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… to be meeting out God's judgment. However, that judgment was on a nation, if you remember, scattered and peeled to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled. And we looked at a couple of ways that that could be referring to Egypt, with the rivers previously spoiling them in their glory days. We looked at that back in the days of when they were at their peak under Pharaoh, when Moses led that exodus out of there. A little bit exciting there. Everyone was a bit worried about their ears there. I think we got through it, guys, OK? But also we saw that it was also, talking about those rivers, also it was what was to happen being prophesied here in this chapter. And we saw a picture of the rapture, but before that there was a casting away of sprigs and branches, picturing the damning of those who choose to worship the beast and take the mark, with a present brought to the Lord being those that were his inheritance that were saved. Now, rewind back to the imminent prophecy, and it would have been those that fled Egypt for Judah. It said in verse 7, In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and trodden under foot of his land. The rivers are spoiled to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts of Mount Zion. And then Isaiah 19 says in verse 1, The burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved to this presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. I'm going to pray and then we're going to get started. Father, thank you for your word, thank you for this chapter, Lord, and the lessons we can get from it, the teachings we can get from it, Lord, help me to preach to them accurately clearly boldly full of your spirit, help everyone to have attentive ears, Lord, just just to really, you know, pay attention to what your word saying to be able to just study through it with me, Lord, for me to just preach it in a way that people can just really, you know, pay attention to your word, Lord, and Jesus, thank you for all of this. Amen. Okay, so it said the burden of Egypt, behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved to this presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. So the Lord riding on a swift cloud is symbolic of the swift judgment coming to Egypt from the Assyrians. Assyria was to eventually invade and conquer Egypt during the reign of Hezekiah's son Manasseh around 673 to 674 BC. Now that punishment was ordained by God, okay, resulting in the idols being moved and the Egyptian hearts melting. When destruction is being dished out on your nation by a world empire, you can imagine faith in those idols is going to decrease a little bit, isn't it? Okay, so those that are worshipping idols thinking that they're, you know, this whatever version of God is protecting them, looking after them, suddenly they've got this massive Assyrian army coming in. You can imagine that there's going to be some problems now with their faith in those idols. Well verse two then says this, and I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they shall fight everyone against his brother and everyone against his neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom. Now I believe that this was likely a precursor to the Assyrian invasion. So I think that's what we're seeing here. We see that, he says in verse one, the burden of Egypt, behold the Lord ride upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it, and then I think it's then followed by the chain of events that leads up to this, that leads up to the Lord riding upon a swift cloud. He says this is what's going to happen, he says, and I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they shall fight everyone against his brother and everyone against his neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom, and the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, to the wizards, and the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of foes. With that cruel lord probably being, talking about Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who came to the throne after his father, if you remember, Sennacherib was murdered by two of his brothers, two of that, that's Esarhaddon's brothers, that is two of Sennacherib's sons. So the civil wars of Egypt in this period, okay, which is what it's just talked about here, it said that he'll set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, they'll fight everyone against his brother, everyone against his neighbor, city against city, then he adds kingdom against kingdom. Although not recorded elsewhere in the Bible, we've just seen that mentioned here. It's interesting, these things are recorded by historians, and you know, if the historians line up with the Bible, well they'll believe the historians, and here they do, and there is a lot of history about this sort of period, and you know, if anyone's ever been to the British Museum, there's a lot about the Assyrian Empire, there's a lot of this sort of stuff, there's some really interesting stuff in there, and it lines up with the Bible. There's a guy called Dr Aidan Dodson, who seems to be quite, you know, quite into this period of time, and he writes of that period of Egypt's history, okay, so after Shoshang the First, his 22nd dynasty, so from, this is 945 BC, so a bit earlier than this point, he said, however, after that, he said, within a century the country had split again, with Thebes now ruled not by high priests, but by its very own line of pharaohs, the 23rd dynasty running in parallel with the Tainite, based in Tannes, northern king, okay, this decline coincided with the rise of a power to the south of Egypt in Nubia, it then says the Theban kings soon found themselves embroiled in a long-running civil war, so this is according to the secular historian, talking about this long-running civil war that was going on there, while in the north a number of semi-independent principalities grew up, altogether sapping the strength of the country as a whole. This decline coincided with the rise of a power to the south of Egypt in Nubia, spanning the borders of the modern states of Egypt and Sedan, remember, we looked at that, that's actually Ethiopia now, longer, sorry, that was then Ethiopia, now Sedan, longer colony of Egypt, Nubia now had rulers, the 25th dynasty, who regarded themselves