QUESTION
If the mouth to the pit, which is located under the Red Sea, is that mouth always open? And if so how then would not literal water of the Red Sea flow into the compartments in the heart of the earth and flood those compartments of confinement that are there?
RESPONSE
My understanding is that the “mouth” is not always open. In fact, if my understanding is correct, the mouth of the pit is not actually on the surface of the bed of the Red Sea, so to speak, but it is below what is called “the depths” of the Red Sea. For example as is set forth in Exodus 15, “the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea” when Israel went across, and they “walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.” Hence not only could they not physically be affected by “the depths” when they physically walked across them “in the heart of the sea,” but if (for the sake of the issue) one of them had died at that time his soul/spirit would not have “sank into the bottom (of the depths) as a stone”; at which point (again, if my understanding is correct) he would encounter the mouth of the pit and the pit would open her mouth and swallow. This, though, is what happened to Pharoah and his cohorts. They not only got physically stuck in “the depths” when they were no longer “congealed” and the waters returned. But when they physically died, “the depths” did cover them; “they sank into the bottom as a stone.” Then “the right hand” of the LORD became “glorious in power,” for as Moses said, “Thou stretchest out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.” The physical bodies of the Egyptians were seen “dead upon the sea shore” by the people of Israel, but their souls/spirits had sank into the bottom of the depths of the sea, where they encountered the mouth of the pit, which opened and then swallowed.
Regarding the issue of there being water in the heart of the earth, there clearly is some. In view of what the Lord relates in Luke 16 regarding the rich man wanting Lazarus to “dip the tip of his finger in water,” there is water at least in the compartment called “Abraham’s bosom.” Whether this directly comes from the Red Sea, in my present understanding I cannot say with any assurance. But it is there nonetheless.
Keith Blades
Enjoy The Bible Ministries
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