“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?
Read this chapter of prophecy and learn about fate.
God speaks to Pharaoh about Assyria and lays out a full chapter about another nation. Then as the chapter ends declares “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”
Why is Egypt fated to be like Assyria?
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,
Pride! What were they so proud about?
I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Wickedness, its evil ways.
Pharaoh did not heed God’s warning.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
The title for this chapter of Isaiah’s prophecy is “The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed“.
And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
Our fate is sealed in failing to heed the warnings of prophecy. Tomorrow we will speak of “Godlessness in the Last Days”.