A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?

[spockrates]

All you have to do is prove one false to show the prophet who uttered it had no business saying God spoke to him.

Too easy, Spocky.

Ezekiel 29:8-12

New International Version (NIV)

8 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast. 9 Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘Because you said, “The Nile is mine; I made it, ” 10 therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.[a] 11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years. 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Never fucking happened.

The problem with you clowns is that you treat this bullshit as prophecies....

I believe the Neo-Assyrian Empire actually did decimate Egypt's 25th (and last independent) dynasty around 670 BC:


As king of Assyria, Esarhaddon immediately had Babylon rebuilt, and made it one of his capitals. Defeating the Scythians, Cimmerians and Medes (again penetrating to Mt. Bikni), he then turned his attention westward to Phoenicia—now allying itself with the Nubian/Kushite rulers of Egypt against him—and sacked Sidon in 677 BC. He also captured King Manasseh of Judah and kept him prisoner for some time in Babylon (2 Chronicles 33:11). Having had enough of Egyptian meddling, Esarhaddon raided Egypt in 673 BC. Two years later he launched a full invasion and conquered Egypt, chasing the Pharaoh Taharqa back to Nubia, thus bringing to an end Nubian-Kushite rule in Egypt, and destroying the Kushite Empire which had begun in 760 BC. The Babylonian Chronicle retells how Egypt "was sacked and its gods were abducted" (ABC 1 Col.4:25); also in ABC 14:28–29. The pharaoh Tirhakah fled Egypt, and a stele commemorating the victory, was set up at Sinjerli in Asia Minor, north of the Gulf of Antioch, and is now in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The Bible graphically recounts Egypt's demise in Isaiah 20:4 "So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners,and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even withtheir buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, andof Egypt their glory."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire


But please tell me: Why do you believe this never happened?

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Estimates run from 1-3 million over a 400 year period. With the population increasing at 5 times the previous 20 year period then to reach a population in the millions would have been easy. They were not slaves the entire 400 years the first 100 years or so they were free citizens of Egypt.

Back to the topic, GC: I think I might have found a solution to the apparent contradiction mentioned in the OP, if you care to take a look at it with me. My torch is lit. Have you unsheathed your sword of the spirit?