Post by bassethound on Aug 19, 2007 10:38:24 GMT -5
Fabulous Facts 'N' Figures
(by Theodore n. Epp)
One of the biggest arithmetic miracles in the world:
Moses and the people of Isreal were in the desert; but what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed; and feeding three and a half million people would take a lot of food!
According to some figures released by a man who was a general in the army, it is reported that Moses would would have had to come up with 1,500 tons of food every day just to keep these three million Israelites from starving to death. And to feed them the way you and I eat would take at least 4,000 tons of food a day. Do you know what that would mean as far as hauling is concerned? You would have o have two freight trains, each one a mile long, just to bring the Israelites their food each day. At today's prices, it would have cost four million dollars a day!
Besides, you must remember, they were out in the desert, and they would have to have firewood to use in cooking their food. This alone would take 4,000 tons of firewood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long, to haul the wood each day. And, just think, they were out there for forty years!
Oh, Yes, they would have to have water. If they only had enough water to drink and to wash the few little dishes (no irrigation or anything else, just enough to get by with), it would take eleven million gallons every single day and a freight train with tank cars, 1800 miles long, just to bring it to them! They did not have big lakes out there, and the only found a few wells. How were they going to get water?
And then, another thing! They had to get through the Red Sea in one night. Now, if they were going to go through the Red Sea in a narrow path, double file, that double file would have would have to be eight hundred miles long, and it would take them 35 days and nights to get through. So, they had to have a space in the Red Sea that was three miles wide, so they could walk five thousand abreast. By walking five thousand abreast, they could get through in one night!
But then, there was still another problem. Every time they came to the end of a day, they had to get a campground somewhere. Were there any campgrounds out there? No! Well, then, how were they going to find campgrounds large enough to camp all of these people? Do you know how much space it would take? It would take two-thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island for them to camp just one night, or a total of seven hundred and fifty square miles. That is twenty-five miles wide and thirty miles long. Think of it! Twenty-five miles one way and thirty miles long to camp those people each nightQ!
Do you think Moses figured out all these things before he left? I do not know whether he figured them out or not, but I doubt that he was paying too much attention to these details. You see, Moses believed God, and God was going to do all these things for him. God was able to supply all of this.
...This is the kind of God we have. We think our problems are so big! Remember what God can do.