Futurist Only Syria, only a remnant will survive.

Isaiah 17:1-3 & 14 Damascus will become a ruined heap.....the towns are desolate, flocks will live there undisturbed....only a remnant of Syria will remain. In the evening there is terror and by morning it is gone. Such is the fate of the Lord's enemies.
Isaiah 18:3 All the inhabitants of the world will see the signs and hear the sounds of the Lord’s rebuke. Luke 21:35

Jeremiah 4:23-29 At the sound of approaching disaster every town is in flight. People crawl into thickets and scramble up among the cliffs to hide. The earth is in chaos, the sky blackened, the hills are shaking and reeling and everybody disappears, even the birds and animals have gone. The whole Land is desolate, for the purpose of the Lord has been made known and He will not relent or change it.

Isaiah 29:5b-6 Suddenly, in an instant, punishment will come from the Lord with a thunder of great noise, earthquakes and storm tempests of devouring fire.
Jeremiah 25:30-31 The Lord roars from on high, He thunders from His dwelling place, He roars loudly against His Land, against all the inhabitants of the Land. The great noise reaches to the ends of the earth, as the Lord brings His judgement against all the nations and the godless peoples will die. Isaiah 33:10-12, Isaiah 66:15-16, Zephaniah 3:8

Isaiah 66:6 That roar from the city, the uproar in the holy Land, it is the sound of the Lord dealing retribution to His enemies. Psalms 83

Jeremiah 50:22 & 25 & 46 The sound of great destruction thunders in the Land. The Lord has opened His armoury and brought out the weapon of His wrath, it is His work to do against the Babylonish nations. The earth quakes and the noise is heard throughout the world. [Ancient Babylon was destroyed by Cyrus, he was the Lord’s instrument then, but this prophecy refers to those nations that have adopted beliefs and practices as a type of Babylon.]
Jeremiah 51:55 The advancing wave booms and roars like mighty waters, for the Lord is despoiling Babylon. [the ungodly nations] Joel 2:1-11

2 Peter 3:10 The Day of the Lord will come unexpectedly. On that Day, the sky will disappear with a great rushing sound and flames will envelope the earth, all in it will be brought to judgement.

‘The great noise reaches to the ends of the earth’, All peoples will hear it and be terrified. It will strike the Middle East at mid day. Zephaniah 2:4
‘the uproar from the holy Land is the sound of the Lord dealing retribution to His enemies’, destroying those who attack Israel and punishing His enemies worldwide. Psalm 94:1-7, Isaiah 66:15-16, Ezekiel 7:2-14, Micah 4:11-12, Hebrews 10:27
‘People crawl into thickets and caves to hide’, This is paralleled by the sixth seal, Revelation 6:15 and Isaiah 2:21
‘the sky will disappear with a great sound’, Also paralleled by the sixth seal; Revelation 6:14, Isaiah 34:4, 2 Peter 3:10
‘Sudden punishment from the Lord – thunder, earthquakes, storms of fire’, This can only be explained by a coronal mass ejection, ‘the weapon of His wrath’, a sunstrike that suddenly hits the earth and it will literally cause all those graphically prophesied effects. Isaiah 30:25-28, Malachi 4:1 & 3

Deuteronomy 32:34-35 & 22 The Lord has a punishment in His storehouse, awaiting the Day of vengeance, the Day My enemies make a mistake will be their doom. For fire is set ablaze by My anger, it envelopes the earth and penetrates deep underground.

Isaiah 34:5-8 The Lord has a Day of vengeance, the Redeemer of Zion has a time for retribution. His sword will appear in the sky, see how it descends in judgement onto a people whom the Lord has doomed to destruction. Great will be the slaughter in Edom and He has a sacrifice in Bozrah, His sword of punishment will be sated with blood, the earth will drink deeply of their blood.

Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this, coming from Bozrah and Edom with His garments splashed with blood, striding along in His mighty power? It is the Lord, proclaiming victory, He who is strong to save. He treads the winepress of the nations, with no one to help Him. He tramples them in His fury, shatters them in His anger and spills their blood all over the ground. The Lord has resolved on a Day of vengeance, because the year for redeeming His own has come.

