Christian Churches of God No. 36 The Fall of Egypt The Prophecy of Pharaoh's Broken Arms

In 1876 Britain and France had established dual control of Egypt's finances. This control of Egypt forced the abdication of Ismail in 1879.
In 1881 the Nationalist revolt in Egypt occurred under Arabi Pasha. France established a protectorate over Tunis. This period began the Mahdi revolt against Egyptian rule in the Sudan. In 1882 the Mahdi proclaimed himself the Messiah in the Sudan taking Khartoum in 1885.
In 1887 the Italians were defeated at Dogali. However, Ethiopia was made an Italian protectorate by the Treaty of Ucciali in 1889. In 1896 at the Battle of Adowa Italian claims to Ethiopia were ended (at least until Mussolini).
In 1888 the Convention of Constantinople opened the Suez Canal to ships of all nations.
In 1899 the Anglo-Boer war broke out and is halted in 1900 by the British annexure of the Orange Free State and Transvaal and the Boers commence guerrilla warfare in 1901.
The Boer War ended in 1902. Thus the Cape was consolidated to the British and the USA gained control of the Panama Canal in the same year. It was not however finally opened until 1914.
Thus Britain and America possessed the gates of the nations by 1914 (see the prophecy to Abraham in Genesis 22:17).

Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; (KJV)

This consolidation was later to assist the development of the world trading system under the beast. However, the retention of the gates will be by the descendants of Abraham.
The Entente Cordiale between Britain and France reached accord over Egypt and Morocco. Although Morocco was to precipitate a crisis between France and Germany in 1905, the rights of France were recognised in the Algeciras Conference of 1906. In 1905 also, the Russians were defeated by the Japanese with the destruction of the Russian fleet at Tsushima.
1906 saw the launching of HMS Dreadnought the first turbine driven battleship thus escalating the naval race between Britain and Germany.
In 1907 Sun Yat-sen announced the program for the Chinese Democratic Republic.
In 1908 Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1909 the liberal revolution in Persia overthrew the Shah. In Turkey the Young Turks deposed Abdul Hamid II. Russia and Bulgaria concluded a secret treaty of Alliance against Austria and Germany.
In 1914 some seven times after the defeat of Egypt at the Battle of Carchemish to which the prophecy was tied the British Commonwealth forces entered Egypt. They had frustrated the French aims there in the Napoleonic wars. Egypt was to become a key player in the control of world trade through the Suez Canal but more particularly it was the gateway to the establishment of the state of Israel. The Balfour Declaration itself in 1917 was an historic occasion.
The build up from 1914-1918 saw Israel regained by the Commonwealth. The next period saw the European system gear up to destroy the Commonwealth and stop the establishment of the State of Israel. The extermination of the Sabbath-keeping Churches and Judah was commenced from the end of WWI – especially from the extermination of the Armenians and then among the Turks from 1927. (Look also at the paper The Last Pope: Examining Nostradamus and Malachy (No. 288).)
In 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the British declared war. The Commonwealth was thus back in Egypt fighting the Axis forces. The most intensive part of the harvest of Judah referred to in Hosea 6:11 was to occur over the last three years of the 2,520 years from the destruction of Jerusalem. This destruction commenced in 597 BCE and finished in 586 BCE. This period equated with the same time-frame from 1933 to 1944 over the rise and fall of the Third Reich.
1945 saw the seven-time cycles end with the cessation of the three years harvest. This is derived from Hosea 6:2.

Hosea 6:2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. (RSV)

