For those of you that still wish to be, as Peter puts it, 'willingly ignorant' about the Red Sea being misinterpreted as Reed Sea, here is another thing to contemplate.

Consider Nehemiah chapter 9, this takes place after the Babylonian captivity and King Cyrus orders the walls and the Temple of Jerusalem to be rebuilt and later Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to be governor of Jerusalem and to oversee the rest of the project. The walls are rebuilt and everyone is gathered together and Ezra reads the Law of Moses to them and afterward a prayer is prayed and here is part of it:

Ne 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

After Ezra dusts off some old documents and the begin to read a part of Moses' account of what took place, they were left with the impression also that the Egyptians were drown in deep waters "thou threwest into the deeps". Red Sea being deep, Reed Sea being but inches.

So, lets give God credit for the dramatic, that He is able to dramatically rescue His people from their enemies when they follow and trust Him.

Labels: Creation

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