So we ask, Since that Bible verse is true - which reveals that the great "man of sin," (1Thess. 2:3); stretches his hand forth upon Egypt, so that "Egypt shall not escape," then how can the other Bible verse we quote above be true which reveals that Egypt will serve the Lord with Israel so that God will say of her, "Blessed be Egypt my people?" (Isa. 19:25). - Is it kind of like what was happening behind the scenes after agents of Rome set up hard core Communism to get rid of Protestantism in East Germany, but our mighty God worked behind the scenes until the Berlin wall came down?
Or in addition, is it kind of like what is happening behind the scenes when the Muslim hordes (whose religion has been set up by agents of Rome to defeat the early church teachings of Jesus among them) attacked Europe in the 16th century - which diverted Rome's armies away from attacking and murdering the Protestant's of Europe? What are the answers?
Well, we can say that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled. God revealed that it is Rome's goal to regain control of the world and to destroy Protestantism (that ecclesiastical power through its tentacles has said, they never forgive and forget - so unlike what Christians ought to do) - and in fulfillment of Revelation 18:24, which says, "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth," reveals that the word "all" means ALL! [10]
Examples How God Overruled Man's Doings
All through history and through every one of these by the wicked directed attempts of Rome to carry out their deadly plans, we see the overruling hand of God working for the good of His cause and His people. When God allows the devil and his agents to do something, you can be sure that it is going to turn out better than if it had never happened.
Before we comment on Daniel 11 and Isaiah 19, concerning Egypt, let us look how it turned out with Rome's attempt to use Adolf Hitler and his Axis partners in conspiracy to get control of the whole world. But you did not see behind-the-scenes like angels did while it was actually happening. Removed in time now, we can see some thing that happened then, but we are still too close to see behind the scenes for the U.S., Egypt, Libya and so forth. All we can say, is, that there are repetitions occurring, and therefore we can get an idea.
So, why do things backfire so that the devil and his friends on earth were not able to regain control of the whole world in the 1940's?
Will these forces ever succeed? Are they getting closer today?
We know that the evil "device" of the devil will be "perfected." But God will only allow them to succeed in order that His dear people will be gloriously prepared for heaven. Let us examine one of these attacks, and see how God kept overruling and outsmarting the fiend and his poor slaves.
WWII was the biggest and bloodiest war the world ever went through.
More than 50 million people died. Hundreds of millions were wounded, made homeless, became poor or ruined. Hundreds of cities were smashed. People are still asking today why it happened. There were no feuding monarchs, no arms races, no trade wars - so why? Yet, in 1939 the world started to go up in flames. One poor puppet lit the match. His name was Adolf Hitler.[15]
Most people don't know that Hitler usually did not get out of bed until about noon. Some of the important decisions in WWII could not be made because Hitler was sleeping. At 11 o'clock in the morning on the day of the Allied invasion of Normandy the leading generals demanded that the Armed Forces' high command release the armored divisions that were standing on the channel coast north of the Seine River, but they could not get an answer because Hitler could not be disturbed. He was still asleep.
His book, `Mein Kampf" was written by the Jesuit priest, "Father" Bernhard Staempfel. Hitler stated that he patterned his Nazi party after the Jesuit order. 
He brainstorms Germany by airplane - a novel thing at the time, and tells the people that only the Nazi party can right the wrongs they have suffered. Today we have such type of groups who also will be saying similar things.
Hitler pulled off a series of bluffs - marching unopposed into the Rhineland - and the nations of Europe did nothing, when, at that time, they were strong enough to stop him. Hitler's army was so weak at that time (1936) that they marched across the Rhine bridges into the territory lost after WWI, and then, during the night, they marched back into Germany over the same bridges so that the next morning they could march back across the same bridges again with music bands playing, fooling the people, and making them think that they had a big army. Former German soldiers and members of the Nazi party revealed these things in recorded interviews. If other nations had done something then, it would have been the end of Hitler.
Soon, September 1, 1939, Hitler attacked Poland with screaming dive bombers in a "Blitzkrieg". Looking behind the scene, we may say our kind heavenly Father allowed this son of Rome to do what he did because it brought ultimate blessings to God's church - God's people - to prepare them for heaven.
What blessings?
