There's much to cover about the Assyrian. This is just a quick summary of a few of those verses. I'll do my best to cover the rest in my replies.
Isaiah 10, 14 and 30 and Micah 5 are some of the most neglected of all end-time prophecies. There are so many places where the anti-christ is called the 'Assyrian' that we shouldn't disregard it. However, it has been neglected due to the overwhelming number of 'experts' who claim the anti-christ would be a Roman or European.
Benjamin Newton in his book "Aids to the Study of Prophetic Inquiry" written in 1859, predicted that the "true antichrist of the New Testament should arise from the same Babylon" that Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus Epiphanes rose from.
Finis Dake, Arthur Pink, E.W Bullinger, and Benjamin Newton all believed that the antichrist would be an Assyrian.
The Millennium, Israel, and the future anti-christ are the main topics of Isaiah 14.
Isaiah 14:1 ¶For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Verses 1-3 tell us that God will yet chose Israel and set them in their own land and many gentiles will be converted and joined with Israel and serve them. The gentiles will help bring Israel home and Israel will 'posses' the gentiles in the land of Israel and become servants and handmaids.The Israelites will take captive those who once took them captive. In v.2 Israel will rule over their oppressors (nations against Israel) and the king of Babylon is described as Israel's oppressor.
Verse 3 says, " it shall come to pass in the day". What day? In the day of the second advent of Christ. V. 3 indicates that, "The LORD shall give thee (Israel) rest from their sorrow, fear, and from the hard bondage, wherein thou wast made to serve. Israel has never been given rest from the Lord. They have never possessed the gentiles in Israel or made them servants. And Israel has never ruled over their oppressors. This chapter is certainly talking about the Millennial kingdom.
Isaiah 14:4 ¶That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Israel will rejoice and sing a funeral song about their triumph over the Assyrian anti-christ. I think it's clear that this entire passage is future and can only be fulfilled during the Millennium. The Assyrian is also called the king of Babylon!
Isaiah 14:5-6 declares that the anti-christ is destroyed.
Verse 7-8 is clearly a millenial passage because at no time in the past has the whole earth been at rest. Even the cedars and fir trees rejoice!
Isaiah 14:9-11 says that the occupants of hell are moved to meet him when he arrives. Even the chief ones and kings of the nations are moved at his coming! They tell him, "Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. The anti-christ is DEAD!
Isaiah 14:12-15 The king of Babylon i.e. the Assyrian is taunted and likened to Lucifer.
Isaiah 14:16-20 there is more taunting of the anti-christ by the nations.
Isaiah 14:21-23 Babylon is left desolate.
Isaiah 14:24-27 The Lord makes an oath to destroy the anti-christ! The Assyrian is broken in Israel, his yoke removed and the burden departs from Israel. Daniel says that the anti-christ will not be destroyed by human hands and that's in accord with V.25 about the Assyrian!
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah says "be not afraid of the Assyrian."
This again is future because of "the anointing." Read it and look at the similarities to chapter 14.
Isaiah 10:24 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Now read Isaiah 30:27-32. This is the Day of the Lord where he beats down (not up) the Assyrian.
Isaiah 30:27 ¶Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
The Assyrian anti-christ.
Jesus Christ will only rule at the millennium after Israel is restored.
Micah 5:3-6 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. (The remnant of Jesus brethren; Israel restored)
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. (Jesus now reigns on earth)
Jesus will rule only after the Assyrian treads upon Israel's palaces.
5 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.
Daniel 11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Israel destroys the Assyrian's own land, the land of Nimrod, after he treads within Israel's borders.
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.
Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Ashur" or Northern Iraq.
Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel. Genesis 10:8-11. (This is where I believe the antichrist will come from.)
The Lord cannot finish his work upon mount zion or on Jerusalem until he returns. And then he will punish the king of Assyria. Therefore, this can't be an ancient king of Assyria. It has to be a future king of Assyria!
Isaiah 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
It's the voice of the Lord that beats down the Assyrian. Not another army.
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
The Assyrian is the rod of God's anger against Israel.
Isaiah 10:5 ¶O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
According to verse seven, I have to agree with another author who says that the antichrist may not even know he is the antichrist!
