When we lived in Manila five years ago we joined with other staff members from Faith Academy and handed out tracks on Ortigas Ave just out side our subdivision gate on Maundy Thursday. Many Filipinos would make the 15 km trek from the shrine in downtown Manila to the old church in Antipolo and to make the trek they would take one side of Ortigas Ave. I estimated that 10000 people per hour went by our gate and over 100000 during the night.
It seemed like a mass of people so then I got to thinking about the people crossing the Jordan River. If they cross quickly and orderly it would have taken them over 4 hours and the line of people would have been 5 km wide. It is hard to imagine the population of Toronto crossing the Jordan River at one time. That in itself is a miracle.
In Manila these people were walking trying to earn favour with God while the Israelites marched in obedience to God.
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