What is Spiritual Egypt?

"Spiritually, then, what is Egypt? 

Read this: "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt." Heb. 11:24-26.

 

Here we have "affliction with the people of God" set over against "the pleasures of sin," and "the reproach of Christ" set over against "the treasures in Egypt;" thus:–

Affliction with the people of God. Pleasures of sin.

Reproach of Christ. Treasures in Egypt.

This shows "affliction with the people of God," and "the reproach of Christ," to be synonymous; and "the pleasures of sin," and "the treasures in Egypt," to be likewise synonymous. 

It also plainly shows "sin" and "Egypt" to be synonymous. 

Spiritual Egypt, therefore, is the realm of sin." 

A.T. Jones