On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently, and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God […]
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Speeding to Sinai
But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert. Psalm 78:52 After finishing up our day in Thebes, we hopped back on the train to go back to Cairo. The next day (Thursday) we spent around Cairo at places like the pyramids at Giza (already mentioned). Friday we had a brief stop at the Cairo Museum before hitting the road east into the Sinai Peninsula. After crossing back under the Suez Canal, we had a brief stop at the traditional site of Elim, a place where Moses and the Israelites passed by (Exodus […]
Egypt Ho!
Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. Deuteronomy 1:19 I’ve been getting back into the groove of work life again. Now it’s time to begin to tell the tale of my eight days in Egypt. We pulled away from Jerusalem about 6:00 am on Saturday, December 3 and headed south to Eilat, the southernmost tip of Israel on the eastern branch of the Red Sea. To our east […]