Thursday, June 21, 2007

Mount Sinai is in Arabia

Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me:
and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:
turn you northward.
Deuteronomy 2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau,
which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Deuteronomy 2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness:
these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

This proves that Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. If they'd been in the Sinai Peninsula, God would have said turn you northeast.
In the New Testament we are told plainly that mount Sinai is in Arabia as can be seen here:

Galatians 4:25 For this Agar is
mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

So no mount Sinai is not in the Sinai Peninsula, contrary to popular belief.