bible is clear that “this” mountain was and is in Midian, in Arabia—Saudi Arabia to be current. In these the last days, as the angel told Daniel (Daniel 12:4), knowledge is increasing, and things that have been previously hidden are being revealed. The evidence of the location of Mount Sinai has always been there, however, and the local Bedouins can attest to it. Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb, is in Arabia, just as Paul wrote in Galatians 4:25, right where it’s always been in spite of the traditions of man and in spite of almost all of our current Bible maps.

 

God took the Israelites “out of Egypt” the very day they started walking. That phrase repeats itself in Exodus 12-14. They embarked on a journey through the peninsula along the straighter route to Midian avoiding the easy route that would have taken them near the Philistines. But at one point, before they could round the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) into Midian, God had them turn back taking them south through a wadi’s narrow valley to the huge beach of Nuweiba on the right finger of the Red Sea.

 

There, the fire of God stood between them and the Egyptians protecting them as the Red Sea parted in front of them so they could cross. This was the perfect provision of God as Isaiah 43:16 (NASB) says, “Thus says the Lord, who makes a way through the sea and a path through the mighty waters.” Here at Nuweiba is a raised “bridge” of land under the water from shore to shore with easement slopes suitable for today’s wheelchair ramps. It is the only place in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, where this is possible. And not only that, the floor of this portion of the Red Sea is easily walkable sand, supposedly kept thin by the passing of the current over it.

 

After the Israelites crossed safely, God removed the Egyptian pursuers’ chariot wheels and the sea came down over them. Isaiah 43:17 records God’s description as He was the One, “Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; they have been quenched and extinguished like a wick).” (NASB) Many have photographed such wheels encased in coral. Just Google it.

 

The Israelites then made their way to “this” mountain, God’s Mountain, what the locals have called for centuries the mountain of Moses, Mount Sinai. All the physical evidence and biblical evidence supports its location. God used the tradition of man (as well as the Saudis) to preserve the truth of the Exodus for such a time as this.

 

Perhaps, in His scheme of things, He is again turning us from the traditions we set up to His truth that is the reality we need to live in, especially in these last days. We need to remember His miraculous provision is not just for the Israelites. God takes notice of us, just as He took notice of the Israelites (Exodus 2:25 NASB). He is the great I AM for our lives, too.