Feeding the Israelites??

LucyA

Heres something my JW mother sent me. I'm an athiest so i dont take the bible as the truth! What does everyone else think??

Feeding the Israelites

So does anyone have questions about the oncoming

Great Tribulation? This should set our minds at ease.

Moses and the people were in the desert, but what

was he going to do with them? They had to be fed,

and feeding 2 or 3 million people requires a lot of
Food!!!

According to the Quartermaster General in the Army,

it is reported that Moses would have to have had

1,500 tons of food each day. Do you know that to
bring that much food each day, two freight trains,

each at least a mile long, would be required!

Besides, you must remember, they were out in the

desert, so they would have to have the firewood to

use in cooking the food. This would take 4,000 tons

of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile

long, just for one day.

And just think, they were forty years in transit. And

Oh Yes! They would have to have water. If they only

had enough to drink and wash a few dishes, it would

take 11,000,000 gallons each day and a freight train
with tank cars 1,800 miles long, just to bring water!

AND THEN ANOTHER THING:

They had to get across the Red Sea at night. Now,

if they went on a narrow path, double file, the line

would be 800 miles long and would require 35 days

& nights to get through. So there had to be a space

in the Red Sea totaling 3 miles wide ~ so that they

could walk 5,000 abreast to get over in one night.!!

But then, there is ANOTHER PROBLEM..... ..each time

they camped at the end of the day: A campground

two-thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island was

required, or a total of 750 square miles long....

Think of it! This much space just for camping.!!

Do you think Moses figured all this out before he left

Egypt ? I think not!! You see, Moses believed in Jehovah

God and had Faith in Him! And Jehovah took care of these

things for Moses!! Now, do you think Jehovah has any prob-

lem taking care of all of your needs?

May Jehovah continue to guide & protect you as you daily

read His Word & apply His Principles in your life.

May his love be always with you, knowing that his promises

are true. And when we give Him all our problems & anxieties,

He will see us though!

Our God, Jehovah, is The Almighty

Nathan Natas

FOOD for thought, isn't it?

cyberjesus

oh just have faith and do not worry. Thinking gives me a headache. Its easier to just trust in Jehovah.

nelly136

umm did any of the originals actually get there?

Black Sheep

“You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and turn back and cover up your excrement. Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp,” – Deut 23:11-14

Now, let’s calculate. If each person relieved himself only twice a day (an obviously low estimate), and each deposit used one square foot of land surface (also a pretty low estimate), that means that every day, the Israelites turned 93 acres of land into a sewage lagoon.

If they stayed in the same spot for a month, around 4 ½ square miles would be consumed – a veritable poop farm. During their 40 years in the wilderness, 2,160 square miles would have been used (that’s 1,357,800 acres). No wonder it was wilderness.

When you consider that there were two million people living in tents, and every one of them had to leave the camp to go to the bathroom – a bathroom that moved farther away every day, they must have spent half their life walking.

If we assume that the camp had a population density equal to modern Hong Kong (which is totally ridiculous, but we’ll give the Bible the benefit of the doubt, again), it would have occupied at least 44 square miles. That means that if you lived in the center of the camp, you would need to walk 3.7 miles, each way, every time you went to the bathroom.

You would need to plan your bathroom breaks hours in advance. And, by the time you returned, you would need to go again. You’d think that God could have come up with a better system.

The camp of Israel was approximately the same population as the greater Vancouver or Cincinatti area. Just imagine yourself living in one of those two cities. Now, imagine that every time you had to go to the bathroom, you had to walk outside the metropolitan area, find an unused spot, dig a hole with a stick, do your business, cover it up, and then walk home.

This is the best system that the Almighty of the Universe could think of. Not only that, if we assume that each of these persons spent only two minutes digging their hole and doing their business, that means that at any one time, there would be an average of 5,500 persons simultaneously squatting on their holes. It must have looked like a pooping convention.

Fred Titanich The Atheist’s Book of Bible Stories

designs

Wholesome Porrige filled the bowls every morning.....

TD

Standard (International) gauge freight cars have nominal capacities of 70, 100 and 125 tons with 50, 60 and 86 foot coupler to coupler lengths respectively

Lets take the middle size box car and cut the weight in half. --Say 50 tons just to be conservative. (Although with a dense material like grain, there is no reason to assume that the weight capacity would not be filled long before the cubic capacity was exceeded)

1500 tons of food could easily be carried by 30 box cars for a total length of just under 1800 feet, not counting the locomotives.

clarity

LucyA, great food for thought, really puts things in perspective!

Still giggling about Blacksheep's "pooping convention"!

Just shows that taking things at face value can be very misleading. It takes digging deep(pun intended) to see the whole story! Thanks,

clarity

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