as ideologically the heirs of the ancient culture of Egypt, and as such they became overlords first of Thebes and then took over the whole of Egypt, so it wasn't as simple as they just invaded, there were people there that could, that were of a line of a descendant from Egypt anyway, becoming pharaohs of a united kingdom of Egypt and Nubia around 720 BC, and that's a key point, is that 720 BC was several years into Hezekiah's reign, so a little after this prophecy of Isaiah, which we saw before, started in the day that, in that first year of Hezekiah, these burdens, so this prosperous state, it said, was to be short-lived, however as late in the reign of King Taharqa, 690-664 BC, he became embroiled in a disastrous war with the Assyrians, who invaded and sacked many cities, including Thebes, and then after that says upheaval back home led, however, to an early Assyrian withdrawal in the setting up of a native Egyptian regime, the 26th dynasty, that was to last some 140 years, which we're going to see as well shortly, so basically by the time of Josiah's reign in 2 Kings 23-29, Pharaoh Nico is battling with the Assyrians when he kills Josiah, and it says in his days Pharaoh Nico, king of Egypt, went up against king of Assyria to the river Euphrates and king Josiah went against him and he slew him at Megiddo when he had seen him, so all that to say that building up to the Assyrian invasion of Egypt was a weakening of Egypt through civil war, so we've got the invasion, we even see later in 2 Kings 23-29, we see what again history does seem to record of that uprising against Semen and at least some sign of that, but before that was a weakening of Egypt through civil war and that's what we've just seen talked about here in chapter 19 about the Egyptians against the Egyptians in verse 2 etc, and a power struggle as well with those dwelling in the former colonies of Ethiopia, which you know again they were all kind of of similar kingdoms and families and some had ruled previously, said in verse 2, and I'll set the Egyptians against the Egyptians and they shall fight everyone against his brother and everyone against his neighbour, city against city and kingdom against kingdom and the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the council thereof and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers and to them that have familiar spirits and to the wizards and the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord and a fierce king shall rule over themself the lord the lord of foes, and as has been often the cases we study through Isaiah, so that was obviously what was about to happen there in that period of time and you know within a few years probably several years at least for maybe the start of some of that civil war and stuff going onwards then to when eventually the Assyrians in Manasseh's reign end up invading Egypt. There's also some future prophecy here okay and I'm sure maybe some of you listened to some of those verses will find some of those terms familiar. The obvious similarities between here and what's to precede the lord coming back in the clouds so we've just seen that the lord's going to come in the clouds and then we've seen this sort of preceding events to that well it's the same as what's going to happen in the future as well so if you turn to Matthew chapter 24 to see what Jesus described as the beginning of sorrows we're going to look from in Matthew 24 from verse 3 it's what's known as the olivert discourse you might have heard that term a lot which is a posh name for a chat on the mount of olives basically okay but it sounds you know very theological but it's the olivert discourse in Matthew 24 and verse 3 Matthew 24 3 says this is the lord Jesus Christ took to his disciples it says and as he sat upon the mount of olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world and just make that's a very clear point here it's the end of the world okay so this hasn't already happened as much as there was foreshadowing of it in 70 ad this still hasn't happened yet and jesus answers said unto them take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive many and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there should be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrow so keep a finger here but back in isaiah 19 with egypt as is often the case in the bible representing the unsaved world verse 2 talked of the wars that the nations against nations and the kingdom is against kingdoms verse 3 of isaiah 19 spoke of the deception of those saying they are christ with the ultimate one being the antichrist and false prophet as we saw last week i believe if you match those up with the beginning of soils in matthew 24 verse 4 representing the antichrist will be that one world leader so what about matthew 24 sevens famines pestilences and earthquakes well back in isaiah 19 the famine is covered too look at verse five it says and the waters shall fail from the sea and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up and they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up the reeds and flags shall wither the paper reads by the brooks by the mouth of the brooks and everything sown by the brooks shall wither be driven away and be no more the fishers also shall mourn and all that they that cast angle into the brooks shall shall lament and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish moreover they that work in fine flax and they that weave networks shall be confounded so that's a knock-on effect to the manufacturers of the fishing equipment there in verse nine then verse 10 says and they shall be broken into purposes thereof all that makes sluices and ponds for fish sluices basically being like man-made dams to control water channels basically all that's going to fail so back in matthew 24 where the lord said in verse five for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive many he shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not trouble for these things must come to pass for the end is not yet for nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places all these are beginning of sores this is a build up to the lord coming and for me that's definitely being pictured in isaiah 19 too yeah okay you didn't get onto the earthquake stuff as well it's not always going to be identical but there was a