The Israelites are a small people whose activities are no more than Egypt and Palestine. That's a very small range. Even Jesus' range of activities is very small, just around Palestine. I haven't been to the East, not even to Europe not far away. But this does not affect their world vision and profound thinking.
The Israelites fled Egypt, and the distance from Egypt to the shores of the Dead Sea in Palestine was not far. From modern maps, the straight-line distance from Cairo to Jerusalem is about 420 kilometers. But instead of taking this short path, they took a detour like a near-abuse, along the edge of the Sinai Peninsula. In this way, the distance has increased a lot, and there is a turning back road in the middle, and the total length is estimated to be about 1,500 kilometers, which is the journey of this epic journey. And they walked an exaggerated forty years, walking an average of only 100 meters a day, which is a very slow pace. It can be understood that the Israelites once lived in the desert for a long time, and it did not take forty years to walk alone.
Moses led the Jews out of Egypt
Compared with what I remember as a great march, the Israelites' exodus from Egypt is simply incomparable. The Long March lasted two years, traveling 25,000 miles, or 12,500 kilometers.
Map of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, a large circle around the Arabian Peninsula
The exodus of the Israelites was very difficult, and this hardship was largely due to natural conditions. Navigating the desert with draught and eating are both problems. The resulting ideological turmoil and lack of firm thinking is also a big problem. But there is no enemy in this journey, the biggest enemy is oneself, one's own faith. The Israelites moved together as a whole, men and women, young and old. When the Israelites left Egypt, there were 600,035,550 men over the age of 20, plus women and children, and the number of people should be about two million, so it was more difficult for such a group to walk.
Cross the Red Sea
According to the records of the historical records, during the qin shi huang period, the qin general Wang Qi sent an army to attack the jing state, and almost all the men of the qin state were conscripted, and the entire number of soldiers was 600,000. It can be seen that the number of exodus from Egypt and Israel is already quite considerable to the number of great princely states in a Warring States period.
It can be seen that Moses did not take away a group of nomads, but a group of warriors.
The Long March of the Red Army, on the other hand, not only had natural dangers and obstacles, but also had the enemy's encirclement, pursuit, and interception, and there were also problems of ideological instability. The difficulty is extraordinary. But the personnel of the Red Army are relatively simple, almost military personnel, there are fewer women, and they are all very young, the oldest is probably Xu Teli 58 years old, Zhu De is only 48 years old, Mao Zedong is only 41 years old, most of them are between 20 and 30 years old. The mobility of such a team should be relatively strong. The Central Red Army set out at 86,000 men, and its number decreased all the way, reaching northern Shaanxi with only 6,000 men left.
Long
I have no intention of belittling this great Israeli trip, because it has a lot to read in Jewish, Christian, and Western cultures, and it's very significant. There are many works of art that glorify this trip. I'm just judging how difficult this trip was from the perspective of a layman.
But travel solved only one problem, and that was to get out of the control of the Egyptians. But the original territory of the Israelis has been occupied by foreigners. The Israelites, with God's help, drove out the foreigners and regained their land. It is not known where this foreign race has gone, and whether it has also become a wandering nation and harassed other nations.
Both Moses' Exodus and Mao's Long March faced a common problem: how to survive in desperate circumstances.
In any case, this trip by the Israelites was remarkable, very difficult, they solved the problem of thought and established Judaism.
Similarly, the Long March is also very remarkable, and to be able to complete it is great.
there are many bad things in Chinese, but stoicism is unmatched by other nationalities, which was manifested in the Long March. This is our advantage.