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Exodus 14:3
Excerpted from: Escape From Box Canyon

They had been going mostly eastward, at this time. They reached a certain point, and God said, "Moses, we're going to turn here. The most obvious route is just to keep going straight, and leave Egypt. But," He said, "Moses, I want you to have the children turn, and I want you to go south. Turn to the right hand. Go south, and camp at this particular place by the sea." What this did was that it put them in a spot. Let us go to verse 3, where God gives His reasons.

If you look on those maps, if they have any topographical information on them, you will see that there is a ridgeline that goes down the western edge of the Red Sea—the Gulf of Suez. There is a very small area there, just on the western side of the Gulf of Suez, where you can lead a group of people. But very soon, the cliffs jut up. And, at a certain point, those cliffs come very close to the water's edge. So, they are almost like a "J" in certain spots.

So they were walking down this narrow strip of land, with cliffs on their right. And once they got to a certain point, the cliffs swung around in front of them and blocked their way south. To their west (that is, to their left) was the Red Sea. They were closed in on three sides, The Sea on the left—and the cliffs before them and to the right. And guess who was coming from the north, behind them. The "bad guys" were on the north.

Exodus 14:1-5
Excerpted from: Lessons From Unleavened Bread

Brethren, this is an important lesson that we take away on this day. Make special note of verse 5 because it clearly states the zero-sum system that the whole world runs on. Without God's deliverance, the zero-sum game of Satan shows the way of life: somebody has to lose. According to Pharaoh, it should have been Israel. And somebody has to win. It should have been the Egyptians or the other way around.

Exodus 14:1-3
Excerpted from: Be Still!

What had happened here was that they had put themselves into kind of a boxed canyon—actually, God had led them exactly there. They had mountains on two sides, the Red Sea on the third side, and (as we will see in verse 4) the armies of Pharaoh closing in on the fourth side.

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