A Reluctant God — G.W. North

Moses and the Old Covenant

Whom the Lord introduced the old covenant. My concern does not listen as the time goes by moving round. I Still find that people Persistently think in old covenant terms wherever I go I Have to seek to correct it Because I know that if you think in those terms you'll certainly live what you think That I'm completely Unavoidable.

We know of course that Moses was the mediator of the old covenant as I had said and Second to Abraham. I think I might have mentioned this last year. He is the greatest in the Old Testament and that Abraham was the father of the faithful and Moses was the man raised up of God through whom he would establish the covenant that he had made with Abraham With Israel in the form of a law.

However, we can leave that to future occasions tonight. I Want particularly to look at this man and buy? from another angle than the angle of giving the law and as usual I when I started to think and Meditate in this man's life afresh.

Hebrews' Testimony About Moses

I turn to the New Testament. I always do the New Testament is the divinely inspired comment from the Old Testament and In Hebrews chapter 11 Where you might expect me to start if you can recall what happened 12 months ago.

I did exactly the same then reading about Abraham This time about Moses we read in verse 23 of Hebrews 11 by faith Moses When he was born was hid three months of his parents Because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment By faith Moses when he came to years Refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater things than the pleasures in Egypt for he had Respect under the recompense of the reward by faith.

He forsook Egypt Not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as Seeing him who is invisible through faith. He kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood Lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them by faith.

They pass Through the Red Sea as by dry land. I don't know whether you have noticed the great distance Traveled in between verses 28 and 29. Because 29 is possible because of 28 Through faith he kept the Passover by faith they pass through What that nation owed to one man's faith.

Tremendous, isn't it? Now may the Lord make this very very Profitable to us tonight Because We are Going to look at this man in a succession of evenings. I trust In that we should probably be continuing tomorrow night as well as tonight.

We have some valuable information in that 11th chapter. But we're going back now to Exodus For you will know that so far. It has been a commentary on the story first given in Exodus. Of course, you will know that Moses is not only famous because he is the mediator of the Old Covenant and For the things that we have been reading about in the 11th chapter of Hebrews He is famous because he wrote the first five books of the Bible as well,.

I Don't suppose Anybody has written so many words as Moses That are included in the Bible. No one. So if you take the amount of inspired writing that he did By this he stands head and shoulders Above any other contributor to the sacred canon and that really is something Not that verbosity Always points to greatness.

In fact, I suppose many of you think it would be far better if I spoke there. But nevertheless this man Was a great man of God. We'll have a look at that side of it perhaps as we go through. But you will know that we are introduced to this man first as a baby.

Moses' Birth Under Pharaoh's Decree

We were told of course in Hebrews 11 that When Moses was born His parents hid him for three months. He was born at the time you may recall in verse 15 of chapter 1 of Exodus that the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives of which the name of one was Shifra and the name of the other Kua and he said When you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the school if it be a son Then you shall kill him.

If it be a daughter Then you shall live Then she shall live. But the midwives feared God. And did not as the king of Egypt commanded them. But saved the men children alive. And the king of Egypt called for the midwife and said unto them Why have ye done this thing and have saved the men children alive and the midwives said unto Pharaoh Because the Hebrew women are not of the Egyptian women's they are lively and the deliverer there the midwives come in unto them.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty and it came to pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses and Pharaoh charged all his people saying Every son that is born You shall cast into the river and every daughter You shall save Alive.

I think you will agree with me that that was a pretty dreadful time in which to be born. Hmm. It was during this period that Aaron his elder brother was born. Now just whether Aaron was born before Pharaoh gave this charge for he was three years older than Moses or whether his parents were also Abraham Moses parents you will remember they Were brave about Aaron as well as about Moses.

I can't say We're not told but this I do want to say it's wonderful if you've got brave there. It's wonderful if you've got parents of faith, isn't it? It's a glorious heritage into which to come. Isn't it?

