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The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape

24Danger ahead! GOD's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying:H3068H776H1238H1110H5753H6440H6327H3427 2priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike.H5971H3548H5650H113H8198H1404H7069H4376H3867H3867H5383H834H5378 3The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because GOD says so. He's issued the orders.H776H1238H1238H962H962H3068H1696H1697 4The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless.H776H56H5034H8398H535H5034H4791H5971H776H535

Earth Polluted by Its Very Own People

5Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant.H776H2610H3427H5674H8451H2498H2706H6565H5769H1285 6Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one.H423H398H776H3427H816H3427H776H2787H4213H582H7604 7No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers.H8492H56H1612H535H8056H3820H584 8The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone.H4885H8596H7673H7588H5947H2308H4885H3658H7673 9No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks.H8354H3196H7892H7941H4843H8354 10The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned.H7151H8414H7665H1004H5462H935 11People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world.H6682H3196H2351H8057H6150H4885H776H1540 12The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble.H5892H7604H8047H8179H3807H7591 13That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes.H7130H776H8432H5971H5363H2132H5955H1210H3615 14But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of GOD's majesty.H5375H6963H7442H1347H3068H6670H3220 15Yes, from the east GOD's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast GOD's fame, the fame of the God of Israel.H3513H3068H217H8034H3068H430H3478H339H3220 16From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats.H3671H776H8085H2158H6643H6662H559H7334H7334H188H898H898H898H899H898 17Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are.H6343H6354H6341H3427H776 18If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling.H5127H6963H6343H5307H6354H5927H8432H6354H3920H6341H699H4791H6605H4146H776H7493 19Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control,H776H7489H7489H776H6565H6565H776H4131H4131 20Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again.H776H5128H5128H7910H5110H4412H6588H3513H5307H6965H3254 21That's when GOD will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth.H3117H3068H6485H6635H4791H4791H4428H127H127 22They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor.H622H616H626H953H5462H4525H7230H3117H6485 23Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.H3842H2659H2535H954H3068H6635H4427H2022H6726H3389H2205H3519


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