I didn’t need a college degree in Bible to discover that Mt. Sinai was not in the Sinai Peninsula. I’ve read through the Bible several times, and one of those times I resolved to work a little harder at connecting the dots. I kept up with names and places and used the maps for deeper understanding.

In comparing Exodus 3:1-6 to the Bible maps, I noticed a serious error in the maps in the back of my Bible as well as those in my Bible atlas. Moses met God while tending his father-in-law’s sheep. Jethro, his father-in law, was the priest of Midian. So Moses was surely in Midian when he saw the burning bush on the Mountain of God. This mountain was also known as Mt. Horeb and Mt. Sinai. Midian is clearly identified on all Bible maps as located in current Saudi Arabia. Moses would have had to travel over 400 miles and cross a swampy body of water on the north end of the Red Sea to graze those sheep on the traditional site for Mt. Sinai located on the Sinai Peninsula. We can also read that God told Moses from the burning bush that he and the Israelites would return to worship God “on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12)

Why is it a big deal to draw attention to this error? There is a faithless, anti-miracle spirit among so-called Bible scholars to dismiss anything in the Bible that they can’t prove through their own human logic. Sadly, this anti-miracle thinking has permeated most of our seminaries where our pastors earn their ministerial degrees. Our youth are paying the highest price. They are being taught that the Bible is full of error. Liberal leaning teachers are using the false Mt. Sinai, as well as other misinformation, to teach people, especially our youth. They dismiss all of Genesis and Exodus and many other Biblical accounts as only myths and legends. If Christian youth aren’t taught the full truth to support their beliefs, they can easily become deceived and lose their confidence in the Bible. This happened to me many years ago, but praise God, he shook the scales loose from my eyes so I could dig deeper and discover God’s truth as revealed in the Bible.

The true Mt. Sinai has been discovered at Mt. Jabal al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia. All the evidence is there and can be clearly seen, but deceivers continue to suppress this information as much as possible. As a test, do your own internet search for Mt. Sinai using any search engine and see where they locate it. Look in the most recently published Bibles. You will find maps that locate Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula. A few have begun marking Mt. Jabal al-Lawz as an alternate. A few months ago I wrote a review of a newly released Bible which went to great lengths in an article included alongside the text to attempt to dismiss the Jabal al-Lawz location and perpetuate the one in the Sinai Peninsula. Yet archaeologists agree there is no shred of evidence the Israelites camped a year on the Sinai Peninsula nor did they pass through hat land.

Using the Bible as his primary reference in 1978, archaeologist Ron Wyatt found convincing evidence of the Red Sea crossing, and he resolved to search for Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia. He was repeatedly prevented from getting a visa to explore the area, so in 1983 he and his two sons dared to enter without the visa. After finding and photographing the true Mt. Sinai on Mt. Jabal al-Lawz along with many other Biblical landmarks, they were accused of spying and rewarded with arrest and a 78-day detention before they could clear themselves. Wyatt credited his success in finding the site with much prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit in addition to his relentless attention to Biblical details. He also made many other Biblical archaeological discoveries. More highly trained archaeologists scoff over his Biblical findings. They dismiss him as an “amateur” archaeologist while keeping their eyes clamped tightly closed to the tons of evidence that is everywhere surrounding the Jabal al-Lawz location. They refuse to acknowledge or consider that the evidence supports detail after detail of the Exodus account of Moses and the Israelites. See Ron Wyatt’s videos on YouTube here.

Meanwhile, a huge tourist business surrounds the erroneous location on the Sinai Peninsula. Tourists go there and rightfully proclaim that there’s no way the thousands of Israelites could have possibly camped there. But money talks. Do you suppose that is the reason our Bible publishing companies refuse to revise their maps? Or do they deliberately choose to side with the liberal so-called Bible scholars who don’t want to acknowledge miracles.

Tourism is now finding a place in Saudi Arabia at Mt. Jabal al-Lawz and at other Biblical sites in the area for those willing to look. Let’s just hope that the publishing companies and seminaries catch up with the facts that are truly written in stone.