famine on the back of the kingdoms against kingdoms on the back of that civil war verse two said and i will set the egyptians against the egyptians and they shall fight everyone against his brother and everyone against his neighbor city against city and kingdom against kingdom like i said with the with egypt picturing the world that's what's going to happen in the end of days we're going to have this kingdoms against kingdoms first and the build up during this sort of tribulation time and it feels now as if you know when it says about all these people turning on each other and sometimes you know you could look at that in certain nations you think well how's that going to happen in our nation or how's it going to happen in this nation over there how on earth is that going to happen in whatever nation you could think of where your civil war seems to be the last possible thing well i don't know right now i feel like a lot of people happily turn on their own people due to some pretty random bizarre stuff like political beliefs i mean think i mean there are people out there who when donald trump was attempted you know the assassination attempted assassination you know took place there were just people going if only he'd died there are people like and when i say people i mean like in the droves you know people who are so angry and upset with you know people where they want to murder they want to kill and even with the op just the opposite side there are people that get like he's been beaten up by these angry liberals for having like trump caps on and things like this you know and i'm sure some maybe there's some stuff that's got a vice versa with that as well but some people you know you can see nations against nations for various reasons i mean think about the angry liberal sort of anti-meat eater types and how rage filled they get about that sort of stuff and the sort of the sort of lengths people go to with these things the the you know the the guys who get so upset about not believing that cows farting is destroying the world and they're just angry vegetarians or vegans and they're fuming and they just can't believe that you'd eat meat and people get really pent up about that stuff don't they really worked up you can imagine it wouldn't take it would only take a few more news stories and so-called facts from whoever i mean you don't even know who usually the facts have come from all you know is that there's someone in some sort of news outlet that's claimed that it is fact and you can imagine people getting really upset about this stuff you walk down the road and you're eating a burger and suddenly you're getting attacked it could be stranger things happening right and what about the stuff with the cars and i mean there's some crazy people out there and i know that some of them look a bit bizarre that just stop oil lot you wonder like are these people real people it's a bit weird isn't it even are they but there is all this stuff now people they get really pent up really worked up about this stuff or and you think well okay but are they going to go to the point of killing each other of warring against each other over things like that how about not getting a jab yeah back in covid days there were people that were absolutely livid about that weren't they i mean you were ostracized from society you were hated on for not getting a jab that apparently was meant to protect them from the illness yet they were so upset about people that didn't get the jab that they'd got that was meant to protect them from the illness it's only your health wasn't it oh no no because of the herd protection even me if you're getting a job because it protects you you're not what is this herd immunity it's just a joke it's ridiculous that people fell for this stuff and then that's one thing to like get pulled into it it's another thing to then start attacking and hating on anyone that didn't i mean that was that was some crazy times wasn't it that was some really crazy times out there and the rage was getting up there i mean you try walking into a supermarket without a mask on again if they're wearing a mask what's the problem if you don't want to wear one it's your problem isn't it but no apparently not i mean people were fuming with that stuff i had people trying to start fights with me and you know walking into a post office once without a mask on and people trying to you know call me names and stuff like that it's just so bizarre wasn't it and it's so easy to suddenly get people just hating on each other right and what's the result of all that division the the result of that is that the spirit of unity fails and it's easier to conquer that's why they call it divide and conquer don't they and throughout history that's been a way you kind of upset a nation you start causing division start getting different factions warring upset with each other in various ways and it's much easier to conquer then on the back of that well it's said in verse three and the spirit of egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and i will destroy the council thereof and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers and to them that have familiar spirits and to the wizards and that's when they're more likely to be conned by the deceivers okay uh and you might say well well there aren't any charmers and wizards nowadays maybe most of you go well there are okay but some people do think that they're like well this is a bit old-fashioned you know wizards what they got pointy hats or something well maybe go and talk to the voodoo witch doctor in many areas of africa and beyond and you might change your mind about that i mean that's wizardry isn't it at least attempted wizardry if not let's be honest uh you know it's beyond that isn't it it is wizardry or or maybe and what people think with that i think they look at that and they think oh yeah but that that's just so those poor people just don't really understand science you know yeah they just don't get it right well well how about down at the local psychic fair then of all those not so poor people who are still down there trying to get people to do psychic readings and see mediums and do other bizarre stuff and healings and and crystal healings and i mean you name it right this stuff is everywhere still isn't it well the spiritualist church you know what they do do you know what spiritualists are probably most people do know what a spiritualist church is they basically go there and they commune with devils they go there honestly it's just like they go there and they commune with devils they call it they have the nerve to call it a church it's unbelievable isn't it but again like what are they doing down there they're communing with devils doing all weird stuff what about the signs and wonders a lot down at the local pentecostal church or the charismatic baptist church there's a lot of those around as well charismatic they call themselves charismatic baptists no they don't believe the bible they ain't baptists and what are they doing down there bizarre stuff wizardry magic it's crazy signs of the spirit which are just a load of old nonsense it's crazy miraculous it's wizardry isn't it or at least attempted a lot of it's a sham and as we saw last week okay when it comes to christ returning before that the deception will be strong from the false prophet won't it really strong verse four said here and the egyptians will i give over into the hand of a cruel lord and a fierce king shall rule over them saith the lord the lord of hosts so it's interesting how the council is destroyed so basically they're more susceptible to the idols of false religions on the back of that okay on the back of that sound council i would say the charmers okay they're more susceptible to the charmers which makes me think of various false prophets because a lot of them are just charmers aren't they those with familiar spirits i think you know as we know they're possessed in in there's various flavors of possessed people around the wizards with their holy and unholy miracles but you could also add i think for wizardry maybe some of the more bizarre wizardry type medications out there all that stuff is just modern day wizardry isn't it i mean you you go to you go and show me some of these labs yeah and some of the stuff they make and back to and i'm saying jabs just because i was i get this cut yeah okay i'll get kicked off youtube with it but um but think about if you've ever looked into that stuff and some of the ingredients of that i mean like green monkey kidney cells aborted fetal cell lines bovine serum hubble bubble toil and trouble so that's honestly what it is isn't it cook it up oh they've got a lab coat on it's like they've got a lab coat on that's that's a lot i'm not saying all the time right and don't get me wrong though because people go too far with this all modern medicine it's wickedness you know okay you can go too far but some of it is literal wizardry i mean they're coming out with all stuff and then go no don't worry if we shove that in your right into your vein yeah right into your bloodstream all that mixture of hubble bubble yeah we've got it already we extracted it we shoved it in you you're going to be healthier it's madness it's wizardry that's what it is and and with all wizardry there's going to be some sort of payoff isn't there and there's going to be some problem at the end of it and you know this stuff is stuff is still going on today with that in mind right and with all of these um with all of these various angles okay the result with all of this stuff and i don't know how that's going to work in the future but with that the result is then being given over to the fierce king and the antichrist is you know as we looked at last week as well will somehow bring all of these people together so he'll satisfy all of the different variations of false religion and i would imagine that might include the kind of doctor god religion that will include the the the various types of false religion he's gonna he's gonna basically satisfy that the ecumenical many different paths to him he's going to satisfy all of them somehow he's going to appease them all he's going to be the answer for all of them revelation you don't have to turn to 13 3 says and i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast so the whole world pretty much at least the majority is going to wonder after this one world leader with his christ impersonation being healed from a deadly wound which is interesting is alongside believing that animals were incarnations of the gods by the way in uh you know in egyptian back back in that sort of time the the the well probably still now right the egyptians believed in the resurrection and future life as well as well as in a state of rewards and punishments dependent on what our conduct in the world right back to works yeah that's what they believed back then but it was very similar because the the uh the judge of the dead was a guy called osiris who had been slain by set the representative of evil and afterwards restored to life there's your resurrection his death was avenged by his son horace and you ever heard of the eye of horace that's like that pyramid eye thing that all these crazy guys just get tattooed on themselves just for a laugh i once coached a guy who is we were stretching after a session and i looked down he's had his massive eye of horace tattoo on him i said you know that's the eye of horace yeah oh yeah is that what it's called why have you got that tattooed on your leg i thought it looked cool it's like wow okay that's what people do that's that's for you anyway but anyway back to the horrors um so apparently his death was avenged by son horace who the egyptians invoked as their redeemer osiris and horace along with isis not nothing to do with this uh these so the isis didn't they get covid on something you just disappear they didn't because isis was big was it until covid and then they're all in the caves with masks or something because we never heard about them again oh what happened there but anyway so apparently they formed a trinity who were regarded as representing the sun god under different forms they've even got this trinity there as well so basically it was a counterfeit religion as as they all are but with the usual underlying works but it was a counterfeit it was at least an impersonation of the true religion which is what most of the world are into now aren't they it's just a version of some sort of religion which is based on work salvation even some are so close and and you can imagine in this in this time when the when the antichrist comes all the different versions of work salvation they'll all be