LOVERS of the Bible never cease to appreciate the significance of the complete deliverance of the Israelites from their Egyptian pursuers at the Red Sea. This dramatic story, so simply told in the fourteenth chapter of Exodus, vividly portrays the results that follow implicit obedience to divine direction.
Although the Egyptian Pharaoh had agreed to let the captive nationals leave the country in peace, he later had a change of heart. Motivated by greed and the worst passions of evil, he mobilized the chariots, and horses and horsemen of Egypt and gave hot pursuit.
When this apparently invincible force overtook the unarmed Israelites by the sea, it is little wonder that the dilemma struck terror to their hearts. Before them lay an impassable expanse of sea. Behind them pressed an army. From a human standpoint, the plight of the Israelites was utterly hopeless.
