Some Ancient Egyptian History - 26
Willie Martin
army, Rome conquered substantially all the then know world.
And then, as they began degenerating, they didn't have the
hardihood to serve in their own army, so they began getting
mercenary troops from the so-called barbarism, until the
barbarians finally got tired of defending a people who had
degenerated until they were no longer capable of defending
themselves, and the barbarism themselves began plundering
Rome.
The Egyptians began doing the same thing: they were becoming
too civilized to serve in the
Egyptian army. So here were a lot of big husky Negroes down
inn Nubia, and they began training them to be soldiers.
Well, as long as they had enough Egyptian officers among
them, to keep control of the troops, they did serve a
purpose. For in those days they had no complicated weapons
that required intelligence to use. All they had were bows
and arrows, and spears, and the Nubian natives at least knew
what to do with a spear.
In all these ancient kingdoms, there was always a period of
unrest and uncertainty when the reigning king died.
Sometimes his eldest son was still fairly young, and any
usurper who could get the support of a substantial part of
the army might be able to move in and take over the throne.
And in Egypt, since that did happen on a few occasions, they
developed a system, that during the last years of the reign
of a pharaoh, from the time that his oldest son was old
enough to be trained in the administration of the kingdom,
they had a joint rule, a co-regency. In this way the army
for some years was accustomed to taking orders from the
crown prince, and it wasn't a brand new idea when his father
died and the son succeeded to the throne and told them, "You
put down any uprisings."
But back, somewhere around 775 B.C., when the reigning
pharaoh died, the Egyptian governor of Nubia knew that as
far as Egypt was concerned, there wasn't much of an army
there. Down in Nubia he had the best trained troops in that
part of the world, so he swiftly marched north into Egypt
with his Nubian Negro army and took over. This was the
twenty-fifth Egyptian dynasty, and for a period of about 75
or 80 years these Nubian Negroes were ruling Egypt. And of
course that was the worst disaster possible, because you
know what these Nubian Negro troops did with the Egyptian
women. They were the military masters of the land; and in
that period Egypt became a mulatto nation, and that was the
end of the greatness of Egypt. As the Bible said, they
became the basest of all the kingdom; and they have been
soever since. Egyptian architecture, Egyptian art,
everything declined badly.
"And I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF EGYPT, and will
cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land
of their habitation; and THEY SHALL BE THERE A BASE KINGDOM.
IT SHALL BE THE BASEST OF THE KINGDOMS; neither shall it
exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish
them, that they shall no more rule over the nations."
(Ezekiel 29:14-15)
Remember, northern kingdom of Israel, the House of Israel,
was conquered by Assyria between 740 and 721 B.C., so you
can see that this was during the period when the Nubian
Negro dynasty was in control of Egypt. The power of Assyria,
back in the Tigris-Euphrates valleys, had been rising during
that period, and the Assyrians never did have much ability
at anything except conquering their neighbors; they were
quite a good parallel to the Turks in later times. They were
a military people, perhaps even more so than the Romans, and
they conquered their neighbors and looted them, and made
slaves of many of them.
There was this problem: every little kingdom, if it only
covered 200 or 300 square miles, had the idea that it wanted
to be an empire and conquer some smaller neighboring kingdom
that only covered 120 square mils. So every kingdom was in
constant peril of attack by its neighbors. Not only the
norther kingdom of Israel, but the southern kingdom of Judah
also, were constantly in peril of efforts of the kingdom of
Syria, to the north and northeast, to conquer them. Now
whenever they retained their loyalty of Yahweh God, they had
no trouble from attacks by their neighbors. Most of the time
they lived in peace, because, when they were attacked, they
inflicted such a crushing defeat upon these other kingdoms
that they weren't in a hurry to come back and make another
attack. But when they lapsed into idolatry, as you remember
they did about once every generation, then they were subject
to attacks by the Edomites on the southeast, and by the
Syrians on the north and northeast.