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The Red Sea Crossing. Introduction: We only know with certainty, three of the nearly 50 places listed in the exodus between Egypt and the Jordan 40 years later. Rameses (Goshen), Ezion-Geber (modern Elat) and Mt. Nemo. God has chosen for us to know only the starting, midway and ending cities. Nothing in between is known for certain.
- A Scriptural Proof, With The Witness of History and Archeology. Mt. Sinai in Arabia
Overview of the Exodus and Conquest: In 1446 BC, the 700 km...
- Straits of Tiran
The Red Sea crossing proves that Christian water baptism is...
- A Scriptural Proof, With The Witness of History and Archeology. Mt. Sinai in Arabia
Jan 1, 2021 · When the Bible indicated the Israelites crossed a significant body of water on Egypt’s eastern border, the LXX translators connected it with the body of water they knew as the Red Sea. Instead of translating the Hebrew phrase literally, they offered this historical identification as their interpretation of the text.
What follows is a close paraphrase of Professor Goedicke’s analysis of the Exodus story in the Bible and the extra-Biblical evidence which led him to date the miraculous crossing of the Reed Sea to “the early morning hours of a spring day in 1477 B.C.”.
- Echoes in Earlier Exodus
- History of Water Crossings
- Red Sea Crossing and Our Redemption
The events at the Red Sea were anticipated by the deliverance of the infant Moses. Many decades earlier, the infant Levite had been placed by his mother in an “ark” (same word used in the account of Noah) among the reeds at the river bank (Ex. 2:3). There is an important linguistic connection here. The Hebrew word for “reeds” in Exodus 2:3 is the s...
The crossing of the Red Sea is significant in yet another way: Israel’s existence was defined by water crossings. They served other gods on the far side of the Euphrates, before Abram was called (Josh. 24:2). They received the name of “Israel” at the crossing of the Jabbok, where their forefather Jacob wrestled with the Angel (Gen. 32:22–32). Their...
The deliverance at the Red Sea is recalled in the New Testament, where Christ accomplishes a new exodus through his death and resurrection (Luke 9:31). He dies at the time of Passover, before tearing open the deep waters of the grave through his resurrection, so that we—following in his triumphal train—might be reborn into a new life. Looking back ...
- Alastair Roberts
Jan 1, 2021 · The Holy Spirit, at the time of the great Africa-to-India “Red Sea,” affirmed by NT Scripture that the children of Israel crossed that sea. “By faith,” wrote the writer of Hebrews, “they crossed over the Red Sea as through a dried land, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up” (Heb 11:29).
Apr 20, 2022 · While these events are indeed spectacular and memorable, it is the climactic episode of the Exodus story—the crossing of the Red Sea—that seals Yahweh’s victory and allows the early Israelites to overcome the forces of Egypt—gods and the pharaoh alike.
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Apr 6, 1998 · Crossing the Red Sea Exodus 14:21–31 "So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left" (v. 22).