The establishment of the state of Israel then began from 1945 onwards.
Egypt also developed according to the prophecy of the arms. In 1953 Egypt declared independence under Gamel Abdul Nasser. In 1956 the Suez crisis occurred. The next sequence of the forty years saw the continual attempts at the destruction of Israel.
The prophecy saw the effective fall of the Egyptian Coptic Church and its reunion with Rome in 1996. The Egyptian state is effectively an increasingly fundamentalist Islamic state. This ends the 2,520-year periods of the prophecy. This action does not complete the demise of Egypt but rather commences the final sequence of the wars of the end. This can also be understood from the text in the paper Measuring the Temple (No. 137).
The time cycle also extends through the rise of Cyrus and the invasion of Cambyses. The time-frame for the reconstruction of the Temple extended from the second year of Cyrus. Cyrus annexed Babylonia in 539 BCE and he issued the order to commence the reconstruction of the Temple in his first year at Babylon, which was in 538 BCE. This proclamation was the fulfilment of Jeremiah 29:10 and 2Chronicles 36:21 under divine direction (Isa. 44:28; 45:1-3). The Temple however was not completed until the reign of Darius II over 100 years later.
Thus the build up to the end of the prophecy has a number of subsidiary messages. The dates of Cambyses invasion could extend through the sacred year of 525 BCE and thus the time-frame extended into 1995/6 sacred year. The significance of these dates is that they are the key times to the build up to the return of Messiah and the times of the end. This time-frame extends to the Jubilee 2027/28. Key dates are:
669-663 BCE – Preliminary break – 1798-1811-1876

610-609 BCE – Attempted restoration – 1831, 1881

605 BCE – Broken arm (key date) – 1914-16

567 BCE – Attempted restoration – 1953-56

525 BCE – Second break – 1995/6 (end 80 years)

1997 end of the Time of the Nations.

1997 – Commencement of the last phase of the wars of the North and South.
Another key factor is that the nations in control of Egypt become the kings of the South for the purposes of Daniel 11. This is examined in detail in the papers World War III: Part I The Empire of the Beast (No. 299A) and WWIII Part II: The Whore and the Beast (No . 299B)). However, it is necessary to note that the last phases of Daniel 11 are concerned also with the Libyans and the Ethiopians. The wars of the end will commence from the fall of Egypt and the establishment of the fundamentalist alliances that will ensue from that action. The North-South wars of the end will commence from the fall of Egypt as a result of these prophecies.
The activities of the last days are explained through a multitude of interrelated prophecy. The wars and the activities are known. The watershed period appears to relate to the end of the seven times period which commenced the dual phase in 1914-16 some seven times from 605 BCE. The sequence of the two forty-year periods in their second phase ended in 1996 with a new re-orientation of power. The obvious power groupings in the world today are those of Europe and Islam. The other group that is developing is that of the kings of the East.
The wars that ensue in the Middle East make it possible for the kings of the East to move into the Middle East through a devastated land. The throne of the beast is in darkness through the wars in the Middle East and that of the east and north of Jerusalem, i.e. the Central Asian Steppes. This sequence then makes way for the kings of the East to move on Jerusalem.
Revelation 16:10-16 The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was in darkness; men gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores, and did not repent of their deeds. ¹² The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphra'tes, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. ¹³ And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; ¹⁴ for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. ¹⁵ ("Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!") ¹⁶ And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armaged'don. (RSV)
The wars of the end are shown in part in the Seven Trumpets. The Seven Vials of the wrath of God are specifically to deal with the nations of the last days and to destroy their capacity to wage war and to remove from the earth the mind-set that makes war. The sequence of the end is made possible by the release of the four angels at the Euphrates and the consequent wars they enable.
Just as the Spanish Civil War was prelude to World War II so too is the Balkan War a prelude to World War III. The racism and barbarism seen there with the ethnic cleansing and the religious orientation of the states and the continual deceit and dishonour are indicative of the conflicts of World War III. The horrors of the types of weapons seen developed from Vietnam and the Middle East have shown that World War III will be more horrific than could previously have been imagined. Over one-third of the planet will die in this war of the sixth trumpet. A quarter of mankind will die of famine and pestilence leading up to and following from this war. Because the planet will not repent, another third will die from the pestilence and disease that follows it and in the battles that ensue when the east is brought down to Armageddon.
Because of its reliance on the Military-Industrial Complex the Israelite nations are dealt with according to prophecy (Ezek. 5:1-17). We deal with World War III in the papers 299A-299D.
Whatever the key commencement date of the last sequence concerning Egypt from the end at 1996 and the start of the Thirty Years from 1997, the sequence is known and is sure. We have a job to do so that our people are called to repentance.
We continue with the Fall of Egypt in the paper Fall of Egypt Part II: The Wars of the End (No. 36_2) along with the Audio.

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