appeased in one way or another won't they they'll all be deceived in one way another and and believe that this is their answer this is their coming messiah or something well we we then saw so back in back in well i think you are still there in isaiah 19 okay that we saw then that there would be waters failing resulting in famine okay then verse 11 then said this it said surely the princes of zoan are fools the council of the wise counselors of pharaoh has become brutish how say ye unto pharaoh i am the son of the wise the son of ancient kings so zoan was previously the capital city okay some of pharaoh's leadership from their council to him it seems which which could be picturing the collaboration of the leaders of the world under the antichrist i think he said then in verse 12 where are they where are thy wise men and let them tell thee now and let them know what the lord of hosts has purposed upon egypt the princes of zoan have become fools the princes of nof are deceived they have also seduced egypt even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof so nof was another major city now remember that there was some division from civil war okay so you've got leaders from zoan from zoff counseling pharaoh but they're deceived they're fools they were supposed to be the support they were supposed to be the strength of the nation the wise counselors but instead they're seducing the people to wickedness and and this is a problem across the board okay people putting too much trust too much faith in people that they just consider better than them they consider them more intelligent more wise they consider well they must know and people just just in all areas of life people just crave a guru they love a guru blindly following for example like i said earlier the world scientists about whatever just blindly following i don't even know the people i don't anything about them well just some scientists said this some apparently and they don't even know they haven't even heard it come from the scientists it would just be well the news article i read the information i read said that scientists plural have agreed this or said this or said that and that's enough for them and they don't want to they feel like well they must know more than me about whatever it is so that's got to be it and of course there's you know various things that so-called scientists will give you their their their so-called you know expert opinion on which often changes doesn't it but people just want to go with it the the favorite politician if anyone has favorite politicians no no some people do it they're just like well you know whoever it was said this and you know i go with that because this is what my favorite politician said the the intellectuals in and it doesn't necessarily have to be assigned he's just an intellectual somewhere someone he's intellectual he's got such a great intellect who am i to even question what he said who am i to think anything different i'm just going to actually listen to this intellectual and then just spout it off like it's my own beliefs because i'm going to sound really clever people do that in so many areas don't they the celebrity obviously as well maybe it's some sort of you know maybe that's for kind of people i don't know people do people do just spout off what a celebrity says a celebrity said to do this i mean again back to the the whole covid stuff that was big wasn't it they were just lining up celebrities to tell you what to do lining up celebrities to tell you to follow what they do and people are like you know celebrity god they've told me they're so much more famous than me who am i to question what they i mean they must know right they're a celebrity and and the same and it's the same thing with religious leaders and people just the religious leaders said it the the pope said it must be right the whoever has said it the the priest the pastor the vicar the the imam the the whatever you name it the rabbi if they've said it if it's part of their religion they're just going to go with it but most of these people are fools in god's eyes because the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom so when it comes to really things that matter they don't have a clue yet people even believers will follow these people even believers will just regurgitate the nonsense that comes out of their mouths they're fools and especially when it comes to the signs of the time so look of course there are people that know a lot more than many you know than me and anyone else in here about so many things okay so many things you know different you know all sorts of different industries there are people there are experts and all these things but when it comes to signs of the times when it comes to the world ending when it comes to things that are in the hand of god like just the world not suddenly being destroyed by a so-called asteroid or whatever it is or so-called you know climate change all these things when it comes to things that are in the hands of god when it comes to things eternal things signs of the times they don't have a clue they don't have a clue first corinthians 2 14 says but the natural man receiveth not the things the spirit of god for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned they don't have a clue they don't have a clue about the word of god either i mean if you if you i mean i'll tell you what a lot of people have probably come across false prophets when you're knocking doors and stuff sometimes you know you kind of get pulled in a little bit you're not quite sure they are you come across people who you know or just unsaved people don't even have to be a false prophet just someone unsaved who claims to know the bible inside out they've read it have me and they just don't have a clue about anything they don't have a clue they don't when it comes to the spiritual things it comes to things of god because without the holy spirit they just don't get it so the trick with that is remember that next time there's a world event and the youtube conspiracy channel is telling you what's going on and people believers many believers got pulled into that stuff so suddenly they're going all right it's you know it's one world coming it's a big system coming you know because this conspiracy theorist said that they had a special summit somewhere that he got the secret