Ariel - The Lion of God - Jerusalem

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Ariel - The Lion of God - Jerusalem

Tag: Words From The Wise — Sage @ 9:50 am

ISAIAH 29: 1-3 
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add ye year to year: let them kill sacrifices. 
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto Me as Ariel. 
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

Ariel – the lion of God – another name for Jerusalem where David dwelled [v1-7].

Let years go by and sacrifices be killed, yet this will not cancel the judgment that is determined upon Jerusalem.

Jerusalem will yet be unto Me as Ariel, the lion of God.

This refers to the siege of Jerusalem at the battle of Armageddon when the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, the women ravished, and half the city captured [v2-4; Zech.14].

That it has a latter day fulfillment is clear from the fact that the invaders would destroy by thunder, earthquake, great noise, storm, tempest, and devouring fire [v5-6].

This did not happen when Assyria invaded Judah and surrounded Jerusalem. At that time an angel killed 185,000 men with a sword, but not by these other means [Isa.36:1-37; 38].

Neither did these things happen when Babylon [2Ki.25] and Rome destroyed the city [Lk.21:20=24].

It is definitely stated in Ezekiel 38:17-23 [show/hide] that the Lord will destroy Antichrist’s armies at Armageddon with a great earthquake, pestilence, blood, overflowing rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

In 2 Thes.1:7-10 flaming fire is mentioned as destroying the wicked at this time; and in Rev. 16:17-21 [show/hide] a great earthquake is referred to as destroying many at the same time.

There is no time in history or in prophecy that v5-6 has been or will be fulfilled other than at Armageddon.

At Armageddon and even 1,260 days before this, Jerusalem will be taken over by Antichrist; and Israel will be brought low in the dust of defeat as predicted here [Dan.9:27; Mt.24:15-22; 2 Th.2:1-4; Rev.12:13].

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