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Isaiah 18 and the Future of America

The Destruction In Isaiah 18 Happens In The Future

Isaiah 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

When Will This Happen? When has the whole world ever seen and heard something? It has not done so yet. It is not clear what the ensign is in verse 3 neither is the sounding of the trumpet clearly identified. This has not happened to date but for the whole world to see and hear it will have to be significant. There are only a few things of great significance that might happen before the rapture. One is the destruction of Damascus in the previous chapter; Isaiah 17. Also, if the invasion of Israel described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 came before the rapture it would be significant. In addition, when the anti-Christ signs or confirms a covenant with many as mentioned in Daniel 9:27 it will be globally seen and heard. There may be more but not a lot more. Of the coming great and dreadful things to happen, the rapture is the event we know of that is best described by this. Jesus was a sign or ensign to the nations. We, as his followers, are an ensign to the world. We will be lifted up to heaven. The word used for lifted up is nasa (naw-saw’) (Strong’s word 5375) which is a primitive root; meaning to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows):--accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield. We are not forgiven or pardoned at the rapture but the last generation will be raptured because they are forgiven. Christians will be lifted up and fetched.

1 Corinthians 15:
	51	Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
	52	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
	53	For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1 Thessalonians 4:
	15	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
	16	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
	17	Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

A trumpet will sound for the whole world to hear. When this prophecy was given, trumpets were used for several things. One was to gather the congregation together (Numbers 10:7). When the rapture comes, the congregation will be gathered. In the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25 the cry at midnight said, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him." All the virgins heard the cry. Five virgins were prepared and were accepted. Five were foolish and when they came later they were told, "Verily I say unto you, I know you not." Jesus will say "I know you not" to the unbelievers. The five foolish virgins were unbelievers. They heard the cry at midnight as well. When the rapture comes as a thief in the night, all of the world will hear about it. While I cannot say for sure, verse three appears to mark the rapture as the time when this event happens.

Isaiah 18:5
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

In the northern hemisphere grapes blossom around April. The harvest occurs around the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks of October. Some years it comes earlier. When the sour grape is ripening in the flower, this prophecy will be fulfilled. This could refer to the rapture occurring at this time. The vine and branches that Jesus mentioned at the last supper refer to Jesus and his followers who are removed from the world at the rapture.

John 15:
	1	I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
	2	Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
	3	Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
	4	Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
	5	I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
	6	If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Romans 11 shows that unbelievers were pruned off and the Christian believers were grafted in. When the rapture occurs the vine will be cut off from the world.