The Seize of Jerusalem

There is a very major prophecy regarding the city of Jerusalem. A point in time is given to us, with regard to that city’s “seizure,” in Isaiah 7. That point in time is important because it is a “anchor point in time,” that can be used to determine when the rest of the events would unfold. It is also intended to be another “sign” of the correct time to get ready for the coming of the Messianic Age, of the Messiah.

The prophecy of Isaiah 7 describes a specific number of years that the “seize of Jerusalem” would occur, and what would happen at the end of those years. It says that after 65 years, the people who had seized Jerusalem would no longer be a People.

It’s important to know whether or not this prophecy has occurred because it is an introduction to the Messianic Age, and it comes with a terrible wallop. There have been several “seizes” of Jerusalem through history. None of them fit the description of what would happen to the people who seized Jerusalem, and none of them lasted 65 years, including the one that Christians favor, in 70 CE.

These are the years of various controlling parties of Jerusalem, since writing developed.
Antiquity (prehistory - 1000 BCE) Egyptian control, as far as anyone really knows.
Israelite Kingdoms (1000 BCE - 580 BCE) King David and Solomon, and other Biblical Accounts, none of which can be established as real history.

Restoration and the Hasmonean era (580 BCE – 6 CE) Cyrus the Great of Persia grants permission for the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild it. That can be confirmed elsewhere in history, and can also be the birth of “Jew-daism,” because the people who returned to Jerusalem thought that they were part of the “house of Judah,” which rightfully controlled Jerusalem.

Roman and Byzantine rule (6 CE - 638 CE) undisputed history, and not even close to the 65-year seize described.
Arab Caliphates and Christian Crusaders (638-1300s)
Mameluks and early Ottoman rule (1300s-1800s)
Late Ottoman Period (1800s-1917)
British Mandate (1917-1948)
Last Seize of Jerusalem (1948-2013)

“On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly approved a plan which partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine into two states: one Jewish and one Arab. Each state would be composed of three major sections, linked by extraterritorial crossroads, plus an Arab enclave at Jaffa. The Greater Jerusalem area would fall under international control. After partition, the fight for Jerusalem escalated, with heavy casualties among both fighters and civilians on the British, Jewish, and Arab sides. By the end of March, 1948, just before the British withdrawal, and with the British increasingly reluctant to intervene, the roads to Jerusalem were cut off by Arab irregulars, placing the Jewish population of the city under siege. The siege was eventually broken, though massacres of civilians occurred on both sides, before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War began with the end of the British Mandate in May of 1948.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jerusalem
That article says that the “seize ended,” but it didn’t end because it’s still being occupied by the state of Israel and the Jewish population of immigrants who now live there.
And that is why we are currently getting our butts pounded.

The prophecy of Isaiah tells us that there would be two groups of people who would “seize Jerusalem.” One would be mighty, and be followers of “Immanuel,” and they would support the others, as they planned their take over of Jerusalem. A “king” would come to the assistance of the people who rightfully owned the land of Jerusalem, and steal the world’s wealth in his resistance to the take over of Jerusalem. That king is known in the prophecy as the “king of Assyria.”

According to the prophecy, our butts are going to get pounded so hard that we decide that the control of Jerusalem isn’t really that important to us.
And that’s a prelude to what the prophecy is really about.