328Observations
Understanding
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Beginning of the End
The Tumult of the Nations…
The implications inherent in what follows are life-altering. We are on the cusp of one of the most relevant prophecies of our time. The countdown to the Time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles begins with the fall of Damascus.
“A prophetic pronouncement regarding (masa’ – a prophecy designed to encourage partiality by being discriminating, a timely declaration regarding a future burden or hardship being removed and lifted away that is being carried out by) Damascus (Drameseq – Damascus, capital of Syria, the predicted epicenter of World War III; from dama’ – a weeping sore, dim’ah – tears of sorrow, domen – corpses covered in dung, and damam – to grow dumb and be silenced; also considering the DSS spelling: deraown – contemptible and abhorrent and darban – to goad or prod).
Behold (hineh – look up and pay attention to), Damascus (Drameseq – Damascus, Syria; capital of the most religiously ravaged and politically manipulated warzone on earth at the time this was first addressed in early 2019 (the spelling of Drameseq is based upon the DSS)) is revolting and corrupt and will be removed from among inhabited cities (suwr min ‘iyr – is degenerate and unrestrained and thus shall be rejected and abolished as a population center, the city will be abandoned after enduring anguish and terror, because this anguishing ass of a town is displeasing (in the hophal stem this fate was foisted upon Damascus and as a participle, Damascus will come to embody unrestrained corruption)).
329She shall actually become (wa hayah – she will genuinely and completely exist as (qal perfect)) a twisted and tangled heap (ma’iy – a distorted and crooked mound, and a perverted and contorted pile; from ‘awah – bent, twisted, and distorted, perverted and invalid ruin) of fallen buildings and rubble (mapalah – of destruction and deserted collapsed structures; from naphal – fallen prostrate, overthrown and inferior as a result of an untimely birth).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:1)
This is a bold and unequivocal statement because Damascus holds the distinction of being the longest continually inhabited city on Earth. Soon that will not be the case. It will be destroyed and depopulated.
In context, this prophecy is specific in time and place: it will be fulfilled in Damascus within seven years of Yahowah’s return – and thus between 2026 and 2033. It is exacting in its depiction of what is to occur: the city will become a twisted and tangled heap of fallen buildings and rubble.
Even better, it is unambiguously presented and undeniably affirmed in the Great Isaiah Scroll – the Dead Sea manuscript found at Qumran in the 1950s and dating to 250 BCE. Therefore, when the city is rendered exactly as this prophecy portends, which is likely between 2027 and 2030, those who are aware of it and who are rational will form the irrefutable conclusion: this event was foretold and documented by God. He alone exists outside of the confines of time and accurately reveals our future in our past. And He, more than anyone, values His children’s safety and wants us to be aware of what is going to occur.
Furthermore, since this future prediction is just one sentence removed from the prophecies regarding the demise of Mow’ab during the last days (which is the reason for our detailed review throughout the previous six 330chapters), we would be wise to set the fall of Damascus within the same timeframe.
Based on what God is about to share, Damascus is the fulcrum upon which future human history will pivot, taking a decidedly dark, deceitful, destructive, and deadly turn. We can set our prophetic clocks to this event. And that is amazing in and of itself because Damascus represents the worst of the human experience. It is not only the longest continuously surviving human habitation, but it also epitomizes the way of man. Damascus is so close in proximity to the source of the truth, to Yaruwshalaim, and yet worlds away.
I can think of at least six reasons Damascus must fall, and why its demise is symbolic of the times. First, the Towrah’s initial reference to Damascus is in Bare’syth / In the Beginning / Genesis. ‘Abraham’s servant, ‘Ely’ezar, a child of Damascus, was the first person expressly forbidden the possibility of participating in the Covenant. Yahowah said of him, “Absolutely and unequivocally, no!”
Second, two thousand years thereafter, the world’s most pervasive plague, Pauline Christianity, was inspired on the road to Damascus when a religious Jew, Sha’uwl, embraced the Roman moniker Paulos, and conspired with Satan to nullify the Covenant with ‘Abraham. After leaving Damascus, Paul would devote his life to discrediting Yahowah’s Towrah testimony and negating the initial four Miqra’ey Dowd fulfilled, replacing it all with his anti-Semitic New Testament.
Cognizant of the prophecies regarding Mow’ab in the previous chapters, we have come to appreciate its connection to Pauline Christianity. We now understand that Mow’ab marks the time and place where the Towrah’s voice was silenced for most of the world.
Third, shortly after the Pauline debacle, in 66 CE, his benefactor, Rome, baited and then belittled Yahuwdah. 331They incited the uprising they subsequently squelched when the Roman overlord, Gessius Florus, plundered the Temple treasury. Nero responded by dispatching Cestius Gallus from Damascus along with the Damascus-based Legion XII Fulminata. When Judean rebels annihilated the Syrian Legion during the Battle of Beth Horon, killing 6,000 Syrian troops and confiscating the Legion’s Aquila / Eagle standard, Nero retaliated by dispatching his most experienced and ruthless general, Vespasian. He invaded Galilee from Syria in 67 CE.
Thereafter, when Nero committed suicide, Vespasian declared himself Emperor of Rome. With Vespasian off to claim his prize, his son, Titus, was allowed to make a name for himself by pummeling and then plundering Yahuwdah by sacking and looting Yaruwshalaim. He would breach the city’s walls in 70 CE, after a brutal seven-month siege, setting the stage for one of the most insightful, albeit despicable, episodes in human history. The assets of the earth’s most effective symbol of love and life were confiscated to fund the construction of mankind’s most infamous shrine to hatred and death: the Roman Colosseum. Jewish men were hauled off as slaves and forced to build this deplorable edifice to Roman ideals.
Fourth, as a further insult, Emperor Vespasian moved the capital of the Roman province of Judaea to Damascus. This set the stage for Hadrian, who in 133 CE capitalized on what Paul had done to set up Rome to destroy what remained of Yahuwdah. He found no trouble justifying the murder of countless Yahuwdym while enslaving the rest, thereby initiating the Diaspora. He transformed Yaruwshalaim into a retreat for his Legions, replete with shrines to himself, erasing the name Yahuwdah and replacing it with Philistia / Palestine.
Fifth, the world’s most deadly religion, Islam, was united, codified, and ruled from Damascus shortly after Muhammad’s death. During this period, Muslims 332murdered nearly half of the Earth’s population and plundered the known world.
And sixth, today, Damascus is the epicenter of world conflict. It all began following America’s ill-advised and counterproductive invasion of Iraq. It is not only from Syria that the world’s largest, most transformational and anti-Semitic migration has commenced, Damascus has divided the world into warring factions, with Sunni Islam, the United States, Europe, and the Kurds on one side and Shia Islam, Russia, China, and the Turks on the other.
Damascus, therefore, appears in this pivotal text delineating the end of man’s way for all of these reasons. Its fall is more than simply future history being reported for our edification. In other words, while it is mankind’s poor choices that have taken us to Damascus, the events being foretold also expose and condemn the religious, political, and militaristic influences that have precipitated these events.
Recognizing that this is now the eighth chapter of the fifth volume of Observations, we have been together long enough for you to appreciate the process that has been deployed to compose these amplified translations. Each word has been examined systematically such that every applicable definition that could be deduced within the context of a statement has been incorporated and those that were deemed untenable, rejected. Such was the case with the phrase suwr min ‘iyr, where it is the revolting and corrupt who will be removed from among inhabited cities.
Since information empowers understanding and full disclosure engenders trust, it is beneficial you know that in another context suwr, which was translated as “is revolting and corrupt and will be removed from among inhabited cities,” in Yasha’yah 17:1 above, could have been rendered as “go, come, depart, or be dragged away.” However, the realization that cities are immobile means that these 333connotations are not applicable. Fortunately, as is typically the case, there were a considerable number of other primary, secondary, and tertiary definitions that were readily integrated into this opening statement, all of which apply to the fate of Damascus.
Suwr ‘iyr could also have been translated as “is degenerate and unrestrained and thus shall be rejected and abolished as a population center.” Suwr ‘iyr speaks of a “city which will be abandoned after enduring an onslaught of terrorism because the anguishing ass of a town is displeasing.” The phrase suggests that the “degenerate city will be abolished and forsaken, ceasing to have any value for having been unrestrained.”
Min is a preposition, one which is most commonly rendered as “from or out of,” but it can readily be rendered as “by or because of, among or comprised of, part of or by means of, on account of, or as a part of something which is removed,” even as “since or more than.”
If we were to isolate ‘iyr by itself, in addition to “inhabited city, village, or town,” it also speaks of the “displeasing nature of religious temples and shrines.” ‘Iyr can address “anguish, anxiety, wrath, anger, and alarming terror.” More telling still, as a play on words, something Yah enjoys, an ‘iyr is a “male donkey and domestic ass.”
This connotation draws our attention back to one of Yah’s earliest prophecies. He said of Yshma’‘el’s descendants: “He will be a wild ass of a man. His hand will be raised against his brothers and his brothers’ hands will be raised against him. And so, he will live in hostility with the whole world.” Having migrated toward Damascus and having been claimed in the Quran and by Muhammad to be the forefather of Islam, this “domesticated ass” is a city-dwelling Muslim.
As further evidence, Islam, as the most overtly satanic religion ever foisted on the masses, is also the most 334degenerate and revolting faith to be considered a mainstream religion. It is a source of countless religious shrines, unrestrained anger, anguish, and alarming terror. It is responsible, in fact, for 99% of terrorist attacks worldwide.
Also worth considering is the juxtaposition of ma’iy and mapalah in Yasha’yah 17:1, which were rendered: “a twisted and tangled heap (ma’iy – that which is distorted and crooked, perverted and contorted; from ‘awah – bent, twisted, and invalid) of fallen buildings and rubble (mapalah – of destruction which is lifeless with collapsed structures; from naphal – fallen prostrate and inferior as a result of an untimely birth).” They also describe the nature of the Quran which is “a twisted and contorted perversion” of the truth. Allah’s book is “distorted, invalid, and ruinous.” The religion’s signature move is “prostration.” Its most notable result is “destruction.”
As for the “untimely birth” aspect of mapalah which “should have been aborted,” we have to look no further than Yshma’‘el. He was the product of one man and one woman’s ill-fated attempt to corrupt God’s way by producing a twisted perversion of it. The untimely birth is religion, especially Islam. But this miscarriage is not limited to Muhammad’s miscarriage because, in Galatians, Paul used a twisted and contorted perversion of Yshma’‘el’s birth (or more correctly: an outlandish lie) to justify his “new covenant.” Moreover, let us never forget that it was on the road to Damascus where Sha’uwl, known to Christians as Paul, encountered Satan and became demon-possessed.
Ma’iy and mapalah adroitly and collectively depict the result of Muhammad’s abysmal aberrations, with Islamic terrorists running amok in Damascus. In their wake, they will leave: “a twisted, distorted, corrupt, and perverted place subject to prostration.” As clearly as words allow, God’s prophetic depiction describes exactly what we are 335witnessing throughout Iraq and Syria. Cities like Aleppo and Homs, Fallujah and Mosul, have become “twisted and tangled piles of fallen and deserted buildings.” In time, Damascus will join them as “a contorted heap of collapsed structures.”
