Isaiah 17:1-14
The BURDEN AGAINST Damascus. “BEHOLD, Damascus will CEASE from being a City, and it (Damascus) will
be a RUINOUS HEAP. The Cities of Aroer are FORSAKEN; They (The Cities of
Aroer) will be for flocks, which lie down, and NO ONE will make them (the flocks) afraid. The Fortress also will CEASE from Ephraim,
The Kingdom from Damascus, and The Remnant of Syria; They will be as The GLORY
of The Children of Israel,” SAYS The LORD of Hosts (GOD Almighty).
“In THAT DAY, it shall Come To Pass,
that The GLORY of Jacob will WANE,
and The Fatness of His (Jacob’s) Flesh Grow LEAN. It shall be as when The Harvester gathers the
grain, and REAPS the heads with His (The Harvester) Arm; it shall be as He (The
Harvester) who gathers heads of grain, in The Valley of Rephaim. Yet Gleaning Grapes will be LEFT in it, like
the shaking of an olive tree, two or
three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its most fruitful branches,” SAYS The LORD, GOD (GOD
Almighty) of Israel.
In THAT DAY, a man will LOOK to His
Maker (GOD Almighty), and his eyes will have RESPECT for The Holy One (GOD
Almighty) of Israel. He will NOT look to
the altars, the work of his hands; he will NOT respect what his fingers have
made, nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.
In THAT DAY, his Strong Cities will
be as a FORSAKEN BOUGH and an uppermost branch, which they left, because of The
Children of Israel; and there will be DESOLATION. Because YOU (Unbelievers) have FORGOTTEN The
GOD (GOD Almighty) of Your (Believers) Salvation, and have NOT been Mindful of
The Rock of Your Stronghold, therefore YOU (Unbelievers) will plant pleasant
plants and set out foreign seedlings; in the day YOU (Unbelievers) will make
your plant to grow, and in the morning YOU (Unbelievers) will make your seed to
flourish; but the harvest will be a HEAP of RUINS, in The Day
of Grief and Desperate Sorrow.
WOE to The Multitude of Many People,
who make a noise, like the roar
of the seas, and to The Rushing of Nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The Nations will rush like the rushing of
many waters; but GOD (GOD Almighty)
will REBUKE Them (The Nations) and They (The Nations) will FLEE far away, and
be CHASED like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like a rolling thing
before the whirlwind. Then BEHOLD, at
eventide, TROUBLE! And before the morning, he is NO more. This is
The PORTION of those (Unbelievers) who PLUNDER Us (The Children of Israel), and
The Lot of those (Unbelievers) who ROB Us (The Children of Israel).
Ezekiel 38:1-17
Now The WORD of The LORD (GOD Almighty) came to me
(Ezekiel), SAYING, “Son of man, Set Your (Ezekiel’s) Face AGAINST Gog, of The
Land of Magog, The Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and Prophesy AGAINST him
(Gog), and SAY, ‘Thus SAYS The LORD, GOD (GOD Almighty): BEHOLD, I (GOD
Almighty) AM AGAINST YOU, O
Gog, The Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
I (GOD Almighty) will Turn YOU (Gog) Around, Put HOOKS into Your (Gog’s)
Jaws, and Lead YOU (Gog) Out, with All Your (Gog’s) Army, horses, and horsemen,
all splendidly clothed, a Great Company with
bucklers and shields, All of Them (Gog’s Army) handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with Them
(Gog’s Army), All of Them (Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya) with shield and helmet; Gomer and All Its (Gomer’s) Troops; The
House of Togarmah, from The Far
North and All Its (Togarmah’s) Troops, Many People are with YOU (Gog).
“Prepare Yourself (Gog) and be ready, YOU (Gog) and
All Your (Gog’s) Companies, that are gathered about YOU (Gog); and be a Guard
for Them (Gog’s Companies). After many
days YOU (Gog) will be VISITED. In The
Latter Years YOU (Gog) will come into The Land of Those (The Children of
Israel) brought back from the sword and
gathered from many people on The Mountains of Israel, which had long been
desolate; They (The Children of Israel) were BROUGHT OUT of The Nations, and
now All of Them (Israel) Dwell Safely.
YOU (Gog) will ascend, coming like a storm, covering The Land like a
cloud, YOU (Gog) and All Your (Gog’s) Troops and Many Peoples with YOU (Gog).”
