I apologize for the length of this post, there's no way around it. It's an edited cut from 3 pages. The Assyrian Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke of Iron, and The Wicked Counselor.
Some people say the end-time anti-Christ is not a man but a spirit, that the man of sin is never called "the anti-Christ" in the bible.
What IS anti-Christ?
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that (THE) antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
The word THE was omitted in the KJV and other translations. The interlinear shows the word THE is in the original text. 1st John is the only place in the bible where the man of sin IS CALLED THE ANTI-CHRIST! The NIV has it right...
"Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour."
The first word ANTI-CHRIST in 1 John 2:18 has the word THE before it and is SINGULAR. The second word anti-Christ without the word THE is plural. This is how it's written in the Greek Interlinear...
Little-boys-and-girls LAST HOUR it-IS AND according-AS YE-HEAR that THE INSTEAD-ANOINTED IS COMING AND NOW INSTEAD-ANOINTEDS MANY HAVE-BECOME WHICH PLACE WE-ARE-KNOWING that LAST HOUR it-IS.
Sometimes it's difficult to determine whether a passage is referring to the end-time anti-Christ or the false prophet. Regardless, BOTH are referred to as HE. Personal pronouns are used to describe them so they are people possessed by the spirits of the evil ones.
Where does he come from?
For centuries people have believed Isaiah 10, 14, & 30, and Micah 5, identify the anti-Christ as an Assyrian, meaning he comes from the geographical area of ancient Assyria. People have for centuries believed that the one Nahum calls, "the wicked Counselor" IS also the anti-Christ and tells us from where he will originate.
Nineveh is the ancient capital city of the Assyrian Empire and this ancient city has produced the world's first dictator. Mesopotamia literally means “between the rivers,” (Acts 7:2-4). Assyria is the same area Nineveh resided, and the same place Saddam Hussein was born, "between the rivers."
Strong's says about Nineveh.. Capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon.
Nahum 1:7-11 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
There's a lot I could say about this but to keep it brief...
To be "folden together as thorns," means to have interwoven terror cells." These terror cells are a network of people "drunk with jihad." There are thousands of small and large terror cells that exist today, all of them the offspring of the ones we know by name.
Where does he authenticate himself?
The "HOLY PLACE" is where the anti-Christ will authenticate himself as the abomination, AKA, the Dome of the Rock complex, AKA, the anti-Christ monument which currently 'sits upon' (occupies) the ancient site of Solomon's and Herod's temple. That's the only piece of ground God has claimed as His own on the planet.
Muslim's want to make East Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock complex the Islamic Capital of their World Caliphate. East Jerusalem will once again be invaded and the Wailing Wall will be destroyed. That's the first sign that 'birth pangs' are here. The man of sin and his Islamic false prophet, and maybe even the Muslim jesus, authenticate East Jerusalem as that 'great city' of seven mountains and location of the ***** of Babylon. The Dome 'sits upon' Mount Moriah which is at the geographical center of Jerusalem's seven mountains.
Inscriptions on the octagonal structure of the Dome are anti-Christ. They say... -
There is no God but Allah. - God has no son; He begetteth not. - God taketh not unto Himself a son. - God has no associate. - Muhammad is the messenger of God. - Allah will preside on Judgment Day. Images of demons are visible in the marble at the entry way of the Dome. They were not etched into the marble but became visible over time. Amazing - take a look....
Demons at the Dome
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? The harlot who promises virgins in paradise to her jihadist, represents a large false religion, i.e. ISLAM, and worldwide terrorism. 'Sitteth' means "to occupy or have a fixed abode." This indicates that Islam is the dominate religion that 'OCCUPIES' this 10/7 Islamic empire of the beast which is an Islamic Caliphate of sorts, headquartered and operated from the Dome of the rock.
The Assyrian anti-Christ.
Finis Dake, Arthur Pink, E.W Bullinger, and Benjamin Newton, and many others all believed that the end-time anti-Christ would be an Assyrian and come from Babylon just like Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus Epiphanes did. He is the rod of God's anger against Israel in the end, the man God uses to bring Israel back to Him just before Christ returns.
A yoke is cited in some of the Assyrian chapters and I believe they're referring to Nebuchadnezzar's yoke of iron. Jeremiah 30:6-8 speaks of a yoke that will only break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble. The Assyrian is an instrument of God's wrath against Israel.
Isaiah 10:6-7 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. 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.