If you have the stomach for such things, conduct an internet search under “destroyed Syrian cities.” If you’d like to see the ongoing fulfillment of this prophecy, consider the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus (https://towardsdatascience.com/damage-caused-by-the-syrian-civil-war-what-the-data-say-ebad5796fca8). The opening line of the supporting article, Towards Data Science, reads: “Seven plus years of war have left entire Syrian cities in rubble.” High-resolution satellite imagery was captured between September 2013 and November 2017 to reveal the condition of Aleppo (northwestern Syria), Damascus (southwestern Syria), Daraa (southern Syria), Deir ez Zor (eastern Syria), Hama (western Syria), Homs (western Syria), Idlib (northwestern Syria), and Raqqa (central), Syria. They found 109,393 damaged structures, with two-thirds of those severely damaged or completely destroyed.
In terms of the number of damaged structures, 33% were in Aleppo, with 25% in Damascus, itself, followed by 13% in Homs and 12% in Raqqa. A total of 27,741 buildings have already been rendered uninhabitable as of 2017, with 10,673 of those having collapsed in Damascus alone. And as of last year, not a single fallen structure in Damascus has been reconstructed, whereas in every other city damaged by the war, many hundreds have been rebuilt.
Inexcusably, the jihadists who are the impetus behind this destruction are wielding American weapons. Between prostrating themselves in prayer, they are shouting “Allahu-Akbar!.” When time permits, they enslave young boys, gang rape little girls, and murder men and women in masse. It is unconscionable.
336And yet, Americans appear oblivious to the consequence of their nation’s failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, causing the deaths of millions of souls and the forced migration of many millions more. Even worse, in the process, the United States is making Israel more vulnerable to the onslaught of Allah’s caustic religion.
Syria is now a client of Iran, just as is Iraq, both as a result of America’s ill-fated invasions. Through Hezbollah (Allah’s Party), the religious regime in Iran also controls Lebanon, creating a land crescent from Iran to the border of northern Israel—facilitating an aspect of the Islamic invasion this prophecy will eventually predict.
Following the affirmation of a land-for-peace treaty, which will most likely occur around 2025 to 2027, Muslims will quickly and callously disregard their promises and invade Israel wielding American military hardware. Over the past decades under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, the United States has fundamentally changed the balance of power in the region by providing Muslims with twenty-five times as much advanced weaponry as is offered to God’s Chosen People. The Devil’s regime will be wielding the best armaments money can buy.
Moving on to the second statement within this remarkable prophecy, we find yet another reference to Islam. Yahowah’s use of arow’er, translated as “of ‘Arow’er | the Repudiated Outcasts” in Yasha’yah 17:2, could well be an allusion to Lebanon. After Hezbollah has been destroyed in Syria by opposing jihadists, Sunni militias will attack Israel by marching through this once proud country, one known to the world for its soaring “cypress trees.” It will also become a casualty of the Syrian War – yet another nation devastated and impoverished by Islam.
337Arow’er may also depict the millions of Muslims bequeathed with the misnomer “Palestinians.” Those categorized under this political myth have “become destitute and impoverished outcasts” from Yisra’el and are now living in Jordanian and Lebanese refugee camps. Furthering this, ‘Arow’er was a town in Ammon, which is Jordan today, a nation where the largest segment of the population considers themselves to be “Palestinians.”
The realization that arow’er is related to ‘aruwts, meaning “dreadful and horrible wadi,” encourages us to consider Mecca, the birthplace of Islam, Israel’s most ardent foe. During Muhammad’s life, Mecca was known as a watering hole for passing caravans. Similarly, ‘aryts speaks of “ruthless acts of terrorism,” something Muhammad practiced with reckless abandon.
Envisioning the future by observing the past, ‘arowd, which the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament affirms is the root of ‘arow’er, is used to depict a “wild ass” in Yowb / Job 39:5. This is reminding us that Yshma’‘el’s / Ishmael’s descendants, today’s Muslims, are “wild asses of men.”
Arow’er is one of many Hebrew words with many shades. On this occasion, it was chosen to draw our attention to the fate of the mythical “Palestinians” who consider themselves “outcasts,” while also directing our attention to Lebanon and Jordan, the nations in which these “destitute” people have been “impoverished and repudiated.” In its many facets, we see additional tie-ins with these “wild asses” of men, this time from “the wadi” of Mecca, thereby repeatedly making the connection to Islam through Yshma’‘el | Ishmael.
Just as Ely’ezar of Damascus and Yshma’‘el, Hagar’s son, were rejected and expressly excluded from the Covenant, Yahowah remains consistent...
338“Abandoned and forsaken will be (‘azab – rejected, deserted, estranged, left behind, separated, destroyed, and damned are) the inhabited and terrorized regions (‘iyr – the populated and anguished cities filled with the displeasing nature of religious temples and shrines, as well as wrathful donkeys) of ‘Arow’er | the Repudiated Outcasts (‘arow’er – of the exiles (a reference to ‘Palestinian’ refugees) of the Arnon Valley in Ammon, Jordan, of the renounced and destitute who are laid bare, of those stripped of all pretense, of the impoverished, vulnerable, and those without resources, and of the wild ass (a reference to Islam through Ishmael); from ‘arar – to be stripped of all pretense and laid utterly bare, spelled Owraruw in the DSS).
For there will be (la hayah – because there will exist (the qal stem affirms that this prophetic pronouncement will actually occur as it is being depicted, the imperfect conjugation reveals that the horrible destructive acts have lasting and ongoing implications, and the third-person feminine plural means that “they” is addressing the inhabitants of the destroyed cities acting as)) roaming animals fighting in militant militias along with their Helpers (‘adar – unified jihadists gathered together with their helpers (a reference to the Muslim Ansar / Helpers who fought, plundered, and terrorized alongside Muhammad and who comprise the ranks of Islamic terrorist organizations today) to fight in herds, acting like sheep, goats, camels, or donkeys abandoned as a group because they will have collectively missed the way and will fail miserably).
But (wa) they will cease and prostrate themselves (rabats – they will pause to stretch out and down in a reclining posture, falling prostrate (symbolic of Islamic prayer)), because there will be no one left to terrorize (wa ‘ayn charad – for there will be none to terrify or cause to be afraid, none to make fearful who will tremble, and no 339one to drive away through acts of terrorism).” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:2)
The demise of Damascus, and of Syria in conjunction with it, will lead directly to the obliteration of neighboring Jordan. The refugees living there masquerading as “Palestinians,” and Muslims in general, will suffer a debilitating and self-inflicted wound. This text presents a picture of marauding bands of mujahideen acting like the savage animals their religion has bred them to become. And they will kill until there is no one left to terrorize. The fact is, at least according to Muhammad and his Quran: all good Muslims are terrorists. And Muslims will kill Muslims until there are no more Muslims to kill.
Should anyone be reluctant to embrace the conclusion that this mayhem is being perpetrated by Muslims, please consider the setting and circumstances. As the most overtly adversarial of all religions, with Allah modeled after Satan, with their telling taunt, “Allahu-Akbar – Allah is Greater,” Muslims are universally “‘azab – forsaken” with no hope of a redemptive reprieve from Yahowah.
Muslims not only comprise the overwhelming preponderance of the population of the Arnon Valley in present-day Jordan, but these interlopers are also the most infamous “‘arow’er – repudiated outcasts and alleged exiles” the world has ever known. They are “destitute and impoverished,” with many acting out like “asses.”
Open any newspaper and you are likely confronted with the name of an Islamic terrorist group that incorporates “Ansar” in its title. Without Allah’s little “helpers,” the Ansar, Muhammad’s Islam would have died in Yathrib because there would have been an insufficient number of jihadists and thus no terrorist raids. And without the booty derived from jihad, Islam is as hollow as the Mafia without money.
340While that is more than sufficient to prove this point, we also learn that these mujahideen will do as Muslims have done throughout the long history of this horrific religion. They will bow down in the midst of their killing spree to pay tribute to their bloodthirsty god. Even more telling, they will “rabats – crouch down and stretch out in prostration,” the signature rite of the Islamic religion. After there is “‘ayn charad – no one left to terrorize” they will “rabats – stop to bow down and prostrate themselves” in prayer.
Further, there is a direct and irrefutable connection between Islam and terrorism, one only the most ignorant, irrational, religious, or politically correct would deny. Muslims comprise twenty percent of the world’s population and they commit ninety-nine percent of all terrorist acts. Right from the beginning, some 1,400 years ago, once the first Muslims robbed, raped, and murdered almost every Jew and Christian within reach, they turned on their fellow Muslims. Even to this day, Muslims murder ten times more Muslims than they do Infidels.
By simply accepting this obvious and irrefutable reality, we find future history unfolding before our eyes. We are being provided a prophetic look at the rise and fall of Islam, while examining its nature and consequence. But beyond the advantage of knowing how the world will devolve over the next thirteen years, by describing Islam in this way, by revealing that these religious exiles will impoverish lives in Jordan, and will turn on one another, using terror to obliterate the population, stopping to bow down in prayer after they obliterate their own, Yahowah has once again provided reasons for us to forego and disdain faith.
By focusing on the introductory phrase, “‘azab ‘arow’er – disassociate from these wild asses masquerading as exiles and helpers,” the observant may come to appreciate the strategy I have endorsed for as long 341as I can remember. Muslims need to be left alone. They ought not to be provoked through invasions. They should be isolated as one would treat a deadly pandemic rather than be allowed to migrate. And they ought to be left to their own devices, to stones, swords, and improvised explosive devices rather than be equipped with advanced weaponry.
We must stop apologizing for Muslims, stop protecting Islamists, stop enriching jihadists, stop arming them, and stop incorporating them into Western society. Should we do this, the preponderance of terrorism will be constrained within Islamic nations. That is the best we can do because as this prophecy foretells, they will continue to kill one another. But no one else would have to die at the hands of an enraged jihadist, especially Jews.
If this sounds harsh, then I would ask you to consider the lives of the innocent victims that would be spared. Compassion and good judgment necessitate opposing deadly and destructive behavior.
What we have witnessed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen over the past decade serves as a prelude to this warning. There is no good side in this conflict, only various grades of depravity. Muslims have been conditioned to kill, and they do not seem to care if they are murdering Jews, Christians, Hindus, Communists, or fellow Muslims. We find this same fixation on killing in the Quran. Muhammad and his wannabe god began terrorizing pagan Arabs, followed by monotheistic Jews, Byzantine Christians, and finally peaceful Muslims for their breach of faith.
