Confederacy Broken Within 65 Years
Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass, for the head of Syria is Damascus [not Heaven], and the head of Damascus is Rezin [ not the Lord] ; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim (the ten-tribe kingdom] be broken, that it be not a people. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria [not Heaven] , and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son [ not the Lord]. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 14 Tract, page 30, The Shepherd's Rod, V.T. Houteff
God here was telling Judah that they should not fear this alliance because he was not sponsoring it. Israel and Syria were dependent on nothing greater than their kings [Pekah and Rezin], and capitals [Samaria and Damascus] of their nations. Judah was instructed to depend on God's word which declared that these allied powers would fail to overcome them. Moreover, Judah was told, 'If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.' In other words, Judah was told that if they did not believe what God was telling them they would lose out. Their survival, therefore, was wholly conditional on their complete belief in God's promise only that the alliance formed against them would fail. 13 Symbolic Code, No. 3, p. 5, The Shepherd's Rod, V.T. Houteff
The people of Judah were afraid, therefore God sent Isaiah to tell them not to fear the Israel-Syrian confederacy, and predicted that within 65 years the confederacy would be broken (Isaiah 7:8), and "forsaken of both here kings" (Isaiah 7:16)--"...'the land [Syria and Israel] that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings [Rezin and Pekah]. 14 Tract, p. 31, The Shepherd's Rod, V.T. Houteff
