And the second part of the promise is:
As the uncountable sand which is on the seashore, and this is intended for the descendents of Ishmael the son of the flesh, and those earthly people who depend on the works of the flesh, that is the descendents of the present Jerusalem, which is under slavery together with her children. As clearly seen in:
 Revelation (20 – 7):
 And when the thousand years are ended, the devil will be set loose from his prison.
8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog; to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the seashore.
 9 ……..…, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

Note the sand of the seashore sentence in both cases.

And here we conclude and say: " What kind of partnership can exist between righteousness and iniquity? And what kind of fellowship can exit between light and darkness?

In spite of the cruelty of the situation, God allowed Ishmael to be casted out in order to prevent the repetition of the first murder that took place between Adam’s two sons Cain and Abel, when Cain became furious with Abel and killed him because God had accepted Abel’s offering and not his. Then God had to give Seth to Adam as a substitute for Abel.

And when the descendents of the sons of God and those of men that is the descendents of Cain the murderer and those of Seth mixed together and multiplied, wickedness was so great on earth that God had to bring the great flood about to wipe out their sins from the face of the earth. And since God had promised Noah and his descendents, "That never again shall there be a great flood to destroy the earth" so here God had to intervene and to allow the separation of the son of the promise and the son of the flesh no matter how hard it was on Abraham in order to stop ‘the murder- flood cycle’ from taking place again. But God promises Abraham that he himself shall take care of Ishmael and make him a great nation. And said:


Genesis (17 – 20):
 As for Ishmael, I heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

The descendents of Isaac and Jacob multiplied and their numbers grew and became the twelve tribes of Israel, and the descendents of Ishmael became twelve princes and their tribes. But the two descendents did not intermix because of the separation that took place earlier and which stopped the premature murder between the two flesh brothers.

And in Genesis (32 – 27):
And he said to him," What is your name? " And he said, " Jacob"
28 then he said, "Your name shall no more be Jacob, but Israel ", for you have striven with God and with men prevailed."
29 Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me your name, please. But he said " Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "Saying, " I have seen God face to face, and I did not die.

We see here that God changes Jacob’s name and makes it Israel and tells him that he had chosen him, and he takes his part in this theatrical living play.


Genesis (46 – 2):
 And God spoke to Israel in a dream, and said, " Jacob, Jacob," And he said, " here am I".
3 then he said," I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will make you there a great nation.
4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will bring you out again; and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.

Here and in order to understand what is happening, we go back to read what God had said to Abram in:
 Genesis (15 – 7):
 And he said to him, " I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as a possession."
8 But he said, "O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it? "
9 ………… 12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and he dreamed that a great darkness fell upon him.
13 Then the Lord said to Abram, " Be sure that your descendents will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years..
 14 But I will bring judgment on that nation which they serve, and afterwards they shall come out.

God the Almighty did not give the descendents of the promise grains in Palestine even though he was able to give them tons of it there without letting them go to Egypt, because he wanted to make their position and situation identical to that of the descendents of Adam and Eve whom they represented in this living theatrical play.

God knew in advance that the devil would trick Adam and Eve and make them eat of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil, and that they will become the devil's slaves because of the forbidden fruit. Here also God blessed be his name permitted the descent of the descendents of the promise to Egypt knowing in advance that they will become the slaves of the Pharaoh of Egypt for four hundred years.


As God prepared the redemption plan of mankind and started to execute it as soon as Adam and Eve fell in sin and contempt and became the slaves of the devil, and the real living exodus of mankind out sin and the slavery of the devil started. Here also God intervenes to redeem the descendents of the promise to save them from the slavery of the Pharaoh of Egypt and their symbolic exodus out of Egypt and the house of slavery started.

So here in this real living theatrical play the Pharaoh of Egypt becomes the living example and symbol of the devil, and the land of Egypt becomes the living example and symbol of the house of slavery and sin.

And the symbolic exodus of the chosen people of God (the descendents of the promise) out the symbolic house of slavery Egypt began when the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a flame of fire out the midst of a bush on God’s mountain Horeb.

Exodus (3 – 2):
 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and saw the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, " I will turn aside and see this great sight, why is the bush not burning."
4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, " Moses, Moses! " And he said, " Here am I"
5 Then he said, " Do not come near; Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."
6 And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Then the Lord said, " I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,


8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzittes, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9….10 Come I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt. "…….

And in Exodus ( 7 – 1 ) :
 And the Lord said to Moses, " I make you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

Commanded by God, the symbolic chosen people of God came out of Egypt led by God’s prophet Moses. And as seen in this actual living theatrical play, Moses played the role of the living God in this symbolic exodus, and Aaron played the role of God’s prophet (Moses) who commands Pharaoh, who symbolized the devil to let the symbolized redeemed chosen people of God out of the symbolic house of slavery. And we see that God says, " I will harden Pharaoh’s heart." This was because no living man no matter how brutal and powerful he is, can play the role of the devil perfectly without a special hardening, that is why God intervenes and hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that he could play the part of the devil properly in this living play.

Moses and Aaron did as God commanded them. And after performing many miracles and wonders which hit Egypt and its Pharaoh who represented the devil very hard. Pharaoh had no alternative but to submit to the will of God and allow the Israelites to exodus out of Egypt. So we see that the Israelites who symbolized the actual chosen people of God coming out of the symbol of the house of slavery Egypt, and were freed from the slavery of Pharaoh who symbolized the devil, but he still followed them.