“So (wa) the fortified city (mibtsa’r – the defensive structures) will cease to exist (shabath – will desist, coming to an end as a result of the choices of its inhabitants, coming to rest on the Shabat (the consecutive form serves 342as an expression of volition)), on account of (min – because of) ‘Ephraym (‘Ephraym – serving as a metaphor for a divided Yisra’el (of the Northern Kingdom expressly excluding Yahuwdah and Yaruwshalaim), heap of ashes, commonly transliterated Ephraim, the son of Yowseph and brother of Manashah | Manasseh), along with (wa) the government (mamlakah – the kingdom, empire, realm, authority, and people ruled under the monarchy) out of (min – from) Damascus (Drameseq – capital of Syria, the epicenter of world Islamic upheaval and former location of the most enduring and imposing Muslim caliphate; from dama’ – a weeping sore, dim’ah – tears or sorrow, domen – corpses covered in dung, and damam – to grow dumb and be silenced, also deraown – contemptible and abhorrent, and darban – to prod and goad (serving as an indictment of Paul’s credibility because he co-opted the term)), including (wa) the remnant (sa’ar – a remaining portion, a residue of the rest left behind) of ‘Aram | Syria (‘Aram – Greater Syria or Assyria, including Mesopotamia, and therefore inclusive of today’s Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon (all of which are controlled by Iran as a result of the American invasion of Iraq); the son of Shem; from ‘armown – palace, citadel, or fortress) for being similarly (ka – as or like, in this manner and thus comparatively also) vehement and burdensome (kabowd – fanatical and onerous, abundantly wealthy and overly glorified; from kabad / kobed – hardened and grievous, ignorant and dimwitted, hardheaded and stupid, enraged and troublesome).
The children (beny) of Yisra’el (Yisra’el – of Individuals who Engage and Endure with God) will actually continue to exist (hayah – will genuinely exist forever (the qal stem demonstrates that this prophecy must be interpreted literally while the imperfect conjugation reveals that there shall be no end to its implications)), prophetically declares (na’um – pronounces in advance of it occurring) Yahowah () of the vast array of 343spiritual messengers and envoys (tsaba’ – a company of useful implements designed to serve the authority which is deployed in a command-and-control regimen and thus without freewill).” (Yasha’yah / Deliverance is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:3)
Some of these words have diverse connotations. For example, kabowd can be positive or negative depending upon the context. In this case, since Yahowah is speaking about the utter destruction of Damascus and the implications associated with the demise of the Syrian government, we would be wise to apply the darker shadings of kabowd. Rather than rendering it “significant and glorious,” a more fitting depiction can be advanced by examining the etymological roots, which are: kabad and kobed.
They suggest that the Islamic nations surrounding Yisra’el will cease to exist because Muslims are “vehement in their rage, onerous and burdensome in their abuse, hardheaded and grievous in their thinking, ignorant and dimwitted in their beliefs, foolish as a nation, and thus enraged and troublesome.” Those who have been indoctrinated by their religion to seek the destruction of Israel will be destroyed so that Yisra’el might endure.
As the author of God Damn Religion, I can attest that Islam is arguably the dumbest, most utterly repugnant major religion. It preys on the dimwitted and demented. And while being stupid is not a crime, Muslims are naturally enraged, and all too often sexually abusive and militantly ruthless. Since they are hardheaded and arrogant, they are seldom reasonable. These traits make Muslims extraordinarily vicious. This I can say for absolute certain: Islam is the deadliest religion ever conceived by man. It fosters the worst in the treatment of women. It is impoverishing educationally, economically, and with regard to personal freedoms.
344Today, “Drameseq – Damascus” is the epicenter of Islam’s show of intolerance. Here, Sunni jihadists armed with American weapons are murdering, raping, and robbing tens of thousands of Shi’ites and Christians while the opposing Shia troops and militias are responding in kind, albeit with Russian and Iranian arms. Having witnessed this current uprising 2,700 years ago, Yahowah told Yasha’yah that Islamic infighting will reduce Drameseq to rubble. The city’s name describes “a weeping sore where there are tears of sorrow over corpses covered in dung, a place where the people are silenced.”
We now know how the Syrian war will unfold. And we already know that the cost in human lives will be horrific, almost as bad as the consequence of spreading this plague worldwide – which was the result of the unprecedented migration of Muslims out of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya and into Europe and the Americas. The legacy cost of America’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq continues to be incalculable and unconscionable.
With an eye to history, we should be cognizant of the fact that Damascus served as the capital of the most enduring, imposing, and violent Islamic caliphate. As such, its fall could signal the collapse of Islamic influence worldwide.
In this same vein, Damascus gave birth to Christianity. It was in Damascus that Paul was inspired to slander Yahowah and renounce His Towrah after being blinded and crippled by Satan on the way into town. In this light, darban, as a “prod and goad,” serves as an indictment of Paul’s credibility because he co-opted the term from Dionysus and Bacchus in an attempt to establish his credibility with Greeks and Romans, by pretending that his wannabe god told him: “It’s difficult to kick against the goad.”
345Even the words which comprise Drameseq are telling, depicting the city as a “dama’ – weeping sore,” where dim’ah – tears or sorrow,” are shed, because “domen – corpses are covered in dung,” as the voices of the victims “damam – are silenced.” These connotations address the very conditions we have witnessed throughout Syria and the reason millions of Muslims have fled the “deraown – contemptible and abhorrent” nature of Islamic terrorism.
‘Ephraym addresses a divided Yisra’el. The region was initially estranged because they forsook the Covenant, favoring the kind of international military alliances that have been so historically devastating. The Northern Kingdom was destroyed by Assyria within a generation of its formation.
Now, as the clock ticks toward the late 2020s, it is Assyria’s turn to suffer. Iran’s influence in Iraq and Syria will wane, succumbing to the surrounding Sunni governments and militias. While their demise may serve to spare ‘Ephraym from total obliteration, the region of Israel once known as the Northern Kingdom will suffer serious blows at the hands of the jihadists who will ultimately prevail in Syria.
However, since Yahowah has promised to reconcile His relationship with Yisra’el, by 2033 CE ‘Ephraym will be reunited with Yahuwdah. This will make Yisra’el equivalent to Ya’aqob once again, especially when seen from the perspective of the Covenant Family. Unfortunately, most Yisra’elites will not survive to enjoy that day.
Within the next fifteen years the ten tribes comprising ‘Ephraym, which were once scattered in Assyria, today’s Iran, Iraq, and Syria, will end their rebellion against Yahowah. The long divorce proclaimed in Howsha’ / Hosea will be over – at least for a responsive remnant of 346Yisra’el. The Day of Reconciliations, Yowm Kipurym in year 6000 Yah (sunset on October 2, 2033), is imminent.
In Yasha’yah 17:3, ‘Aram could have been translated as narrowly as “Syria,” so long as we are cognizant that it once covered a much larger area, and the name means more to the Islamic combatants fighting there than any current national border. After all, the capital of the Islamic world after Sunnis bludgeoned Shia Muslims into submission in the 8th century was Damascus, and their “Sham – Syria” comprised the entire region, including today’s Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Iraq. It was from Damascus that the Islamic Caliphate ruled, swords raised over much of the world, from Spain to India, and everything in between.
The Sunni jihadists fighting in Syria are committed to the same result. Their intent is for the world surrounding Mecca to surrender to Allah. This goal remains the catalyst for Islamic conquest, the throttle for Islamic rage, the sandbox for jihadists to prove themselves worthy of paradise, and the fulcrum upon which Sunni Islam will prevail over their rival, the Shias. This is the fuse of the next world war with alliances divided between the belligerents. Every Muslim within Greater Assyria will suffer, and deservedly so, because they are to one degree or another fanatical and onerous, ignorant and enraged. And they will die, massacring one another in true Islamic fashion. As a result, Yisra’el will live.
It is ironic that the Islamic fixation on dying, killing others in the name of their god, will actually serve to spare Yisra’el. Walking suicide bombs, jihadists are far more likely to die incinerating Muslims than Jews.
Before we press on, let’s clear up a potential misconception. Some may assume that Yahowah is encouraging these religious zealots to harm themselves for the sake of His children. But that is not the case. At this 347point, with Muslims killing Muslims, Yahowah is simply reporting what He has witnessed in our future. That is not to say that God will not intervene. He will, but only when the survival of Yisra’el is at stake.
Realizing that Yahowah uses prophecy to prove that He exists and that He inspired this testimony, we have been given a remarkable affirmation. This prophetic portrayal specifically states that “the government (mamlakah – the kingdom, authority, and people ruled under the monarchy) out of (min) Damascus (Drameseq), including (wa) the remnant (sa’ar – remaining portion) of ‘Aram / Syria / Assyria (‘Aram)” “will cease to exist (shabath).”
Write it down and mark your calendars. No later than 2030, and as early as 2026 Sunni jihadists will bring down the Iranian-backed Shia government of Syria and in the process, these Islamic terrorists will ravage Damascus and decimate the civilian population. Not only will Russian and American intervention fail, but the military presence of both nations will also exacerbate an already horrible situation.
Although Syria’s demise is inevitable, nine years into the conflict Assad appears to have the upper hand. Sunni jihadists have splintered and have continued to kill one another. And Russia has effectively prevented America from foolishly deposing the Syrian government. (Yes, Assad is ruthless, as was Saddam Hussein, but those who will replace him will assuredly be far, far worse. As it was in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, deposing despots will continue to be counterproductive.)
Moreover, Turkey has neutralized America’s only marginally effective weapon, the Kurds. They have been left to face Turkish guns at their back. Once dominant and barbaric, ruthless and abusive beyond comprehension, the Islamic State, while it has eclipsed and negated al Qaeda, has lost much of its grip on cities previously captured.
348These current trends, however, veil the true picture, obscuring it. The numbers are compelling. Sunni Muslims outnumber Shiites nearly three to one in the Middle East and by more than four to one worldwide. Equally pertinent, Sunnis, which receive the most lethal American weapons, are vastly better armed. The forty-six Sunni-majority Islamic nations spend over $150 billion annually on their militaries, with Saudi Arabia leading the campaign at $57 billion a year.
The four Shiite-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain – devote less than $15 billion annually to war preparations, with Iran and Iraq each devoting $6 billion to their military forces each year. Syria is a bit of an anomaly because its $2 billion military expenditures are on behalf of Shia Islam in a majority Sunni nation. Collectively, this means that in this proxy war, the Shiites are outmanned four to one and outgunned ten to one. The math will ultimately catch up with them as it did the “Rebels” during the American Civil War.
In the context of this rebuke of belligerents, we should not lose sight of the fact that the United States outspends Russia and China combined by three to one militarily. America squanders over $750 billion on its war machine while just $250 billion is spent annually by Assad’s allies, the combined forces of Russia and China. This is yet another indication that Yahowah’s prophetic assessment will materialize.
God’s promises are reliable. He has made a solemn vow to reconcile His relationship with Yisra’el and Yahuwdah. Those “Individuals who Engage and Endure with God” and those “Who are Related to and Beloved by Yah” will prevail. And for that to be so, Yisra’el must survive.
Thus far Yahowah has predicted:
349“A prophetic announcement regarding Damascus (the weeping sore covered in dung which is prodded into being contemptible and abhorrent): behold, Damascus is revolting and corrupt and will be removed from among inhabited cities.
It is degenerate and unrestrained and shall be abolished by terrorists. She shall actually become a twisted and tangled heap of fallen buildings and rubble. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:1)
Rejected and abandoned, deserted, destroyed, and damned will be the inhabited and terrorized regions and populated cities of ‘Arow’er, the repudiated outcasts and exiles in Jordan and Lebanon.
