For the people of Israel, the past and the present fuse together to create
the most extraordinary future. As told in today's verse, it is clear that a
carefully choreographed event is planned and designed to reflect a former
exodus, the exodus from Egypt. Just as the Jews left Egypt in the first month,
the month of ‘Nissan,’ and crossed the Red Sea, Ezra’s exodus departed from a river in the
first month. Certainly, the symbolism of recreating such a formative occurrence
wasn’t lost on the members of the entourage, giving them tremendous courage and
hope. "Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus" investigates phenomenal historical and
archaeological evidence of the Egyptian Exodus, in a quest to determine whether
or not the famous story of the Exodus is fact or fiction.
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