What a marvelous thing it is to have a father and a mother who are prepared to defy the king and the government and all the laws of the land because of faith in God. I'm not trying to breed the spirit of rebellion in anybody.

Faithful Resistance to Unjust Authority

One of the worst things that Christianity can do is spread the view that all Christianity does is make you a very nice citizen to live with. That's the kind of stuff that put over. I Find and I've been saying quite a bit lately that wherever Jesus Christ went he caused trouble.

You do realize that don't you? He would cause as much trouble in the British Isles as he did in Palestine as it was called then if he was to come Preaching his same glorious truth now as he did then God save us from the soporific of sitting back and you know, I'm it's made me nice.

I pay my bills. I don't quarrel with my neighbor. I always vote when I should which I never do by the way. And I always do this and do that and do the other. How do I a nice Christian person on the other hand is your catty or wicked and spiteful?

And always falling out with your neighbor or the people who live with you. There's still something wrong with you, but don't let get the idea. That all we're made is nice sort of stroking pussy cat. That never do anything wrong anything like that.

Jesus Christ was always upsetting people always. Whether it be the Herod or whether it be the Pharisee or the high priest or the rulers of synagogues. Or people like that. It was always the common people that heard Jesus gladly so the scriptures say.

Again, I'm not inciting to rebellion. But let's get some true ideas into our head and not worry about the public image and the testimony. Let's start living for Jesus. He'll take care of us. And so when Moses was born He was hidden three months.

Moses Preserved Through His Parents' Faith

Let's read the story there went a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi. She was his aunt actually. If you want to know where I got that just for reading the Bible, I won't tell you where just keep reading.

He married his aunt and the woman conceived and bear a son. And When she saw him that he was a goodly child she hid him three months and When she could not longer hide him we're told he was three months old in The Hebrews letter.

That's why you need the divine commentary on the Old Testament. Because we're not told here how old he was. Same spirit you see he was there when Moses was born. And he was there when the writers of the Hebrews needed to know Moses age at a certain time quite simple.

And when she saw that this was a goodly child She hid him three months and When she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and dorked it with slime and with pitch and put The child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink and his sisters tore the far off.

So with what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and Her maidens walked along by the river's side. And when she saw the ark among the flags She sent her maid to fetch it.

And when she had opened it She saw the child and behold the babe wept and she had compassion on him and said This is one of the Hebrews children. Then said his sister the Pharaoh's daughter Shall I go and call to the unnursed of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her take this child away and nurse it for me. And I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it and the child grew and She brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.

And she called his name Moses. And she said Because I drew him out of the water hmm and there we have the opening of The story that we all learned I'm sure when we went to Sunday school and us could have repeated it In our own language, I'm sure at any time.

What a lovely story. I can remember it from my very early days. His mother and his father were not afraid of the king's commandment. I Do bless God for that. It's a wonderful atmosphere in which a future man of God should be brought up a Fearless mother.

Praise the name of the Lord in that great. Hmm. Someone who really believes God, you know faith always breeds fearlessness. Always why are you fearful? Where is your faith? That's what the Lord said when he was on earth.

What are you afraid of? Faith and fear just can't live together. One has to go one will break the other down always and this man then he had this great and glorious privilege. Wonderful how God was overruling and brought young Moses into the household of Pharaoh via his daughter.

Moses' Forty Years in Egypt and Midian

He came to pass in those days. Verse 11 when Moses was grown that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew one of his brethren and he looked this way and That way and when he saw that there was no man he slew the Egyptians and hid him in the sand and When he went out the second day behold two men of the Hebrews Strove together and he said to him that did the wrong.

Therefore smitest thou thy fellow and he said who made thee a prince and the judge over us. Intendest thou to kill me as thou killest the Egyptian. And Moses feared and said Surely this thing is known.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well. Well, I suppose I could go on reading that but you will recall we read in Hebrews 11 that by faith Moses forsook Egypt Not fearing the wrath of the king and here we are reading something which seems to be absolutely contradictory to that.

