Isaiah

 

Isaiah Chapter 20

 

  • Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
  • 2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
  • 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
  • 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
  • 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

As we study the bible we see a law of sowing and reaping always happens. What one nation does to another, the same thing will happen to them.  Especially if they do evil to innocent people. Israel was led into captivity many times for departing from God and wanting to serve idols of other lands. God allows the other lands to take them captive but He also delivers them and brings judgment upon the other nations. Without God we have no protection again nations that desire to do evil. 

This was a sign to those who watched Isaiah's actions which was a warning of what was to come. The nation of Assyria was going to lead into captivity people naked and barefoot. They were to be stripped of possessions, apparel and anything valuable. All through history when people are led into captivity they do not take with them their possessions and they lose all civil rights. This is done to break their spirit and weaken them so that they can't fight back. It humiliates them. This same thing happened during the German holocaust in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Here the Egyptians would lose all dignity and rights. They were to be led away captive by the Assyrians. This prophecy is already passed and did literally happen. In Isaiah 37 we see that the angel of the Lord was sent to deliver Israel from the Assyrians. God was then and is now the only true help.

Ezekiel has a prophecy concerning Egypt also.

  • Ezekiel 29:12  And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 
  • 13  Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 
  • 14  And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
  • 15  It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.  

This prophecy is true. Egypt is a base kingdom now and always has been since the time the Assyrians took them captive. They will also be part of the latter day prophecies concerning the anti-christ. Egypt is also mentioned in the prophecies of the prophet Daniel. We must remember though that Christ rules forever in the end. 

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