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Maybe we should take heed to this. Are we ready to give the final message if that message comes to us through those we deem "heathen".

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Soldiers were at once sent to Bethlehem, with orders to put to death all the children of two years and under...

This calamity the Jews had brought upon themselves...they had separated themselves from God by their sins, and had rejected the Holy Spirit, which was their only shield.

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They had not studied the Scriptures with a desire to conform to the will of God. They had searched for prophecies which could be interpreted to exalt themselves, and to show how God despised all other nations.

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The reason we accociate Egypt with Atheism is based on Rev. 11:7-9.

7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
9 For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. (NIV)

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That's nice, but it does not change HISTORY. Egypt was NOT an atheist nation, and there is no precedent for assigning it such a symbol. Just because Pharoah said he didn't know "The Lord" doesn't mean he did not pray to his own voluminous pantheon of Gods, as history attests, unless they were already in the period known as the "heresy of Amen-ra" since Amen-Ra proposed monotheism for the first time in Egypt.

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"The great city" in whose streets the witnesses are slain, and where their dead bodies lie, is "spiritually" Egypt. Of all nations presented in Bible history, Egypt most boldly denied the existence of the living God and resisted His commands. No monarch ever ventured upon more open and highhanded rebellion against the authority of Heaven than did the king of Egypt. When the message was brought him by Moses, in the name of the Lord, Pharaoh proudly answered: "Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go." Exodus 5:2, A.R.V. This is atheism, and the nation represented by Egypt would give voice to a similar denial of the claims of the living God and would manifest a like spirit of unbelief and defiance. "The great city" is also compared, "spiritually," to Sodom. The corruption of Sodom in breaking the law of God was especially manifested in licentiousness. And this sin was also to be a pre-eminent characteristic of the nation that should fulfill the specifications of this scripture. {GC 269.2}

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The magi had been among the first to welcome the Redeemer. Their gift was the first that was laid at His feet. And through that gift, what privilege of ministry was theirs! The offering from the heart that loves, God delights to honor, giving it highest efficiency in service for Him. If we have given our hearts to Jesus, we also shall bring our gifts to Him. Our gold and silver, our most precious earthly possessions, our highest mental and spiritual endowments, will be freely devoted to Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us. {DA 65.2}

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First, he was praying to non-existent gods. Second, he denied the existence of the only existing God.

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They had not studied the Scriptures with a desire to conform to the will of God. They had searched for prophecies which could be interpreted to exalt themselves, and to show how God despised all other nations.

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