last healing is now near, not only for Israel but for her hereditary foe and

seducer, Egypt!

'In 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' (Isa. 19:23).

Here intercommunication will be established, fear of invasion and harm

shall be removed, and both nations, once Israel's oppressors, shall serve the

Lord together.  If this were all, it would be a state of affairs that would

be wonderful to behold.  But this is not all by any means:

'In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,

even a blessing in the midst of the land (or earth)' (Isa. 19:24).

This unheard of exhibition of grace and mercy is followed by the words

that close this chapter as a great 'Amen'.

'Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying

Blessed be Egypt My People, and

Assyria the Work Of My Hands, and

Israel Mine Inheritance'.

No word that we can add to such superlative grace can do anything but

spoil this gracious witness.  Let us leave it to shine in all its unsullied

glory, while we remember that when we, too, were enemies Christ died for us

(Rom. 5:6 -10).

Another prophecy concerning Egypt is found in Daniel 11.  Before

examining this chapter we quote from Daniel's Great Prophecy by Nathaniel

West, D.D., and let it be noted the following words were written in 1897, and

not in December 1956, when the problem of Suez and the Middle East was in

everyone's mind:

'It is the "Eastern Question" that is here, a question not limited or

local, but ubiquitous, affecting today the deepest interests of Russia,

England, France, Austria, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Palestine,

in their relations to each other, to India, China and Japan, and to

Africa, affecting the whole world; an age -long contention between

conflicting civilizations, with creeds and forms of government, and

prejudices of race and traditions diverse and opposed as the poles,

that "mache athanatos" of Plato, the "immortal conflict" between truth

and error, right and wrong, which endures until a "new cycle" of time

shall bring its close.  What statesman in any cabinet or chamber of

modern legislation has ever lifted his voice to tell the world that as

in Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zephaniah and Zechariah, so here Daniel had

exhibited, in chapters 8 and 11, the "Eastern Question" in terms

impossible to be misunderstood, or that the waters of the Hellespont,

the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, with the isles of Greece and Asia

Minor, and the mainlands washed by them -- the storm -centre of the

Eastern question in every age -- form for the prophet the geographical

theatre of his vision of the "Warfare Great"? or that here the fleets

of the nations must meet to sink and sail no more, in that final crisis

when "heaven, earth, sea, dry land, and all nations" are "shaken"?  It

is the light of prophecy that enables us to see and understand the

immense significance of the recent acts of the "Powers" in reference to

Crete, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, and what the parallel Jewish movements