> [!title|noicon] **The Final Sifting of the World: The Gathering of the Late Harvest** <font size=4>&nbsp;&nbsp;7.8.2026 (*last updated 8.23.2026*) &nbsp;&nbsp;Recommended to read [The Final Call of Jonah](Final%20Jonah%20Call.md) first.</font> &ZeroWidthSpace; *And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled.* ([Lk 14:23](Luke%2014.md#^23)) *And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.* ([Mt 24:30](Matthew%2024.md#^30)) *The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.* ([Mt 13:41](Matthew%2013.md#^41), [42](Matthew%2013.md#^42), [43](Matthew%2013.md#^43)) *And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.* ([Mt 24:31](Matthew%2024.md#^31)) *And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.* ([Mt 21:44](Matthew%2021.md#^44)) &ZeroWidthSpace; The final proclamation of the Word and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory are not separate, conflicting events; they are two dimensions of a singular, sovereign movement ([Tit 2:13](Titus%202.md#^13)). This closing era is the spiritual battlefield of history -- unfolding not in a physical valley, but within the human heart and conscience ([Lk 17:21](Luke%2017.md#^21)). The resurrection of the pure Word (the Two Witnesses in [Rev 11:11](Revelation%2011.md#^11)) acts as a two-natured decree: it is a beacon of sweet, redeeming life to the elect ([2 Cor 2:15](2%20Corinthians%202.md#^15), [16](2%20Corinthians%202.md#^16)), and a mirror of unyielding truth that exposes the darkness of a rebellious world ([Jn 3:19](John%203.md#^19), [20](John%203.md#^20)). While the Kingdom of God does not arrive with outward, physical signs for carnal eyes to track ([Lk 17:20](Luke%2017.md#^20)), its deep spiritual weight has great eternal impact upon the earth. &ZeroWidthSpace; **I. THE DUAL-NATURED DECREE: HEART-BREAKING GRACE VS. SOVEREIGN HARDENING** The quickening power of the final Gospel call divides the human landscape into two distinct, internal reactions ([Heb 4:12](Hebrews%204.md#^12)). The pure Truth cannot be met with neutrality; it either humbles the soul into brokenness ([Jer 23:29](Jeremiah%2023.md#^29)) or seals the heart in defensive pride ([Zech 7:12](Zechariah%207.md#^12)). - The Repentance of the Multitude: For the scattered elect, the unsealed Word falls as a crushing yet merciful weight. It shatters decades of worldly conditioning and institutional religion, provoking sudden, deep repentance ([Acts 2:37](Acts%202.md#^37)). Stripped of personal pride, these souls abandon the vanity of earthly pursuits to sit in the spiritual sackcloth and ashes of absolute surrender ([Jonah 3:5](Jonah%203.md#^5), [6](Jonah%203.md#^6)). - The Spiritual Freeze of the World: Conversely, for those who reject the Truth, the same message triggers a complete withdrawal of internal restraint ([Rom 1:18-32](Romans%201.md); [2 Thess 2:11](2%20Thessalonians%202.md#^11), [12](2%20Thessalonians%202.md#^12)). Rather than bowing, the secular masses react with either intensified spiritual indifference or agitation, digging into their own autonomy and descending into a reprobate mind ([2 Tim 3:8](2%20Timothy%203.md#^8)). They actively suppress the Truth in unrighteousness, causing iniquity to abound and human love to grow cold ([Rom 1:18-32](Romans%201.md); [Mt 24:12](Matthew%2024.md#^12)). &ZeroWidthSpace; **II. THE SOVEREIGN SHIFT: THE NINEVITE FULFILLMENT** This spiritual division operates globally, following ancestral patterns that reveal a distinct shift in the harvest field ([Mt 21:43](Matthew%2021.md#^43)). - The Awakening of the Outcasts: The rapid, drop-everything repentance modeled by Nineveh finds a major focal point among fields traditionally deemed far from the Covenant of Grace -- specifically regions historically linked to Ham and Ishmael across the East, Africa, and Asia ([Isa 11:11](Isaiah%2011.md#^11), [12](Isaiah%2011.md#^12); [60:7](Isaiah%2060.md#^7); [Jer 49:39](Jeremiah%2049.md#^39); [Mt 8:11](Matthew%208.md#^11), [12](Matthew%208.md#^12)). On a spiritual level, *Ham* represents