When the Jews settled the promised land, Reuben, Gad and half of the half-tribe of Manasseh decided to settle east of the Jordan river. Reuben settled in southern Ammon and northern Moab.
The city of Dibon changed hands many times, destroyed and rebuilt.
The fort of Macherus is no more. It was here, according to Josephus that John the Baptist was beheaded.
Chapter 14 starts with a wonderful promise
Next is a prophecy against Babylon.
Notice the central position of Babylon in today’s Middle East.
Saddam Hussein had restored the ruins of Babylon to show the greatness of Iraq. The picture below shows a U.S. soldier after invasion of Iraq.
Yes,, Babylon shall come to an end.
Jesus saw Lucifer, also called Satan fall from heaven as lightning strikes.
The Prophet Ezekiel also foresaw Satan being thrown out of heaven.
Isaiah also prophesied the destruction of Babylon
Next is a prophecy against Assyria.
The destruction of Philistia is also foretold. It is interesting that the tribe of Dan could not take the land of the Northern Philistia, so they settled in the very northern part of Israel. Their failure to take their allotment of the promised land continues to this day.
Chapter 13 through 24 are a series of prophesies of disasters for all kinds of places and Peoples. Babylon will take Israel into captivity.
Today is no different. This time people are fleeing the area. Hostilities are again increasing.
The city of Babylon was not very big, but it controlled a large territory. 
The Day of the LORD as described in Matthew 24
Same account according to St. Mark in the old Wycliffe translation from around 1390 modified into modern language.
The ruins of Babylon are being restored, before the Mid-east War Saddam Hussein wanted to make it a historical Disneyland. The four pictures below show Baghdad today. The upper left picture shows one of Saddam Hussein’s many palaces overlooking the old ruin City of Babylon.
A hymn of praise to finish up the first part of Isaiah, the future of Israel.
This section is mentioned is Paul’s letter to the Romans.
The punishment of Syria, continued from chapter 9.
The bible translations differ on the second Lord in verse 16. Some Hebrew manuscripts writes Adonai, others Yahwe. Let us look at the Dead Sea scroll:
The Dead Sea Scroll has Yahwe.
The Veggie Tales has a hilarious recounting of how Gideon defeated the Midians, not always biblically correct, but good for children. The correct account is found in Judges 6 and 7.
Child: Shows the humanity of Christ
Son, shows the deity of Christ
It also shows the unity of God, Father, Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor, three aspects of God, three in one, the triune God, the Trinity.
There is one more instance of El Gibbor in the Old Testament. In Jeremiah 32:18 it says: “Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, (El Gibbor) YHWH of hosts, is his name,”
The Annunciation in Luke 1 also states that Jesus will be the Son of God, indirectly God himself coming to earth as a child.
Isaiah 9:10 has been quoted by politicians as a message of resilience and hope. This message was scribbled by President Obama in 2012 on a building near Ground Zero. Other Politicians have quoted Isaiah 9:10. John Edwards quoted it directly on the third anniversary of 9/11, not realizing that the message is not one of hope, but of utter arrogance.
Biblical history is full of treachery, intrigues and double-crosses as are described in second Kings:
This quotation is from Isaiah 28:16 and shows the call to fear and follow the LORD only is carried over into the New Testament pointing to the Lord Jesus.
The greek Septuagint translation: παρθένος, parthenos: a maiden, a virgin
The Hebrew word הָעַלְמָ֗ה hā-‘al-māh, is properly translated virgin, but it can also mean a young woman, which in those days meant the same thing, age is of no importance, virginity is.
So Hillary sold our Uranium
for bribes and a huge honorarium.
Putin sold to Iran
yellow cake, with no ban.
Is anything left in her cranium?
This sheds new light on her “Reset” with Russia in Geneva, March 2009.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him
a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.
She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift: a red button on a yellow base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top.
“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked.
“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said.
Instead of “reset,” Lavrov said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”
Hillary and Sergei laughed.
“We won’t let you do that to us,” she said.
It doesn’t say ПЕРЕГРУЗКА on the button, it says PEREGRUZKA. The mistranslation is bad enough, but using Roman letters instead of Cyrillic? What was going on? Didn’t anyone realize they use a different alphabet over there? There are two possible explanations: Ignorance, or arrogance on the part of the Hillary Clinton State Department. I know Hillary Clinton has demonstrated plenty of both in statements such as: “What difference does it make?”
How has this reset worked out for us? Besides Iran, Syria, Turkey, Hezbollah, Libya, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and many other countries where U.S. and Russia have opposing interests, and Poland where we plainly sold out the missile defense, we are in a pickle on at least two fronts:
1. Space exploration.
Since Obama made it NASA’s highest priority to promote the contributions of Islam to science and the scrapping of the space shuttle program with no replacements in sight we are still totally dependent on Russia to ferry our astronaut scientists to and from the space station.
Russia is doing the rational thing: Tripling the fees from $22 million to $71 million to transport just one American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard its Soyuz spacecraft in 2016. –
2. Uranium. By selling 20% of our Uranium to Russia via a Canadian Corporation in exchange for a a total of $145 million donations to the Clinton Foundation and a half million dollar speaking fee for Bill Clinton, this has left us vulnerable to extortion, since we are 90% dependent on imported Uranium for our electricity production. The U.S. only have 1.9% of the world’s Uranium resources. Losing control over 20% of the 1.9% means we are now even more vulnerable in our power generation, not to mention national security.
Maybe Hillary really meant “Overcharge” instead of reset? Hillary, as well as Obama seemed to love to give money and influence to our adversaries instead of caring about our economy at home.
We need a major national effort in developing Thorium based Nuclear energy. there is a million year supply of Thorium, as opposed to Uranium, where we are hopelessly reduced to importing 92% or more of our need.
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