"The LORD Has Mingled A Perverse Spirit In Her Midst..."

             God's Word depicts Egypt as a type of the world. Israel's relation to Egypt was similar to our....the churches in America....relation to the world and its systems today. Of all the references to Egypt in the bible....in this vein....chapter 19 of Isaiah seems to be the most comprehensive....for in it we see God's prophecy of what would happen to Egypt in the short term....and at the end of the ages.
             Please read if you will these twenty-five verses....with the help of a study bible for historical perspective....particularly the first seventeen verses that relate to today....and meditate on what you are reading.....for you will see an Egypt where....Egyptian will be set against Egyptian....."Everyone will fight against his brother".....and where all the idols that Egypt depended upon will "totter"....and...."the heart of Egypt will melt"....and that Pharaoh's "wise counselors"....will give "foolish counsel."
             Isaiah would ask..."Where are they.....Where are your wise men?"....for there were no wise princes anymore. Verse fourteen is particularly disturbing as we look at our country today...."The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst; and they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit."