Nuweiba, located half way down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aquaba is also the only break in a mountainous ridge that prevents easy access to the desert interior of the Sinai Desert between the Gulf of Aquaba and Egypt.  If, indeed, the Israelites fled directly across the desert straight westward with the Egyptian charioteers in pursuit, the situation described in Exodus 14:3  would have been literally the case.

    Exodus 14:3 "For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in."

Seeing a marble pillar lying in the sand of the desert not far from the shore of the Gulf of Aquaba on one of his earliest visits to Nuweiba, Ron Wyatt said that he talked the local authorities (Israeli at that time) to erect it as a marker.  Then he began saying that King Solomon had originally made this marble pillar to mark where Israel had crossed the Red Sea in the Exodus crossing.  It was, said Wyatt, the "Migdol" of Exodus 14:2.      Exodus 14:3 "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-ha-hi-roth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea."

    Having arranged to have this marble pillar set up by the authorities to where he assumed it was located in the time of Solomon (or perhaps even long before) Ron Wyatt decided he needed to find a way to get to the farther shore on the Saudi side of the Gulf of Aquaba.  If he had been Muslim, or had connections with the Saudi royal family, that would have been easy enough.  A ferry boat crosses back and forth here daily.  But Ron considered his research to be secret, and indeed, only a relatively few considered at that time that there was even the slightest possibility that Israel crossed here or spent any of their wilderness wanderings in Arabia.    But Ron discovered from diving here, and from examining topographical maps of the under- water configuration that there was a "land bridge" underwater here quite similar (but much deeper underwater) here than Napoleon had tried to cross while a strong wind was blowing at the proper area of the northern Gulf of Suez.

    To be able to prove that here is where Israel actually escaped Pharaoh's army with 600 chariots, Ron thought that he must find at least the remains of one or several chariot wheels or chariots underwater  here at Nuweiba, but it would go far in his mind to establish this as the crossing point if he could find another marble pillar on the other side in Saudia Arabia.  As he tells the story, he went part way in a row boat and the rest of the way underwater in his scuba suit, and saw the place where the other pillar had once been located, but was now removed.   He was then arrested by the Saudis and only got back to Egypt with great difficulty.

    According to the Bible Exodus version of the "crossing", God moved his pillar of smoke and fire between the Egyptians and fleeing Israelites until they were safely passed over and out of the easy reach of Pharaoh and his army.  This would have been true at Nuwieba even if they crossed in boats (perhaps more likely given the extreme depth here even where the "land bridge" is located. Alternately, erosion and large-scale land sinking here might have made it much deeper now than it was then.

      Exodus 14:19 "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:--"

    20 "And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness unto them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night."

    One can see the same type of redaction here, the melding of two different stories to appear as one, that critical scholars have found in the Noah's Flood stories -- the STORM described in verse 21 NEED NOT have been occuring at Nuweiba while Israel was crossing here, perhaps in a number of boats, rowed back and forth repeatedly while the Egyptians were blinded by a dust-storm, tornado, or fog so thick they could not operate militarily.

    21 "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."

Now I, when I reached Nuweiba in 1990 or 1991 couldn't get a visa to visit Saudia Arabia, so had to be content with exploring the Nuweiba end of the Sinia route I had explored the other end of with the Bedouin 4-wheel drive vehicle.     The trip I have described on another page in which I was cooked unleavened bread on a campfire.

There were lots of folks at Nuweiba willing to take tourists such as myself for as many hours or days as we wanted to go out into the wilderness through the "door" in the mountain "wall" that prevented a large army from coming through there easily (Pharaoh's army?) but allowed single file or even two lanes of cars and trucks, and camel caravans, to pass easily. I opted on a small tourist bus loaded with vacationers dressed in shorts and t-shirts.

Here's a satellite view of the entryway to the Sinai Desert I went through at Nuweiba, and below another satellite view of where Israel crossed according to Ron Wyatt.

Pharaoh's Chariot Wheels? Maybe!

Ron Wyatt had the practice early in his career of using whatever he had been able to find and photograph in lectures and in video presentations as the real thing which later under more critical exam by other adventurers following his lead were unable to verify or duplicate.  This "golden chariot wheel" photographed by Ron underwater at Nuwieba may be nothing more than an old RR wheel! Some think so.