raw human vulnerability exposed under the weight of sin ([Gen 9:22](Genesis%209.md#^22)), while *Ishmael* represents the complete exhaustion of trying to manufacture righteousness through human works ([Gen 16:12](Genesis%2016.md#^12); [Gal 4:22-25](Galatians%204.md)). Wherever a heart occupies this broken spiritual territory, the Gospel brings an immediate awakening, drawing out an innumerable multitude ([Rev 7:9](Revelation%207.md#^9)). - The Slumber of the West: Corporate structures and nations long saturated with spiritual privilege, having systematically despised and rejected the Word in their midst, fall more deeply into a heavy, paralyzing spirit of deep slumber and blindness ([Rom 11:7](Romans%2011.md#^7), [8](Romans%2011.md#^8); [Isa 29:10-14](Isaiah%2029.md)). Any observation (if there is any) of a mass turning to God in other parts of the world would be viewed through a lens of progressive, intellectual hardness, dismissing genuine brokenness as the result of ignorant fables or emotional instability ([1 Cor 1:18-23](1%20Corinthians%201.md)). - The Veil of Geopolitical Hostility: Because this global awakening flourishes within borders politically categorized as backwards or volatile, the secular world would misinterpret a supernatural move of God as a mere geopolitical movement ([Acts 28:22](Acts%2028.md#^22)). Political and cultural barriers will serve as an excuse to ignore the harvest occurring right before their eyes. - The Unbroken Law of Grace: However, geography does not bind the election of grace ([Rom 9:15](Romans%209.md#^15), [16](Romans%209.md#^16)). The final call of the Gospel yet searches out and extracts the individual remnant from every tongue, tribe, and nation ([Rev 5:9](Revelation%205.md#^9); [Isa 66:18](Isaiah%2066.md#^18), [19](Isaiah%2066.md#^19)). While corporate systems are left to their worldly delusions, individual hearts are sovereignly gathered and grafted back into the Life of the Word ([Rom 11:23](Romans%2011.md#^23)). &ZeroWidthSpace; **III. THE COUNTERFEIT REFUGE AND THE SUDDEN SILENCE** Dead religious systems and "no-salvation" groups undergo a similar spiritual hardening, weaponizing their entrenched biblical knowledge to oppose the living movement of the Spirit ([2 Tim 3:5](2%20Timothy%203.md#^5)). - The Shield of Intellectual Pride: These groups double down on exclusionary or historical claims, using academic or technicalized spiritual consensus logic as a shield to insulate themselves from the global harvest happening outside of their institutional gates ([Lk 11:52](Luke%2011.md#^52)). As the undeniable evidence of the awakening grows, their mockery turns into deep internal vexation ([Acts 5:33](Acts%205.md#^33)). They exhaust their energy policing their borders and attacking the message of mercy. - The Haman Collapse: Eventually, this frantic defense fails when the sheer majesty of the true harvest becomes completely undeniable. Like Haman when his plot was exposed to the king, the overwhelming Authority of the Second Decree of Life strips away their arguments, rendering them permanently covered and speechless in a terrifying spiritual darkness ([Est 7:8](Esther%207.md#^8); [Mt 22:12](Matthew%2022.md#^12)). The very legal labor they invested into locking the door of heaven becomes the precise weight that crushes their legitimacy ([Est 7:9](Esther%207.md#^9), [10](Esther%207.md#^10)). - The Sieve of Absolute Preservation: The visible house of religious profession must undergo a violent shaking to extract the true wheat remaining within dead systems ([Amos 9:9](Amos%209.md#^9)). While those who trusted in corporate settings are cut off, the sovereign sieve guarantees that every individual true grain of wheat left within is legally separated, accounted for, and eternally preserved ([Jn 10:28](John%2010.md#^28), [29](John%2010.md#^29)). Not one grain of the elect falls into the common ground of destruction. &ZeroWidthSpace; **IV. THE FRICTION OF ETERNITY AND THE SIEVE OF VANITY** As history nears its absolute boundary, the secular