Respected Guests, friends, young people, and brothers and sisters:

The topic of our lecture this afternoon is "The Arab in Bible Prophesy". We will endeavor to show that the Bible prophesies concerning the Arabs, past and present; have come true, and will continue to do so.

But first lets define what is an Arab. When, in a Scriptural sence, we refer to the Arabs, we are referring to a special race of people who are descended from the same ancestry as the Jews, and who inhabited and shared the same general land, that is, the middle east. The Bible has different terms for this general race of people. They are called the Arabs, a work which means, to lurk, or lie in wait; to ambush. And this gives us the Jews opinion of their neighbors.

The region which they inhabited was called Arabia from similar roots, but carrying more the impression of a desert, or dryness. Who were these peoples, and where did they come from. Well, as we said, the Arabs share a common ancestry with the Jews. The first ancestor of the Arabs was Lot, Abraham's nephew. Lot fathered two men who went on to become mighty:

GEN 19:36-38 "Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day."

Now, Ammon and Moab settled the region which today we would call Jordan and became the Jews neighbors on the east.

The next early ancestor of the Arabs was Ishmael, the son of Abraham by Hagar, Sarah's handmaid. The character of Ishmael, as prophesied in the Scriptures, has pretty well characterized the Arab race throughout their history, but more on this later. Of Ishmael God said:

GEN 16:11-15 "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael."

The Ishmaelites settled into the southern regions of Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They lived there together with the descendants of another Jewish father of Arabia, Esau, who was Isaac's son and Jacob's brother. His descendants became known as Edomites. This was due to the fact that he sold his birthrite for a mess of red pottage, Edom meaning red.

GEN 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

Now besides these tribes, also inhabiting Arabia was Ophir, Sheba, Havilah, and Dedan. These three tribes are also close kin to the nation of Israel. Ophir, Sheba and Havilah were the children of Joktan along with nine others of lesser significance but all of which inhabited the Arabian peninsula. Now Joktan was a descendant of Shem, just like the Jews were. Joktan was technically Abraham's great-great-great uncle.

And finally, concerning those tribes of the desert, there was another line of people descended from Abraham through a later wife after Sarah, named Katurah. These tribes include Dedan and Midian, and possibly Sheba, depending on which Sheba, the descendant of Joktan, or Sheba, a descendant of Katurah.

GEN 25:1-4 "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah."

So we see that all these peoples are close relationship to the Jewish people. And it is for that reason we find that they have a special place in Bible prophesy.

So, from the point of view when the Bible was written, the Arab nations would consist of the modern nations of Jordan, along with all the nations of the Arabian peninsula which are Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emmerites, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

But as we continue to define what peoples we are talking about when they say, "the Arabs" in a modern sence, we must take into consideration the most significant event in Arabian history, which of course was the rise of Mohammed the Great in 609 AD. Mohammed was a wonderful general from Medina, Saudi Arabia, who fancied himself a prophet, and caused to be written the Quran, or Book of Islam. He then embarked on a military adventure that ended with the Arabian World in control of all the middle east, north Africa, much of Turkey, and parts of southern Europe by 900 AD.

The significance of ths cannot be ignored, because the Arab race turned nations which were not Arab originally, into Arab states. Such nations would be Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq to the north, and Egypt, and Lybia to the south west.

So for our purposes this afternoon, we will be discussing these Arab states. We will keep them, for alliance purposes in three groups. The Northern Group, which is Syria, Iraq and Lybia. The Southern Group, which is Lebanon, Jordan, Yeman, and Egypt. And the Arabian group which is Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emmerites, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

As an aside, let me here interject something about the religion of Islam which confuses many people. All the Arabs are Islamic states, but not all Islamic States are Arabs. Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and many of the African states like Ethiopia for instance, are of the same religion as the Arabs, they re Islamic. But they are not Arabs. Racially and Scripturally, they are different peoples. So they will be generally outside the scope of our discussion this afternoon. We are not ignoring them, for they are Scripturally significant in their own right, but they are not Arab.

