I just looked this up. The flocks don't end up in Damascus, but in the cities of Aroer, which is east of the Dead Sea. In other words, these two areas are not nearby each other and people are wiped out of or have forsaken both.
1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 4And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5And 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 Rephaim. 6Yet 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 the LORD God of Israel.
I think I understand reapeth the ears with his arm. Swing your arm across in front of you. Phantom, imagine a weather radar where an arc of storms swings across a region. Now apply that concept to a cataclysmic detonation.
Belmont 1 points 2.5 years ago
I just looked this up. The flocks don't end up in Damascus, but in the cities of Aroer, which is east of the Dead Sea. In other words, these two areas are not nearby each other and people are wiped out of or have forsaken both.
https://www.bible.com/bible/1/ISA.17.KJV
1The burden of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5And 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 Rephaim. 6Yet 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 the LORD God of Israel.
I think I understand reapeth the ears with his arm. Swing your arm across in front of you. Phantom, imagine a weather radar where an arc of storms swings across a region. Now apply that concept to a cataclysmic detonation.