I don’t have time to go into all the details now. The fulfillment of Isaiah 17 regarding Damascus is found, in part, in II Kings 16:5-18.
Tiglath-Pileser III.
It's interesting to me how the current dispensational interpretation with the oracle against Damascus had become accepted dogma among them. I first heard it 5 or 6 years ago. I suspect no-one thought this twenty years ago.
“It’s interesting to me how the current dispensational interpretation with the oracle against Damascus had become accepted dogma among them. I first heard it 5 or 6 years ago. I suspect no-one thought this twenty years ago.”
I’d bet that’s because 20 years ago people were still fixated on this idea that all the end-time boogeyman stuff involved the revived Holy Roman Empire, such was the power of Hal Lindsay’s “Late Great Planet Earth.”
I used to believe that stuff. Not anymore. Not since my eyes were opened to the truth exemplified by these two passages:
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end...Daniel 12:4
And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand. Revelation 22:10
If the time of the end were at hand 2,000 years ago, it cannot be at hand today. If Dispensationalists and Futurists are right, then the eschatology of Christ and the apostles is wrong.
And if Christ is wrong, then He is not who He claimed to be.