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THE BREAKING OF EGYPT

In the second month of 2011, we have seen Egypt's endtime propheticdestiny begin to unfold, manifesting before the eyes of the world: Check outthe prophecy of Isaiah 19:

"The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord RIDETH upon a swift cloud,and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at hispresence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. And I will set theEgyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against hisbrother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city and kingdomagainst kingdom. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I

will destroy the counsel thereof' and they shall seek to the idols, and to thecharmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And theEgyptians will I give over into the hand of acruel lord; and a fierce king shallrule over them, saith the Lord of hosts."

Did we not see the underlined portion of Isaiah's prophecy transpire rightbefore our eyes on public television???

Is this "cruel lord," the fierce king"Hosni Mubarak or is this cruel oneMubarak's replacement? With Mubarak forced to resign, the rest of thisprophecy declares that "things are going to get a lot worst." Read the entirechapter for yourself: Isaiah 19. I believe that it is very important thatwe watch Egypt, for as the prophecy continues to unfold, we may get asense of how long it will be before the Lord returns. Certainly not the hour,the day or the month, but we may be able to know "the year" by "watchingEgypt."

What stands out for me is that Isaiah prophecied that after the revolutionrecently fought by neighbor against neighbor in the public square, thefighting, though quieted now, will spread---from internal fighting that spreadeven beyond the boarders of Egypt into "other kingdoms". Besidescatastrophic environmental upheavals, Isaiah also declared in the rest of thechapter that Egypt shall be taken over "by Canaan." Who is present dayCanaan?

According to the New World Encyclopedia, present day Canaan is Israel.

Canaan is an ancient term for a region approximating present-dayIsrael, theWest Bank and the Gaza Strip, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of

Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Canaanites are mentioned extensively in theBible, as well as in Mesopotamian andAncient Egyptian texts. According tothe Bible, the land of Canaan was the "promised land" which God gave toAbraham and his descendants. The Canaanites themselves, however, wereconsidered to be the implacable enemies of the Israelites, who practiced adecadent and idolatrous religion. Contemporary archaeologists, however, seemuch continuity between the Canaanite population and the early Israelites,with whom they shared a common language and customs.

So if this is an endtime prophecy, then Isaiah has predicted that present dayEgypt shall be taken over by present day Israel. Whether it be a gradual
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GOD BREAKSUS TO HEALUS!

YOU MUST BELOST, IN

ORDER TO BEFOUND!

infiltration or an out and out invasion, Isaiah says that the seizure shall be socomplete, that Egyptians in five cities will end up speaking the language ofthese "Canaanites." As to the language of Canaan, I again quote the NewWorld Encyclopedia:

The Canaanite language refers to a group of closely related Semiticlanguages. Hebrew was once a southern dialect of the Canaanite language,

and Ugaritic, a northern one. Canaanite is the first language to use a Semiticalphabet, from which most other scripts derive. your life has been one ofintense problems, failures, oppositions, persecutions and pressure, then thiscould be a sign of preparation for the prophetic ministry. I have yet to meet aprophet who has had life of smooth sailing, easy success and personalrecognition. As I said earlier, the prophetic call is a call to death. Like theapostle, the prophet must have the sentence of death in himself. He mustsacrifice all for the sake of the ministry. He must die completely to self.

In other words, Egyptians are going to end up speaking Hebrew!!! Theinfiltration seems to be an invasion, almost as God's continuedretribution against Egypt's 400 years enslavement of the people of Abraham,delivered by Moses. Here is the scripture:

" The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and theyhave caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggerethin hisvomit. Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,branch or rush, may do In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and itshall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord ofhosts, which he shaketh over it. And the land of Judau shall be a terror untoEgypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,becuse of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he (the Lord) hathdetermined against it." (verses 14-17)

What really stands out for me in Isaiah 19 are verses 19-25 that refer to theLord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It seems to me that this outstanding eventMUST take place immediately AFTER the end of the age when the Lord comesback to earth with the departed saints and those who are alive at His coming.Just before the Lord returns, Egyptians "shall cry unto the Lord because ofthe oppression that they will receive at the hand of Israel and the Savior willbe sent to the Egyptians to deliver them. This prophecy of Isaiah causes meto wonder whether or not the Anti-Christ is an Israelite.More on that in the future.

For now, I focus my attention to Isaiah's prophetic words: "in that day shallthere be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar atthe border thereof to the Lord." If the Lord comes and delivers Egypt "inperson," then this is a prophecy that will transpire AFTER the Lord comesback. So logically speaking, if we watch what happens in Egyptas prophesied by Isaiah, then we can get a sense of when the Lord is comingback. How long does it take for a country to be so overtaken that the captivesend up speaking the language of their oppressors? The answer to thatquestion will determine whether you and I are alive when the Lord returns.

