Ezekiel

God protects those who place their trust in Him alone.

His ways are far above ours, impossible for us to totally comprehend. We need only to trust that He sees the whole and we only see in part. Before the coming of the Christ the Holy Spirit directed man from the outside and the physical represented the spiritual. In the present age He directs us from our new heart where He places his Holy Spirit within.

Map of Sinai desert, according to Uzi Azner.

When Moses set out from Midian to return to Egypt, he would have taken the most direct route, the Trans-Sinai Highway, which traversed central Sinai from the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba/Elat to the northern end of the western arm of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez. Aaron, whom God had told to meet Moses in the wilderness (Ex 4:27), would have taken the same direct route in travelling from Egypt toward Midian. Therefore, their meeting place, The Mountain of God, must have been located somewhere along this road. Furthermore, in order to be within grazing distance of Midian, it must have been near the eastern end of the road. Gebel Khashm et-Tarif, the mountain visited by an ABR team in 2007, is located in precisely this area, on the Trans-Sinai Highway ca. 22 mi west-northwest of the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba/Elat (Wood 2007).

Burial cairns on the summit of Gebel Khashm et-Tarif indicate that the mountain was considered a holy mountain in antiquity. Mt. Sinai is twice referred to as Mt. Paran in the Old Testament. 

Edom expected to take over Judah and Israel after their destruction by the Babylonians. 

Ezekiel 35:10–11 (NKJV)

¹⁰ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there, ¹¹ therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:14–15 (NKJV)

¹⁴ ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. ¹⁵ As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’

¹³ For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 

Psalm 132:13

¹⁴ “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. 

Psalm 132:14

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain. ²Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King. ³God is in her palaces; He is known as her refuge. 

Psalm 48:1–3

¹⁴ Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, But you shall cry for sorrow of heart, And wail for grief of spirit. 

Isaiah 65:14

¹² “But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress. 

Obadiah 12

¹⁵ “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head. 

Obadiah 15

¹¹ “Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls, 

Jeremiah 50:11