Crossing the Red Sea
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An East wind.. now to the Natural Mind... one would have to think that there needs to be a 'west' embankment of some type to create the the wall of Water, the West embankment, the focal point of the East wind.. BUT the Word tells us there were WALLS ON BOTH SIDES.. mmmm that natural man , that doesnt work.. but WHAT ABOUT A STRONG east wind that takes the shape of a tunnel.. or horizontal vortex.. Always see the Weather geeks trying to explain how tornadoes form.. they talk of vertical winds and horizontal winds.. could God of created a 'tunnel ' of Wind.. strong enough to plow thru the Red Sea, thus creating walls on Both sides... OH INDEED.. now this could explain the walls on both sides.. a huge tunnel of wind.. wide in expanse .. outside this tunnel no wind at all.. wide enough to accomodate all the Israelites and their animals... mmm something to ponder on.. and to think this started at the END OF MOSES'S staff... very possible.. a supernatural God doing supernatural things!
That's a good question. I am not sure I have an answer for that. Since cohesion is the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules what could this look like? From what we know of the physics of hydrodynamics, water molecules do not naturally stand on end. Water simply does not behave in this way. Hydrodynamics shay that water by it very nature must seek its own level. Explanations have been offered to suggest that the water may have been frozen but we are given no indication of this from the language of the text. On possibility may be in Exodus 15:8, "At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea."
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If the east wind separated the water, cohesion could have kept the water in wall like form? Cohesion is water sticking to water...
we did an experiment in highschool chemistry on water cohesion....how many water droplets could pile up on a penny without falling off, it created a big water bubble....
we did an experiment in highschool chemistry on water cohesion....how many water droplets could pile up on a penny without falling off, it created a big water bubble....
the Power of an East Wind, done supernaturally by God.. a tube or horizontal 'arrow-shaft- of air.. Supernaturally moved THE WATER BACK and kept by the east wind.. yet held together by Cohesion, as the East wind blew hard.. wow.. one would have to think , depending on the Depth of the Crossing.. that would of been a purdy strong wind.. there again.. trying to figure a supernatural event out Naturally.. cohesion of water.. does that happen naturally or supernaturally? one would think Naturally.. so maybe God Comined BOTH.. natural and Supernatural? if He did .. He is ABLE..
Yes, and what we see in Ex 14 is God overturning all the laws that regulate the physics of hydrodynamics and he does this at the molecular level. He changed the way water molecules behave toward one another long enough for Israel to transverse the distance to the other shore. When the physics of hydrodynamics were allowed to resume the result was the annihilation of the Egyptian army.
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yep so ponder.. the horizontal shaft of strong wind... coming from the East.. in the center of that arrow shaft of wind... no wind at all? as the outside winds kept the walls of water at bay.. yet allowed the inner part of the shaft, no winds but calm, as the Israelites crossed over. on this and in this.. Silent and calm, Kind of reminds you of the PEACE that passes all understanding.. when trials and tribulations start, He Grants you the Peace that others dont understand.. and that section of the vortex of air that was calm, the Inner Sanctuary... the Holy of holies, where God met man before the new Convenant and where God meets Man today thru Christ, in that Inner man, indeed!
Have to understand that within those walls of water, ye had to communicate.. talk with each other.. the same with the Egyptians.. when they went down into the Miracle of God, a loud wind separating the waters, would of cut out any chance of communicating with each other.. and the Egyptians communicated with each other, for they became terrified and told everybody to 'flee' as the LORD made their chariots get stuck in the mud.. One communicating to others would of had to have a quiet not so loud environment to get the message out... but by that time it was TOO LATE.. God had commanded Moses to let the waters come back on top of them..
Wasnt it the Glory of God in the cloud that kept the Egyptians at Bay? not sure.. but I believe so, God at just the Right Time, removed that.. and allowed the Egyptians to pursue the Israelites, moving down onto the seabed.... I believe they probably entered in at the same spot the Israelites did.. God still holding back the Waters, which means Israel had yet to totally cross over.. God is showing how hard Pharaoh's heart was, his anger and rage.. his presumptuousness, to GET INVOLVED in the Miracle of God.. can you imagine yourself chasing someobdy with walls of water on both side? one would to be very angered , jealous, a heart bent on destroying those he was pursing... this was Pharaoh and his armies.. God knew their heart... He was the One hardening it thru the Judgments of God.. He knows what He is doing.. indeed!