The Example of the Prophet

The Example of the Prophet Here, the question arises as to why, when the Israelites had every opportunity to establish a government half a century earlier, at the time of Moses, they had to wait for so many years before they finally did so? At the time of Moses, the Pharaoh of Egypt and his entire army were drowned in the sea, which cleared the field for Moses. Moses could have returned to the Egyptian capital, Memphis, and the Children of Israel and occupied the vacant Egyptian throne. After the miraculous destruction of the Pharaoh and his army, the denizens of Egypt must have been so awestruck that they might have readily accepted Moses as their new ruler. However, Moses did not do this. Instead, he left the vacant political field of Egypt and, along with his people, went into the Sinai desert. The Israelites faced forty years of harsh life there, with many older generations dying off. Only the new generation, reared in the desert, survived. Now, the only reason for this delay was that the generation of Israelites who had earlier lived in Egypt had fallen prey to moral decline for specific reasons. This is why all the Israelites were kept in the Valley of Tih so that all the community’s older people should