For he was afraid that Pharaoh would slay him. But the record in Hebrews is talking about something that happened at 40 years after when Moses was 80. The second time when he left Egypt praise God he left in absolute Fearlessness.

God had made a man of him. That's what happened. He thought he was a man when he was 40 years old. He was evidently a strong man. We're told that he was skilled in all the arts of the Egyptians. He was a courtier he was a prince of the realm and he went out and he was 40 at this time.

You will know that from the little adage that you must have heard that Moses 40 years learning to be somebody. 40 years learning to be nobody. And 40 years learning what God can do with somebody when he prepared to be a nobody.

You've heard that one haven't you? Well, that's it. He was a somebody so he thought he was rich. He was educated. He was a courtier. He was in direct line of succession to the throne. No doubt. Just where he stood in that line of succession, I don't know but Also, he was strong he knew all the arts of fellow to say no doubt and he could do this and do that and he just went up and he Killed this Egyptian when he saw him fighting one of us one of the Hebrews Just killed him buried him in the sand and then as a result of that He had to flee out of the land.

Yes, that began the 40-year spell when he learned to be a complete nobody. This is how it all started. Of course, he may have thought he was a somebody a little bit when he married a wife. We'll learn about it.

Shall we? The priest of Midian had seven daughters birth 16 they came and drew water and filled the trunks to water their father's flock and The shepherds came and drove them away. I Suppose they were anything but gentlemen.

But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their thoughts. You see he wasn't afraid to take on all the shepherds. On his own. You've got to understand this character that you're dealing with. He wasn't afraid to take on all those shepherds.

However many there were there must have been at least at least two it's in the plural but he took them on and When they came to you their father he said how is it that ye are? Come so soon today and they said an Egyptian Delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock.

And he said unto his daughters and where is he why is it that you've left the man call him that he may eat bread and Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter and she bear him a son and He called his name Gershon or he said I have been a stranger in a strange Land and it came to pass in process of time 40 years.

Patience and Preparation in the Desert

You think He was a patient man. I want to tell you this no man can be great until he's patient. Did you know that? Patience in process of time the king of Egypt died and The children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason of their bondage and God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob and God Looked upon the children of Israel and God had respect Unto them.

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of Midian and He led the flock to the back side of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horus. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire Out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire.

And the bush was not consumed. And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burned and When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses.

And he said Here am I. And He said draw not nigh hither Put off thy shoes From off thy feet. For the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said I Am the God of thy father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

And Moses hid his face. For he was afraid to look upon God. Fascinating really isn't it? I found it so today. Wonderful wonderful truth. If I was to say to you, why did God call Moses you may think of quite a few verses that may answer the question, but the real reason I think why God called Moses hmm is Revealed to us here.

Moses' Reluctance and God's Call

You will remember that at that bush Moses went in for all sorts of arguments with God now look here's the thing When God calls you when God speaks to you There comes a point in your experience and in your thinking where you have to divide between what is Genuine in your response and what is not genuine in your response.

Now that is a big thing that you find in this man Moses and if I was going to Give a title to this particular talk anyway tonight. I think I would call it Moses a reluctant God. Moses a Reluctant God you may think That may sound surprising to you, but that is precisely why God called him.

And he said so this is why of course when we think of a man like Moses sometimes you say oh well of course he was the Old Testament counterpart of the Lord Jesus Christ the great mediator and therefore He did attain to some outstanding heights because he was specially chosen of God.

That's absolutely true of course but Each one of us has to remember this that in some sense You as humble as you are if you are a true child of God are called to represent God on the earth to someone to some people.

I Hope you have realized this what a tremendous thing it is for the Lord to speak To us and call us this way. Turn with me to chapter 7 the Lord says unto Moses here see I Have made thee of God Sir Pharaoh, I have made thee of God Sir Pharaoh.

Now go back with me to chapter 4 and we're at a time in This great shall I say calling and Commanding the interview which you like at the bush when we're told about God in verse 14 That he got angry with Moses.

