There will come a day, according to Isaiah the Prophet, that Egypt (that often divinely judged, anti-Jewish nation) will be “blessed of God!”

Let’s watch the Lord (via the eye of Bible Prophecy) make this happen. And it all begins with a healthy dose of the “Fear of the Lord!”

“In that day shall Egypt be like unto women (silly young girls): and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it (as I said, the Fear of the Lord). And the land of Judah (God’s people) shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel (Will) of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.” Isaiah 19:16-17, Egypt under conviction, I would say.

Then read some more. This is miraculous!

“In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear (close to worshipping) to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar (monument) at the border thereof to the LORD. nd it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.“ Isaiah 19:18-20

There’s even more … “And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know (as in being ‘saved’) the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.“ Isaiah 19:21-22, and if we take this literally (which I plan to do), “Salvation will have come to Egypt!” Once idolatrous, God-gating Egypt! This happens during the Millennium!

God and the Nations, amazing!

But I am wondering … WHY? (Or can we ever ask “why” … when the amazing, unlimited Grace of Almighty God is being considered?)

Why EGYPT?

Why not destruction for her, like so many of the other nations in her day?

And at least the partial answer to that question (I believe) rests in the life and death of a young Bible character named Ishmael.

And the promises God made to him, to his mother Hagar really. (We are talking “Abraham” again! After all, Ishmael is a child of the great Patriarch!)

But that takes us into a longer discussion that I can pursue this morning.

So … Isaiah chapter 19 will again be our Text again tomorrow, the Lord willing.

Its last few verses.

I am excited about what we are learning in Isaiah’s vast Prophecy, vast Corpus. Sixty-six whole chapters … no wonder men have given years of their lives studying it.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell