📡✝️ The Assyrian (Asshur/Satan): In-Depth Bible Study
📖✨ Summary of Video Content: The Assyrian as a Type of the Antichrist & Biblical Lessons for Preparation 🐍👑⚔️
This study presents a powerful Bible-based teaching showing how the ancient Assyrian king served as a prophetic type of the future Antichrist, revealing patterns in history that prepare believers for the last days. Through Scripture, the lesson emphasizes both spiritual vigilance and practical readiness for the coming deception and tribulation.
🔥 Key Themes & Insights
🏛️ The Assyrian as a Prophetic Type
The repeated Assyrian invasions of Israel and Judah are presented as a prophetic foreshadowing of the future Antichrist system.
📖 The Apostle Paul explained that historical events were written as examples (tupos) for believers:
1\ Corinthians\ 10:11
The message teaches that history repeats itself spiritually, and understanding these biblical patterns helps believers recognize end-time deception.
🙏 Spiritual Preparation for the End Times
Believers are challenged to examine themselves:
❓ Am I spiritually prepared?
🛡️ Will I stand firm against deception?
📚 Do I know God’s Word deeply enough to resist falsehood?
The study stresses:
✝️ Faithfulness to God
👀 Spiritual watchfulness
📖 Knowledge of Scripture
🚫 Rejecting idolatry and compromise
⚠️ Paul’s Warnings from 1 Corinthians 10
Paul used Israel’s wilderness failures as warnings for future generations:
🐂 Idolatry (golden calf worship)
😠 Murmuring and unbelief
🧪 Tempting God
🔥 Joining false worship and fornication at Baal-peor
Yet God also gives a promise of deliverance:
1\ Corinthians\ 10:13
✨ God always provides a way to endure temptation and remain faithful.
🏹 Historical Assyrian Sieges & Lessons
👑 Menahem
💰 Paid massive tribute to Assyria
🪙 Taxed Israel heavily to secure political survival
⚠️ Demonstrated trust in worldly power instead of God
⚔️ Pekah & Political Chaos
🩸 Assassinations and corruption spread
🏛️ National instability weakened Israel spiritually and politically
⛓️ Captivity of Israel
🚪 Assyria conquered Israel because of persistent idolatry and rebellion
😔 Disobedience led to exile
🛡️ Hezekiah’s Siege
🏹 Assyria surrounded Jerusalem
💵 Tribute was paid initially
🙏 Ultimately Hezekiah trusted God for deliverance
😈 Assyria used psychological warfare and blasphemy against God
🐍 Psychological Warfare & Spiritual Deception
The Assyrians mocked:
✝️ Trust in God
🛡️ Faith in divine protection
👑 God’s covenant promises
This mirrors the future Antichrist system:
📡 Propaganda
🧠 Fear tactics
🌍 Pressure to trust worldly systems
🚫 Attempts to silence truth
🏺 Trust God — Not Worldly Powers
The study warns against relying on:
🏛️ Governments
⚔️ Military strength
💰 Economic systems
🌎 Human alliances
Isaiah compares trusting worldly systems to leaning on a broken reed.
📖 True safety comes from trusting God alone.
🥖 Practical Readiness for Difficult Times
The speaker also emphasizes practical wisdom for future hardship:
🥫 Store food supplies
💧 Prepare water reserves
🪙 Consider barter resources such as precious metals
🏠 Develop practical preparedness
This is connected to prophetic warnings about economic control during the Antichrist system.
⚔️ Spiritual Warfare & the Two-Edged Sword
God’s Word is described as the ultimate weapon against deception:
Revelation\ 1:16
📖 Truth separates:
🌾 Wheat from chaff
💡 Truth from lies
✝️ Faithfulness from apostasy
Believers are called to:
📢 Spread truth
🛡️ Stand boldly
🚫 Reject compromise
🔥 Remain spiritually awake
👶 Prophetic Birth Pains & the Coming Kingdom
📜 Micah 4 Prophecy
The study connects current troubles to prophetic “birth pains” before Christ’s Kingdom.
Key themes include:
👑 The coming reign of the Messiah
🐑 The Tower of the Flock (Bethlehem)
✨ The rise of a faithful remnant
⚔️ The defeat of the Assyrian/Antichrist
🌟 The Remnant & The Elect
A faithful remnant will stand firm during the final conflict:
🕊️ Preserved by God
⚔️ Empowered spiritually
📖 Grounded in truth
👑 Victorious through Christ
The elect are symbolically compared to:
🐑 Seven shepherds
👤 One principal man
Representing faithful leadership and witnesses during the last days.
