Manna Carried the Wind

We are seeing more and more answers now in the scientific realm as to what was once mysteries in the Bible. Answers like how the Israelites really crossed over the Reed Sea and how long the pyramids have been around, are just a couple of items we’ve recently heard about. I just read an article about what the “manna” may have really been the Israelites ate during their stay at the Dessert Inn. The word for manna in Hebrew is only two letters, mn. We aren’t sure what the exact meaning of this word is, but many believe it to mean, “what is it.” Some Bible scholars believe this manna mentioned in the scriptures came from a “rotem bush.” It is said when the wind in the dessert blows against this bush, the sand pits a little mark in the skin of the plant’s needles, thereby making it secrete little white bubbles about the size of a pearl. In the hot dessert climate it dries to the consistency of popcorn and tastes sweet like honey. Thus the wind would have been the carrier of the manna to the Israelite camp. If you remember, the manna had to be eaten every day or it would spoil. So it is with the rotem secretion, it must be eaten right away, or the popcorn consistency becomes like powder and can no longer be picked up because it mixes with the sand. Could this possibly be the source of the mysterious “manna” from Heaven?