Egypt's Civil War On Holiday?

I was all set to explain in this blog why I suspected that the demonstrators in Cairo's municipal squares could be expected to take a "holiday" break from their confrontations until the Ramadan period of month-long fasting was over.  In fact I figured that the Army's "non-coup" coup was planned to nearly coincide with the Ramadan month, so that if protests got out of hand, they could be expected to calm down considerably, and perhaps disappear after thirty days of fasting.

But I forgot that the Muslim concept of fasting is not close to resembling the Biblical concept of fasting.  While it certainly qualifies, technically speaking, it could more accurately be called thirty days of half-day fasts; or thirty days of skipping a couple of meals per day.  The presumption here is that practitioners would most likely eat a huge pre-dawn meal, which would suffice until another huge post-sunset feast.  (If my presumption is incorrect, someone please straighten me out on this; this blog has been getting multiple "pageview" hits from Muslim countries, especially from the United Arab Emirates, so somebody out there should know).

The fact is that God will honor any sincere form of fasting, to some degree, but the Bible makes clear that He measures our sincerity on how we are striving to draw closer to Him, and His ways, rather than that we are trying to get Him to take our side in our on-going strife with our enemies ( see Isaiah 58: verses 4,& 5).  His concept of fasting is designed to draw people together in God's Love, rather than to make us better fighters than our enemies.

So when I heard on the news today that the demonstrations are continuing, and that seven more people died in fighting, with 400 arrests, I realized that there are many people in Egypt (probably on both sides) who are more interested in continuing to stir up war-mongering strife against their enemies, than they are in sincerely drawing closer to God.  That being the case, it would seem logical (Biblically speaking) that God would give them exactly what they want:  a costly, and very bloody civil war that resembles closely the one prophecied in Isaiah 19.