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The Bible talks about Damascus becoming a ruinous heap. Damascus
is the longest continually inhabited city in the world. It has not been
fulfilled yet, but I believe it is coming very soon for the reasons
you will soon see.
Isaiah 17:1-14
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The
cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. The fortress also
shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the
children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. And in that day
it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. And it shall be
as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears
with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley
of Rephaim. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking
of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith
the LORD God of Israel. At that day shall a man look to his Maker,
and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. And he
shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or
the images. In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of
the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not
been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day
shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the
day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Woe to the multitude of many
people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the
rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters!
The nations shall rush like the rushing
of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far
off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the
wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
[Ezekiel
38,39 - Gog/Magog?] And behold at evening
tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This
is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
us.
This talks about Jacob (Israel) being made thin. I believe this accurately
describes the state of Israel now. They are being made thinner and thinner
through the constant problems with the Muslims and indeed the rest of
the world against them as well as the dividing of the land. It also
says that their [Israel’s enemies] cities will be forsaken, left because
of the children of Israel. Does this mean Israel will attack Syria,
forcing them to leave their cities because of the attack?
Israel has already threatened to attack Damascus and it houses some
of the top terrorists trying to destroy Israel. If that’s the case,
then Iran will come to Syria’s rescue only to be destroyed in the mountains
of Israel with the rest of the Gog/Magog armies? (“hooks
in the jaws” from
Ezekiel 38,39?) That’s what the last part of the passage
would seem to say. Nations rush like many waters, God rebukes them,
and they are blown as the chaff of the mountains before the wind. The
mountains are the place where
Ezekiel 38,39 says God wipes out the Gog/Magog armies.
This next verse would seem to also suggest that Israel is the nation
God uses to destroy Damascus.
Isaiah 10:5-22
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is
mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to
take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like
the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth
his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off
nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria
as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and
whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when
the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of
my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and
I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand
hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth
eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was
none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Shall
the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall
the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod
should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff
should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle
a burning like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel
shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall
burn and devour his
thorns and his briers in one day;
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer
fainteth. And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,
that a child may write them.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel,
and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again
stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people
Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return:
the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
So does God use Israel to destroy Damascus, bringing Iran, Turkey,
and Russia against her? Notice also that God makes Israel a fire
that burns and devours the thorns and briers of the Assyrians in one
day. Could this be reference to Damascus’s destruction through nuclear
means? It continues on after that to say that the house of Jacob will
stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. This is exactly
what
Ezekiel 38,39 says will happen after God destroys the
Gog/Magog invaders in the mountains of Israel.
Jeremiah 49:23-27
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have
heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself
to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken
her, as a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not left,
the city of my joy! Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD
of hosts. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
From
Amos 1, it would appear that the timing of the destruction of
Damascus and that of Gaza, Palestine (Philistine), Tyrus, Bozrah, Rabbah,
and the coast are all the same time. Perhaps along with the Gog/Magog
invasion as well? We know that God destroys the armies in the mountains
of Israel with fire and brimstone from heaven. Perhaps at that same
time, the fire and brimstone falls on the following places as well.
Could this be a celestial event such that the earth will pass through
debris in space that would fall at exactly the right time to destroy
the armies when they’re attacking at that particular time? That would
certainly take supernatural planning, yes? Our God is great! An interesting
video by Bill Schnoebelen on scalar weaponry. It reminds me of the “kindling
of a fire in the wall of Damascus.”
Watch it here and jump to 0:15:58.
Amos 1
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he
saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in
the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years
before the earthquake. And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds
shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Thus saith the
LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will
not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed
Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: But I will send a
fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of
Benhadad. I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off
the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth
the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall
go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. Thus saith the LORD;
For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the
whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: But I will send
a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that
holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand
against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines
shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity
to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: But I will
send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces
thereof. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity,
and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces
of Bozrah. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions
of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away
the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with
child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: But I
will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour
the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a
tempest in the day of the whirlwind: And their king shall go into
captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Next is another chapter of scripture that points to Syria’s destruction
at the hand of God. The places listed below that are destroyed are the
same as in
Amos 1. If God is the one that kindled the fire in Israel to destroy
Damascus, then God would be using Israel as an instrument in bringing
about His plans. This would fit with the idea that we are in the 70th
week of Daniel, and God is using Israel once again as a sign among the
nations of earth.
Zephaniah 2
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day
of the LORD’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek
of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness,
seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s
anger. For Gaza shall be forsaken,
and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out
Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be
rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,
the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is
against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will
even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea
coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for
flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of
Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall
they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit
them, and turn away their captivity. I have heard the reproach
of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they
have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their
border. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon
as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual
desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the
remnant of my people shall possess them. This shall they have
for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves
against the people of the LORD of hosts. The LORD will be terrible
unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men
shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles
of the heathen. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like
a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her,
all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern
shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in
the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall
uncover the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly,
that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is
she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every
one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Is this perhaps
why Israel pulled out of Gaza?
Is Israel God’s instrument in the Damascus destruction?
Is the sudden destruction of Syria at Israel’s hand? If the Gog/Magog
invasion coincides with
Amos 1, then I don’t believe so. If it does, then
I believe God will destroy Damascus and all the cities listed there
possibly with fire and brimstone (meteorites?) from heaven (space).
However, there is reason to keep an eye on the situation in the Middle
East because Israel certainly has a reason to attack Damascus and have
threatened to already. Scripture says it’s because of Israel that they
leave their cities, is that Damascus?
Isaiah 17:1-9
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being
a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer
are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and
none shall make them afraid. The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria:
they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the
LORD of hosts. And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory
of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall
wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,
and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth
ears in the valley of Rephaim. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left
in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in
the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. At that day shall
a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. And he shall not look to the altars, the work
of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images. In that day shall his
strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch,
which they left because of the children of Israel:
and there shall be desolation.
Read
Jack Kelly’s examination of Isaiah 17.
Related News to Syria-Israeli tensions watch it unfold...
Report: Israel threatened to target Syria if Hizbullah attacks
YNet News
(May 14, 2008)
It could be that the nation of Israel will be responsible for the
destruction of Damascus. Looking at their current situation, surrounded
by Muslim aggressor states who emphatically state on public television
their desire to wipe Israel off the map, it’s possible.
Israel threatened to attack Damascus already on June 30, 2006.
With their very existence at risk and no support from anyone else,
do you think they would not do a pre-emptive attack at the hub of terrorist
leadership in the Middle East? Current leadership will probably not
take action as they are criticized for their past action in the 2006
Israeli-Lebanon War, or as
Herb Peters
calls it, the
70th Week War.
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