by EndofMysteries 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
This scripture alone may not raise a flag in ones mind, combined with many other things I've been noticing, it surely does. What are your thoughts on what this means?
Isaiah 19:24 - In that day Israel will come to be the third with Egypt and with As·syr′i·a, namely, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 because Jehovah of armies will have blessed it, saying: “Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, As·syr′i·a, and my inheritance, Israel
This scripture alone may not raise a flag in ones mind, combined with many other things I've been noticing, it surely does. What are your thoughts on what this means?
Well, what do you think it means?
It would be impossible to get the meaning of it, just by the scripture alone. Must see all references and hidden references throughout the bible to uncover it's true meaning, either a message, dark truth, understanding not commonly known, etc. I just made a post actually to show how the answers are in the bible. I was hoping 'maybe' someone already did this one.
I only have 'guesses' right now, I do know there are other references to this though. With modern technology, a quick way to find some 'closely' related and easy found scriptures, is doing a search for Assyria, Egypt in WT Lib or make sure in that scripture in another book, you have the words as they appear in whichever translation your using and do a search for it.
Also inheritance, people egypt, etc.
That is going to be my first step. Then from my other studies and research, other terms Assyria is known as, and Egypt, etc.
I really did not have a full answer in mind, but letting you or any reading who are now curious too, how I will go about it.
I see Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, three nations that no longer are in existence as they were constituted when the bible was written. Hope that helps.
Thanks Jeff, on an unrelated tropic, I ran into this............I'm amazed when I run into scriptures like the above....then just land on further scriptures for more answers, like answers from God. I have never heard of this before...................... it's talkinga bout Egypt in Garden of Eden and Syria (Assyrian).
Adds further credibility to some possible truths hidden in the bible...
Ezekiel 31
31 And it occurred further that in the eleventh year, in the third [month], on the first [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah occurred to me, saying: 2 “Son of man, say to Phar′aoh the king of Egypt and to his crowd,
“‘Whom have you come to resemble in your greatness? 3 Look! An As·syr′i·an, a cedar in Leb′a·non, pretty in bough, with a woody thicket offering shadow, and high in stature, so that among the clouds its treetop proved to be. 4 Waters were what made it get big; the watery deep caused it to grow high. With its streams it was going all around its planting place; and its channels it sent forth to all the trees of the field. 5 That is why it grew higher in its stature than all the [other] trees of the field.
“‘And its boughs kept multiplying, and its branches continued getting longer because of much water in its watercourses. 6 On its boughs all the flying creatures of the heavens made their nests, and under its branches all the wild beasts of the field gave birth, and in its shade all the populous nations would dwell. 7 And it came to be pretty in its greatness, in the length of its foliage, for its root system proved to be over many waters. 8 [Other] cedars were no match for it in the garden of God. As for juniper trees, they bore no resemblance as respects its boughs. And plane trees themselves did not prove to be like it in branches. No [other] tree in the garden of God resembled it in its prettiness. 9 Pretty is the way that I made it in the abundance of its foliage, and all the [other] trees of E′den that were in the garden of the [true] God kept envying it.’
10 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘For the reason that you became high in stature, so that it put its treetop even among the clouds and its heart became exalted because of its height, 11 I shall also give it into the hand of the despot of [the] nations. Without fail he will act against it. According to its wickedness I will drive it out. 12 And strangers, the tyrants of [the] nations, will cut it down, and people will abandon it upon the mountains; and in all the valleys its foliage will certainly fall, and its branches will be broken among all the streambeds of the earth. And out from its shade all the peoples of the earth will come down and abandon it. 13 Upon its fallen trunk all the flying creatures of the heavens will reside, and upon its branches there will certainly come to be all the wild beasts of the field; 14 to the end that none of the watered trees may become high in their stature, or put their treetops even among the clouds, and that none drinking water may stand up against them in their height, for they will certainly all of them be given to death, to the land down below, in the midst of the sons of mankind, to those going down into the pit.’
15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘On the day of its going down to She′ol I shall certainly cause a mourning. On its account I will cover the watery deep, that I may hold back its streams and [that] the many waters may be restrained; and on its account I shall darken Leb′a·non, and on its account the trees of the field will all swoon away. 16 At the sound of its downfall I shall certainly cause nations to rock when I bring it down to She′ol with those going down into the pit, and in the land down below all the trees of E′den, the choicest and the best of Leb′a·non, all those drinking water, will be comforted. 17 With him they themselves also have gone down to She′ol, to those slain by the sword, and those who as his seed have dwelt in his shadow in the midst of nations.’
18 “‘Whom have you come to resemble thus in glory and greatness among the trees of E′den? But you will certainly be brought down with the trees of E′den to the land down below. In the midst of the uncircumcised ones you will lie down with those slain by the sword. This is Phar′aoh and all his crowd,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.”
Gotta take a dump here........W77 P.302 - (Summary - "THE FACT, DOES NOT MEAN, RATHER QUITE APPROPRIATELY IT WAS THEREFORE..") - Yet disagreeing with this explanation would get you labeled apostate lol. .................
W77 p. 302
5 “And its boughs kept multiplying, and its branches continued getting longer because of much water in its watercourses. On its boughs all the flying creatures of the heavens made their nests, and under its branches all the wild beasts of the field gave birth, and in its shade all the populous nations would dwell. And it came to be pretty in its greatness, in the length of its foliage, for its root system proved to be over many waters. Other cedars were no match for it in the garden of God. As for juniper trees, they bore no resemblance as respects its boughs. And plane trees themselves did not prove to be like it in branches. No other tree in the garden of God resembled it in its prettiness. Pretty is the way that I made it in the abundance of its foliage, and all the other trees of Eden that were in the garden of the true God kept envying it.”—Ezek. 31:3-9.
6 The Republic of Lebanon has been much in the world news in recent years, but the cedars on the mountains of Lebanon have been famous for millenniums. (Note Judges 9:15.) No man planted those tall wide-spreading cedars there. Cedar trees were already on site before the confusion of the human language at the Tower of Babel scattered the builders in all directions from ancient Babylon on the Euphrates River, in the second century after the global flood. The Creator of heaven and earth takes the credit for planting those cedars. So Psalm 80:10 speaks of them as “the cedars of God,” and Psalm 104:16 calls them “the cedars of Lebanon that he [Jehovah] planted.”
7 THE FACT that these cedars, together with the juniper and plane trees, were said to be in Eden and in “the garden of God” DOES NOT MEAN that the garden of Eden was restored after the deluge of Noah’s day, 2370 B.C.E. RATHER, the location of this particular cedar was so pleasant, so Edenic, so like man’s original home, that it was like “the garden of God.” The Hebrew word for “garden” (gan) means, basically, a “fenced-in or enclosed place”; and we remember that the original “garden of Eden” had a passageway “at the east of the garden” through which the disobedient Adam and Eve were driven out and where God stationed the cherubs “to guard the way to the tree of life.”—Gen. 3:24.
8 In the days of the prophecy of Ezekiel the cedar-famed land of Lebanon was so beautiful that Ezekiel was inspired to say to the king of Tyre (a seaport of Lebanon): “In Eden, the garden of God, you proved to be. . . . You are the anointed cherub that is covering, and I have set you. On the holy mountain of God you proved to be.” (Ezek. 28:11-14) QUITE APPROPRIATELY, then, in the seventh century B.C.E. this specially “pretty” cedar of Lebanon was spoken of as being in Eden, in “the garden of God.” IT WAS THEREFORE in a highly favored location, with fine possibilities.
