seekeroftruth
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Exodus 14:26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[c] it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Exodus 14:27 Or from
This is from GodVine.
A sudden cessation of the wind, possibly coinciding with a spring tide (it was full moon) would immediately convert the low flat sand-banks first into a quicksand, and then into a mass of waters, in a time far less than would suffice for the escape of a single chariot, or horseman loaded with heavy corslet.
Escape would be impossible. Pharaoh's destruction, independent of the distinct statement of the Psalmist, Psalm 136:15, was in fact inevitable. The station of the king was in the vanguard: on every monument the Pharaoh is represented as the leader of the army. The death of the Pharaoh, and the entire loss of the chariotry and cavalry accounts for the undisturbed retreat of the Israelites through a district then subject to Egypt and easily accessible to their forces. If, as appears probable, Tothmosis II was the Pharaoh, the first recorded expedition into the Peninsula took place 17 years after his death; and 22 years elapsed before any measures were taken to recover the lost ascendancy of Egypt in Syria. So complete, so marvelous was the deliverance: thus the Israelites were "baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea" 1 Corinthians 10:2. When they left Baal-Zephon they were separated finally from the idolatry of Egypt: when they passed the Red Sea their independence of its power was sealed; their life as a nation then began, a life inseparable henceforth from belief in Yahweh and His servant Moses, only to be merged in the higher life revealed by His Son.
It must have been horrible to watch those people just drown like that. But then again, it must have been horrible to watch babies being slaughtered at birth or thrown into the River Nile. It must have been horrible to watch a whole army swallowed up like that. Then again, it would have been a really fearful site, looking up and seeing that you are surrounded, facing the desert and backed by the sea.... trapped with 600 chariots, the state of the art of weaponry of the day.... And then to see them totally wiped out like that.
No wonder they talk about it still today. How many other events to humans remember in such detail? Some humans today have forgotten the hell of Hurricane Katrina or 9/11. This was God, getting rid of a little man who thought he was a god.....
OK.... I'm going to tear down my computer in a few minutes. We're moving.... I don't know how I will do without my morning Bible verse....