From a personal perspective, what REALLY strikes my attention is that theLord intends to break Egypt in order to heal Egypt. He broke Egypt inthe days of Moses, yet the Egyptians were not healed at that time. However,when the Lord descends to rule all nations, He will have pity on theEgyptians. Where salvation and deliverance are concerned, the process isthe same: God breaks in order to heal. To resist the breaking is to delay thehealing. There are so many believers in God the Father who resist God theSon and God the Holy Ghost. For example, Muslims go directly to theFather, call Him "Allah," and relegate the Lord to the role of prophet andteacher, denying His divinity. Even so, my particular burden is professing


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SPIRITUALGROWTHCOMES FROMBROKENNESS

THE 4PERSONALITYTYPES:

THE LEADER

Christians, who sought the Father, and who ignored either the Son, the HolyGhost, or both. Among them are those who believe that they were savedeither by repeating a sinner's prayer or responding to an invitation toChristian discipleship and declaring "I accepted Jesus.' In order to behealed, these people must be broken. As the Lord will use the terror of Israelto break the Egyptians, the Lord allows the terror invoked by the enemy tobreak those who believe that they are saved but they are not.

Here are some guidelines to unravel any confusion about this one statement,namely, one must know that he is lost before he can be found:

Salvation is certainly a blessing but we are drawn by the Holy Ghost to thecross through a personal crisis. Preacher Paul Washer calls it "a crisis ofbelief." A crisis of belief is where you are brought to a place whereeverything you once believed is challenged and found to be in error. Thiscrisis is crucial to salvation;

Since we really don't have a true conception of our own sin, the HolyGhost will convict you of sin, to the extent that you actually LOATH it. Onlyif you look within, see your own sinful nature and hate it, will you actuallyunderstand your need for salvation.

The NEED of a Saviour must be felt before the Saviour Himself will come

in. Just inviting Him with words is not enough. The DEPTH of one's fall must be experienced, or else the height, and

depth, and breadth, and length of salvation cannot be understood.

Only the Holy Spirit can bring the fallen one to know himself and hiscondition. In order to be saved, you must SEE that in YOU DWELLS NOGOOD THING.

the pride of life must be broken down.

Interestingly enough, this week I commented on a facebook note which was astatement about what are the signs of a true prophet of God. The author ofthe note identified 10 signs. I was only impressed with the 10th sign:

If you are called to be a prophet, then your preparation will span many years

and will be one of the most difficult and troublesome processes. The prophetwill be battered and broken and brought to nothing in himself before he canbe of any use to the Kingdom of God. He will have to learn not to trust inhimself or in his own abilities. His knowledge and natural strengths will betried in the fire and brought to naught before God can use him.

This word causes me to want to study the life of Isaiah more deeply. This is aman who did not live to see most of his prophecies come to past. Not to putmyself on the level of prophets like Isaiah, I must admit that the 10th point isvery similar to my own life. This is my 30th year in ministry and I have not yetlived to see the fruit of it. In fact, I don't expect that the books that I write willbecome important until after I am dead and gone, if the Lord doesn't comeback first. The Lord has battered and broken me more times than I canremember. Yet, once I understood the reason for the breaking, it stopped.


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THE THINKER

THE FEELER

THE WORKER

WHAT TYPE AREYOU?

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An excerpt from my first book, To Curse the Root.Breaking

Much effort can be saved and spiritual growth can be obtained if wegive up the struggle and submit ourselves to the breaking. I can recall

a significant example from my own experience. I myself tend to fall

under all four (4) personality categories---THE LEADER, THE

THINKER, THE FEELER AND THE WORKER--- and therefore.have had to endure more breaking than the average person.

However, my breaking as a worker is a good example of the

persistency of the Holy Ghost. In the early years of my career in stategovernment, I was extremely ambitious. Even though my nature was

not conducive to the requirements of politics, my goal was to one daybecome a director or a commissioner. It took me three periods of

unemployment for it to finally dawn on me that this was not the

Lords purpose for my life. As soon as I would gain some stature atmy place of employment, I would be laid off from excellent jobs

with career potential: first for six (6) months, then for another six (6)

months, then for nine (9) months, and

finallyfor fourteen (14) months! While unemployed, I learned how to trustJesus Christ in times of want as opposed to trusting in my own

abilities. I also learned how to yield to authority. It is interesting tonote that once the necessary lessons of trust and humility had been

mastered, I continued to be employed at my last job for seventeen

(17) years. When it was time to go, I did not resist the Lord.