🔮 Important Biblical Concepts
| 📖 Concept | ✨ Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🐍 Assyrian | Historical type of the Antichrist |
| 📜 Tupos | Prophetic pattern/example |
| 🌊 Baptism in cloud & sea | Spiritual deliverance/testing |
| 🐍 Brazen serpent | Foreshadowing Christ |
| 👶 Birth pains | Transition into Messiah’s Kingdom |
| 🕊️ Remnant/Elect | Faithful believers preserved by God |
| ⚔️ Two-edged sword | The Word of God |
✨ Main Spiritual Takeaways
📚 Learn from biblical history
👀 Stay spiritually alert
🚫 Reject idolatry and deception
✝️ Trust God instead of worldly systems
🛡️ Prepare spiritually and practically
📖 Use God’s Word as your weapon
🕊️ Stand faithfully as part of the remnant
👑 Final Conclusion
This study presents the Assyrian invasions as a powerful prophetic blueprint for understanding the future Antichrist system. Through historical examples, believers are warned to remain spiritually awake, grounded in Scripture, and fully trusting in God’s deliverance.
🔥 Though deception and tribulation will come, God promises victory for His faithful remnant.
✨ Key Takeaway
⚔️ The Assyrian serves as a prophetic type of the Antichrist. Understanding these biblical patterns prepares believers to stand firm, resist deception, and trust in God’s ultimate victory through Jesus Christ. ✝️👑🔥
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📡✝️ The Assyrian (Asshur):
The Assyrian, you know, oftentimes we look to our Father's Word for enlightenment as to what the future's going to be. And certainly, unfulfilled prophecy tells us exactly how things are going to come down. It's written; it will come to pass. But today I want you to think about this: God's given us a lot of history in His Word, has He not? And you know, sometimes by understanding and looking and studying that history, it also tells us what the future holds, because I'll assure you, just as things have been in the past in many cases is exactly how they're going to be in the future. And by understanding the types—the historical types—in our Father's Word, it prepares us for the future. We can understand—you all know the Antichrist is coming first, and that's not what my message is about today. My message is: I want you to think to yourself, "Am I prepared? Have I done everything that I can to be prepared for that one who will return?" That's important, beloved, and I'll show you why here in a moment.
The Assyrian, or the king of Assyria, is a vivid type for Antichrist—no question about it. Just as the king of Assyria laid siege on Israel and Judah over and over and over in history, so will he lay siege on Jerusalem once again in the future. Well, should that scare us? Should we be afraid of the Assyrian? Of course not. God told us in Isaiah 10:24, "Fear not the Assyrian." Christ told us in Luke chapter 10, verses 17–18, "I give you power over all of your enemies." But does that mean we should just ignore this historical Assyrian? No, not when we can study him and learn more and more information that will help us understand what it's going to be like when the Antichrist is here.
Let's begin our study today with a warning from Paul—1 Corinthians chapter 10. Most of you probably knew where I was going to start when I said a warning from Paul, but also in this 10th chapter of 1 Corinthians we find a fantastic promise from our Heavenly Father to you. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 1: "Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant." Paul says, "I don't want you not to know this. I don't want you to forget this, if you already knew it, how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea." As Moses led the two million people of Israel out of Egypt, they were under that cloud. What was the cloud? It was our Heavenly Father—a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Did they go over the sea? Did they go around the sea? No, ladies and gentlemen, they went *through* the sea. And were all—notice the emphatic use of the repetition of the word "all"—baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. And indeed that was a type of baptism that those people went through. And did all eat the same spiritual meat—the manna from heaven that our Heavenly Father gave the people, and eventually the quail when they complained about the manna? Of course. Our today our spiritual meat is what? The Bread of Life. Of course.
Verse 3: "And did all eat the same spiritual meat." We got that. "And did all drink the same spiritual drink." Imagine 2.1 million people approximately coming out of Egypt—Israel with all of their flocks and herds—and they're in the desert. How much water would it take to quench the thirst of all those? And that water came forth from that rock, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them (or "went with them," better translated). And that rock was Christ—the gateway to heaven, the gateway to our salvation, the living water that we partake of today so freely.
