The clearly supernatural occurrence of the sudden popular resistance against U.S.-backed Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt caught every government, world pundit and teacher of bible prophecy by complete surprise. Even Israeli Intelligence was caught off guard. When asked at a briefing of the Knesset just two days before the popular uprising if there could be a similar revolt as the one which had just taken place in Tunisia which had toppled a 23 year dictatorship, a high ranking Israeli general said, no, he did not think it was a possibility.  If Israeli Intelligence did not know it was possible we can be sure no one else on the planet did either.

Diplomats across the globe and the world’s media, from Wikileaks and CNN to Hillary Clinton and the Islamic Brotherhood stand today, not even a week into this internet revolt which was masterminded apparently by the ubiquitous and eerie HAL, with egg all over their all-seeing monitor screens and dripping from their all-knowing IPad apps. Already the world’s media and officials from Mubarak’s backers, the United States or Israel, are trying to wipe the cholesterol out of their eyes. President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu will try to reassure sundry governments and allies that they are on the side of freedom and that they saw it, or something like it, coming. Permit me to repeat one of the oldest jokes in the book: the yoke’s on them. Their stories won’t fly; every editor, commentator, diplomat and government official East, West, or in temples of Tibet, down to the smallest cub reporter and janitor in the Halls of Montezuma know better. As a prophetic observer and teacher I strongly suggest that no one believe the barrage of propaganda that will be forthcoming from Mubarak’s palace, the White House, the Knesset, the EU, FoxNews or the local high school. The United States and Israel have enjoyed the security of Israel’s large southern border which their hired thug, Mubarak has provided for a curious brand of ‘freedom’. What, freedom to oppress your own people?

As for those of us, few as we may be, who are truly (and I emphasize, truly) watching and following the signs of the end, we have no reason to be embarrassed or feel the slightest need to apologize for not seeing this coming. We can never know how prophecy will be fulfilled until it actually is fulfilled. That even goes for how this current revolt will end in the immediate. Are the changes that are certain to take place ones which will directly place Egypt in its ultimate end times position among the nations, or will the changes amount to just one step toward bringing Egypt into that prominent place as the main adversary of Antichrist power during the entire seven year Tribulation period?

Therein lays the reason why the events of the Egyptian revolt are so compelling. We are transfixed by prophetic history in the making. The wise will watch with eagle-eyes as the drama of Biblical prophecy and the positioning of Egypt gradually unfolds. After all, Jesus said, watch therefore and pray. Remember, we are told what will happen, but not necessarily when and how it will happen. To perceive fulfillment of prophecy correctly we must be locked in; the prophecy watch is a day-by-day vigil.

The astounding overnight simultaneous happenings in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other more remote locations in Egypt stand as testaments to this truth about the manner in which the hand of Providence and His omnipotent wisdom administers the fulfilling of His prophetic warnings and promises. We have known that Egypt must be maneuvered by the hand of Providence into its end-times position, we just did not know how this was possible – but now we see more than we did before this supernatural upheaval began.

Less than a week into the whole affair it had become apparent that Mubarak must go and that the thirty-two year alliance of the U.S./Israeli with the Egyptian government should be dramatically changed or dissolved altogether. But how to accomplish Mubarak’s departure has become a bit dicey since he refuses to go quietly. Typical of all these despots who are under pressure all over Africa these days, Mubarak is using all sorts of subterfuge to try to stay in power. Statements from Hillary Clinton show the U.S. is back-peddling on their original and unequivocal demand for Mubarak to step down immediately. This is probably from urges and pleas from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has publicly annunciated Israel’s official concern that if a Muslim fundamentalist or Islamic/Arab regime gains control of the Egyptian government it might dissolve the peace treaty, opening the Jews southern flank once again to military attack which might have devastating consequences for the already unstable peace in the Middle East that could spill over uncontrollably into the entire world. The puppeteer government of the U.S. is jockeying to try to keep Mubarak’s government in place even if it means jettisoning Mubarak himself and installing his vice president as interim head of a reformed government.

