Why Egypt Is a Weak Nation I want you to notice Ezekiels prophecy. Ezekiel 29:1-2: The word of the Eternal came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt. Now the eighth verse: Therefore thus saith the Lord Eternal; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Eternal: because he hath said, -- that is, the Pharaoh had said -- The river is mine, and I have made it. Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers. This is from the King James or the Authorized translation. Actually the proper translation is not rivers, but irrigated canals. They had them in Egypt at that time. Continuing: And, God said, I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate ... Neither shall it be inhabited for 40 years. That 40 years happened in the days of Babylons greatness, for Nebuchadnezzar carried the Egyptians captive, desolated their land and then allowed numerous Greeks to migrate to Egypt. Historians know very little about what really happened at this time. Now notice the 15th and the 16th verses of this same chapter. It shall be -- notice that God said Egypt would continue to exist IT SHALL BE THE BASEST OF THE KINGDOMS. Egypt was to exist, but it was to be the basest of the kingdoms. It had been, prior to Gods pronouncing sentence, the proud lion among the others. Neither shall it exalt itself any more above all nations, says God, for I will diminish them. Who is this speaking? -- claiming that He can make and unmake nations? Who can say, I will diminish thee, diminish the greatest nation on earth at that time? Was that just some ignorant, mortal Jew writing? Whoever wrote it, brought it to pass. It happened. What are you going to do with that? I want you to know what actually happened as recorded in history. This is from the Imperial Bible Dictionary on the article Egypt. The population of Egypt must have been very large in the earliest times. It has been placed at 7,000,000 under the Pharaohs -- at 7,500,000 (exclusive of Alexandria) in the time of Nero ... At the present time, it is about 23,000,000. The population of Egypt has barely tripled -- think of that -- in 2000 years. And the bulk of the present population represents DESCENDANTS OF FOREIGN NATIONS. Egypt has not grown like other nations. It has remained comparatively small.
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