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855. Bible Study: Ezekiel 30 (Future and Past Prophecy about Egypt) · Faith by annm2705

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Ezekiel chapter 30 continuing on this one's called A Lament Over
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Egypt, and in this one I see end of the age, end time stuff all
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over this. So let's get started on this
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one. The word of the Lord came to me,
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Son of Man prophecy and say, this is what the sovereign Lord
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says, wail and say, alas for that day, for the day is near,
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the day of the Lord is near. So very often throughout all
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scripture it talks about the day of the Lord.
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If you do a word search on a digital Bible, you will find the
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day of the Lord references when Jesus returns and the wrath of
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God comes. So right there in verse 3 it the
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day of the Lord is near. That makes me think about the
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end times. A day of clouds, a time of doom
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for the nations, plural. A sword will come against Egypt
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and anguish will come upon Cush, which is modern day Sudan.
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When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away
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and her foundations torn down. So I had referenced and I don't
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know if I had this one called up so I need a minute here to look
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up this first. But I had referenced Revelation
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chapter 19 which we know is End Times verse 21 and when it says
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a sword will come against Egypt. So this ties in Revelation 19
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verse 21. The rest were killed with the
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sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse and the
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birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
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So that ties in OK then it says Kush, Libya, Lydia and all
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Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by
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the sword along with Egypt. So this isn't just against
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Egypt, it even it says the people of the covenant land it.
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So Sudan and Libya, Greece is the Lydia of the past and all
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Arabia like Saudi Arabia, Kub, I did not look up kub Kub and the
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people of the covenant land. So that would seem to be like
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Israel, the people of the covenant land.
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That's the covenant for land is what God gave to the Israelites
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will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
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So again, this seems like this is the the final, the wrath of
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God for those unrepentant people, the people that didn't
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turn to God. Verse 6, this is what the Lord
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says, the allies of Egypt will fall.
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This is where you want to pay attention to the allies because
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look at what's happening in the world today.
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The allies of Egypt will fall, and their proud strength will
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fail. From Migdal to Swan Migdal I
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wrote down South Africa to Aswan, Egypt.
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They will fall by sword within her, declares the sovereign
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Lord. They will be desolate among
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desolate lands, and their city will lie among ruined cities.
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Then they will know that I am the Lord when I set fire to
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Egypt and all her helpers are crushed.
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So Egypt's going to be, there's going to be fire that comes to
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it. And remember, I don't know where
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it is in scripture, but I recall that, you know, God destroyed
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the earth once before through flood.
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It was a global flood. And he said he would never do
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that again. The rainbow's actually a promise
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of that, that he will never do that again.
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But there is going to come a day of fire, the whole earth.
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I think Isaiah says that everything is going to be burned
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up. And that's what we see in the
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wrath of God. It comes in stages.
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When you get into the trumpets and then the bowls of wrath,
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there is like isolated destruction.
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It's kind of like here and there and here and there and it keeps
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getting greater. It starts out like with the the
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trumpets is like a third and then it's like 2/3 or something.
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It's a larger quantity. You'll see some of the same
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things like the first bowl and the first trumpet are similar,
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except that the first trumpet is a smaller percentage of what is
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covered in the first bowl. But they affect the same things.
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So it's, it's very interesting in that.
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So, OK, back to verse 9. On that day, messengers will go
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out from me in ships to frighten Kush out of her complacency.
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Anguish will take hold of them on the day of Egypt's doom, for
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it is sure to come. This is what the sovereign Lord
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says. I will put an end to the hordes
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of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
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OK, so this is where it would get confusing because you're
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like the other things sound like end times.
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But then it talks about Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
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and he was like in six O 5 BC. So I will put an end to the
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hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
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He and his army the most the most ruthless of nations.
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So the most ruthless of nations sounds like it's Babylon.
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And then in the end times we have Mystery Babylon.