But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. And you know what overthrew them in the wilderness? It was their own unbelief. Over and over and over, God told them, "We're going into the Promised Land, a land that flows with milk and honey." What did they do? They said, "Oh, let's send one man from each tribe into the Promised Land just to make sure that it's a good land." And God said, "Okay, go ahead and send them." What did they do? They came back and ten of them lied and said, "There's no way that we can take those people; they're giants over there." Their own unbelief.
"Now these things were for our examples"—check it out in the Greek, *tupos*, it means "type"—"to the intent"—whoa, "to the intent" why were we given these examples, these types? "To the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted." Paul's trying to get our attention here. He's saying these things that happened in the Old Testament happened for a reason. People, study them, understand them so that you don't lust after evil. "Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.'" Even as Moses was up on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments, what were they doing down there? Playing. They said, "This fellow Moses, we don't know what to make of him; he's been gone forty days." Aaron the high priest, who should have of all people known better, they said, "Make us a golden calf to lead us on into the Promised Land; we don't know if Moses is going to be back or not."
Verse 8: "Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand"—Numbers 25:1–9. They joined themselves to Baal Peor. God wasn't happy. Verse 9: "Neither let us tempt Christ"—that is, to test Him—"as some of them also tempted." Who did they tempt? They tempted God. Numbers chapter 14—ten times they tempted God over the golden calf, over the manna, over the water. And finally what? They were going to appoint a captain to lead them back into Egypt—the utmost rebellion against God's plan. "Neither let us tempt Christ as some also tempted and were destroyed of serpents." As the children of Israel were working their way as they left Hormah and they were going around Edom because they wouldn't let them cross their land, the going got pretty rough and the people were complaining again: "Moses, why did you bring us out here in this desert to die?" And God was getting so tired of it He sent fiery serpents among them, and those that were bitten by the fiery serpents died. And as usual, Moses interceded on their behalf and was instructed by God to make a brazen serpent that he lifted up, and those who would look upon the brazen serpent, even though they were bitten by the serpents, would not die. That's why Christ would say in John chapter 3, "Just as Moses raised the serpent, so must the Son of Man be raised on the cross." In other words, those that look upon Him live as well.
Verse 10: "Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer." Those ten spies that went into the Promised Land—God struck them dead with a special plague; He wasn't happy with them at all. And the reason we came here—verse 11: "Now all these things happened unto them for examples"—again that Greek word *tupos*, a type—"and they are written for our admonition"—for our warning, is what Paul is saying—"upon whom the ends of the world are come." And boy, have you ever—and I know none of you are this way because you're too studied in God's Word—but have you ever been talking to a young Christian and you say "the end of the world" and I mean the knees start shaking? The end of the world, of course you know we're talking about *aion* in the Greek language—the age. That's all we're talking about. When this world age ends, a new one begins. We're talking about this generation—the generation of the fig tree. "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." Now this is from Paul, and listen to this: "Take heed that you think you stand, lest you fall." And that's what I want you to get out of this message today. Do you think you're going to stand against the Antichrist? And Paul says, "And I know you are, but what I'm encouraging you to do is: Have I done everything I can do to prepare for that? Do I know everything I can possibly know about that enemy that will help me?" And that's what we're going to do today.
Verse 13—this is the promise from God; don't ever forget this verse: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man." There's nothing that's going to happen to you that hasn't happened to man before. Well, you don't understand, Pastor Murray; we live in that generation that we're going to face the Antichrist. So what? The people in the wilderness were tempted, were they not? This is nothing new. Man has been tempted from the get-go here on Earth, and the flesh itself is a temptation. But God is faithful—you can count on Him—who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it. As you're delivered up before that Antichrist, don't forget this verse, beloved. I mean, think of that promise from God. Do you believe this Word? Then what do we have to worry about? He's not going to allow anything to happen to us.
Verse 14: "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say." Do you consider yourself a wise person? Then listen to what Paul says.
As I said earlier, the Assyrian over and over and over laid siege on Jerusalem. Let's go to the first time the Assyrian laid siege on Israel. We're going to 2 Kings chapter 15. Things aren't going well in Israel at all as we pick this up. We're down to the last I think five kings of Israel, and as we're going to pick it up in 2 Kings 15:16 with Menahem. Menahem—how did he come to the throne? Well you can read it in verse 14. He smote Shallum; he murdered Shallum. Israel—the ten tribes—are on a collision course with the Assyrian, the captivity.
