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pamsheppard.com THE BREAKING OF EGYPT

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In the second month of 2011, we have seen Egypt's endtime prophetic destiny begin to unfold, manifesting before the eyes of the world: Check out the prophecy of Isaiah 19: "The 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. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city and kingdom against kingdom. And 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. 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 of hosts." Did we not see the underlined portion of Isaiah's prophecy transpire right before our eyes on public television??? Is this "cruel lord," the fierce king"Hosni Mubarak or is this cruel one Mubarak's replacement? With Mubarak forced to resign, the rest of this prophecy declares that "things are going to get a lot worst." Read the entire chapter for yourself: Isaiah 19. I believe that it is very important that we watch Egypt, for as the prophecy continues to unfold, we may get a sense of how long it will be before the Lord returns. Certainly not the hour, the day or the month, but we may be able to know "the year" by "watching Egypt." What stands out for me is that Isaiah prophecied that after the revolution recently fought by neighbor against neighbor in the public square, the fighting, though quieted now, will spread---from internal fighting that spread even beyond the boarders of Egypt into "other kingdoms". Besides catastrophic environmental upheavals, Isaiah also declared in the rest of the chapter that Egypt shall be taken over "by Canaan." Who is present day Canaan? According to the New World Encyclopedia, present day Canaan is Israel. Canaan is an ancient term for a region approximating present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Canaanites are mentioned extensively in the Bible, as well as in Mesopotamian and Ancient Egyptian texts. According to the Bible, the land of Canaan was the "promised land" which God gave to Abraham and his descendants. The Canaanites themselves, however, were considered to be the implacable enemies of the Israelites, who practiced a decadent and idolatrous religion. Contemporary archaeologists, however, see much continuity between the Canaanite population and the early Israelites, with whom they shared a common language and customs. So if this is an endtime prophecy, then Isaiah has predicted that present day Egypt shall be taken over by present day Israel. Whether it be a gradual

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infiltration or an out and out invasion, Isaiah says that the seizure shall be so complete, that Egyptians in five cities will end up speaking the language of these "Canaanites." As to the language of Canaan, I again quote the New World Encyclopedia: The Canaanite language refers to a group of closely related Semitic languages. Hebrew was once a southern dialect of the Canaanite language, and Ugaritic, a northern one. Canaanite is the first language to use a Semitic alphabet, from which most other scripts derive. your life has been one of intense problems, failures, oppositions, persecutions and pressure, then this could be a sign of preparation for the prophetic ministry. I have yet to meet a prophet who has had life of smooth sailing, easy success and personal recognition. As I said earlier, the prophetic call is a call to death. Like the apostle, the prophet must have the sentence of death in himself. He must sacrifice all for the sake of the ministry. He must die completely to self.

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GOD BREAKS US TO HEAL US!

In other words, Egyptians are going to end up speaking Hebrew!!! The infiltration seems to be an invasion, almost as God's continued retribution against Egypt's 400 years enslavement of the people of Abraham, delivered by Moses. Here is the scripture: " The 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. Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do In 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. And the land of Judau shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, becuse of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he (the Lord) hath determined against it." (verses 14-17) What really stands out for me in Isaiah 19 are verses 19-25 that refer to the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It seems to me that this outstanding event MUST take place immediately AFTER the end of the age when the Lord comes back to earth with the departed saints and those who are alive at His coming. Just before the Lord returns, Egyptians "shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppression that they will receive at the hand of Israel and the Savior will be sent to the Egyptians to deliver them. This prophecy of Isaiah causes me to wonder whether or not the Anti-Christ is an Israelite. More on that in the future. For now, I focus my attention to Isaiah's prophetic words: "in that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord." If the Lord comes and delivers Egypt "in person," then this is a prophecy that will transpire AFTER the Lord comes back. So logically speaking, if we watch what happens in Egypt as prophesied by Isaiah, then we can get a sense of when the Lord is coming back. How long does it take for a country to be so overtaken that the captives end up speaking the language of their oppressors? The answer to that question will determine whether you and I are alive when the Lord returns. From a personal perspective, what REALLY strikes my attention is that the Lord intends to break Egypt in order to heal Egypt. He broke Egypt in the days of Moses, yet the Egyptians were not healed at that time. However, when the Lord descends to rule all nations, He will have pity on the Egyptians. Where salvation and deliverance are concerned, the process is the same: God breaks in order to heal. To resist the breaking is to delay the healing. There are so many believers in God the Father who resist God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. For example, Muslims go directly to the Father, call Him "Allah," and relegate the Lord to the role of prophet and teacher, denying His divinity. Even so, my particular burden is professing

YOU MUST BE LOST, IN ORDER TO BE FOUND!

