Prophecy against the “Valley of Vision”, the Lord asks, “What’s the problem now?!”

Isaiah 22:1-4

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
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“The burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops, you who are full of noise, a tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.” Isaiah 22:1-2

The prophecy is against the “Valley of Vision”, referring to Jerusalem, the land of the prophets, the seat of divine revelation, and where God manifested himself in the most Holy place. Jerusalem was also known for killing their own prophets, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37 While we know Jerusalem was on a hill, as it is today, the “Valley of Vision” is believed to refer to the “Valley of Hinnom”, a valley within Jerusalem.

Today, the Jewish people have provoked prophecy against Jerusalem, the modern-day Jerusalem of Israel in the State of Israel. They have “killed” the prophets by not believing the vision given from the Spirit of God that Jesus is the Christ and Son of God. Likewise, today’s global culture have “killed” the vision that God has given through the Holy Bible. Instead of living for God by the Spirit through Jesus Christ, they live for the beast that gives them what to speak, do think, and feel. By being given what to say and do, there is no place in the heart for the inspiration and vision given through the Bible by the Holy Spirit. The beast gives breath/life to the image of the beast to speak by speaking and living through people. By what they are given to say and do , they are groomed to the mark, name, number of the beast.

“What ails you now?” is exactly what it sounds like, which would be translated in everyday language as, “What’s the problem now?” Among other things, the people would go up to the housetops to cry out to God and also to seek escape from the dangers below. As our Lord Jesus is quoted, “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.” Matthew 24:15-17 Click for a post from Matthew 24:15-22 on the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel.

The Israelites were given everything they needed for staying in the will of God. They had the prophets speaking from the Spirit of God, they had the Ten Commandments, they had the animal sacrifices to keep them mindful of the atonement necessary for sin, and they had a heritage of the hand of God working on their behalf. Even so, they turned away from all of that, and when problems came, they cried out to God, not in repentance but more to say, “Woe is me!” “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10

Today, we have the Bible filled with visions and prophecies about the hardships, sufferings, and tribulations in the world today and yet to come in the global tribulation, like this world has never known before, as our lord Jesus says, “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world…” Matthew 24:21 Even so, Christ Jesus did not come to remove us from this world, but to sanctify us in difficult times, “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” John 17:15-17 “Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.” 1 Peter 4:12-14

As followers of Jesus Christ, we don’t want to be among those whom the Lord says, “What’s the problem now!?” Let us be among those who say, with Habakkuk, “Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls—Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength…” Habakkuk 3:17-19

Today, Israel has a ton of problems, and its all because they rejected Jesus as the the Christ and Son of God 2000 years ago. Since 1948, when Israel was declared to be the State of Israel, they have been in 19 wars. Click here for a list of those wars. The Lord says to them, “…you who are full of noise, a tumultuous city, a joyous city?” If the Jewish people would have said “Yes!” to Jesus those many years ago, the State of Israel would not exist today, and neither would the Jewish people as a distinct culture in the world, as quoted, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:28-29 As followers of Jesus Christ, we do not have a country on this earth to call our own, we are in every country around the world. We are all different colors and speak different languages, but we all belong to Christ. Our nation is the eternal New Jerusalem, in the new heaven and earth.

When the Lord hears the Jewish people, from their “rooftops”, saying, “Woe is me!” about their plight, He says, “What’s the problem now!” His reply to them is this, “See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you will see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ” Matthew 23:38-39

The death of the Jewish people is not the death experienced in their many wars, but rather the death brought by the sword of their unbelief. They have experienced a death to the belief of the word of God, their prophets, and are dead in their sin instead of being alive in Christ Jesus, as the Lord says to them, “Your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.” “It is the sword that slays, the sword that slays the great men, that enters their private chambers.” Ezekiel 21:14 Click here for the post on Ezekiel 21.

Today, people are dying in cities all over the world, dying by the sword that slays by entering into the private chambers. The private chambers is the heart and soul, and the sword is of the beast. The beast has power over physiology to give people what to speak, do, think, and feel, and the beast brings death to belief in God, death to Jesus Christ, and death to the Holy Spirit.

“All your rulers have fled together; They are captured by the archers. All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar. Therefore I said, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me
because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.” Isaiah 22:3-4

The Jewish people no longer have any rulers to lead them to Jesus Christ so that they can live as the temple of the Holy Spirit. The same as today, as there are no leaders to lead people to believe God through Jesus Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit. The rulers are captured by the “archers”, the archer being the beast that slays from within the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors.

The Jewish people are bound together as a single culture, instead of being one family in Jesus Christ, a family of many different colors and nay languages, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.“ Galatians 3:28 That is the same of today’s culture, which is global, being bound together. They are united by the beast that synchronizes them in every city around the world by giving them what to speak, do, think, and feel.

Rulers to uplift God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are no where to be found among the Jewish culture. The same is true for today’s global culture, “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelations 13:8 The “him” in that verse is the beast of the image and mark of the beast. For that reason, the Lord says, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me because of the
plundering of the daughter of my people.”

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11