April 5 – Our teacher, Dr Randall Smith, started our day with a comparison of Moses and Jesus. He wrote it last night at 3 AM when he couldn’t sleep. We’re in Egypt, studying about Moses and the Passover. Today is Easter, so we think of Jesus and His resurrection. There are many parallels between Moses and Jeses. Both came after centuries of silence. Both fed multitudes of people, sent twelve, brought a message from God on a mountain, miracles with water, deliverance through blood, the king was killing babies when they were born, and on and on.
We’re leaving the Cairo/Giza area and driving toward Sinai. We got one last glimpse of the pyramids from the highway.
We see these miniature vans.
We crossed under the Suez Canal in a tunnel.
We crossed from Africa to the continent of Asia. During the crossing, Randy spoke on Exodus 14 and the Israelites’ crossing.
There are ships waiting to go through the canal. Not as many as usual because of the Hormuz Strait closure.
Some ruins I caught near Ayun Musa – Springs of Moses
“Seventy palm trees and twelve wells of water”
As we traveled south into the Sinai Peninsula we saw rugged wilderness and acacia trees.
Sometimes we could see the Gulf of Suez.
More acacias, but not as big as the ones in Saudi Arabia. Randy said the Saudis started protecting them sooner. They are very slow growing and take 300 years to get really large. The tabernacle boards had to be glued together. He said the sap of the acacia can be boiled down to make a very strong glue.
The roads are good. The military builds roads. This Roman arrangement works well.
And we’re in a Bedouin tent.
Ready to climb that mountain…