“And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:”
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Why not? Because the people needed disciplining and molding as a Nation. They would have been destroyed by way of Philistia, but by the way of the wilderness they were trained slowly for the great task at their journey’s end. God, who chose the route, also chose the leader. God, who disciplined the people, also disciplined the man who led them.
History and experience seem to point to the fact that God’s line for us is not usually a straight line, but a winding zigzag path.
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