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Ezekiel chapter 29, verse 19.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,

and he shall carry off its wealth, and to spoil it and plunder it,

and it shall be the wages for his army.

There's a lot we could talk about here when it comes to all that God is doing in Ezekiel's

day, not only among God's people in Jerusalem and as people are taken into exile, but specifically

here in verse 19, what God will do in Egypt.

God says, I'm going to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

He's going to carry off its wealth, to spoil it, plunder it, because I give it to him.

And the big picture takeaway from Ezekiel chapter 29, verse 19,

and we see this all over the Bible, is that God is Lord over all the nations. Everything

happening among all the nations of the world is ultimately under the umbrella of the sovereignty of God.

The Bible teaches. He holds rulers and nations in the palm of his hand.

He is directing ultimately all things.

Now, there's a lot of questions that start to come in here because we don't understand why

this or that is happening in the world. And most all of what is happening in the world is a picture

of sinful depravity of people disobeying God and rebelling against God's ways and people given over to their sin.

But the picture is, even all of that is ultimately under the umbrella of God's sovereignty.

In other words, God is in control over it all.

And he is bringing all of it to a particular purpose. And praise God,

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