Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
RED SEA CROSSING AT GULF OF AQABA
The Hebrew children did not enter the promised land until after wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. They needed a winnowing process, a decompression period, just like deep-sea divers and astronauts must undergo when returning to Earth. Our own people decompressed and were winnowed, for 40 years after the apotheosis of Dr. M.L. King, 1968-2008. Now it is time to "take the land," our good American land, as the Hebrew children did, as the Spirit moves.
The Exodus Route: 15 Stops between Kadesh Barnea to Jordan
www.bible.ca
A. They left Mt. Sinai and passed by Ezion Geber, then Mt. Seir, then came to Kadesh Barnea. This is almost a straight line of travel north. From this we know that Mt. Seir is south of Kadesh:
This Bible scholar contends that the Gulf of Aqaba was the "Red Sea" point that God divided, enabling the Hebrew Children to escape Pharaoh's army. Egypt proper then included the Sinai Peninsula, unlike today, the Sinai Peninsula is not deemed to be in Africa; and where maps cut Egypt off at the Suez Canal, which did not then exist; was built by the British over 2,000 years later.