Jeremiah 49:12-13 & 22 These are the Words of the Lord: Those who were not doomed to drink the cup of My wrath, must drink it none the less: are you alone to go unpunished? You will not be spared, I will judge you as well. I will swoop down upon Bozrah and on that Day, Edom will lose all their strength. I swear that Bozrah will become desolate, an object of reproach and all her towns will be ruined forever. [Not for all time, see: Ezekiel 36:33-36, Isaiah 61:4]
Amos 1:12 I shall send fire to consume the palaces of Bozrah. Ref: REB, NIV.
Bozrah – Hebrew = a sheepfold, also means: glad tidings. At present Bozrah can be identified as the place where the true descendants of Jacob currently side.
Edom – the descendants of Esau, a metaphor for non-Israelite peoples. Edom may represent every other nationality of the world.

Scripture References:
‘The Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath’, [Not the same Day as the Return of the Messiah] Psalm 11:4-6, Rev. 6:12-17, Isaiah 2:12-21, Isaiah 13:9-13, Isaiah 61:2b, Isaiah 66:15-16, Ezekiel 30:1-3, Joel 2:11 &31, Micah 5:15, Nahum 1:2-6, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Malachi 4:1, Romans 1:18, 2 Peter 3:7 & 10
‘His sword appears in the sky and descends in judgement’, Isaiah 30:25-28, Jeremiah 4:20-28, Jeremiah 23:19, Jeremiah 47:6-7, Jeremiah 50:35-38, Ezekiel 21:3-7 & 14-16
‘He treads the winepress of the nations’, Revelation 14:17-20, Jeremiah 9:21-22, Jeremiah 25:30-33, Jeremiah 49:35-37, Habakkuk 3:12, Psalm 65:1-3
‘I shall send fire’, Ezekiel 20:46-48, Joel 1:19-20, Amos 1:4,7,10,12,14. Amos 2:2,5. Obadiah 1:18, Zephaniah 3:8, Hebrews 10:27
‘I will judge you as well’, Ezekiel 23:32-34, Obadiah 1:16, Jeremiah 30:11, Ezekiel 7:1-27, Hosea 4:1-3, Hosea 12:2, Amos 4:12
‘The year for redeeming My own has come’, We are nearing the end of this age, the Lord will take action in His creation, as He did so long ago: in the days of Noah. Isaiah 66:15-16, Micah 5:10-15, Habakkuk 3:12, Ezekiel 7:14

Amos 4:1-11 Listen to this Word from the Lord, you sleek and satisfied people, 1 you who oppress the downtrodden, as you revel in your modern lifestyle. The Lord God had sworn by His holiness, that your time is coming and disaster will fall upon you. 5
In times past, I brought famine to the Land, yet you did not come back to Me. 2
I withheld the rain, yet you did not come back to Me
I struck your crops with the black and red blight, yet you did not come back to Me. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not come back to Me.
I sent the plagues of Egypt among you, yet you did not come back to Me.
With the sword, I slew your young men, yet you did not come back to Me.
I brought destruction like that of Sodom and to some of you, it was as you were a brand snatched from the fire, 6 yet you did not come back to Me.

Amos 5:12-13 Seek good, not evil, that you may live and the Lord God may be with you, as you claim He is. 3 Establish justice and practice righteousness and it may be that the Lord will show favour to the survivors of His people. 4

Amos 5:16-20 The Lord says: In the cities and in the country there will be mourning, for I will pass through your midst on the great and terrible Day of the Lord. 5 It will be a Day of darkness and terror, with no escape for anyone.

Amos 4:12-13 Therefore, Israel, this is what I will do to you: Israel: Prepare to meet your God, 4the Creator of all things. It is He who will darken the dawn with thick clouds and He will trample the nations with His rod of iron. The Lord, His Name is Y’hovah, makes known His plans to those who seek the truth in faith and sincerity. 7
Ref: REB. Some verses abridged and paraphrased.

