MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

We’ve seen a couple of seismic events this week in Egypt. The military dissolved the Islamist parliament just two days before Egypt’s historic presidential election, and now that an Islamist has apparently been “elected” they’ve decided to limit presidential powers. It’s quite obvious that the ruling military council is seeking to somehow curtail the rise of Sharia Law and the call for an Israeli confrontation at the last minute, but considering the freight train of Islamism that, up until now, has plowed ahead virtually unfettered, it may already be too late to put this genie back in its proverbial bottle. If there is chaos in Cairo, listen for the echoes of Isaiah 19 in the distance …

Isaiah 19:2-3a, “‘I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian–brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing …'”

“CAIRO (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt’s presidential election.

Morsi ‘is the first civilian, popularly elected Egyptian president,’ the group says on its website.

The declaration was based on returns the Brotherhood reported from 95 percent of the more than 13,000 polling stations nationwide. The returns showed Morsi with 52 percent of the vote, his opponent former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq with 48 percent. A million votes separated the two, which a Brotherhood spokesman said the remaining votes could not overcome the difference for Shafiq.

The figures were from results announced by election officials at individual counting centers, where each campaign has representatives who compile the numbers and make them public before the formal announcement. The Brotherhood’s early, partial counts proved generally accurate in last month’s first round vote.

The final official result is to be announced by Thursday.” Source – Seattlepi.com.

Egypt: Military Generals Issue New Rules Limiting Presidential Powers – “(Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamists claimed a narrow lead on Monday in vote-counting for the presidential election but the generals who have run the country since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak issued new rules that made clear real power remains with the army. A decree from the ruling military council, published as the count got under way on Sunday, spelled out only limited powers for the new head of state and reclaimed for itself the lawmaking prerogatives held by the Islamist-led parliament which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolved last week. Liberal and Islamist opponents denounced a ‘military coup’.” Read more.