He hadn't been angry until this moment of time. But at this point he's got very angry with Moses. Let's read it the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses. And he said is not Aaron the Levite thy brother.

I know that he can speak well and Also behold he cometh forth to meet thee when he seeth thee. He will be glad in his heart and thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth. And I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what he should do and he shall be thy spokesman unto the people and He shall be even He shall be to be instead of a mouth and I shall be to him instead of God.

But Moses was proving to be Very reluctant to become a God and you might well think well, I would think so too. Doesn't that bespeak his modesty? No, it doesn't. It bespeaks a false humility. Let everybody take this deeply into their heart.

There is humility. There is modesty. There is that which is false humility and mock modesty when God Really calls you. Remember that he doesn't just call you and I To make us fish. He calls us So that we may do something for him on this earth.

If only this would sink into the hearts of every man and woman you. If you know the call of God in your life you are if I may say this earmarked for something. You know what we mean by this earmark don't you it's taken from The way that slaves were made in these days.

That they were led to the doorpost and they were marked in their ears. Their ears were pierced With an awl to the doorpost and they were marked as slaves for life. Hmm. Well, that's the whole thing now when you've been called God you are to use the modern term earmarked for God and The Lord had wonderful things in his heart for this man To be a God.

Now you will know That this requires much preparation. It really did 80 years. God had been preparing this man 80 years. Oh I suppose if we all think well, I don't know if I'm only going to be prepared till I'm 80.

What's going to happen. Well this as you know was in days. When when men lived well over a hundred years of age. You will know that Moses himself lived to be a hundred and twenty so let's put it this way two thirds of his life.

You decided when you're going to die. Let's say you died at 75 at 75 50 years of your life. Training you for something that doesn't mean to say that you're not called of God before that. It doesn't mean to say that people with eyes to see.

Cannot already see that God marked you out for something. I know whom God has marked out. When I move around I see people not only in this fellowship. Please don't come to me and ask me if you're one of them because I won't tell you.

But in other places too. I know those upon whom God put his hand. That if they will go through with God God has some real purpose for them in this world. That's it. Alas alas I Have seen that the thing that goes with the purpose of God Isn't balanced in the life of the person concerned for.

We read here of God's hand and how he preserved this man from babyhood you will know through the pluck of his mother and through all the ways in which he was taken to the Egyptian court and trained to be a Great court here at least in Egypt is never coming to the kingly throne.

Remember Moses heard way back in the desert that the king of Egypt was dead. I don't know whether he said. I wonder if I would have been the next king if I'd stayed there. Thank God that we read that he chose rather to suffer affliction with the king children of God.

He had a Reward he paid great attention to the recompense of the reward the raw reward of what investment of his money. No investment of his life by faith. For that is the thing that answers to God. God has a purpose.

God chooses. God calls and Then Moses is up to you. And the writers of the Hebrews says yes by faith Moses that's right. What a tremendous thing when this really happens to a man God must find corresponding faith.

In the heart of every one of us unless whatever the call no man will fulfill it. No, man will achieve the end. That's why at the end of his life. We find old Paul saying I'm forgiving. I put the things that behind.

I'm pressing on. I'm pressing on. I'm pressing on that's Paul. Because he knew how easily he could have missed the high calling of God. Because people don't come to the glorious exercise of faith. Now we know what we've already seen.

That Moses made his mistake. He went out as we've already said and He just went used his ordinary strength. He knew his perhaps knew used his knowledge of martial arts or whatever it was he would have been well-trained.

Just stood the Egyptian moving in his own strength. There was a sense if we may use the word Moses was a murderer. When he started so he could have lost his life for that and justly so He would have been in the king's dungeon for a while.

And then he would have been executed. There's no doubt about that. And you will know afterwards he wrote a law which says Thou shalt not kill. Cain's that man. And he. What God can do for a man? When he really gets hold of him He takes out the fleshy endeavors.

He takes away The self-striving. He takes away the pride. He takes away everything for this man Moses. He was brought up in the lap of pride. This was the very thing you will remember. That Characterized the next pharaoh that went to the throne.

