The “yuppie revolution” may have taken down the dictator. But as one commentator noted at the time, history did not end the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down. It continued on. And today, Egypt’s transitional government has plunged headfirst into chaos.

The official results for Egypt’s first free presidential election, a run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik, the prime minister who previously served under Hosni Mubarak, were supposed to be announced yesterday. But with both campaigns disputing the final tally, the election commission decided to delay the announcement and did not offer a new date for the official decision.

This comes one week after Egypt’s military court prepared for the possibility of an Islamic takeover by dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated parliament, reconfirming de facto martial law and assuming full legislative control.

On Sunday night, shortly before Morsi declared himself the winner in the run-off, the military council issued an interim constitution that severely limited presidential powers. According to the New York Times, “Their charter gives them control of all laws and the national budget, immunity from any oversight, and the power to veto a declaration of war” (June 18).

Yet, even as the military council fights to maintain control over Egypt’s political institutions, it appears to have given up the battle against Islamist terror cells that are now popping up all over the Sinai Peninsula. The same day Morsi declared victory, a terrorist squad infiltrated Israel’s southern border with Egypt and ambushed a vehicle of workmen Israel had contracted to build a much-needed security fence along the Israeli-Egyptian border. One Israeli citizen was killed in the attack.

This well-organized, cross-border raid followed Saturday’s double rocket attack against Israel—a strike that also originated in the Sinai.

Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, said the attacks signaled a “disturbing deterioration in Egyptian control of the Sinai.”

According to an Israeli security official cited in Haaretz, the weekend rocket strike was carried out by Hamas, but at the request of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether or not that’s true, both incidents were clearly not random attacks. They were carefully planned to coincide precisely with Egypt’s presidential election.

Monday’s ambush, incidentally, was the work of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that is backed by Iran. This is a recurring theme that Trumpet readers are well familiar with. Wherever there happens to be chaos or instability in the region, Iran always seems to be working behind the scenes. It may often clash with much of the Sunni Arab world, but in Egypt—specifically the Muslim Brotherhood—Iran sees a critically important strategic ally that will greatly strengthen the forces of radical Islam and further isolate Israel.

This is what Egypt’s military council is going up against. It’s facing intense pressure—from within and without—which is why it has taken such desperate action over the past week. It’s losing its grip on power!

Keep in mind that Hosni Mubarak’s regime—which brutally suppressed Islamic extremism, by the way—has only been gone for 17 months. And during that time, the Muslim Brotherhood has hijacked the “Arab Spring” uprising, secured 70 percent of Egypt’s parliamentary seats and re-worked Egypt’s constitution, basing it on sharia law. Now it appears to have won the presidency.

It’s possible, of course, that the power struggle between the military and the Brotherhood might continue on for a few more weeks or months—maybe a year or two.

But the Brotherhood will win in the end, just as Mubarak himself said would happen, shortly before he resigned last year.

If you remember, right at the start of the popular uprising in January of 2011, Mubarak agreed to step down after seven months, so that he could set up an orderly transition of power for his successor. But President Barack Obama quickly responded to that plan by insisting that the transfer of power begin immediately.

“You don’t understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now,” Mubarak told abc in early February 2011. He said a hasty departure would only result in a chaotic political scene that would enable the Muslim Brotherhood to grab hold of power.

“They may be talking about democracy, but … the result will be extremism and radical Islam,” Mubarak also said on the eve of his resignation.

A few days later, President Obama said the United States shouldn’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. They didn’t even have majority support in Egypt, the president told Fox News on Feb. 6, 2011.

And now look. Assuming the election results hold, this will be the first time an Islamist has been elected as head of state in the Arab world.

What a stunning and rapid transformation this has been.

On Tuesday, I attended a press briefing for Mosab Yousef, the eldest son of one of the seven founding fathers of Hamas—the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that controls Gaza. He said the Egyptian election effectively means that Hamas now controls Egypt. “The southern border of Israel right now is in danger,” Yousef said. “And we’ve witnessed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood not only in Egypt; we see it in Jordan, we see it coming in Syria, we see it in [the] Gaza strip, in the West Bank, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco—one unity for the first time.”

All the talk in the world about democracy will not alter this harsh reality. Religious fanaticism is on the march. And just as we told you almost 20 years ago, from Iran’s vantage point, Egypt is the grand prize.

We knew this was coming because in Daniel 11, it says Egypt will not escape the wrath of the German-led Euro-beast, which will soon “come against” the forces of radical Islam like a whirlwind (verses 40-42). This is why we have long known about Egypt’s radical transformation—and that it would eventually ally itself with Iran.

We repeated this forecast three years ago, during President Obama’s Islamic outreach tour. Remember what we told you about the president’s “new beginning” speech in Cairo—how Muslim Brotherhood members were in attendance, but not Hosni Mubarak?

The Muslim Brotherhood had been trying to overthrow Mubarak’s pro-American administration for years, my father wrote soon after Obama’s speech. And yet, here they were sitting in on the speech! The handwriting was on the wall then, but no one could see it. At the time, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that Hosni Mubarak had tightened the noose around the neck of radical Islam in Egypt.

“But Daniel’s prophecy states that the radical terrorists are going to get the upper hand in Egypt,” my father wrote. “That is certain to happen!” (June 22, 2009). My father went on to say, “No doubt the Muslim Brotherhood is going to gain control of Egypt.”

Add that statement to the long list of stunning prophetic predictions we’ve been making over the last two decades.

While he was at the helm in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak almost single-handedly kept the forces of religious extremism at bay in the country. For three decades, he honored the peace agreement Anwar Sadat made with Israel. And yet today—just as my father warned 19 years ago—the forces of radicalism are now taking over. And Bible prophecy shows that Egypt, the Middle East, and the whole world will be far more perilous because of it.