1/ Our modern society, mostly without a thought for their Creator. 2 Timothy 4:3

2/ Ancient Israel ignored their warnings, they were sent into exile. Hosea 5:4

3/ Now; the Lord’s people, the descendants of Jacob and those grafted in, claim that God is with them, but they do not wholeheartedly obey His commandments. Isaiah 58:1-8

4/ Ezekiel 20:30-36, describes how the Lord will ‘state His case’ against His people. They will ‘meet their God’, in the wilderness, then enter the Land.

5/ The Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, prophesied over 100 times in the Bible as a sudden and shocking judgement by fire, coronal mass ejection that will be the ‘disaster that will fall upon them’, and upon the whole world. Isaiah 30:26-28

6/ The Lord’s righteous people are warned to take cover and will be protected on that Day, like ‘brands snatched from the fire’. Isaiah 26:20-21, Joel 2:32

7/ The Prophetic Word does tell us all we need to know of God’s plans for our future. But if people choose to believe false theories and doctrines, the Lord will make the Words ‘like a sealed book’. Isaiah 29:9-12

Brian45, I know what I present from the Prophetic Word, is something that very few Christians know about.
Preachers avoid the prophesies and books on the subject often confuse rather than enlighten.

What I post sets out scriptures that have usually been ignored or relegated to past history. But it is evident to all, that the world cannot continue like it is for too much longer, our problems of demographics, economic, health, wars, etc, proliferate.
But what is worst of all, the world has forsaken it's Creator. We have basically said to our Maker: we don't need You, leave us alone! This is the height of arrogance and God has told us what He will do to those prideful people. Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:20-21.
Blessed are the meek and humble, for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5
This plain, unequivocal statement will come to pass; God will wipe out all who deny Him and then He will show favour to the survivors of His people. Amos 5:12-15
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Isaiah 17:1 Damascus will cease to be a city, she will be reduced to a heap of ruins forever desolate. Animals will live there, undisturbed.
Jeremiah 49:23-27 Of Damascus: The Syrians are covered in confusion, for they have heard news of a coming disaster, they run around in fear and trembling and panic grips them. No more joyful songs or celebrations are heard in her streets, because on that Day her young men will fall and soldiers will lie still in death. The Lord says; I will kindle a fire inside Damascus and it will devour her strongholds.
Amos 1:3-4 For crime after crime of Damascus, I will give them no reprieve because they oppressed My Land with malicious spite. Therefore I will send fire to consume her strongholds.
Zechariah 9:1-2 The Word of the Lord comes to the lands north of Israel and it will soon come upon Damascus. For to the Lord belongs all of that area and even though the cities of Lebanon have become rich, He will strip them of all their possessions and break their power. A devastating fire will devour them all.

These prophecies tell of the soon to happen destruction of Damascus, Syria. Note that in all cases, they go on to talk of other nations who are also affected by this fire judgement. Isaiah 66:16 In particular Isaiah 17:4-6 says how Jacob, that is: the 10 tribes of Israel- now the Western nations and the 2 tribes of Judah now the current State of Israel, will lose their strength. It seems that most of the world’s military forces will be wiped out. Isaiah 34:2-3, Hosea 2:18, Micah 5:10-11

Although the Sixth Seal, the next event to happen according to the sequence in Revelation, does not mention fire as the means of punishment, [there is nothing in Revelation 6:12-17 to say how it will be carried out] we can ascertain the details from parallel passages like: Isaiah 34:2-4, Isaiah 2:12-21, Joel 2:1-11, Malachi 4:1 and especially 2 Peter 3:7 & 10.

