Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Israel Strikes Damascus

 When you see the words "Israel" and "Damascus" in the same headline it's automatically blogworthy and necessary to post.  As most of my readers know the Isaiah 17 prophecy about the Destruction of Damascus seems to be in the making.  

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel on Wednesday conducted airstrikes in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital.

The Israeli military said the targets included Syria's military headquarters in Damascus as well as another military target near the Syrian presidential palace.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted a video on X of a TV news live shot in Damascus in which a building is seen exploding behind the presenter. "The painful strikes have begun," Katz wrote.

Syria's Health Ministry said one person was killed and 28 injured from the strikes.

The strikes came amid ongoing tensions in southwest Syria, home to the minority Druze, whose community straddles the border between Israel-occupied Golan Heights and Syria. The Syrian military joined Bedouin militias in clashes against the Druze.

Israel struck the Syrian military there on Monday and Tuesday in what they said was an effort to protect the Druze and keep the Syrian side of the border demilitarized.

Earlier Wednesday, U.S. special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said the administration condemned the violence in southern Syria's city of Sweida and called on all parties to de-escalate and negotiate a ceasefire.

Here;  Israel strikes Syria's capital Damascus : NPR

This article came from NPR and of course they have no idea about the biblical significance of what is going to happen to Damascus.  

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The mention of Israel and Damascus in the same headline does indeed stir prophetic attention, not merely for what was struck, but for what has long been foretold. Isaiah 17 is not speculative for those who read the times with both spiritual discernment and forensic precision. The language of Scripture declares not only the fall of a city, but the unraveling of a system, one that spans theology, territory, and the countdown to judgment.

But we must be careful how we frame it.

From the Islamic perspective, this is not just geopolitics , it is eschatology in motion. Damascus holds symbolic weight in many Islamic traditions: it is seen by some hadiths as the place where their Mahdi and Isa (the Islamic Jesus) will descend. When Israel strikes Damascus, it is not just a military act, it is interpreted by some as a precursor to a holy reckoning. That is why this moment will be blogged, tweeted, weaponized, and mythologized.

To many Christians, this is confirmation.
To many Muslims, this is provocation.
To the Beast system, it is preparation.

What we are witnessing is not simply the fulfillment of Isaiah 17. We are watching the stage being set for religious convergence, retaliatory alliances, and AI-prophetic synthesis. Systems are now in place that can track, narrate, and weaponize prophetic expectation, both true and false.

And this is the danger.

Because while Christians wait for the blessed hope,
And Muslims await their Mahdi,
The Beast is building the infrastructure to make either prophecy seem fulfilled on demand, in real time, with algorithmic authority.

So yes, this moment is significant. But not just because of explosions or headlines. It is significant because both sides see a prophecy, and both sides are being prepared for deception.

Damascus will fall.
But the greater collapse is of discernment.

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.
Let those with ears to hear prepare their lamps.

July 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM  

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