I was convinced from the earliest videos of Ron Wyatt's adventures that he had indeed, among all the other things he had found, found one or more chariot wheels from Pharaoh's own chariot when Pharaoh led 600 chariots in pursuit of the fleeing children of Israel.   That this would be like winning the powerball LOTTO I now realize, but didn't then.  All that was needed was the ability to scuba-dive, and time, and money.  And of course, God's blessing on the project.   Ron had proved that last requirement, so in 1990 I got certified for underwater diving.

Like so many others who have tried to find what Ron Wyatt was preaching he had found on that beach beneath the waves, I found lots of underwater junk of all sorts, covered with sea-weed and coral, but no genuinely old items of any real historic value.

     At the Bottom of the Sea with Jonah!

As a lot of people were doing in Eastern North Carolina in 1990 who wished to become certified for deep-water scuba diving, I did most of my training in a swimming pool, then the class went all together to a small town in Florida where we took our final test down to 100 feet deep in a freshwater spring that was that deep.  Two important rules, never dive alone and come back up slowly with plenty of air in your tank.  Besides knowing how to swim a long time, of course.

As a divorced Emergency Room doctor with all the work I wanted, I had enough money for this "Golden Chariot Wheel Project" to pay the mayor of the town I took my diving test to come with me to the Red Sea. We had with us an electric battery driven "scooter" to pull one diver along under the water as on the right.

The Florida mayor and I had the time of our life diving just south of Nuweiba with an Egyptian guide -- avoiding Lion-fish (left) and sharks (right), sleeping and camping in the desert, and eating fish which the guide caught.

    We learned right away from experience that it was exactly as the topographical map showed, that once we were perhaps a mile south of Nuweiba, after just a few feet from shore, a precipitous drop-off occurred, and one could drop hundreds of feet and see really deep-water fish -- like this one, of which I saw several, as big as cows.   Not as big as a whale, of course, but the same general idea.  These fish eat only plankton and very small fish and were not interested in me, unless I could be persuaded to scratch their belly.

Our Sad Attempt to find Those Wheels!

The Florida mayor and I went back to the shallow area right next to the marble pillar Ron Wyatt showed in his videos, which we discovered was off limits to divers because the ferry boat passed over it.  We waited until no one was watching then went way out where we were not supposed to go.  We couldn't surface there or we'd be caught and perhaps arrested. I was on the scooter.

NEAR DISASTER!

    The adrenaline was pumping through my blood-stream as I sped along holding on to the electric scooter under water.  After discovering no more in this restricted area than there had been along the more accessible beach, I had to get back to the shore underwater so as not to be seen by a large number of men at the ferry terminal and of course the officials who could arrest me for being in an unauthoriz-ed area.  My air was technically all gone, and I couldn't stay under much longer.  I had broken all the cardinal safety rules for scuba divers.  I was all alone under the water with no compressed air.  Time seemed to stand still.  Miraculously, it seemed, I could still breath.  Then I beached on the shore with my scooter out of sight under the trees, and pulled off my mask, gasping for air, and ready to listen to the tongue-lashing I knew I deserved from the man I had brought with me from Florida to make sure that nothing like this could happen to me.

  Another Jonah - in 1991

     It was not until 1998, seven or eight years after this experience at Nuweiba that I learned to do and interpret the ELS Bible codes.  One day, on a whim, I decided to look for my own name in ELS in the Book of Jonah in the Old Testament.  And indeed I found it, multiple times, seeded through Jonah's prayer to God to preserve his life while lying on the bottom of the sea IN THE BELLY OF A WHALE.  Apparently God had had his hand in my being VOMITED OUT safely on the land unhurt also.  I'd already imagined that to be so -- but it's nice to have HARD COPY!

       To CONTINUE to find out what Ron Wyatt and David Fasold found when they later continued on past the pillar on the Arabian side of the Gulf of Aquaba, and how David Fasold saved the route to the real "Mountain of the Laws" (Jebel el Lawz) in Saudia Arabia ---

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     Not having nearly enough material to "flesh out" either the story of Joseph or of Moses' God he met in the desert (who called himself I AM), the Hebrew "Redactors" discovered the story of Imhotep, and, perhaps reading Mary Nell Wyatt's Egyptian inscriptions both in the desert near the Nile, and at Saqquara, they used the I AM name, the 7 year famine, and Imhotep's skill as a physician and "Wise Man" to supply a great amount of material for the TORAH!

For another extended series about Joseph as Imhotep, the architect of the step pyramid at Seqquara in Egypt,

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