Isaiah 17 and Damascus.

[CrowCross]

Syrian TV on Monday evening reported an Israeli air strike in the Damascus area.

According to the report, sounds of explosions were heard in the area and Syria's air defense systems responded to the attack

.....are we getting close to Isiah 17:
1This is the burden against Damascus:

“Behold, Damascus is no longer a city;

it has become a heap of ruins.

 

[Shilohsfoal]

Syrian TV on Monday evening reported an Israeli air strike in the Damascus area.

According to the report, sounds of explosions were heard in the area and Syria's air defense systems responded to the attack

.....are we getting close to Isiah 17:
1This is the burden against Damascus:

“Behold, Damascus is no longer a city;

it has become a heap of ruins.

Damascus will remain a city till Christ comes.
Damascus is part of the land promised to Abraham and his seed,which is Christ.

 

[Shilohsfoal]

Syrian TV on Monday evening reported an Israeli air strike in the Damascus area.

According to the report, sounds of explosions were heard in the area and Syria's air defense systems responded to the attack

.....are we getting close to Isiah 17:
1This is the burden against Damascus:

“Behold, Damascus is no longer a city;

it has become a heap of ruins.

PS
It's for things such as this airstrike that the kings of the earth hate Babylon and will make it desolate.When that time comes,don't be surprised.

 

[CrowCross]

Damascus will remain a city till Christ comes.

Not arguing...but how do you know that?

Damascus is part of the land promised to Abraham and his seed,which is Christ.

 

[CrowCross]

PS
It's for things such as this airstrike that the kings of the earth hate Babylon and will make it desolate.When that time comes,don't be surprised.

I'm not so sure the kings of the earth hate Babylon

 

[Keraz]

Damascus will remain a city till Christ comes.
Damascus is part of the land promised to Abraham and his seed,which is Christ.

The Lord will destroy Damascus on His Day of fiery wrath, the Sixth Seal devastation of the Middle East.

Isaiah 17:1 Damascus will cease to be a city, she will be reduced to a heap of ruins forever desolate. Animals will live there, undisturbed.

Jeremiah 49:23-27 Of Damascus: The Syrians are covered in confusion, for they have heard news of a coming disaster, they run around in fear and trembling and panic grips them. No more joyful songs or celebrations are heard in her streets, because on that Day her young men will fall and soldiers will lie still in death. The Lord says; I will kindle a fire inside Damascus and it will devour her strongholds.

Amos 1:3-4 For crime after crime of Damascus, I will give them no reprieve because they oppressed My Land with malicious spite. Therefore I will send fire to consume her strongholds.

Zechariah 9:1-2 The Word of the Lord comes to the lands north of Israel and it will soon come upon Damascus. For to the Lord belongs all of that area and even though the cities of Lebanon have become rich, He will strip them of all their possessions and break their power. A devastating fire will devour them all.
Ref: REB. Some verses abridged and paraphrased.

All these prophecies tell of the soon to happen destruction of Damascus, Syria. At least 10 years before the glorious Return of Jesus.

Note that in all cases, they go on to talk of other nations who are also affected by this fire judgement. Isaiah 66:16 In particular Isaiah 17:4-6 says how Jacob, that is: the 10 tribes of Israel- now the Western nations and the 2 tribes of Judah now the current State of Israel, will lose their strength. It seems that most of the world’s military forces will be destroyed. Isaiah 34:2-3, Hosea 2:18, Micah 5:10-11

Although the Sixth Seal, the next prophesied event to happen according to the sequence in Revelation, does not mention fire as the means of punishment, [there is nothing in Revelation 6:12-17 to say how it will be carried out] we can ascertain the details from parallel passages like: Isaiah 34:2-4, Isaiah 2:12-21, Joel 2:1-11, Malachi 4:1 and especially 2 Peter 3:7 & 10.

