The Prophecy of Isaiah - Part 72 Discussion

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Isa 19: 8-10 The Fishers... Shall Mourn

Isa 19:8  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.
Isa 19:9  Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
Isa 19:10  And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

It is very important that you and I remember that we, too, are called "fishers of men":

Mar 1:17  And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

So rest assured that when this judgment is fulfilled upon the 'fishers' of Egypt and of Babylon, God's elect will be caught up in the hatred of the ten horns on the beast which 'will hate the whore and will burn her with fire and will eat her flesh':

Dan 2:13  And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

As we often do for the purpose of supplying context, we need to begin our study by repeating the last few verses of our last study:

Isa 19:5  And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isa 19:6  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.
Isa 19:7  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 water... the river... and the brooks [of Egypt] shall [all] be emptied and dried up... and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more", and now we continue to be shown the dreadful results of the Lord's judgments against the great harlot within us when He begins to dry up the waters of Egypt. These 'waters of Egypt' are as nourishing to those who love Egypt as the "rivers of living waters" are to those who believe on Christ.

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Christ's fiery words are "rivers of living water" which nourish and feed our new man, while at the same time those words and doctrines of Christ burn up all the "wood, hay and stubble" which are the doctrines of our old man. But the doctrines of our old man nourish and feed our old man's kingdom with all of its lies and falsehoods, and it is the rejection of all the lies of Egypt and Babylon which are the emptying and drying up of the waters of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

Here is the New Testament version of the message Isaiah is delivering to us when he tells us that the waters of Egypt and everything that depends upon those waters "shall wither and be driven away and be no more". This prophecy here is Isaiah 19 is that very same message we are given in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ which we must "read... hear and keep" (Rev 1:3):

Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

I have said many times, "Every time the harlot butts heads with the beast, she, the harlot (all the religions of mankind), will come out on the short end of the stick", and I base that statement upon these verses in Isaiah 19 and these verses here in Revelation 17:15-17.

Just last Tuesday we saw this prophecy outwardly play out once again before our very eyes. The senatorial race in the state of Alabama was between a fundamentalist Christian and a very secular man who places the health of a fabled sick physical planet above the needs of the people who live on this planet. The secular candidate is pro-abortion, and manifestly anti-Biblical.

Alabama is considered a religious state, and yet, by God's design, its people elected a secular, anti-Christian as its senator. That race was being watched all around the world, and the whole world saw the harlot once again being rejected by those who only yesterday were her lovers and were partakers of the waters of Egypt which give Egypt her nourishment. There were many reasons given for why things happened as they did, the number one reason being the sexual harassment charges against the fundamentalist Christian in the race. Those charges no doubt contributed to the outcome, but one thing that has not been given the credit it deserves for why fundamental Christianity always fails is the fact that those in that camp teach that a loving heavenly Father will burn you in eternal flames of hell if you do not believe on their version of Jesus Christ.

Notice that the secular media will always ask a Christian political candidate if he believes that Jews and Muslims are going to hell if they do not believe on Christ. Pointing out that the Christian candidate's doctrine teaches that, and getting that candidate to admit it, is enough to destroy the candidacy of most Christian politicians, never mind the fact that the Jews and Muslims feel the very same way about Christians. In a secular world, secular candidates for public office have the advantage. The concept of "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" through fiery judgment is never even spoken by any of the principles who make up this harlot system, which is coming to be hated by the "ten kings" who represent the perfection of our flesh, and who are beginning to "hate the whore and... make her desolate and naked, and [to] eat her flesh, and burn her with fire". The 'fire' of these ten carnal kings is not the fire of God's Word. Rather it is the words and laws which are the 'law for the lawless', all of which teaches an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. These ten kings symbolize the secular world which hates those who "cast angle into the brooks and they that spread nets upon the [unsuspecting] waters" of mankind. The ten kings of Revelation 17 represent the multitudes who are beginning to see through the hypocrisy of their favorite whore, and they are given by Christ Himself the work of rejecting her lies and turning on her and destroying her. That is the meaning of the drying up of both the waters of Egypt and the drying up of the Euphrates.

So now we will continue with the revelation of how this will all go down before we turn our backs on the great harlot:

Isa 19:8  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.
Isa 19:9  Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
Isa 19:10  And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

The "waters of Egypt" are what gives Egypt its life, just as "the rivers of Babylon" give life to Babylon. But Christ revealed to us that when we live in darkness and blindness, we don't know we are blind, and when we are living and thriving on the waters of Egypt and "by the rivers of Babylon" (Psa 137:1), according to the scriptures, we actually believe at that time that we have been and are drinking of the waters of life, just as the spiritually blind are totally unaware of their spiritually poor, blind and naked condition:

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

All these phrases: "the fishers... all they that cast angle into the brooks... they that spread nets upon the waters... and... all that make sluices and ponds for fish", are one and all speaking of all the ministers of Babylon who are 'fishing for men', as Christ reveals when He told His own disciples:

