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Yeah, I saw that one. Sobering, isn’t it?

Seems like whatever this is will not be “blameable” on terrorism or any other human behaviour.

Looks like it matches up with Isaiah 18. I posted this yesterday on another thread:

Isaiah 18

1 Alas, oh land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,
2 Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,
As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it,
And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.
4 For thus the LORD has told me,
“I will look from My dwelling place quietly Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove and cut away the spreading branches.
6 They will be left together for mountain birds of prey, And for the beasts of the earth;
And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.
7 At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts
From a people tall and smooth,
Even from a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even Mount Zion.

Is “whirring wings” a reference to aviation? It did originate here.

The “tall and smooth” has also been translated “tall and smooth-skinned” in several translations as well, and I have since read that “smooth-skinned” could also be interpreted as “fair-skinned.” Dunno.

Whatever He does, it seems it will be in summer. This is the ESV:

“5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,”

I’m confident that “birds of prey,” and “beasts of the earth” are metaphor for demons. Imagine for a moment twenty-five million people not only VERY hungry, but suddenly unable to get their antidepressants. Posessed/out of control? You betcha.... Murder/crime wave from hell, literally.

Looks like we ultimately repent though, perhaps after only a few months to a year (some translations say a summer and a harvest, others a summer and a winter).