Isaiah 17 - Judgment on Damascus (Syria) and Israel

 

Isaiah 17 – Judgment on Damascus (Syria) and Israel.

 

The Northern Kingdom of Israel had allied with Syria, and both would fall to the Assyrians. If the people you trust do not trust the Lord, their judgment may become your judgment.

 

God’s judgment on Israel is pictured by a sunset and a heavy person losing weight, as well as a field that has no fruit for the gleaners. Israel had decayed beyond hope and all her efforts of recovery were wasted.

 

If only they had turned to God before the sun set or the disease wasted away the body or the blight destroyed the harvest! But they trusted their own idols and not the true God. It is easy to put confidence in the work of your own hands and not in the God who made those hands.

 

The judgment carried them off, like houses before a flood and tumbleweeds before the wind. Israel could have had the quiet waters of Shiloh, but they chose the turbulent waters of Assyria.

 

During the tribulation Syria will be destroyed once and for all and not rebuilt. The same will be for Israel since they made an alliance with Syria. Both Israel and Syria has been through many wars and will continue to do so until the end when they will be utterly defeated in the tribulation.

 

Part of Isaiah’s prophecy has been fulfilled. The cedars of Lebanon have almost all been removed. When the Turks came in they literally removed all the greenery. After World War I England came in and began to plant trees and the present-day Israel had added more trees to where there are millions planted.

 

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