Still Watching Egypt After Five Years

I began writing my blog almost 5 years ago.  So far it still exists under almost the same title, "The End-Times News Review", at the following address:  http://endtimesnews.blog.com/ which can usually be found listed on Google within a few places of this blog.  Initially, I wanted to remain as anonymous as possible so I wrote always in the first-person plural tense ( if "we" said something stupid it would be harder to blame me for it!), but other than that readers should be able to recognize that it's my writing style ( endless "run-on sentences", and all). 

Anyway, back in December of 2008 I wrote a post stating that perhaps the Egyptian Civil War that God spoke of in Isaiah 19, and which didn't seem to have happened yet, might have begun in the conflict in Sudan.  There the Sudanese Army which was loyal to the Al-Quaida influenced "Muslim Brotherhood" in Egypt was carrying out a systematic genocidal war against the Christian, and Animist Rebels of the southwestern Darfur Province.  I speculated that this might spread to the point that Egypt might feel compelled to intervene, though on whose side is anybody's guess.

 Biblically speaking, this is relevant because in the time period when Isaiah 19 was written the nation we now call Sudan was known as "Upper Egypt", while modern day Egypt was known as "Lower Egypt".  This was apparently a topographical distinction since "Upper Egypt" was at a significantly higher elevation than was "Lower Egypt".  So a civil war in any part of the region could have been referred to as a civil war in Egypt.       

As things developed over the years, I kept writing follow-up posts, especially as the "Arab Spring" uprisings eventually created the popular overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak (see posts for Dec. 2008, Feb. 2010, Mar.2011, May 3, and 11, 2011, and May 5, 2012). 

Now we are seeing renewed rioting in the streets, similar to that which forced the resignation of Mubarak.  Everyone, except the "Muslim Brotherhood", apparently is fed up with President Morsi's government and are demanding his resignation.  The standoff has apparently troubled the Egyptian Army whose generals have given "both sides" ( read Morsi) an ultimatum to work out a compromise, or they will "step in", probably on the side of the rebellion.  Either way, it seems the situation is ripe for civil war!  If the Army were to back the "Rebels" ( comprised of moderate, largely secularized Muslims, and Coptic Christians who are being persecuted, and even killed by Muslim Brotherhood thugs), there are enough radical Muslims in the Brotherhood, in Egypt and in the surrounding countries ( like Sudan), that a full scale civil war would seem inevitable.

As I believe that this prophecy (in Isaiah 19) probably will precede the Russian led Gog/Magog war of Ezekiel 38, and 39, I had previously written that "all eyes" should be watching Egypt, since any prophecied invasion forces from Lybia, and Ethiopia would have to pass through Egypt to attack Israel.  My opinion in this regard has not changed, though I'll admit I've been somewhat distracted by the rebellion in Syria.

Perhaps I should simply say, "keep one eye on Egypt, and the other on Syria".  Then if you're not too cross-eyed after that, it will soon be time to say, "Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh!!!"