Bible Study: December 14, 2022

What happened? Okay, I'll start then. So we're going to be in chapter 19 tonight of Isaiah. One thing we learn about the book of Isaiah, I think, is that in order to understand the prophecies that we're looking at, like tonight it says, the burden against Egypt, we talked about Damascus and Ethiopia the last time we were together, Moab and Adam, which is modern-day Jordan and Petra the time before that. You have to understand the context of the book of Isaiah to really understand what these prophecies mean. So before we get into Egypt tonight, I want to go back to Isaiah 1 again and remind us of what this book is about because in verse 1 of Isaiah 1, God lets us know at what time, during the time of which kings, Isaiah was living. And we talked then about that there were things that Isaiah was learning about these kings. And in verse 1 of Isaiah 1, remember it was King Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Ahaz is a key person in that...

Hold on. Okay. Ahaz is a key king in there, as we're going to talk about. But you remember the first two kings. Uzziah was a good king for most of the time. And then what he did as he became mighty in his own eyes, God richly blessed him. But what happened to him was that in his latter days, he became kind of full of himself, prideful. Instead of looking to God as he did early in his life, he began to look at people around him and nations around him and kind of thought that all of the wealth and all the riches of Israel came because of his goodness as king.

In the end, he even took it upon himself to go into the temple and do something that was reserved only for the priests. God struck him with leprosy, and he died in dishonor. His son was Jotham, the second king that was listed there. Jotham learned from his father. It's one of the things we learned. Jotham was a good king. Unlike his father, he remained true to God through his entire life. He did not do the things that his father did, even though he was blessed and even though God made him mighty and powerful, if you will, in the ways of the world and in blessing Israel. The Bible says he never did do what his father did as he went into the kings. He remained loyal to God. Jotham looked at his dad. He saw what the problem was there, and then Jotham didn't make the same mistakes of his father. He remained true to God. His son Ahaz, the third king that's listed there in verse one, is the one that we've talked a lot about. Remember in Isaiah 7, we have Ahaz, and Ahaz is just completely against God. He wants nothing to do with him.

He won't listen to him. He is completely enamored with the world and making alliances with this country, this country, Assyria, Assyria, and anyone else who would listen to him. If you remember, the northern kingdom, the northern tribes of Israel, and Assyria were enemies of Judah at that time.

God over and over told Ahaz, you know, I'm going to do this. Here's a prophecy. You can trust in me.

I'm going to provide this. We talked about those prophecies, and I'm not going to go back in detail to them, but they included the fact that Assyria would eventually fall, that Assyria would not conquer Judah, that the kingdom of Israel and Syria would be brought down. They would never conquer Judah. All those things came about in Ahaz's lifetime, including the fall of Israel to Assyria. But Ahaz never turned back to God. The further he got older in life, the more he looked at the nations around him and how he could make alliances with him. He ignored what it was that God was working in him. But this next king, and you remember then what Ahaz too, is the prophecy of the Messiah came at that time. That God said, finally, when Ahaz said, you know, I'm just not going to listen to anything you say, God said, well, here's the promise you have that I'm with you. There will be a Savior born, you know, to a virgin. In chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, we read about this Messiah that was coming that, of course, we know that all those prophecies that were there have come about. Ahaz never did turn to God, but his son Hezekiah did. You remember Hezekiah, and let's just review Hezekiah. So Ahaz, we would call him a, I don't know if it's strong enough to say evil, but an evil king. He did not do what was right with God. He was not yielded to God in any way, shape, or form. He resisted him his entire life. All these prophecies that God said would happen during Ahaz's life occurred. Ahaz ignored them, but Hezekiah, his son, must have been paying attention to what God had said, because Hezekiah turned out to be a very good king who is loyal to God. If we go back to 2 Chronicles for a moment, just to see what God said about Hezekiah, and it's very heartening and a lesson for us, I think, to see that our children, you know, our children will look at our actions. In some cases, you know, you have in the case of Jotham, a very good king, Ahaz turned completely against God. But then Ahaz, who is completely against God, Hezekiah turned out to be very loyal to God. In 2 Chronicles 29, we read about Hezekiah as he comes to power. Now, let me throw some dates out here. You remember that the kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in 720 BC. And in Isaiah 14, we read where Ahaz died, and then these prophecies in chapter 15, 16, 17, 18, the ones we're reading now, were all given at the time after the time that Ahaz died. So it's Hezekiah who is hearing these prophecies as in his reign. So 2 Chronicles 29 verse 1 says, Hezekiah became king when he was 25 years old, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem, gives his mother's name, and he did what was right in the sight of the eternal according to all that his father David had done. Not his immediate father Ahaz, but his whatever lineage down the way that David was. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

Remember that Ahaz, and this is back in 2 Kings 15, 16, somewhere in that area, Ahaz, as he grew farther and farther away from God, actually closed down the temple. He didn't shut the door. So here's Hezekiah. As he begins his reign, what does he do? He opens, he goes back and he opens the doors of the house of the Lord, and he repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them in the east square and said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves, sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place. It had been left totally abandoned, just boarded up that no one could go into it. Hezekiah, who saw his father, what he had done, he also saw what the result of it was, saw those prophecies that God had given. They all came about, and he saw that Judah was punished because of his father, Ahaz, his actions, and was wise enough to know we need to turn back to God. Verse 6, he says, For our fathers hath trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him. They have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and turned their backs on him. They have shut up the doors of the vest of Yule, put out the lamps. They have not burned incense or burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. Therefore, because of that, the wrath of the Lord fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see with your eyes. So we see Hezekiah, the fourth of these kings that Isaiah served under, if you will, and prophesied under. And he has a relationship with God. He desires to have a relationship with God. And when we get into Isaiah 19, as we were in the prior chapters with the prophecies of Moab and Ammon and Phylicia and Damascus from last week in Ethiopia, in Isaiah 19, we have this burden against Egypt. Now what's happening in these chapters that we're going through? You can see that God is giving a prophecy about all of the nations that surround Judah and Israel. So let me pull up a map here to refresh our minds of where we've been and where the kingdom... can you see that?