Verse 16: Then Menahem smote Tiphsah. Tiphsah is not a person but a location, a city. The Greeks and Romans called it Papus, and it lies on the Euphrates. It's referred to in 1 Kings 4:24 as the limit of Solomon's empire toward the Euphrates—in other words, to the north. "And all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah, because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up." Tiphsah revolted from Israel at the time that Zechariah was murdered, and here they're paying a very cruel punishment for that revolt. "In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria." And you know, God wanted to be the King of Israel. What did the people of Israel say to Samuel? "No, we want a man king like the heathen have, someone who will go and fight our battles for us." I think man is becoming somewhat disappointed, and the kings of Israel a little bit less than they expected, but the man-kings of Israel are exactly what our Father expected. "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
And you know, when Israel was asking for a man king, God told them through Samuel—1 Samuel chapter 8, verse 10 and the following verses—what a man king of Israel would do: "He'll take your sons and daughters, he'll make them work for you; everything that you do to produce your vineyards, your olive yards, he'll take ten percent of that and give it to his servants, and then he'll take your sons and send them to do the fighting for you for the king." In other words...
Verse 19: "And Pul the king of Assyria"—here we go, our type for the Antichrist—"came against the land." This is the first invasion on Israel by the Assyrian. It won't be the last, and there is still one to come in the future. "And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand." He's trusting in the king of Assyria to keep him as king of Israel rather than trusting in our Heavenly Father, and paying him off to do so. "And Menahem exacted the money of Israel"—and Judah was usually the one that was trying to bribe the enemy, not Israel, but in this case they are—"even of all the mighty men of wealth," property owners in other words, "of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and stayed not there in the land." But the Assyrians will be back. You know, you can't buy a bully off. Never try and buy a bully off, because what you give him, he'll always be back for more. "And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?" And I'm certain God must have been quite frustrated with the kings of Israel, the men who served in that role. "And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead." Pekahiah means "Yah has observed." And you can be assured Yah was observing this Pekahiah in Israel at the time; you can be assured He's observing you and I today. I hope He's pleased.
Verse 23: "In the fiftieth year of Azariah"—also known as Uzziah, and by the way he reigned fifty-two years, the longest king of Israel or Judah—"Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years." And becoming a king of Israel at this time was like an early death wish. Menahem was the last king of Israel to die of natural death, and his son assumed the throne. "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." Jeroboam—he was the first king of the ten tribes over the north after the kingdom was taken away from Solomon's son Rehoboam. But you know, God made Jeroboam the same promise that He made to Solomon, and that is: "If you will follow My commandments, if you will do things My way, I'll be with you, I'll bless you." What did Jeroboam do? Oh, he decides—let's see, there's seven feasts of the LORD; let's have an eighth one in the eighth month—wasn't appointed by God. Jeroboam also said, "Well, these Levitical priests, they won't do what I want them to; the heck with them, they're out of office. I'm going to appoint my own priests." And that's what he did. And then to top it all off, he makes the two golden calves—just like Aaron did when Moses was receiving the law—put one in Bethel and one in Dan, and he said, "Behold thy god, that brought you out of Egypt, O people of Israel. You don't need to go down to Jerusalem and worship at the temple of God; these are your gods. Stay here in Samaria and worship."
Verse 25: But Pekah—Pekah is kind of a version of Pekahiah; obviously it means "to watch," and this Pekah needed to be watched—"the son of Remaliah, a captain of his," he's in the army of Pekahiah the king, "conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh"—and these two obviously trying to defend Pekahiah—"and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room." Murderers serving as the king of Israel. Total chaos, total corruption in Israel at this time. "And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel." Israel at this point is on a collision course with the captivity to the Assyrian. And you know what? We're on a collision course to the captivity to the king of Assyria as well. Isaiah was prophesying this same thing at this time, and Isaiah, by the way, prophesied during the reign of four different kings of Judah—I mean Isaiah was around a long time—and he was telling them, "This is what's coming."
Verse 27: "In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah"—this would be his last year, king of Judah—"Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years"—a very long reign for one of these final kings of Israel. But 2 Kings 18:1: "And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel into Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." Why did the LORD let them go into captivity? Verse 12: "Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them." We see a lot of that today, do we not?
Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah—this is the king of Judah—"did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." Appendix 67 of your Companion Bible—you have an appendix concerning Sennacherib's cylinder, and he states, "I took forty-six fenced cities of Judah, and I have Hezekiah as a bird in a cage in Jerusalem, and I've taken 2,150 men, women, and children into captivity." "And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish"—this is a city south of Jerusalem—"saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold." "I've offended you, so please withdraw from Judah, and I'll pay whatever tribute you say for me to pay." And you know, this is hard for me to understand about Hezekiah. Hezekiah was a righteous king; he was a good man, boy, especially compared to his father Ahaz, who was an idolater if there ever was one. But you know, this turned into a blessing for Judah because of Sennacherib's blasphemy and his pride. Let's see: blasphemy and pride—who does that sound like? Maybe Antichrist a little bit. Blasphemy: he's going to be claiming to be God, standing in God's place, putting his throne where God's throne is supposed to be. Pride: that was his downfall. Sound familiar? And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house—buying peace. It won't be enough to satisfy Sennacherib for long. "At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria."
Now in chapter 18 verse 17 through 19:32—which we're about to get to—we have the second invasion of Judah by the king of Assyria. "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish"—about ten miles southeast of Jerusalem—"to King Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem." You know what a great host is? That's a big army. Does the thought of that frighten you—a big army? How about Revelation chapter 9, the locust army? You know what they've got? They've got tails that sting like a scorpion. You know what that means? It means that they melt the backbone of their victims, using the victim's own body as their own stomach. Does that frighten you? This big army? It shouldn't. "And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field." And you know, you might say, "Well now wait a minute. Israel was doing bad and God sent the Assyrian, but Judah was doing good. Hezekiah was a pious king. Why would He send the Assyrian against Judah?" Understand: God will test you from time to time. He does not want a bunch of hothouse lilies that are going to wilt at the first sign of trouble. You know, it's awfully hard to become an overcomer if you never have anything to overcome.
"And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household"—in other words, over the king's palace—"and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder"—pretty high-ranking officials. "And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?" He's pretty proud of his king, isn't he? "The great king, the king of Assyria." Is that a type for us? Absolutely. Satan's going to think he's pretty great in his role.
Verse 20: "Thou"—addressed to Hezekiah—"sayest, but they are but vain words." "You say this"—this in the Hebrew is "lip words"—in other words, "You say this with your lips, but you really don't believe it with your heart. 'I have counsel and strength for the war.' Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him." God wanted His people to trust and lean on Him, not the king of Egypt, not some other man or some other god.
Verse 22: Rabshakeh continues speaking for Sennacherib the Assyrian: "But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?" Why should Yah help you when your king tore down all the illegal places of worship that the previous kings of Judah had set up? Verse 23: "Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them." Still, even less than depending on the bruised reed of Egypt—can you depend on your own army? "If I gave you two thousand horses, you don't even have enough men capable of getting on there that could fight from horseback. How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?" Your military is so weak, you have no choice but to depend on Egypt.
Verse 25: "Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it." Now we got some problems for the Assyrian. God had not commanded him to go up and destroy Judah. This is outright blasphemy.
"Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language"—in Aramaic—"for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language"—Hebrew—"in the ears of the people that are on the wall. We understand your language, so please—you know, you're scaring our troops over here on the wall. Don't talk in Hebrew; you're scaring our people." But Rabshakeh said unto them, "Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, the soldiers, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?" In other words, that's how bad it's going to get if the Assyrian lays siege on Jerusalem. Three years is a long time to lay siege. What do they do? Basically they starve them out. If you can't get food into the city and you've got probably tens of thousands of people there at the time—if not over a hundred thousand people—they're going to starve to death eventually. And of course they had routed water through secret passageways into Jerusalem and taken it away. But I also ask you to look at that maybe as a little bit of a type: if you don't participate in the Assyrian's—and in Antichrist's—one-world system, you're on your own when it comes to food and water. Let me ask you this: Has anyone ever warned you that we should have a little bit of food set aside for when the Antichrist comes? Has anyone ever warned you that you should have some water set aside for your family, because you're on your own, folks? You're not going to be able to buy and sell. Has anyone ever warned you to have a little bit of precious metal available to where you can barter and trade? Have you done that? Have you done it to the extent that—and people might say, "Well you don't understand, you know I'm living check to check right now, it's just hard for me to do that." And I understand, boy, with gasoline prices—I filled up on the way up here and you talk about making your knees shake, that made my knees shake filling up that SUV. But my point is this: it's a lot easier right now for you to do what you need to do and get some things set aside than it's going to be when he actually arrives, because I mean, everything in your checking account—you think you're going to be able to use that? No, not without taking the mark of the beast and worshiping him. So a little bit of a type there—a little graphic maybe; I apologize if so.