SPIRITUAL GROWTH COMES FROM BROKENNESS

Christians, who sought the Father, and who ignored either the Son, the Holy Ghost, or both. Among them are those who believe that they were saved either by repeating a sinner's prayer or responding to an invitation to Christian discipleship and declaring "I accepted Jesus.' In order to be healed, these people must be broken. As the Lord will use the terror of Israel to break the Egyptians, the Lord allows the terror invoked by the enemy to break those who believe that they are saved but they are not. Here are some guidelines to unravel any confusion about this one statement, namely, one must know that he is lost before he can be found:

Salvation is certainly a blessing but we are drawn by the Holy Ghost to the cross through a personal crisis. Preacher Paul Washer calls it "a crisis of belief." A crisis of belief is where you are brought to a place where everything you once believed is challenged and found to be in error. This crisis is crucial to salvation; Since we really don't have a true conception of our own sin, the Holy Ghost will convict you of sin, to the extent that you actually LOATH it. Only if you look within, see your own sinful nature and hate it, will you actually understand your need for salvation. The NEED of a Saviour must be felt before the Saviour Himself will come in. Just inviting Him with words is not enough. The DEPTH of one's fall must be experienced, or else the height, and depth, and breadth, and length of salvation cannot be understood. Only the Holy Spirit can bring the fallen one to know himself and his condition. In order to be saved, you must SEE that in YOU DWELLS NO GOOD THING. the pride of life must be broken down.

Interestingly enough, this week I commented on a facebook note which was a statement about what are the signs of a true prophet of God. The author of the note identified 10 signs. I was only impressed with the 10th sign: If you are called to be a prophet, then your preparation will span many years and will be one of the most difficult and troublesome processes. The prophet will be battered and broken and brought to nothing in himself before he can be of any use to the Kingdom of God. He will have to learn not to trust in himself or in his own abilities. His knowledge and natural strengths will be tried in the fire and brought to naught before God can use him. This word causes me to want to study the life of Isaiah more deeply. This is a man who did not live to see most of his prophecies come to past. Not to put myself on the level of prophets like Isaiah, I must admit that the 10th point is very similar to my own life. This is my 30th year in ministry and I have not yet lived to see the fruit of it. In fact, I don't expect that the books that I write will become important until after I am dead and gone, if the Lord doesn't come back first. The Lord has battered and broken me more times than I can remember. Yet, once I understood the reason for the breaking, it stopped.

THE PERSONALITY TYPES: THE

LEADER

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An excerpt from my first book, To Curse the Root.

WHAT TYPE ARE YOU?

Breaking
Much effort can be saved and spiritual growth can be obtained if we give up the struggle and submit ourselves to the breaking. I can recall a significant example from my own experience. I myself tend to fall under all four (4) personality categories---THE LEADER, THE THINKER, THE FEELER AND THE WORKER--- and therefore. have had to endure more breaking than the average person. However, my breaking as a worker is a good example of the persistency of the Holy Ghost. In the early years of my career in state government, I was extremely ambitious. Even though my nature was not conducive to the requirements of politics, my goal was to one day become a director or a commissioner. It took me three periods of unemployment for it to finally dawn on me that this was not the Lords purpose for my life. As soon as I would gain some stature at my place of employment, I would be laid off from excellent jobs with career potential: first for six (6) months, then for another six (6) months, then for nine (9) months, and finallyfor fourteen (14) months! While unemployed, I learned how to trust Jesus Christ in times of want as opposed to trusting in my own abilities. I also learned how to yield to authority. It is interesting to note that once the necessary lessons of trust and humility had been mastered, I continued to be employed at my last job for seventeen (17) years. When it was time to go, I did not resist the Lord. In fact, the series of experiences that I have learned over time have provided information concerning my overall purpose in life. In matters of relationship, the Holy Spirit will often use our experiences with significant others, particularlywith the opposite sex to break us in several areas. Three outstanding personality traits that require the Lords breaking include: esteem, pride and vanity. The breaking of these three characteristics is very important because a life of self confrontation is an open door to CURSING THE ROOT!