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So that has led me to think, is this a spiritual thing where
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it's passed on from one ruler to another and yet it's the same
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spiritual entity behind it all. So anyway, it says he and his
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army, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought in to
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destroy the land. They will draw their swords
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against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
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Now this is interesting because this is also prophecy during the
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trumpets where it says I will dry up the waters of the Nile
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and sell the land to an evil nation by the hand of
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foreigners. So again, God's going to have
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his proxy do it. It says by the hand of
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foreigners. So some foreigner is going to
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well, God's going to dry up the waters and then he's going to
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sell the land to an evil nation by the hand of foreigners.
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I will lay waste the land and everything in it.
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So he's going to sell the land I wrote down and I don't know that
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I, I brought these up. I don't think I did.
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So I have to look these up, but I wrote down Zechariah 10, verse
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11, so I'm going to look that one up and read it to you
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because apparently it's OK. So Zechariah 1011, he's yeah, he
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does say the same thing. He says they will pass through
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the sea of trouble. The surging sea will be subdued
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and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
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Assyria's pride will be brought down, and Egypt's scepter will
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pass away. I will strengthen them in the
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Lord, and in his name they will live securely, says the Lord.
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So Zechariah is also a prophet and he is saying the same thing
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about the Nile is going to dry up and he's saying that Egypt's
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scepter, that's like the authority or the ruling will
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pass away. So that's going to be the end to
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just like this prophecy that we're reading right now.
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It's saying the same thing. Now, Isaiah 19 is another verse
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that I had written down that had come to mind and reading this
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and it was it's a prophecy about Egypt.
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So here, this is how it also ties to the end times.
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So Isaiah 19 verse one, a prophecy against Egypt.
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See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
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The idols of Egypt tremble before him and the hearts of the
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Egyptians melt with fear. There's several things here.
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So when Jesus returns, he comes on a cloud.
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When he ascended into heaven, the Angel that was there, when
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his disciples saw that happen, he said the same way that he
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left is the same way he's going to come back.
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And in Revelation chapter 6, I think it is 6 at the 6th seal,
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it talks about Jesus coming on the clouds and everybody's
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hiding in caves and wanting to be covered because the wrath of
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God is coming to them. So again, when you look at these
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things about what is stated here, about the waters drying
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up, I believe this is at like the end times.
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And so Isaiah 19, I guess I could read the whole thing just
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to. Yeah.
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OK. So you'll see that this is the
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end. OK, Verse 2, I will stir up
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Egyptian against Egyptian. Brother will fight against
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brother, a neighbor against neighbor, city against city,
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Kingdom against Kingdom. The Egyptians will lose heart,
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and I will bring their plans to nothing.
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They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the
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mediums and the spiritist. That's all that idolatry that's
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going on there. I will hand the Egyptians over
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to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over
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them. He just said he was going to
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have sell the land to an evil nation in in Ezekiel, he said he
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was going to sell the land to an evil nation by the hand of
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foreigners. So this is consistent.
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Let's see. The waters of the river will dry
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up and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
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So God always says like two or three witnesses established the
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truth. So Ezekiel said this, Isaiah
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said this, and Zechariah said this.
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So we have 3 witnesses. The canals will stink.
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The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.
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Now the canals will stink. Could that be from fish being on
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the land and making it really smell?
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Just like he said he would take that crocodile and the fish
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would stick to them? I mean it.
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It just shows the fulfillment of his how it will come about.
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Also, the plants of the Nile at one mouth of the river, every
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sown field along the Nile will become parched.
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Parched will blow away and be no more.
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The fishermen will groan and lament all who cast hooks in the
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Nile. Those who throw Nets on the
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water will pine away, those who work with combed flax will
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despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope, the
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workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage
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earners will be sick at heart. The officials of Zowen are are
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nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh
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give senseless advice. How can you say to the Pharaoh,
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I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings?
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Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known
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what the Lord has planned against Egypt.
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The officials of Zohan have become fools.
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The leaders of Memphis are deceived.
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The corners of her peoples have led Egypt astray.
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The Lord has pulled forward into them a spirit of dizziness.
