The Red Sea
God purposely leads the Hebrews to the seashore, where pharaoh will have reason to say, “The wilderness has shut them in!”, i.e., nature itself is on the side of the powerful, and the prevailing hierarchy, where slaves remain slaves, is ordained by the gods.
The point of the splitting of the Red Sea is that the elements that seem most immutable and unstoppable–the all-powerful despot, the annihilating army and the impassable ocean– are precisely the ones we should see as the most transitory and changeable. The powers we tend to think we could never defeat, which maintain the terrible status quo, are the ones we are called on to believe will be defeated in the name of justice and other transcendent truths.
If you believe in freedom, go to the impossible place that everyone says will never change. Go straight to the ocean and walk in.
