Damascus Is A Heap

Isaiah 17 tells us that Damascus will one day be destroyed.

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;

Today we read of another massive blast in Damascus and we look at the heaps of rubble that are all over the city.

BEIRUT/AMMAN — At least 60 people were killed, including 25 Shi'ite fighters, and dozens wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in a district of Damascus where Syria's holiest Shi'ite shrine is located, a monitor said.

Sunni fundamentalist Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Amaq, a news agency that supports the group. It said two operations "hit the most important stronghold of Shi'ite militias in Damascus".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the casualties were expected to rise from the suicide attacks in Sayeda Zeinaba, a district of southern Damascus where the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and other Iraqi and Iranian militias have a strong presence.

Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based Observatory, said the suicide bombers had targeted a military bus carrying Shi'ite militias who were changing guard there.

Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ite militia groups that have volunteered to fight Sunni Islamist radicals in Syria in a conflict that has heavy sectarian overtones often say they are coming to Syria to defend the shrine.

Rebels says the area is the first destination of thousands of Shi'ite militias drawn from Iran to Afghanistan alongside neighboring Iraq where they are based before heading to fight in battlefields across the country.

Here:  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/damascus-blasts-least-45-dead-110-wounded-bombings-near-sayeda-n507976

Certainly the entire city has not been made a heap yet....but many parts of it have.  Also the royal power of Damascus has not yet disappeared...but many nations are demanding that the ruler of Syria stand down. (Bashar al Asad)

Just maybe, this prophecy is being fulfilled right before our eyes?

"But Dennis, certainly this happened long ago because I believe that all prophecy in the Bible has already been fulfilled!"

Nope.  Damascus has been continually inhabited since Isaiah wrote this passage.  In fact, some historians tell us that it is the oldest, continually inhabited city on earth.