GENESIS 3:15 BEGAN MAN’S GARDEN OF EDEN PROBLEM
IT BEGAN IN SATAN’S LONG EUPHRATES KINGDOM SEAT
AND IT SHALL END IN THE TIGRIS & EUPHRATES VALLEY
ASSYRIAN ANTICHRIST IS THE LOSER AT ARMAGEDDON!
PART A
ASHURNASIRPAL II ACTIONS WERE RECORDED IN STONE!
CURRENT ISIS TACTICS NOW BEING USED ARE THE SAME!
THEY ARE HORRIFYING THEIR OPPONENTS BY EXECUTIONS!
JESUS, AS THE PRINCE OF PEACE, WILL DEFEAT THE ASSYRIAN!
MICAH 5:1-9 TELLS OF MANGER CHILD PRINCE OF PEACE ACTIONS!
Revelation 16:10-12 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
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Beasts of the mountains and of the seas, of white limestone and alabaster I fashioned and set them up on its gates.” The inscriptions also described plunder stored at the palace. “Silver, gold, lead, copper and iron, the spoil of my hand from the lands which I had brought under my sway, in great quantities I took and placed therein.”
The inscriptions also described great feasts he had to celebrate his conquests. However his victims were horrified by his conquests. The text also said “Many of the captives I have taken and burned in a fire. Many I took. alive from some I cut off their hands to the wrists, from others I cut off their noses, ears and fingers; I put out the eyes of many of the soldiers. I burned their young men women and children to death.” About a conquest in another vanquished city he wrote “I flayed the nobles as many as rebelled and spread their skins out on the piles.” These shock tactics brought success in 877 BCE, when after a march to the Mediterranean he announced “I cleaned my weapons in the deep sea and performed sheep-offerings to the gods.”
Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city of Kalhu located south on the river Tigris in northern Mesopotamia. Archeologists called the city Nimrud after the Biblical Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero (cf. Genesis 10:11-12, Micah 5:6, and 1Chronicles 1:10). The city was known as Calah (Kalakh) in the Bible.
The city covered an area of 360 hectares (890 acres).[1] The ruins of the city are found within one kilometer of the modern-day Assyrian village of Noomanea in Nineveh Province, Iraq. This is some 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of Mosul.
The Assyrian king Shalmaneser I (1274 BC – 1245 BC) built Kalhu (Calah/Nimrud) during the Middle Assyrian Empire. However, the ancient city of Ashur remained the capital of Assyria, as it had been since circa 2500 BC.
A number of historians, such as Julian Jaynes, believe that the Biblical figure Nimrod (of whom the far later Arab name for the city was derived) was inspired by the deeds of the real king of Assyria Tukulti-Ninurta I (1244-1207 BC), the son of Shalmaneser I, and a powerful conqueror. Others believe the name derived from the Assyrian god Ninurta, who had a major cultic centre at Kalhu /Nimrud
The city gained fame when king Ashurnasirpal II of the Neo Assyrian Empire (883 BC – 859 BC) made it his capital at the expense of Ashur. He built a large palace and temples in the city that had fallen into a degree of disrepair during the Dark Ages of the mid 11th to mid 10th centuries BC.
A grand opening ceremony with festivities and an opulent banquet in 879 BC is described in an inscribed stele discovered during archeological excavations. The city of king Ashurnasirpal II housed perhaps as many as 100,000 inhabitants[ and contained botanic gardens and a zoo. His son, Shalmaneser III (858–824 BC), built the monument known as the Great Ziggurat, and an associated temple.
Kalhu remained the capital of the Assyrian Empire during the reigns of; Shamshi-Adad V (822-811 BC), Adad-nirari III (810- 782 BC), Queen Semiramis (810-806 BC), Adad-nirari III (806-782 BC), Shalmaneser IV (782 – 773 BC), Ashur-dan III (772-755 BC), Ashur-nirari V (754-746 BC), Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-723 BC). Tiglath-Pileser III in particular, conducted major building works in the city, as well as introducing Eastern Aramaic as the lingua franca of the empire.
However in 706 BC Sargon II (722-705 BC) moved the capital of the empire to Dur Sharrukin, and after his death, Sennacherib (705-681 BC) moved it to Nineveh. It remained a major city and a royal residence until the city was largely destroyed during the fall of the Assyrian Empire at the hands of an alliance of former subject peoples, including; Babylonians, Chaldeans, Medes, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians (between 616 BC and 605 BC).
The Nineveh Province in which the ruins of Nimrud lie, is still the major center of Iraq’s indigenous Assyrian population (now exclusively Eastern Aramaic speaking Christians) to this day.
