Ezekiel 30

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Egypt was a great and many surrounding cities supported her desires.  God uses an allegory to tell the fate of Egypt and all the people who helpes her sin.  This African nation has been around for many many years building and making themselves well established and well known, not giving honor to God.  God uses Ezekiel to pronounce the judgment on a nation who refused to except Him as the true and living God.  When we are given talents and the ability to make things happen and we do not give God the honor due Him, we are building a grave for ourselves.  To be taught of God is wealth in itself.  Many of us lose sight of the prosperity in our lives, we fail to realialize it is the Lord's doings through us.  Father, help us to remember that if we do any good, it is all because of You. 

In Jesus' Name, Amen

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 

Cry with pain for the day that will come!

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 

God will bring judgment on the ungodly.

And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 

The people of Ethiopia will cry when they see what happened in Egypt.

Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 

All the people in the surrounding areas of Egypt who participated with them shall also be like the people of Egypt.

Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 

When you uphold wrong of others, you will be judged as those who committed wrong.

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 

The people who follow the wrong leadership will be in danger of receiving the same results as those they follow.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 

Then Egypt and her followers will see that God is in charge.

In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 

The news of My judgment will be heard in Ethiopia.  The Ethiopians will be terrified, just like the Egyptians, when they heard the same judgments from God.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 

Egypt will stop the corruption because they will be under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar.

He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 

Nebuchadnezzar will attack and kill many of the people of Egypt and also destroy the land.

And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. 

The  rivers will dry up, and wicked people will buy the land: the land will be wasted, and everything that is left in it; the people left of Egypt will be led by those unknown to the Egyptians: this is what  God told Ezekiel to say.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 

All Egyptian idols will be destroyed, and the people will know I am God.

And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 

And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 

And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 

At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 

Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 

Egypt and all the participating parties will see the judgment of God against them.

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 

God broke the arm of Egypt, and it cannot be healed.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 

To make sure Egypt could not fight God broke the strong arm and return and broke the arm that was already broken.  There was no way Egypt could fight.

And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 

But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 

And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

God repeats what He will use Nebuchadnezzar to do against Egypt.  God will use the Babylonians to bring His anger against Egypt and all who supported her.  Then they will know that God is God.  God spoke all of this before it happened.