Exodus (14 – 19):
 Then the angel of God who was in front of the army of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud which was in front of them moved and went behind them.
20 and came to stand between the armies of the Israelites and that of the Egyptians, and the cloud made it totally dark on the Egyptians side, but gave light on the Israelites side, and prevented the two armies from coming in contact with each other through out the night.
21 Then Moses held out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land.
22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry land, with walls of water on both sides.
23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in the sea after them with all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, and his horsemen.
24 In the morning the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and the cloud at the Egyptians army and threw them into panic.
25….26 Then the Lord said to Moses, " Hold out your hand over the sea, and the water will come back over the Egyptians and their chariots and drivers.
27 So Moses held out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the water returned to its normal level and position. And the Egyptians tried to escape, but the Lord threw them into the sea.
28 the water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all Pharaoh’s army that had followed the Israelites into the sea; not one of them was left alive.


We see that the devil had no choice but to submit to God’s will and his arrangements, he could not hold on to mankind, but he still follows each one of us, and he is very strong, so strong that Pharaoh could not play his role without special hardening by God. That is why we need God to be on our side to keep the devil away from us, exactly as the pillar of fire and cloud did between Pharaoh’s army and the symbolic people of God.

Numbers (1 – 1):
 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of Egypt, saying,
2 " Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
3 from twenty years old and upwards, all Israelites who are able to go forth to war,……
45 So the whole number of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upwards, every man able to go forth to war in Israel.
46 their whole number was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Now let us ask the question, "As the Suez Canal was not dug then, was it not possible for God to lead the Israelites to Sinai desert on dry land without the need to divide and dry the Red Sea for them? Yet keep the Israelites and the Egyptians apart without the need of drowning Pharaoh’s army in the sea?

Had God not drowned Pharaoh’s army in the sea, then the whole scene would have been wrong. As this particular scene of dividing the Red Sea was to symbolize the drowning of the sinners of the world in the great flood that took place and from which only Noah and his redeemed family were saved in the dry space of the Ark.


Here we would like to remind those who deny the occurrence of the great flood, that the drowning of Egyptians in the Red Sea was but to symbolize the occurrence of the great flood, and if we ask, "How did the dinosaurs and the great reptiles disappear from the face of the earth?" Those who deny the occurrence of the great flood search for a star or any other disaster, which they think, has hit the earth, and try to explain the extinction of these great reptiles. Yet they purposely forget the actual reason that caused this extinction and which is mentioned so clearly in the Bible under the heading of " The Great Flood ".

And in Sinai wilderness the Lord God gave his people the Law and the ten commandments, and they made a sanctuary as God had commanded Moses to do, so God may dwell in their midst. As seen in:
 Exodus (25 – 8):
 And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
10 "and they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two cubit and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
11 And you shall cover it with a pure layer of gold from inside and outside, and you shall make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12…16 and you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
17 Then you shall make the mercy seat (cover) of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
18 And you shall make two cherubim of hammered gold; on the two ends of the cover.
19 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Make them on the two ends so that they make one piece with the cover.

20 And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; towards the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be
21 And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
 22….23 And you shall make a table of acacia wood; …
24 And you shall cover it with a layer of pure gold, and make a crown of gold around it.
 25….29 And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowels with which to pour libations ( wine ); of pure gold you shall make them.
30 And you shall set the bread of presence (show bread) on the table before me always.
31 And you shall make a candle-stick of pure gold. The base and the shaft of it shall be of hammered gold,….. .
32 and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side.
33..37 and you shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light upon the space in front of it.
38…40 And look that you make them according to their pattern, which was showed to you on the mountain.

And in: Exodus (26 – 1):
 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle (the sacred tent) of ten cloth pieces of fine twined linen woven with blue, purple, scarlet and with cherubim skillfully worked shall you make them.
2 The length of each cloth piece shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each cloth piece four cubits; all the cloth pieces shall have the same measure.
3 Five cloth pieces shall be coupled and joined together; and the other five cloth pieces shall be coupled and joined together.


4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outmost cloth piece in the first set; and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outmost cloth piece in the second set.
5 Fifty loops you shall make on the one cloth piece, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the cloth piece that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.
6 And you shall make fifty clasps (hooks) of gold, and join the two sets together into one piece.
7 You shall also make cloth pieces of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven cloth pieces shall you make.
8 The length of each cloth piece shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each cloth piece four cubits; the eleven cloth pieces shall have the same measure.
9 And you shall couple and join five cloth pieces together, and six cloth pieces together, and the sixth cloth piece you shall double fold over at the front of the tent.
10 And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the cloth piece that is outmost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the cloth piece which is outmost in the second set.
11 And you shall make fifty clasps (hooks) of cupper, and join the two sets together into one piece.
12 And the part that remains of the cloth pieces of the tent, the half cloth piece that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
13 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the cloth pieces of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.
14 And you shall make for the tent a covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above it of tachas’ skins.
15 and you shall make upright frames (boards) for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.

17 There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.
18 You shall make the frames (boards) for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;
19 and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its tentons, and two bases under another frame for its two tentons;
20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,
21 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame;
22 and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames.
 23 And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;
24 they shall be coupled together beneath, and joined up to the top, at the first ring; thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.
25 And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.
26 And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
 27 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
28 The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall pass through from end to end.
29 You shall cover the frames with a layer of gold, and shall make their rings of gold for the holders for the bars; and you shall cover the bars with a layer of gold.
 30 And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan which has been shown to you on the mountain.