Jeremiah 44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

His name will not be named by those Israelites dwelling in the land of Egypt. The Egyptians, of course, are Arabs. Most of the Arab countries are determined to eradicate the nation of Israel at any cost. Some might point to Anwar Sadat of Egypt as a leader of an Arab nation willing to consider peace with Israel. Consider this politician.

The first year he became premier of Egypt, he led Egypt into war with Israel! The encyclopedia calls him a pragmatist… (i.e. he could not wipe out Israel so he would try to negotiate). “A pragmatist, Sadat indicated his willingness to consider a negotiated settlement with Israel and shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachim Begin as a result of the Camp David Accords. He was assassinated by Muslim extremists, who were opposed to his peace initiative with Israel.”

Now consider the xbackground: Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 and was assassinated two years later. He was assassinated because of the peace treaty, and the assassination occurred while he was reviewing a military parade that marked the eighth anniversary of the crossing of the Suez Canal. In other words, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, but continued to celebrate his country’s attack on Israel! Is he a good example of Egypt’s acceptance of Israel? He was a politician who did things that were politically expedient. Muslims hate Israel, America, and anything non-Muslim. The scripture continues its condemnation of the Jews in Egypt.

Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

God allows us to find the truth through a search of the scriptures. The LORD wanted His people out of Egypt. He consumed any of them who remained there. The modern critic wants us to believe that God then used this same region to preserve His word through the Roman Catholic Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts. God emphatically differentiates between His words and those of the Jewish Egyptians!

Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

It sounds as if God insured that the remnant of Judah would be able to differentiate between His words and theirs. It is unfortunate that man does not seem to possess the same capacity to discern truth from error today. Consider some of the other biblical passages which cast a definite negative light on Egypt.

Genesis 12:10-13—Because of the Egyptians, Abraham is concerned for his life and the safety of his wife. Also note that this concerns the genealogical line of Christ (Matthew 1:1-2).

Genesis 37:36—Joseph is sold into Egypt as a slave. Did Egypt bring upon itself the curse of God pronounced against all those that curse Israel (Genesis 12:3)?

Genesis 50:25-26—The first book of the Bible ends with Joseph’s being placed into a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 1:11—Israel is persecuted in Egypt (Genesis 12:3).

Exodus 12:12—God passed through the land and killed all the firstborn of Egypt, judging all their gods.

Exodus 20:2—Egypt is called the “house of bondage.”

Deuteronomy 4:20—Egypt is called the “iron furnace.”

Deuteronomy 17:16—The LORD ends the warning by stating, “Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”

Jeremiah 42:13-19—God warns Judah pointedly, “Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.”

Jeremiah 46:25—God promises punishment on Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:7—God commands Israel not to be associated with Egypt’s idolatry.

Hosea 11:1—God called His Son out of Egypt.

Revelation 11:8—God compares Jerusalem in apostasy to Sodom and Egypt.

In spite of all of the scriptural evidence against the possibility of God’s using Egypt to preserve His word, the Bible critics continue to hold to this unscriptural position. The following comments plainly reveal their position. According to an article written by Gary Hudson, Bob Ross theorizes the following concerning Egypt:

We should also remember the wonderful Providence of the Lord in regard to Moses, Joseph and the Israelites in Egypt, as well as how the infant Jesus was taken to Egypt as a means of escaping death in Israel during the time of Herod’s campaign of infanticide. The Lord is Sovereign in Egypt as well as in Antioch, Jerusalem, and Rome! He works His wonders all over! In fact, if you had to have the “right place” in which the Lord could do His work, it would have to be a “wrong place,” as the whole world is defiled by sin.

In other words, the right place would have to be the wrong place to make it the right place. This position ignores God’s specific condemnation. Read Jeremiah chapter 44 again. This theory makes as much sense as attributing all the variations between the Textus Receptus and the modern versions to God’s people. According to the critics, the modern versions are necessary because God chose Egypt (and Roman Catholicism) to preserve His word which had been corrupted by well-meaning, overzealous scribes. Sounds like some of the logic displayed in the Garden of Eden!