Notice in Jeremiah 49:23, how everyone knows what is coming. This can be explained by the 24 hour period between the initial flash of a Coronal Mass Ejection sunstrike and the arrival of the main mass of superheated plasma. Ezekiel 7:10-19

That it will be a single Day of destruction is confirmed by the use in every case of the Hebrew and Greek words for a 24 hour period and this fits how a CME will hit the earth and then continue on into outer space. Isaiah 63:4, Joel 1:15

 

[Shilohsfoal]

I'm not so sure the kings of the earth hate Babylon

The ones around her do.

Revelation 17:16

The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

 

[Shilohsfoal]

The Lord will destroy Damascus on His Day of fiery wrath, the Sixth Seal devastation of the Middle East.

Isaiah 17:1 Damascus will cease to be a city, she will be reduced to a heap of ruins forever desolate. Animals will live there, undisturbed.

Jeremiah 49:23-27 Of Damascus: The Syrians are covered in confusion, for they have heard news of a coming disaster, they run around in fear and trembling and panic grips them. No more joyful songs or celebrations are heard in her streets, because on that Day her young men will fall and soldiers will lie still in death. The Lord says; I will kindle a fire inside Damascus and it will devour her strongholds.

Amos 1:3-4 For crime after crime of Damascus, I will give them no reprieve because they oppressed My Land with malicious spite. Therefore I will send fire to consume her strongholds.

Zechariah 9:1-2 The Word of the Lord comes to the lands north of Israel and it will soon come upon Damascus. For to the Lord belongs all of that area and even though the cities of Lebanon have become rich, He will strip them of all their possessions and break their power. A devastating fire will devour them all.
Ref: REB. Some verses abridged and paraphrased.

All these prophecies tell of the soon to happen destruction of Damascus, Syria. At least 10 years before the glorious Return of Jesus.

Note that in all cases, they go on to talk of other nations who are also affected by this fire judgement. Isaiah 66:16 In particular Isaiah 17:4-6 says how Jacob, that is: the 10 tribes of Israel- now the Western nations and the 2 tribes of Judah now the current State of Israel, will lose their strength. It seems that most of the world’s military forces will be destroyed. Isaiah 34:2-3, Hosea 2:18, Micah 5:10-11

Although the Sixth Seal, the next prophesied event to happen according to the sequence in Revelation, does not mention fire as the means of punishment, [there is nothing in Revelation 6:12-17 to say how it will be carried out] we can ascertain the details from parallel passages like: Isaiah 34:2-4, Isaiah 2:12-21, Joel 2:1-11, Malachi 4:1 and especially 2 Peter 3:7 & 10.

Notice in Jeremiah 49:23, how everyone knows what is coming. This can be explained by the 24 hour period between the initial flash of a Coronal Mass Ejection sunstrike and the arrival of the main mass of superheated plasma. Ezekiel 7:10-19

That it will be a single Day of destruction is confirmed by the use in every case of the Hebrew and Greek words for a 24 hour period and this fits how a CME will hit the earth and then continue on into outer space. Isaiah 63:4, Joel 1:15

It may help you if you paid a little more attention to the chapter.

9 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.

 

[Shilohsfoal]

Not arguing...but how do you know that?

All of the cities in the middle east are destroyed on the day of the Lord.
Same day Jerusalem is destroyed.

Revelation 16:19
The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.

All of the nations that attack Jerusalem are destroyed the same time.

 

[Keraz]

It may help you if you paid a little more attention to the chapter.

It would help you much more to use an accurate translation.
Isaiah 17:9 On that day, your strong cities will be deserted; like the deserted cities of the Amorites and the Hivites, which they abandoned when the armies of Israel approached.
This refers to an ancient attack, saying that the future attack that will happen in the end times, will have the same result.

All of the cities in the middle east are destroyed on the day of the Lord.
Same day Jerusalem is destroyed.

I agree: the entire Middle East region will be virtually depopulated. Only a Christian Jewish remnant will survive by hiding underground. Isaiah 29:1-4, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Jeremiah 10:18

 

[Shilohsfoal]

It would help you much more to use an accurate translation.
Isaiah 17:9 On that day, your strong cities will be deserted; like the deserted cities of the Amorites and the Hivites, which they abandoned when the armies of Israel approached.
This refers to an ancient attack, saying that the future attack that will happen in the end times, will have the same result.

