The Burden AGAINST Damascus

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 WILL BE FOR Flocks, Which Lie Down, AND NO ONE WILL MAKE Them 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 Flesh GROW LEAN.  IT SHALL BE, AS WHEN The Harvester GATHERS The Grain, AND REAPS The Heads WITH His Arm; IT SHALL BE, AS He 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 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 HAVE FORGOTTEN THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Your Salvation, AND HAVE NOT BEEN MINDFUL OF THE ROCK OF Your Stronghold, Therefore, YOU WILL PLANT Pleasant Plants AND SET OUT Foreign Seedlings; IN THE DAY, YOU WILL MAKE Your Plant TO GROW, AND IN The Morning YOU 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 AND They 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, Who PLUNDER Us, AND THE LOT OF Those, Who ROB Us.

Jeremiah 49:23-27

AGAINST Damascus.  “Hamath AND Arpad ARE SHAMED, FOR They (Hamath and Arpad) HAVE HEARD BAD NEWS.  They (Hamath and Arpad) ARE FAINTHEARTED; THERE IS TROUBLE ON The Sea; IT CAN NOT BE QUIET.  Damascus HAS GROWN FEEBLE; She (Damascus) TURNS TO FLEE, AND FEAR HAS SEIZED Her (Damascus).  ANGUISH AND SORROW HAVE TAKEN Her (Damascus), LIKE A Woman IN Labor.  WHY IS The City OF Praise (Damascus) NOT DESERTED, The City (Damascus) OF MY JOY (GOD Almighty’s Joy)?

Therefore, Her (Damascus) Young Men SHALL FALL, IN Her (Damascus) Streets, AND All The Men OF War, SHALL BE CUT OFF, IN THAT DAY,” SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS (GOD Almighty).  “I WILL KINDLE A FIRE, IN The Wall OF Damascus, AND IT (The Fire) SHALL CONSUME The Palaces OF Ben-Hadad.”

Amos 1:3-5

THUS SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty): “FOR Three Transgressions OF Damascus, AND FOR Four (Transgressions), I WILL NOT TURN Away ITS (Damascus) PUNISHMENT, BECAUSE They (Damascus) HAVE THRESHED Gilead WITH Implements of Iron.  BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE, INTO The House OF Hazael, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR The Palaces of Ben-Hadad.  I WILL ALSO, BREAK The Gate Bar OF Damascus, AND CUT OFF The Inhabitants, FROM The Valley OF Aven, AND The One Who HOLDS The Scepter, FROM Beth Eden.  The People OF Syria SHALL GO CAPTIVE TO Kir,” SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty).

Fellow Believers, AS We CAN SEE, Holy Bible Prophecy Describes The Destruction OF The City OF Damascus, During The End Times (The Last Days), AND Holy Bible Prophecy MUST BE FULFILLED!

Now, Jesus Christ HAS PROMISED Us (Believers), That We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) WILL NOT GO THROUGH The Tribulation, HOW DO I KNOW THIS?

Luke 21:36

“WATCH Therefore, AND PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YOU (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE (The Being Caught Up Together), ALL THESE THINGS (The Tribulation) THAT WILL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND (IN Heaven) BEFORE THE SON OF MAN (Jesus Christ).”

Revelation 4:1

AFTER THESE THINGS, I (John) LOOKED, AND Behold, A DOOR STANDING OPEN, IN Heaven.  AND THE FIRST VOICE (Jesus’ Voice), WHICH I (John) HEARD, WAS LIKE A TRUMPET SPEAKING WITH Me (John), SAYING, “COME UP HERE (Heaven), AND I WILL SHOW YOU THINGS (The Tribulation), WHICH MUST TAKE PLACE, AFTER THIS (The Being Caught Up Together).”

Revelation 3:10

“Because YOU (Pre-Tribulation Believers) Have KEPT MY COMMAND (Jesus’ Command) TO Persevere, I (Jesus Christ) ALSO WILL KEEP YOU (The Being Caught Up Together) FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL (The Tribulation), WHICH SHALL COME UPON The Whole World (Satan’s World), TO TEST Those (FALSE Teachers, FALSE Believers, AND Unbelievers) Who Dwell ON The Earth.”