For there will be roaming animals fighting in militant militias along with their helpers, the Ansar, falling prostrate and failing miserably, ultimately ceasing because there will be no one left to terrorize. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:2)
Therefore, the fortified city and its defensive structures will cease to exist on account of ‘Ephraym (synonymous with Yisra’el apart from Yahuwdah), along with the government out of Damascus, including the remnant of Syria and Assyria (today’s Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon), for being similarly vehement and burdensome, fanatical and onerous, dimwitted and enraged.
The children of Yisra’el, those Individuals who Engage and Endure with God, shall actually continue to exist, prophetically declares Yahowah of the vast array of spiritual messengers.” (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:3)
For an alternative, albeit inaccurate, perspective, the King James Version renders the last verse: “The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from 350Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.”
This implies that ‘Ephraym’s defenses will fail along with the kingdom of Syria, but implies that Syrians, and thus Muslims, are to become as glorious as the Children of Yisra’el, at least according to “the LORD.” If nothing else, this notion affirms that English Christians favor Syria and hold Israel in extremely low regard.
The American evangelical Christians who sponsored the New Living Translation strove to suggest that they had inherited Israel’s former glory when they published: “The fortified towns of Israel will also be destroyed and the royal power of Damascus will end. All that remains of Syria will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory.” Such nonsense helps to underscore the mythos of “Replacement Theology.”
While I would never be so arrogant as to claim that my translations are perfect, which is why I encourage you to verify all of this for yourself, I can attest that the KJV and NLT are wrong. And it is not that they have not deployed Hebrew scholars, it is that they don’t know Yahowah, and thus do not understand His message.
Hidden in all of this, Christian institutions do not want anyone to know that God hates their churches and loves the Children of Yisra’el. This will never change. As a result, one will endure and the other will not. One will be brought home and the other will be left behind.
In the midst of this future narrative regarding the demise of Syria, and the fall of Jordan and Lebanon to Islamic terrorists, the prophecy reveals that the Promised Land will be narrowed at its midsection. That is to say, the 351Islamic jihadists who bring down the Assad regime, destroying Damascus in the process, will then turn their sights on Israel.
Rather than releasing their weapons once Bashar al-Assad is dead, the Muslim mujahideen will simply point them in a different direction, toward Jerusalem. In order to appease them in the false hope that they will become peaceful, the United States and Europe will offer these terrorists the “West Bank,” land that is not theirs to give, land that does not belong to the jihadists, land that was given to Yisra’el by Yahowah.
The terrorist gangs by their sheer numbers, and as a result of their willingness to die for their despicable cause, will be no match for Israel’s Defense Forces. Out of necessity, the IDF will eliminate thousands, even millions, as crazed jihadists attempt to cross the border. But it will not be nearly enough.
While stopping their armed attackers from infiltrating their country and perpetrating their murderous ambitions will be justifiable, Israel will continue to be the only nation on Earth rebuked for defending itself. Sympathy for the Islamic terrorists clamoring to pillage Israel will galvanize the world against God’s Chosen People. Jews will be portrayed as the aggressors while those who seek to obliterate them will be viewed as “activists in opposition to an illegal occupation by an illegitimate regime.”
The perceived solution, one which is currently being brokered by America, will be to establish a “Palestinian” nation, and therefore a terrorist state, in the West Bank and Gaza. This act will divide the Promised Land, narrowing it at its midsection, where seventy percent of the Israeli population currently resides. By attempting to placate Muslims, the Islamic Middle East and then the world will be engulfed in a much larger war.
352This prophecy, thereby, predicts the “land-for-peace” concessions in which Gaza has been and the West Bank will be given to Muslims in exchange for useless proclamations of peace. Israel will be dissected, becoming less than ten miles across. Since Gaza is already gone, this will be occurring in stages. And it is reasonable to assume that the final act will coincide with the treaty announced by Gabry’el | God’s Most Competent and Courageous Man, also known as Dowd, to Dany’el | Daniel which ushers in the seven-year time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles, a period announced in Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 30:7. Therefore, we are now approaching the fulfillment of very significant swaths of intersecting prophecies in this next statement.
Simultaneously, Yahowah is affirming Yisra’el’s continuing existence, as He does in Yirma’yah 30, specifically addressing the fate of eleven of the twelve tribes. While Benyamin | Benjamin was originally aligned with Yahuwdah, by making a distinction between the two names, Yahowah is saying that the destruction of Damascus and Greater Syria is not only contrasted to the survival of Yahuwdah and Yisra’el, it may not include much of Benjamin. As the source of both Sha’uwl’s, the ill-fated king and the false prophet, its exclusion may be symbolic of ridding the land and earth of government and religion.
But that is God’s message, not man’s mantra. In an ill-fated attempt to assuage Muslim marauders, world leaders will blackmail Israel into surrendering Samaria, known as the West Bank, to the Islamic terrorists. Affirming this, Yahowah, through His prophet Yasha’yah, revealed…
“And (wa) it will actually come to pass (hayah – it will come to exist and happen for a moment in time as a result of man’s choices (qal perfect consecutive)) in that day (ba ha yowm – around this time) that the size (ha huw’ kabowd – that the magnitude, dimensions, and volume, that the respect and dignity, that the reputation and abundance, 353that the presence and power, that the honor and status) of Ya’aqob | Israel (Ya’aqob – My Stance, Jacob, Reward or Consequence, ‘Abraham’s grandson, heir to the Covenant, the father of the twelve tribes, and thus symbolic of a reunited Yisra’el; from ‘aqab – to receive the benefit or suffer the consequence of circumventing and overreaching, digging in by being stubborn or embedding one’s heels to be steadfast) will be decreased to the point of no longer being sustainable or viable (dalal – shall be diminished, making the state incapable of surviving, being thinned and impoverished so that normal life becomes impossible to support, will be weakened, lacking what is essential; from dalah – to devise a plan which stirs up troubling impoverishment).
The fattest, best protected, and most important place (wa mashman – the waist or midsection, the most stout and populated area, the most prosperous tract of land; akin to mashmah – to horrify and devastate) of his physical existence (huw’ basar – his physical existence) will be leaned (razah – made thin and shrink in size, will be sacrificed to the cause of pagan gods, becoming untenable and unsustainable, all in a wasteful and unproductive manner; from raz – to hide the ultimate agenda of razown – diseased dignitaries and sick government officials).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:4)
By saying “in that day,” Yahowah has affirmed that the divestiture of Israeli land is tied to the fall of the Syrian regime. And although that is what America has sought, while Bashar al-Assad is a ruthless dictator, the Sunni jihadists seeking to overthrow him are and will continue to be far worse – not only for Syrians, but also for Israel. It is why it is so counterproductive for the United States to be arming and supporting them.
Especially troubling, by tying the Syrian War to the surrender of Israeli land, America becomes overtly culpable. The United States is guilty of starting this proxy 354war through the invasion of Iraq, whereby that nation was placed under the control of the Iranian religious regime. Worse, through the U.S. military’s Awakening program, weapons were supplied to create Sunni militias in Iraq, and it is those weapons and those jihadists who first turned a peaceful political protest in Syria into a devastatingly deadly war – one that has precipitated the greatest migration of Muslims in history, inundating Europe with religious anti-Semites.
Contemporaneously, America essentially capitulated on the Iranian nuclear program, freeing Iran’s assets while reestablishing her ability to sell sufficient amounts of gas and oil to assure that the threat of an atomic bomb and potent military will continue to influence world opinion. This grave miscalculation, one predicated upon trusting those whose religion encourages them to lie, will cause nations the world over to insist upon sacrificing Israeli territory, hoping to avert the threat of a nuclear event escalating into total annihilation. One error in judgment will lead to the next, and then to another, in an avalanche that will inundate the heart of the Promised Land with terrorists.
This prophecy specifically states that the size of Ya’aqob, serving as a synonym for a united Yisra’el, inclusive of Ya’aqob’s descendants, the Land they were given, and the Covenant relationship they were offered, shall be decreased in magnitude and dimensions such that it becomes unsustainable, making the tiny nation eminently and indefensibly vulnerable. It portends that this reduction will be wholly incompatible with Yisra’el’s continued existence. And it will occur at the nation’s midsection or waist, which is foretold to be its most important, prosperous, and populated region.
This divestiture of land will be at the behest of diseased dignitaries and government officials with a hidden agenda. But the result is known: Israel will shrink in size, 355with the country’s midsection sacrificed to those worshiping pagan gods. This will occur following the destruction of Damascus and will be so devastating to Yisra’el’s ability to defend itself from an onslaught of terrorists, we will soon learn that God will have to intervene to save His people.
This is a vivid portrayal of the utterly moronic “Land for Peace” and “Two-State Solution” diplomatic proposition which has the world forcing Israel to give complete control of Gaza and the West Bank over to the Muslims whose announced and overt, unchanging and core religious, political, and military agenda is to destroy them. Giving more land, a commodity Muslims already have vastly more than they need, to a religious community that has never upheld peace, may be among the dumbest notions ever promoted by world leaders. And yet, the very fact that this irrational and immoral trade is inevitable, along with the realization that it is universally upheld, only serves to reinforce the validity of this prophecy.
The fulfillment of this revelation was so improbable at the time it was inspired, let’s take a step back in history to gain a perspective on the profound implications inherent in this prediction. Apart from a Being who exists beyond our dimensions who is akin to light and therefore has the ability to witness the entire fabric of time, One who also has a keen interest in our wellbeing and a desire for us to know Him, the aforementioned events would have been impossible to accurately predict and convey through the prophet Yasha’yah / Isaiah circa 700 BCE. For these things to occur as they were predicted two thousand seven hundred years ago, an already thrice-conquered Yisra’el would have to become reestablished and then made whole. And yet just as predicted, after one thousand nine hundred years of exile and against all odds, Yisra’elites would return home and became a sovereign nation again.
356This incomparable miracle occurred in stages. Yisra’el was last united under Dowd | David and then his son, Shalomoh | Solomon, from around 1000 to 900 BCE. After surviving four hundred years estranged and eight decades as slaves in Egypt, being menaced and plundered by surrounding tribes such as the Moabites and Amalekites, the Land was viciously conquered and torn into pieces by the Assyrians and Babylonians, with the Yisra’elites hauled off into slavery both times.
A remnant returned only to be conquered and controlled by the Greeks. Two of the most vicious conquests in world history followed, both perpetrated by Imperial Rome, first in 70 CE and then again in 133 CE. Yahuwdym became extinct in the Land, with only a tiny remnant surviving as slaves within the Roman Empire. Thereafter, the Byzantines claimed control of the Land under Roman Catholicism.
Their subjugation was followed in succession by Shi’ite and then Sunni Muslims, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, and then prior to, during, and immediately after the Holocaust, the British lorded over Yisra’el on behalf of unproductive and anti-Semitic Muslims. All the while, the Land remained essentially desolate and decimated, exceedingly inhospitable to the people to whom it had been given.
Then in 1948, the United Nations, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, awarded a portion of the Promised Land to the Yisra’elites who had survived the Nazi Death Camps. In that same year, facing nations established in the aftermath of World War I which outnumbered them a thousand to one, each of which wielded vastly superior weapons, God’s Chosen People, fighting as civilians without so much as a common language, won their War of Independence against the combined forces of the Muslim world.
