Israel in the News

Isaiah 17:1 - An oracle concerning Damascus: "See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

LORD, you discipline your own first.

Deuteronomy 8:5 - Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Hebrews 12:8 - If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Isaiah 17:4-9 -

4 "In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.

5 It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the grain with his arm as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs," declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

7 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.

9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

A day of disease and incurable pain is coming to Israel. Do not depend on other nations, do not depend on yourselves, but depend on the Great I AM!

Isaiah 17:11 - though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.

Just before the time of Ez 38-39 there is a time when Israel will turn from its secular ways and turn back to the LORD, ant it is clear that it is linked to the destruction of Damascus and WMD used against the major cities of Israel.

Isaiah 17:14 - In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.

The LORD has promised to protect Israel form total destruction and repay those that judge her. A time of peace will come after this, but it will be short lived, as the prophecies of Ez 38-39 must also come to pass.

As for America, how can such a great nation not come to Israel's defense?

This gives me great sorrow, and I grieve for the country of my birth, for she will be no more. In one day she will fall, and all of the merchants shall morn for they shall not trade with her anymore. They will stand far off and watch her burn, and the "Kings" of the earth will also morn.

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