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Is Mt. Sinai the Mountain of YEHOVAH? 27

The theory on which Ron Wyatt was basing his exploratory trip to the Middle East was
founded on TWO very obvious points made by Flavius Josephus and recorded in the
Bible. Both mention that the Hebrew children went SOUTH FROM EGYPT, through
the desert, ending at the shore of the Red Sea in an area where 'the mountains were closed
with the sea.' That the Red Sea at that time extended, in name at least, AS FAR AS EILAT
AT THE TOP OF THE GULF OF AQABA can be seen in I Kings 9:26, where it states
that 'King Solomon made a navy of ships in EZION-GEBER, which is beside
ELOTH, ON THE SHORE OF THE RED SEA, IN THE LAND OF EDOM.'

Wyatt reasoned therefore that the Israelites had crossed the Sinai from west to east and
had finally reached an area on the EASTERN COAST (GULF OF AQABA) where a
mountain range met the sea. According to the record, the Egyptians had taken over the
mountain peaks near the area to prevent the Hebrews from escaping. It also mentions that
AFTER they had crossed the Red Sea, Moses took them to 'Mt. Sinai in order to offer sacri-
fices to God.'

Rene Noorbergen dis-
cusses Wyatt's explora-
tion of the eastern shore
of the Sinai peninsula:

A careful examination of
the eastern shore of the
Sinai Peninsula allows
for only one place where
two million people and
their flocks can be gath-
ered. it is the wide ex-
panse of beach near
NUWEBA, the south end
Wadi Watir -- The Way the Israelites Approached the Beach of
of which is closed off by
the Crossing
steep mountains! Nearby
is a wide and wild mount-
ain gorge known as the WADI WATIR, an ancient dried-out riverbed that forms a
NATURAL ROADWAY into the Sinai desert. What's more, the traditional Mt. Sinai is
deep within the Sinai desert, while both the Bible and Josephus indicate that Moses took the
Hebrews to Mt. Sinai after they crossed the Red Sea into what is now known as ARABIA.
Interestingly, not far from the opposite shore is a mountain known as Jabel el Lawz, A
STEEP, FORBIDDING PEAK. Is it perhaps that this is the Mt. Sinai that Moses speaks of?
There are many different theories regarding the possible location of the real Mt. Sinai, and
Ron Wyatt's location wasn't all that farfetched.

The route the Israelites took is related next –

He held that the Israelites, after leaving Egypt, went DOWN the western side of the Sinai
along the Gulf of Suez and crossed the Sinai from west to east through its most rugged

The Berean Voice September-October 2002