Isaiah 19:15
15 Neither shall there be any work [ma`aseh] for Egypt [Mitsrayim],
which the head [ro'sh] or tail [zanab], branch [kippah] or rush ['agmown], may do [`asah]. KJV-Interlinear
15 And there will be no work for
Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do. NASB
This verse is sort of
an economic summing up of all of the previous verses. Jesus Christ controls history. Not Satan.
Not man. In various passages the
stormy seas paint a picture of mans and Satans attempts at self-control over
their own destinies, but the seas always fall back into their assigned places.
And this principle is largely
never understood by people in general, and certainly not by the vast majority
of world leaders throughout history. That
is why they fail, and certainly why they will never succeed.
And in those fateful
and final days of history, Egypt, being the example of this chapter, provides
us with a clear picture of the dependence of man on its resources. Those resources, or the Nile, being that
source of prosperity, is removed by the simple act of reduced rain.
Gods role is not
considered, and thus mans plans for recovery become many and varied and mostly
covering ones own backside. And they
fail one after another. The economy
fails and now people in mass, are out of work.
Both the rich and the
poor, the high and the low, the strong and the weak, the notable and the
common, everyone across the spectrum of human status or culture or class or
cast or however you want to classify humanity, all of them will be out of work.
And that common economic disaster will be felt by everyone.
And we have already
seen in prior studies, that this will lead to anarchy, over which the anti-christ
will seize control and use this region in his greater plan for destroying
Israel.
But as we have already
seen, even this plan of Satan’s is not really his plan but him falling into the
divine plan for the luring in of evil and the eventual destruction of evil by
Christ at the Second Advent. But then that
is a bit outside of the study of this verse.
This verse is but a single
link in that future prophetic chain of events that will occur.
