"God Said to Walk Through Where?"

“By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.” (Hebrews 11:29, The Message) 

“By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.” (Hebrews 11:7, The Message) 

Noah build a ship in the middle of dry land; Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground.  Two acts of faith.  

One can imagine both Noah's incredulity and that of the people around Noah, when God told him to build a gigantic boat that was not anywhere near the sea.  120 years worth of verbal abuse as Noah built and preached WITH NO RESPONDENTS!  Faith indeed.

One can also imagine the people of Israel staring at a narrow path through walls of water on both sides and asking Moses, "God wants us to go through there?"  

Faith is an interesting thing.  We are not guaranteed that we will survive our act of faith—witness those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered.  There faith was just as great as Noah's.  We are only called to faith.  God is responsible for the outcome.  Life or death does not seem to matter so much as the act of faith itself.