Egypt

He uses Egypt to picture the commerce or Big Business that exploits the people and controls the trade of the world by land.

The princes and supporters in this prophecy picture the chief ones in Satan’s visible organization. Tyre represents the commercial factor of Satan’s organization that dominates the sea. Egypt represents Satan’s commercial organization that dominates the land. Satan’s organization commercial, from the viewpoint of the sea and land, constitutes Big Business that controls the world. The seventh world power, as the indisputable facts show, dominates the seas.

The prophecy, therefore, must refer to the antitypes of these countries, because those countries suffered defeat prior to the time of Zechariah’s prophecy. In the prophecy Edom or Idumea pictures the “wicked servant” class, the “man of sin”, “the son of perdition”; Egypt pictures Satan’s visible organization, made up of the commercial, political and religious elements; and Ethiopia represents the hireling military strong-arm squad. All of these shall fall at Armageddon, and Jehovah’s forces are moving into position for the attack.

The Philistines had been brought out of Egypt and into the land of Palestine; thus they pictured a people who outwardly appeared to have come out of the world, as Egypt pictured the world.

Those who come into relationship with God by devoting themselves to him through Christ to do God's will have been oppressed by this present evil world, symbolized by Egypt.

In that noteworthy year, 1929, and after seven plagues of stinging truth had been poured out upon "Christendom" by Jehovah's remnant during the seven years of 1922-1928, he revealed to them how great deliverance he had wrought for them from antitypical Egypt, this world.

In these last days the Great Shepherd, by the hand of the Right Shepherd, Christ Jesus, and operating through his "faithful and discreet slave" class, has led his spiritual flock out of antitypical Egypt, the modern world.

Jehovah's original congregation, Israel, was called out of Egypt in the year 1513 B.C. His Christian congregation began to be called out of antitypical Egypt, the "world," A.D. 33.