Yes. They were caused by the 1628BC eruption of Thera. It also provided 'the staff by day and torch by night' mentioned in the bible. Ash and other derbis in Egypt have been chemically matched and dated to Thera. The plume would have had to be thirty miles high to have been seen in Egypt. Pinatuba (recent) in the Philippines was 26 miles high. It also provides the earthquakes/tidal waves for the parting of the Reed/Red Sea. (Mike Baillie speculates that a comet fragment may have initiated the Thera eruption and provided other fireworks in that period). Wouldn't something that drastic have been recorded in the bible, somewhere?
It was to keep the Egyptians and the Israelites encampments separated during the nights, allowing light to the Israelites and not lighting the Egyptians.
Ash and other derbis in Egypt have been chemically matched and dated to Thera. The plume would have had to be thirty miles high to have been seen in Egypt. Pinatuba (recent) in the Philippines was 26 miles high. It also provides the earthquakes/tidal waves for the parting of the Reed/Red Sea.
The separating of the Red Sea lasted all night long and into the morning as the Israelites crossed. A wall of water being to the left and the right for hours while the pillar kept the Egyptians from entering into the seabed after them. Like Ezekiel's visions, it's awful hard to ascribe any kind of natural phenomenom to this.
(Mike Baillie speculates that a comet fragment may have initiated the Thera eruption and provided other fireworks in that period). Wouldn't something that drastic have been recorded in the bible, somewhere?
What if an electromagnetic force excited the uranium nuclear power plant of our earth's core to the point of causing massive volcanic eruptions. One of the ten plagues was meteors, I believe, so maybe something approached the inner solar system with a massive electromagnetic force to excite the dynamic bodies of our solar system, and brough a huge amount of meteors with it. A neutron star only 12 miles in diameter (smaller than a comet) would have a humongous charge and the mass of our sun. I'm not saying there was a neutron star that passed through, but maybe there could be something not quite as exotic as a neutron star that exists close by wreaking havoc every once in a while. It could be small enough to not cause a big uproar if it passed a considerable distance but still have a big effect on the bodies of the solar system electromagnetically.
I bring these things up because I've always wondered how the earth could flood for months with subterrainian waters, stop rotating then start again, flash freeze the mammoths, etc. Not to mention the anomolies in our solar system. Comets come in from the same spot in the Kuiper belt, Uranus is on it's side, Saturn's ring was recently form, there's an exploded planet between Mars and Jupiter. Just hypothesizing. :^)