357While we would be hard-pressed to find another ethnicity that survived four hundred years as refugees and then captives in a foreign land, the wholesale destruction of their nation by the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans, or an event akin to the Nazi Holocaust, this victory in their War of Independence is arguably the most inexplicable. And yet even then, the whole of the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank remained part of Egypt and Jordan respectively, thereby still precluding the thinning of a united Yisra’el as this prophecy portends. It was not until the fledgling nation prevailed against a second unified Islamic assault in 1967 during the Six-Day War that Israel reclaimed much of Yahowah’s original gift. And against all odds, they miraculously retained it in the aftermath of a surprise attack by Islamic forces on Yowm Kipurym in October 1973 – just six years thereafter.
But there is much more to this prophecy. It would be another forty-four years before America’s invasion of Iraq would lead to the Syrian War, ultimately making the destruction of Damascus the catalyst for the ill-advised act of sacrificing Yisra’elite land for promises of peace. In fact, it is hard to imagine how perfectly political miscalculations and religious malfeasance had to congeal within this region to set up the events Yahowah foretold, making them inevitable.
And yet, it is all happening before our eyes: Sunni jihadists versus Shia terrorists, Iran versus Saudi Arabia, Muslims versus Christians, Kurds versus Turkey, and America and Europe versus Russia and China – all in Syria. What’s more, the American invasion of Iraq not only precipitated the war we are witnessing, but it is also solely responsible for the forced migration of millions of Muslims out of Syria and into Europe, fundamentally changing the world and depopulating a region whose cities have already become a graveyard of twisted and fallen buildings.
358What makes this prophecy extraordinary is when it was committed to writing nearly three millennia ago in the waning days of the 8th century BCE, somewhere between 740 and 730, Yisra’el was being ripped to shreds, its cities razed, and its people enslaved. Moreover, we possess ancient verifications of these predictions. The Great Isaiah Scroll dates to 200 BCE and is the oldest surviving complete copy of any book written in antiquity. What are the odds that any of this would occur?
The conditions that would have been inconceivable at the time they were being foretold are just now being set into place. ‘Ephraym, representing the Northern Kingdom, at the time of this writing was separated from Yahuwdah. That means there was not a unified Yisra’el to thin at the waist. The Northern Kingdom, itself, was under siege – being attacked by the world’s most ruthless superpower, Assyria. Huge swaths of the nation were falling under the control of the Assyrian monarchs, Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V. Sargon II and his successor, Sennacherib, following in their father’s footsteps, took twenty years to systematically ransack most of what Dowd and his son, Solomon, had built two hundred years earlier.
Recognizing that the improbability and precision of this prophecy prove Yahowah’s existence and affirm His inspiration of Yasha’yah, it is relevant to know that after the death of Shalomoh | Solomon in 931 BCE, every tribe except Yahuwdah and Benyamin refused to accept Rachab’am | Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, as their king. This rift was principally economic as he refused to lower the onerous tax imposed by his licentious father. These ten tribes preferred Yarob’am | Jeroboam, who was residing in Egypt at the time. Upon his return in 920 BCE, they pronounced him king in Shechem, leaving Yahuwdah completely isolated and Yisra’el divided. These choices set the stage for the traumatic 359events transpiring as Yasha’yah transcribed Yahowah’s predictions.
By 740 BCE, Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser began to systematically brutalize and enslave the remnants of Yisra’el. His conquest and subjugation were so complete that ten of Ya’aqob’s twelve tribes were considered lost. Reuben and Gad were the first to succumb, then Manashah. They were marched into Assyria with chains through their noses where they would remain captive for centuries.
Then in 722 BCE, the surviving capitals of the Northern Kingdom were ransacked, both Shechem then Tirzah, along with most of Samaria under King Omri. During the siege, Shalmaneser V died and was succeeded by Sargon II. He would brag: “Samaria I looked at, I captured. 27,280 men who dwelt in it I carried away into Assyria.” Duly recorded on an ancient stele by the victors, this appeared to be the final curtain for the Kingdom of Yisra’el – especially ‘Ephraym. It had been wiped off the face of the Earth. The likelihood that this prophecy would be fulfilled was nil. If we were to have read it then, we’d have declared it a farce.
The oldest extant corroborations of this period, besides the testimony found in Chronicles and Kings, include the aforementioned Assyrian stele inscription discovered in ancient Assyria in addition to the intriguing stele found in Jordan. The Mesha Stele, housed in the Louvre, is a three-foot-tall, smoothed block of basalt stone. It contains the longest Iron Age inscription ever found. It was written using the Hebrew alphabet in the Moabite dialect of the language in the 9th century BCE. The history depicted in the inscription parallels the account detailed in the Book of Kings. It refers to the “Kingdom of Yisra’el” as distinct from “the Kingdom of Yahuwdah.” It addresses “the House of Omri,” “the House of Dowd / David,” and speaks of their God, “Yahowah.”
360These historical corroborations are important because they affirm that Yahowah’s eyewitness portrayal of human events, whether past, present, or future, are universally, precisely, and consistently accurate. After all, from God’s perspective, prophecy isn’t just about predicting the future, it is the result of Him seeing the whole human experience and then reporting what He has witnessed. At times such as this, God will communicate our future to us in our past, long before these events actually transpire.
As Yahowah’s testimony corroborates, the Kingdom of Yahuwdah survived the initial Assyrian assault. This occurred in part because the tiny nation capitulated and became a vassal state. But some twenty years later, Chazaqyah | Hezekiah, as king of Yahuwdah, sought to end his nation’s subservience to the Mesopotamian overlords.
He ceased paying the tribute imposed by Assyria and forged an alliance with Mitsraym | Egypt. However, the Egyptians proved unreliable, and in the fourth year of Sennacherib (701 BCE), Yahuwdym became isolated and defenseless. Capitalizing on the tiny nation’s vulnerability, 185,000 Assyrian soldiers began marching in their direction with the express intent of plundering what little was left of the Kingdom Dowd | David had forged. Without Divine intervention, the story of Yahuwdah would have been over along with that of Yisra’el.
As it would transpire, what happened next serves as a lesson for us today. Hopelessly outnumbered and out-armed, Chazaqyah | Hezekiah initially tried to pay off Sennacherib with three hundred talents of silver and thirty of gold. But after the payment was made, the Assyrian king simply renewed his assault and laid siege on Yaruwshalaim. And therefore, after his misguided faith in military alliances, money, and potentates proved unreliable, the king tried the opposite approach, and came to rely upon the Towrah and its Author, Yahowah. He destroyed every religious site in Yahuwdah and began to 361prepare his people so that they could celebrate Passover, UnYeasted Bread, and Firstborn Children in accordance with Yahowah’s Towrah Instructions.
This approach, their collective trust, and their willingness to observe the Towrah and act upon its Guidance were sufficient. Yahowah did the rest, sending one of His mal’ak | messengers to poison the Assyrian army as they prepared for their final assault outside the city gates. Had the Assyrian army survived, Yahuwdah | Judah would not exist today.
Sennacherib had thought that as the favorite son of his gods, and as the leader of the world’s most powerful military, the city would be easy prey. Just the day before his troops were annihilated, he is recorded telling Yahuwdym that in the manner their king had destroyed all vestiges of religion, they too would be destroyed. And yet, as we now know, the assemblage of false gods and human military might was no match for a single mal’ak | messenger of Yah.
A century later, Yahuwdym became prosperous and self-reliant, forsaking their relationship with Yahowah and His Towrah. It was a poor choice and worse timing because surrounding civilizations were in upheaval. The Babylonians overran the Assyrian capital of Nineveh in 612 BCE, prompting Yisra’el’s vicious foe to relocate it to Harran, which was even closer to Yahuwdah. But by 610 BCE, it too was captured by the Babylonians. As a result, the Assyrian King Ashur-Uballit II moved to Carchemish on the Euphrates River and waited for the Egyptian army to rescue him. But Pharaoh Necho II was delayed at Megiddo, northwest of Yaruwshalaim, by the forces of King Yoshyah | Josiah of Yahuwdah.
While Yoshyah was killed and his army was defeated, because the Pharaoh’s army arrived later than expected, the combined Egyptian and Assyrian forces failed in their 362siege of the Babylonian army garrisoned in Harran. They retreated to northern Syria, where in 605 BCE the remaining Assyrians and Egyptians met the full might of the Babylonian military led by Nebuchadnezzar II. Yisra’el’s two most ardent foes were defeated, ending the Assyrian run as an independent nation while dramatically diminishing Egypt’s influence. As a result, for Yahowah’s prophecy to be valid, Assyria would have to be reformed as a political entity or nation-state – something that would not occur until the 20th century CE.
Immediately after defeating Egypt and Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar invaded Yahuwdah. Hoping to avoid annihilation, Yaruwshalaim’s King Yahowyaqym | Jehoiakim changed allegiances from the recently defeated Egypt to Babylon and paid an un-Godly tribute which included Temple artifacts and members of the royal family who were taken as hostages. However, four years later in 601 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar returned, and this time was rebuffed in his attempt to invade Egypt, suffering heavy losses.
Trying to capitalize on the swing of human political and military fortunes, Yahuwdah’s King Yahowyaqym | Jehoiakim withheld his Babylonian tribute and allied once again with Egypt. As a result, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Yaruwshalaim | Jerusalem, the capital of Yahuwdah / Judah in 597 BCE. Following Yahowyaqym’s untimely death, the Babylonian monarch pillaged the city and the Temple. He took the nation’s new king, the eighteen-year-old Yakonyah | Jeconiah, prisoner along with a preponderance of the population, including the king’s court, prominent citizens, those who were literate, and all craftsmen. Only a smattering of the most impoverished Yahuwdym | Jews remained in the Land.
But unlike anything that had happened previously, a remnant would eventually return, reconstituting Yahuwdah | Judah but not ‘Ephraym | the Northern Kingdom or 363Yisra’el | Israel. Then as their appreciation of Yahowah faded once again, they would be conquered and subjugated by the Greeks.
Next came the Romans. In their second assault on Yahuwdah | the Provence of Judah, three Roman Legions razed the city of Yaruwshalaim | Jerusalem, despoiled the surrounding land, and renamed Yahuwdah, Philistia, after the no-longer extant enemy of Yisra’el – a name unknown to the world outside of the Towrah and Naby’. Imperial Rome crucified tens of thousands of Yisra’elites, and marched surviving Yahuwdym into Rome as slaves. In the eyes of the world, especially from the perspective of Imperial Rome and the Roman Catholic Church which evolved from it, there was no longer a place known as Yisra’el or Yahuwdah, and the people who had once called both home were now property to use and abuse.
It was a mindset the Catholic Church would not relinquish, making the restoration of Yahuwdah and Yisra’el ever more improbable. As proof, read Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope to see how the immoral and anti-Semitic Archbishop and Cardinal Pacelli, who became Pope Pius XII, not only solidified Hitler’s control over Germany, but also facilitated the Final Solution.
Over the centuries, a succession of Christian and Muslim powers would lay claim over a land so ransacked, it would barely support nomads. Then, half of the surviving Yahuwdym population still living in the lands once controlled by Rome were massacred in human death camps during the Holocaust. And it is against this backdrop of human events that makes Yahowah’s declaration so improbable as to be considered rationally impossible. And yet, we are now witnessing its fulfillment.