and illusory frameworks of human society either fracture or increase in busy intensity under the weight of an encroaching eternal state, that is, Christ's Presence through the Word like never before ([Hag 2:6](Haggai%202.md#^6), [7](Haggai%202.md#^7); [Heb 12:26](Hebrews%2012.md#^26)). - The Snare of Routine: Society clings heavily to its daily routines, regardless how stressful for many, to suppress an existential dread ([Mt 24:37](Matthew%2024.md#^37), [38](Matthew%2024.md#^38), [39](Matthew%2024.md#^39); [Lk 17:26-30](Luke%2017.md#^26)). They frame a deeply spiritual movement as a sociological issue, entirely blind to the fact that their departure from the Word has triggered an internal collapse of the heart. - The Awareness of the Magicians: The world may identify the unsealed Word of God as the source disruption. Like Pharaoh’s magicians who watched the plagues and confessed, *"This is the finger of God,"* their recognition fails to produce humility ([Exo 8:19](Exodus%208.md#^19)). Because they see the Truth as a threat to their daily lives, they aggressively suppress it more than ever ([Rev 11:10](Revelation%2011.md#^10)). - The Urgent Ejection: The broken repentance of the elect becomes an intolerable torment and annoyance to the collective conscience of a hardened world ([1 Kings 18:17](1%20Kings%2018.md#^17)). Unable to bear the Light, like the Egyptians seeking to eject the Israelites from their midst, society seeks to isolate, silence, and eject the true believers from their midst to protect their false peace ([Exo 12:33](Exodus%2012.md#^33); [Lk 4:28](Luke%204.md#^28), [29](Luke%204.md#^29)). - The Bridle in the Jaws: This act of ejection sets the final trap for the world's undoing. Mimicking Pharaoh as he pursued the evicted Israelites, the world shifts into an irrational, aggressive pursuit to force compliance ([Exo 14:4-8](Exodus%2014.md)). They believe they are acting from their own wisdom, but God judicially uses their maneuvers as a bridle in their jaws, steering them directly into the trap of total liquidation at the Red Sea of terminal history ([Isa 37:29](Isaiah%2037.md#^29); [Ezek 38:4](Ezekiel%2038.md#^4)). &ZeroWidthSpace; **V. THE POSTURE OF THE ELECT: IMMOVABLE VICTORY** Despite religious mockery and social ejection, the final position of the believer is one of absolute, unmediated victory in Christ ([Rom 8:37](Romans%208.md#^37); [1 Cor 15:57](1%20Corinthians%2015.md#^57)). - Standing for Life: This stand directly mirrors the victory of Esther. Empowered by the King's Second Decree, the elect do not cower or flee ([Est 8:11](Esther%208.md#^11)). This posture portends no physical mobilization or human weapons; the standing of the believer is an immovable, quiet posture of faith and prayer under the legal protection of God's Decree ([Eph 6:13](Ephesians%206.md#^13), [14](Ephesians%206.md#^14)), while the systemic hardening of the world remains a sovereign act of God ([Exo 14:13](Exodus%2014.md#^13), [14](Exodus%2014.md#^14)). - The Two-Edged Sword of Truth: The elect are armed strictly with the resurrected Word of God -- a verbal and theological sword that pierces the conscience ([Eph 6:17](Ephesians%206.md#^17); [Heb 4:12](Hebrews%204.md#^12)). They execute vengeance not with human hands, but by declaring the uncompromised Truth of a completed judgment ([Rev 2:26](Revelation%202.md#^26), [27](Revelation%202.md#^27); [Ps 149:6-9](Psalm%20149.md)). This triggers a mass spiritual migration where thousands drop their lifelong secular identities to align with the King of Grace ([Zech 8:23](Zechariah%208.md#^23)). To the carnal world, this looks like an epidemic of irrational psychological departure, but it is the irresistible weight of the King's Authority drawing His own ([Jn 6:44](John%206.md#^44)). - Sovereign Patience: True believers navigate the infrastructure of this world with detached, clear-eyed sobriety ([Lk 21:19](Luke%2021.md#^19)). They stand securely inside the "Goshen Example," ([Exo 9:26](Exodus%209.md#^26), [10:23b](Exodus%2010.md#^23)) resting