What Becomes Of Egypt...Part 6

Egypt is a very significant player in the drama that is the End times scenario according to the prophets of the Bible. Egypt has recently been in the forefront of the world news as a result of the popular overthrow of the thirty year Mubarak government. Many around the world have high hopes for Egypt, believing that good can come out of the Egyptian revolution.

The scriptures tell us that Egypt indeed does have a bright future, but not as an outcome of a democratic revolution. The revolution that toppled Mubarak is already disintegrating into an open Muslim persecution against Coptic Christians, and calls for Israel to be annihilated in the name of Islam.

Egypt is going to suffer a harsh night of tribulation before the breaking of the dawn, according to Isaiah and Ezekiel,

In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.(Isaiah 19:16-17)

Egypt has been seized by a mortal fear, particularly of the Jews, and God himself is in that fear. Keep in mind that Egypt was a leading participant in four major modern wars with the state of Israel,and enjoyed the advantage of superior numbers, firepower, transport and supplies, yet in each war Egypt was defeated. Of course Israel alone didn’t defeat Egypt, the God of Israel did!

Egypt is like a woman in fear. This is a nation whothrough their own press thrives on bizarre conspiracy theories , blaming every problem , shortcoming, or any other evil, on the Jews, (backed by the CIA of course!). “The wicked flee when no one pursues them, but the Righteous are bold as a lion”(Proverbs 28:1)

Recently during the Egyptian observance of religious month of Ramadan, a television series was shown on state TV which featured the ancient Jewish blood libel, portraying Jews as stealing Arab children to drain them of their blood to make Matza bread. These people are afraid.

Muslim Egypt is an unrelenting enemy of Christianity and of Israel. Within days after the”revolution” which toppled the Mubarak regime, video was released of the Egyptian army attacking an unarmed Coptic Monastery, shooting people, and pushing over the walls and gates of the monastery with Armored personnel carriers. Frantic Monks could be heard singing “Kyrie Eliason” in the background.

This is the nation which gave the world the Muslim Brotherhood, the grandfather of the modern, murderous Jihad. Al Azhar university is in Cairo, the Harvard and Cambridge of radical Sunni Islam, the justifier of terror, the intellectual engine of the Muslim hate campaign against the west.

The real Egypt is not seen in the young western educated twenty somethings waving cell phones and using Facebook to organize peace rallies. Rather it was seen in the rabid mob who savagely assaulted western journalists, and used the mob occasion to ravish women on the street in shocking depravity.

This from Slate Magazine, “ A 2008 study found 83 percent of Egyptian women said they had been sexually harassed, while 62 percent of men admitted to harassing women; 53 percent of men blamed women for “bringing it on” themselves. ” A shocking 97 percent of female foreign visitors to Egypt reported some level of sexual harassment.

Egypt has a time of reckoning coming before she can be healed. But Egypt will eventually be healed,

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.(Ezekiel 29:8-10)

Something is going to happen in Egypt that is so awful, Egyptians will have to flee their own land and live as refugees . The land will be rendered uninhabitable for forty years!

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.(Ezekiel 29:11-12)

But Egypt in the end comes back, for they turn to the living God, and drop Islam. Eventually they will make peace with Israel, and after some time, (probably during the millennium), they come back to their own land.

Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:kingdom.(Ezekiel 29:13)

So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them. The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.(Isaiah 19:21-22)

In the millenium, Egypt is directly addressed by the Lord Himself. He warns her to make sure she is in attendance at the Feast of Tabernacles, lest he withhold rain from her.

Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain..”(Zechariah 14:16-18)

“Something is going to happen in Egypt that is so awful, Egyptians will have to flee their own land and live as refugees . The land will be rendered uninhabitable for forty years!”

A bomb on the Aswan dam would do exactly that.

interesting because Isaiah 19 , describes destruction of the economy built arund the River-

Went back and checked Isaiah 19. It’s hard to see how that chapter fits into Daniel and Revelation. A time of Israel, Iraq and Egypt all worshiping Yahweh after the years of destruction. I suppose the savior in verse 20 could refer to Jesus and the time of peace in 23-25 to the Millennial Reign after the Tribulation.

Also, that chapter seems to refer to a drought in Egypt, not to a destruction by way of a dam bursting.

I never said a dam would burst, one of the commenters did. There is definitely a future Highway from Egypt to Assyria (Iraq)through Israel, so that the three “Brothers” can fellowship-

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