11.23.2015 Old Testament: Eze 30.6–9

To read the Bible in a year, read Ezekiel 29–31 on November 23, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Egypt! The first great and mighty empire of the world did things so profoundly, that they still exist! We can visit them and stand in wonder at what they did thousands of years ago. They, and the surrounding nations, probably thought that Egypt would last forever, but it did not, and whatever or whoever enabled Egypt to rise in mighty power, eventually fell,

“Thus says the Lord:
‘Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
From Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.
“They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
Then they will know that I am the Lord,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”
(Ezekiel 30.6–9) 

It happened just as the Lord said that it would. What is Egypt on the world stage of superpowers?