They had been sleeping - with nice sermons, intense moneymaking, joyful, laughing get-togethers, and church parties. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in the midst of it, and was grieved. The earthshaking events of WWII woke the church members up! With the loss of home, loved ones, jobs, and lives, the devil drove many of them to prayer and to Jesus as nothing else could have done. Using hordes of thieves and murderers, the devil has driven more people to our Lord Jesus than any evangelist who has ever lived! In that sense, the devil is the greatest evangelist the world has ever seen! Let him jump for joy for all the evil he can cause to sadden the heavenly places - shooting himself in the foot, so to speak.
Our kind heavenly Father will use events taking place around the world to do similar things for God's people in our day. Notwithstanding the scary strikes, etc., we in the US still have comparative ease compared to other nations because we have a great work to do in getting God's three angels messages to the world. Pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you!! Therefore God's mighty angels messages are holding back the forces of hell until it is done - and every soul makes his final decision. Then, they'll let loose. And woe be unto anyone who is not hiding in dear Jesus when the devil is free to do whatever he pleases to those poor lost souls! Until then, nothing can stop God's last message of love and warning from going out to the people. You and I can have a part in it!
It finally happens on May 10, 1940. German Panzer divisions smash across the border into France. The German army races all the way across France in an incredible 10 days. The Germans close in on the town of Dunkirk. More than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers are penned up with their backs to the beach. An enormous victory for the devil, for the Vatican, for Germany, and for Hitler, is in sight. If the entire British Army is captured, England will be defenseless. The British were just able to send a message to their base, "but if not". Back at home they knew right away what it meant for it is explained in Daniel 2:18. And then, something incredible happens. Hitler orders his tanks to halt. Not only to halt, but to pull back. The Panzer division general said, "We were speechless."
It was a serious mistake that changed the course of the war. Why did Hitler make it? The Nazi leaders were worried about a possible counterattack (which could not come). Herman Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe, says to Hitler that the tanks will not be needed. He will destroy the British Army with his Luftwaffe. So the Nazi dive bombers take to the air to do it, and the Luftwaffe's fighters rise to cover them. But the fighters of the British Air Force swarm to the scene like bees to protect the soldiers on the beach. They did not notice the angels flying beside them. Did they? We wish they could have seen them just for 2 seconds. Can you see those angels? There were more angels in the sky than there were airplanes. The people on the other planets of the entire universe were watching. Oh yes! They see the angels!!! Do you see the angel standing beside you right now?
A ragtag of big and little boats set out from the English coast to rescue the stranded soldiers. The people on the boats did not see the angels either. The German Messerschmidts are unable to protect the dive bombers from the fast flying Spitfires and Hurricanes. The Luftwaffe takes terrible losses. and for the first time, the Luftwaffe fails. As a result, nearly 1/3 of a million British and French troops escape and for that we ought to praise God even today, at this late hour.
Goering's deputy tells him that they must make an attack and invade England immediately. Churchill tells President Roosevelt that if Britain goes down, Hitler has a very good chance of conquering the world. Hitler orders a massive, cross channel invasion of England. The operation is called "Sea Lion." The general staff says that it can take place only if the British Air Force - the RAF, is first destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Only then can the invasion barges be protected against the British Navy. Armies and navies will sit and wait while the air forces fight it out. It is called the `Battle of Britain.'
The RAF is greatly outnumbered by the planes of the Luftwaffe. After weeks of fighting in the air above the English Channel, the Luftwaffe is finally nearing its goal of destroying the RAF. (But Hitler does not know that.) Then Hitler is giving another `Halt' order. The Luftwaffe will abandon its task of destroying the RAF, and start hitting cities. Thus, the RAF is given a providential chance to recover. Another major mistake for Germany. Why did Hitler make such a mistake? If you ask me, they occur because God is in control. During that period, the British made a few raids on Berlin. This so infuriated Hitler, that he ordered attacks on British cities. That decision led to the eventual defeat of the German armies, and altered world history. Now, even the angels could breath a sigh of relief as it were.
The `Battle of Britain' is over. The Luftwaffe has been driven to exhaustion. Hitler, a poor Bavarian boy, suffers his first major defeat. He dithers; considers various options; and finally turns his eyes toward Russia. Now he breaks his treaty with Russia, and attacks them. (He does not personally attack them because, he is at his gorgeous retreat in the mountains with his girlfriend, and the families and children of his military friends. He thinks he is invincible. Instead he is deluded like many are today.)
