The Mighty Six Hundred Thousand. moses, holding a wooden rod in his hand, was eighty years old and his brother eighty three when they faced the most powerful man of their era, his erstwhile adopted sibling, king ramses II.
sibling rivalry, for so many years, has bitterly lingered on between this two gentlemen, until this day they met again. they are now face to face as antagonists. both see each other as representing one big entity. egypt, at that time was the superpower and is being represented by ramses. moses, at that moment, represents an instruction.
moses, with his elder brother aaron, the future aide-de-camp, was pointing out stressfully to the pharaoh of their proposal to invite the israelites from out of egypt to some reunion party across the sinai peninsula. what followed then was exhanges of sharp scurrilous words, loudly transparent across the king's court. magics and tricks from both sides were shown off.
and so the story goes...
archeological evidence through the years had shown the path of moses' exodus. finding this appalling discovery, science has no absolute explanation or logical reason as to why would the twelve tribes of israel under moses' command followed through a path so ambiguous and remote. able bodied men of ages twenty years and above numbered six hundred three thousand five hundred and fifty, excluding women children and men above fifty, the multitude trekked the wilderness for forty years. economically, socially, militarily and geographically speaking, this travel is difficult if not impossible and yet it happened.
as i made a point in my august 8 write-up, that science and religion don't collide. they become parallel. what is written in the book, science tries to elucidate. sometimes science fails until new physical evidence surfaces.
the long exodus has encountered so many obstacles. discontents among the populace, mistrust to their leaders, costly battles with other tribes and kingdoms. did moses mistakenly took the wrong turn to the promised land? that it took them four decades to travel to have reached it?
in the good ol'e book of Numbers, the fourth part of moses' memoirs, the reason for the greatest detour in history is defined. "so Jehovah's anger blazed against israel and He made them wander about in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that was doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah came to their end."
coming topic>> a widely read magazine in one of their articles stated that everyday, for every 100 people you meet on the streets, two are ghosts. how do you spot a ghost in a mall or in the park?
sibling rivalry, for so many years, has bitterly lingered on between this two gentlemen, until this day they met again. they are now face to face as antagonists. both see each other as representing one big entity. egypt, at that time was the superpower and is being represented by ramses. moses, at that moment, represents an instruction.
moses, with his elder brother aaron, the future aide-de-camp, was pointing out stressfully to the pharaoh of their proposal to invite the israelites from out of egypt to some reunion party across the sinai peninsula. what followed then was exhanges of sharp scurrilous words, loudly transparent across the king's court. magics and tricks from both sides were shown off.
and so the story goes...
archeological evidence through the years had shown the path of moses' exodus. finding this appalling discovery, science has no absolute explanation or logical reason as to why would the twelve tribes of israel under moses' command followed through a path so ambiguous and remote. able bodied men of ages twenty years and above numbered six hundred three thousand five hundred and fifty, excluding women children and men above fifty, the multitude trekked the wilderness for forty years. economically, socially, militarily and geographically speaking, this travel is difficult if not impossible and yet it happened.
as i made a point in my august 8 write-up, that science and religion don't collide. they become parallel. what is written in the book, science tries to elucidate. sometimes science fails until new physical evidence surfaces.
the long exodus has encountered so many obstacles. discontents among the populace, mistrust to their leaders, costly battles with other tribes and kingdoms. did moses mistakenly took the wrong turn to the promised land? that it took them four decades to travel to have reached it?
in the good ol'e book of Numbers, the fourth part of moses' memoirs, the reason for the greatest detour in history is defined. "so Jehovah's anger blazed against israel and He made them wander about in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that was doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah came to their end."
coming topic>> a widely read magazine in one of their articles stated that everyday, for every 100 people you meet on the streets, two are ghosts. how do you spot a ghost in a mall or in the park?
very interesting to read. thanks for sharing po.
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