There is an old story that has made the rounds in the church many, many times, but it’s worth telling again. An eight year old boy was reporting to his folks at Sunday dinner what he had learned at church school that morning. “Boy, was it exciting!” he exclaimed to his parents. “Moses organized all the Hebrews into a resistance group and through careful planning they broke out of Egyptian slavery. They moved as quickly as possible toward Canaan, driving every kind of vehicle available: jeeps, tanks, half-tracks, sixteen wheelers – everything.

“But Pharaoh’s army refused to quit. They traced the Israelites with color radar, exploded missiles all around the escaped prisoners, shot at them from jet planes in the sky. When Moses and his people reached the Red Sea, all seemed lost. The raging …