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end to the good times. People had become totally con-
scious of security and pleasure.
But suddenly a man of God appears and a booming
voice is heard throughout the land—"The party is
over!" Where did this prophet of God get the audacity
to walk from city to city in his bare feet crying,
Bodies lying everywhere! That's what I see
coming! Multitudes will be slain by plagues. Your
leaders will flee and enemy armies will come
crushing over the breaches in your collapsing
walls. God will remove His protecting care, and all
your feverish plans are in vain—the party is
over—and that is final!
(Isaiah 22:2,3,5,8-11, 14)
This prophet had seen a vision and it frightened him.
He saw enemy armies roaring out of the Negev Desert
to plunder and destroy that great city Babylon. He saw
the bustling harbors of Tyre going up in smoke and pre-
dicted that city would come crashing down in such
chaos it would go into a seventy-year depression. He
saw Jerusalem and Judah being raped by enemy ar-
mies and the once proud inhabitants being paraded na-
ked through foreign city streets. He warned them their
homes would be looted and burned, their wives and
children murdered, and that only a remnant would sur-
vive.

3. Few Will Believe
But who could believe such nonsense? This prophet
of God was called a fanatic and was so maligned and
ridiculed he began to question himself. He said to God,
"They laugh at me and say I speak in parables; but I
know that all you've told me is true." Babylon was de-
stroyed by Elamites and Modes who came swarming in
from the desert; Judah and Jerusalem were carried
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