YHWH’s will and be commissioned to accomplish it, that will is not dependent on any one prophet to fulfil it. Its execution is at the hand of YHWH, who moves people and events to his desired ends. For the church, no less than ancient Israel, there is a great sense of surety in YHWH’s sovereign will enacted in history. Having created the cosmos and his people, he does not abandon them to the vicissitudes of chance. Nor (even more comforting) does he abandon his people—or his church—to their own devices,