papers on and you know he got to the bottom of it all because you know his youtube channel somehow you know people were buying that stuff they were watching just watching anything and everything and whatever sounded good to them they were going to go with right and we need to remember that because most of the time these people don't have a clue the next time that you put it you know the the next time that you're that you're putting basically ultimate faith in anything right in anything that that's not the word of god you need to remember that don't you whoever it is whatever it is the trick that the because the point is that the answer all here for things that really matter the answer here okay all in the word of god outside of that there's all sorts of deception going on it's going to continue to go on verse 14 says the lord had mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof and they have caused egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit so back then the lord was to allow the egyptians to be deceived okay with the end result being destruction at the hands of the asyrians now turn to second thessalonians chapter two second thessalonians two so in in the future he will allow people to be deceived by the antichrist like he did here it was a lord that mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof at least he allowed that to happen and it said and they've caused egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunk man stagger within his vomit and the end result will be destruction it will be destruction in the in you know in the future of this and now some people might look at that go well why isn't it a bit unfair why does god allow this that why does he allow the antichrist why does he even send this strong delusion why well look at second thessalonians 2 and verse 8 said second thessalonians 2 8 and then shall that wicked be revealed capital w talk about the antichrist whom the lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming eventually even him whose coming is after the working of satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved so that's why because they reject the lord jesus christ so you go why well they chose to reject the lord jesus christ they chose death they rejected life and for this cause verse 11 god shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned to believe not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness and they they choose the false religion that's ultimately what they pleasure in they pleasure in the pride the pridefulness of false religion they pleasure in it in its various ways they they they have pleasure in unrighteousness they choose their work salvation that's why they're damned that's why he sends them strong delusion verse 14 back in isaiah then with that in mind said the lord has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof and they have caused egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit so the images of some drunk staggering around in his own vomit basically everything he does is in error and if you've ever seen people like that just staggering around covered in puke or it's just it's just horrific isn't it it's pretty bad but that's you know here you know that everything he's doing is in error it's like a guy with this perverse spirit where they've got it wrong that they're erring in everything it kind of isn't that what happens when people are wrong on salvation in a way don't they just end up erring in everything they err in every work thereof they they when that if you if you talk to people who are just unsaved and they think they know it all and they're trying to study out the bible it they just so many false doctrines also go in hand with that don't they and often like you talk you know you kind of you know with certain people you might listen to people previously where you're thinking oh well they seem to be saved but they're going they seem to be right on the gospel and then they just seem to be adding all these weird funky weird doctrines and weird beliefs and eventually it comes out yeah they weren't saved you know and and here they've got the perverse spirit in them they've caused egypt to err in every work thereof this is you know talk about the world as a drunken man stag within islamic they just got it all wrong neither shall there be any work for egypt which the head or tail branch of rush may do so basically they're going to be helpless there's nothing that can be done whoever you are head tail branch or basically worthless rush is what what it's talking about there there's nothing that can be done in that day shall egypt be like unto women and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the lord of hosts which he shaketh over it so he's saying basically basically that they will be defenseless like women that's what he's saying in that day shall egypt be like unto women he's already said there's nothing they're going to be able to do they're going to be defenseless because high kick catsuit heroine is a fraud okay just to make it clear the high kick catsuit heroine who who does cartwheel kicks on men and beats up 10 men in the movies it's a fraud it's a it's a feminist fraud okay and it's to con women it's to stop women being content and happy with being a woman and to make them think they can they need to strive to be a man basically and the whole thing's a joke and all it really does it doesn't empower anyone all it does is make them feel even more insecure and everything by the fact that they're not men okay but they were never meant to be men yeah they've got so many great strengths and qualities which aren't manly qualities but it's a joke and here he's just it's just like just in this little verse it's like in that day shall egypt be like unto women basically defenseless because women need a man to defend the reality of it is yeah you like all these like anyone's seen any of this stuff and i don't really look at it much because like half of the sports i'm thinking why have you got your daughters your wives your whoever it is competing in these things anyway right why is your daughter in the boxing ring punching some other poor woman in the face but then what happens is then they shove in the the man who claims to now be a woman because he just fancies competing in women's sports and they just i mean these women are