While others have expanded on the relationship between the shemitah year and harbingers, our discussion will concentrate on the words that are found in the scriptures themselves, in order that we might come to see that which lies ahead. Each judgment of YAH is circumscribed with the phrase that his hand is stretched out still.
First are the gathering of the enemies:
Yesha'yahu (Isaiah) 9:11-12
Therefore YAHUAH shall set up the adversaries of Retsiyn against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Pelishtiym behind; and they shall devour את (eth)-Yisra’el with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Two things are important in this verse, whether or not we find Retsiyn, or the Pelishitiym, which is that YAHUAH shall set up the adversaries against him, and join his enemies together.
Since September 2001, ask yourself whether YAHUAH has set up adversaries against us, and has joined our enemies together. Consider the acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Are they rising as adversaries and enemies?
The next event to follow is the departure of the ancient and the honorable, and the prophets which teach lies. The new leaders take Yitzra’el into error and destruction, and there will be no mercy upon this people during this time.
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 9:13-17
For the people turns not unto him that smites them, neither do they seek YAHUAH TSEVA’OT. 14 Therefore YAHUAH will cut off from Yisra’el head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore ADONAI shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Look what happens when the ancient and the honorable depart. The common morality of the nation disappears; the self-restraint of the people disappears, and 'each man for himself' becomes the dogma. Our leadership is leading us to error and bringing us to destruction. The failure to repent from the doctrine adopted in the harbinger verse continues to bring this judgment. Yet, his hand is stretched out still.
Given the failure to repent, let us see what is to follow:
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 9:18-21
For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the wrath of YAHUAH TSEVA’OT is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Menashsheh, את (eth)-Ephrayim; and Ephrayim, את (eth)-Menashsheh: and they together shall be against Yahudah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
First, we have the rise of wickedness, which rises as a fire, which devours the briars and thorns (the leaders of non-believers), and kindles in the thickets of the forest (the mass of the non-believers). The wickedness mounts up over the world like the lifting up of smoke.
Consider the advancement by the government of the United States of the policies of abortion and the privileges of the LGBTQ community. This wickedness has mounted up over the whole earth as the lifting up of a noxious smoke.
Next in the order of things is the darkening of the land through the wrath of YAHUAH TSEVA’OT. The spiritual light of America is to be greatly dimmed, as the nation falls into apostasy and spiritual darkness, marked by a rise in secularism, atheism, rebellion, and a kindled hatred against the tenets of faith. Practitioners of the one truth faith are now being labeled as domestic terrorists and enemies of the state. Darkness is setting in over the land.
As this occurs, financial deprivation is also established. The value of life is greatly diminished (they shall be as the fuel of the fire). It shall be every man for himself. The desperation shall be so great that even the thief shall take on the right hand and remain hungry, and shall obtain through parasitism food on the left hand which shall also leave him hungry. The passage goes on to say that they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: Finally, all alliances within the English-speaking world will collapse as they will become competitors (every man for himself again) and will together abandoned the nation of Israel (Yahudah). When this has occurred, consider that the passage ends with the phrase: For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.