The pharaoh who died in the red sea that's the son of the pharaoh that died. Moses heard about his death when he was in the back side of the desert could have been. A Barabbas, you know. Taking moses place.

I don't know the scripture doesn't make it clear one way or another. Moses could have put his thumb in his mouth. Or stuck away in some dungeon Cave and said I ought to have been on the throne of egypt.

That was my place. And so on and so on and so on you see. But he didn't want it. Not then God God God had gotten home. I don't know whether you and I are ever really prepared to let god get right hold up.

Moses will already have known. That it was through his mother's and father's faith that he was alive even He would have got hold of that. All right. He would have been told that. Before he was finally delivered to the princess.

As her son he knew that. But beloved isn't this the tragedy with so many? We don't fulfill the very laws of our birth. We don't go through. But moses did you see you do know don't you that when you were born again, you were born again through somebody's faith.

Somebody believed for you. Somebody prayed for you. Somebody was prepared to stand against you being snatched up by some crocodile out of the nile god mouth. You know that don't you? If you don't you'd better learn it.

You've disappointed someone if you haven't gone through. You've broken someone's heart. If you haven't gone through. You know that I hope. For that's why you were born of god. To say nothing of how god feels about it.

I know. The way there in the backside of the desert for 40 years those dragging years. As they went by God dealt with that man. Didn't he god absolutely dealt with him. And I hope also you've learned this.

I know that we're we're told we're saved to serve and that's true. And I know that there are plenty of people who urge us and urge us and urge us on to do this and do that. God forbid that they should stop their urging.

Lest we sink back into a sort of a flower of nothingness. But God called this man moses away and stuck him right back there in the backside of the desert. All together out of it and there. He just had to sit among the sheep and learn.

That's what he had to do patiently patiently patiently wait. Patiently wait,. I wonder if his Parents had said to him, you know why you're at the court moses, don't you? I guess you're there for god. God saved you to serve him there.

You know, you're you're really a man come back from the dead moses. You were only a boy. But you were supposed to be dead. Your life belongs to god moses, you know that. Oh the ingratitude. How many tears are shed in heaven?

Over that awful ingratitude. That fills the hearts of so many people on earth That want to live for themselves instead of for god. Let us learn from both the lord jesus and moses. That it isn't in the sort of headlong rush of fleshly energies.

It isn't in the application of your skills. It isn't that in which you've been trained. Whoever would have thought that moses the courtier. Would have been become a shepherd. Whoever would have thought that moses you're wasting your talent.

What are you doing here? He followed the sheep all being blown to pieces by men and women said man with your talents and abilities. You ought to be doing this doing that. She is puffing up the ego. Inflating people about what god wants them to be.

Blessed is the man that can walk in absolute humility. If he knows he's called of god and pay no attention to the things that puff up the flesh. But will walk steadily on. So that god can take him from the lowest if he wants to put him in the highest.

Without us all coming out and oh, well, we're all brought from low to the highest lowest pit of sin and so on and so on. No, no, no. No. That blunting the point of the sword the whole thing is. Is That moses was probably brought from lowest still as i've already said the gaping jaws of some crocodile in the nile.

That's why sister was walking over him to see that he wasn't snatched up. You see We can talk about that. But here Is the thing? How many of us have been raised to the height to which moses was raised?

How many of us have been prepared to go and be a nobody and a nothing. Just like jesus, of course Moses had to go the way. Seeing that he was going to be a mediator. He had to be like the mediator jesus 30 years he spent Scraping up shavings off the floor.

And things like that 30 years. But look god has made of him the chief shepherd amen. I wonder how many of us have got shepherd like qualities. Or intentions who really care. That's in his heart old moses groans and thought.

Why was I trained like this? Why would all this time and money? and power spent on my Education and background. Why have I got all this and here I am. I can remember a young man always comes back to my mind in my very young days.