In fact, the series of experiences that I have learned over time haveprovided information concerning my overall purpose in life. In

matters of relationship, the Holy Spirit will often use our experiences

with significant others, particularlywith the opposite sex to break us

in several areas. Three outstanding personality traits that require the

Lords breaking include: esteem, pride and vanity. The breaking of

these three characteristics is very important because a life of selfconfrontation is an open door to CURSING THE ROOT!


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AN EXCERPT FROM THE NEW IDOLATRY

CONCERNING OLD TESTAMENT EGYPT

If we are to understand the overall consequence and symbolic

meaning of the plagues, we need to understand who the

Egyptian gods were and what the Egyptians believed was the

authority and power of each of the gods that they worshipped.

To these gods, prayers were invoked and sacrifices were madefor centuries. The whole picture becomes understandable when

we realize the extent of the identification of the demon gods with

the land, the water and the sky of Egypt. In his book, The

Invisible War, the late Donald Grey Barnhouse paints an

impressive picture of Gods message within the plagues, for with

each of 10 judgments, God made the demon gods as nothing:

The first of the judgments was upon the waters of Egypt. Not

only the Nile, but the other waters of the lands, even the water

that was drawn for use in the houses, and which was kept in

wooden vessels and stone jars, turned to blood, and for sevendays the whole land was in this horror, with the fish dying and

the rivers stinking. (Exodus 7:19-25.) In order to comprehend

the loss of face that this plague must have been for the gods of

Egypt we must realize how important and numerous were the

gods of the river. Osiris, one of the chief gods of Egypt, was first

of all god of the Nile, He together with his companion, the mother

god, Isis, and their child Horus, were human-headed gods, among

the many that had heads of birds, beasts and reptiles.1

The first plague was an insult to gods like Khnum, the

guardian of the Nile. Hapi was identified with the great originalgods who were believed to have created the world, regarded as

the maker and molder of everything within the universe.

Imagine the horror and frustration of the people of Egypt as they

gazed at that which was formerly beautiful only to find dead fish

1D.G. Barnhouse, The Invisible War, The Panorama of the Continuing Conflict Between Good and Evil,

Zondervan Pub.p 203


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lining its shores. Dead fish lined the shores of Arkansas, a

significant state within the bible belt of both traditional religion

and the charismatic movement. Bible Beltis an informal term for

an area of the United States in which socially conservative

evangelicalProtestantismis a significant part of the culture and

Christian church attendance across the denominations isextremely high. 2

Likewise, the next nine plagues proved the emptiness of the

powers of the gods of Egypt: 3

Plague 2: The land was covered with an abundance of frogs.,

mocking the Egyptian god Hekt---who had the head of a frog---a

god who was said to be the creator of the world. Amulets and

scarabs were worn by Egyptian women to protect them during

childbirth, bearing the image of Hekt for protection. Even the

involuntary slaughter of a frog was often punished with death.When the hundreds of thousands of frogs died, their decaying

bodies created an awful stench throughout Egypt. The people

had to gather the decaying bodies of the frogs and put them into

heaps.

Plague 3: Known for its rich soil and its crops of onions, garlic,

leeks, melons and luscious fruits of all kinds, the god of the earth

called Geb was rendered powerless, unable to exterminate the

sand flies and fleas. The priests could no longer duplicate their

magic of former days as they were distracted by the constant

itching. In fact, this particular plague was especially horrendousfor the priests, for they were required to shave their heads every

day, and wear a single tunic, so that no lice could come upon

their bodies.

Plague 4: The swarms of flies had a religious significance due to

the sacred scarab among the gods of Egypt. Deification of the

scarab beetle is still seen in Egypt today. Amon-Ra was a god

known in many forms, a real mockery to his power. However,

most often, he had a head of a beetle. Imagine the confusion that

covered the land at the arrival of swarms of insects worshiped as

sacred into their homes. The plague of the swarms had yetanother humiliating facet to it. This is the first plague in which

God made a distinction between His people and the Egyptians---

the swarms staying away from the land of Goshen where His

people resided. The swarms came upon the Hamites in Egypt,

2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt

3Ibid, pg. 205-212.
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but their slaves went untouched.

Plague 5: The fifth plague was against the domestic animals of

Egypt. Horses and cattle were not only beloved but they were

also considered sacred. In fact, the Egyptians worshiped many

animal-headed gods. For example, the god Apis had a head of abull and had been worshiped in Egypt since around 3000 BC.

Hathor was a cow-headed goddess of the desert, a woman with

the head of a cow. She was considered the symbolic mother of

Pharaoh himself. Khnum was the ram-god while Bast was the cat

goddess of love. Once again, the disease bypassed the herds of

cattle belonging to the Israelites.

