Q&A: The Restoration of Elam, Ammon, Moab [and Egypt]
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The Restoration of Elam, Ammon, Moab [and Egypt]
Question
The Jewish people are promised a return to Zion, and thank God this is partially being fulfilled in our time.
In Jeremiah he also promises a return to Ammon, Moab, and Elam [and maybe also to Egypt? And afterward it will be inhabited as in ancient days?] a0
In what way, and why, were Elam, Ammon, and Moab singled out from the other nations?
Answer
I don’t know
Egypt too has an explicit promise:
13 For thus said the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered. 14 And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
Ezekiel 29
By the way, the promise of restoration to Ammon and Moab contradicts what is stated in Zephaniah:
8 I have heard the taunt of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon, with which they taunted My people and made themselves great against their border. 9 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab shall be like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, a place overrun by weeds and a pit of salt and a desolation forever.
Zephaniah 2