This is a list of the places that the Israelites went to on their
wandering; from Rameses 5: And the children of Israel removed from
Rameses, and pitched in Succoth in the first month, on the fifteenth
day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children
of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
(this is the land we think of as Egypt (UR).
I will put the list of their travels that were supposed to take place
in the Sinai until they came to the place of the crossing of the Jordan.
From Numbers 33 to 50:
Rameses>Succoth>Etham,> Pi-hahiroth,> Marah.> Elim:> Red sea.> wilderness
of Sin>Dophkah.> Alush.> Rephidim,> wilderness of Sinai.> Kibroth-hattaavah.>
Hazeroth.>Rithmah>Rimmon-parez.> Libnah.> Rissah.> Kehelathah> mount
Shapher.> Haradah.>Makheloth.> Tahath.> Tarah.> Mithcah.> Hashmonah.>
Moseroth.> Bene-jaakan.> Hor-hagidgad.> Jotbathah.> Ebronah.> Ezion-gaber.>
wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.> mount Hor,> Zalmonah.> Punon.> Oboth.>
Ije-abarim> Dibon-gad.> Almon-diblathaim.> the mountains of Abarim, before
Nebo.> plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.>
As you can see from the following list they do not coincide; There is a
difference from mount Hor.
Numbers 21:4-33
From mount Hor to the land of Edom;
From Edom to Oboth,
From Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim,
From Ije-abarim to the Valley of Zarad,
From the Valley of Zarad to the other side of Arnon,
From Arnon to Beer,
From Beer they went to Mattanah:
From Mattanah to Nahaliel
From Nahaliel to Bamoth
From Bamoth in the valley to the top of Pisgah
From here Moses captures the following cities and towns and kills all
the people in them or sends them away;
From Arnon unto Jabok,Heshbon, Sihon, Dibon, Nophah, Medebah, Jaazar,
Bashan. And here twentyfour thousand died in a plague.
It is puzzling that there should be two different lists of towns or cities
that they overran; But one thing is clear; the place of the wandering
could not possibly have been in the Sinai. The towns and cities and
villages would have had to be almost on top of each other. Coming from
Ur makes far more sense in many ways. If the sea had inundated the land
between the Mediterranean and the red sea it would have indicated a force
coming from the North and would have wiped off most of those cities by the
huge tidalwave. And would Hebrews of the Nile valley, who lived in a land
between the Mediteranian and the Pacific, have refered to the Mediteranean
as the �Great Sea� when they knew otherwise? That doesn�t make sense. And
it was the �Great Sea� that smote Pharaoh�s army.
Not only does this scenario allow for all the cities mentioned but also
accounts for the reason that a land that was filled with rivers and growth
and cities and towns and villages became a barren wasteland. It wasn�t
only the devastation caused by the passage of Venus but by the army of
Moses that destroyed Arabia. All the towns that they encountered were
devastated and the people killed and their animals claimed by Moses army.
There are no known cities buried under the sands or rocks of the Sinai
that any one seems to have discovered that would give credence to that as
the site of the Exodus.
I am sure that there will be people who will say that I am making the facts
fit my theory. But isn't that what the present day Archaeologists have done
with the Bible themselves? At the cost of being repetitive I would remind
you that not one word of Hebrew is found in ancient Egypt. Not one word
of Egyptian is found in ancient Hebrew or in Israel. Not one shard of
pottery in either land carries the hint of the other. Same for weaving.
This from two peoples who lived together for over 450 years?
And where is the evidence in Ur? Who knows! Has anyone ever looked there?
They stopped digging a while back and there are times when even this branch
of the sciences can hide the truth from you if they thought it would be
embarrassing to anyone. There has been a rather large Israelite presence
discovered in anciant Ur,with alters made of uncut stone,a language that is aramaic and other finds that show an Israili presence at the time of the destruction of Ur.
(quote)In Atlantis Rising Magazine,issue#14; Dr Aldel Hakim Awyan claims
a greater age for the Pyramids. And says the ancient word for Egypt was
KHEMET. Egypt is supposed to be a Greek word, and refers to only one site-"Memphis". Greeks did not settle in Egypt until after the time of Alexander, or certainly not before 750 BC when Greece was created after the fall of
Mycenae, or the trojan war. It would be interesting to trace the word
'Egypt' into Greece and from there into the Nile Valley. And who know what
effect Alexander had on the history of Egypt AFTER his sojurn in the land of
UR?
There are no known extinct volcanoes in the Sinai area, which should rule
out that area for the place of the mount of the Law giving. However there
are extinct volcano's in the Arabian peninsula. And one very close to Ur.
