We have two alternatives, (a negative problem, and a negative means cancels out the problem and makes a positive end). Yet the ET teaching states that a negative problem is solved with a negative end. However nowhere in the Old Testament are judgments dispersed as an end. In fact they are always means to a positive end. Or the opposing side ended up dead. But the scriptures promised restoration of Egypt, Israel, and Gomorrah. All nations that were judged.