![]() ![]() What a picture this presents to the mind! God the creator of the universe, maker of every shining, glittering star, engaged in pulling off the wheels of wagons, that he might convince Pharaoh of his greatness and power! How did he do it? Did he pull out the linch-pins, or did he just take them off by main force? This account may be true, but still it hardly looks reasonable that God would take the wheels off the chariots. Moses did so, and immediately "the waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came into the sea, and there remained not so much as one of them." ![]() As soon as the wheels were off, God told Moses to stretch out his hand over the sea. The Egyptians pursued them "and in the morning watch the Lord looked into the hosts of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire," and proceeded to take the wheels off their chariots. Moses again stretched forth his wonderful rod over the waters of the Red Sea, and they were divided, and the Hebrews passed through on dry land, the waters standing up like a wall on either side. Even with the help of God, it seems, they were not strong enough to meet the Egyptians in the open field, but resorted to strategy. It is wonderful to me that a land that had been ravaged by the plagues described in the Bible, still had the power to put in the field an army that would carry terror to the hearts of six hundred thousand men of war. The moment the children of Israel saw the hosts of Pharaoh, although they had six hundred thousand men of war, they immediately cried unto the Lord for protection. As all the animals had long before that time been destroyed, we are not informed where Pharaoh obtained the horses for his chariots. When it was told Pharaoh that the people had fled, he made ready and took six hundred chosen chariots of Egypt, and pursued after the children of Israel, overtaking them by the sea. God did not take the Israelites through the land of the Philistines, for fear that when they saw the people of that country they would return to Egypt, but he took them by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea, going before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and by night, in a pillar of fire. ![]() To support these flocks, millions of acres of pasture would have been required. How were these flocks supported? What did they eat? Where were meadows and pastures for them? There was no grass, no forests - nothing! There is no account of its having rained baled hay, nor is it even claimed that they were miraculously fed. They had with them their flocks and herds, and the sheep were so numerous that the Israelites sacrificed, at one time, more than one hundred and fifty thousand first-born lambs. It would cost more than one hundred thousand millions of dollars, and would bankrupt Christendom. All of the civilized nations of the world could not feed and support three millions of people on the desert of Sinai for forty years. ![]()
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