upon the Word as a sure foundation while the outside world panics and drives wheel-less chariots into a melting sea. They wait out the spiritual storm in quietness and confidence, knowing the adversary is already hanging on his own gallows ([Est 7:10](Esther%207.md#^10)). &ZeroWidthSpace; **VI. THE SUDDEN COURTROOM: FROM BIBLICAL TEXT TO TESTIMONY** The transition of the Jonah Call represents a definitive shift from the Word studied to the Word (Christ) Manifested. The days of quiet, academic tracking of biblical prophecies finalize; the timeline shifts from a classroom into a courtroom where the gavel is actively falling ([Rev 20:11](Revelation%2020.md#^11), [12](Revelation%2020.md#^12)). - The Universal Shockwave: The resurrected Word hits the earth as an spiritual atmospheric invasion of pure Light, bypassing human time-barriers to collide directly with the human conscience ([2 Thess 2:8](2%20Thessalonians%202.md#^8)). For the broken heart, it acts as a fire that melts the soul into immediate repentance ([Jer 23:29](Jeremiah%2023.md#^29)); for the proud, counterfeit camps and the world, it acts as a hammer that shatters their concrete blocks of entrenched knowledge, rendering them permanently speechless at the end ([Mt 22:12](Matthew%2022.md#^12)). - The Eleventh-Hour Leveling: Mirroring the Vineyard Laborers, the sudden outcasts and Ninevites who come to the text with no institutional baggage rapidly overtake long-term professors in spiritual lucidity ([Amo 9:13](Amos%209.md#^13)). In this short work, religious intellect and the pride of seniority have no room; they produce only blindness ([Mt 11:25](Matthew%2011.md#^25), [26](Matthew%2011.md#^26)). - The Unsealed Mysteries: The Holy Spirit directly illuminates the existing biblical text with overwhelming, rapid velocity, pulling back the remaining layers of the Bible ([Dan 12:4](Daniel%2012.md#^4); [Rev 10:4](Revelation%2010.md#^4)). This hyper-acceleration executes the scriptural fulfillment of the "seven thunders" and "unspeakable words" once hidden from view ([Rev 10:3](Revelation%2010.md#^3), [4](Revelation%2010.md#^4); [2 Cor 12:4](2%20Corinthians%2012.md#^4)). It is not a call of extra-biblical dreams or visions, but the raw, uninhibited authority of the Finished Work hitting the conscience at once. &ZeroWidthSpace; **VII. THE CROSS MIRROR: THE CONSUMMATION OF THE FINISHED WORK** The final 400-day sifting period is the literal unrolling of the scroll to the elect and the rolling up of the material universe to the carnal world ([Rev 5:1-5](Revelation%205.md); [Isa 34:4](Isaiah%2034.md#^4)). This era directly mirrors the crucifixion of Christ as the structural center of the universe ([Gal 6:14](Galatians%206.md#^14)). - The Two Thieves: The Cross was the ultimate historical sifting line, and the final call replicates its spiritual geometry. The repentant thief -- a man of raw crime with no religious credentials -- delivered an eleventh-hour cry of surrender and was received instantly without preconditions ([Lk 23:40-43](Luke%2023.md)). He is the perfect type of the Ninevite multitude. The mocking thief, hanging directly next to the Living Word, used his remaining breath to demand carnal signs and protect his pride, mirroring the counterfeit camps and the world who use the letter of the Bible or the delusions of the world to remain in blindness ([Lk 23:39](Luke%2023.md#^39)). - The Rent Veil and Midnight Darkness: The historical Cross in 33 AD was a judicial demonstration -- a legal declaration of a mercy already settled in eternity ([Heb 4:3](Hebrews%204.md#^3)). The final call is the terminal moment where that same veil is not merely pierced, but completely rolls away as a scroll to reveal the King who was slain from the foundation of the world ([Mt 27:45](Matthew%2027.md#^45), [51](Matthew%2027.md#^51); [Rev 6:14](Revelation%206.md#^14), [13:8](Revelation%2013.md#^8)). - The Extinction of the Scaffolding: Those devoid of the Living Word are structurally welded to a temporary, failing creation ([1 Jn 