Okay, I'm gonna assume... yeah, I can see I'm screen sharing. So you can see, again, a map we had up there last time. You can see the kingdom of Israel in blue, the kingdom of Judah, and kind of that pink color down below. We've talked about, in chapter 14, we had prophecies against the Philistines that you see the little red country there. In chapter 15, we talked about the kingdom of Ammon, the kingdom of Moab, the kingdom of Edom. That was there. That's Petra down there in that kingdom of Moab, modern-day Jordan. Last week we talked about Damascus and Syria, and up there at the north you see the Assyrian Empire. Today we're going to talk about Egypt, where you see Arubo. You know where Egypt is? Arubu tribes or whatever that word is there in the Beige. Of course, Egypt is down in that area. So what we have are prophecies around all of these nations and these kingdoms that surround Israel and Judah. Now, by this time, Israel has already been taken into captivity, so it's surrounding the kingdom of Judah. So what God is doing is, here's what's going to happen. I'm with you. The same message that he was giving to Ahaz now is, Hezekiah is here, and Isaiah is prophesying to him, here's the, I will always be with you. So we're going to look at chapter 19 here, this prophecy against Egypt. And just as a reminder, we know that Egypt has been kind of like a historic enemy of Israel. We can go back to Israel in Egypt in the time of Moses, and God delivered them from Egypt. But there are other occasions of Egypt as well. From the very, very beginning of time, we have this animosity that was there between God's people and the ancestors of Egypt. So let's go back there for a moment in Genesis 10.

Genesis 10, and we'll see the beginning of the nation that became known as Egypt.

Some places in the Bible, Egypt is called Miserym, M-I-Z-R-A-I-M.

And we'll see who Miserym was. Well, you can never get to Genesis 10. Genesis 10.

And in verse 1, it lists the sons of Noah. So it says in chapter 10 of Genesis, in verse 1, it says, This is the genealogy of the sons of Noah, Shem Ham, and Japheth. Now, a few weeks ago, we looked at a curse that was on Canaan because of a sin that he committed. And then in verse 2, we talked about the sons of Japheth. But down in verse 6, it talks about the sons of Ham. The sons of Ham, it says, were Cush. And you'll remember from a couple of weeks ago, Cush is Ethiopia. When we were talking about the prophecies of Ethiopia, that's Cush. The sons of Ham were Cush. Misriam, which became Egypt. If you look in any commentary, that's the ancestors of Egypt. That's who we're going to talk about today, Put and Canaan. So we have Egypt right at the very beginning. We have him descended from one of the sons of Noah, where there was this animosity and God cursed because of the sin, whatever it was against Noah. So we have this kind of setup. We have Egypt not in a godly line, per se, because of that.

And then we have Israel that came through the line of Shem. So, Israel or Egypt. Let's look at something because Egypt even figures in this time of Judah's existence that we're talking about. Let's go to 2 Kings 17. 7 Kings, 2 Kings 17 and verse 4. You can see in verse 1 there of chapter 17.

In verse 1 of chapter 17, it says, in the 12th year of Ahaz. So here's the king we're talking about, one of the four kings that Isaiah prophesied under.

That Hoshai, the son of Elah, became king in Israel, not the king of Judah. Ahaz was the king of Judah. Hoshai was there. If we drop down to verse 4, remember Assyria, a cruel, cruel nation. The enemy of everyone around there. Assyria was feared by the nations around it. It says, the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy in Hoshai. That's the king of the northern tribes, Israel. For he had sent messengers to sow king of Egypt. So here is Israel trying to make an alliance with Egypt and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year. Therefore, the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. Eventually, what we have is, in verse 9, 6, 7, 8, and 9, there we have Israel falling. So we have Egypt in here. We have Egypt in the mix here as well, you know, as part of the whole time period that we're looking at. So all these nations we've been talking about that are interspersed in this history of Ahaz and Jotham. Ahaz and Jotham and Uzziah, you know, we have these prophecies against.

So with that background, let's go to Isaiah 19 and talk about Egypt now as the next one in the line that God is giving a burden against. As we begin this, we're going to see, you know, chapter 19 is a really hopeful chapter because it starts out, and, you know, God gives the prophecies against the Egyptians. We see that this is a prophecy. The prophecy against Egypt hasn't occurred yet. It did occur in type when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt, but the fulfillment of these verses clearly comes at a later time because later in this chapter we see in that day. And then at the end of the chapter we see a healing. We see a healing in a beautiful picture at the end that if we just look ahead to verse 25 or verses 23, 24, 25, we see how this chapter ends. It says, in that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land. So through it all, through all the misery and the strife and the history, 6,000 years of problems and bloodshed and animosity between these nations, in the end when Christ returns to earth and his kingdom is set up, these three perpetual enemies will become one. And God says there'll be a blessing in the land. But there's a road to travel before we get to the end of chapter 19, so let's look at let's look at Egypt and how they figure in these prophecies. Today Egypt is not much of a factor in the world. They're there. They're certainly a... I shouldn't say they're not much of a factor. They are. I mean they're over there. They're a key nation in the Middle East, but they are not the ones making all the noise. It's, you know, Iran we hear of over there making noise. Saudi Arabia. Egypt's kind of in the background right now. Not a whole lot of controversy going on with it, but we're going to see here that those things will change. So in chapter 19 of Isaiah verse 1, it says, the burden against Egypt. Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud.

So there we have, you know, there we have... well, yeah, there we have kind of right off the bat. We have kind of a not-yet-fulfilled type prophecy about Christ returning. So let's pause here and let's look a little bit at this riding on a cloud. Okay, so if we go back to the book of Psalms, or yeah, the Psalms, Psalm 18, we see this same thing. You know, one of the things we see in Isaiah and this study that we're going through that you see in other books of the Bible as well, you see these terms, you know, that the Lord comes swiftly on a cloud. And it drives you back to other parts of the Bible, which is another proof of God's inspiration in this, that we have common, you know, descriptors of these things. In Psalm 18 and verse 10, that talks about Christ, it says, you know, and he, capital he, he rode upon a cherub and flew, flew upon the wings of wind. He made darkness, he rode upon a cherub and flew, he flew upon the wings of the wind.