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They make Egypt stagger in all that she does as a drunkard
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staggers around in his vomit. There is nothing Egypt can do.
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Head or tail, palm branch or read.
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In that day, the Egyptians will become weaklings.
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They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord
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Almighty raises against them. And the land of Judah will bring
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terror to the Egyptians. That's interesting.
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The land of Judah's going to do this.
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Everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified
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because of what the Lord is planning against them.
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So now we see that Judah is the one that's interesting.
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OK, I don't know. Let's see how this unfolds.
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Someday in that day, five cities in Egypt will speak the language
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of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty.
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One of them will be called the city of the Sun.
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So I think it's, I don't know, it says the Masoretic tacit city
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of destruction, but there is a city that's called Heliopolis.
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And then this hasn't happened either.
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So in Isaiah 19, verse 19, in that day there will be an altar
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to the Lord in the heart of Egypt and a monument to the Lord
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at its border. Does that exist today?
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I don't think so. It will be a sign and witness to
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the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt.
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When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, He
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will send them a savior and defender and He will rescue
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them. So the Lord will make himself
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known to the Egyptians and in that day they will acknowledge
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the Lord. They will worship with
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sacrifices and grain offerings. They will make vows to the Lord
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and keep them. The Lord will strike Egypt with
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a plague. He will strike them and heal
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them. They will turn to the Lord and
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He will respond to their pleas and heal them.
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In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria.
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The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egypt, Egyptians to
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Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will
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worship together in that day. Israel will be the third along
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with Egypt and Assyria. A blessing on the earth.
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So isn't that interesting? Like God, you know, God is so
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merciful. Even though they were enemies of
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Israel and he's punishing them. And he shows no favoritism
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because he's doing the same thing to the people of Israel.
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He's doing the same thing globally to everyone who doesn't
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repent and turn to him. All of his enemies will reap
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what they sow. If they rejected Him, then they
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will be the subjects of wrath. And some of them obviously here
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we see that that in verse 22 of Isaiah, it says they, they will
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turn to the Lord and he will respond.
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So that's what it takes is when we get to a point finally where
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we turn to God and we're serious about our commitment to Him, and
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then he heals us. His Holy Spirit will change our
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lives. So the last verse said the Lord
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Almighty will bless them saying blessed be Egypt, my people,
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Assyria, my handiwork and in Israel my inheritance.
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So there's there's quite a bit there that is talked about.
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And let's see we're verse 13 back to Ezekiel chapter 30.
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This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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I will destroy the idols, put an end to the images in Memphis.
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No longer will there be a Prince in Egypt and I will spread fear
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throughout the land. We kind of know that's going to
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be Judah, right? Since we just read that.
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Let's see, I will lay waste Upper Egypt and set fire.
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Actually, you know, when I just said that about Judah, you know,
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that could mean literally Jesus because he's from the tribe of
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Judah. So that is probably more likely
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what this means. So anyway, no longer will there
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be a Prince in Egypt, and I will spread fear throughout the land.
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I will lay waste of Upper Egypt, set fire to Zoen, that's
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northeast of Cairo, and inflict punishment on Thebes, which is
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along the Nile. I will pour out my wrath on
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Pelusium. Again, this is wrath that we're
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talking about, the stronghold of Egypt.
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Pelusium is referred to the stronghold of Egypt.
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And wipe out the hordes of Thebes.
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I will set fire to Egypt. Pelusium will writhe in agony.
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Thebes will be taken by storm. Memphis will be in constant
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distress. The young men of Heliopolis and
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Bubastus will fall by the sword. So there's, you know, the sword.
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I guess Jesus arrives also with the sword coming out of his
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mouth. That's the description that's
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given. And the cities themselves will
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go into captivity. Dark will be the day at
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Tapenesse when I break the yoke. That's kind of like a
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stronghold, right? Break the yoke of Egypt.
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There her proud strength will come to an end, she will be
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covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.
