Interplanner
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The Exodus was written heavily influenced by what had happened before and in the Deluge. People were superhuman by post-deluge standards, and there was massive vertical tectonic upheaval. It was common knowledge in the ancient world that huge cities all around had been sunk.
When the Exodus happens, you have Moses learning that the name for Adonai is 'I Am What I Am.' This is to be seen in the dealings with severing from Egypt. Egypt was enamored with the superhuman past, and the pyramids were hailed as things that survived the catastrophic flood. God had said in the Deluge that he had made the existing world collapse into the waters and covered them and pushed the mountains up.
When the Exodus occurred, God was showing the one world power that swooned over the ancient superhuman past that He was still there and could sink cities/civilizations and raise the land again, any time he wanted. So the hydrology of the Exodus is not due to any 'stretching' of local tidal activity or winds, but the same Hand of God that altered the entire world at the end of the Deluge, making his point again. 'He Was Who He Was.' Meaning, 'He would once again do what he had done in the past'--if needed or to the extent needed.
He did enough like the Deluge to 'sink' Egypt and put his people on dry land. Psalms would then be written to draw similarities between the events. The height of the mountains would be called demonstrations of his justice, not in an aesthetic sense, but because the height of the mountains would always be associated with ending that wicked world.
When the Exodus happens, you have Moses learning that the name for Adonai is 'I Am What I Am.' This is to be seen in the dealings with severing from Egypt. Egypt was enamored with the superhuman past, and the pyramids were hailed as things that survived the catastrophic flood. God had said in the Deluge that he had made the existing world collapse into the waters and covered them and pushed the mountains up.
When the Exodus occurred, God was showing the one world power that swooned over the ancient superhuman past that He was still there and could sink cities/civilizations and raise the land again, any time he wanted. So the hydrology of the Exodus is not due to any 'stretching' of local tidal activity or winds, but the same Hand of God that altered the entire world at the end of the Deluge, making his point again. 'He Was Who He Was.' Meaning, 'He would once again do what he had done in the past'--if needed or to the extent needed.
He did enough like the Deluge to 'sink' Egypt and put his people on dry land. Psalms would then be written to draw similarities between the events. The height of the mountains would be called demonstrations of his justice, not in an aesthetic sense, but because the height of the mountains would always be associated with ending that wicked world.