AN EXCERPT FROM THE NEW IDOLATRY CONCERNING OLD TESTAMENT EGYPT

If we are to understand the overall consequence and symbolic meaning of the plagues, we need to understand who the Egyptian gods were and what the Egyptians believed was the authority and power of each of the gods that they worshipped. To these gods, prayers were invoked and sacrifices were made for centuries. The whole picture becomes understandable when we realize the extent of the identification of the demon gods with the land, the water and the sky of Egypt. In his book, The Invisible War, the late Donald Grey Barnhouse paints an impressive picture of Gods message within the plagues, for with each of 10 judgments, God made the demon gods as nothing: The first of the judgments was upon the waters of Egypt. Not only the Nile, but the other waters of the lands, even the water that was drawn for use in the houses, and which was kept in wooden vessels and stone jars, turned to blood, and for seven days the whole land was in this horror, with the fish dying and the rivers stinking. (Exodus 7:19-25.) In order to comprehend the loss of face that this plague must have been for the gods of Egypt we must realize how important and numerous were the gods of the river. Osiris, one of the chief gods of Egypt, was first of all god of the Nile, He together with his companion, the mother god, Isis, and their child Horus, were human-headed gods, among the many that had heads of birds, beasts and reptiles.1 The first plague was an insult to gods like Khnum, the guardian of the Nile. Hapi was identified with the great original gods who were believed to have created the world, regarded as the maker and molder of everything within the universe. Imagine the horror and frustration of the people of Egypt as they gazed at that which was formerly beautiful only to find dead fish
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D.G. Barnhouse, The Invisible War, The Panorama of the Continuing Conflict Between Good and Evil, Zondervan Pub.p 203

6 lining its shores. Dead fish lined the shores of Arkansas, a significant state within the bible belt of both traditional religion and the charismatic movement. Bible Belt is an informal term for an area of the United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is extremely high. 2 Likewise, the next nine plagues proved the emptiness of the powers of the gods of Egypt: 3 Plague 2: The land was covered with an abundance of frogs., mocking the Egyptian god Hekt---who had the head of a frog---a god who was said to be the creator of the world. Amulets and scarabs were worn by Egyptian women to protect them during childbirth, bearing the image of Hekt for protection. Even the involuntary slaughter of a frog was often punished with death. When the hundreds of thousands of frogs died, their decaying bodies created an awful stench throughout Egypt. The people had to gather the decaying bodies of the frogs and put them into heaps. Plague 3: Known for its rich soil and its crops of onions, garlic, leeks, melons and luscious fruits of all kinds, the god of the earth called Geb was rendered powerless, unable to exterminate the sand flies and fleas. The priests could no longer duplicate their magic of former days as they were distracted by the constant itching. In fact, this particular plague was especially horrendous for the priests, for they were required to shave their heads every day, and wear a single tunic, so that no lice could come upon their bodies. Plague 4: The swarms of flies had a religious significance due to the sacred scarab among the gods of Egypt. Deification of the scarab beetle is still seen in Egypt today. Amon-Ra was a god known in many forms, a real mockery to his power. However, most often, he had a head of a beetle. Imagine the confusion that covered the land at the arrival of swarms of insects worshiped as sacred into their homes. The plague of the swarms had yet another humiliating facet to it. This is the first plague in which God made a distinction between His people and the Egyptians--the swarms staying away from the land of Goshen where His people resided. The swarms came upon the Hamites in Egypt,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt Ibid, pg. 205-212.