Isaiah 10, 14 and 30 and Micah 5 are some of the most neglected of all end-time prophecies. There are so many places where the anti-christ is called the 'Assyrian' that we shouldn't disregard it. However, it has been neglected due to the overwhelming number of 'experts' who claim the anti-christ would be a Roman or European.
Benjamin Newton in his book "Aids to the Study of Prophetic Inquiry" written in 1859, predicted that the "true antichrist of the New Testament should arise from the same Babylon" that Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus Epiphanes rose from.
Finis Dake, Arthur Pink, E.W Bullinger, and Benjamin Newton all believed that the antichrist would be an Assyrian.
The Millennium, Israel, and the future anti-christ are the main topics of Isaiah 14.
Isaiah 14:1 ¶For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Verses 1-3 tell us that God will yet chose Israel and set them in their own land and many gentiles will be converted and joined with Israel and serve them. The gentiles will help bring Israel home and Israel will 'posses' the gentiles in the land of Israel and become servants and handmaids.The Israelites will take captive those who once took them captive. In v.2 Israel will rule over their oppressors (nations against Israel) and the king of Babylon is described as Israel's oppressor.
Verse 3 says, " it shall come to pass in the day". What day? In the day of the second advent of Christ. V. 3 indicates that, "The LORD shall give thee (Israel) rest from their sorrow, fear, and from the hard bondage, wherein thou wast made to serve. Israel has never been given rest from the Lord. They have never possessed the gentiles in Israel or made them servants. And Israel has never ruled over their oppressors. This chapter is certainly talking about the Millennial kingdom.
Isaiah 14:4 ¶That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Israel will rejoice and sing a funeral song about their triumph over the Assyrian anti-christ. I think it's clear that this entire passage is future and can only be fulfilled during the Millennium. The Assyrian is also called the king of Babylon!
Isaiah 14:5-6 declares that the anti-christ is destroyed.
Verse 7-8 is clearly a millenial passage because at no time in the past has the whole earth been at rest. Even the cedars and fir trees rejoice!
Isaiah 14:9-11 says that the occupants of hell are moved to meet him when he arrives. Even the chief ones and kings of the nations are moved at his coming! They tell him, "Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. The anti-christ is DEAD!
Isaiah 14:12-15 The king of Babylon i.e. the Assyrian is taunted and likened to Lucifer.
Isaiah 14:16-20 there is more taunting of the anti-christ by the nations.
Isaiah 14:21-23 Babylon is left desolate.
Isaiah 14:24-27 The Lord makes an oath to destroy the anti-christ! The Assyrian is broken in Israel, his yoke removed and the burden departs from Israel. Daniel says that the anti-christ will not be destroyed by human hands and that's in accord with V.25 about the Assyrian!
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah says "be not afraid of the Assyrian."
This again is future because of "the anointing." Read it and look at the similarities to chapter 14.
Isaiah 10:24 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Now read Isaiah 30:27-32. This is the Day of the Lord where he beats down (not up) the Assyrian.
Isaiah 30:27 ¶Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
The Assyrian anti-christ.
Jesus Christ will only rule at the millennium after Israel is restored.
Micah 5:3-6 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. (The remnant of Jesus brethren; Israel restored)
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. (Jesus now reigns on earth)
Jesus will rule only after the Assyrian treads upon Israel's palaces.
5 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.
Daniel 11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Israel destroys the Assyrian's own land, the land of Nimrod, after he treads within Israel's borders.
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.
Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Ashur" or Northern Iraq.
Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel. Genesis 10:8-11. (This is where I believe the antichrist will come from.)
The Lord cannot finish his work upon mount zion or on Jerusalem until he returns. And then he will punish the king of Assyria. Therefore, this can't be an ancient king of Assyria. It has to be a future king of Assyria!
Isaiah 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
It's the voice of the Lord that beats down the Assyrian. Not another army.
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
The Assyrian is the rod of God's anger against Israel.
Isaiah 10:5 ¶O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
According to verse seven, I have to agree with another author who says that the antichrist may not even know he is the antichrist!