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Isaiah 17
Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie
down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and
the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made
thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the
ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of
Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two
or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost
fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to
the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
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.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants,
and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief
and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the
seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of
mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke
them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the
mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is
the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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