‘Thus SAYS The LORD, GOD (GOD
Almighty): “On THAT DAY, it shall Come To Pass, that thoughts will arise in Your (Gog’s) Mind, and YOU (Gog)
will make an evil plan: YOU (Gog) will say, ‘I (Gog) will go up AGAINST a Land
of Unwalled Villages (The Children of Israel); I (Gog) will go to a Peaceful
People (The Children of Israel), who Dwell Safely, All of Them (The Children of
Israel) dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’ to TAKE PLUNDER
and to TAKE BOOTY, to stretch out Your (Gog’s) Hand AGAINST The Waste Places
(The Children of Israel), that are
again inhabited, and AGAINST a People (The Children of Israel0 gathered
from The Nations, who (The Children of Israel) have acquired livestock and
goods, who (The Children of Israel) Dwell in The Midst of The Land. Sheba, Dedan, The Merchants of Tarshish, and
All Their Young Lions (The Children of Israel) will say to YOU (Gog), ‘Have YOU
(Gog) come to take plunder? Have YOU (Gog) gathered Your (Gog’s) Army to take
booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take
great plunder?’”’
“Therefore, son of man, Prophesy and
say to Gog, ‘Thus SAYS The LORD, GOD (GOD Almighty): “On THAT DAY, when My (GOD
Almighty’s) People, Israel Dwell Safely, will YOU (God) NOT know it?
Then YOU (Gog) will come from Your (Gog’s) Place, out of The Far North, YOU
(Gog) and Many Peoples with YOU (Gog), All of Them (Gog’s Army) riding on
horses, a Great Company and a Mighty Army.
YOU (Gog) will come up AGAINST My (God Almighty’s) People, Israel like a
cloud, to cover The Land. It will be in
The Latter Days, that I (GOD Almighty) will Bring YOU (Gog) AGAINST My (GOD
Almighty’s) Land, so that The Nations may KNOW Me (GOD Almighty), when I (GOD
Almighty) AM HALLOWED in YOU, O Gog, BEFORE Their (The Nation’s) Eyes.” Thus SAYS The LORD, GOD (GOD Almighty): “Are YOU (Gog), he of whom, I (GOD
Almighty) have SPOKEN in Former Days by My (GOD Almighty’s) Servants, The
Prophets of Israel, who Prophesied for years, in Those Days, that I (GOD
Almighty) would Bring YOU (Gog) AGAINST Them (The Children of Israel)?
Zechariah 12:1-9
The BURDEN of The WORD of The LORD (GOD Almighty) AGAINST
Israel. Thus SAYS The LORD (GOD
Almighty), Who STRETCHES OUT The Heavens, LAYS The Foundation of The Earth, and
FORMS The Spirit of Man WITHIN Him (Man): “BEHOLD, I (GOD Almighty) will MAKE
Jerusalem, a Cup of Drunkenness to All The Surrounding Peoples (Unbelievers),
when They (Unbelievers) Lay Siege AGAINST Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen, in THAT DAY, that I (GOD
Almighty) will MAKE Jerusalem, a Very Heavy Stone for All Peoples
(Unbelievers); All (Unbelievers) who would heave It (Jerusalem) away will
surely be CUT IN PIECES, though All Nations of The Earth are gathered AGAINST It
(Jerusalem). In THAT DAY,” SAYS The LORD
(GOD Almighty), “I (GOD Almighty) will STRICK Every Horse with CONFUSION, and Its
(The Horse’s) Rider with MADNESS; I (GOD Almighty) will OPEN My (GOD Almighty’s)
Eyes on The House of Judah, and will STRIKE Every Horse of The Peoples with BLINDNESS. And The Governors of Judah shall say in their
(The Governors’) heart, ‘The Inhabitants of Jerusalem are My Strength in The LORD of Hosts, Their GOD (GOD Almighty).’ In THAT DAY, I (GOD Almighty) will MAKE The Governors
of Judah like a FIREPAN in the woodpile, and like a FIERY TORCH in the sheaves;
They shall DEVOUR All The Surrounding Peoples (Unbelievers) on The Right Hand
and on The Left (Hand), but Jerusalem shall be INHABITED AGAIN in Her (The
Children of Israel’s) Own Place, Jerusalem.
“The LORD (GOD Almighty) will SAVE
The Tents of Judah FIRST, so that The GLORY of The House of David and The GLORY
of The Inhabitants of Jerusalem, shall NOT become GREATER, than that of Judah. In THAT DAY, The LORD (GOD Almighty) will DEFEND
The Inhabitants of Jerusalem; The One (Judah) who is FEEBLE, among Them, in THAT
DAY shall be like David, and The House of David, shall be like GOD (GOD Almighty), like The Angel of The LORD
(GOD Almighty) BEFORE Them. It shall be
in THAT DAY, that I (GOD
Almighty) will SEEK TO DESTROY, All The Nations, that COME AGAINST Jerusalem.
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