Shalom dear doves,

Recalling Annette Rattray's 'Intifada 2000 - The Beginning of The End'

and the 'setting up period' that we look to be in,

and being reminded of 1 Corinthians 13:9 "For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part", might it not be an appropriate time to
study again Isaiah 18, noting especially verses 3, 5, 6 and 7,
in light of all that is happening?
 

1  Woe to the land shadowing [whirring engines/like locusts]
   with wings [airplanes?], which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
   [Cush i.e. black Africa]:
2  That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes
   [light hollow airplanes] upon [over] the waters.
 
   Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered [that was seized] and peeled
   [that was driven recklessly/perversely],
   to a people terrible [to be held in awe] from their beginning hitherto;
   a nation meted out and trodden down [tread under foot/subjugated],
   whose land the rivers have spoiled [divided]!

3  All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
   see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
   and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

4  For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest,
   and I will consider in my dwelling place
   like a clear heat upon herbs,
   and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5  For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,
   and the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
   he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
   and take away and cut down the branches.
6  They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,
   and to the beasts of the earth:
   and the fowls shall summer upon them,
   and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7  In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts
   of a people scattered and peeled,
   and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
   a nation meted out and trodden under foot,
   whose land the rivers have spoiled,
   to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts,
   the mount Zion.
 

Could

'see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye'

refer to what has just happened?

And so could

'afore the harvest'

refer to before the late fall of this year?
 

Shalom shalom,
 

David
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