The “Oracle of Damascus” or “Burden of Damascus” is recorded in Isaiah 17:1-14, as well as in associated passages found in Zechariah 9:1-8 and Jeremiah 49:23-27. These Bible passages – and some say Amos 1:3-5 – are considered prophetic by most Evangelical Christians who embrace Futurism (Christian eschatology). Furthermore, some Futurists consider Psalm 83 as an allusion to Israel’s immediate neighbors conspiring to destroy Israel as a “Latter Day’s” phenomenon. These Futurists claim that the Bible says modern-day Damascus will finally come to a quick, devastating and permanent end. They see the opening of Isaiah 17:1 in no uncertain terms to mean the utter destruction by the world’s oldest, continually-inhabited city—an event heretofore which has never been fulfilled, therefore, it still