July 21, 2013

• MOSES RAN A RESCUE MISSION

  (Author Unknown)

  Moses had one of the largest rescue missions of all time. In one day, he had to take responsibility for three million homeless people and deal with their physical and spiritual needs for the next forty years.

   Let’s look closer at Moses’ rescue mission to gain a glimpse of the faith Moses had to have:

   To cross the Red Sea in one night, the people needed a space of at least three miles wide so they could walk 5,000 abreast. If they walked only double-file, the line would have been 800 miles long and it would have taken 35 days and nights to cross the river.

  • Each day they had to find a campground that took up 750 square miles about 2/3 the size of the state of Rhode   Island.
  • Daily food intake in the barren desert would have to be at least 1,500 tons to just survive. To feed the group the way we are accustomed would have taken over 4,000 tons of food each day. To haul that amount of food would require two freight trains—each one a mile long! The cost of the food at today’s rates would be over $4 million a day!
  • Water needs would have totaled 11 million gallons each day. It would take a freight train of tank cars 1,800 miles long to haul that much water each day!

   Moses knew that his rescue mission couldn’t survive if he had to rely on normal means of supply.

  He had to totally trust God each day to meet the needs of the mission. One day at a time, for 14,800 days, millions of people had their needs met.

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