Isaiah 17 Damascus was a key city, highl

Isaiah 17
Damascus was a key city, highly influential and very powerful. This city in Syria along with Israel will experience a fading glory. God will show the world that all that these 2 places have accomplished are simply not real. They are fraudulent. Man may look and be impressed but God will reduce their achievements to rubble.
Why?

You have forgotten God your Saviour; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress, v10.

How is it possible to forget anything of great significance?
No doubt these people still believed in God and they still declared they were Yahweh followers. Had they really forgotten?
Well we all know what it is like to have some kind of memory loss! Two elderly women were discussing the problems of growing older. One commented, “The worst thing is when your memory starts to go. I’ve known you all my life, and I can’t think of your name. What is it?” The second lady thought for a moment and said, “Do you need an answer right now?”
But to forget God? How is that possible?
Unknown author, Chuck Ross, took a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, titled Steps, which had won the National Book Award six years before. Ross retyped the first 21 pages of Steps and sent them out to four publishers, using the name Erik Demos as a fictitious by-line. All 4 publishers rejected the manuscript. Two years later, he retyped the novel Steps in its entirety and submitted it, again credited to Erik Demos, to several more publishers, including the original publisher, Random House. It was rejected by all with unhelpful comments, including Random House! All told, 14 publishers and 13 literary agents failed to recognize a book that had already been published and had won an important award. And so …
We forget God when we forget what He has done in our past that was absolutely wonderful and life-saving and our present shows no sign of that amazing provision. This is dangerous memory loss.