Verse 9
"Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them."
The same spiritual application of the promises here as that given above in connection with the Philistines is appropriate. The recurrence of the word "remnant" is significant, as is also the mention of Sodom and Gomorrah, proverbial symbols of God's judgment. "The same words are used in the New Testament to describe Christ's victory (Matthew 12:29)."[22] That passage cited by Watts is a definite reference to the conversion of men to Christ.
Of course, there was also an immediate and literal fulfillment of the destruction of those nations, as cited by Hailey:
"Nelson Glueck, the famous Jewish archeologist, has located hundreds of rock-strewn ruins of ancient villages and towns of Moab, Ammon, and Edom, which bear mute testimony to the prophet's inspiration."[23]
Deane also mentioned the complex fulfillment of this prophecy thus:
"The old towns and villages are all deserted and in ruins. In fact, there is not at this moment a single inhabited town or village in Moab, except Kerak, which stands on the extreme southern border (Published in 1950)."[24]
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