I thank The Herald for printing Paul Schoenfeld’s thought-provoking column. (Biblical tale of 40 years in the desert resonates today,” The Herald, June 24).
After all, consider the truth of the account; not so much of the 40 years, but of the deliverance from the power of the Pharaoh of Egypt by God through God’s servants, Moses (and Aaron) of the children of Israel now 430 years after Joseph and his family of 72 members from Canaan arrived there and were confined to Goshen as undesirables in Egyptian society. The Torah makes these facts clear. The deliverance from servitude to a government is redemption not by man but by God. It is not about the “value of freedom” but of the value of being set free to fulfill God’s covenant with Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to follow truth and not a “metaphor.”
Suffice to say, over 605,000 men, women and children were driven out of Egypt by Pharaoh just like Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, and Noah was rescued by the flood from the corrupt generations preceding him. The events reported are real about the power of God and the corruption of mankind. If we follow mankind and not God we are corrupt and are in bondage
To our government and once again there is the hope of deliverance by our kinsman redeemer.
Samuel Bess
Stanwood
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