But that is not the end of this story. Somewhat recently, the United States under the Bush Administration compelled Israel to relinquish Gaza, surrendering it to the 364Muslims who were trying to exterminate them. The result was to turn a buffer zone into a breeding ground for jihadists and a staging area for rocket launchers. The blood of 1,000 Jewish lives now stains Geoge Bush’s soul, as the Muslims he sought to appease left the place he had given them and entered Israel to take the rest of the land through terrorism. Having spent considerable time with this horrible man on numerous occasions, I can attest that he really was amoral, self-absorbed, and stupid. Fortunately, he will spend eternity in She’owl for his crimes against God’s people.
Not to be outdone in the race to anti-Semite Hell, the Obama Administration began coercing Israel into abandoning the West Bank and Golan Heights to impose the “Two-State Solution.” His so-called “Roadmap to Peace” is the same plan the Iraq Study Group proposed to resolve the Sunni uprising against the Shi’ite overlords America had empowered after deposing Saddam Hussein. But Obama actually went so far as to unite Europe against Israel in order to blackmail the nation into either capitulating or being cut off from the rest of the world. The fulfillment of this prophecy has, therefore, been in the works for some time – part of a plan world leaders have concocted against Yahowah’s Chosen People.
It now seems inevitable under the Biden Administration that the United States will ultimately seek to resolve its growing problems with Iran and Saudi Arabia by sacrificing Israel. The gross immorality and abject stupidity of the “Two-State Solution” dominate his interactions in the Middle East.
When implemented, it will thin Israel at her waist to an indefensible width. Since seventy percent of Israel’s wealth and population reside in this region, the nation will become especially vulnerable because the terrorists will be empowered by this concession.
365Muslims will terrorize Israel as never before – as was witnessed on October 7th, 2023 – the same week that I was editing this volume. As a result of the concessions Israel has made, mostly at the insistence of the United States, the nation is indefensible and will soon be overwhelmed by a flood of Islamic terrorists. Rather than 1,500 jihadists, as was the case on October 7th, with Iran’s participation through Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and its occupation of Iraq and Syria, there will be between 100 and 1,000 times that number of Muslims being Muslims in their pursuit of Jews. And rather than 2,000 rockets and 20 hang-gliders, Israel should expect 200,000 rockets and 2,000 drones.
The Islamic terrorists surrounding Israel will deploy the same strategy of overwhelming the Iron Dome with more rockets than it can manage, and thereby turning cities into raging infernos. At the same time, they will overwhelm smaller and more vulnerable communities with an onslaught of jihadists. They will soon invade with sufficient numbers and force of arms to hold entire communities hostage, leaving Israel with the impossible choice between capitulation or annihilation.
And as many have feared, this conflagration of religious hatred will spread and engulf the world. Initially billions, many of whom will be Muslims, will die in the Middle Eastern theater. But then this regional religious conflict will turn into a world war, and the debacle begun by Iran’s belligerence and aided by American complicity will go nuclear, and billions more will succumb before the bombs stop falling. It will make America’s concession to Islamic terrorism the single deadliest and most destructive blunder in human history – a miscalculation worse than invading Afghanistan and Iraq to depose their rulers.
It is not as if God and history didn’t provide a warning. The rebuke of America in this very same prophecy commences with a “howy – woe” in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 36618:1. And recent history screams: “No, don’t follow the example of England” when in 1938, Neville Chamberlain gave the Nazis the high ground of Czechoslovakia. That land-for-peace initiative was the catalyst for the Second World War. This one will start the Third World War.
This prophecy, which was once improbable and now inevitable, is so precise that, to an informed and rational individual, Yahowah has used past and future history to prove His existence and authorship. But we have just begun. God will continue to inform His creation, because in spite of our poor choices, He remains desirous of us getting to know Him, of us coming to trust and rely upon Him, and of us forming an enduring family-oriented relationship with Him.
So that we are not taken by surprise, so that no one is left behind without fair warning, we are told that the narrowing of Israel occurs in conjunction with a harvest of standing grain, a reaping of first fruits, and specifically, a gleaning, which is a smaller, secondary, harvest of olives.
“Then (wa) it will be (hayah – He will actually for a time come to exist (qal perfect)) like (ka – similar or akin to, comparable to or consistent with) the gathering in and receiving (‘asaph – joining together and bringing in, collecting and then assembling before removing by way of an ingathering and withdrawing through guidance) of a harvest (qatsyr – a reaping of the fruit from the chaff in the proper season; from qatsar and qatsyr – to cut away the branch so as to remove it from a short but extremely vexing time of grief, a time which must be shortened due to the extent of the vexing provocation of uncontrollable anger, the divisive anguish and devastating rage, and grievous wrath on the sustainability of life by fragmenting and splintering relationships to the ends of the earth during the end of time) of standing grain (qamah – that which is upright and has the ability to stand and rise; from quwm – to affirm, validate, and establish the standing and upright 367so that they might rise (related to qam – those who are hostile to an adversary)).
And (wa) His Protective Shepherd, Sacrificial Lamb, and the One who Sows His Seeds that take root and grow, producing fruit (zarowa’ huw’ – His Leading Ram and His Strong Arm, His ability to accomplish whatever is required, and the one who sows the seeds of new and productive life in anticipation of a bountiful harvest; from zara’ – the one who sows seeds that take root and produce offspring (a reference to Dowd | David and his Taruw’ah Herald)) will reap the harvest (qatsar – He shall gather that which is productive, useful, and valuable from fields, orchards, and vineyards, collecting fruit from the chaff in a season which must be curtailed by cutting them away so as to remove them from a short but vexing time of unbearable grief experienced during the last days and to the ends of the earth so as to sustain their lives and withdraw them from a time of anger and anguish) of first fruits (shibolym – the heads or kernel of the grain and the branches which are flowing and growing).
Then (wa) it will be (hayah – He will literally come to exist at a time certain (qal perfect)) as one would conduct (ka – in a manner similar to) a gleaning (laqat – a rapid gathering up of what is left, quickly removing all or most of the remaining harvest, speaking of a numerically insignificant ingathering and implying that a small amount is collected in relation to the energy expended to grasp hold of them and withdraw them) of first fruits (shibolym – the heads or kernel of the grain and the branches which are flowing and growing) in (ba) the broad valley of Rapha’ym (‘emeq Raphq’ym – the dead and departed without material substance, the souls of the deceased along the broad and open way; from rapha’ – defects which could have been healed by a physician, restoring the impaired to health and rapah – to be feeble and falter, to be left alone during a descent from a higher place to a more diminished 368status as a result of being lazy and limp, habitually refusing to exert the effort required to prevail; a broad and open valley two miles west southwest of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem).” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:5)
The timing of this event during the last days, the diminutive nature of the gleaning, and the depictions surrounding the reaping of first fruits all point to the fulfillment of the Taruw’ah | Trumpets Harvest immediately after the implementation of the “Two-State Solution.” While that narrows it down considerably, from our current perspective, we can expect the fifth of seven Miqra’ey | Invitations to be Called Out and Meet with God to be fulfilled on Taruw’ah between 2026 and 2029.
And yet, we can surmise a great deal from what we have learned here and elsewhere. It would be reasonable to conclude that Taruw’ah will be fulfilled in this manner sometime between the early Autumn of 2026 and 2029, either preceding or during the first three and a half years of the Time of Ya’aqob’s | Yisra’el’s Troubles.
It could occur early on, and thus simultaneously with the treaty imposed upon Israel, at the time relentless jihadists and world leaders leave the nation with no viable option but to capitulate. Or it could transpire one, two, or even three years thereafter, still before the most horrid time of Yisra’el’s tribulations commence. But we can be reasonably assured that the Taruw’ah Harvest associated with the fulfillment of the fifth Mow’ed Miqra’ey will not occur prior to the time Israel is forced to forfeit Samaria to appease Islamic Terrorists nor prior to the destruction of Damascus and fall of Syria.
Suffice it to say, politicians and statesmen are making the planet more dangerous by capitulating to Islamic terrorism, attempting to tear Yisra’el apart in the process – something Yahowah will not tolerate. As a result, He will 369come to gather in and receive His Covenant children, sparing them from the wrath of war that will invariably besiege the rest of the world. God and the preponderance of His creation remain at cross purposes.
But there are always a few, the one in a million, who are guided by the Architect of Life. The “qamah – standing grain” and “shibolym – first fruits” references both point to the Taruw’ah Harvest, when Yahowah will remove His Family so that His children do not have to endure the Time of Yisra’el’s Troubles. It is what one would expect from a loving Father.
Since the Zarowa’ presented in Yasha’yah’s prophecy is likely the one fulfilling Taruw’ah by sowing the seeds that will produce new life, I am expecting that this harvest will occur beginning at sunset in Yaruwshalaim on September 9th, 2029. This will allow the one reaping the initial gleaning to return for a much larger one, serving as one of the two Witnesses beginning six months later on Passover, April 16th at sundown, 2030.
There are four different words used to describe a singular harvest: ‘asaph, qatsyr, qatsar, and laqat. To appreciate why God chose all four, it is incumbent upon us to search out each word’s unique implications.
This study begins with ‘asaph. It was translated as, “gathering in and receiving.” ‘Asaph speaks of God “joining together” with His children and “bringing them into” His home, of “collecting them by way of an ingathering and then withdrawing them” from harm’s way “through the guidance” He has provided in His Towrah.
Qatsyr conveys so much more than “harvest.” It reveals that the “desirable fruit will be reaped from the unwanted chaff” and that this “will occur in the proper time, or season” – pointing the way to Taruw’ah. This is one of Yah’s favorite metaphors, one that He uses three times throughout His presentation of the Mow’ed Miqra’ey 370to present a picture everyone throughout time could understand, of reaping a harvest such that the valued fruit of one’s labors, the Covenant’s children, are brought into the storehouse and that which remains, the chaff, is left to blow away unattended and unvalued.
Additionally, qatsyr presents the idea that the branches, another metaphor for the Covenant Family, “will be cut away and set apart” from “a short but extremely vexing time of grief.” This Time of Ya’aqob’s | Jacob’s Troubles is a period which “must be cut short due to the extent of the vexing provocation and uncontrollable anger” now manifest between men at war with one another and unified in their hatred of Israel.
Qatsyr portrays a period when rhetoric is “especially divisive, when man’s rage is devastating, and his wrath grievous.” It addresses “the last days of institutionalized dominion of the Earth and speaks of mankind’s malfeasance spreading the world over.”
Then qatsar, while related to qatsyr, is the third of four words used to describe this event. It was rendered as “will reap the harvest.” It reveals that God “shall gather those who have been productive and useful, those He values from His vineyards, fields, and orchards,” once again “separating and collecting the fruit of His labors from man’s chaff during this time of unbearable grief during the last days.”
More than this, in the heart of qatsar we discover tsar, the word Yahowah selected to convey the nature of Ya’aqob’s “tsar – troubles.” It is the term He deployed to reveal that Yisra’el would be “tsar – narrowed and confined in dire straits, greatly distressed and oppressed by enemy forces, caged in and besieged.” This “qatsar – harvest during a time of unbearable grief when man’s chaff is being blown away” will occur during the Last Days and coincide with Ya’aqob’s Tsar | Yisra’el’s Troubles.
