captivity of both ‘houses’ for turning away from Him, the ‘house of Judah’ by Babylon, and the ‘house of Israel’ by the Assyrian, likewise, it applies today.

Isa 5:6   And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

     The word ‘waste’ here is a variation of the Hebrew word battah, meaning 'desolation'. Remember the 'abomination of desolation' referred to earlier in Isaiah? This is Satan, sitting in the Temple of God, in Jerusalem. This 'abomination of desolation' is not a condition, for Christ would say in Mark 13:14, "...standing where it ought not...", this word 'it' is in the third person and can be translated 'he, she, or it', so how can a 'condition' stand in the Holy Place? It is Satan who stands in that Holy Place as written in ...2 Thessalonians 2:

 

 Notice that God is telling us that He will allow it to happen, He is in control. The ‘vineyard’ in Jerusalem is going to be’ desolation’. Instead of ‘choice grapes’, it will bear ‘briers and thorns’, which is another reference to Satan and his offspring.

 

Judges 2: Religion is not a gradual evolution to what is higher. But a declension to what is lower.

(Means searching for the deeper meaning of God’s word)

12: And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

 13: Served Baal and Ashtaroth, (ash-taw-roth) Strong’s 6252= the name of a Sidonian deity.

 

Joshua 23:13: Know for certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of those nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish off this good land which the Lord your God  hath given you.

 

Matt.7:15-23 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.23: And then will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me ye that work iniquity.

     In Judges 9, there is a parable of the ‘bramble bush’ (Satan) that offers Judah to make him King over them, if they will come under his ‘shadow’. The biggest problem with that ‘shadow’ is that, a ‘bramble bush’ or a thorn bush doesn’t give much of a shadow, and therefore little protection. The idea of the ‘shadow’ is a ‘covering’. God is a covering to His children that follow Him. He is the True Canopy of protection.
    The reference to ‘rain’ in this verse of Isaiah 5:6 means the ‘latter day rain’ of God’s Spirit of Truth. What happens during a drought? If it lasts long enough, everyone will die of thirst. That’s exactly what is happening today friend, in the spiritual sense. God’s people are hungry for The Christ, The Bread of Life, and they thirst for that True Spiritual Water of God, but they're just too busy looking everywhere else for It, and following every little fad that the Kenites dream up to keep them distracted; man’s little ritual dramas that appear so religious, false pagan holidays like Easter, which is mistranslated from the word pascha, or Passover in the Greek of...

 

Acts 12:4: And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quarternions  of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

 

This is the only place in the KJV that the word Easter appears and is a mistranslation by the KJV translators, and should be; pascha (pas-khah) and means Passover ,(Strong’s Greek 3597.)