Well, that doesn't say exactly a cloud there, but, you know, it gives you that image of how Christ is in Psalm 104. Psalm 104 and verse 3, talking about Christ again, it says, He lays the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariots, who walks on the wings of the wind, who makes his angels spurious and his ministers a flame of fire.

So you see this, you see this, these descriptions of God. If we move into the Old Testament, well, the New Testament, let's look, but let's look ahead in Daniel. Daniel 7.

Daniel 7 and verse 13.

You know, Daniel 7, you know, we have this vision that Daniel is, and he sees Christ returning. You look at verse 9, I watched till thrones were put in place, and the agents of days were seated, and it gives this description of him. If we move down to verse 13, it says, I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He came to the ancients of days, and they brought him near before him, and to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, and all that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed. So we see this vision of him, you know, coming with the clouds of heaven, returning to earth when he will establish his kingdom, and he himself makes that same analogy, Jesus Christ in Matthew 24. Matthew 24, and verse 30. Of course, Matthew 24 is the Olivet prophecy. Christ, in pretty much chronological order, describes what will happen as the time of the end draws near.

And he talks about tribulation in verse 29, and then in verse 30 of Matthew 24 says, Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

So, you know, we have these descriptions, and when we see these descriptions, we see it's a time that Jesus Christ will be returning. So when we look at Isaiah 19 in the very first chapter, we, you know, we, for the very first verse, we see this image of Christ returning on the clouds. So let's go back there, and with that in mind, you know, it says, Behold, chapter 19, verse 1, Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and he will come into Egypt.

When he comes into Egypt, you see what he does. The next several verses here talk about what will happen in the kingdom at that time. Now these are things that I'm going to say maybe not, but probably in some way happened back in the time that Egypt was in trouble. Nebuchadnezzar eventually conquered them, but we'll see that most of what happens here is for a future time. First of all, we have Christ returning, right? He rides on a swift cloud, and he comes into Egypt, and he says, The idols of Egypt will totter at his presence. Well, we know Egypt. We think of Egypt, we think of idolatry, right? Because that's what they were known for. When the children of Israel were in Egypt, they had all these gods. And of course, when God was delivering Israel from Egypt, he had the ten plagues where God said he was executing judgment on the gods of Egypt. They had to learn who God was and to follow him. Same lesson we have to learn. Leave the gods of the world behind and completely trust in him. So he says he will come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt will totter at his presence. Well, you know, we know the land that Egypt is in today. They don't worship the true God. They have whatever it is. Well, every nation has their own gods these days, but he'll come into Egypt. The idols of Egypt will totter at his presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. When something melts, the courage just disappears from the nation.

Just like if our heart melts, we just kind of lose all the fire. We just realize we are defeated and humbled. So Christ comes in. Christ derives. The idols totter. The heart of Egypt melts.

In verse 2, it says, I will set Egyptians against Egyptians. So we see this inner turmoil in Egypt.

We know today we would call it maybe like a civil war. You know, you have one side against another. It's internal strife. It's not someone coming and attacking Egypt in this case. In verse 2, it says, I'll set Egyptians against Egyptians. There'll be internal strife. Everyone will fight against his brother and everyone against his neighbor. City against city. Kingdom against kingdom.

So you have this inner strife. You know, when you see God working with nations, and as he is correcting them and humbling them so that they can turn back to him, that is always God's will. He wants everyone, every nation, tribe, man, woman, child to turn back to him. We just have to suffer sometimes. The nation is due to turn him. One of the things he does is this internal strife occurs.

When I think of internal strife, I look at the nation we live in today in America, right? You can kind of see the sides just kind of aligning against each other, and the division becomes more and more deep. You have to wonder, where will that end? What is the end result of all this? Well, in Egypt, we see that it ended in city against city, kingdom against kingdom, and you have this warfare. You have this division. You don't have unity at all, because when you're not doing what God's will is, there isn't unity. There's the strife, there's the war, there's the misery that goes along with it. No one enjoys warfare, and where a war for is, you know, God's will is far from it. But when you read city against city and kingdom against kingdom, it might make you think of the Olivet prophecy again. So let's go back to Matthew 24. Keep your finger there in Matthew and in Isaiah 19. And as we read kingdom against kingdom and city against city, we should be reminded of what Christ's words were there in the early verses of Matthew 24.

When the disciples came to him and said, tell us what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age, Jesus Christ, you know, responds to him to them. He talked in verse 5 about many coming and coming.

In his name, you know, false, false, false religion. Verse 6, he says, and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation. We've seen that type of warfare. And kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. You have kingdom against kingdom. A little bit different than a nation against nation. And that's what it talks here again in Egypt. In Egypt, you know. And so we know in the Middle East, there's kingdoms. The way, again, if you look back in history, if you look at, you know, I think it's back after World War II when they divided up the nations and put these warring tribes, if you will, or these tribes that didn't see eye to eye as part of the same nation, you have all this conflict within a nation. So what it is with Egypt, I'm not really sure what the divisions are there, but we see this internal conflict in Egypt. When you have internal conflict, it weakens a nation. And that's what God is showing here in chapter 19. And as we go through the next several verses, we see that Egypt begins to completely fall apart. Commerce, they're, you know, in Matthew 24, it talked about famine and pestilence. And we see that begin to happen in Egypt, and they begin to fall apart. It starts with, you know, this internal conflict in verse 2. And verse 3, as we go on in chapter 19, you know, it says, the spirit, you know, again, that's the heart, the heart of Egypt, you know, the will of the people. The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. You know, it's like, well, you know, it's just a heaviness on you that the spirit is no longer there. It's working against everything that a nation or a group of people should be working. The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. And God says, I, he, he will destroy their counsel. You know, you read in the Bible, I didn't write down any, but you can probably recall, where God says, when people turn from him, wisdom disappears. You know, it's no longer right decisions, you, you, things that the decisions get made, you might scratch your head and wonder, what are people thinking? Again, I might draw, you know, to America and some of the decisions and some of the things that we go through today, you look and think, you know, where's, where's the wisdom? Who's thinking here? What are, what are we doing? And, and why was that decision made? And here, as we look at Egypt, you know, the same, the same type of thing that we can kind of see around us. And I think it's in Canada too, if you look at some of the things that go on up there, you might scratch your head and think, what are, what are the leaders of our land thinking? You know, you see this, this wisdom disappear. The spirit of Egypt will fail and it's missed. I will destroy their counsel, first three, and they, and they will consult the idols and the charmers, the mediums and the sorcerers. No, they'll go all over the place. What's the answer to this? How do we solve this problem? How can we do this and that and whatever? Hey, yeah, Dale, got a comment?

