Attack Neutralized!

"The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied, and the more they spread abroad."  Exodus 1:12

I like this verse.  It makes me laugh.  Pharaoh had a problem.  He was afraid of the Hebrew people.  He thought that because they were so many, that they would rise against Egypt if Egypt was ever in a war.
First off, Egypt had lived in peace with the Hebrews for years and years and years.

If anything, the Hebrews would probably have fought with

the Egyptians, not against them.  

I get the feeling that maybe Pharaoh wasn't very secure with himself as a ruler, or had some dissension in the ranks or some advisers who didn't like the Hebrews and made him think this way.
So what does Pharaoh do?  He gives the Hebrews a reason to fight against him.  If they didn't have one before, they did now.  He used them as slaves to build cities for him.
Also somehow he thought that if he used them as slaves, that their number would decrease.  Again, a very illogical thought.

And what happened?  They grew even more.  

No matter what Pharaoh does, nothing changes!!! 

Shows you just one reason why Pharaoh was not a God - 

he had no real power.

The next thing Pharaoh does is try to get the Hebrew midwives in Kahuts with him.  Tells them to kill the baby boys but let the girls live.  This doesn't work either.  The midwives feared God, so they disobeyed Pharaoh.  I think this is an example of when it is okay not to follow the rule of the government.  And God rewarded the Midwives for their faith - he gave them children!!! (midwives perhaps didn't normally have children of their own?)
The last thing Pharaoh tries is to have soldiers go to the Hebrew cities and kill every boy child.  This is the most drastic thing he has done so far.  Probably getting a little scared at this point, frustrated, and angry that nothing he does works.  SO he restores to extreme violence.
But even this plan is thwarted by God.  One child was saved and where does he end up?

In the arms of Pharaoh's Daughter.  

I don't think all these things are coincidence.  I think that God had an active part in all of it.  Everything Everything Pharaoh tired to do to the Hebrews to  oppress them failed.  Not because he was a bad planner but because God was protecting his people.  Yes, the Hebrews were enslaved.  That was not thwarted.  But God prevented their extinction as a people and Society.  I think that is probably more important in the long run.  Not everything was perfect for the Hebrews.  Why God allowed them to be slaves, I don't know.  I'm sure he had a reason.  But the point is, God is totally in control of what goes on down here on earth.  Nothing happens of which he is not aware.

God is in control.