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Question: Is Isaiah:3:24-26 [24] And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. [25] Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. [26] And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
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a dual prophecy, referring both to the destruction at the hands of Babylon and the Nazi Holocaust?

Answer: No. That could not be the case because, according to this passage, Israel [2] would be in her land when this destruction took place, and it would come about through a war: “Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.” The six million Jews killed in the Holocaust did not die as a result of a war against Israel [2], which had no gates to “lament,” not having yet been restored to her land. In fact, it was probably the Holocaust that stirred a short-lived sympathy, which caused the nations to designate land for modern Israel [2].

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Source URL: https://www.thebereancall.org/content/july-2005-q-and-a-6

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[1] https://www.thebereancall.org/bible/1/ISA/3/24-26#v24
[2] https://www.thebereancall.org/taxonomy/term/51/israel