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Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
Day 
Day 319

"When I have set a fire in Egypt"

Text: Ezekiel 30:8

EGYPT SET ON FIRE

The Lord decreed that Egypt would be devastated. He would set the nation on fire. It would be a conflagration that none would be able to put out.

“Then they will know that I am the Lord,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”
Ezekiel 30:8-9

1. A divine fire forewarned.

a) God Himself would light this fire.

b) This fire would also destroy all the helpers and allies of Egypt.

c) Then would all know and fear the Lord God of Israel.

2. Messengers from the Lord.

a) These would refer to the Babylonians.

b) They are not prophetic messengers.

c) They would be simply “military messengers”.

d) They had been sent by God to punish Egypt and her many allies.

3. The transportation of the messengers.

a) They would ply the River Nile that Egypt boasts about.

b) There would be numerous shiploads of these military messengers.

c) There would be hordes of them.

4. Their arrival and presence.

a) They would catch the complacent Egyptians by surprise.

b) The Egyptians had become careless for they believed that they knew the Nile far better than any other nation.

c) They were proven wrong.

5. “The day of Egypt”

a) This was also called “The day of the Lord”.

b) This would be a day of anguish for Egypt and its allies.

c) That day was prophesied and it would come upon Egypt as God had forewarned.