Within a week, the Germans defeat five Soviet armies. In the grain rich Ukraine, German soldiers are greeted with flowers and food. Millions of Ukrainian peasants have been murdered and starved to death by the Soviet government under Stalin. (They have something in common with the peasants of Egypt, Libya, etc.) And so the German soldiers are greeted as liberators. The Ukrainians want to dissolve the farm collectives, reopen their churches (which had been closed by Communist agents under the influence of the papacy) and have the right to own their own lands. Instead, German SS death squads arrive (More Jesuit controlled agents) and begin killing anyone who commits even the smallest infraction of German orders. The peasants' grain is shipped back to Germany, leaving them to starve. The angry peasants form partisan groups. When they are caught, they are hanged. The church members in Russia and the Ukraine were asleep in the past with their nice sermons, rich farms, delicious food, and church parties. Now, they sleep no more! They cry out to God, and are ready for Jesus to take them home.
The Divine Principle Disregarded
But this mistake by Hitler is so great that it results in the utter defeat of Hitler's Third Reich. A divine principle was disregarded. "For with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again," Matthew 7:2. Jesus, our Lord and the Saviour of the whole world said that! Or as it reads in the German Bible, "Mit welcherlei Maß ihr messet, wird euch gemessen werden." Matth. 7:2, Luther. It is obvious, anyone could have known this principle, except for unbelief.
As the end approaches, German troops are outnumbered 6 to 1. Twelve year old boys are in Nazi uniforms. Germany's cities are in ruins. As the Russians close in on Berlin, Hitler finally admits defeat, and turns on his own people. They have proven themselves unworthy of victory he declares. Then, on April 30, 1945, Hitler puts on a new Nazi uniform, sits down on the sofa in his bunker, and kills himself.
Now, the poor man is at rest - rest - until he wakes up to receive his reward. Before his death, he gives his new bride, his pet dog, and his dearest friends a going-away present. He gave them all a little box. Inside of it was a cyanide capsule. He said that he wished it could be more. They thanked him so kindly. One of the wives who visited him once said, that it was the happiest day in her life when Hitler gave her a party pin. (Strange value systems.) She asked him if he had six more little pills for her six children. He gave them to her. Mommy, comfortably under her covers in bed. The children where also in bed - under their covers. They all fell asleep. When they all awaken at the end of the Millennium, they will look just like when they fell asleep. "The way of transgressors is hard." Proverbs 13:15.
What we learned is how God overruled things so many times. Now that the Jesuits cannot use Hitler anymore to regain control of the whole world, will they find new leaders to work for them toward that end? Yes, they actively are about the task to recruit people who help them with demonstrations, riots, revolutions and chaos.
Rome's efforts to regain control of the whole world were seen in the first and second World Wars. Now these powers are planning a massacre that will be greater than those wars. In preparation toward those ends, the power's agents have infiltrated every local community and every local church. They will come there as people who are willing to listen - as people who are changing the meaning of scripture to make you more sympathetic to the RCC institution. She is the mastermind behind everything this world has witnessed. Removing all books they can get their hands on which would expose their sordid history, the world is unable to realize the nature, the goals and consummate skills these people acquired to go about their oath based tasks. Outwardly they are trying to assume the role of peacemakers among all nations. It is their work to focus the attention of all the people on certain evils. There is one evil here. And there is another evil there. And agents of Rome are going to fight all these evils. By the end of all these struggles against every evil, they have you working with them fighting evils! And you will find yourself thinking, `They are not so bad after all.' They are fighting abortion! They are fighting drugs! They are fighting alcohol! Nevertheless, they have the greatest distilleries of whisky in the world.[50]
Are the five wise virgins asleep now as they were before WWII? If so, what things will wake them up?
