OUR FATHER WHO REVEALS HIS INTENTIONS TO HIS PROPHETS

The book of Isaiah chapter 20 verse 4  (in purple text) says this;

Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame. 

Continuing with the prophecies in chapter 19 about the subduing of the kingdom of Egypt, chapter 20 describes the final ruination of Egypt when they are all, young and old, herded together by the Assyrian Empire and marched barefoot and naked into captivity.

This prophecy was cemented by the dramatization that Isaiah the prophet was asked to perform by moving around stripped and barefoot for three years as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush.

The enactment of Egypt's march into captivity by Isaiah was a warning to Egypt regarding their oppression of God's people and that it would result in their humiliation and exile from their land

This passage also shows Isaiah to be an international prophet where his utterances and enactments pertain not only to Israel but to the nations and empires around them.

Amen.

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