Has this Isaiah 19 prophecy about Egypt been fulfilled? When?

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Has this prophecy already been fulfilled? When?

NABRE Isaiah 19 says,
21 The LORD shall make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day; they shall offer sacrifices and oblations, make vows to the LORD and fulfill them. 22 Although the LORD shall smite Egypt severely, he shall heal them; they shall turn to the LORD and he shall be moved by their entreaty and heal them. 23 On that day there shall be a highway from Egypt to Assyria; the Assyrians shall enter Egypt, and the Egyptians enter Assyria, and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. 24 On that day Israel shall be a third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 when the LORD of hosts gives this blessing: “Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my heritage, Israel.”
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When did Egypt become a Christian country? Looking to answer this question myself, the CIA estimated in 2012 that 90% of Egyptians are now Mohammedan, whereas Wikipedian editors report Egyptians were mostly Christian before the seventh century. Indeed, one of the two sources cited for this claim reports, “Soon after its inception around 190 A.D. by the Christian scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became the most important institution of religious learning in Christendom.”

So was Egypt a Christian nation? Was there peace between Egypt and Assyria with both highly favoring Israel? Was this prophecy fulfilled between AD 100-700?
 
I would say not, but will wait to hear what others say.

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Is Egypt to be taken literally? For example there are prophecies that reference Babylon that are symbolically referring to Rome. “Egypt” could stand for pagan nations, or oppressors, or worldly powers of some sort.

Just a thought.

It is true, though, that Christianity spread to Egypt and Assyria (Syria) long after Isiah’s time. This may be what it means – that these people would eventually be brought into God’s fold.
 
That sounds like a prophecy of the Messianic Age, which hasn’t happened yet. (While as Christians we believe the Messiah has already come and reigns over the world from Heaven, most of the “and then the world will be awesome” stuff is presumed to happen after the Second Coming. The Catholic Church isn’t big on taking the Millennial Reign of Christ as a literal thing, but if you did that’s probably where the “All the Gentile nations will worship Israel’s God and think Israel is tops” parts would come in.)
 
You have to know more than modern history to answer that question. 🙂 Egypt was Christian during the early Church years. However it fell to Islam later on. Indeed, the Christians razed many Egyptian pagan temples and shrines–something modern archeologists think scandalous. 😉 You can read about the Saints of Egypt in Church hagiography.
 
ethereality said:
Has this prophecy already been fulfilled? When?

NABRE Isaiah 19 says,

When did Egypt become a Christian country? Looking to answer this question myself, the CIA estimated in 2012 that 90% of Egyptians are now Mohammedan, whereas Wikipedian editors report Egyptians were mostly Christian before the seventh century. Indeed, one of the two sources cited for this claim reports, “Soon after its inception around 190 A.D. by the Christian scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became the most important institution of religious learning in Christendom.”

So was Egypt a Christian nation? Was there peace between Egypt and Assyria with both highly favoring Israel? Was this prophecy fulfilled between AD 100-700?
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I tend to fall in the camp of those who believe that this has been fulfilled. There is animosity between Egypt and Assyria but there will be a day of reconciliation, and that day of reconciliation is through Jesus Christ, such that boundaries of ethnicity causing animosity are broken down by one common thing, the faith of the Catholic Church, having originated out of Israel. We tend to regard situations through statistics in percentages, we quantify things because we do not have the knowledge to qualify it. God does not look at us that way, God sees qualification, not quantification. Peradventure there be 50, peradventure there be 10. That is more valuable to God than the inversely opposite.
 
I tend to think the immediate fulfillment of this prophecy was the Greek period, when both Egypt and Mesopotamia were under Alexander’s rule, with Israel between the two regions.
 
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