Isaiah 19:23
23 In that day [yowm] shall there
be a highway [macillah] out of Egypt [Mitsrayim] to Assyria ['Ashshuwr], and
the Assyrian ['Ashshuwr] shall come [bow'] into Egypt [Mitsrayim], and
the Egyptian [Mitsrayim] into Assyria ['Ashshuwr], and the Egyptians [Mitsrayim] shall serve [`abad] with
the Assyrians ['Ashshuwr]. KJV-Interlinear
23 In that day there will be a
highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the
Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. NASB
These last three verses
describe the union that will unite the three countries, both Assyria to the
north and Egypt to the south, of Israel, with Israel.
This is post
tribulation recovery and blessing, now that all of the judgments will have been
completed, that all evil will have been vanquished, and the remnants of peoples
from all three places will then be united under Christ.
Highway, ‘macillah,’
refers to a thoroughfare, but it also refers to open and free communication and
integration.
Serve, ‘abad,’ refers
to engagement in common activities, and to worship, and is the opposite of the
adversarial activity that existed in Isaiah’s day.
Where once Assyria and
Egypt were enemies and pretty much anti-God, now, which is at the beginning of the
Millennium, they will be united in Christ with one common belief and faith.
Just a quick note. The final event of the Tribulation will be
the Armageddon war. And the location of
that war will be throughout this entire region.
Huge armies and huge piles of bodies and huge destruction beyond
imagination, will be the aftermath of that day everywhere, and yet there will
be survivors throughout the area who will be believers in Christ.
