The Harvest

The day is coming when Damascus will be destroyed just as prophesied here. 

A Message about Damascus and Israel

17 This message came to me concerning Damascus:

“Look, the city of Damascus will disappear!
    It will become a heap of ruins.
2 The towns of Aroer will be deserted.
    Flocks will graze in the streets and lie down undisturbed,
    with no one to chase them away.
3 The fortified towns of Israel[a] will also be destroyed,
    and the royal power of Damascus will end.
All that remains of Syria[b]
    will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory,”
    declares the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

4 “In that day Israel’s[c] glory will grow dim;
    its robust body will waste away.
5 The whole land will look like a grainfield
    after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
It will be desolate,
    like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.
6 Only a few of its people will be left,
    like stray olives left on a tree after the harvest.
Only two or three remain in the highest branches,
    four or five scattered here and there on the limbs,”
    declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

7 Then at last the people will look to their Creator
    and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will no longer look to their idols for help
    or worship what their own hands have made.
They will never again bow down to their Asherah poles
    or worship at the pagan shrines they have built.
9 Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest,
    like the land the Hivites and Amorites abandoned[d]
when the Israelites came here so long ago.
    It will be utterly desolate.
10 Why? Because you have turned from the God who can save you.
    You have forgotten the Rock who can hide you.
So you may plant the finest grapevines
    and import the most expensive seedlings.
11 They may sprout on the day you set them out;
    yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them,
but you will never pick any grapes from them.
    Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.

Isaiah 17:1-11

The Lord of Heaven's Armies will march out and destroy Israel's enemies. 

Listen! The armies of many nations

    roar like the roaring of the sea.

Hear the thunder of the mighty forces

    as they rush forward like thundering waves.

13 

But though they thunder like breakers on a beach,

    God will silence them, and they will run away.

They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind,

    like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.

14 

In the evening Israel waits in terror,

    but by dawn its enemies are dead.

This is the just reward of those who plunder us,

    a fitting end for those who destroy us.

Isaiah 17:12-14

The remnant will be gathered and the elect will be taken. This prophecy by Isaiah is not yet fulfilled.

"'Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’” ~ Jesus in Matthew 13:30

The Harvest of the Earth

14 Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was someone like the Son of Man.[c] He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

15 Then another angel came from the Temple and shouted to the one sitting on the cloud, “Swing the sickle, for the time of harvest has come; the crop on earth is ripe.” 16 So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the whole earth was harvested.

17 After that, another angel came from the Temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. 18 Then another angel, who had power to destroy with fire, came from the altar. He shouted to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sickle now to gather the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth, for they are ripe for judgment.” 19 So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and loaded the grapes into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress in a stream about 180 miles[d]long and as high as a horse’s bridle. 

Revelation 14:14-20

All glory and honor to my Lord Jesus Christ,

Sherry

I will be linking up with these parties:

Mommy Moments at Life of Faith- Sun evening

The Art of Home-Making Mondays at Strangers & Pilgrims

Moments of Hope at Lori Schumaker

Breakthru Linkup at Breakthrough Homeschooling

Tell Us His Story at Jennifer Dukes Lee- Tues eve

Grace Moments at Journeys in Grace

Thought Provoking Thursdays at 3-D Lessons for Life

Grace and Truth at Above the Waves

Fresh Market Friday Crystal Twaddell

Faith and Friends at Counting My Blessings

The Homemaking Party at Classical Homemaking

Friends Sharing Tea at BTTCG

Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups