Isaiah 17 and the destruction of Damascus

[godofthunder9010]

Originally Posted by Patton360

No, your first paragraph was valid. You went a little overboard in the second.

I suppose that's fair. The trouble with applying it to current events is that we would need to see a domino effect that negatively impacts both Syria and Israel equally. The combined military might of the entire Muslim Middle East has yet to amount to anything to write home about in modern times. There is no massively overpowering force in the area that threatens both Syria and Israel. Then one must consider that, in general, whatever is bad for Syria is kinda good for Israel. In the highly unlikely event that Syria gets completely squashed by the USA (for example), that's one less hostile nation on their borders. And I don't envision the USA completely depopulating the city of Damascus, then launching an all-out invasion of Israel for an encore.

I think the sociopolitical landscape of the Middle East would have to undergo some drastic changes to see a repeat literal fulfillment of Isaiah 17. Assyria was the scariest nation on earth. The scariest nation that anyone had ever seen. Nothing like it exists in the region today.

[hljc]

Most likely Isaiah 17 already happened thousands of years ago , or this is a description of the works by the Syrian Orthodox Church which had its Glorious days , were the destruction was the authority of the devil ........ Were today the scripture is Revelation 16:12 were the Great river of Euphrates which started in Iraq which is the removal of the Church of Christ and the anointing from Jesus which would dry out the land of blessing , and from the Spiritual blessed River which started in Iraq spread by covetous ideas of removing the leader which supported Christianity in the land to the Arab spring which hates the Israel nations , as the River spreads to Egypt and Libya, Syria, maybe Jordon next , which to road to Armageddon from Revelation 16:16............. Were even the western nation support the destruction of the works of Christ by the Arab spring , as even today Western Nation believe it is alright to blow up the people into pieces , but if you poison the people we will oppose the nations and fight against the nations which even supported Christians to flourish in the nations , which is a strange posture of hypocrisy .......... All in All the destruction of Damascus in these wars would bring a authority to fight Israel which was not there before ....