Putting things in Perspective

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(See photo below)

This photo really does put thing in perspective.  The Mediterranean Sea is toward the upper left hand and the small country of Israel is located right along the lower half of the beach line.  But notice the Sinai Peninsula how small it looks and actually is when compared to surrounding areas.  The Red Sea is the large long body of blue water stretching north from the south of the satellite picture.  No, that is no where ancient Israel crossed.  A the top of the Red Sea (YaM-Suph) splits off like two fingers projecting toward the north.  The finger to the right is the Gulf of Aqaba  (Aqabah) and the finger to the left is called the Red Sea like the larger body to the south. 

When you see the size of the land masses some things come into perspective concerning Israel and their historical travels.  When we read the Bible and look at the biblical maps things seem much larger than they are.  Even the tracing out of Israel’s path out of Egypt following the biblical descriptions seems to make things much more practical and bring the whole scene into perspective.  I personally believe the Bible supports the route with the Israelites crossing the “Red Sea” at the Gulf of Aqaba.  Please understand, in the days of the crossing all three portions of the Red Sea were call the Red Sea (YaM-suph), the Gulf of Aqaba was there but was not called the Gulf of Aqaba., it was part of Yam surf, (Exodus 15:4,22 – see note in NIV, where Yam Suph is given as the Red Sea and suggested by the scholars as “Sea of Reed”)

Sea of Reeds?  The unbelieving scholars prefer to believe, in their disbelief, that the crossing could not really have been across the Red Sea and that the Red Sea really means Sea of Reeds, a marsh of low muddy waters where reed grew.  And this drowned the best of the Egyptian soldiers?  What the scholars fail to recognize is the real meaning of the term, Red Sea.  They have deciphered the true reading as Yam Suph but have no idea what it really means.  In Exodus 3:14 you see the same term used, YAM, as a reference to the God of Israel, as a name.  IAM is the Greek form of YAM.  Do you see?  With a little research we find that there is and was a god known among the ancients as Yam and that god was the god of the “surf” of the seas.  This god was the god of the waters that covered the earth.  In the account of Moses in the Book of Exodus we see the God of gods identifying Himself as the God of the Surf (Red Sea). 

By not understanding, or rejecting, the Name of our Creator you miss a vital point to the understanding the scriptures.  When you read your Bible keep this in mind and remember, the scholars are not the final word, the Word itself is, and you have it in your hands.  Look at this satellite image -- the place called the Holy land where biblical history unraveled, the arm of the Red Sea (Yam Suph) two fingers pointing to the Promised Land.  The land around Jerusalem barely visible and Modern Israel only a speck of what it is destined to become.  Notice, like the area where the Nile river spills into the sea, it is green with vegetation demonstrating the productivity of the region under Modern Israeli rule – the contrast to the surrounding Arab territories is remarkable but is nothing like what the future holds, when our Savior returns and Greater Israel is established from River to River.