Mar 1:17  And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

However, the rivers of Babylon and the waters of Egypt are not the words of Christ. The rivers of Babylon and the waters of Egypt are the doctrines of the kingdom of our rebellious old man. Those doctrines defy the doctrines of Christ while making a loving heavenly Father, who chastens those He loves for the purpose of improving them and bringing to Himself, into a monster who intends to torment His own creatures in unspeakable, excruciating flames of literal fire for all eternity with no purpose or end in sight. While painting our heavenly Father as such a monster, the "fishers and those that cast angle and spread nets" for the unsuspecting masses of mankind speak "smooth things" like the doctrine of a ten-second sinner's prayer to avoid those eternal flames which will ensnare only those who do not believe all their lies, with which they are constantly feeding their unsuspecting victims. We were all there at one time, and it is only by the sovereign work of God within our lives that our eyes were opened through His fiery judgments, and He made us to understand that it is He who has taken "the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water" away from all those whom He has caused to turn their backs on Christ and His Words. We learned the exact same lesson of this 19th chapter back in:

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Isa 3:2  The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3  The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isa 3:4  And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Isa 3:5  And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Apparently the removing of the waters of the Lord's Words and 'the people being oppressed, everyone by... his neighbor' come together as a package deal and cannot be separated the one from the other. The reason for this action is that when we turn our back on our heavenly Father, His judgments are certain to come upon us. When we reject His counsel and lean on our own counsel, we simply do not know the way of peace, and inevitably we refuse to discipline our children and we refuse to love our neighbors, much less our enemies.

Lev 19:18  Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

Deu 20:16  But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Mat 5:43  Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Mat 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

They that cast angle and spread nets against us are our enemies, and we will and we do resent them when we become aware of how deceived we were by these men. To a greater or lesser degree we all hate her (the whore of Babylon) and burn her with fire simply because we are "yet carnal... babes in Christ" (1Co 3:1-4).

We must get past that resentment because we come to know that none of us are free to do the things we do (Rom 7: 17-23). Knowing that our deception was actually a work of God for our good makes all the difference in the world, and it helps us love those who hate us and those who have taken advantage of our ignorance. Christ even tells us that He spoke in parables "because it is not given [to the multitudes of Christianity] to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God":

Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Just this week we saw how true those words of our Lord are: "To them it is not given... to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven". This was graphically demonstrated for us when we read that the Pope, the leader of the largest single Christian church on earth, wants to change the wording of 'the Lord's prayer' to make the Lord's words to comport with the Pope's false doctrine that God does not "lead us... into temptation", [He does not] "make us to err", [He does not] "create evil" [and He does not] "work all things after the counsel of His own will".

The Pope and most of those who 'cast their nets upon the waters' want us to believe what they tell us and simply ignore what the inspired Word of God tells us:

Luk 11:4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The Pope and most of the harlot daughters of Babylon want you to believe that Satan, the tempter, operates completely independently of the will of God, and that it is Satan who leads us into temptation, not God. That doctrine makes Ephesians 1:11 to be a lie. It makes Matthew 13:11 to be a lie. If Christ does not give to the multitudes the ability to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, then all Satan does in blinding the masses is what God intended for Satan to do, and that is exactly how we see Satan being used of God in Job chapters one and two:

Job 1:9  Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Job 1:10  Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 1:11  But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 1:12  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Who is calling the shots in this story? Satan says, "Put forth your hand", and the Lord tells Satan, "Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand."

Satan comes when he is called, and then he does exactly what he is sent by God to do, and he goes not one inch further than what he is sent to accomplish. So who is it who is really tempting Job? Yes, it is true that it is not God Himself, but it is God's messenger who does exactly what he is given to do for God. This whole scene is repeated in chapter two where Satan is commanded to "put forth his hand upon [Job]", but is again told to go no further:

Job 2:4  And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job 2:5  But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 2:6  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

God works His will through Satan. Satan is nothing more than the Lord's hand, as Satan himself acknowledges.  God works His will through Satan just as He tells us He works His will within us "both to will and to do of His good pleasure:"

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Yet we see the leader of the largest Christian church on earth apparently completely unaware of any of this story in Job. Neither can he see these verses of scripture:

Gen 22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

2Sa 24:1  And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

It was against the law of Moses to number the people without taking a tax of them at the same time.

Exo 30:11  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exo 30:12  When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Exo 30:13  This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.

