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Pharaoh read a star named Evil rising to bleed Israel, but God turned the omen into covenant blood and the sea took the man who dug the pit.
At the Red Sea God knotted every Egyptian horse to its rider, and in Sheol (the underworld) He let each drowned king be comforted while Pharaoh lay refused.
History is scored by ten great songs. At the split sea, angels and Israel raced to sing first, and one mortal voice set the melody.
Gog marched seventy-one nations on Jerusalem, calling Pharaoh and Haman fools. He would fight Israel's God first. The hail fell before the lines were dug.
When Moses died, heaven's bread fed Israel thirty-nine more days. His silver trumpets disappeared before Joshua could touch them.
Israel fasted seven days before heaven moved, and heaven did not move for their sake. Deborah won the war. Then the gift went out of her mid-verse.
Sisera fled the battlefield and entered Jael's tent. Before she picked up the tent peg, she prayed three times and each prayer was answered before she finished.
God told the ground to bury Egypt's drowned. The ground answered that the water had done the killing and could do the burying, and demanded an oath.
For forty days the giant counted his taunt aloud, until the ground clamped his feet and heaven chained all 248 of his limbs so David could not miss.
After the sea splits, the land and the water fight over Egyptian corpses, each refusing burial until God swears by His right hand.
Sand stuck to wet ankles and children coughed salt. Behind them the sea had closed over chariot wheels, ahead lay a desert with no bread. Israel sang.
Rabbi Eliezer would not retract it. A nameless slave at the split sea beheld more of God than the greatest prophets ever glimpsed.
At the split sea a handmaid saw what later prophets strained to name, while God fought as a warrior whose power needed no costume of weapons.
At the sea a freed nation sang until the mountains leapt. Out of Jerusalem the same people wept in chains, every mercy turned to ruin.
Aaron fills a plain clay jar with an omer of manna and sets it by the ark. Centuries later Jeremiah lifts the same jar to feed a doubting people.
The four living creatures strain forever under the Throne, crying blessed be the glory, and not one of them knows where that glory is.
Two Egyptian sorcerers told Pharaoh the sea was angel-work, then flew up to pull the angels down until Michael caught them by the hair.
Before the Temple was built, a stone already held the abyss under Zion, engraved with the Name, and King David nearly lifted it and flooded the world.
Before God strikes any nation on earth, His night court throws down that people's guardian-prince in heaven, and the kingdom falls by morning.
At the Sea He thundered as a young warrior, at Sinai He came slow and old, and the mystics swore the two faces hid one unchanging maker.
Joshua cuts Amalek's ranks below while Moses' arms fail on the hill, and Aaron and Hur hold them skyward until the enemy breaks at dusk.