Yeah, yeah, thank you. Just briefly, it kind of reminds me of the book of Judges. It seems like site is getting more and more of the book of Judges, the way things were done there, everyone did what was right in their own eyes, and there's more and more violence and so forth. Yep.

Yep. That's exactly, yep, that's exactly right. So everyone does what's right in his own eyes, but there's no, you know, there's, well, you got all this division and people second guessing a lot of what happens. Now, you know, in verse three there, it says, they'll consult the idols, they'll consult the charmers, they'll consult the mediums, they'll consult the sorcerers, but they don't ever ask God. They never turn back to God, right? It's like, I'll ask everyone else on earth, but I'm not going to do that. The same thing Ahaz did, right? And he knew who God was, but didn't want to talk to him at all, didn't want to consult him at all.

Now, I don't think we need, uh, yeah, Floyd? Yes, sir. I just wanted to say it sounds like, just like Saul. When he turned away, God took his spirit away from him. He turned from God, then he went to the sorcerers because God was not answering him anymore. Exactly, exactly. That's a very good example. You know, there, you know, there's some verses back in Leviticus. I wrote them down here. Leviticus 19.31 and Leviticus 20 verse 6 that specifically tells God's people don't go to the mediums, don't go to the sorcerers, don't do that. Saul disregarded it. You know, the nations, the nations disregard it. They go everywhere except God. And when we, if we ever find ourselves looking at here and there and how do we solve a problem, but we never think of getting God involved in it or asking him, boy, we have to do some soul searching and wonder where are we, right? Where are we? The dancers always turn back to God, never turn away from him, never seek elsewhere, always go to God first to search further what the answer is. Egypt doesn't do it. Yeah, Xavier?

Brother Shabi, we see that today because they rob the nation of the knowledge of our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. And then the people don't know who to turn to.

Because God says, if my people cry out, so if they don't cry, then will he intervene? He will win in his time. But if they're not praying to him or looking to him, then the solutions will not come. The healing will not come. And they do, is it more than? If they cry out. If they cry out. And the problem is even you're made to look like a fool if you do turn to God, right? That's kind of what the mission of the nation is. Oh, you don't even know what you're doing if you're turning to God of all places. We have all this wisdom elsewhere that can answer the question. So, exactly.

So in verse 4, it says, and the Egyptians I will give. God talks about these things. It's internal strife. They're going to search. They're going to look everywhere looking for answers. God says, the Egyptians I will give into the hand of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord of hosts. Now, Nebuchadnezzar did defeat Egypt, and he was probably a cruel king.

But we know, and we've read it probably at least twice in the in prior Bible studies, another time that Egypt is going to fall under the hands of a cruel master. God says, you know, this time when Christ comes into Egypt on the clouds. So again, let's go back, or go forward, to the book of Daniel. Daniel 11. We find at the time of the end, and the Bible specifically says at the time of the end. Daniel 11 and verse 36. You're going to become very familiar with this set of verses, but they are key in looking at the end time, and even key in this prophecy of Egypt, as it was in the prophecy of Moab and Ammon. Verse 36, verse 35 there, it says, it is still for the appointed time until the time of the end because it is still for the appointed time. Verse 36, the king shall do according to his own will. He will exalt to magnify himself above every god, will speak blasphemies against the god of gods, will prosper till the wrath has been accomplished, for what has been determined shall be. Wrath has been accomplished, that is, he will be in power until the time that Jesus Christ returns. He shall regard neither the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor the regard of any god, for he shall exalt himself above them all. But in their place he will honor a god of fortresses, and a god which his fathers did not know he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things. Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain. This is a cruel master. If we go to Revelation 13, we see this is the beast power that devours and crushes everything in its way. Verse 14 says, At the time of the end, the king of the south, we know that's the area south of the Mediterranean Sea, shall attack him, the king of the north, shall come against him like a whirlwind. This is the man, the king described in verses 36-39, will come against him like a whirlwind with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships, and he will enter the countries, overthrow them, and pass through.

Verse 42, he will stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

Now remember that later on here it says that Ammon, Edom, or Edom and Moab and Ammon will escape. When we talked about the prophecies and the time we had the Bible study on Petra, those would escape for the meantime. But Egypt shall not escape. He will stretch out his hand against the countries. Egypt specifically will not escape, and he will have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt. Also, the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow it as heel, meaning they will there, but he will have power over everything in Egypt.

And so when it talks in verse 4 here of Isaiah 19, this is the cruel master that Egypt will be under. Egypt, you know, this is the time of trouble ahead of us when we see these powers develop. The king of the north, you know, the European Union that we talk about in Revelation 13, the king of the south, the the, you know, Islamic nations down south of the Mediterranean, including Turkey. And then, of course, you have the kings of the east and Daniel 11 that are there at the time. But always remember when you're reading Daniel 11, you don't see any powers in the west.

What you see is north, south, and east. The west is already gone, so we have a very significant change in the world order between now and the time of these verses. And the Egyptians will be delivered into the king of the north, and they will have this cruel master that will be ruling over them. Just like they were cruel masters over Israel, they will have a cruel master ruling over them. So if we go back to chapter 19 of Isaiah, you know, we see this continuing demise of Egypt. You know, we, I think everyone knows that the lifeblood of Egypt is the Nile River, right? I mean, they depend on the Nile River for their crops, and the Nile River is very predictable. It floods, the floods, the river overflows, it waters all the land, the crops go, and if it doesn't flood, then they have famine in the land. They need the Nile River in order for their food supplies. So in verse 5, God attacks, if you will, or allows the waters that Egypt depends on to dry up. The waters will fail from the sea. And somewhere, sometimes, you know, you read in ancient literature, one of the commentaries say that when they talk about the Nile River, they'll talk about the sea there, right, in Egypt, because it's as wide as the sea in some places. They say, the waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up. The rivers will turn foul.