Now, what is the Scriptural position of the Arabs in Bible prophesy? It can be fairly summed up in two simple principles. The Jews as a race, are God's chosen people. The Arabs as a race are second behind the Jews. That is the first point.

The second is this. When Israel was obedient to God, and followed the commands that He had placed before him, Israel dominated her Arab neighbors. But, when Israel rebelled against God, her neighbors, the Arabs, rose up against Israel and, with God's help and direction, brought punishments upon Israel because of her iniquity.

It is upon these two principals that we can understand the position of the Arab in Bible prophesy. Now when we say that Israel is God's first love, and the Arabs are his second, we must be clear that there was a very great difference between first and second. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated" is the way the Apostle Paul put God's relationship between Israel and her Arab neighbors. But the word translated hated there carries the implication of simply "loving less". The Jews brothers, the Arabs are not a forgotten people in the eyes of God, though the Arabs do not know God. The time is yet ahead when the prophesy of Isaiah shall come to be:

ISA 19:24-25 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

And as we said, the Arabs were also used in the Scriptures as a tool in the hand of God to give Israel a barmometer of their obedience. When they were obedient, such as under the rule of David, the Arabs paid tribute to Israel. But when they rebelled against God, God set the Arabs up over Israel. Thus we see Jesus being born into rebelious Israel who was under control of Herod the Idumean. Now Idumean is simply the Greek name for Edomite. Esau ruled Jacob, when Herod governed Israel. And this of course, was a very wicked time for Israel, the time in which the Jews crucified their King, Jesus the Christ.

But along with being a punishing sword for Israel in her rebellion, God has also used the Arabs to punish the true and most significant enemy of Israel, the Catholic Church. This was the work of Mohammed. And we are still seeing the ramifications of that work today, in what used to be Yugoslavia. There are three sworn enemies there, the Greek Orthoox Serbs, the Roman Catholic Croates, and the Moslem Bosnians. They have been bitter enemies since the Moslems first made inroads into southern Europe, persecuting all who worshipped the Trinity.

This was the Bible's prophesy of what was to happen.

REV 9:1-11 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Now, we haven't the time this afternoon to give a full explanation of the meaning of this prophesy. But let us simply say that the star falling from heaven refers to the stunning and brilliant rise of Mohammed onto the world's scene. He was a brilliant light into the world's heavens, or political arena. And he arose from the bottomless pit, more properly translated, "an abyss" or a deep spot, and this is the region of the Arabs. It is so called because the area of the Dead Sea is the lowest spot on the face of the inhabited earth, being over 1300 feet below sea level.

Now the armies which stream forth from the Abyss are called a a smokeing furnace of locus. Why were the armies of Mahomet symbolized by locust? First, Arabia is the native country of locust; so armies issueing from Arabia would be fitly styled 'Locust", and second, the Hebrew word for locust when spelled out, is the same word for Arab. The vowel points, when added change the word slightly, but locust in Hebrew is Arbeh, and Arab, is Arbi. Third, parts of Arabian litereature introduce the locust as the heraldic symbol of the Saracens, and forth, the Moslems believe that in the course of his revelations, locust dropped into the hands of Mohammed, bearing an inscription on their wings which described Mohammed's armies as "the Army of the Great God".

Now, the destruction which was to fall on the world by this shooting star and his armies was not to be indescriminite; but highly specific. "It was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."

The command of God to the Mahometan locust, to confine their depredations within certain and specific rules was well marked in the form it actually took. An address given to the Saracen troops after Mohammed's death, by Abu Beker, Mahomet's successor, gave his purpose to prosecute the war against the Roman Catholics whom he styled 'the infidels". He said:

"Let not your victory be stained with the blood of women or children. Destroy no palm trees nor burn any fields of corn; cut down no fruit trees, nor do any mischief to cattle...You will find another sort of people that belong to the synagogue of Satan, who have shaven crowns: be sure you cleave their skulls and give them no quarter till they either turn Mohammedan's, or pay tribute."

