The New Church believes that Isaiah 17 refers to those who place religion in nothing but knowing knowledges (Damascus) and they are to be "destroyed". This knowledge will be serviceable to the New Church and the knowledge of knowledges will be rare but are to be instructed by the Lord. Finally, those who do not suffer themselves to be instructed by the Lord will lack all things, and will seize upon falsities.
Your posts on this thread are spot on based on my prayerful meditations. I see it as we are in creation week with a 'wedding' coming up. I'm avoiding all negative thoughts and directing all my focus and attention inward and upward.
"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Phillipians 3:14)
Upward is so wonderfull when I can see through the clutter of the inward,if you get my drift.
Coo Coo for Coco Puffs. Seriously dude.
Amen ! it is the month of Feasts ! Especially the day of Atonement !