Notice in Jeremiah 49:23, how they know what is coming. This can be explained by the 24 hour period between the initial flash of a Coronal Mass Ejection sunstrike and the arrival of the main mass of superheated plasma. Ezekiel 7:10-19
That it will be a single Day of destruction is confirmed by the use in every case of the Hebrew and Greek words for a 24 hour period and this fits how a CME would hit the earth and then continue on into outer space. Isaiah 63:4, Joel 1:15

Jeremiah 4:5-7 Declare this in Judah, Proclaim it in Jerusalem! [the State of Israel] Sound the war trumpet throughout the land and command the people to assemble. Make a signal to Zion to head for safety without delay, for the Lord is about to bring you disaster and dire destruction from afar. The Destroyer of the nations has come out of his lair to make your land desolate and your cities will be laid waste, bereft of inhabitants.

Jeremiah 4:-9 Therefore: put on sackcloth and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord will not be averted from Judah. On that Day, the courage of your leaders will fail and your Rabbis will be shocked and appalled.

Jeremiah 4:11-12 When that time comes the Jewish people will be told: A scorching wind from the high place will sweep down upon My people, a gale too strong for winnowing, a powerful blast will come at My bidding, when I state My case against My people.

Jeremiah 4:19-20 & 46 Oh how I writhe in anguish, I hear the sounds of destruction and the crashing as the whole land goes down in ruin. Suddenly, in an instant the buildings are thrown down, the cities are flattened by the fire of the Lord’s fury.

Jeremiah 4:23-28 I saw the earth and it was in chaos and darkness. The mountains and hills shook and reeled. The land was like a wilderness, there was no one to be seen, even the birds had gone. The earth will mourn for this in darkness, for now that I have made My purpose known, I shall not relent or change it. Ref: REB


This describes the multi prophesied judgement/punishment by fire, that destroys the Lord’s enemies, carried out by the ‘Destroyer of the nations’. Deuteronomy 32:34 It is the great and terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, the sixth seal of Revelation. It is the final punishment of Judah, their ‘third swing of the sword’. Ezekiel 21:14, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 11:15-16

This blast of superheated wind results from a CME sunstrike, Isaiah 30:26 that will suddenly ruin the entire Middle Eastern region, ‘laying it waste and bereft of inhabitants’. Isaiah 64:10, Isaiah 17:1, Jeremiah 49:2, Isaiah 34:5

The whole earth will ‘be in chaos and darkness’, the extreme heat, earthquakes, powerful winds and tsunamis will kill millions worldwide. Jeremiah 9:21-22, Isaiah 66:16

‘Now that the Lord has made known His plan, He will not relent or change it’.

The Scriptures provide the framework by which the end-times will unfold and describes a world where there must be a convergence of religion, economics, and leadership. A One World Government and a Global religion. But for these to be established, there has to be a dramatic change to our current situation.

The Bible tells us about the characteristics of the last generation and we are the first generation in human history to meets all of the conditions described in the Scriptures. There is scarcely a day that passes in which we don't hear of events around the world which continue to lay the foundation for the final days as described in His Word; leading up to the geographic and cosmic events yet to happen, as comprehensively described in the Bible, that will devastate the earth and result in the deaths of millions or billions of people.
We may not know the day nor the hour of such events, but we can clearly see the season approaching. Based on the wording of all the prophesies, many theologians and astrophysicists claim that what is being described will be literally fulfilled by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun hitting the Earth!

The surface of the sun consists of dense, super-heated Plasma. Think of the sun as a ball of liquid FIRE - burning at around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and not as having a surface that is on fire - but is literally fire through and through (i.e. like a lake of fire and not a lake on fire). CMEs are constantly being emitted from the sun, but should a large one on an unprecedented scale directly strike the Earth; this dense superheated plasma would push away part of the Earth's atmosphere. As the CME continues into the stratosphere, it would then vaporize all planes, birds and flying insects, then strike the earth with devastating consequences.
Some may believe this is nothing more than theory or speculation of what events could occur within the end times, but the reality is that various governments from around the world have realized this approaching Biblical event is entirely real, and they’re already preparing for it.