2:17](1%20John%202.md#^17)). As eternity safe encroaches morning by morning, the physical veil rolls up like an old curtain, and those without an internal anchor are shaken out along with the scenery, dissolving into non-existence the instant history terminates ([Ps 102:26](Psalm%20102.md#^26); [Heb 1:11](Hebrews%201.md#^11), [12](Hebrews%201.md#^12); [2 Pet 3:10](2%20Peter%203.md#^10)). &ZeroWidthSpace; The 400-day harvest is the final vibration of the Finished Work of Christ. True spiritual understanding remains a sovereign gift of the Holy Spirit -- a "Day Star" arising in the heart ([2 Pet 1:19](2%20Peter%201.md#^19)), providing an internal light that shines clearer than the noonday while the refuge of lies is clean dissolved in the twinkling of an eye ([Isa 28:17](Isaiah%2028.md#^17); [1 Cor 15:52](1%20Corinthians%2015.md#^52)). --- **APPENDIX I (8.23.2026): THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON** The Battle of Armageddon, the Final Gospel Call, and the Valley of Decision are different lenses of the singular, terminal event of history -- where Christ's Decree of Life (Grace) completely overrules, vacates, and decimates the decree of death from the Law for the elect while bringing judgment upon the unsaved world. &ZeroWidthSpace; **I. The Weapon of the Battle: The Resurrected Word** The battlefield of Armageddon is the human conscience throughout the world, and the primary weapon is the *sharp two-edged sword of Christ’s mouth* -- the pure Word of God. This battle is officially triggered when the *"spirit of life from God"* enters the Two Witnesses (the Law and the Prophets/the pure Word), causing the Gospel declaration to once again stand upon its feet, but in pure power like never before. The Word ceases to be a text for gradual study and becomes an active protagonist in history. It acts as a crushing spiritual weight, a *"fire and a hammer"* that shatters carnal structures, and an inescapable spiritual "lightning" that flashes globally to gather the elect. &ZeroWidthSpace; **II. "The Nations Were Angry" -- The Torment of the Report** The anger of the nations is a pivotal characteristic. [Revelation 11:18](Revelation%2011.md#^18) explicitly links this anger directly to the moment of final judgment: _"And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged..."_ &ZeroWidthSpace; This anger is the immediate psychological and spiritual reaction of the carnal mind when confronted by the resurrected Word. It manifests on two fronts: 1. **The Vexation of the News:** To those who trusted in their own earthly wisdom and twisted "dark sentences" to declare that the door of mercy was closed (the corporate religious systems and "no-salvation" camps), the report of ongoing salvation and the sight of the "Ninevite" multitude repenting globally becomes an inescapable torment and vexation. They are enraged because God's sovereign mercy exposes their complex religious systems as a false delusion. 2. **The Wine Cup of Fury and Madness:** As outlined in Jeremiah 25, the nations are forced to drink the "wine cup of this fury" -- the unmitigated Law's demand for payment. [Jeremiah 25:16](Jeremiah%2025.md#^16) states that upon drinking it, the nations shall *"be moved, and be mad, because of the sword"* sent among them. Driven "mad" by the brightness of the resurrected Word, they are left to wring out and drink the bitter dregs of their own unmerciful logic. &ZeroWidthSpace; **III. The Valley of Decision: The Ultimate Separation of Jurisdictions** The Valley of Decision ([Joel 3:14](Joel%203.md#^14)) is the same as the Valley of Jehoshaphat"** ([Joel 3:2](Joel%203.md#^2)), which spiritually translates to the Valley of Judgment. - **Multitudes in the Valley:** [Joel 3:14](Joel%203.md#^14) declares, _"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision"_. This valley is the designated spiritual arena of the final sifting; namely, the entire world. It is the place where God pleads with all flesh face-to-face regarding His Finished Work. - **The Sinking of High