In short, among dozens of the pre-Exilic Hebrew texts, none can reasonably suggest that its author was familiar enough with any significant part of the Torah's law or narrative, and none of the documents authored by bitter enemies of Egypt at the alleged time of the Exodus mentions any disaster which befell the Egyptian empire.The most reasonable explanation of these facts is that the Torah as a whole was not known to the Hebrews before the Babylonian exile and that the Exodus did not really happen as described by the Torah.The existence of a Halachic tradition so discrepant from the Rabbinic one testifies that there is no objective reason to view Rabbinic Law as the only accurate and true Halachic tradition of the Torah from Sinai.So only the laws in categories (a) and (b) are said to have been handled down through tradition from Sinai, while all the rest are admitted to have been established by the Sages on their own accord though Maimonides claims that the Scripture gave the Sages the authority to establish such laws.In the context of Matthew 24, The Lord Jesus is not speaking of an individual’s birth, but the birth of a nation – a nation of people having the same characteristics, traits, and pursuits and that have a kinship with the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem unlike any other race of people on the earth.In addition when the Lord Jesus said THIS GENERATION, He was speaking of a certain time period as distinguished from alle others before it.The milk toast make me feel good message coming from pulpits and seminairs today do not challenge the saints to live holy and godly lives in a godless world.

Unless the Holy Spirit imparts the revelation or understanding, it is nothing but a dead letter.

Dozens of literary sources and monuments from that time are available, and we can reconstruct the historical and social picture of ancient Egypt at a highly precise level.

Such major reforms as those reported in the book of Genesis would surely leave many traces in contemporary written sources and the fact that not a single document speaks of the events described in the Torah, or even of something close to those reforms, leads to the conclusion that these reforms never really took place.

All the above leads to the conclusion that the Sages' authority "to make a fence around the Torah" was not derived by any "traditional exegesis" from the Scripture, but the Sages themselves introduced it for their own reasons.

These reasons, in any case, are deductions and considerations of flesh and blood, not from the Divine and therefore the Sages' edicts cannot be more authoritative than any other human laws.