By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. (Hebrews 11:27, NKJV).
Unless you allow the Father to set your priorities in this life, you will be tossed about by your flesh, the world, and the enemy of your soul.
Our primal adversaries are a triumvirate of pernicious tormenters whose span of control is remarkably comprehensive.
First there is our flesh, our old nature without Christ (for unbelievers there is no new nature to wage war with the Old Man - so that battle is forfeit before it can begin). Our natural selves are so intertwined with the world that it literally takes a miracle to begin to unravel one from the other.
It is no accident that if a society or an individual does not have God, they invariably end up worshiping some aspect of the Creation, beginning with themselves.
Then there is the influence of this fallen world itself, the friendship of which is enmity with God by default. The world lies in moral and spiritual darkness. What light exists comes solely from Christ and His children.
The world is the central realm of material lust and death-inducing gratification, and without the current restraining influence of the Spirit of Christ, literal Hell on earth would result. And be warned - that is coming.
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2:7, NKJV).
In diabolical collaboration with the first two is Satan, who has exponentially increased his impact on modern Western life by brilliantly promulgating the lie that neither he, nor his minions, exist.
It is interesting to note that this deception has led to a dramatic increase in occult practices and practitioners in the world. Even multi-national Fortune 500 corporations have embedded in their employee training, bizarre thought and meditation rituals originating in ancient pagan religions.
In Moses time, the primary representative of these anti-God forces was the Egyptian Empire, the center of the world.
To be voluntarily a part of that was to live behind enemy lines and to profess allegiance to the world and the world system, controlled by Satan, in a place where satisfying the lusts of the flesh was the ultimate achievement.
Much like life in modern societies today.
In forsaking that life and place by faith in the unseen God, Moses provoked the wrath of both the earthly and the spiritual kings of the world - Pharaoh and Satan, and his resulting trials could only be endured by seeing Him who is invisible.
Understand that while in Moses' circumstances this entailed an actual relocation from Egypt into the Wilderness, the essential prerequisite was a forsaking of the world in his mind and heart, with the physical manifestation only possible afterwards.
Today, physically coming out of the world system, without setting up some kind of off-the-grid enclave, is virtually impossible. It is also unnecessary, for we are to be in the world, but not of the world.
That is more a matter of the heart and soul than the geological coordinates of the body.
Like all his actions of faith before this, the man Moses operated under the empowerment of belief.
His belief in God enabled Him to see the spiritual and eternal reality underpinning all of physical life, and provided him with the means to determine what was most important.
Forsaking what cannot last and does not satisfy for what cannot be destroyed and brings everlasting blessing is the only sane and logical course of action.
Like all men, women and children of faith before and since, he chose to follow the Invisible God because he knew, and believed, the truth.
