The Fall of and 17-18 Partners in sin means partners in judgment A. The Guilty Parties Identified (Isaiah 17:1-3) 1. = Syria (17:1-2) 2. = Northern Kingdom of Israel (17:3) The Fall of Israel and Syria Isaiah 17-18 Partners in sin means partners in judgment B. The Glory of Israel (and Syria) Taken Away (Isaiah 17:4-14) 1. Reduced Power - Glory made thin (17:4-5) 2. Remnant Left only a Shadow of the Former State (17:6) 3. Repentance (self-realization)Too Late (17:7-9) 4. Reasons For the Removal of Glory (17:10-13) a. Rejection of God (v 10) , Deuteronomy 8:11 b. Self-righteousness (17:11) c. Worldly alliances (17:12-13) 5. Results of Glory Removed (17:14)

The Fall of Israel and Syria Isaiah 17-18 Partners in sin means partners in judgment C. The Burden of (:1-7) 1. Consider the Present Judgment of God on His People (18:1-2) a. A specific people in mind (v 1) b. A searching people in mind (v 2) 2. Consider the Call of God (18:3) a. See the sign b. Heed the trumpet

The Fall of Israel and Syria Isaiah 17-18 Partners in sin means partners in judgment C. The Burden of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1-7) - continued 3. Consider the Future Judgment of God (18:4-6) a. My time is coming (18:4) b. A time of pruning (18:5) c. A time of destruction (18:6) 4. Consider the Redemption of God (Isaiah 18:7) a. Worship required b. Israel glorified c. God’s place of rule established

The Judgment of -20

Egypt has a significant role in God’s plan I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) A. The Object of Judgment - Idolatry (19:1) Isaiah 19:1 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 his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) 1. Civil war (v 2) Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) - continued 2. Spirit broken - No help from the idols (v 3) Isaiah 19:3 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 the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) - continued 3. Foreign rule (v 4) Isaiah 19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) - continued 4. judged (vv 5-10) a. River delta blocked with dirt (vv 5-6) Isaiah 19:5-6 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) 4. Nile judged (vv 5-10) - continued b. Papyri gone (v 7) Isaiah 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. c. Fish gone (v 8) Isaiah 19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) 4. Nile judged (vv 5-10) - continued d. Economy devastated (vv 9-10) Isaiah 19:9-10 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 1) Linen industry failed (v 9) 2) Fishing industry failed (v 10) I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) 5. Royal lineage destroyed by intermarriage (vv 11-13) Isaiah 19:11-13 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. I. Fulfilled Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:1-15) B. The Nature of the Judgment (19:2-15) 6. Society crippled (vv 14-15) Isaiah 19:14-15 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) Isaiah 19:16-17 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

A. The timeframe = Great Tribulation (19:16)

B. A national fear (19:16-17)

II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) C. A national judgment and turning to God (19:18-22) (continued) 1. Hebrew is widespread language (v 18) Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of , and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) C. A national judgment and turning to God (19:18-22) (continued) 2. Egyptians saved through Christ (vv 19-20) Isaiah 19:19-20 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) C. A national judgment and turning to God (19:18-22) (continued) 3. Egyptians worshipping God (v 21) Isaiah 19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) C. A national judgment and turning to God (19:18-22) (continued) 4. Egypt purged of sin (v 22) Isaiah 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) D. A national blessing by God (19:23-25) 1. Access through Israel (v 23) Isaiah 19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to , and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. II. Future Prophecy Concerning Egypt (Isaiah 19:16-25) D. A national blessing by God (19:23-25) - continued 2. God glorified (vv 24-25) Isaiah 19:24-25 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

III. Figure of Coming Prophecy from the Prophet (:1-6) A. The prompting of God = Invasion by Assyrian Tartan (20:1) Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto , (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

2 Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king with a great host against . And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. III. Figure of Coming Prophecy from the Prophet (Isaiah 20:1-6) B. The picture from God - Outer mourning garments shed (20:2-3) Isaiah 20:2-3 2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of , saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; III. Figure of Coming Prophecy from the Prophet (Isaiah 20:1-6) C. The promise from God (20:4-6) 1. Humbled in defeat by Assyria (vv 4-5) Isaiah 20:4-5 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. III. Figure of Coming Prophecy from the Prophet (Isaiah 20:1-6) C. The promise from God (20:4-6) - continued 2. These two countries would not provide needed help Isaiah 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?