Gilbert House Fellowship #498: Isaiah 18

IS THIS a prophecy of the United States hiding in plain sight?

Isaiah 18 is a mysterious chapter that seems to describe a future attack on Jerusalem by a faraway tall, clean-shaven people, feared far and wide, whose land is divided by rivers. If that doesn’t describe the United States, what does?

However, it’s not as simple as that. The verse describing the tall, clean-shaven people is admittedly speculative—not just by us, but by the translators themselves.

We take this to mean—speculatively, of course—that there is a future day coming when the United States joins in an attack on Jerusalem. This, of course, is consistent with the prophecies of Armageddon in Ezekiel 38–39 and Revelation 19. As we said during our study, we consider this one “obfuscated until obvious.”

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If you are looking for a text of the Book of 1 Enoch to follow our monthly study, you can try these sources:

• Parallel translations by R. H. Charles (1917) and Richard Laurence (1821) (www.qbible.com/enoch/1.html)

• Modern English translation by George W. E. Nickelsburg and James VanderKam (https://amzn.to/4dpdZbi) (link to book at