And the locust cloud carried a weapon which stung as a scorpion. This is another feature unique to the Arab invasions. The Arabs carried what probably was the first effective artillary division in the worlds history. They were great missiles previously unknown to the world's warfare. But because of their size, and crude methods for transporting them, they were always the last part of the military expedition. Hence, like a Scorpion, the sting of these clouds of lucust was in their tail. The Moslems themselves referred to these weapons as "Scorpians". An Arab writer in 1249 writes thus:

"The Scorpions surrounded and lighted by nitrated powder, glide along like serpents with a humming noise, and when exploded, they blaze brightly an burn. Now to behold teh matter expelled was as a cloud extended through the air, which gave forth a dreadful crash like thunder, vomitting fire on every side, and breaking down, buirning, and reducing all things to ashes."

Also identifying the Arab with this prophesy was the Saracen troop himself. History tells us that he wore a yellow turban, a beard, and had uncut hair. The prophesy said he wore a crown of gold, had the face of a man, and the hair of the woman.

Now God was using the Arab to persecute the Roman Catholics. How did it come to pass that the Arabs developed such a hatred for the Catholics. It comes directly from the Koran. In the section called "The Table" we find this written in the Koran:

v. 76 "They are unbelievers who say, 'God is the Messiah, Mary's son.' For the Messiah said, 'Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord. Verily whoso associates God with anything, God shall prohibit him entrance to Paradise, and his refuge shall be the Fire; and wrongdoers shall have no helpers.'

v. 77. They are unbelievers who say, 'God is the Third of Three.' There is no God but One God.

v. 78. If they refrain not from what they say, there shall afflict those of them that disbelieve a painful chastisement. Will they not turn to God and pray His forgiveness? God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.

v. 79. The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; Messengers before him passed away; his mother was a just woman; they both ate food. Behold, how We make clear the signs to them; then behold, how perverted they are!

In this portion of the Koran, Mohammed is clearly teaching against the Trinity. He really disliked the belief that Jesus was a God. He disliked it so much, that he deals with this subject over, and over again. At anothing point in the Koran, God and Jesus are said to have this discussion:

The Table, v. 115. And when God said, 'O Jesus son of Mary, didn't thou say unto men, "Take me and my mother as gods, apart from God"? He (Jesus) said. 'To Thee by glory! It is not mine to say what I have no right to. If I indeed said it, Thou knowest it, knowing what is within my soul, and I know not what is within Thy soul; Thou knowest the things unseen. I only said to them what Thou didst command me; "Serve God, my Lord and your Lord."

And every time Jesus is referred to in the Koran, and he is referred to one way or another 93 different times; it is always in some way, directly or indirectly, set apart from Trinity. Even in the story of Jesus's virgin birth, which is taught in the Koran, Mohammed concludes:

The House of Imran, v. 56: Say: People of the Book! Come now to a work common between us and you, that we ser ve none but God, and that we associate nothing with him, and do not take some others as Lords, apart from God.' And if they turn their backs, say: 'Bear witness that we are Muslims."

When the Muslims say "we associate nothing with God", they mean that they do not associate Jesus as an associate with God, or a Co-God.

So this anti-trinitarian flavor found all through the Koran led to a hatred and a common battle cry to the destruction of the Roman Cathoics who deified Jesus and his mother Mary.

So clearly, God used the Arab to do his bidding in punishing the enemy of God's people. And so He will again. Now lets stop at this point and focus our attention, not on what God has done in the past with the Arab, but what future lies before them.

The Christadelphians believe Jesus will return to the earth and again set up the kingdom of Israel, on the mountains of Israel. The Arabs will be both a help and a hinderance in the work of Jesus. Remember the three groups we earleir divided the Arabs up into? The northern group, of Syria, and Iraq, the southern group of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, and the Arabian group of those states in the Arabian Peninsula? These groups are the Bibles division as to the events of the latter day.