The situation changes every hour. One day Mubarak sends armed thugs into the streets to beat, maim, terrorize and kill protesters in Tahrir Square and the next he is saying he has to go to Germany to get a pimple (or something) removed from his nose and will leave his gentle and kind accomplice – er – vice president behind to run the show. The ‘colonial’ diplomacy of the U.S. is geared to persuade the protesters to accept Mubarak’s promises as genuine and trust in U.S. guarantees that it wants free democratic elections and reforms as much as the people who have put their future on the line in taking to the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. Meaningful social, political and economic reforms for the common Egyptian people will only be realized when new freedoms and social change is actively in place under a new government and economic equality is guaranteed by law. It doesn’t seem likely that the Egyptian people are dumb enough to buy much of the bilk Mubarak is selling after the victory it has won in so short a period of time, but with American help they may still get duped, only time will tell though we should get an answer to that question relatively soon.

In the first few days of the protests the one thing going for U.S. diplomacy was that the people had not yet endured too many sacrifices directly connected with the uprising, only the poverty and socio/political tyranny of Mubarak’s ‘Gestapo’. Once the protesters began experiencing violent reprisal and deaths the stakes went up and U.S. diplomacy became more tenuous. Genuine sacrifices were made in the streets of Cairo and the Egyptian people are not likely to let those martyr’s deaths go for naught. The ultimate insult of bloodshed builds unforgivable grudges and anger that block all trust in smooth promises which can sometimes get rebels to fall for the sound of caring words of cagey diplomats and university trained weasels, but not likely in this case. The U.S. also knows that genuine sacrifices and hardships have been endured by the rank and file people of Egypt for years on end without hope in sight, until one fateful day in 01-11 sparked a hope and its light is not likely to be snuffed out whether Mubarak stays or goes. Once kindled freedom’s hope is hard to extinguish, but The United States is hoping it can talk the fired up youth of Egypt down off the tank, though it is unlikely that such people, brought to ropes end, with the smell of victory in their nostrils at Tahrir Square, that this will end in anything but a change in government that is not nearly as friendly to the Jews and one that is bent on getting out of the back pocket of the Raiser of Taxes (as Daniel terms it) who is the once supreme and now last standing SuperPower, the United States. The U.S. being the last in line of the two thousand year succession of the Roman Empire before the actual Antichrist takes the scepter.

Day eight into the popular uprising, the situation changes from hour to hour and it will not be certain for a while what exactly will be the end of this phase of Egyptian ‘prophistory’. We can be sure, however, that it is heading toward the ultimate fulfillment of Egypt’s role in God’s Plan of the Ages, which my book has titled: The Redemption Play. It is not the job of the true prophetic teacher to prognosticate or offer titillating predictions or to know the specifics of how the immediate political situation will shake out, but it is certain that an event of this prophistorical magnitude is an orchestrated maneuver of God, in this case, to bring Egypt into its preordained place in the World political scheme of power politics of the last days. Ultimately these maneuverings in such incredible events tell the prophetically wise that the Bride of Christ is being prepped to meet the Bridegroom soon at Rapture time.

Egypt’s position in the world and her destiny as foe of Antichrist cannot be understood without a thorough knowledge of end-times prophecy concerning the biblical character identified in Daniel as the King of the South (see: Daniel chapter 11). The Kings of the East (China and Japan probably, and possibly India and Pakistan) are not deeply involved in the day to day intrigues, or the threefold seven tiered judgments of the Tribulation, or events which lead up to them, unless the East nations somehow are incorporated into the conglomeration of governments and nations which will comprise the makeup of the Biblical Ten Kings. The so-called King of the South, however, as it has throughout this age, will play a major, major role. This can only be Egypt and whatsoever subsidiary nations that may go with her, like Ethiopia and Libya, or North and South Sudan, for example (See Dan 11:40-45).