Verse 28: Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language—Hebrew—and spake, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria." We're about to see some real psychological warfare here, propaganda. "Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand"—out of the king of Assyria's hand. In other words, don't let Hezekiah give you false hope. "Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." Hezekiah can't save you; the LORD can't save you. Now wait a minute—I know the LORD is my deliverer, and here we've got the king of Assyria saying the LORD can't deliver you. That's blasphemy.
Verse 31: "Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern." Boy, does that sound like somebody. How about Daniel 11:24, when the Antichrist comes in peacefully and prosperously? You see, he's promising these people on the wall around Jerusalem, "Just surrender, just worship me, and it's going to be good for you. I'll pay off all your bills." Remember where we started with Paul giving you a warning: these things happened as examples for you, types for you. Don't be taken with his deceit.
Verse 32: "Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land"—"I'll deliver you. Hezekiah can't deliver you; the LORD can't deliver you. I'll rapture you out of here. A land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die." And we're talking about a death of the flesh here that they're concerned about. "And hearken not unto Hezekiah when he persuadeth"—or deceives, that could be translated—"you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. You can't trust Hezekiah; you can't trust the LORD." Wrong.
Verse 33: "Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?" None of the gods of the nations that the Assyrians have already conquered could save them. "Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad?"—that's in Syria. "Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria"—the ten tribes of Israel—"out of mine hand?" Let me ask you this: when the Antichrist returns, who is everyone in the world going to think their God is? You know, and think what I'm saying here: "Where are their gods?" Everyone in the world—I don't care if they're Islamic, I don't care if they're Buddhist, I don't care what their faith is—they're going to think Antichrist is God. Are you prepared for that in your mind? And you know what they're going to be asking you, because you're not worshiping him—excuse me—"Where is your god?" is what they're going to be asking you.
Verse 35: "Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?" Their gods couldn't save them; your God can't save you. But the people held their peace and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, "Answer him not." Probably smart not to let the enemy know what the effect of his speech was—it was very effective. Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent—sign of mourning or grief—and told him the words of Rabshakeh. Pretty good speech, but the problem is Rabshakeh has not only blasphemed Hezekiah, he's also blasphemed our Heavenly Father.
Chapter 19, verse 1: And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. You know, when things get rough, it doesn't matter where you are—the Book of Psalms tells us that wherever you are at any time, you can take refuge in the house of the LORD. That's the sanctuary, in other words. You can seek protection and aid in that high tower if you will. He will deliver for you as we were promised and where we started today—1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 13.
And he sent—I should say—Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. Now this is the first occurrence of Isaiah in the historical books. And they said unto him, "Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble"—the day of Jacob's trouble might come to mind—"and of rebuke and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth." This is a life-threatening situation. When a mother is with child and it's time to deliver that child, if she doesn't have the strength to deliver that child, both will die—both will perish. What's that got to do with what we've been talking about? Let me tell you: there's a birth that all of you are involved in, and I don't care if you're a man or a woman. I'm talking about the birth of a new age. And we're going to see, as we close here in a moment in the Book of Micah—not history, prophecy—that we have a part to play in bringing about the birth of this new age. And I ask you, do you think we'll have the strength to do our part to accomplish the birth of a new age? We're going to have a lot of help.
Let's see, verse 4: "It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left." Most of Judah—forty-six fenced cities, I'm talking walled cities, over 200,000 people taken captive—most of Judah is already gone captive to the Assyrian. In our day and age, the elect are the remnant that are left that have not gone into captivity to the Assyrian. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaiah said unto them, "Thus shall ye say to your master Hezekiah"—in other words, thus saith the LORD—"Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me." And there's no reason for you to fear either. Verse 7: "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." Historically this would come to pass. If we continued on in the same chapter we'd learn in verse 28 God told the Assyrian, "I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips and lead thee back by the way thou camest." In verse 35 the angel of the LORD slew 185,000 of the Assyrians. Verse 37: Sennacherib back in his home city went into the house of his god and was murdered by his own two sons. This particular siege of the Assyrian was not successful. You know, we've been talking about the future siege of the Assyrian. Do you think the Assyrian is going to be successful during that siege, or do you think God will once again send a blast? Oh, maybe—maybe you could be part of that blast.