coming out going it's like i was getting hit with a sledgehammer because the difference is ridiculous the same way is weight division sports because they're poles apart because we're completely different but but in the same way in the same way stay at home daddy daycare man yeah is is a ridiculous nonsense as well because they're not suited to it because they're rubbish at it like every man here can attest to when you've covered for your wife for the day for whatever reason and it's hard it's rough it's we're not made for it you know you know sometimes the the wives come home they're like what on earth has happened to the house and the kids and why are they hanging off the chandeliers and because we're not good at it but in the same way women ultimately are defenseless when it comes in general look yeah i'm sure you go well i know you know i'm sure that this woman i know she could throw a fairly good punch or something do me a favor it's ridiculous it's poles apart yeah it really is that's why they shouldn't be competing in sport together but here he said in that day shall egypt be like unto women okay and it shall be afraid and fear and i think kind of that goes hand in hand as well and it's something to remember sometimes with men as you know as men is sometimes you know women are probably hardwired to just be a bit more i don't want to say necessarily fearful just outright fearful but women a lot of the time will be more concerned about things it'll be it's not just because maybe they have more of a mothering attitude towards kids but they're just more hardwired to have those more concerns where we can kind of be a little bit gung-ho as men sometimes can't with things for example with the kids you know oh it'd be fine you know shoving the two-year-old you know on the skateboard down the hill or something you know and women are going to be a bit more fearful they see like maybe a few more of the things that can go wrong and stuff like that right women generally will have that but that's why men and women work well together you know that's why you know a married couple can can complement each other because sometimes they just kind of remind you of things where there are dangers and on the other hand you can help them get through some of that stuff as well and you play off each other right but here he said that day shall egypt be like unto women it should be afraid of fear because of the shaking of the hand of the lord of hosts which he shaketh over it they are the weaker vessel which is why they need the stronger vessel you know often to help them as well and to be to be that strong rock to not be in fear and you know as men we shouldn't be kind of you know walking tiptoeing around and hiding everywhere you know because we're we should be a bit different we should complement each other well egypt here was to be defenseless okay in fear because of god's dealing with them revelation 6 13 says of that day that day being when christ returns and and that starts with that day so christ returns then there's things that go on from that day right but it says in revelation 6 13 and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind and we just read in that day shall egypt be like unto women it should be afraid of fear because of the shaking of the hand of the lord of hosts which he shaketh over it and it said in that day so again no coincidence there for me verse 17 where we are said and the land of judah shall be a terror unto egypt everyone that maketh mentioner shall be afraid in himself because of the counsel of the lord of hosts which is determined against it so with with the day of the lord that day will then come the rule and reign of christ where he will will rule with a rod of iron and we've just seen that the land should be a terror unto egypt revelation 19 15 says and out of his mouth go the sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron so as much as we're looking forward to that rule of reign of christ yeah it's not like some kind of i don't know some liberal christian types might think we're all just kind of floating around and you know nothing it's he's gonna be rolling with a rod of iron it's gonna be uh the proper ruling of the world with with the only with the king of kings ruling but he's rolling with a rod of iron and it said and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of wrath of almighty god because it starts with the wrath of god going out and with him then the ruling and reigning it's still going to be with a rod of iron with the law of god well there will be a healthy fear alongside that won't there there'll be a healthy fear of the lord ruling a reigning and here we saw that that the land of judah and that's where he'll be ruling and reigning from shall be a terror unto egypt everyone that maketh mention or should be afraid in himself because of the council of the lord of host which he had determined against it and back you know in the days of the asyrian conquest of egypt remember that judah had previously miraculously succeeded against the asyrians so the asyrians had come to to before this before the point he's prophesying of so before they eventually invade egypt they'd come and laid siege to jerusalem and then the angel of the lord just went out at night and killed 185 000 of them in in one night so maybe that's kind of the initial fulfillment of this maybe there was that fear of judah with them being able to deal with the asyrians and now the asyrians are invading egypt you know sort of have a have a long after that but verse 18 then says in that day shall five cities in the land of egypt speak the language of canan and swear to the lord of hosts one shall be called the city of destruction now picturing the millennial reign with many putting their faith in christ speaking as as god's people you could say they're speaking the language of canan being that region and you know where they're putting their faith in christ they'll be speaking like you know god's people but back in 673 bc on the back of hezekiah's reign now into manasseh's reign there was some i think probably some mass conversion of the egyptians reaching out to the lord in that time of trouble so on the back of that trouble on the back of that invasion by the asyrians i think there was verse 19 says in that day shall there be an altar to the lord in the midst of the land