At the latter day, two great powers will be pitched against each other in a great battle for control of the wealth of the middle east, that wealth, of course, being oil. The two powers are Russia, leading a nothern confederacy which includes all of continintal Europe, and the northern Islamic states like Turkey and Iran, along with the Arab states of Iraq and Syria: And the southern power is the United States with the support of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Afghanistan, and the southern Arabian states of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and the western portion of Saudi Arabia.

While these two mighty nations vie for the economic control of the world, a third power arises in their midst. Jesus, the son of God returns to the earth in the desert of Sinai, for the purpose of the Judgment of the quick and the dead to determine who is worthy to proceed with him to establish His Father's glory throughout all the earth. As Jesus himself prophesied, his Kingdom will start out very small, like the seed of a mustard tree, and then grow into a huge tree. The Arabs of the desert, those of the Arabian Peninsula, become Jesus' tool for the growth of the mustard seed.

The propeht Habbakuk wrote:

HAB 3:3-7 "God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble."

Now this song is called "The song of Moses" and the way it is translated led people to believe that this is the song that Moses sang when he entered into the Holy Land, and certainly there are similarities. But it is not the song of Moses, for it is a prophesy. Instead of saying God came in from Teman, it should be translated, Ail shall come in from Teman and the Holy One from Mt. Paran. You see, its a future event, not a past history. The confusion comes from the fact that when Jesus leads his army into the Holy Land, he will do so following the same path as Moses did when he came up out of Egypt.

Now the prophet says that he saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. The Midianites, as we have already shown were the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. Cushan is ancient area of the Garden of Eden. It is the northern tip of the Persian gulf. So when the prophet sees the Holy One coming in from Teman, literally from the South, he already sees the Arabian Peninsula in subjection to the Holy One.

This agrees with and explains many of the testimonies relevant to the latter days. While the great powers of our world, Russia and the United States with their respective allies play out their role, Christ and the Saints occupy their time in the Arabian Peninsula.

ISA 43:18-22 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

Now in order for Jesus to make a way in the wilderness, and create rivers in the desert, and for the beasts of the desert, which is a symbolical reference to the Arabs inhabiting the region, to honor the chosen one, that is Christ; they must come under his control. And again of this time Isaiah prophesied:

ISA 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and

the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing:."

And again:

ISA 41:18-20 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

And finally for now:

ISA 42:11-13 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

Now it must be evident that before the dwellers of the desert, the rocks and the wilderness give glory to God, they must themewseves be first subject to the conquering force of Jesus and the Saints. So prior to involving himself as a mighty man in the battles taking place between the Northern and Southern Powers, Jesus conquers the Arabian Peninsula for himself, rallying the Arabs to obey him, and become a part of his army who will conquere the world.

And to this end, there is a remarkable feature in the religion of Isalm. Islam teaches that Jesus was taken by God to heaven, and that at the "last hour" as they call it, Jesus will return to the earth to fight the antichirst and conquere Jerusalem. Observe this from a writing called "The Criticism of Hadith"

"The whole body of Muslims thgrought the centuries have held that at the end of the age a man of the family of the prophet must appear who will strengthen religion and make justice manifest. The Muslims will follow him, and he will gain possession of the Muslim kingdoms, and be called Al Madhi. Al-Dajjal (the Antichrist) will come and afterwards the signs of the (last) hour indicated in the Sahih. Then Jesus will descend from heaven and kill Al Dajjal; or, as some say, will descend with him (Al Madhi) and help him to kill Al Dajjal, and will have the Mahdi as Imam in prayer".

And again, from the same book:

"The ahlu-l-kalam assert that the two following hadith are contradictory and mutually exclusive, namely:

(a) There will be no prophet after me, and no religion after my religion. The lawful and the unlawful will be what God has permitted and forbidden according to my words until the last day.