Here it is, "The shaking of God blows away multitudes like dry leaves. Chaff like a cloud will be borne away on the wind, even from places where we see only floors of rich wheat. Soon God's people will be tested by fiery trials, and the great proportion of those who now appear to be genuine and true will prove to be base metal. ... To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsake us, to fight the battles of the Lord when champions are few--this will be our test." [LDE 180]
"As the members of the body of Christ approach the period of their last conflict, "the time of Jacob's trouble," they will grow up into Christ, and will partake largely of His spirit. As the third message swells to a loud cry, and as great power and glory attend the closing work, the faithful people of God will partake of that glory. It is the latter rain which revives and strengthens them to pass through the time of trouble. Their faces will shine with the glory of that light which attends the third angel." [1T 353.3]
It is at this time that honest souls in both, Egypt, Assyria, and Israel, will become "one in Christ." They will be scattered until Jesus comes and takes us to heaven, but after
- the wicked have been judged and have received the "final reward,"
- the earth has been purified by the fire of hell, and
- the new earth has been created before our astonished eyes. Then, "in that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." Isa. 19:23-25.
"I saw that God would in a wonderful manner preserve his people through the time of trouble. As Jesus poured out his soul in agony in the garden, they will earnestly cry and agonize with him day and night for deliverance. The decree will go forth that they must disregard the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and honor the first day, or lose their lives; but they will not yield, and trample under their feet the Sabbath of the Lord, and honor an institution of Papacy. Satan's host, and wicked men, will surround them, and exult over them, because there will seem to be no way of escape for them. But in the midst of their revelry and triumph, there is peal upon peal of the loudest thunder. The heavens have gathered blackness, and are only illuminated by the blazing light and terrible glory from Heaven, as God utters his voice from his holy habitation.
The foundations of the earth shake, buildings totter and fall with a terrible crash. The sea boils like a pot, and the whole earth is in terrible commotion. The captivity of the righteous is turned, and with sweet and solemn whisperings they say to each other, "We are delivered. It is the voice of God." With solemn awe they listen to the words of the voice. . . . Those who were so eager to destroy the saints, could not endure the glory resting upon the delivered ones, and they fell like dead men to the earth. Satan and evil angels fled from the presence of the saints glorified. Their power to annoy them was gone forever." [4bSP, 113.1,2]
We may wonder, what will the world be like when the people living in the areas of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel serve God together?
Well, read this, "There the heavenly Shepherd leads his flock to fountains of living waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations. There are ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ransomed of the Lord. There the widespreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God's people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of Heaven. . . . The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity." [Rev. 21:4; Isa. 33:24]
In the city of God "there shall be no night." None will need or desire repose. There will be no weariness in doing the will of God and offering praise to his name. We shall ever feel the freshness of the morning, and shall ever be far from its close. . . . The glory of God and the Lamb floods the holy city with unfading light. The redeemed walk in the sunless glory of perpetual day.
"I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." [Revelation 22:5; 21:22.] The people of God are privileged to hold open communion with the Father and the Son. Now we "see through a glass, darkly." [1 Corinthians 13:12.] We behold the image of God reflected, as in a mirror, in the works of nature and in his dealings with men; but then we shall see him face to face, without a dimming veil between. We shall stand in his presence, and behold the glory of his countenance.
The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels and with the faithful ones of all ages, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, the sacred ties that bind together "the whole family in Heaven and earth,"
There, immortal minds will contemplate with never-failing delight the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized. [GC88 675.1 - 677.2].
Notes & References
[10] Blinded Catholic authors would write, "Ignatius' ... his would be a military company of Jesus, bound by a similar strictness of obedience, and a like careful, though spiritual, exercise of arms, to fight the battle of the church against the infidels and heretics." Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, p. 376.
[15] Image: September 1938, Munich Conference participants, England: Prime Minister Nevile Chamberlain (1869-1940); France: Edouard Daladier (1884-1970) French statesman; Germany: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945); Italy: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian Fascist party. The conference was discontinued in March 1939.
[50] On November 20, 1938, the priest Charles Coughlin delivers a radio address in which he defends Nazi violence against Sabbath keeping Jews. They don't tell you that Rome loved her altar boy Adolf Hitler as a tool - along with Japan and Italy - to eliminate as many Protestants as they could in WWII. Dresden, a city in the remote eastern part of Schlesien, Germany, was a Protestant city - not a military center - so it, along with other Protestant areas, mostly in northern Germany, was fire bombed, killing the Protestant civilians in violation of the Geneva Convention. The Vatican had a concordat with all three of the "Axis" powers, and was hoping that they would conquer the world for Rome. After the war, Protestant East Germany was taken over by hard core Communists who worked to destroy what Protestants were not destroyed in the war. Rome indirectly set up Communism, Fascism, and other "isms" for that purpose.
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