The captives of Egypt and history.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“And I will make the land of Egypt desolate…  forty years… I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them.”

(Ezekiel 29:12-15)

Egypt, dethroned as World Empire (1600-1200 BC) by the ancient and revived Assyrian Empire (900-607), would now widely be broken as a world superpower by the newly emerged Babylonian Empire (606-536 BC). Since then Egypt was never, nor has been until today––as Ezekiel prophesies here––a worldwide-renowned nation. It is a low, humble and “base” kingdom in comparison with the developed nations of the world (v.15).

Any student of world history and specifically the Middle East, if not carried away by their passions and hatreds, it has before his eyes, when he compares the existing manuscripts in human annals, more evidence about the existence of the Jewish people than any other; and the same happens with the historic––and Divine––personality of Jesus Christ.

We will not speak of the Jewish Talmuds mentioning Jesus with the sobriquet Ben Pandera, or the two thousand years ago quotation made by the famous historian Flavius Josephus; or the Samaritan historian Thallus, not to mention the ancient Christian writers such as Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Origen or Eusebius and others, nor the biblical apostles. Nor Cornelius Tacitus, the Roman historian in 112 AD. Suetonius in 120 AD, the Roman historian who in addition was an officer in the court under Emperor Hadrian; or Pliny the Second (the Younger) who in 112 AD writes to the Emperor Trajan asking him some initiatives to see how he could deal with the so called Christians, followers of Jesus.

They are many evidences.

All of them in one way or another mention Christ and his followers as a true story. It would be rather hypocritical to echo many phony ones now considered as theologians, historians, encyclopedic, and many other prepotent titles that used to ignore the historical existence of mankind’s Redeemer; and inject that apocryphal venom to these generations of the last century which are pretty much analytical powerless, because of being bombarded from childhood with ideological promises and electronic toys.

Everything goes beyond the injustice of ignoring Yahweh God, and thus manifest their wickedness over the masses of humans lost in suffering, misery, superstition and vainglory; not knowing that they are exploited and impeded to live humanely with the hope of eternal redemption. The historical prejudices go beyond ignorance, in them we see the diabolical purpose of not only ignore it, but always to boot and tear it off from the human heart. The impact of the whole Bible and the Christian Gospels in the course of human history is already the most relevant and miraculous one; however, and just to cite two examples, as all have Cesar and Aristotle as actual characters from the past: and how do you know it with such certainty?

The handwritten copies (not originals) to confirm Caesar (100-44 BC) as being true in the historical record are dating back to 900 AD, and only exist ten copies of it, for a period of more than a thousand years until today; that is, between the time the character (person) lived to the most recent copy preserved, which are often incomplete and contradictory. We also have Aristotle (384-322 BC) as a great thinker, and we believe without dissent that he existed in reality; nevertheless, the five copies we retain of his writings date from 1100 AD, for a lapse of 1400 years since its origin and death of the writer to the existing copy, more or less. On the other side we have original ancient biblical manuscripts as the Dead Sea Scrolls, more than 25,000 manuscripts of the New Testament talking about Jesus (either pieces or full) dating––compared to the other ancient historical works––only within the two hundred years and less since the lifetime and ministry of Jesus and preserved copies of their writers; with nearly two thousand years of existence,not to mention the other extra-biblical writers (for and against) that have been mentioning and quoted portions of the New Testament annals and probate records in regarding the accuracy and historical impact of the Redeemer in the early course of the eventful history of the Church: and to that they do not want to believe. Because deep down, their malicious goal is to ignore the Son of God, and to take from mankind the possibility of its Eternal Redemption.

It does not matter how much they keep trying, it will not happen. Listen: you cannot.

Here––in the passage we are discussing––the exalted Egypt was destined to go away as such, and thus it finally happened. Prior to the recent founding of the State of Israel in 1948, together with Jews in the area also lived there Jordanians and Egyptians. Today they would like us to believe that a Palestinian Arab nation with certain seniority had been established there before, and the reality is they are those Egyptian descendants with no history in Jerusalem and its environs; nonetheless, on the border of Gaza and the Sinai, the Egypt government denies entry to those descendants today self-called Palestinians. Both Jordan and all Arab countries deny them entry and treat them like pestilential and no humans.

[This and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Major Prophets of the Old Testament;' in print and digital edition]

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