The prophecies of Isaiah were written around 750 B.C. and pertained primarily to the major powers of his own day, but if you tweak them just a bit, they apply remarkably well to us. Believers will say that’s because his prophecies were laced with intentional double-meaning, but you don’t have to be a believer to see how remarkably well his words apply to our day and age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Avraham Gileadi<\/a> (my favorite commentator on the book of Isaiah), the ancient nation that most closely corresponds to the modern United States of America is Egypt. So I thought it would be interesting to present a few exceprts from Isaiah 19<\/a>, replacing “Egypt” with “America,” “Egyptian” with “American,” etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0burden\u00a0of\u00a0America. Behold, the\u00a0Lord\u00a0rideth upon a swift\u00a0cloud, and shall come into the United States of America: and the\u00a0idols\u00a0of America shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of America shall melt in the midst of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2\u00a0<\/strong>And I will set the Americans against the Americans: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city,\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0kingdom against kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3\u00a0<\/strong>And the American Dream 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\u00a0them\u00a0that have\u00a0familiar spirits, and to the wizards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4\u00a0<\/strong>And the Americans will I give over into the hand of\u00a0a\u00a0cruel\u00a0lord; and a fierce dictator shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the\u00a0Lord\u00a0of hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Surely the Republicans\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of the president is become brutish: how say ye unto the president, I\u00a0am<\/em>\u00a0the son of the wise, the son of the founding fathers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12\u00a0<\/strong>Where\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0they? where\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0thy founding fathers?<\/em>\u00a0and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0of hosts hath purposed upon America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13\u00a0<\/strong>The Republicans are become fools, the Democrats\u00a0are deceived; they have also seduced America,\u00a0even they that are<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0stay\u00a0of the states thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0Lord\u00a0hath mingled a\u00a0perverse\u00a0spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused the United States to err in every work thereof, as a drunken\u00a0man<\/em>\u00a0staggereth in his vomit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 22\u00a0<\/strong>And the\u00a0Lord\u00a0shall smite the United States of America: he shall smite and heal\u00a0it:<\/em>\u00a0and they shall\u00a0return\u00a0even<\/em>\u00a0to the\u00a0Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prophecies of Isaiah were written around 750 B.C. and pertained primarily to the major powers of his own day, but if you tweak them just a bit, they apply remarkably well to us. 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