Harvest Fails Before Northern Armies

Enemy soldiers shatter the stone tombs around Jerusalem to expose human remains to the open air. Sun and rain bleach the scattered bones of kings and commoners across the terraced hills.

Babylonian cavalry gather near the northern border at Dan during the late seventh century b.c. The God of Israel warns that these advancing armies will consume the entire land.

Farmers pull empty wooden carts across dirt fields ruined by a severe regional drought. Merchants travel over 40 miles across the Jordan River seeking medicinal tree resin.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Panic overtakes the capital city as invading forces march closer to the stone walls. The terrified citizens weep for a wounded nation with no remaining physical cure.