If I were to speak in symbolic terms and used Egypt as signifying the place of bondage of a righteous people who were enslaved - I would agree that what Egypt represents is wrong and we as the righteous (Israel) should depart it physically, mentally and spiritually.

I feel that this allegory very well fits the Africans in the Diaspora today - I think that is why there is such affinity for these biblical stories - living in a land under wicked Pharoah and his iniquity worker congregation that uses the pyramid on its currency and today fights a war for control of ancient Babylon!

The irony and similarities are not lost on me.