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7

AND NOW YOU (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) KNOW, WHAT IS RESTRAINING, THAT He (The Antichrist) May BE Revealed, IN His Own Time.  FOR The Mystery OF Lawlessness IS ALREADY AT WORK (THROUGH Satan); ONLY HE (The Holy Spirit), WHO NOW RESTRAINS, WILL DO SO, UNTIL HE (The Holy Spirit) IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY (The Being Caught Up Together).

Folks, IN THIS CASE, The Holy Spirit Represents Pre-Tribulation Living Believers.

The Holy Spirit IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY:

1 Corinthians 15:50-53

NOW, THIS I SAY, Brethren (Fellow Believers), THAT Flesh AND Blood (The Natural Body) CAN NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD (GOD Almighty); NOR DOES Corruption (The Natural Body) INHERIT INCORRUPTION (The Kingdom OF GOD Almighty).  BEHOLD, I TELL YOU A MYSTERY: We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP (Die A Physical Death), BUT We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) SHALL ALL BE CHANGED (An Instantaneous Supernatural CHANGE), IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE (One Millisecond), AT THE LAST TRUMPET.

FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, AND The Dead (Dead Believers) WILL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE (The Spiritual Body), AND We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) SHALL BE CHANGED (An Instantaneous Supernatural CHANGE).  FOR THIS Corruptible (The Natural Body) MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION (The Spiritual Body), AND THIS Mortal (The Natural Body) MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY (The Spiritual Body).

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17    

FOR THIS We SAY TO YOU (Fellow Believers), BY THE WORD OF THE LORD (The Gospel OF Jesus Christ), THAT We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD (The Being Caught Up Together), WILL BY NO MEANS, PRECEDE THOSE, WHO ARE ASLEEP (The Dead IN Christ).

FOR THE LORD (Jesus Christ), HIMSELF, WILL DESCEND FROM Heaven, WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF AN ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD (GOD Almighty).  AND The Dead IN Christ (Dead Believers) WILL RISE, First.  THEN, We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER, WITH Them (The Dead IN Christ), IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD (Jesus Christ) IN THE AIR.  AND THUS, We (Believers) SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD (Jesus Christ).

Now, YOU ARE Probably Asking Yourself, WHERE IS Jesus GOING TO TAKE Us?

Hebrews 13:12-14

Therefore Jesus ALSO, THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY The People (Believers), WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, SUFFERED Outside The Gate (OF Jerusalem).  Therefore, LET Us (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) GO FORTH TO HIM (The Being Caught Up Together), OUTSIDE THE CAMP (Heaven), BEARING HIS REPROACH.  FOR HERE (Satan’s World), We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY, BUT We (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) SEEK THE ONE TO COME (The Heavenly Jerusalem). 

Hebrews 12:22-24

BUT YOU (Pre-Tribulation Living Believers) HAVE COME TO Mount Zion (Heaven) AND TO THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD (GOD Almighty), THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, TO AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS (GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels), TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHO ARE REGISTERED IN Heaven (The Book OF Everlasting Life), TO GOD (GOD Almighty) THE JUDGE OF ALL, TO The Spirits OF JUST Men (Believers) MADE PERFECT, TO Jesus, THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND TO THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING (Jesus’ Own Blood), THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS, Than That OF Abel (The Old Covenant).

Fellow Believers, We KNOW, We WILL BE, IN GOD Almighty’s Immediate Presence, WITH Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels, AND All The Rest Of The Children OF GOD Almighty, FOR ETERNITY, FOREVER!

SO Please, PUT ON The Whole ARMOR OF GOD Almighty AND NEVER TAKE IT OFF!

Remember, The Being Caught Up Together May Occur IN The Next Millisecond.  SO, There IS NO Time TO Waste, PLEASE GET OUT There, Show YOU Care, AND Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ.

“SUDDENLY, We (Believers) WILL BE NO MORE; FOR Jesus Christ HAS TRULY TAKEN Us!”