371And fourth, a laqat is “a gleaning, a rapid gathering up of whatever remains valuable to the harvester.” Just as the Taruw’ah harvest will occur suddenly, laqat describes the “process of quickly removing the remaining harvest.” With a laqat, “the numbers are few and the effort required to retrieve the fruit is great,” accurately portraying the high price Yahowah has paid to vindicate the few who chose to participate in the Covenant by fulfilling Pesach and Matsah, thereby enabling Bikuwrym | a FirstFruits Harvest.
The first four Miqra’ey were fulfilled one after another by the ultimate Zarowa’ | Sacrificial Lamb forty Yowbel ago in 33 CE. So now on the precipice of Year 6000 Yah, God is announcing that He will once again honor His promises and fulfill the Taruw’ah Harvest. This time, however, the little z will be serving on behalf of his King, the Protective Shepherd, Dowd, who is the Strong Arm of God. The purpose of Taruw’ah is to herald Dowd’s return with Yahowah to fulfill Kipurym, reconciling the relationship with the remnant comprising the final harvest.
Collectively then, this “laqat – gleaning, or secondary harvest” establishes the Miqra’ of Taruw’ah in its rightful place as one of three harvests of saved souls. Additionally, by calling it a “gleaning,” God is affirming that the yield will be small. This is consistent with His written proclamation on the first of the two tablets when He wrote: “Thousands will receive His mercy by observing His Covenant’s conditions.” Thousands amongst billions are just one in a million. This is the fifth step on the narrow way to life which few find.
Shibolym is an affirmation of Yah’s plan, used to portray the connection between this secondary harvest and that of Firstborn Children which preceded it 40 Yowbel ago in year 4000 Yah. It serves as an allusion to the timing of the first three Miqra’ey: Pesach, Matsah, and Bikuwrym, each of which occurs during ‘Abyb, the time when young barley ears are still green and growing at the head of the 372grain. This then speaks of a time when Yah’s children are still receptive to His invitations, rather than mature, hardened, and easily crushed. We know that they are receptive because they are “walking in accord with the guidance and teaching that flows out” of the Towrah.
In this regard, qamah is revealing because, based upon quwm, it confirms that the Protective Shepherd of God will take a stand on behalf of those who have listened to him calling them home. Yah’s Covenant children are the standing grain. They are represented by the two letters repeated in God’s name: . Those depicted by these are reaching up to grasp hold of Yahowah’s “ – hand” as a result of what His Zarowa’ has accomplished.
The Zarowa’, as this title is defined in the Towrah, has already done more for us than anyone in human history, by serving as the Sacrificial Lamb of Pesach. And while I did not fully appreciate its other connotations when I first drafted this chapter, now having returned to it after completing the first two volumes of Coming Home, I am at liberty to share that properly identifying the three Zarowa’ will lead to the Promised Land.
Considering the timing and the propensity of the world to inaccurately view the Muslims living within Israel as “Palestinians,” Rapha’ym is presented in Shamuw’el / 2 Samuel 5:18 and 22 as the valley in which “the Philistines yet again came and spread out” in a place they did not belong. Further, Raphq’ym depicts the “souls of the deceased, the dead and departed,” which is telling because it is from the dead and dying that God’s Covenant children are being saved so that they might live.
The souls of Rahya’ym are beguiled into “following the broad, open, and wide way” of man to their “death.” In this regard, raphq’ym is from rapha’, which reveals that those who remain will retain the “defects which could have otherwise been healed by the physician.” This addresses 373the Towrah’s propensity to cure all that ails us. But because they rejected Yahowah’s Towrah, they are immune to the “restoration” it provides, ensuring that their “health remains impaired.”
Rather than “exert the effort required to prevail, these lazy and limp individuals without character will become feeble and falter.” After all, Rapha’ym was a broad, wide, and open depression less than five miles from the narrow path – close, but not correct.
With the realization that this passage lists the thinning of Yisra’el immediately before the harvest, there is every reason to conclude that Taruw’ah will be fulfilled at the last possible moment and, thus, just before the worst of the worldwide carnage begins. It also seems reasonable that the treaty alluded to by Gabry’el to Dany’el, the one which appears to usher in the beginning of the Time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles, will be predicated upon Israel sacrificing land as this prophecy predicts. Doing so will shrink the nation back to the vulnerable and unsustainable dimensions depicted in the 1967 United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.
This will reconstitute the conditions that existed before Muslims lost the Six-Day War. And that alone should alert anyone with half a brain, to how the Muslims will respond should they regain the territory they lost when trying to obliterate Jews.
This is all part of a process. Yisra’el is becoming ever more vulnerable over time, with several decades separating the forfeiture of Gaza (which was ceded to Muslims on September 22, 2005) and now the world screaming over settlements in Judea and Samaria. Israel is condemned for building homes while Muslims are excused for being terrorists. Therefore, the future peace treaty sponsored by the Towrahless One may entail yet another foolish concession – one perhaps that goes beyond the secession of land.
374Also at issue, we don’t know when the Syrian War will end. There is every reason to think that it will rage on for quite some time – perhaps into 2027, 2028, or 2029. And while immediacy is implied, we are not told if it will be weeks or months after Damascus is destroyed and the Syrian government is deposed before world leaders require Israel to surrender the territories surrounding Jerusalem, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Jericho, Bethlehem, and Hebron to appease the Islamic terrorists.
Yet one thing we know for sure, a great deal is going to happen that will be averse to Israel and Jews between now and the Spring of 2030, when the worst phase of Ya’aqob’s Troubles will commence. Islamic jihadists will continue to commit ruthless acts of terrorism. Damascus will lie in ruins. The government of Syria will fall. The West Bank will be sliced away to create a Palestinian State. And all the while, Israelis will be more divided left and right, religious and secular, than ever before. Fortunately, Yahowah will come to remove some of His children just before the world is engulfed in a cataclysmic war.
The metaphors Yahowah uses in the next statement are designed to communicate meaningfully to the greatest number of people over the longest period of time. Olives, for example, were consumed as food, their oil was used as a healing ointment, and there was no better substance to illuminate homes at night.
These traits, along with the fact that olive trees were firmly rooted in the Land and are the longest-living trees in the region, all serve to illustrate the influence of the Set-Apart Spirit in our lives. She brings light to dark places. She nourishes Her children, healing and empowering them. And Yahowah’s Set-Apart Spirit distinguishes and separates those who live with God from those who die.
“‘And (wa) with him (ba huw’ – by him, addressing either Ya’aqob, representing a united Yisra’el and those 375within the Covenant Family, or the Zarowa’ contributing to this harvest), there will be a remnant who will be spared and survive (sha’ar – there will be physical beings who remain and will be left behind, but also a remnant of souls who will leave and live because they are related in a close, familial relationship, remaining as part of a group for a duration of time (the niphal passive perfect consecutive indicates that each individual will be harvested or left at this moment in time based upon the choices they have made)), gleanings (‘olelah – smaller secondary harvests of that which was purposely left on the vine where few are taken) as in going around at the right time of year (ka naqaph – comparable to encompassing and shaking off during the proper yearly cycle as a means of harvesting, while implying that those surrounded and immersed in this manner will enjoy an indefinite amount of time as they are taken out of a threatening and dangerous situation) an olive tree (zayth – olive; from zow – brightness): two or three (shanaym shalowsh) ripe olives (gargar – mature fruit and olive berries; from garar – to be taken away) in the top (ba ro’sh – on the uppermost and choicest, directly from the source who initiated all things, from the One who leads, from the summit of the first and finest, even the most crucial) branch (‘amyr – highest branch or summit (symbolic of either Dowd or Mowryah)), four or five (‘arba’ chamesh) on its fruitful branches which have been cut away (ba sa’yph huw’ parah – clinging to a crevice of its (the olive’s) flourishing and productive limbs, those who live life abundantly and who produce offspring in a successive generation for the harvest; from sa’aph – which has been cut off (rendered from the DSS)),’ prophetically declares (na’um – before it occurs pronounces) Yahowah (), God (‘elohym – Mighty One) of Yisra’el (Yisra’el – of individuals who engage and endure with God).” (Yasha’yah / Deliverance is from Yahowah / Isaiah 17:6)
376It is interesting to note that sha’ar, which can be translated as “be left” or “leave,” “remain” or “survive,” also addresses the difference between “the soul and the flesh, the inner person and their physical body.” It even speaks of being a “close and direct relative, with ties to both mother and father.” As such, we can clearly see the dichotomy between the souls who are part of the Covenant Family and survive, compared to those who remain opposed to Yahowah and His Towrah and will be left behind. Physical beings have a limited lifespan and die while souls enveloped in Yahowah’s Set-Apart Spirit as part of His FirstFruits’ Harvest endure forever.
In this regard, olives are especially telling. They can be nourishing (sharing Yah’s Word) or rot on the tree. When pressed they can produce pure and brilliant, smoke-free light (enlightening the observant), but while this ability is latent, the benefits only occur by design, with a vessel, a wick, and a spark: the Covenant, the Word, and the Set-Apart Spirit.
With ‘olelah translated as “gleanings,” we have two subtle insights to ponder regarding the illuminating and nourishing olives that are being spared at this time. The first of these entails the likelihood that this remnant of the Covenant was deliberately left on this tree of life, attached to its branches, and rooted as part of Yisra’el by Yahowah to convey His message to those looking in the right direction at this time, the most pivotal moment in history. There will be two witnesses, ‘ElYah along with Dowd’s Taruw’ah Herald, with a third, the King of the Witnesses, Dowd, arriving three years later.
The phrase, “ka naqaph – as in going around at the right time of year,” points us right back to the fifth Miqra’, Taruw’ah – as one of the three harvests among the Mow’ed. The timing as we know is the 1st day of the 7th month, with the year beginning with the renewing of reflected light on 377the moon during ‘Abyb – the time grain begins to bud and grow.
While I think that it is too early for all of this to transpire, in 2026 on the Roman Calendar, Taruw’ah will be celebrated at sunset on Saturday, September 12th. In 2027, the new year begins on Thursday, April 8th, such that Taruw’ah occurs at sundown on Friday, October 1st, and concludes prior to sunset on Saturday, October 2nd.
Also worth considering, should the harvest transpire the following year in 2028, Taruw’ah runs from sunset on Wednesday, September 20th through sundown on September 21st. Then the last and best opportunity for the Taruw’ah Harvest prior to the worst of Ya’aqob’s Troubles would be on Sunday, September 9th, 2029, in year 5996 Yah.
Regarding which of these dates Yahowah has chosen, it will be as late as possible to give the Children of Yisra’el every opportunity to hear His voice, come to their senses, and return home. And should it occur in the Fall of 2029 as I suspect, then the period without witnesses will be short because, as previously mentioned, ‘ElYah | Elijah and the Choter return on Passover in the Spring of the following year. Three-and-a-half years thereafter, Yahowah will be returning with Dowd.
