Location of the Real Mt. Sinai
Much of the information here presented was drawn from the work of Mr. Ron Wyatt (No blood-line of mine that I know of). When you look at the work of Mr. Wyatt you will find that biblical scholars will say that it is all phony because he is not a true archaeologist since he has had no training. Biblical Scholars? Didn't Paul state that 1Cor. 1:26 "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;"
The traditional site for Mt. Sinai was the southern Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai peninsula has traditionally been considered Sinai's location by Christians, although it should also be noted that the peninsula gained its name from this tradition, and was not called that in Josephus' time or earlier. The Sinai was earlier inhabited by the Monitu and was called Mafkat or Country of Turquoise. In early Christian times, a number of Anchorites settled on Mount Serball, considering it to be the biblical mountain. The Catholics latched on to the mountain and built St. Catherine's Monastery at it's base. And so the tradition continued until recently.
When Moses killed the Egyptian who was beating a Jewish man he ran in fear of his life to the land of Midian. While there he saw the daughters of Reuel needing to water their sheep. They were stopped by some men and when Moses saw this he stepped in to rescue the girls. When their father asked why they were so late coming home they told him what Moses did and so their father Reuel/Jethro (Both are the same man) offered Moses to live with him and gave his daughter Zipporah. While there he led the flock to the backside of the desert to the mountain of God called Horeb, Exo. 3:1 "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb". This is when he saw the burning bush. Horeb was mentioned in the bible 17 times as a mountain and desert, They were all sacred mountains to God: Sinai, Horeb, Moriah, Zion, Olives, Transfiguration, Calvary, Heavenly Zion.
When Moses was called to deliver the children of God from Egypt to the promise land he wanted to take the Northern route (which normally eleven days journey). However, the Lord told him to turn South into the Sinai Peninsula. The shortest route to the Promised Land was through the land of the Philistines, but God didn't want them to take this route, He wanted them to take the Southern route through the mountainous wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula. Exo 13:17-18 "And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt."
Since God told Moses not to take the shortest route through the Philistine country Exo. 13:17 he headed for the area he knew for the last forty years, Midian. Exo. 13:20 "And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. Etham is not believed to be a singular location. It was a designation of the land that lay around the mid-northern edge of the Gulf of Aqaba. We know this because once they cross the sea, they are still in an area called Etham. Exo. 13:18 "But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea..." The wilderness of the Red sea was the mountainous land between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba, which are two arms of the Red sea and thereby were called the Red sea. It was the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba that Solomon built his fleet of ships (1Ki. 9:26 and calls this the Red Sea. "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.")
We know that Mt. Sinai was in the same area as Jethro's home in Midian according to Exo. 3:1 ." God had led the children of Israel here because He told Moses to bring them back here to worship me in Exo. 3:12 "And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain." We also know that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia and not the Sinai peninsula in Gal 4:25 "For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children."
Take a look at this mountain, see the top of the mountain where God met Moses, EXO 3:12 .... Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain Jebel El Lawz. Ron was at Jebel el Lawz in 1985 with Dave Fasold, they were told that this mountain is even today known to the inhabitants of the region as "Jebel Musa", or the mountain of Moses.