THE RED CARPET

“Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left” (Exodus 14:21–22).

The Red Sea became a red carpet, ushering the Hebrew nation to freedom!

How wide was the passage opened by the miraculous power of God? The Bible doesn’t say.

Let’s do some math…

If the Hebrews lined up in single-file and one man started every six second, then ten men would enter the passage every minute… 600 every hour. At that rate, it would take 3,333 hours (138 days) for them to walk the red carpet.

But surely, they didn’t cross the Sea in single-file formation.

So, if one Hebrew entered the Sea every six seconds … ten men every minute … 600 every hour … then in ten hours, 6,000 could cross. For 2,000,000 to cross in 10 hours, they would need to line up shoulder-to-should with 333 entering at a time.

Now, let’s assume that as they walked shoulder-to-shoulder, each man’s pathway was three feet wide. Then God would have opened a super-express-way 999 feet wide… more than three lengths of a football field.

When God turned the Red Sea into a red carpet, He made it wide enough! “The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground!”

“… think on these things” (Philippians 4:8, KJV).