Exodus 14, Crossing the Red Sea

Hi Helen,
I'm new here. I just loved your post on the Red Sea. Great bible study. I have to remember that the Lord will fight my battles just like he did for the isralites. I'm going to show this to my husband and daughter. I know they will also enjoy reading and studing too. God Bless
Liz

 

1 Cor. 13:9,10, "For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away."

I just started reading a fascinating book on this very subject. The author contends that the area is called the Red Sea. However the Red Sea as we know it could not grow Reeds. Only a place of a small amount of salt or fresh water can grow reeds. But there is a place due to the red coral the sea will shine red during a certain time of the day. I will let you know more when I finish it. The book is called, "The Miracles of Exodus : A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical Stories" by Colin J. Humphreys. So far it proves to be an outstanding book. The author has approached it from a scientific point of view and has discovered on his trips to the area some amazing things.

I'll let you know more when I finish.

PAX and PBS have had some excellent things on this subject the past few years.

[Edited by Barry and Helen. We will be interested in you posting what the author says about the miracles! When you do, could you please post in the sections of this forum which cover the miracles? That way each thread will be a confined topic. Thank you.]

[ December 08, 2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Barry and Helen Setterfield ]

 

All material except that having to do with the study itself has been deleted. This forum is for the study itself, not for attacks on others or personal statements of faith. Thank you.

 

We were emailed a question about a possible chariot wheel find in the waters marking the spot where the crossing might have occurred. The following is the response I, Helen, wrote with Barry's help (he is in Australia and I in California right now) after doing a bit of net research:

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I think you are referring to the Wyatt claims:

http://www.wyattarchaeology.com/red_sea.htm

http://www.pinkoski.com/redsea.html

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm

http://www.exchangedlife.com/wyatt/redsea.html

Wyatt’s work, in other words, all sounds incredible and fascinating and wonderful….until you read the following:

http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/

http://www.ldolphin.org/wyatt1.html -- the author of this article, Dr. Bernard Brandstater, is a very close personal friend of ours. We have stayed at his home in Redlands a number of times, and while we don’t agree with his SDA views, we do hold him in very high esteem and really enjoy and value our friendship with him. This report from him is entirely accurate.

Barry was still up in Australia (it’s the early morning hours as I write this) getting references for his new paper in order for his co-author to check tomorrow, so he just called me – thank you, Lord! – and I asked him about this. I learned a number of things. First of all, although Ron Wyatt is a documented fraud, he may have stumbled on something actually true regarding the crossing of the Gulf of Aqaba and the site of Mt. Sinai.

First of all, there is evidence that one of the ‘chariot wheels’ was planted for an amateur diver to find and that the other was the steering wheel from a wrecked boat. So I don’t know about the wheels at all, really. Because Wyatt was shown to be a fraud in so many other areas, even areas where he might have been right are put in doubt.

Barry, relying on eyewitness accounts of another friend who has been there to inspect the Wyatt claims, mentioned that Wyatt’s choice of a place of crossing would have been extremely difficult for two million or so Israelites, but that down near the mouth of the Gulf ships even occasionally ground today because of the shallowness of the water over a large section – a section which would allow up to a thousand people abreast to cross. In short, they could have crossed at either the Wyatt area or further down, but the ‘evidence’ of the wheels is in doubt.

Now, about the pillars – they are there. Alan Roberts even brought a bit of the granite back for Barry to see. It is red-pink granite. Alan was not well-enough versed in Hebrew to know what the inscriptions say, but there is a pillar on each side of the “Wyatt” area, and there is a possibility that they do, indeed, commemorate the crossing. Was it there, then? Or further down?

The sad thing is that Wyatt may have had something here, but with the man’s reputation for deceit so documented, it’s hard to know.

I had thought Wyatt was a fraud in everything, but he may have stumbled onto something here….