Places:** A valley is a low place. To bring the nations down into the Valley of Judgment represents the *liquidation of all intellectual forts*, high mountains of human pride, and corporate religious systems (typified by Vashti in Esther) that exalted themselves against the knowledge of God. Every carnal "mountain" is flattened into a plain, exposing the raw, unadorned spiritual state of every heart before the Judge ([Isa 40:4](Isaiah%2040.md#^4)). - **The Decision (Sifting):** The word "decision" in this valley does not refer to humans making a choice; it represents the *Sovereign, Judicial Decision* of the King. In this valley, the resurrected Word acts as a "twoedged sword" that metes out and divides the human race into two permanent, non-mixed jurisdictions: the wheat (the children of light/the remnant) and the chaff (the children of darkness/the body of sin). &ZeroWidthSpace; **IV. The Gideon Parallel: Self-Consumption and Delusional Collapse** The actual clash of this final sifting takes place through a systematic, *internal collapse* of the world's structures. This is typified by the portrait of Gideon in Judges 7: - **Breaking the Pitchers:** In Gideon's battle, the breaking of the pitchers represents the sudden removal of the physical veil of creation (the "earthen vessel" of the carnal body) to expose the light of the Lamp within (the Spirit of Life/resurrected Word). - **Every Man's Sword Against His Fellow:** The moment the pitchers are broken, the Midianites are thrown into total internal confusion. Spiritually, this represents the *social, logistical, and spiritual fragmentation* that occurs when the Spirit of Truth is withdrawn from the world. - **Universal Perplexity:** The nations are "sifted with the sieve of vanity". While they frantically attempt to maintain a snare of deluded normalcy through all of the degradation (by eating, drinking, buying, selling, and building), their systems undergo a spiritual floor drop. They are left to *"grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness,"* stumbling in a state of universal distress. &ZeroWidthSpace; **V. The Climax: Two Divergent Realities** The Battle of Armageddon and the Valley of Decision reach their ultimate conclusion at the absolute edge of the 400-day window of the Final Gospel Call. The two opposing forces are brought to an irreversible, physical separation: - **The Sparing of the Elect:** The saints, mobilized as Mordecai's hastened posts, are granted the right to "stand for their life". Armed with the resurrected Word, they are safely extracted from the collapsing world, protected in the "little city" of Zoar (to use the example of Lot's escape from Sodom), and changed into incorruption. - **The Plague of Dissolution:** For the angry, unregenerate world, the brightness of Christ's coming through His resurrected Word acts as a literal plague. As [Zechariah 14:12](Zechariah%2014.md#^12) graphically records, *"their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet"* -- the absolute, instantaneous liquidation of every body of sin. &ZeroWidthSpace; The moment the last elect soul is safely gathered, the seventh angel sounds and the voice from the throne declares, *"It is done"*. The physical heaven *"departs as a scroll when it is rolled together"*, and the ungodly are instantly extinguished into the silence of the second death, leaving only the unmoveable, eternal kingdom of God. &ZeroWidthSpace; - Joel 3: &ZeroWidthSpace; 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and \[for\] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. ... 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness \[is\] great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD \[is\] near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD \[will be\] the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I \[am\] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, \[that\] the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence \[against\] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.