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So I will inflict punishment on Egypt, and they will know that I
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am the Lord. In the 11th year, in the first
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month, on the 7th day, the word of the Lord came to me.
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Son of Man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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It has not been bound up to be healed or put into a splint so
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that it may become strong enough to hold a sword.
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Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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I will break both his arms, the good arm, as well as the broken
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1 and make the sword fall from his hand.
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I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter
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them through the countries. I will strengthen the arms of
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the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand.
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But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan
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before him like a mortally wounded man.
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I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the
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arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am
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the Lord. When I put my sword into the
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hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt,
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I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter
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them through the countries. Then they will know that I am
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the Lord. So that's the end of chapter 30.
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So it sounds like the king of Babylon.
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It could be a spiritual king. And I, I don't know, you know,
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but this all sounds like a future.
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So history often repeats itself and but that the king of Babylon
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against Egypt, I don't know. It'll be interesting, I guess.
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Like, I don't know this God has a proxy here where he's going to
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use Babylon to do that. Again, this could be part of a.
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Double this is a separate that's what I have to remember from the
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last time this was a separate word from the Lord.
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So maybe this was, you know, going back to Ezekiel's time
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frame it it's not the future because when Pharaoh's arms are
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broken, that was like in the 11th year, that's when this word
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came to him. So it's it's kind of out of
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order because in chapter 29 it talked about the 27th year and
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then in the beginning of chapter 29 it was talking about the 10th
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year and it was about judgement on Pharaoh.
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And then this is in the 11th year.
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So we have like different time frames that kind of got shuffled
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around in the book of Ezekiel. So it doesn't necessarily flow,
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but it in chronological order, I guess is what I'm saying.
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So part of chapter 30 and we have to realize that these
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chapters in the Bible were not how it was given.
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It was, this is how it was assembled and people put
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chapters on here. So maybe they just gathered all
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these, I don't know. They didn't put it in order
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though, for whatever reason. Anyway, I'll read the questions
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and answers. There's only a few and then end
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this chapter 30. So who were the people of the
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covenant land? They were the Jews living in the
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foreign lands listed here who were not serving the Lord.
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So that's, you know, the swords coming against them.
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The people of the covenant land. We talked about that along with
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Sudan, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Kub, Libya and the people of
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Egypt, probably they're, you know, actually like even back in
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Jeremiah's time, he said anybody who fled to Egypt would die by
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sword. I mean, and that's what wasn't
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it Zedekiah also who fled two there, but he was captured and
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then his sons were executed and his eyes were gouged out and
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then he was led back to Babylon. So yeah, OK.
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Why would God use the most ruthless to do his work?
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Because this was a time of judgement.
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The time for patience and mercy had passed.
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It was now God's will that wrath should be administered without
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hesitation or compromise. Was this a promise to literally
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dry up the waters of the Nile? This was indeed a threat against
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the livelihood of Egypt. For a city whose trade and
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economy relied on all the river offers.
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The drying up of that river cuts the heart of the city's ability
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to thrive. So the threat here could be
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literal, namely, the river would dry up, or the threat could be
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figurative. All that they depended on the
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river to provide would be taken away from them.
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Well, I think there's also. Yeah.
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I don't know. We'll, we'll see what happens.
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If it's literal or symbolic. Sometimes it's both, too.
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So was Pharaoh's arm really broken?
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This is symbolic language. It means that Pharaoh's power
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was broken. It refers to Pharaoh Hafra's
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defeat by Nebuchadnezzar the previous year.
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So this is that section of Ezekiel at verse 20 where it
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says in the 11th year, and it's referring back to verse chapter
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29 that starts out in the 10th year.
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So those things we have to pay attention to because if we read
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them all together and don't notice when they're being
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written, it does get even more confusing to try to understand
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Scripture. What was the sword?
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The sword of the Lord represents judgment and destruction as well
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as authority. So that's going to wrap up
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Chapter 30 and we'll stop here and then continue with a
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different podcast to cover 31 and 32.