Sanctity of Time

The Exodus From Egypt Was Exactly On Time

The Exodus from Egypt was, to the very day, 400 years after the birth of Isaac. It was exactly to the day, 430 years after the call of Abraham. It was exactly 500 years to the day from the birth of Abraham. [See Eliezer Shulman's "The Sequence of Events in the Old Testamant" page 43-44.]

When Avram (Abram) was 70 years old HaShem appeared to him in Ur of the Chaldees. Avram was promised to inherit the "The Land which I will show thee: Genesis 12:1." That was 430 years before the Exodus. When Isaac was born, Avraham was 100 years old. That was 30 years after the first promise of 430 years. In the Torah, Genesis 21:2

"For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son,
at the set time of which G-d had spoken to him."

Thirty years earlier, G-d spoke to Avraham at the Covenant of the Pieces (Genesis 15:13) regarding the promise to his "seed". Only a year before, the angels appeared to Avraham in the Plains of Mamre. Genesis 18:13-14:

"And the L-ord said to Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh saying, 'Shall I indeed bare a child, who am old?' Is anything too hard for the L-rd? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, at the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."

In Genesis 15:13 G-d told Abraham that his seed would be in exile:

" Know for a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs
and shall serve them and they shall afflict them 400 years."

Since they knew that the Time of the Exodus was a "set event", the Israelites were waiting for their redemption to come. When G-d appeared to Moses, He sent him from Midian to return to Egypt. At the same time, G-d also told Aaron to go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the Mount of G-d and kissed him for they knew the time of deliverance had come (Exodus 4:27). This was 430 years after the call of Avram and the Covenant of the Pieces.

The Exodus from Egypt was exactly 400 years after the birth of Isaac. How do we know?, asked Rashi. "Avram was born in the 1948th year from Adam. Avram was 70 years old when HaShem appeared to him and designated 430 years until the Exodus. Isaac was born on the 14th day of the first month in the year 2048, when Avraham was exactly 100 years old."

In the year, 2108 Isaac begot Jacob at the age of 60. When Jacob (Israel) arrived in Egypt he said to Pharaoh: Genesis 47:9 and 28:

"The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years."
"And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years: so the whole age of Jacob was 147 years." Genesis 47:9, 28

We can calculate that Jacob came into Egypt at 130 years old; add the 60 years Isaac's age at Jacob's birth for a total of 190 years. Hence Israel was in Egypt 210 years. Of those 210 years, Israel spent the last 116 years in bondage and slavery. (See Jim Long's article in the August 96 RESEARCHER on the Exodus story from the Egyptian chronology.)

How do we calculate what happened in those 210 years?

Levi was born in Padan Aram in the year 2195. He lived 137 years and died in the year 2332. He begot Kohath in 2235. Kohath lived 133 years and died in 2368 (Exodus 6:18). Kohath begot Amram in 2255. Amram lived 137 years and died in 2392. Amram begot Moses in 2368. At 80 years of age Moses delivered Israel out of Egypt in the year 2448. Hence we can compute the exact years to account for the 210 remaining years of the 400 years from the birth of Isaac to the Exodus.

In summary, when Avram was 70 years old, G-d told him that his seed would deliver the House of Israel from the House of Bondage in Egypt 430 years before it happened. Thirty years later, in the first month and the fourteenth day of the month, the very day Isaac was born (Abraham was 100 years old) G-d continued the accounting to 400 years. Exactly 400 years later to the day (the 14th day of the first month) was the night of the Passover when The House of Israel exited from Egypt. So, if the Torah had foretold the exact time of the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, is it not rational that the sanctity of all time in history is also revealed in the Torah?

Most extraordinary, the House of Israel did not even exist at the time G-d made Abraham those promises. Really, it took 190 years before his great-grandchild Benjamin was born and completed the 12 Tribes of House of Israel. This is why Israel is different from all other nations. Israel is the only nation whose history was written before it happened. In fact, all these writings began even before Israel itself existed.

The Entire Torah Is A Scroll Of Time

As the Torah is slowly turned on its spindles counterclockwise, the left roll becomes smaller¾and the right roll becomes larger. The right roll is history. The left roll is Prophecy. That parchment that lies open between the two rolls is:Today's Headline News.

Reading through the Torah is more than just reading letter by letter, word by word, line by line and page by page. To read through the Torah ones' mind must be open and transcend through and go beyond letters, words, lines and pages.

For example, Moses lived 120 years. He spent his first 40 years in Egypt, his next 40 years in the exile and his final 40 years bringing Israel to the Land of Promise. At Mount Sinai Moses ascended three times and received the entire Written Torah and the Oral Torah. Each time Moses ascended Mount Sinai he remained there for 40 days and nights. At the last ascent, Moses came down with the complete superlative Torah that was a Written Script of everything that was going to befall Israel for the next 40 years in the wilderness. Even the episode of Moses' death was already written there. During the next 40 years, the events that transpired were simply an acting-out in unison of the drama of the Written Script.

At the end of the Torah, however, a different perspective of the text is insinuated. The new allusion, beginning with Deuteronomy 29 to the end of the book, deals with Israel's prophetic history in the Last Days. The last 5 chapters of Deuteronomy can be called the Apocalypse or the Revelation of the Torah. In Chapter 30, G-d tells how he will re-gather Israel up from all the nations where he has scattered them.

Those are events only reserved for the generations that are to come in the Last Days. We are that generation! The "Last Days" are nowadays. "The days that shall come" have arrived!

Now, look and see it through the Torah! As Moses' life was divided into three periods, so Israel's history will be divided into three Commonwealths. As Moses ascended up three times, so also Israel will make three accents, or aliyahs up to the land of Israel.

The First Aliyah was from Egypt, the Second Aliyah was from Babylon and the Third Aliyah is occurring in our day as we witness Israel's re-gathering from all the nations to which they have been scattered.

The last 40 days and nights Moses was in Mount Sinai where he received the full Script of the Torah. It took 40 years for Israel to act out that script. Now, at the end of the ages (40 centuries later), the Torah Scroll of Time is nearly 'unwound' onto the coil on the right historical spindle. We are living in those tight, tense days. The unwound small remainder on the left, the far spent spindle, is ever so short. It seems stretched¾ hard to hold down. If released, it springs back with an elastic reaction, recoiling back over itself., as though it is trying to hide the last apocalyptic Torah columns passing by us. Perhaps it is also trying to veil that last column in a shroud-like winding sheet¾covering the Death of Moses. This event could bring Israel back to the "Tohu VehBohu" or "without form and void" with which the Torah began.

This is exactly what happens each year at Simcha Torah. When the last word of the Torah is chanted in the synagogue, the cantor holds the note of the final syllable of Yisra-el so long his voice begins to crack from his lungs being exhausted of air. Immediately before the cantor's voice fully stops, another cantor will began chanting from another scroll the opening words of Genesis 1:1. Likewise, Joshua phased in as Moses phased out.

Eliezer Shulman points out:

"Abraham was born 1948 years after Adam. It was in the 3760 years from the birth of Abraham to the rebirth of the State of Israel.
It was 3760 years from Adam to the beginning of the Common Era. It was 1948 in the Common Era dating when Israel was reborn."

In this mystique it seems that what has gone around has come around! In the symphony of time, history repeats itself. If history repeats itself, then history itself is prophecy. In the Torah perspective, history is actually His-story!