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But we would all agree that this question has now been answered by Psalm 78.....would we not?......Diego

Not the matter raised in the article regarding a "mikvah" in the wilderness, no we would not.....TC, and as an echo.....1000s

The question you had originally posed in post #351 was this:I'm still trying to figure out how all those folks got immersed out in the wilderness of Sinai Buggman answered in post #353 "God made a river, Remember?" I posted in #356 Psalm 78:13-17 and if you don't want to look it up..... in verse 15 (NIV) it says: "He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas."

In verse 20 (which I did not post in #356) it says: (NIV) "When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly."

Now....I'm going to ask my question again. "But we would all agree that this question has now been answered by Psalm 78.....would we not?"

Now if you want to say there was no water available to the Children of Israel in the desert....enough to water their herds....enough to wash their bodies (immerse), then I guess we'll just have to assume you cannot see that the Lord provided everything for these folks "out in the wilderness of Sinai."

By the way, verse 16 (NIV)..... to substantiate Buggman says," He brought streams out of a rocky crag and made waters flow down like rivers." That Rock was Christ. [1 Corinthians 10:1-4]

On one level, yes the Lord provided water for them to drink and I suppose they could have bathed with it, but still, it has nothing to do with baptism. The root word for streams suggests water flowing like the Nile, and therefore it suggests prosperity, all that they needed. On a higher level, this rock represents the Lord, from whom rivers flow, and we don't suppose anything other than living water flows from Him. And the rock that was struck, by the way, was flint, which has an even higher level of meaning.

Thanks again for the comments.

The fact remains: 1) The Red Sea was not a true immersionist experience, 2) there was no command from God to get immersed in the wilderness at Sinai, and 3) there is no evidence that anyone got immersed in the wilderness at Sinai.

The language of Psalm 78 is very poetic. That is, after all, what the Psalms are all about. E.g., "He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;" (v. 27) They are not intended to be taken as literal history. There was, no doubt, enough water to give the Israelites and their animals to drink. It still does not prove there was enough to immerse over a million people.

BTW, how long would it take to immerse over a million people?