The word of the Lord came again to Ezekiel with another prophetic message. It begins a prophecy in the book's section concerning foreign nations, belonging with Ezekiel 29, 31 and 32 among the prophecies against the nations in Ezekiel 26-40, a series in which Ammon, Moab, Tyre and Egypt pass before the prophet. Its setting is Egypt's struggle with Babylon for world supremacy. It opens one of Jehovah's repeated instructions through Ezekiel during twenty-two years pleading with Israel to turn to God, using His dealings with the kingdoms around Israel as illustrations of how He brings down pride.
The message is judgment to speak upon Egypt, its idols, and Pharaoh and his host, foretelling the breaking of its power, the fall of those who support it, the destruction and abolition of its idols, judgment on its cities, and the drying up of its rivers. Egypt was then one of the greatest kingdoms and at one time the greatest empire on earth, a former oppressor of God's people and the symbol of black infidelity. The judgment has been literally fulfilled, so that Egypt was brought low and abased to become the very basest of the kingdoms, never to rise again among the nations, with every prediction fulfilled in a way evident today.
Its predictions of invasion and subjugation by Nebuchadnezzar were fulfilled in Egypt's subsequent history. It was predicted to be fulfilled through England taking complete control of Egypt.
The word of the Lord came again to Ezekiel with another prophetic message. It begins a prophecy in the book's section concerning foreign nations, belonging with Ezekiel 29, 31 and 32 among the prophecies against the nations in Ezekiel 26-40, a series in which Ammon, Moab, Tyre and Egypt pass before the prophet. Its setting is Egypt's struggle with Babylon for world supremacy. It opens one of Jehovah's repeated instructions through Ezekiel during twenty-two years pleading with Israel to turn to God, using His dealings with the kingdoms around Israel as illustrations of how He brings down pride.
The message is judgment to speak upon Egypt, its idols, and Pharaoh and his host, foretelling the breaking of its power, the fall of those who support it, the destruction and abolition of its idols, judgment on its cities, and the drying up of its rivers. Egypt was then one of the greatest kingdoms and at one time the greatest empire on earth, a former oppressor of God's people and the symbol of black infidelity. The judgment has been literally fulfilled, so that Egypt was brought low and abased to become the very basest of the kingdoms, never to rise again among the nations, with every prediction fulfilled in a way evident today.
Its predictions of invasion and subjugation by Nebuchadnezzar were fulfilled in Egypt's subsequent history. It was predicted to be fulfilled through England taking complete control of Egypt.