KING of GLORY Illustrated Study Guide

1. You may find ROCK International’s book One God One Message (by P. D. Bramsen) helpful. It presents the same big picture, but contains four times the information found in KING of GLORY . It provides logical answers to hundreds of questions. Available in print from online booksellers. Available as a free PDF download at www.king-of-glory.com 2. Discovered in June of 2014, ringwoodite is a bluish, crystal structured rock housed in the Earth’s mantle between 525 and 660 km (326 and 410 mi) below the earth’s surface. This mantle of ringwoodite reservoir is estimated to contain, in the form of hydroxide, about three times more water than the Earth’s oceans combined. This discovery makes it easy to understand the biblical record, which describes the source of the global flood in Genesis 7:11-12: “On that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” 3. Co-published by Emmaus International and ROCK International, What if Jesus Meant What He Said? (by Nate Bramsen) will challenge you to take Jesus’ words seriously. For some other excellent resources to strengthen you in your relationship with the Lord and to encourage you in your study of His Word, check out the Bible study courses (in many languages) and L.I.T. (Life in Truth) discipleship programs at www.EmmausInternational.com 4 . What follows is an explanation for the Exodus/Red Sea Crossing/Mount Sinai route marked on the map on page 150. Scholars hold many different views as to the path by which God led His ancient people away from their slavery in Egypt, “through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea” (Exodus 13:18), and “through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left” (Exodus 14:29), and on to Mount Sinai/Horeb in Arabia. The sea in which God opened a path is called the Red Sea in English and Yam Suph in Hebrew (meaning Sea of Reeds or Sea of Seaweed ). The Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba are part of this same sea. This ocean body (either as Yam Suph or simply Yam) is referred to about 50 times in the Old Testament. One verse that may help identify where God opened the path in the sea is 1 Kings 9:26: “And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea (Yam Suph), in the land of Edom.” King Solomon had a fleet of ocean-going ships in what is known today as the Gulf of Aqaba. Geographical and archeological evidence points to that same Gulf (not the Gulf of Suez or some lake) as the place where “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land” (Exodus 14:21). KING OF GLORY ILLUSTRATED STUDY GUIDE ENDNOTES To the east of Aqaba is the region of Midian, where God, 40 years earlier, spoke to the shepherd Moses from a burning bush at “Horeb the mountain of God” (Exodus 3:1), promising to bring Moses and the Israelites back to “this mountain” after He delivered them from their slavery (Exodus 3:11-12). As to the site of the Red Sea crossing, on the west side of the Gulf of Aqaba there is a canyon that leads onto Nuweiba Beach (easily seen on satellite maps), a beach large enough to hold the few million people that this nation had become. As Pharaoh’s army approached, the Israelites were trapped between the mountains and the sea. Apart from divine intervention they would perish. The wide beach/flood plain of Nuweiba slopes down into the gulf and leads up to the Arabian side. It is the only undersea ridge in the mile-deep gulf of Aqaba. This wide underwater road (unsurprisingly somewhat broken in places) is made up of a hard layer of sand and silt, perfect for walking on once God “made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters” (Isaiah 43:16). The Scripture tells us that once the people had crossed over, God brought the waters back again and Pharaoh’s army of soldiers and chariots were destroyed. To this day, this wide, underwater path is littered with coral formations, many of them still in the shapes of debris such as chariot wheels and shafts. On the Arabian side of the sea in the region of Midian is a mountain with a blackened summit, known as Jabal al-Lawz (Galatians 4:25). It was to this region (Horeb in Midian) that God had promised to bring His chosen people. Not far from that mountain is a 50-foot high rock, split down the middle with evidence of water erosion, the perfect fit for what is described in Scripture, when the LORD said to Moses, “‘I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.’ So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.” And the result was that the LORD “brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers” (Exodus 17:6; Psalm 78:16). Do your own research. You may want to read the carefully researched 448-page book, The Exodus Case , by Swedish medical scientist Dr. Lennart Möller. While some of his deductions may be off, many are irrefutable— rooted in biblical, archeological, and historical data. Also recommended is the objective video The Exodus Revealed , by Questar. Ultimately, we don’t need to know where these events took place, we just need to understand that they did . The greatest miracle performed in the Old Testament is the Red Sea crossing. The greatest miracle in the New Testament is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Do we know for sure from which tomb, Jesus rose from the dead? No, but evidence shows that He did rise from the dead on the third day. Don’t miss the parallels: God delivered His people from the angel of death in Egypt because of the blood of the lamb on the door posts (Exodus 12). But what if, after saving them thus, He had not opened a path in the sea? Their deliverance from slavery and death would have been futile. 168 169