What Governments Don't Want You To Know:
Since God normally utilizes His own creations to carry out judgement as we see this time and time again throughout the Old Testament, then we know if this CME scenario is true, we may already be seeing the preparation for this event unfolding today. First, something has changed within the last 10 years regarding how governments are planning for continuity of operation; they're now thinking global. Recently, governments all over the world have built over 1,000 doomsday seed vaults to ensure the survival of the human race. The largest that we know of is the Norwegian vault on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle. In addition, governments have begun building massive underground bunkers and small underground cities carved within the bedrock of mountains for their leadership.

But the most frightening signs are the ones hiding in plain sight...
First, unknowing to most, Earth's magnetic field, which normally protects us from high energy particle emissions from the sun, is collapsing! With a reduced magnetic field, solar radiation and CMEs will now have a greater impact on the Earth than ever before. In fact, the European Space Agency recently launched a satellite array that monitors solar activity and the impact it has upon the Earth. During the first 6 months of operation, it was revealed that the Earth's magnetic field was not only indeed collapsing, but that it was happening 10x faster than researchers first realized. In addition, recent discoveries by astrophysicists in Japan have revealed that our sun is in fact capable of producing what is now being called a "super flare" which is 20x - 1,000x more powerful than any flare witnessed on our modern age. They're referring to a CME that would be substantially larger than the one which occurred in the Carrington event of 1859. The "super flare" being described by researchers would be so powerful, with Earth having a weakened magnetic field, it could truly penetrate the stratosphere; causing the events described by all the prophets to come to pass.

The Lord Has Already Warned Us that This Is Coming...
We are told to do look for the signs for the end of our age, and it appears that the Lord has already warned us that the event described in our Bibles is indeed coming soon. During July, 2012, a massive CME ejected from the sun and crossed Earth's orbital path; missing us by only one week! This particular CME was unprecedented in size (X-class), and if the flare would have erupted just one week earlier it would have hit Earth square on. This CME blast was so massive that NASA referred to it as "The Solar Superstorm of 2012" and believe it would have knocked our civilization back to the 18th century - leading to panic, war, starvation and disease. This near miss was so shocking to various unaware agencies, they kept the event SECRET from the public for one and a half years before finally revealing it to media at a recent space summit.
Ref; http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/sponsored_article1.cfm#OdPrpuMB5ZbwS6UL.99

The sudden and shocking Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, His terrible punishment by fire, will affect all the world, but will particularly affect that area given to Abraham, so many centuries ago. Deuteronomy 32:22 & 34-35, Zephaniah 1:14-18, & 2:1-7, Genesis 17:8
In the past there were two times that the holy Land has been virtually depopulated. First Assyria conquered Israel and Babylon conquered Judah. Judah was again conquered by the Romans in 70AD and Jerusalem was flattened and ploughed over. But in each of these times the Land was never completely cleared or devastated to the extent described in the prophecies below. They will be fulfilled by the next prophesied event, as we can see from Isaiah 61:2b...proclaim a Day of vengeance of our God.
It will be the ‘third swing of the sword’, Ezekiel 21:8-16 and the opening of the Sixth Seal.


Isaiah 26:24 The Lord is coming from His dwelling place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins.

Isaiah 28:2 The Lord has one at His bidding; like a sweeping storm of hail and a destroying tempest that will beat down upon the earth with violence.

Jeremiah 11:15-16 What right have My people to live in My holy Land with their shameless ways? Nothing they can do now will ward off the disaster, that with a great roaring noise will burn and consume them.

Jeremiah 22:6-7 The Lord says about the Royal House of Judah: Though you are dear to Me, I swear that I shall turn your Land into a desert, a Land of towns no longer inhabited. A destructive force will come upon you and burn your dwellings.

Isaiah 28:22b...for I have heard that destruction is decreed upon the whole Land.

Ezekiel 20:47...I am about to kindle a fire...all the Land will be scorched by it.

Jeremiah 7:32-34 The time is coming when the dead will fill the valley of Topeth [beside Jerusalem] and the whole Land will become like a desert. Jer. 19:11

Jeremiah 5:8 & 12 I shall raise My hand against all the inhabitants of the Land and leave you devastated, a land without inhabitants.