of egypt and the pillar at the border thereof to the lord 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 savior and a great one and he shall deliver them now according to historians this was possibly i think they call him sam eticus the first of sayus the the founder of the 26th dynasty in egypt now whether or not it was we know from the bible there was definitely some sort of revolt like i mentioned earlier the the deliverance was evidenced in second kings 23 29 in jesiah's reign where in his days pharaoh nico king of egypt went up against king of asyria to the river euphrates and king jesiah went against him and he slew him at megiddo when he had seen him so of course he then ended up killing jesiah but pharaoh nico king of egypt was going up to battle the asyrians during the asyrian empire so they'd already at this point obviously somehow according to historians had already basically broken away from that from that uh empire and then we see uh at least one of the um uh you know one of those in the line from that sam eticus the first going up to to battle with them as well now maybe he was a savior or maybe it was one of his predecessors as historians think egypt was eventually delivered that's the point okay it was delivered from the asyrians it wasn't under asyrian occupation when we then go into the babylonian empire so verse 21 said and the lord shall be known to egypt the egyptians shall know the lord in that day and shall do sacrifice and ablation 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 entreated of them and shall heal them which isn't something that we see documented many other places so this conversion of the egyptians in the bible although last week if you remember we did see psalm 68 31 saying princes shall come out of egypt ethiopia shall soon stretch out our hands unto god so it is prophesied here i've got no reason to doubt that this happened then this is clearly talking about for me the the asyrians coming in at this point it's talking about that period of time but i do think obviously obviously with our prophecy of the end times in that day to come egypt representing the world where it says then the lord should be known to egypt the egyptians shall know the lord in that day should do sacrifice and ablation yeah they shall vow a vow unto the lord and perform it the lord shall smite egypt he shall smite and heal it and they shall return even to the lord he should be entreated of them and shall heal them representing the world there the lord will smite the world as we've looked at with the wrath of god for those that sort of three and a half year period not half for that seven year period but he will then heal it too okay with a thousand years of the rule and reign of the lord jesus christ okay being a time of the healing of the land and where where the lord's ruling and reigning with his saints with us alongside him from jerusalem verse 23 says in that day shall there be a highway out of egypt to asyria and the asyrians shall come into egypt and the egyptian into asyria and the egyptians shall serve with the asyrians in that day shall israel be the third with egypt and with asyria even a blessing in the midst of the land whom the lord of hosts shall bless saying blessed be egypt my people and asyria the work of my hands and israel mine inheritance so definitely picturing the millennial reign there with egypt being called his people asyria the work of his hands alongside israel his inheritance how does that work well colossians 3 11 says where there is neither greek nor jew circumcision or uncircumcision barbarian sithian bond nor free but christ is all and in all and when it comes to salvation there is only one people isn't it it's the people of god and and that's that's how it is now that's how it will continue no there ain't no special extra special jews there's no extra special anything else if you put your faith in christ you're god's people and here we see that example there egypt asyria israel all one all being given different names of being god's people and that's how it will be in the millennial reign to come with all those that have died in christ or stayed alive in christ till that rapture ruling reign with christ from whatever walk of life from whatever background from whatever nation um so that was uh that was isaiah 19 for me uh look and you might be going i don't know all these different pictures of the end times taken up with god because that's what he's got isaiah doing for me that's clear as day there i hope you agree um and but also some interesting stuff about what seemed to happen with the egyptians at that time and because sometimes you can look at it you're in the barn we're just thinking well it was just all just it's just israel you know it's only people around there no there are other people other nations that were you know getting saved we see obviously with you know for example jonah going and preaching the ninnovites and all these different you know different places jeremiah going out as a prophet to the nations and here we see i think a conversion of the egyptians at least many of them at that time but ultimately it's a picture of the end times right now as i was on 19 on that we're going to finish in a word of prayer father thank you for your word thank you for um lord well the the pictures of you know the times to come that helps us to understand it more lord we know they're pictures but there's truths we can gain from that truth we can glean from that lord and especially as we compare it to the the clearer scripture on times to come uh when you said you know the when you were you were asked by the by those disciples about what would be the signs of your coming and of the end of the world lord um with you know we look forward to to that day when you return we know there's going to be some hard times before that and help us to all just persevere in the meantime lord help us to um just persevere and i'll walk with you lord persevere and um just just serving you lord and doing what you want us to do and and ultimately preaching to the lost help us to get many people saved um you know without somebody like thursday and um and to return on sunday and to get um you know to get to just get out again so when you help us to to all just have a have a safe journey home lord and a good end of the week in jesus name i'm in