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   The Map below is of the Exodus and Israel's Crossing of the Red Sea, it is one of four maps, a topographical map, and a graphic in my rather large book, God's Rock, which e-book you can download free or download the first chapter to see if you like it, for everything on this website is free. Click on the logo above to navigate around our website to see our many pages of books, Rocky Mountain wilderness photos, short Bible studies, missionary pages in the Philippines, and many pages of short missionary trips.
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    From his bed in the pitch darkness of his bedroom Pharaoh agreed to let Moses and the Israelites and their children and their livestock go: to journey a distance of a three day march in Egypt's wilderness to have their festival of sacrifices. When they were done it was understood and agreed that they would return home to Goshen. This is the true teaching of the story with not a hint on either side of "escape". If the Israelites had planned to escape (which Pharaoh in his hard heart suspected that they would try) then from the beginning the agreement of Moses and God with Pharaoh was a lie. Yes, Pharaoh would have lied if he had been in their situation, but Moses did not lie. Neither did God lie.
    God's Rock (with 100 pages of appendixes) is the life of Moses...a great man of faith...and much of his faith is detailed in the book. Study how Heaven's Faith is the interacting factor between this man and God.
   Below is a sketch map of the Exodus when God (in Cloud and Fire for 6 days and nights) led Moses and the Israelites from Goshen to a site within Egypt's wilderness for their festival of sacrifices, which occurred on the 7the day - matching the days of Israel's Passover season. Before returning home as agreed, they were led to the edge of the Gulf of Suez near Baal-zephon and Pi-hahiroth for a leisurely respite by the sea. Israel was not led by God through a "sea of reeds" nor to the Gulf of Aqaba. Study the map, using the brief description below of Israel's march from Goshen through Egypt along the Nile River to a jumping off point into Egypt's wilderness and from there into Egypt's mountainous wilderness. In God's Rock, all Bible passages are documented and explained in the appendixes. And Moses' faith is well illustrated in his very long story.

   Hi folks...we are getting a great amount of interest (traffic) to this page and its map. If you have a website and would like your interested visitors to see the map (which perhaps many of you have already downloaded and are using on your site) that is fine with me. However, I would appreciate it (in the Lord) if you would credit our website with a link. In fact, better would be that you can simply recommend it with a brief description on your site and include a link to this page...and may the Lord bless you in your work... all to His Glory. Here is the link to this page - www.christianwildernesspress.net/web-map-1.html.
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This map is in GOD’S ROCK Copyright © 2007  Download e-book God's Rock or buy print copy.

Covered in this book are many of the subtopics (see them) that Internet searchers are looking for.

The map is rather large to download, or do you want a copy 7 times smaller to download?  

Map 1 in Appendix IX in God's Rock

    The path is marked by a + with a circle around it and with a dot on the circle to show the direction of travel. (This map is much larger in the Appendix, covering two full pages.) Moses, Aaron, and the Israelites left Goshen after midnight on the night of Passover. Following God's Fire and Cloud, they traveled southeasterly on a road that paralleled the waterway adjacent to Goshen. They stayed on the road until reaching the junction (location 4) and then turned south until reaching a place on the Nile River road where is present day Cairo (location 5). Then the Fire and Cloud led east and up into the wilderness mountains of Egypt along a road (marked by location 8) that ran up and over to the sea. They walked day and night following Cloud and Fire, pausing from time to time for the people to eat and rest or nap. In the mountains on the evening of the sixth day of their march, the Fire and Cloud left the road to proceed to the first encampment site (encampment 1). This was the site of the festival of sacrifices (the encampment entitled Succoth). This encampment and its festival was the focus of the agreement between God and Moses with Pharaoh. Exodus 12:29-38 and 13:17-22.

   From the Succoth encampment God led north a short distance and they encamped in the wilderness mountains within sight of a caravan route (just below them and north of this site, encampment 2); this was the second, the 'Etham' encampment, where they rested for a day. Then God led them (i.e. they 'turned back') to the road that ran through these mountains, upon which they had initially walked into the mountains, and by which road God continued to lead them on to the shore of the Gulf of Suez near 'Baal-zephon' and 'Pi-hahiroth'. There by the sea was the third resting place for a few days (encampment 3) before departing Egypt's wilderness - where they had vacationed - to return home to Goshen. However, Pharaoh and his troops from Zoan attacked them there and forced them out of Egypt and across the dry seabed prepared for them by their God.

   God did not allow them to encamp on the eastern seashore, but after several hours He led them south along the shore until they came to the Wadi Sur where they were led up into the interior of the Sinai Peninsula into the Wilderness of Sur (this also was a region referred to as 'Etham' as explained in the Appendix). All of this...and the rest of the journey on to the Wilderness of Sinai in the south of the peninsula...is detailed in the Appendix of God's Rock. Exactly what Bible passages were used and how the days of march, distances of march, and direction of march were analyzed from these passages are in the Appendix. All is explained in full, including how days-of-march (at that time in history) equates to our present day concept of distance in miles-of-travel.

   The readers of scripture need to understand that the words 'Succoth', 'Etham', and some other such "names" were not names of known places or cities (then or now). These words are expressive of the significance of each encampment and of what went on in the encampments between God and His people. Later, when writing of the encampments, Moses gave each encampment a title or title-name which when discussed in teaching by him to the people (or by mothers and fathers to their children) the title-name of the encampment would quickly bring to mind its historical significance. Not understanding this concept has led to error, which has led to more modern errors, which infer to the world that the Exodus Epoch is a "fantasy Bible text". Indeed, many "experts" (and thus many people who accept their "expert" opinion) disbelieve the plain truth of the Bible. All of Moses' descriptive details in Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are accurate, which was my primary purpose in researching and writing God's Rock.

    I trust that you will want to read the book, God's Rock. When you do, you might first want to take the time to wade through all of the appendixes, for with these in the forefront of your mind you will comprehend (grasp) more of the foundational Bible Story upon which all scripture is built regarding God's Plan for the Ages in Christ. And...the Plan culminates in Jesus Christ ascending the throne of his kingdom in Jerusalem, the holy city of Israel, to reign for a thousand years. The Story and the Appendix of God's Rock distinguishes it from most other books on the subject, and it will prove to you that your Bible is the Accurate Word of God.

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