Pharaoh & The King of Babylon are Types for.....

[whirlwind]

Ezekiel 30:2-3 Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; 'Howl ye, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

"The time of the heathen." Is this the "times of the Gentiles?" Their time began in 638 when Jerusalem fell to the Muslim forces but their time is almost over.

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 30:4 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 "sword of the Lord" is His Word. They will be spiritually slain by His Word. They will be among those considered "the dead" [Rev.20:5] and must be brought back to life, to everlasting life...if they so choose.


30:5 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.' '

The "mingled" people are Arabs. (Mingled ~ a mixture or mongrel race, braided.) When did this mingled people begin?

Genesis 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

17:20-21 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."

Ezekiel 30:9 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.'

His messengers...His angels go forth in ships! What are those ships? I believe they are the same type of ship Ezekiel described.


30:24 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.

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered after the beast.

13:11-12 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

From that we see just who Pharoah and the king of Babylon are types for. Pharoah is the ruler of Egypt (symbolic of the world)....he is the first beast and the first beast is a one world system. One of the heads of the system is wounded. A "head" is symbolic of mountains and mountains mean nations [Rev. 17:9] So, one of the heads (nations) of this sytem is wounded and that deadly wound is healed. Is this wound the current financial chaos going on? If so....watch to see how it is healed for it is healed by the power of Satan.

So here Pharoah is symbolic of the one world system (first beast) that receives a deadly wound...."I will break Pharoah's arms" and that system will "groan as a deadly wounded man." God deals that blow and at the same time.....puts "My sword in the arms of the king of Babylon!" God gives power to the king...who is this king of Babylon? As Pharoah is symbolic of the first beast of Revelation....the king of Babylon is the second beast [Rev.13:11 above]. He is the instead of christ....mistakenly called anti-christ, the false prophet.


Ezekiel 30:25 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.

The sword is the Word of the Lord and the instead of christ uses His Word but, as he did in the garden....he twists it. God allows Him to do this...He places the sword in his hands and the instead of christ covers the world (Egypt) with his deception.

 

[walter]

I may be missing something, but you do know the Arabs are semitic? They are the sons of Ishmael, Abraham's first born son?

 

[whirlwind]

I may be missing something, but you do know the Arabs are semitic? They are the sons of Ishmael, Abraham's first born son?

Yes. That is why they are "braided." They are half Hebrew and half Gentile.

 

[Joe67]

I may be missing something, but you do know the Arabs are semitic? They are the sons of Ishmael, Abraham's first born son?

walter,

His name was still Abram when Ishmael was born. Changing the name at the promise of Isaac and the instituting the circumcision is significant in the truth of Jesus Christ.

The Lord had not given me to see this distinction and its significance until recently.

Joe

 

[walter]

I may be missing something, but you do know the Arabs are semitic? They are the sons of Ishmael, Abraham's first born son?

walter,

His name was still Abram when Ishmael was born. Changing the name at the promise of Isaac and the instituting the circumcision is significant in the truth of Jesus Christ.

The Lord had not given me to see this distinction and its significance until recently.

Joe

Thanks, both of you.

 

[whirlwind]

I may be missing something, but you do know the Arabs are semitic? They are the sons of Ishmael, Abraham's first born son?

walter,

His name was still Abram when Ishmael was born. Changing the name at the promise of Isaac and the instituting the circumcision is significant in the truth of Jesus Christ.

The Lord had not given me to see this distinction and its significance until recently.

Joe

Thanks, both of you.

You are very welcome Walter and....I thank you too Joe67 for that " :yes distinction."

 

[Sinthesis]

Whirlwind, I would be a lot less concerned with the direction of your lessons if you first explained the original fulfillment of the prophecy before launching into an explanation of its 'future to us fulfillment'. This way we would have a base upon which to see if your parallel views are logically consistent. These prophecies have a correct meaning, as they were originally given for a reason. Parallels to today can be reasonably drawn, but only if they don't contradict the original theme of the prophecy.

Also, God hasn't been bothered about race since 70AD at the latest.

 

[whirlwind]

Whirlwind, I would be a lot less concerned with the direction of your lessons if you first explained the original fulfillment of the prophecy before launching into an explanation of its 'future to us fulfillment'. This way we would have a base upon which to see if your parallel views are logically consistent. These prophecies have a correct meaning, as they were originally given for a reason. Parallels to today can be reasonably drawn, but only if they don't contradict the original theme of the prophecy.

Also, God hasn't been bothered about race since 70AD at the latest.

Good morning Sinthesis,

You have a valid point :yes but, for the sake of brevity (as my posts are usually long) and as the Biblical historical event is written for all of us and as we are all students of His Word.....my focus is on the future fulfillment or...what the past events are shadows and types for and by that I don't mean 70AD. :naughty

I am a little confused about the race comment. You ask me to give more attention to the historical and when I did, you dismiss it? Where is it written that God hasn't been bothered with anything since that momentous time when a little Roman soldier destroyed Jerusalem? Where is it written that was the culmination of all the prophecies? I think God is still "bothering" Himself about many things in this ongoing world age.