The Middle East.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh, the Lord of hosts, which he shakes over it. And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt… In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh… they shall vow a vow to the Lord… In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria… In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the middle of the earth: whom Yahweh, the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

(Isaiah 19:16-25)

Throughout history these three countries: Egypt, Israel and Assyria, played an important role in relation to the events that shook humanity; although in modern times––per call it as such––became, as it was prophesied: insignificant; however, things are about to change in the next historical page of the human civilization.

The prophet Isaiah is announcing an immediate fall and a future rise; that is to say, here there are two prophecies together with an interval of about 2600 years.

1st- To the Egypt on Isaiah times. He prophesies that in the following years the throne of Egypt would wobble between anarchy and divisions to completely collapse in history. In the next hundred years Egypt would totally be looted by different empires. Firstly, a few years after Isaiah prophesied, Esarhaddon (2 Kgs 19:32-37), son of the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib invades Egypt killing and looting in its wake all who opposed him, submitting them.

Once the Babylonian Empire takes the reins of world’s power, and under king Nebuchadnezzar, Egypt is invaded again and swept back in time of the prophet Jeremiah. In 605 BC, at the Battle of Carchemish the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho (Jer 46:2-26) was defeated and thus fulfilled by heart all the prophecies concerning its sinking, and uttered in sequences followed first by the prophet Isaiah, and a century later confirmed by Jeremiah; as also the prophet Ezekiel (Ez 29:12-15), who assures us that Egypt never would rise as a global power and empire, but it would be a humble and low level kingdom compared with other powers players on the planet. This has been fulfilled admirably, showing the omniscience of the Holy Spirit manifesting through these prophets. It is exactly the Egypt we have known ever since, not even a shadow of what it was in its former splendor, but an insignificant kingdom compared to the more developed nations of the world.

2nd- It refers to the End of times––already near––when the Son of God establishes in place his Millenarian Kingdom, with Israel as its center and the whole area of the Middle East becoming core of the global civilization (33:5-6), as the navel of the earth. This is actually the region since the time of the patriarch Abraham, as God had promised him a kingdom when he prophesied that: “To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen 15:18). The Israel of today, although many are prepared to make it treacherously disappear in fact will certainly grow.

It is interesting to see how everything concerning the prophecies declared by these prophets were wonderfully fulfilled, and today we have the privilege to test them; but same as the residents and citizens of those times which did not believe, today we see the prophecies they prophesied concerning our current Era and its end, that are not believed by our generation.

No wonder we are taken as fools. Obviously, it is the world of Hollywood to which they solely believe: poor wise men.

(Also read the author's book entitled: 'The Great Peacemaker from Hell,' which recreates in a narrative form the final events; and the writings titled: 'The prophet Ezekiel: Gog, Magog, and the Third World War,' next to 'Prophet Daniel: The Last Four Empires of Mankind').

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

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