Damascus was one of the places the Apostles traveled to. This is to say there was a Northern Israelite population there. The faith there today is in part established by the Apostles themselves.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
The cities of Aroer would be the cities north of Mount Hermon on the Syrian side of the mountain range. Mount Hermon is Israel's only winter ski and snowboard resort. It sits in the Golan Heights at the height of 9000 feet above sea level. This land does not belong to Judah. However Israel (Judah) targets Northwestern Syria with their fighter jets. What is interesting is another two verses in Isaiah. These flicks are more than just sheep.
Behold, Adonai Yahuah will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the Lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Isaiah 40:10-11
I believe it will be Syrian Christians that will repopulate western Syria, not Jews.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the Children of Israel, saith Yahuah of Hosts.
Ephraim and the Syrian nation will become allies in the midst of attacks and the loss of nationhood and life. However they will be equal to that of Judea called Israel.
4-6 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvestman gatherers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Yahuah Elohiym of Israel. (Israel as in all the Tribes, not just Judah)
In these three verses we see that it is the time of Jacobs Trouble. We also see that it compares with the third seal in Revelation 6. The cost of living will be a days work for a days amount of food. This is what happens when the nation was destroyed by it's Enemy. This will not be the only part of the world where the Destroyer will crash their economy.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Notice how this verse is written. The Maker is Elohiym. The Holy One of Israel is Yahusha Hamashia. This verse didn't say the Holy One of Judah. Northern Israelite nations today worship Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
This is saying that they will not look to the Temple System in Jerusalem or Druidic type teachings. The name English comes from Ephraim's nickname, Bullock Man.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the Children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
This is an interesting verse if you know history. The upper most branch was King Zedekiah's daughter Princess Teia. She was taken to Ireland by the Prophet Jeremiah. She became High Queen of Northern Israelites in western Europe. She married into the Northern Israelite Kingdom of the Western Isles. She is the ancestor of Kings and Queens including Yahusha Hamashia son of the Virgin Mary. The Northern Israelites are the House of Israel. The Children of Israel is usually talking about Judah. Judah today is called Israel. I believe this is also connected with the Abomination of Desolation.
10-11 Because you have forgotten the Elohiym of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips: In the day shalt you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
The Jews rejected Yahusha Hamashia, their salvation. The Jews have come back to Judea and changed the land from sand and rock to that of a garden that exports food. But their Messiah will betray them. The Abomination of Desolation will be placed in their Temple. Their fields of produce will be destroyed. Jews will flee to the wilderness.
12-14 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but Yahuah shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
I believe this is the destruction of Babylon of Revelation. It's the destruction of the Government that will betray the Jews of Israel. Also I see the book of Daniel in this when the Idol was destroyed on the ten toes of iron mixed with clay. The people that was robbed in the beginning of this chapter was Northern Israelites and Syrians. The Children of Israel will be robbed also. Nations against the Jewish people, including their leader that will betray them will be destroyed.