The brooks of defense will be empty and dried up. Now, it's an interesting translation there in verse 6. It says, the brooks of defense, and it really is the brooks of M-A-T-Z-O-R, which, again, some commentaries say that is specifically identifying Egypt. Remember, Egypt, in some places in the Bible, is called Mizraim. So we see Mizraim is the same as Egypt. That's the son of Ham.

That was the ancestor of this group. But the brooks of Egypt, or the brooks of Matsor, if you will, will be emptied and dried up. You know, it makes me think of something. Hold on just a second.

Yeah, actually, there's a prophecy against Egypt in Isaiah 30 and 31, and I'm pretty sure that of defense is in there as well, but my eyes aren't falling on it right now. But we'll get to that, and you'll remember what we talked about back here. The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up. The reeds and rushes—we know Egypt, bull rushes, Moses, the basket of bull rushes. The reeds and the rushes will wither. The papyrus reeds by the river, by the mouth of the river, and everything sown by the river.

It will all just dry up. There will just be this disintegration of Egypt. Again, remember Christ said, wars and rumors of wars, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famine and pestilence will follow. And so we kind of see this happening in Egypt. You've got this internal strife.

You've got war. Then you've got famine. You've got all these things happening in here where all of the might of Egypt and all of the foundations—it says in verse 10 of Egypt—they're just fading away. They're just all crumbling, if you will. So everything sown by the river will wither, will be driven away, and be no more. In verse 8—I mean, those are the natural resources that they have. They just stop producing and being of any benefit to Egypt. In verses 8 and 9, we begin to see the industry in the nation beginning to dry up.

The fishermen will mourn. All those will lament who cast hooks into the river, and they will languish who spread nets on the waters. Now, you know, I think—well, no, it doesn't reference this there, but I know back in Numbers 11, I have written down here in my notes Numbers 11, we talk about one of the strengths of Egypt. When Israel was in Egypt, you'll remember when Israel left, they longed for the onions, the leeks, and everything.

If we just didn't have to eat this man, if we could go back to Egypt, we would be— it'd be so wonderful because they had all this variety and all this plenty back there. Numbers 11, verse 5, it specifically mentions fish, right? So the Nile River is a very productive river. The water is good for irrigating the land, but it also has a lot of fish in it. It says in verse 5 here, as Israelers are lamenting having to eat man every day, we remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt. It was plentiful, and so there's an industry, if you will, in Egypt that's there.

And as Isaiah 19, you know, today whether—I didn't look up to see if fish is a key industry in Egypt, but what this is talking about in 8, 9, and 10— is industry. The things that the country is known for, those industries disappear. Fishermen, though, will mourn. They will lament, and they will languish. That's the poverty that comes on. That's the famine and the poverty that comes upon a nation.

They will languish you who spread nets on the waters. Verse 9 talks about something here, and in Egypt, apparently, they, you know, back then they were very good tailors, if you will. They knew about the fabric. It says, Moreover, those who work and find flax and those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed. So the commentaries are very good about this. In fact, my Bible has Proverbs 7 and verse 16, which I'll just turn back there, because apparently, Egypt—and it makes sense when you think back to when God talks about the tabernacle and some of the instructions that he gave Israel about some of the coverings and draperies and things there—that they would have learned some fine skills in Egypt.

In Proverbs 7 verse 16, God makes reference to this skill, if you will, of Egypt. They must have been known for it in their day. Proverbs 7 and verse 16, you know, this is Solomon writing. It says, I have spread my bed with tapestry, colored coverings of Egyptian linen. You know, I know there's one TV station where you've heard of the pillowman, right? And the pillowman talks about these Egyptian sheets that he's—and he'll throw a picture up there about—these are sheets that come from the threads of this place in Egypt.

And so apparently, they were known then and still known for some of the things that they produce. From flax, they were apparently very good in developing the fabric that was known around the world. Solomon cited it as one of the very important things that he had. But if you go back and you look at when God is giving the instructions to the Israelites, and he lists every instrument and how everything needs to be just so in the tabernacle, you see where he describes the draperies that are there.

And he describes them in detail. And one of the commentaries makes the correlation there that Israel would have learned some of that skill of that Egyptian finery and how to deal with that fabric in that way. And God used that as to, you know, to adorn his tabernacle. So here again, you know, what we have is in Egypt, the things they're known for, their industries, their claim to fame, their wealth is disappearing.

The fisherman drives up. The people with the flax says they'll be ashamed. Can't do it anymore.

Those blessings have been taken away. In verse 10, it says, it's foundations, Egypt's foundations, that the pillars that keep a nation up. You know, in America, our foundations may be, you know, banking industry, you know, whatever we would say are the things that if this industry fell, we would have a huge problem, right? If the banking industry fell, we would have a huge problem. For a while, it was the auto industry. Now other nations, you know, have done that. But there are these industries that if they all started failing, the economy dries up. And that's what God is saying is happening in Egypt. Its foundations will be broken, and all who make wages will be troubled to soul. There will be poverty. It's a time, you know, we won't take the time. I'm already, we've already, wow, it's almost eight o'clock. But if you look back in Revelation 6, when you look at the fourth seal and you see inflation that's there, and, and, you know, a bushel of wheat for a denarius, a day's wage, a day's wages and everything, all who make wages will be troubled of soul. You just have this time, this time of famine, of poverty, a nation that was very, very industrious and very profitable, turning to nothing. They turned against God. They result, they relied on their idols, but they didn't rely on God. And this is the end result of relying on someone other than God. So going on in verse 11 there, says, Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. And here God's talking again about the wisdom of the nation. The leaders just do not have the wisdom. It's like they're completely clueless, completely clueless as to what to do. Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. Let's turn to Psalm 78, 12. Because again, here's Zoan. We don't know where Zoan is today, but the Bible references Zoan in Psalm 78, verse 12, and also in Numbers 20, 33, and Numbers 13. But Psalm 78 and verse 12 says marvelous things. Marvelous things God did in the sight of their fathers. This is talking about the history of Israel coming out of Egypt. Marvelous things God did in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, and he made the water stand up like a heap.

