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[samsy john]

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> How Big is your God?
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> What would have happened had Moses tried to figure out what was needed to
> accomplish God's command? One of the biggest arithmetical miracles in the
> world was required in the desert.
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> Moses led the people of Israel into the desert....Now what was he going to
> do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 3-1/2 million people required
> a lot of food. According to the U. S. Army's Quartermaster General, Moses
> needed 1500 tons of food a day, filling two freight trains, each a mile
> long. Besides, you must remember, they were cooking the food (not to mention
> for keeping warm, and if anyone tells you it doesn't get cold in the desert
> don't believe them!). Just for cooking this took 4000 tons of firewood and a
> few more freight trains, each a mile long and this is only for one day!!!
> They were for forty YEARS in transit!!!
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> Let's not forget about water, shall we? If they only had enough to drink and
> wash a few dishes (no bathing?!), it took 11,000,000 gallons EACH DAY-enough
> to fill a train of tanker cars 1800 miles long.
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> And another thing! They had to get across the red sea in one night.
> Now if they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles
> long and require 35 days and nights to complete the crossing. So to get it
> over in one night there had to be a space in the Red Sea 3 miles wide so
> that they could walk 5,000 abreast. Think about this; every time they camped
> at the end of the day, a camp ground the size of Rhode Island was required,
> or 750 square miles.
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> Do you think that Moses sat down and figured out the logistics of what God
> told him to do before he set out from Egypt? I doubt it. He had faith that
> God would take care of everything. Let us have courage, we share the very
> same God!
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