(b) The Messiah will descend and slay swine, break the cross, and add to the lawful. And from Aisha: Say of the Apostle of God, "The seal of the prophets": do not say, "There will be no prophet after him."

Now we maintain that there is no contradiction whatever in these statements; for the Messiah was an earlier prophet whom God took up (to Himself) and will send him down again at the end of the age as a sing of the hour. As God has said: Verily he shall be a sing of the hour..."

Now then, we see from the Koran that the Moslims are looking for Jesus to return to the earth at the last hour and battle Al Dajjal or the Anti Christ. Jesus, with Al Madhi, is believed to descend and gain possession of all Muslim kingdoms. And all this according to the superstician of the Koran.

Will it them seem unusual to the Arabians in the desert when Jesus of Nazereth enters the Arabian Peninsula and begins to conquere the muslim kingdoms of Oman, the Emmierites, Bahrain, and Kuwait with the eastern half of Saudi Arabia? Not at all. To many living there, it will appear to be what has been prophesied in the Koran all along. And in this matter, isn't it interesting that the Catholic superstician says that at the time of the end, a Jew will return to the Holy Land, surrounded by Jews, who will conquere the region and set himself up as God. They believe this is anti-Chrsit, and they tell their followers to oppose him with all their might; which is exactly what the Bible says the Catholic nations will do to Jesus Christ. On the other other hand, the Muslim superstician says the same thing about Jesus Christ, and tells it adherents to follow him; which is also what the Bible says the Arabs will do for Jesus Christ. It is truly marvelous how God goes about causing His plan to come to pass.

But back to the Arabs: if the Arabs of the Peninsula are willing to follow Jesus and the Saints after he has conquered the region; why won't Arabs from all regions follow Jesus? The answer is quite simple. Just as there are many forms of the Christian religion, like Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, ect., there are many similar branches of the Moslem religion, like the Ba'aths, Sunni, and Shi'ite. These groups have different understandings of the Koran, which shapes their views of its teachings and its prophesy.

There is more than enough discussion about what it is that Jesus will do, to cause the religios leaders in the northern group, and southern group to oppose the position of their Arab brethren in the penensula. For instance, we read this in one Muslim criticism concerning the return of Jesus:

"An when the Messiah descends he will not abrogate anything that Muhammad the apostle of God commanded, nor will the Imam from his religion be first, but he will set Muhammed first and pray behind him."

Well, when Jesus returns that simply will not happen. Though Muhammed claimed that the Jewish Old Testament along with the Gospel as delivered by the Apostles were the inspired work of God; and even though Muhammed appears to have had a better understanding of those works than his Christian counterparts; there is still so much objectionable in his faith and writings that they can be called nothing more than superstician. For instance, the Koran denies the sinlessness of Jesus, which is the cornerstone of all Christian belief.

Now the Arabs who align themselves with the north or the south will find enough reasons in the Koran to oppose the new power in Arabia, Christ and the Saints.

The Arabs in the Southern group will have a much less fortunate future.

ISA 43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

During the course of the war we typically call Armageddon; the Russians will gain the upper hand over the US and her allies. Russia will be victorious over the southern countries, including the Apple of God's eye, Jerusalem.

ZEC 14:1-2 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

And though the destruction of Jerusalem is terrible, still God gives Egypt to Russia as a ransom for Israel. In otherwords, Jerusalem though taken captive, and subject to devestation, that devestation is not as bad as it would have been, had God not caused Russia's attention to be focused upon Egypt.

ISA 19:4-12 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. And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 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. 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. 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. Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 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?1Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and

Such is the hope for Egypt. And the norther group, they too will fall, though not at the hands of the Russians or Americans, but at the hands of Christ when he defeats Russia on the mountains of Israel, as is prophesied in the 38th chapter of Ezekiel.

EZE 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.