Ka naqaph paints a picture of Yahowah “immersing” His children in His light, of Him “encompassing” them and “surrounding” them so that His children “enjoy the full amount of time remaining.” God is quite literally “gathering up and taking” these ripe, ready, and valued olives “away so as to keep them safe during a threatening and dangerous situation.” That “menacing and perilous circumstance” is the Time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles as defined in Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 30:7 – a prophetic statement properly positioned just ahead of the moment 378when, in Yirma’yah 31, Yahowah restores His Covenant with Yisra’el and Yahuwdah.
While we have considered it previously, it bears repeating that the “zayth – olive” is used as a metaphor in this situation because the tree endures the centuries. Its branches were used as a sign in a dove’s mouth that the flood had subsided, and life had been restored. Its fruit, the olive, produces the ideal light when burned and is especially nourishing and healthy when consumed.
Shanaym, meaning, “two,” and shalowsh, meaning, “three,” remind us that, while there are two witnesses, there are three harvests among the Miqra’ey | Invitations to be Called Out and Meet with God. The former is indicative of a “small number where few are involved” and of “taking sides.” The latter depicts a “series of three things,” as is the case with three forty Yowbel epochs defining the history of mankind and of the three times each year that the Miqra’ey are celebrated. Further, two speaks of a man and woman coming together as husband and wife and then father and mother while three is indicative of a family, with the addition of a son or daughter – and thus of the Covenant.
As we have insinuated and will further elaborate in a moment, the spectrum of time from our expulsion from the Garden to our return is comprised of three periods of 2,000 years. Reinforcing this, the numeral two in Hebrew was depicted as a – or family home, indicative of both the Gan ‘Eden from which we came and Sukah, where we will return and Camp Out with Yah in His home. The numeral three in Hebrew was drawn as a – foot, showing us walking through these three bimillenary epochs – and ideally along the path He has provided.
‘Arba’ym, “forty,” defines a duration of time, often of testing. It rained forty days and nights during the flood, and the Towrah was revealed over a forty-day period on Synay, where the “Sign was Handed to the Children” of Yisra’el 379after enduring eight decades as slaves in Mitsraym and wandering in the wilderness for forty years.
Looking at the big picture, man’s time is divided into three periods of 40 Yowbel (40 x 50 years = 2,000 years). The first of these three 40 Yowbel periods commenced in 3968 BCE when ‘Adam and Chawah were expelled from the Garden. The second began 40 Yowbel thereafter in 1968 BCE when ‘Abraham affirmed the Covenant with Yahowah in year 2000 Yah. This, the second of three bimillennial epochs, came to a close in 33 CE when Dowd, as the Zarowa’, fulfilled the first four Miqra’ey, thereby enabling the Covenant’s benefits in year 4000 Yah. The third and final set of 40 Yowbel eras commenced in 33 CE, and it will conclude with Yahowah’s return in 6000 Yah with His Son, Dowd, which is 2033 on today’s Gregorian calendar.
Furthermore, ‘arba’ means “to be square” or “right.” It was presented in the form of a doorway: and represents the Door to Life, as Passover provides the passageway to the first four Miqra’ey and to our ultimate perfection, adoption, enrichment, and empowerment as part of Yah’s Family.
Chamesh, “five,” depicts the part of the body between the lowest ribs and the waist, where most of the vital organs reside. It suggests that this message is vital if we want to continue living. As our “abdomen,” it may even suggest that those being harvested were careful regarding what they consumed, so that they were nourished by Yah’s Word.
Especially revealing, the Hebrew designation for the numeral five is an observant individual standing up, looking up, and reaching up for Yahowah’s hand: . It is, after all, during these celebrations of the Yowbel every 50 years that all debts are forgiven and all slaves are freed, such that everyone has the opportunity to stand with God should they so choose. Moreover, there are five hands in 380Yahowah’s name, five fingers on our hands, five conditions to participate in the Covenant, and five benefits for having chosen to embrace them.
There is yet another insight found in the numbers four and five. The first four Mow’ed Miqra’ey, satisfied in year 4000 Yah, provide the Covenant’s benefits with the fulfillment of 1) Pesach, 2) Matsah, 3) Bikuwrym, and 4) Shabuw’ah enabling us to be: 1) eternal, 2) perfected, 3) adopted, 4) enriched, and 5) empowered. And Taruw’ah, itself, is the 5th of seven Invitations to be Called Out and Meet with God. This is the path that leads to the harvest.
The depiction of the gleaning as “two or three” and then “four or five” olives, with the smaller number associated with the “uppermost and choicest branch” and the larger one with “its fruitful branches which have been cut away,” is designed to identify, quantify, and distinguish the relatively small number of individuals who will be taken home. The smaller of the two communities represents Yisra’elites, the direct descendants of Ya’aqob, who will be reaped from the top of the olive tree at this time. The larger figure most likely represents fruitful Gentiles who will be gleaned as adopted children as a result of embracing the conditions of the Covenant affirmed through Ya’aqob and for giving rise to successive generations of Yah’s children, making this harvest possible. Both participants in this secondary harvest of some seven hundred or, more optimistically, seven thousand souls (2+5 or 3+4), the naturally born and the adopted, will leave Earth together on the Miqra’ of Taruw’ah following the destruction of Damascus and the thinning of Israel, but likely before the final Islamic assault against God’s people and land.
If the smallest and largest numbers, two and five, or the largest and smallest, three and four, quantify the numbers harvested from each community, then I expect seven thousand members of the Covenant will be brought 381out of the world and into Yahowah’s Home on Taruw’ah. Since there will be eight billion people on the planet at this time, the number serves to affirm the one-in-a-million quantification found in the Second Statement Yahowah etched in stone. Our Heavenly Father would have every reason to protect His children, removing them from the corruption and carnage man is about to unleash on the world – leading them away from the Valley of Death.
This Taruw’ah gleaning is approaching rapidly. It is set between unfolding events, the ongoing destruction of Damascus, the depopulation and fall of Syria, and the dissection of Yisra’el’s midsection, but prior to the time that Muslims react or Yisra’elites return to Yahowah as the Covenant is renewed. This is a fairly narrow window.
Therefore, we should keep focused on the Towrah with Damascus in our peripheral vision, anticipating the fulfillment of one and the demise of the other. We should expect the Syrian conflict to continue until there are so few civilians on one side or the other to kill that the surviving Islamic jihadists turn their weapons and rage against Israel.
We should expect that the U.S. will continue to interfere, counterproductively trying to impose its will throughout the region and thereby remaining its principal provocateur and arms merchant. And now, we know that Israel will eventually capitulate. When this occurs, the Children of the Covenant will be taken home, removed from the Valley of Death, so that they will not be harassed by the tidal wave of Muslim militants that will surely flood into the Promised Land, leaving death and destruction in their wake. It will be a gruesome scene.
As we have found, there has been a robust palette of intriguing words in the Word of God which encourage us to think through all of the possibilities, beginning with the first of them, sha’ar, rendered as “There will be a remnant who will be spared.” It can, as noted previously, be 382translated as “be left” or “leave,” “remain” or “survive.” It provides a contrast between “vulnerable, death-prone, and decaying physical bodies” and “the souls of individuals engaged in a personal and familial relationship with their Father and Mother.” I suspect that both concepts apply depending on who is being addressed, recognizing that when some leave others remain.
I would be remiss if I did not draw your attention to three additional insights that can be gleaned from this harvest. This statement is a “na’um – prophetic declaration inspired long before these events transpire.” Its impending inevitability proves God exists and that He knows the full extent of human history even before it unfolds. It also validates the fact that we can trust and rely upon every word we are reading. Your response to His testimony in this regard will determine if you are gleaned or left behind.
Second, God’s name is Yahowah, not “the Lord,” not “Jesus Christ,” and most certainly not “Allah.” If you do not know His name you do not know Him. If you do not know Him, He does not know you.
Third, Yahowah is the “‘elohym – Almighty God” of “Yisra’el” and thus not of a “Church” or any other Gentile religious institution. His focus has been and continues to be on His Chosen People. If you are not with them, He will view you in opposition to Him because they are His Family.
With both connotations possible, let’s reexamine God’s presentation...
“‘And it will actually come to pass in that day that the size of Ya’aqob shall be decreased to the point of no longer being sustainable or viable. Then, the fattest, best protected, and most important place at the midsection of his body shall be leaned, shrinking in size, sacrificed in a counterproductive and unsustainable manner in the cause of pagan gods and as part of the 383hidden agenda of diseased dignitaries. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:4)
It shall be like the gathering in and receiving of a harvest at the proper time in the end which must be cut short due to the extent of man’s provocation and anger, reaping the grain from the chaff in season, cutting it away so as to remove it from a vexing time of grief, thereby establishing and validating the standing grain.
Then His Protective Shepherd, and the One Sowing His Seeds, will produce a harvest. It shall be as one would conduct a gleaning, a smaller secondary harvest, of first fruits in the Valley of Rapha’ym, in the midst of those destined to die who were too lazy to exert the effort required to prevail. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:5)
And in him [in Ya’aqob, Yisra’el, and the Covenant], there will be those souls who will be spared and survive and the physical bodies of those who will be left behind, gleanings of those purposely left on the vine, as in going around at the right time of year to remove them from a threatening and dangerous situation, encompassing them as a means of harvesting an olive tree.
There will be two or three ripe olives in the top uppermost branch, four or five on its fruitful and productive branches which are separated and cut away,’ prophetically declares Yahowah, the Almighty God of Yisra’el.” (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 17:6)
The picture being drawn before and after sha’ar depicts a smaller secondary gleaning of ripe, mature olives, and of those being harvested as “leaving.” They “will live” while others “will remain left behind” to die. Ya’aqob is being used to describe Yisra’elites, most of whom will be left, as well as Covenant members, all of whom will leave.
384Since the Earth’s population will be between seven and eight billion people at this time, if God is depicting seven or eight thousand “olives” from both the “uppermost / choicest” branches in addition to those that have been “cut-off” coming home, then we have yet another affirmation that only one in a million will be receptive to Yahowah’s offer. At the seldom-considered conclusion of the Second Statement Yahowah etched in stone, He revealed that thousands, which is one in a million people alive today, would receive His mercy by observing the conditions of His Covenant. God’s continual unpopularity, even among His own people, will be verified by the scant number who will be gleaned on Taruw’ah.
On the positive side, thousands are thousands more than responded to the source of the prophecy we have just considered. When Yahowah invited Yasha’yah to Heaven and opened the door (Isaiah 6:1-10), not a single soul was waiting outside. And there would not be any receptive Yahuwdym for most of the next 2,700 years.
Therefore, we should be encouraged that the harvest has blossomed into thousands and, soon, many more. The prophet’s words may have been dormant, but they are now taking root and growing. Let’s continue to cultivate them and celebrate the resulting gleaning.
A final harvest will follow some three to seven years later when Yahuwdah and Yisra’el unite in their love of Yahowah on the Miqra’ of Yowm Kipurym | Day of Reconciliations in the Yowbel Year of 6000 Yah / October 2nd at sunset in 2033. This will transpire upon God’s return with His Son when the Covenant will be reaffirmed.
On this day, Yahowah will personally write His Towrah on the hearts of His children, integrating His Guidance into the fabric of our lives. It is something He can do then but cannot do now because it would forestall freewill. Up to that point, all humanity retains the options 385of ignoring, rejecting, negating, corrupting, or accepting the Towrah’s Guidance. But not for long.