And in the daytime he led them with the cloud. So there's Zoan, right? There's Zoan, notable in biblical history, and in verse 11 here, Isaiah 19, in this prophecy, a notable key place where God has worked in the past with his people. They would have all known what Zoan was and the importance of that location in their minds. Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. Pharaohs, of course, that's the king. We all know that. Pharaohs' wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Well, God is kind of like mocking their point, right? The people that would flatter him. Pharaoh's wise counselors give foolish counsel. Oh, Pharaoh, you're just so smart. You're the son of the wise. You're the son of the ancient kings.

And God says, well, how do you say that? Look what's coming out of his mouth. How can you call him a wise leader? How can you listen to what he has to say? How can you say that? And so he says in verse 12, well, where are they? Where are your wise men? What happened to you? You used to be, you know, the cream of the crop here in the world. Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now and let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt. This is God's will. It's God doing these things to Egypt and to other nations. In the Bible, we look at the patterns that God follows, and we can kind of see that and see how he works. The princes of Zoan, again, verse 13, the princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Naft, that's modern-day Memphis, the commentaries tell us, the princes of Naft are deceived. They're being led astray, they're being lied to. Those who have, they have deluded Egypt, those who are the mainstay of its tribes. They've led them astray. They've talked them and given them wisdom that isn't wisdom. They've led them into a place. They've deceived them. There's lies going on. There's all these things that are happening in that nation that is completely bringing it down, you know, because the nation turned against God because they weren't following him and they never turned to God.

Verse 14, an interesting verse, the eternal has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst.

Mingled a perverse spirit in her midst. Now God allowed that, God allowed that to happen. He has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst. Here's a verse I wrote down here. Let me look at my notes here for a second. Yeah, Isaiah 45. Later on in the book of Isaiah, it says Isaiah 45 and verse 7. God is talking about the things that he will do.

It's verse 7. He says, I formed the light and I create darkness. I make peace and I create calamity. I, the Lord, do these things. So sometimes when calamity befalls a nation, you know, there's a verse of there's a verse I should have turned to back in Exodus 34. I think of this. It says God will create confusion when people and so we see here in verse 14 is as the nation is falling apart as they've wandered from God. They don't ever think of God. The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst and they, the leaders, have caused Egypt to err in all her work as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. Becky? I just wanted to give you a different version here in the NIV. The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. You mentioned dizziness. It's an interesting way to say it as well. That is an interesting way to say it, but you can see what's happened there, right? They have all these things and these leaders, they've caused Egypt to err. Again, we can look at the world around us today and we can kind of feel ourselves living in the same times. What is going on, right? And they have caused Egypt to err as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. Xavier? We have a similar case in 2 Chronicles 18 where a lying spirit is allowed from God to go among a specific king so that his counselors would lie to him. So it's the same thing here that an unclean spirit has been mingled among them and hence it's called a perverse spirit. Yeah, when we don't want God, we invite the other way in and that's kind of the things that happens. Very good. Mr. Shabey? Yes. Isaiah 29.10, it says, For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely the prophets. Okay, yeah, there you go. Isaiah 29.10. God does these things. When we choose it, he will allow us to walk in the way that we choose. Okay, verse 15 there in Isaiah 19.

He says, They've caused Egypt to err, neither will there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm branch or bulrush may do, meaning no one, right? It's not going to be the elite at the top of the scale they're going to have, everything. The entire nation will fall. We've seen that before in the book of Isaiah, early on in the chapters, where God says everyone is going to suffer, not just the lower class or the middle class, but the entire nation of what he was talking back then of Israel will have the problem.

It's the same thing that he says here. Okay, verse 16. We have those famous three words when you see, in that day, it is talking about the future time, the time before the return of Jesus Christ. In that day, Egypt will be like women. Now, he's not saying anything negative against women. He's saying that they're going to be fearful. If you read Deuteronomy 28, it says, you know, when times fail, one will chase a thousand, right? They're just very fearful. And that's what God is saying here. Whatever power, Egypt loses all confidence in itself.

It has been broken, just like he says in verse 10. Its foundations will be broken. They can't stand up. In that day, Egypt will be like women. They will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of Hosts was he waves over it.

Now, I don't know if that means they finally understand this is God who brought them upon them. They begin to understand that God is God, and they have to worship Him. Many times when you read in the Bible, and I think in Isaiah 30 and 31, one of those that may say, they will know that I am the Lord. Oftentimes, you'll read that. So, they come to the realization that this is what the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have done.

And so, they are afraid. Look what has happened to us. We never acknowledged God. We never acknowledged the truth. Even when God took Israel out of Egypt, they didn't acknowledge God then. They went back to their old ways and their old gods. Verse 17 is an interesting verse that you kind of have to pull apart. Verse 16 says, they're afraid.

They're afraid and they fear because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts. They've got this cruel master. All industry is gone. Everything is going wrong in Egypt. And so, it says, in the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt. Everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which He has determined against it.

It's as if we understand what's going on. We have angered the God of the universe. We have angered the one true God. We are suffering because of Him. We see these prophecies. We're living under this. We're living under what God has pronounced against us. Everything has happened. And it says they're afraid of Judah. If we look at Zechariah 12, we know there's a time coming when the nation of Judah will be exalted.

People will look to Judah. It is your God who now we know. Christ returns. He is the Savior. He establishes the law. He establishes His kingdom. He makes everything well. Again, think of that chapter where we're going now toward the end of chapter 19. Syria, Egypt, and Israel will all be together. They'll be a blessing in the midst of the land. It's only God who can heal the problems there. If you look at Zechariah 12, you see this time. I don't want to take the time. I'm going to have you read verses 1 through 6.

Let me just read a couple, though. Verse 4 says, In that day I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness. I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength, and the Lord of hosts their God.

I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place. Jerusalem.

God will save the tents of Judah first, and defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. When you look at verse 17, it would indicate that they begin to fear Judah. God is with Judah. He has delivered Judah, Israel. They have been defeated. They have been led into captivity. They are nowhere. But at the time of Christ's return, remember, his saints are with him, and God is revealed that his people are revealed. And we see Christ returning. And that's what we begin to see in verses 18. Well, the rest of the chapter here.

We see this. Now we respect Judah. For all of our history, we hated Judah. We hated Israel. We hated the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We wanted to disregard his commandments. We wanted to disregard his way. But now we're going to see that was the way. That was always the way to peace, to goodness, to plenty, to everything that God always wanted, mankind to have. But mankind has always chosen the opposite way. So in verse 18, then, it starts talking about some of these things that Jesus Christ will do when he returns and how, instead of all this animosity and all this warfare and all this civil unrest and all this poverty and famine and division, that he's going to bring unity to the world.

He's going to bring unity. In 18, it says, in that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts. One shall be called the city of destruction. Boy, that's, you know, I was going to go back and look at that in my interlinear. My Bible here says, you know, the Septuagint renders that the city of righteousness. Okay, so the city of righteousness. We know where the city of righteousness is when Christ returns, nations will flow to Jerusalem.

They'll flow to Zion to hear the law. So Egypt will speak the language of Canaan. Well, Canaan is the promised land where God put Egypt or Israel, and the Zephaniah three, Zephaniah three, we've been in Zephaniah in just about all of these prophecies we've been talking about as well. Zephaniah the fourth book from the end of the Old Testament. Zephaniah three and verse nine. You know, Christ talking about when He returns to earth, it says, then I, Zephaniah three nine, I will restore to the peoples a pure language that they may all call on the name of the Lord to serve Him with one accord.

So English, French, Spanish, Egyptian, all these languages go on. Everyone will speak the same language. Remember it was God divided the languages at the Tower of Battle when mankind was rising up and and trying to serve Himself against God. Well, we'll never let God, you know, let us again. We're in defiance against Him. He confused the language, but when Christ returns, He will unify the language. Everyone will speak the language, and it'll be a pure language, not with all the filth and all the other stuff that we have in all the languages of the world today.

So in verse 18, it would seem to indicate when it talks about five cities, maybe that's the five major cities over there, I don't know, but they will begin to speak the land, the language of Canaan, which is where Israel was, and they will swear by the Lord of hosts, one will be called the city of destruction. Septuagint says righteousness. It indicates that time when Christ has returned, because it's, remember, the whole section is in that day.

In that day, now when Christ returns, Egypt has suffered, but He's going to bring them into the state that we see at the end of this chapter here. Verse 19, again in 18 we saw in that day, verse 19, in that day there will be an altar to the Lord, the true God, in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the eternal at its border. You don't see that there today. You don't see that there in the early verses of chapter 19, when God is exacting, you know, these troubles on Egypt, but in that day there will be an altar to the Lord in Egypt.

There will be a pillar to Him at its border, and it will be for a sign, and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors. Who are the oppressors? This cruel king that rules over them?

Will they finally turn to God and say, we've tried everything else? We've looked at all our gods, we've searched all our alliances, we are in absolute ruin. And do they, as it says in verse 16, do they get it? It's because of God, let's turn Him to Him. Let's forget all our idols, let's forget all our foreign gods, let's go to God. He is the only one who can deliver them.

The Lord will be known, or in verse 20, it'll be a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they will cry to the true God, why HWH? Because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a mighty one, and He will deliver them. Who is that?

Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ died for all of mankind. His will always, and God's will always, was none that none will perish, but that all will come to repentance. So you have Egypt. We get it. We've been beaten, we've been afflicted. We know that we can only rely on God. It'll be a beautiful, beautiful time in the history of the earth when that happens. And when Jesus Christ sees that repentance, just like He does in you and me, yielding to Him, He is the only Savior. Only He can save us from what's going on, just like it does for Egypt. He will send them a Savior and a mighty one, and He will deliver them. Then, the eternal will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the eternal in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering. Yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. Let's do take the time to look at the last book in the Old Testament, Malachi 1. That's referenced there because, you know, we talked before about the altars that will be in Egypt and at the borders, and God does reference that in Malachi 1 as well. Malachi 1 and verse 11 says, For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, my name, God says, shall be great among the Gentiles. In every place incense will be offered to my name. When they turn to God, when He becomes their God, and they have done away with all their other gods, and have turned to Him with all their heart, mind, and soul, my name will be great among the Gentiles. In every place incense will be offered unto my name, and a pure offering, for my name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. And we see this here, this prophecy, this prophecy of Egypt, the troubles they go through. Finally, they turn to God. Jesus Christ is there. Jesus Christ has, they know who He is. He's the Savior that saves them from their oppressors, and they will do the sacrifices and the offerings to Him. In verse 22, it's an interesting verse, right? I mean, here it is. God is doing everything. They've turned to God. You are our God. You are our Savior. And in verse 22, then God strikes Egypt. A very interesting turn of events here. Verse 22, and the Lord will strike Egypt. He will strike and heal.

Okay, He'll punish them, but you know, He'll punish them to get their attention, and He will heal, and they will return to Him. And He will be entreated by them and heal them. Now, it's an interesting thing because we can tie that right to a verse that those of us who have been in church for a long time can look at in Zechariah 14. Zechariah 14 and verse 16 talks about the Feast of Tabernacles. You know, sometimes we'll look at the Feast of Tabernacles, and some people will say, well, is it really necessary to go to the Feast of Tabernacles? Do we have to be there, you know, when the sun sets on this 15th day of the seventh month? Think this verse in context with Isaiah 19, and when God says here about Egypt, the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal, they will return to Him. They'll get the message in Zechariah 14 verse 16. It says, it will come to pass that everyone who has left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, that's all those nations. Remember, we have that picture there of all those nations around them. It shall come to pass that everyone who's left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. They will go there, and it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth don't come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. He will strike them, right? If the family of Egypt shall not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain. They shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. They'll get it. They turn to God, but they're thinking, we don't need to go there. We can worship God right here in our own homeland. God is like, nope, you need to go. That Feast is very important to God and how we handle it. All the holy days are. Don't mean to minimize any of them, but in verse 22, it sure appears that God is referencing what he has there in Zechariah 14, you know, verses 16-19.

