After the Hebrew people spent four-hundred plus years as slaves in Egypt, a descendent of Abraham named Moses was called by God from a burning bush. God told Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and take them back to Canaan so they could possess the land He had promised Abraham. Moses, who was employed as a shepherd at the time, was reluctant to confront the powerful Egyptians. But, through the assistance of some supernatural “motivaters” that were applied to the Egyptian Pharaoh in the form of several devastating plagues, Moses was successful in securing the freedom of the Hebrews.
Moses and his two-million destitute people departed Egypt and lived in the Sinai desert with no visible means of support for forty years. During this period, God gave the timid sheep-herder the Ten Commandments and a detailed system of orderly living that essentially survives among Orthodox Jews to this very day and serves as the basis for common law throughout the world. This is no small accomplishment in any age and ranks as one of the most astounding facts in the history of mankind. If someone led two million people into a desert today, how long could they survive? A huge UN relief program would probably have to be organized to save them.
After Moses and his people wandered around in the desert for forty years, his rag-tag outfit eventually moved into the land of Canaan and subdued established cultures living in fortified cities with virtually nothing in the way of armament that compared with their enemies defenses. Yet, they somehow succeeded. The only thing they had going for them was God.
Have you ever thought of the immense miracle the Exodus represents? Perhaps no event in history represents such an incredible scenario. However, there is another that rivals it! It’s the regathering of the Jewish people in that same “promised land” that began in 1948 and continues to this day in spite of world-wide opposition!
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