The name Nimrud in connection with the site is apparently first used in the writings of Carsten Niebuhr, who was in Mosul in March 1760.
Ashurnasirpal II
King Ashurnasirpal II, who reigned from 883 to 859 BC, built a new capital at Nimrud. Thousands of men worked to build a 5-mile (8.0 km) long wall surrounding the city and a grand palace. There were many inscriptions carved into limestone including one that said “The palace of cedar, cypress, juniper, boxwood, mulberry, pistachio wood, and tamarisk, for my royal dwelling and for my lordly pleasure for all time, I founded therein. Beasts of the mountains and of the seas, of white limestone and alabaster I fashioned and set them up on its gates.” The inscriptions also described plunder stored at the palace. “Silver, gold, lead, copper and iron, the spoil of my hand from the lands which I had brought under my sway, in great quantities I took and placed therein.”
The inscriptions also described great feasts he had to celebrate his conquests. However his victims were horrified by his conquests. The text also said “Many of the captives I have taken and burned in a fire. Many I took. alive from some I cut off their hands to the wrists, from others I cut off their noses, ears and fingers; I put out the eyes of many of the soldiers. I burned their young men women and children to death.” About a conquest in another vanquished city he wrote “I flayed the nobles as many as rebelled and spread their skins out on the piles.” These shock tactics brought success in 877 BCE, when after a march to the Mediterranean he announced “I cleaned my weapons in the deep sea and performed sheep-offerings to the gods.”
PRINCE OF PEACE MANGER CHILD REJECTION BY HIS OWN
Isaiah 9:6,7 – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 62
WHAT IS THE NATIONALITY OF THE ANTICHRIST?
Part 1
April 5, 2002
We will eventually get around to proving the answer to this question in future parts of this update series.
We begin this series with a prophecy written more than 700 years before Christ fulfilled it in his final days.
Micah 5:1 – Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
“NOW GATHER THYSELF IN TROOPS, O DAUGHTER OF TROOPS:”
There are few cities on this planet that can compare with Israel on the number of times she has been conquered over and over again in history, many times being retaken by those troops once driven out. Truly, Jerusalem has earned the title of “Daughter of troops.” This Scripture speaks of a particular time in her long history, a day during the Feast of Passover, a day when three sets of troops were in the city. The Roman Governor, who ruled from Caesarea (Pontius Pilate) had, in order to put down any rebellion that might arise at this feast, brought his Roman troops to Jerusalem, and quartered them in the Fortress Antonia, which was attached to the northwestern corner of the Temple Mount, and from which troops could overlook all the Temple courtyards from its highest level. The King of Israel, Herod, had brought his troops with him for Passover, and they were quartered in Herod’s Fortress Palace on the western side of Jerusalem, where some of its base may be seen today. The High Priest was also allowed to maintain a small contingency of Jewish troops to protect him from harm, and they could be sent to arrest religious offenders. They were found around him at public assemblies.
“THEY SHALL SMITE THE JUDGE OF ISRAEL WITH A ROD UPON THE CHEEK.”
This prophecy of Micah was fulfilled during the last Passover Jesus attended. It was fulfilled from the time the first troops arrested him to take him to the High Priest until he was placed on the cross. During this time Jesus was exchanged back and forth between the High Priest, Herod, and Pontius Pilate. On these occasions he was beaten on the head above his neck many times with rods (reeds), and struck over and over again by the hands of the troops. You will find all this recorded in the latter chapters of the four Gospels. Jesus was sent by His Father to be the judge of Israel, but they rejected him as their judge, and judged him instead, finding him guilty of the false charge of blasphemy again God. The middle portion of this verse gives God the Father’s reaction to their rejection of His only begotten Son.
“HE HATH LAID SIEGE AGAINST US:”
Micah was an Israelite. So the “us” refers primarily to Israel. God has laid “siege” (judgment) against Israel for almost 2000 years because they rejected the one He sent to judge them. There has never been a race descended from one man (Jacob) that has ever passed through such persecution, unbelievable horror, and terrifying torture, as has been experienced by the nation of Israel, the most horrifying of all being experienced at the hands of the Nazi SS during WW2. The current siege is the constant threat of terrorism by Hizbollah, the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Fatah splinter groups
Israel still has a final siege of terror to endure for rejecting her judge. After experiencing what appears to be an end of her suffering when what seems to be peace comes to her land, she will suddenly be viciously attacked from the north in a lightning Jihad involving 10 Arab nations. This will be her final travail before her Messiah, Jesus Christ returns to reign over her.
Zechariah 12:2 – Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
But after Israel’s final travail, this will be the fate of those who laid siege against her.
Zechariah 14:12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.