Turn with me to Micah as we conclude—again, not history but prophecy in the Minor Prophets. Micah chapter 4, and we're going to pick it up with verse 8. When I was talking a minute ago about that birth that was going to be coming about and that the men and the women are going to have part of it—my humor just went crazy with me. Have you all ever seen that commercial where the old little old man and little old lady are sitting in the doctor's office, and I mean she's like 80 and he's like 85, and the doctor tells her, "Your blood work shows that you're pregnant." And then he looks at the old man and says, "And guess what? You are too." And the little man just giggles and starts laughing. Have you seen that? I think that's one of the greatest commercials. But man or woman, you've got a role to play in the birth that's coming up. I'm talking about the birth of this new age.
Micah 4:8—sharpen up for me now, this gets a little deep. "And thou, O tower of the flock"—you know what this word "flock" in the Hebrew? Check it out: *Eder* in Genesis 35:21. *Eder* is used for Bethlehem. "The stronghold of the daughter of Zion"—you're the daughter of Zion, Bethlehem. How come that's the stronghold? "Unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion"—or former dominion, first earth age—"the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem." What happened in Bethlehem, *Eder* as it's called there? Well, let's see: Rachel—she didn't have the strength to bring forth, did she? She died in childbirth to the last patriarch of the twelve tribes of Israel, named him Ben-Oni—"son of my sorrow." His father renamed him Ben-Jamin—"son of my right hand." Let's see who else was born in Bethlehem. David was born in Bethlehem, was he not? Bethlehem, not Jerusalem. Oh, and a thousand yards within the place that Rachel gave birth to Benjamin—and David was born—Messiah would be born. He is the Chief Shepherd.
Verse 9: "Now why dost thou cry out aloud?"—this is to the daughter of Zion, that's you. "Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail." Here we have that birth of a new age. Have you got a part in it? Verse 10: "Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies." Many of our brothers and sisters are already there in Babylon—Babylon meaning confusion. They're lost; they haven't a clue as to what's going to happen in these end days. Have you got a role in doing something about that?
Verse 11: "Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion." And boy will Jerusalem be defiled when that Assyrian sets up shop. "But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they His counsel"—or His plan. "For He shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." Oh, let's see—isn't there a wonderful gospel song about "Bringing in the Sheaves, bringing in the sheaves"? This doesn't sound wonderful? They're bringing in the sheaves onto the floor. You know what floor we're talking about here, beloved? The threshing floor. Do you know what happens to the sheaves on the threshing floor? They get the whey knocked out of them. Some of the sheaves need the whey knocked out of them to bring about some sense into their heads. Do you have something to do with that?
Verse 13: "Arise and thresh"—this is instructions to the daughter of Zion; I'm talking to you—"Arise and thresh!" And what does threshing do? It separates the wheat from the chaff. It separates those who can amount to something, that is worth something, from wicked and evil that's worth nothing but to go into the fire. "O daughter of Zion, for I will make thine horn iron"—you know what your horn is symbolically? It's your power. "And I will make thy hooves brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." Well, that sounds awful rough. "I will beat those people." What do we beat them with, beloved? Truth. That's what we beat them with. How do we thresh today? What is this talking about? You thresh by planting seeds. Every time you have an opportunity to plant a seed, you're threshing. You're sharing God's truth. That's what knocks the whey out of those sheaves and separates the wheat from the chaff. You can thresh by being an example to people. You can thresh by standing for something, and by that I mean be willing to stand against the Antichrist. Oh, there's a blast going to be sent against this last Assyrian siege.
Chapter 5, verse 1: "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he"—this is the Assyrian we're talking about here, Antichrist—"hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." And historically they certainly accomplished this—the ten tribes of Israel into captivity. There's going to be a little different smiting going on this next siege. Sharpen up for me.
But verse 2: "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah"—here we go again. Again, where are we pointing back to now? Jesus Christ's birthplace. Bethlehem—"House of Bread"—Ephratah meaning "fruitful." "Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah"—though you're just a little village Bethlehem compared to the larger cities of Judah—"yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel." You remember back in verse 9 where it said, "Is there no king in thee?" God's chosen a King. "Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." Oh, that sounds like somebody I know. John 1:1—"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God." From old, the first earth age, here in the second earth age, and yes beloved in the third earth age—the eternity—Jesus Christ will be present.