He'll strike it, but he'll heal it. They'll get it, and it says, he will be entreated by them and heal them. They'll get it. We worship God in the way that he says to worship him.

And then in verse 23, 24, 25, I'm going to put up a map here for you.

Again, that shows the relative, you know, the relation of Egypt, Israel, and Assyria, here around that Mediterranean Sea. You can see where they are. God talks about this highway that will be there in that day, over and over in these verses. In that day, it's referring to the time that Christ returns, and he is king over all the earth, and he brings, and when people live his way, brings the unity, the peace, the happiness, the harmony, every good thing. In that day, there will be a highway from Egypt all the way up to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. Enemies, right? All three are enemies, but in that day, there will, you know, they won't be enemies. In that day, Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, blessed is Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, my inheritance. So it's a beautiful, beautiful ending to Isaiah 19 there, from a time of trouble, turning to God, and the joy, and the peace, and the unity that comes as a result of that.

So let me pause there at the end of chapter 19, and we will take any conversations, questions, or anything that anyone has. Becky?

Yes, right away I have a question. Thank you. The passage in Zechariah 14, 16, through 19 that you wonder, will the feast always be kept the whole millennium in Jerusalem for all people, or will it never be in different places? I can't answer that. I mean, I think right there, it's talking about the nations that surround right there. We've been talking about Ammon or Egypt and whatever. I don't know, only God knows what he has, but we'll have to wait for that.

I mean, for these nations around there, he apparently wants them to come to Jerusalem.

Okay. Okay, yeah. Thank you. Okay, Sandy?

I was reading through the Bible reading program just to give review before you started, and it mentioned the offerings in verse 21, that those are probably peace and grain offerings. Okay.

It's a verse to maybe animal sacrifices or something.

Do you have a verse, as you're saying, or they're talking about?

In the Bible reading program, verse 21, it talks about the sacrifices and oblations.

Oh, okay. It says that there would be peace and grain offerings that were being made. Okay, that makes sense. I didn't study into sacrifice and offering. I wish it was kind of like they will be offering to God, but I think that makes sense. And you make a very good point. You know, go back and read the Bible, the UCG Bible commentary in Isaiah 19. I think he does a nice overview of the chapter. I read it back a few days ago, so yeah, good point.

Okay, and also in verse 23, it says the highway knows from Egypt to Syria. Right. It brought out the point that Israel's snagged into that. They've got to go from Egypt to Israel to Syria.

That's a good point. You're right. They're smack dab in the middle. They got to go through Israel and get to Assyria and vice versa. And Israel is going to be having all those nations traverse their country all the time. So yeah, totally different world. Dale?

Yeah, thank you. Thanks for the study. Appreciate it. Just a couple of things. I've read commentaries about the, like during the millennium, like representatives from all the countries of the world will be part of the attendance at the Jerusalem. And also, just what supplementary verse seems to fit today was God's no respecter of persons. You know, Acts 10, 34 and 35, every nation affairs and works right since they accepted by him. I thought that would be a supplementary scripture for the overall content today. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, exactly right. You know, you make a good point too. We forget we know the world around us today, right? And it's inhabited in all seven continents. But when you look at the number, when you look at how many people are going to die, right, in there, and God says he's going to bring Israel back to this promised land, it may be that the world is in a much smaller place. There is most of mankind has died as a result of everything that's going on during that time. So it may be that everyone alive at that time does go to Jerusalem. I don't know that for sure, but as you triggered something, I still think of people in America, people in South America, may not be that at that point. We don't know for sure. So, right. Thanks. Xavier?

Well, there should be. There's a verse in Jeremiah 43.13 that says, the temple of the sun in Egypt will be destroyed. And some suggest that this may be what it's talking about. The temple of the sun, the city where that is, will be that city will no longer call the city of the sun, meaning worship of S-U-N, but of the city of desolation or destruction.

Because it was the place where they had their their temple to false gods. What verse was that? Jeremiah 43 verse 13. 13. Okay.

Well, you know, when you said that, it triggered it because one of the commentaries does talk about that city of destruction could be the city of sun. And it's probably could well be referring to that. Yeah, the same thing. Yeah, I'm going to mark that down and look at that a little bit. Okay, very good point. So. Becky?

Me again. I just wanted to tell Dale that was a great point that he made. It really gave me some perspective on what I was asking. And I also forgot to tell you the connection you made between Isaiah 19 22 and the passage in Zachary 14 really helped explain that verse in in 19 22 to me because I didn't understand that at all. It was a great connection.

That's all. It's the same thing. We can come to God and when we when we disregard some of what he says, right, he'll he'll won't pay the consequences of it until we realize, oh, wow, we've got to do it exactly the way God God says to do it. Susan?

Yes. Excuse me. Going back to what Xavier said about Jeremiah 43 13. And my footnote says that that is literally House of the Sun and that that's probably a reference to Heliopolis.

Yeah, I think that I think that's yeah, and apparently, yeah, we've got, you know, there are other prophecies I didn't mention about Egypt as well. But yeah, yeah, this apparently Jeremiah 43 does do that. Yeah, that's that that's interesting. I'm going to I'm going to look back closer at that as well. So. Okay. Um, iPad three.

Hi, I'm Dan. And I have a reference for verse 22. Okay. And referencing Second Chronicles 714. It seems that, you know, when a nation turns back to God, and, you know, lives his ways that God will heal them in their land. And I just that just reminded me of when I when you read that verse, that's that reminded me of that verse. That's very good. What was your first name again?

Jan. Yeah, okay, Jan, thank you. No, I think that's good. And when we read those things, you're exactly right. They remind us of other verses. And we see how the whole Bible, because, you know, even though Solomon prayed that prayer, God will turn, if anyone turns back to God with their hearts, he will he will heal their land and heal them. So, good point.

Okay, anything else, anyone? I don't see any other hands. I don't see any other hands right now, but okay, well, we got 824, my Eastern time, my clock says. So, I guess we will go ahead and sign off. Thank you all. Thank you all for being on. It's been a great being with you here this evening. We will look forward to chapter 20, next Wednesday night, okay? So, if nothing more, good night, everyone. Have a good rest of the week. Good night, everyone. Good night, everyone. Thank you, everybody.

Bye, Jolene.

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