Egypt And God's Prophecy In Isaiah 19

The Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is pictured above.

Egypt's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources announced on the International Day of Water that Egypt's water deficit is very real. Here is what he said, “As a third world country we are no strangers to poverty but now we’ve apparently entered a whole new era and realm of poverty; that of the water variety. Yesterday, Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, Hossam Moghazi, said that “we have officially entered an era of water poverty, our yearly consumption as a nation currently amounts to nearly 83 billion cubic meters but our actual share of Nile water is only about 55 billion.”  The minister’s statement came just days after Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a Declaration of Principles, which outline some guidelines concerning the water sharing arrangement of the Nile in light of Ethiopia’s under-construction Renaissance Dam. The dam is a source of contention among the “Basin” countries for fear that it will affect the water supply of downstream nations.

Egypt’s worry about a lack of water is now very real, even before the dam is completed. Egypt is already experiencing a shortage in supply. In a ministry event celebrating the International Day of Water, Moghazi proceeded to make the most uncelebratory statement possible; “Egypt has entered the era of water poverty, we have to ration consumption so we can handle Egypt's agricultural, industrial and drinking water needs.”

Moghazi’s comments do not adequately describe the magnitude of water disaster facing Egypt right now.

Egypt will face two very different water disasters, at two very different points in time.

1) As the new Renaissance Dam is completed, and begins diverting water to fill her enormous basin, Egypt will be deprived of virtually all water for two years! That scenario is an absolute disaster for a nation living in such a dry, desert climate as Egypt.

2) After the Renaissance Dam is either blown up or collapses during an earthquake because of poor engineering, the resulting tsunami of water will destroy Egypt.

This Renaissance Dam project will fulfill Isaiah 19 prophecy, read it below.

1The 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.

 2And 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.

 3And 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.

4And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, theLord of hosts.

 5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

 6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

 7The 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.

 8The 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.

 9Moreover they that WORK in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

 10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

 11Surely 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?

12Where 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.

 13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

 14The 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.

 15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the HEAD OR TAIL, branch or rush, may do.

 16In 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.

 17And the land of Judah 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.

 18In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

 19In that day shall there be an altar to the Lordin the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.

 20And 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.

 21And 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.

 22And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall RETURN even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.

 23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

 25Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the WORK of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.