Well, i'm perhaps not so very young. What would I have been in my 20s, I guess. That you mustn't call that very young. No, I must do but uh Seems a long while ago to me except that life has gone to a quick fix only seems as yesterday and I can remember him coming to the place where I was employed at that time before I was near the god into starting my own business before um the war.

Uh, I mean the second war. You know that most of you can remember. Uh and uh and uh. Most of you can't remember. I mean, sorry and uh the the thing I can remember him coming and he was doing a certain thing and with With language that I wouldn't repeat to you.

He said here am I got my bsc and this and he's going on and i'm pushing doing this doing. And in his heart he was rebelling against his circumstances. I think within three months he was dead. He died a rebel.

Against his circumstances against all sorts of things. He didn't want to listen for the gospel. What a glorious thing it is beloved. So know the hand of god on your life. Do you know it son? Do you know it porter.

If not, you can carry on and do what you want, I guess. But a man who believes he's called of god the hand of god is on him. He cannot do any other than Go on with the molding hand of god in the circumstances of his life.

Changing him. He can't do any other. He's got to be changed. This is the thing we learn from moses got to be. Seldom are we changed in circumstances of our own choosing? Because we choose the life of the knife.

It's not hard enough to change us. If you want to sharpen to heal for instance. My wife was saying to me the other day. I don't know when she did it. She said i've lost our chopper because she wouldn't know what that is.

I'm sure she wasn't speaking an ex. We specially ordered it from Dear man in lanark. It was a southern tool. They said we don't have these in scotland. I thought well have we come to educate them? But Anyway, they got us.

This particular thing. And it was never any good after I got it. Not that it because it was scots because he had sent to england for it, but It never fulfilled its purposes. You see. I'm a man of wood as you know.

Well, I don't know i'm made of wood. I'm only made of hay and stubble i'm sure. But the whole thing is this that. In my our wood business, they had to be almost razor sharp and we could never get this thing sharpened properly.

And you know that in order for an axe head or something like that to be sharpened it's got to go on the hard rough wheel. No good putting it in butter. But that's what you're all doing if you're not careful you're choosing the butter.

And god can't make of you what he wants to make he can't. You say i'm cold. You say i'm this you say i'm that. But you're not cold that. You're called what god sees. That's the calling. Paul couldn't even put a name to it.

I must commit a new testament on earth. They called him an apostle. But on this he said it's just a high calling of god. I don't know what it is. I'm reaching out for that. Still going. This is a trouble.

People are prepared to settle down In this and that and the other and god can do no other in the end, but allow them to. For he needs the cooperation of faith. God starts to work. On the life he works.

In this context. Are you ready now to look into chapter two with me. Verse 23 in process of time. Process of time. What are the processes of time lord. Preparation of the scene. That's right. He had to eliminate this pharaoh pharaoh died.

And then he saw what the reaction was in moses heart. Did he think he ought to be sitting upon the throne of egypt? Was there regret there? Dissatisfaction with his life. I wonder. I don't know. As I sometimes say i'll ask them when I get there and find out.

Here then is the truth. And the children of israel sighed By reason of the bondage and they cried. And their cry came up unto god by reason of their bondage and god heard their groaning and god Remembered his coven.

All right. Now here's the big big thing when god calls you and listen. He wasn't he wasn't ready yet to call him not by a few hours. Not by a few hours shall we say he moses was now 80. You see about.

Okay, we won't be precise a few days. Moses was now 80. But god had preserved him 80 years before for this moment. Because of his life had passed away. Now here is the thing. This is why some people will never be any good to god.

God will always be good to them now. Don't misunderstand me. That's his nature. We can talk about grace and sing about grace and god grant we do it more and more but you see. There you are moses. You're sitting out there.

You're sitting out there 80 years ago. I moved on your behalf. I moved for this and it was all done in the perfect timing of god. Did you know that all. Right, this is what we'll see. Keep your finger in there.

We have to see it in exodus chapter 12 verse 40 now the sojourning of the children of israel. Who dwelt in egypt was 430 years? And it came to pass at the end of 430 years. Listen, even the self-same day utter precision.