Damascus Proclamation (Is 17)


The Lord is repeatedly directing me over the last few months to Isaiah 17 i.e. The Proclamation against Damascus and Israel. When I hear it I usually feel "not that one again" but last night the Bible opened at that exact chapter and that really makes me sit up and pay attention.

We can see a war looming in Syria and this piece says "Damascus will cease from being a city," however with some research and found that the old city is depopulating as 20,000 or more people move into new accommodation and the old buildings lay waste.

It says "In that day a man will look to his Maker and his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel." Now many are looking at the war but subtly the prophecy has been happening behind the scenes as the city being talked about in ancient times is changing to fit the word spoken.

It says that "Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold..." The word says that the things you set out to do will not come to harvest and that reminds me of the Gospel times of the rejection of Messiah and how they had been taken over and ruled by Romans.

I find the Mt Hermon against Mt Zion as most holy place extremely interesting. Deut 4:48 says that Mt Hermon was the original Mount Sion/Zion. Early civilizations commonly regarded as a portal to and from the heavens backed up by historical and Biblical writings (Enoch and others).


The Mount of Transfiguration where God came down and revealed Jesus Identity to the disciples is this same Mt Hermon (Jabal al-Shaykh / "Mountain of the Chief") right by the city of Damascus.

Ps 133:3 talks about the anointing running down the beard of Moses brother Aaron like the dew on Mt Hermon where, "the dew of heaven descended...for there the Lord commanded the blessing - Life forevermore." Nearby Damascus as one of the oldest cities in the world is part of that promised to Abraham and thereby holy lands.

Jer 49:25 the Lord calls Damascus "the city of praise and ...city of My joy." This is ti this same city the epistle writer Paul was going to imprison followers of Jesus when he encountered the Lord Jesus on the road, was blinded and then on entering Damascus, through a waiting resident priest Ananias, received sight once again to become the apostle to the gentile nations.

This prophecy specifically fits Paul's late conversion when it says, "In that day a man will look to his Maker and his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel." It ends with "and this is the lot of those who rob us," which is what Paul was enacting against Jesus and his followers... but for a vision and an Ananias!

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