Again we are told exactly how the Lord went about "mov[ing] David" to number the people without requiring a ransom for their souls:

1Ch 21:1  And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

The pattern given to us in the story of Job is how God "works all things after the counsel of His own will". Evil spirits are always themselves sent "from God". They do nothing of themselves, as the Pope and all the daughter harlots of Babylon would have us believe. Notice how clearly this is demonstrated for us in the scriptures:

1Sa 16:14  But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
1Sa 16:15  And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

1Ki 22:23  Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Will the Pope and all the ministers of Babylon have us to change all these words of God to make them conform to the lying spirit the Lord has placed within their mouths? Like the three Hebrew children, we must make it known that we fear God far more than we fear men or what men can do to us. We must be willing to die for these words:

Deu 4:2  Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deu 12:32  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

These are the ministers in whose mouths the Lord has placed a lying spirit.

1Ki 22:23  Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

The Pope and all those who cast angle and spread nets for unsuspecting men will no doubt want to change those words, too, but let's take their lying spirit on directly so we will be able to convict those who deny the words of God.

These ministers will always point to this verse to deceive the vulnerable babes who are not yet given to try the spirits to see whether they are of God (1Jo 4:1):

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he [Greek: hautou, Himself] any man:

We just saw several examples of how the Lord sent evil spirits to trouble King Saul and King Ahab and pronounced evil against both kings. We are even told that it was the Lord who sent Joseph as a slave into Egypt:

Gen 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Gen 45:7  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

If thirteen years as a slave in Egypt were not a trial for Joseph, then nothing is a trial. So we need to understand that the KJV translation of James 1:13 is not a correct translation, because the translators mistranslated the Greek word 'hautou' as "He" instead of "Himself". Here is what that Greek word means:

G848
αὑτοῦ
hautou
how-too'
Contraction for G1438; self (in some oblique case or reflexive relation): - her (own), (of) him (-self), his (own), of it, thee, their (own), them (-selves), they.

So when God sent Joseph as a slave into Egypt by the hand of his own ten brothers, He did so by sending an evil spirit to tempt them to do that evil deed. When the Lord sent all of Job's trials upon him, He did so via Satan. He sent an evil spirit to trouble King Saul, and He sent a lying spirit into the mouths of all of King Ahab's prophets, and He sent Satan to move King David to number the people.

But the key to understanding the Word of God is through "the sum of [His] Word":

Psa 119:160  The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. (ASV)

What this means is that we must read everything the Lord says about any subject before we formulate doctrine. For example, concerning the offerings made to the Lord, we read this:

Lev 2:11  No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

This commandment is reiterated two other times in the law of the offerings.

Lev 6:16  And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
Lev 6:17  It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

Exo 34:25  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

But when we read the sum of His Word we find that there is an exception to "no leaven... in any offering of the Lord made by fire" when we read of the firstfruits offering on the day of Pentecost:

Lev 23:16  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Lev 23:18  And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

"Ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire". Yet the offering made by fire for the firstfruits unto the Lord "shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord." This offering typifies us if we are given to endure to the end:

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

We are the firstfruits to God and the Lamb, and as such we are also what the scriptures call "the Lord['s] ...Christ":

Act 4:26  The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Rev 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Christ as our Passover is the first of the firstfruits. He was a spotless sheep "who knew no sin".

2Co 5:21  For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

He was never afflicted with the "the leaven of the Pharisees", unlike His body, His Christ, we who have all known sin and have been corrupted by the leaven of the Pharisees. As His firstfruits, we are His witnesses who have known sin and are therefore represented by two loaves offered by fire baked with leaven, unlike any other offering.

The reason I have taken the time to point out this exception is that there is also an exception to the statement that "neither does God himself tempt any man":

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

We saw how God sent evil spirits and Satan himself to serve as "[His] hand" in Job 1 and 2, and in many other situations where He "made the wicked for the day of evil" (Pro 16:4), and He created and used evil to work "all things after the counsel of His own will" (Eph 1:11). However, there is one exception to that rule, just as there was with the commandment:

Lev 2:11  No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

Here is that one exception to the Lord Himself tempting no man:

Gen 22:1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Gen 22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

This trial which the Lord Himself placed upon Abraham was the commandment to offer up his only son as an offering to God, and we are clearly told in this one instance "God did tempt Abraham" to offer up his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering to God.

This is the only exception to the truth of James 1:13, but it is an exception which is used by those who are not given faith to conclude that the scriptures contradict themselves, which is no more true than the Lord telling Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice and then telling Abraham, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad":

Gen 22:10  And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Gen 22:11  And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Gen 22:12  And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Gen 22:13  And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

God has given those who 'cast angle and spread nets for men' the opportunity to twist His words and to reject them, but He brings us all to see the double-tongued hypocrisy that is the waters of Egypt and Babylon, and in the end the fishers in those waters shall mourn, and they "shall be broken in the purposes thereof".

In our next study we will see that the Lord truly is working all things after the counsel of His own will. We will see that He tells us it is "the Lord [who] has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of... Egypt":

Isa 19:11  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?
Isa 19:12  Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
Isa 19:13  The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Isa 19:14  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.
Isa 19:15  Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.