Verse 3: "Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of His brethren shall return unto the children of Israel"—out of Babylon, out of the captivity. And you've got a part to play in it. And you know, some say, "Well isn't this nice, God's going to find the people that He lost." God hasn't lost anyone; they've lost themselves. "And He"—this is Jesus Christ—"shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, He is the Great Shepherd, in the majesty of the name of the LORD His God; and they"—His flock—"shall abide: for now shall He be great unto the ends of the earth"—King of kings and Lord of lords. "And this man shall be the peace." Hebrews chapter 7, where He's also called Melchizedek. What's another name? You know what the King of Salem is? King of Peace. There will be no peace until He returns.
Listen up for me: "When the Assyrian"—this is Antichrist—"shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces"—he wants to be the king; he'll be in the palace, believe me—"then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men." I wonder what—you know Bullinger, how many of you think a lot of E.W. Bullinger? Do you know what his comment concerning this verse is? "When it come time for us to know what this means, we'll know." I think the time has come for us to know what this verse means. How many elect are there? 7,000. Now that can be any number; don't get me wrong. Boy, I mean if there's just 7,000—wow, there's a lot of them in this same room—7,000 that's just a number. But seven—the 7,000 elect, and we add one Melchizedek, the King of the Zedek, to that—how many is that? That's eight, is it not? I think you've got a part in this. "And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword." What sword are we talking about? Revelation 1:16—that two-edged sword, the tongue of Christ that cuts both ways. When your tongue holds that same truth, it's the same sword, beloved. He's got a role for you in this. "And the land of Nimrod"—that's Assyria and Babylon—"in the entrances thereof: thus shall He"—Christ—"deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders"—claiming to be Jesus, claiming to be our King, deceiving the world.
"And the remnant of Jacob"—that's you, the elect—"shall be in the midst of many people." Whoa, what are all these many people? We're talking about the kings and queens of the *ethnos*, beloved. "As a dew from the LORD"—you know what dew is? That's a real pure form of water unless we pollute it—"as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men"—it's not dependent on men, in other words. "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." Oh, that doesn't sound very Christian at all, does it? The weapon, beloved, is the truth. It's what we were talking about on that threshing floor. It's the truth that separates the good from the evil. There's a separation coming, beloved, and thank God we don't want the wicked and the evil in the eternity. So take part in that. And you know, if someone hears the truth, the truth often offends people. God's Word often offends people. My thoughts to that are: so what? It's always good for them, and hopefully they'll see the error of their way and turn it around.
Here's a promise. Verse 9: "Thine hand"—this is still referring to the remnant, the elect—"shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off." And I do mean all of your enemies. And note "cut off" is used five times over the next verses as we close. Five in the biblical numerics is grace. "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots"—Ezekiel chapters 38–39, the battle of Armageddon—excuse me, that's Harmageddon in Ezekiel and Armageddon in Revelation. Whose battle is it at that point? It's not yours and mine; it's time to stand back and say, "Go get 'em, Lord!" because He's going to do it. Why is He going to do it? Because He wants everyone to know that He is real as we go into the eternity. He wants people to know He is God and stop this nonsense of all the idolatry that's going around in the world. I think He's going to make believers out of them. "I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds"—no more wicked, no more evil. "And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands"—and I'll include the image of the beast in Revelation chapter 13. "And I will pluck up thy groves"—the places where they practice pagan, spiritual spring festivals, rolling Easter eggs on Easter instead of celebrating the Passover as we are doing here—"out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities." Ginsburg says the "cities" here should be translated "thine idols."
Verse 15 to conclude: "And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." In Luke 12:49, Jesus said, "I am sent as a fire; and what if when I return?"—I'm talking about the second advent—"the flame is already kindled." And I hope that you got out of this today that you have a large part to do with that flame being kindled. You have a large part to do with bringing forth the birth of a new age. You have a large part to do with knocking the whey out of the sheaves in hopes that we can pull one or two of them out of the fire. And the Assyrian—definitely a type for Antichrist. Can we learn from his types? I hope we can. We need to. We need to be prepared. I'll tell you, he's sharp; he's going to be good. Christ Himself said, "If this went on for three and a half years or seven years"—I forget which it was when He said it—"I fear there would be no flesh left. For the elect's sake, I'm going to shorten the period of time." So I mean, if Christ was concerned enough that He thinks, "Well I better shorten the time," we better be concerned as well. So with that, the Assyrian—I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did preparing it for you.
Pastor Dennis A. Murray
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