I agree: the entire Middle East region will be virtually depopulated. Only a Christian Jewish remnant will survive by hiding underground. Isaiah 29:1-4, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Jeremiah 10:18

No,no one needs to hide underground.Like I said,you don't have the testimony of Jesus Christ.You ignore everything he says .

Luke 21:28
When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

It's people like yourself that will be hiding underground.People without the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

All these people who received the mark of their beast run and hide in the ground.

 

[Keraz]

The Lords fiery judgement on the Middle East:

Isaiah 29:1-2 Woe to you Ariel! Ariel, the city where David settled. The years roll on and you carry out your festivals. Yet, I shall reduce Ariel to dire straits. There will be suffering and sorrow, when I make her My fire altar.

Ariel – is a pun on the Hebrew word, ‘har’el’ = the Temple burnt offering altar. In this prophecy, it refers to Jerusalem and all the Jewish State of Israel. Ezekiel 21:1-7, Isaiah 22:1-14, Amos 2:4-5, Jeremiah 12:14


Isaiah 29:3-4 I will encompass you and besiege you with the visitation of My fiery judgement. You will be brought low, you will hide underground, your voice will whisper out of the earth. The survivors in Jerusalem will shelter in underground bunkers. Isaiah 31:5, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 37:31-32

The Lord’s judgement/punishment of the nations, by fire from God’s storehouse, Deuteronomy 32:22,34-35,41-43, will be an explosion on the suns surface, Isaiah 30:26a, Isaiah 66:15-16, Malachi 4:1, Hebrews 10:27, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 6:12-17

Joel 2:1-11 Sound the alarm! For the Day of the Lord’s wrath is coming. As the sun rises, a vast host will appear, the like has never been known. It advances in a devouring fire, behind is a leaping flame that leaves a desolate wasteland. Nothing can escape it, nothing can stop it and as it strikes, the earth quakes and the heavens thunder. Who can survive that dark and terrible Day?

Isaiah 29:5-8 But, your enemies will become like dust, those ruthless hordes, like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant, punishment will come from the Lord Almighty, with earthquakes, thunder, storms and a blaze of devouring fire. All the nations warring against Mt Zion, will vanish, as a dream, like one who is hungry or thirsty; then wakes to find himself empty, so it will be with all those nations attacking Israel. Malachi 4:3

The fire judgement on the Middle East, striking ‘in an instant’, will be a Coronal Mass Ejection: a sunstrike of unprecedented magnitude and is the next prophesied event we can expect, it is the Day that will ‘come as a thief’, sudden and unexpectedly. Zechariah 3:9, Isaiah 10:17 It is quite a different event to what is described about the attack and destruction of Gog or of Armageddon, both to come later, respectively.
Psalm 83:13-18, Isaiah 34:5, Isaiah 30:25-28 & 30, Ezekiel 30:1-5, Zephaniah 1:14-18,

The regeneration of the Middle East: Isaiah 35, Ezekiel 36:8-12, Amos 9:13-15

Isaiah 29:17-21 In a very short time, the Land will be made prosperous again. On that Day, the deaf will hear and the blind will see and the lowly and poor will exult in the Holy One of Israel. The ruthless and evil peoples will be gone, all who practice falsehood will be cut down. Isaiah 66:12-17, Psalms 107:1-43, Jeremiah 33:12-13

Isaiah 29:22-23 Therefore, these are the words of the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, about the House of Jacob: [now: every true Christian believer] This is no time for you to be ashamed, no time to be frightened, for his descendants will praise My Name, when they see what I have done for them. They will stand in awe of the Holy God of Israel. Reference: REB, NIV. Some verses condensed.

Christian Israelites, all those who kept faithful during the sudden disaster of the Sixth Seal, be they descendants of Jacob or grafted in, will be gathered into the Land, ”in a very short time” after the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath against the nations Ezekiel 20: 34-38, Isaiah 11:11-12, Jeremiah 30:18-24, Revelation7:9