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Land of "milk and honey"???

It has been in the back of my mind for quite some time. When did the land of milk and honey turn into a wilderness? There had to be a period when it happened.

This morning I read Ezekiel and verses 13-14 reads: "And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. 14 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’"

V13 indicates to me that it was still furtile at that time and then in v14 Father curses the land and Jerusalem is descroyed.

Is my thinking correct or do you know of a different period that the furtility of the land was changed to become a wilderness?

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Leviticus 26c14-39 mentions desolation about 3 times (BS, but that is a warning. Job 30:3 says the people around him lived in desolation but now mock him. Im not sure where Job lived though. Throughout Isaiah, Yah is telling him of the desolation to come, also throughout Jeremiah. Lamentations 5:18 says Zion is desolate and patrolled by foxes. Daniel 9:17 talks about the desolate sanctuary. Micah 7:13 talks about the earth becoming desolate. Nuhum 2:10 is talking about the horror of the desolation of the land. Zechariah 7:14 Yah is speaking of the desolation He made. Hope that helps!

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The desolation between AD70 and 1948 was prophesied by Daniel and proves Yeshua is the Messiah. (Short version. Long version at the link below.)
"So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
(Dan 9:25-26)
https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/the-temple-an

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I love that saying, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey’. It literally means to work to feed and care for your people. The land became a waste land or a wilderness after the exile, though it was a process like everything else in life, it slowly turned into a wilderness run by beasts. When did the process start? I think it started before the first of the twelve tribes were being exiled and the process isn’t over I believe. Though when you look at a comparison to Yahuah’s land in Solomon’s time compared to this current date; it is truly a waste land or a wilderness run by beasts. The stages of cancer could be an example. The first two stages are not really noticeable nor lethal, but all cancer is lethal. You really start to wonder where it all began in the 3rd and 4th stages though Yahuah’s plants have cured stage 4 cancer in very sensitive areas, the majority don’t see the source of the illness as something to be concerned about until it is right in their faces. Some would agree that world war 2 started in 1933 while others believe it started in 1942.

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