Jeremiah 12:14 The Lord says: I shall uproot the evil neighbours who have encroached onto My peoples Land. Also I shall uproot Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 10:18 & 22 The Lord says: This time I shall throw out the whole population of the Land, I shall press them and squeeze them dry. Listen; a devouring horde comes to make Judah’s cities utterly desolate.

Jeremiah 8:16 The Destroyer approaches and the whole Land trembles – it comes and consumes everything; crops, trees, city and citizens alike.

Isaiah 24:18b-19 The earth’s foundations shake when the window of heaven is opened, the earth is struck and it staggers and reels wildly.

Jeremiah 4:7 The Destroyer of nations has come out from his lair to devastate your Land and make your cities waste and empty. In an instant, the whole Land crashes down in ruin. I looked and there was no one, even the birds have gone.

Joel 1:15-20 The Day of the Lord comes, a terrible destruction from the Almighty, all food is destroyed and fire has consumed the pastures and trees.

Zephaniah 1:18 On the Day of the Lord’s wrath, by the fire of His jealousy the whole Land will be consumed, for he will make a sudden and terrible end to all who live in the Land.

Micah 1:6 I shall reduce Samaria to a ruin...I will level the hills and valleys.

Jeremiah 25:33-38 The Lord is ravaging the shepherd’s pastures and their homes are ruined beneath the Lord’s fierce anger. The Land becomes a waste under the sword of the Destroyer and those whom the Lord kills on that Day, will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other, neither mourned or buried.

Micah 5:11 I shall devastate the cities of your Land and destroy your military power.

Jeremiah 9:10-11 & 21-22 I will chant a funeral dirge over the Land when I make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and the towns of Judah uninhabited. Death will enter your houses and will kill anyone in the streets. Corpses will lie like dung, like swaths behind the reaper, with no one left to gather them.

Hosea 4:3 The Land will become desolate, all that lives in it will be wasted, even the wild animals, birds and fishes will vanish.

Isaiah 64:10-11 Zion becomes a desert, the holy cities desolate, all that we cherished lies in ruins, burned to the ground.

Jeremiah 4:26 The fertile Land has become desolate, its towns all razed to the ground before the fierce anger of the Lord.

Isaiah 33:8a The roads are deserted, no one travels anywhere. The Land is parched and dry, stripped bare, like a desert.

Isaiah 24:10 The city is shattered and in chaos, every house is barred and shuttered.

Isaiah 32:14 Houses are empty, the crowded streets are deserted and the military areas are turned into open fields.

Jeremiah 12:4 & 10-13 How long must the Land lie parched, its grass withered? No birds or beasts are left, because God has judged the wicked inhabitants, they said: God does not see what we are doing. Therefore a sword from the Lord has devoured the Land from end to end and now it’s all a desolate wilderness. Ref: REB. Some verses abridged.


This dramatic clearance of the holy Land coincides with the completion of the decreed punishment of the House of Israel: in 2015. Righteous Israel are now able to go back to their heritage, a second Exodus described in over 40 prophecies.
But before they “march, with great joy back to the Land”; Psalm 68:7-9 & 24-27, the Lord will send rain and a tremendous regeneration will take place and they “will find food and water in plenty”. Isaiah 49:8-19, Ezekiel 36:8, Joel 2:21-24, Isaiah 51:3

stephen583 said:

That having been said, I noticed your thread says little about the "Destruction of Israel" in the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. From what I've read, that's going to be about as extensive as the destruction of Syria you have so thoroughly documented.

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I am surprised you say that, as my focus is on the terrible Day of the Lord's fiery wrath, the Sixth Seal worldwide disaster, but the event that will virtually de-populate the entire Middle East. Ezekiel 30:1-5. Amos 1:1-15 & 2:1-5 + 100 other prophesies.
We are in agreement, in that very few Christians see this forthcoming disaster. Actually, secular scientists and the military know of this event and are feverishly making preparations, as you point out.