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Module 2: The Burdens of the Nations and the Day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
The burden of Damaseq. Behold, Damaseq is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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Yeshayahu 17
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The cities of Arow'er are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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The fortress also shall cease from Ephrayim, and the kingdom from Damaseq, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the Kabod of the children of Yashar'el, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
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The Graying of the Harvest and the Gleaning Protocol
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the Kabod of Ya'aqob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Repha'im.
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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of Yashar'el.
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The Recalibration to the Maker
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Yashar'el.
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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the images.
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The Desolation of the Strong Cities
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Yashar'el: and there shall be desolation.
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Because thou hast forgotten the Elohim of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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The Rushing of the Nations and the Sovereign Rebuke
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but Elohim shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.