7 but their slaves went untouched. Plague 5: The fifth plague was against the domestic animals of Egypt. Horses and cattle were not only beloved but they were also considered sacred. In fact, the Egyptians worshiped many animal-headed gods. For example, the god Apis had a head of a bull and had been worshiped in Egypt since around 3000 BC. Hathor was a cow-headed goddess of the desert, a woman with the head of a cow. She was considered the symbolic mother of Pharaoh himself. Khnum was the ram-god while Bast was the cat goddess of love. Once again, the disease bypassed the herds of cattle belonging to the Israelites. Plague 6: Against the bodies of the Egyptians, painful boils affected the knees, legs, and the soles of the feet. Because o the boils, Pharaohs magicians couldnt stand. Tainted with the disease themselves, the magicians and the priests were unable to carry out their religious duties. Certainly, this particular plague mocked Serapis, the god of healing, for like leprosy, this disease was incurable. Also, this incurable disease was an affront to Imhotep, the god of medicine and to Thoth, the ibis-headed god of intelligence and medical learning. Plague 7: This wonder must have inspired terror to the hearts of the Egyptians when a great storm occurred in a nation that rarely received any rain at all. Besides rain, the sky poured down both hail and fire. Where was Shu, the wind god Where was Nut, the sky goddess? Why couldnt they protect the land from these horrendous outbreaks that were supposed to be under their command? Plague 8: Rather than summarize, here is a direct quotation: There seems to have been a long interval between some of the earlier plagues, but the eighth followed hard on the seventh. Locusts were brought into the land. It would appear that this was a new thing for Egypt. Locusts have been known in other places, but now the dread scourge of western North Africa and of western Asia was to come into the land of the Nile where it had not been known before. Every grain and twig and leaf that had escaped the fire and the hail was now taken by the locusts. Where was Nepri, the grain god? Where was Ermutet, goddess of childbirth and crops? Where was Anubis, jackal-headed guardian of the fields? Above all, where was Osiris, great head of the Hamitic trinity, who was also an agricultural god? The

8 people of Egypt lost all faith in their gods. 4 Plague 9: The mockery of the great god Ra was saved for last. Believed to be the god of the Sun, there was no sign of Ra when the Almighty God turned off all light. Other gods were not left out. Ptah was believed to have created the moon, but the moon was darkened. Tem was the god of sunset and Shu was the god of sunlight and air. Once more, God made a division between His people and the Egyptians. Though Egypt was dark, Gods people had light in their dwellings. Plague 10: This one can stand for them all because it was the most memorable, the death of the first born of Egypt, both human and animal. The importance of the firstborn was focused in the right of inheritance because the firstborn received a major portion of a family estate when the father died. So the death of the firstborn crippled a family both legally and emotionally.5 The firstborn of Gods people were spared as long as they had blood on their doorposts. Where there was blood on the door, there was no death in the house and the death angel passed over them, a symbol of what the Lord Jesus Christ was to be and to do at the cross, a redemption where, in order to reveal to the universe that the victory over death was complete, the Holy Ghost invaded the very dust of the earth at the Lords resurrection and took out a select sample of old testament saints, giving them resurrected bodies. (Matthew 25:51-53) Complete conquering over death is predicted to occur at the Lords second coming to rescue and deliver the rest of His people from the grave, and changing those who are alive from mortality to immortality. Consequently, I perceive some basic principles that can be gleaned from an exploration of how God delivered His people out of the hands of Pharaoh to understand how He will also deliver the elect out of the hands of the Antichrist when He opens the 7 vial and the 7 seal judgments outlined by the Apostle John in the book of Revelation. These judgments or plagues are listed in the 8th chapter: earthquakes, the sea becomes blood, 1/3 of the creatures of the sea die, 1/3 of the rivers and waters are contaminated, darkness with 1/3 of the light turned off of the moon, the sun and the stars, locusts that torment the unsaved only for 5 months, 1/3 of men killed by war.

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Ibid, pg. 209 www.padfield.com/acrobat/history/gods_of_egypt.pdf

9 Endtime plagues certainly bear noticeable similarities to the 10 wonders that came upon Egypt, i.e the contamination of water, weather disturbances, death of sea creatures, darkness, and death, with Gods people being protected. The 20th verse of Revelation 9 hits the nail on the proverbial head for those who practice idolatry in end times: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, silver, brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:20, 21) When we consider the four horsemen riding on various colored horses, chemical warfare is foreshadowed. (Rev 6:1-8) The word for pale in the Greek is chloros, an offshoot of our English word chemical. The rider of the pale horsedeath--will destroy of the worlds population. The red horse of war, the black horse of famine and the pale horse of death are obvious. However, who is on the white horse? Some believe him to be Christ. However, I believe that he is the Antichrist, mimicking the true Christ who shall also come on a white horse. (Rev 19:11-16) We should not be surprised because the Antichrist is seeking to win the world by counterfeiting Jesus and drawing people to worship him and the devil. In fact, it stands to reason that the Antichrist could be a professing Christian himself. This is what the New Idolatry is all about----how the spirit of the Antichrist has and will continue to delude professing Christians.

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