Author: Andrew Coody

Right now I’m reading the book of Isaiah in the Bible. Earlier in the week I came to chapter 19 which, in my particular version and medium (NIV, YouVersion), is titled “A Prophecy Against Egypt”.

Here's a link to the chapter in NIV, NASB, and KJV.

The TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) of this is because the Egyptians were acting like fools, God set them against themselves (v.2). Basically, the land is ravaged, natural resources get wasted, people are against one another, and the people are looking for or towards leaders but they are no different than the common people and are using them (v.13). Then finally, Egypt is returned to the Lord (v.22).

Normally nor historically in my blogs, I don’t blog about Bible passages as a whole –nothing wrong with it, I just ironically haven’t — but the reason I’m writing this post today is because we are repeating history — regardless if it was ~2000 years ago or 5 minutes ago — and there is a Biblical cause and effect for this which we can and should learn from pronto. You’ve probably heard a phrase something along the lines of “the end times are near” or “we’re living in the end of days”. Sure, that’s true, even Paul thought so back in the Bible days and here we are ~2000 years later. Again, it doesn’t matter the duration, what matters is the issue and the lesson to learn from it.

At the time of this writing, there is a huge Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic swooping across the globe. I’m not saying this is a plagues-level event that causes an equal cataclysm politically or socially, but it could and sort-of feels like it. I’m just saying that the coincidence of this chapter –and there are other chapters in this and other books of the Bible like this — aligns right up with how the USA and world are acting right now.

I’m more focused on the USA in the conversation. Specifically with how we let every little thing affect us in this country. You can’t say, look, or do something without offending someone; forget being PC as that’s even flamed against for one being overdoing it or somehow being snooty. Also, how we desecrate sacred church teachings and activities — no I couldn’t care less what happens to the Catholic church, different issue, their problem — I mean the Christian church’s morals, teachings, and overall standards are being shunned in favor of self-centered humanism and one’s own thoughts and feelings being fact. If we do not find some way to get our country back to its Biblical roots we will be in more dire straits than we are today — the crazy laws, ignorant lawmakers, pandemic viruses, none of this will compare to the untold to come.

I could go on and on, but I’ll end here and hope my point is at minimum made even though it’s not perfectly articulated.