{"id":792,"date":"2011-02-03T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.bbc.edu\/mstallard\/?p=792"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:11:59","slug":"egypt-prophecy-and-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/egypt-prophecy-and-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, Prophecy, and Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Egypt-unrest.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-793\" title=\"Egypt unrest\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Egypt-unrest-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Egypt-unrest-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Egypt-unrest.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yannis Behrakis -- Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The unrest in the country of Egypt is a concern for all of us.\u00a0 It has the potential of altering our lives if gas prices are somehow affected.\u00a0 It could also veer off in an anti-Israeli direction which will not help the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.\u00a0 This humanly speaking can have disastrous impact on the world at large.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt also\u00a0has a role in Bible prophecy at several points.\u00a0 The king of the south in Daniel 11 for example may well be the leader of Egypt as some interpreters hold.\u00a0\u00a0 Usually, however, when current events like this occur, there are those who will overstate the implications for prophecy.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t know the ultimate implications for prophecy until the end-time events (rapture, tribulation, Second Coming, kingdom) begin to occur.\u00a0 So, please refrain from overstatement in this area and stick to biblical teaching about Egypt in the latter times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unrest in the country of Egypt is a concern for all of us.\u00a0 It has the potential of altering our lives if gas prices are somehow affected.\u00a0 It could also veer off in an anti-Israeli direction which will not help the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.\u00a0 This humanly speaking can have disastrous impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}