Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a monumental figure in the nation’s history who had been in a coma since a stroke in 2006, has died, the AP says. He was 85.
So strange for international media outlets embrace phrases like “Ariel Lion of God,” “Lion of Israel,” and the “Last Lion of Judaea” to a world that had long ago distinguished itself from the “Darwinian mists”
Ariel Sharon, the “Lion,” died today. The etymology of the word “Ariel” is derived from the ancient scroll of Isaiah housed in Jerusalem’s Shrine of the Book.
Isaiah begins his woeful prophecy contained in the scroll by cryptically identifying Ariel as Jerusalem. Although the word “Ariel” is commonly rendered the “lion of God,” some Hebrew scholars suggest the more probable rendering the “hearth of God.” i.e., Jerusalem’s brazen altar.
The prophecy declares that the LORD in a future day
will recompense Israel’s sin by bringing distress, heaviness, and sorrow upon Jerusalem until her voice are but a “whisper out of the dust” before her enemies, a multitude of all the nations. Then the LORD of hosts will visit her, and a flame of devouring fire will apparently be kindled upon brazen altar, and the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel will pass away like chaff in the wind.
“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!… Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel…. And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision…. So shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion”
(Isaiah 29:1-8).