Plague 6: Against the bodies of the Egyptians, painful boils

affected the knees, legs, and the soles of the feet. Because o the

boils, Pharaohs magicians couldnt stand. Tainted with the

disease themselves, the magicians and the priests were unable tocarry out their religious duties. Certainly, this particular plague

mocked Serapis, the god of healing, for like leprosy, this disease

was incurable. Also, this incurable disease was an affront to

Imhotep, the god of medicine and to Thoth, the ibis-headed god

of intelligence and medical learning.

Plague 7: This wonder must have inspired terror to the hearts of

the Egyptians when a great storm occurred in a nation that

rarely received any rain at all. Besides rain, the sky poured down

both hail and fire. Where was Shu, the wind god Where was

Nut, the sky goddess? Why couldnt they protect the land fromthese horrendous outbreaks that were supposed to be under

their command?

Plague 8: Rather than summarize, here is a direct quotation:

There seems to have been a long interval between some of the

earlier plagues, but the eighth followed hard on the seventh.

Locusts were brought into the land. It would appear that this

was a new thing for Egypt. Locusts have been known in other

places, but now the dread scourge of western North Africa and of

western Asia was to come into the land of the Nile where it had

not been known before. Every grain and twig and leaf that hadescaped the fire and the hail was now taken by the locusts.

Where was Nepri, the grain god? Where was Ermutet, goddess of

childbirth and crops? Where was Anubis, jackal-headed

guardian of the fields? Above all, where was Osiris, great head of

the Hamitic trinity, who was also an agricultural god? The


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people of Egypt lost all faith in their gods. 4

Plague 9: The mockery of the great god Ra was saved for last.

Believed to be the god of the Sun, there was no sign of Ra when

the Almighty God turned off all light. Other gods were not left

out. Ptah was believed to have created the moon, but the moonwas darkened. Tem was the god of sunset and Shu was the god

of sunlight and air. Once more, God made a division between His

people and the Egyptians. Though Egyptwas dark, Gods people

had light in their dwellings.

Plague 10: This one can stand for them all because it was the

most memorable, the death of the first born of Egypt, both

human and animal. The importance of the firstborn was focused

in the right of inheritance because the firstborn received a major

portion of a family estate when the father died. So the death of

the firstborn crippled a family both legally and emotionally.5 Thefirstborn of Gods people were spared as long as they had blood

on their doorposts. Where there was blood on the door, there

was no death in the house and the death angel passed over

them, a symbol of what the Lord Jesus Christ was to be and to do

at the cross, a redemption where, in order to reveal to the

universe that the victory over death was complete, the Holy

Ghost invaded the very dust of the earth at the Lords

resurrection and took out a select sample of old testament saints,

giving them resurrected bodies. (Matthew 25:51-53) Complete

conquering over death is predicted to occur at the Lords second

coming to rescue and deliver the rest of His people from thegrave, and changing those who are alive from mortality to

immortality.

Consequently, I perceive some basic principles that can be

gleaned from an exploration of how God delivered His people out

of the hands of Pharaoh to understand how He will also deliver

the elect out of the hands of the Antichrist when He opens the 7

vial and the 7 seal judgments outlined by the Apostle John in the

book of Revelation. These judgments or plagues are listed in the

8th chapter: earthquakes, the sea becomes blood, 1/3 of the

creatures of the sea die, 1/3 of the rivers and waters arecontaminated, darkness with 1/3 of the light turned off of the

moon, the sun and the stars, locusts that torment the unsaved

only for 5 months, 1/3 of men killed by war.

4Ibid, pg. 209

5www.padfield.com/acrobat/history/gods_of_egypt.pdf


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Endtime plagues certainly bear noticeable similarities to the

10 wonders that came upon Egypt, i.e the contamination of

water, weather disturbances, death of sea creatures, darkness,

and death, with Gods people being protected. The 20th verse of

Revelation 9 hits the nail on the proverbial head for those who

practice idolatry in end times:

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues

yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not

worship devils, and idols of gold, silver, brass, and stone, and of

wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither

repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of

their fornication, nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:20, 21)

When we consider the four horsemen riding on various

colored horses, chemical warfare is foreshadowed. (Rev 6:1-8)

The word for pale in the Greek is chloros, an offshoot of ourEnglish word chemical. The rider of the pale horsedeath---

will destroy of the worlds population. The red horse of war,

the black horse of famine and the pale horse of death are

obvious. However, who is on the white horse? Some believe him

to be Christ. However, I believe that he is the Antichrist,

mimicking the true Christ who shall also come on a white horse.

(Rev 19:11-16) We should not be surprised because the

Antichrist is seeking to win the world by counterfeiting Jesus and

drawing people to worship him and the devil. In fact, it stands to

reason that the Antichrist could be a professing Christian

himself. This is what the New Idolatry is all about----how thespirit of the Antichrist has and will continue to delude professing

Christians.

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