In Isaiah 14, the Assyrian anti-Christ is also called, "the king of Babylon" and he's also likened to Lucifer.
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!"
Isaiah 14 9-11 says that the occupants of hell are moved to meet the Assyrian anti-Christ when he arrives. Then in verse 12,... "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" The king of Babylon i.e. the Assyrian, is taunted and likened to Lucifer in Isaiah 14:16-20.
The anti-Christ - the Assyrian - the king of Babylon is destroyed in Israel and his yoke - AKA 'Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke of Iron' removed. NOTE: Daniel 8:25 says that the little horn (anti-Christ) will not be destroyed by human hands, and that's in accord with Isaiah 14 and 30 about the Assyrian!
Isaiah 14:25-26 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. 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 10:27 says the yoke is removed and destroyed and proves it's future because of "the anointing."
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.
Isaiah 30:27-32 is the Day of the Lord where he beats down the Assyrian anti-Christ.
v. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 10, 14, and 30 and Daniel 8 all say the Assyrian anti-Christ, AKA - the King of Babylon is destroyed by the LORD.
What does Micah say about the Assyrian?
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. 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.
Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Ashur" or Northern Iraq. Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel.
Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke of Iron.
Nebuchadnezzar was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:48 as to the yoke of iron that would one day come on Israel if they kept disobeying God. Jeremiah writes about Nebuchadnezzar as, "the yoke of iron king." Jeremiah 30:6-8 speaks of a yoke that will only break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jeremiah 30:6-8 "Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:"
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, (Nations of Israel) that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Isn't it just a bit strange that Nebuchadnezzar would impose a yoke of iron upon Israel that has NOT yet been broken, BUT WILL BREAK, at the time of tribulation?
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was also called a "king of kings" in Ez. 26:7. He's the king of Babylon, or, "THE OPPRESSOR" mentioned in Isaiah 14. An instrument of God's wrath.
Isaiah 14:2 says Israel "shall rule over their oppressors." (nations against Israel) That means when the yoke is broken, Israel will rule over the Arabs and Muslims in the region. This can only happen after the Lord returns and sets up His Millennial kingdom.
This "king of Babylon" or "Assyrian antichrist" could very well be a resurrected Nebuchadnezzar!
Jeremiah 30:7-9 tells us that the yoke will break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
This yoke can't be broken until the captivity or the 70 years are accomplished. Now look at how these verses are worded.
Jeremiah 25:11-12 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I WILL VISIT YOU, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 25:10-11 has yet to be 'completely' fulfilled because Nebuchadnezzar or the Babylonian kings never ruled the entire seventy years required to fulfill that prophecy.
The second invasion of Nebuchadnezzar came in 597. Jerusalem was captured, King Jehoichin was deported to Babylon, and Zedekiah was placed on the throne. 2 Kings 24:17 Nebuchadnezzar ascended to the throne of Babylon on the death of his father Nabopolassor in September 605 after defeating the Egyptian armies at the famous battle of Carchemish. Egypt was weakened and Babylon became the greatest gentile power in the world. Daniel, and others were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar in the same year 2 Kings 24:1. King Jehoiakim was made a vassal at that time, but soon proved rebellious. In 605 B.C. Jerusalem was attacked and Daniel and other captives were taken to Babylon. Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE.
The math.
605 minus 538 = 67 years. NOT 70!
Some bible scholars just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a 70 year prophecy that lasted only 66-67 years.
Some attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of it's fulfillment to historical error, and some have changed the dates. Most do agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years but say, "that's close enough!. Well God doesn't approximate!
It lasted between 66 and 67 years. Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled. That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy." That's the precise length of time the end-time anti-Christ is said to reign in the book of Revelation.
Now check out some things about this "Assyrian" who was born between the Euphrates and the Tigris...the middle of ancient Assyria. First...
We as Christians believe Jesus Christ taught that "we must be born again." We also believe that Jesus IS the resurrection. Did you know...
Saddam Hussein believed he was the god of rebirth and resurrection AND the re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar? He idolized Nebuchadnezzar and the Assyrian Empire.
The bible say's that the "man of sin" will recover from a fatal head wound. Saddam's head was nearly removed from his body when he was hung. I'm not at all convinced we got the right Saddam because there were 3-4 Saddam's! I just don't believe that the real Saddam would have been found in a hole in the ground with the amount of money he had. I think we found one of his doubles.
I think, as crazy as it sounds, that Saddam will return to fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years prophecy as the biblical anti-Christ, who could also be the Islamic dajjal. The Mahdi. In Arabic, al-Mahdi means, “The Guided One.” He is also sometimes referred to “The Lord of the Age” and “The Guided/Awaited One.”
On the day Saddam was captured, Time Magazine (European version) had its articles written and the cover photo done about another very important person. But because of the significance of Saddam's capture, they only had a few days to "replace" the cover photo and all the articles of this other person with Saddam's. The person that Saddam replaced was none other than...Jesus Christ. Is all of this COINCIDENCE?
The person Saddam idolized most was Nebuchadnezzar. The empire that Saddam emulated most was the Assyrian Empire. Saddam, the former "king of Babylon," qualifies as the Assyrian and a fatally wounded one at that!
Saddam had his and Nebuchadnezzar's name inscribed on every brick of some temples he built in honor of his greatness. Nine-tenths of all the bricks amid the ruins of Babylon are stamped with Nebuchadnezzar's name on them.
As of now, Saddam is my choice for antichrist. I suppose it could also be someone from Iran or Turkey.
Some people say the end-time anti-Christ is not a man but a spirit, that the man of sin is never called "the anti-Christ" in the bible.
What IS anti-Christ?
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that (THE) antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
The word THE was omitted in the KJV and other translations. The interlinear shows the word THE is in the original text. 1st John is the only place in the bible where the man of sin IS CALLED THE ANTI-CHRIST! The NIV has it right...
"Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour."
The first word ANTI-CHRIST in 1 John 2:18 has the word THE before it and is SINGULAR. The second word anti-Christ without the word THE is plural. This is how it's written in the Greek Interlinear...
Little-boys-and-girls LAST HOUR it-IS AND according-AS YE-HEAR that THE INSTEAD-ANOINTED IS COMING AND NOW INSTEAD-ANOINTEDS MANY HAVE-BECOME WHICH PLACE WE-ARE-KNOWING that LAST HOUR it-IS.
Sometimes it's difficult to determine whether a passage is referring to the end-time anti-Christ or the false prophet. Regardless, BOTH are referred to as HE. Personal pronouns are used to describe them so they are people possessed by the spirits of the evil ones.
Where does he come from?
For centuries people have believed Isaiah 10, 14, & 30, and Micah 5, identify the anti-Christ as an Assyrian, meaning he comes from the geographical area of ancient Assyria. People have for centuries believed that the one Nahum calls, "the wicked Counselor" IS also the anti-Christ and tells us from where he will originate.
Nineveh is the ancient capital city of the Assyrian Empire and this ancient city has produced the world's first dictator. Mesopotamia literally means “between the rivers,” (Acts 7:2-4). Assyria is the same area Nineveh resided, and the same place Saddam Hussein was born, "between the rivers."
Strong's says about Nineveh.. Capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon.
Nahum 1:7-11 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
There's a lot I could say about this but to keep it brief...
To be "folden together as thorns," means to have interwoven terror cells." These terror cells are a network of people "drunk with jihad." There are thousands of small and large terror cells that exist today, all of them the offspring of the ones we know by name.
Where does he authenticate himself?
The "HOLY PLACE" is where the anti-Christ will authenticate himself as the abomination, AKA, the Dome of the Rock complex, AKA, the anti-Christ monument which currently 'sits upon' (occupies) the ancient site of Solomon's and Herod's temple. That's the only piece of ground God has claimed as His own on the planet.
Muslim's want to make East Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock complex the Islamic Capital of their World Caliphate. East Jerusalem will once again be invaded and the Wailing Wall will be destroyed. That's the first sign that 'birth pangs' are here. The man of sin and his Islamic false prophet, and maybe even the Muslim jesus, authenticate East Jerusalem as that 'great city' of seven mountains and location of the ***** of Babylon. The Dome 'sits upon' Mount Moriah which is at the geographical center of Jerusalem's seven mountains.
Inscriptions on the octagonal structure of the Dome are anti-Christ. They say... -
There is no God but Allah. - God has no son; He begetteth not. - God taketh not unto Himself a son. - God has no associate. - Muhammad is the messenger of God. - Allah will preside on Judgment Day. Images of demons are visible in the marble at the entry way of the Dome. They were not etched into the marble but became visible over time. Amazing - take a look....
Demons at the Dome
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? The harlot who promises virgins in paradise to her jihadist, represents a large false religion, i.e. ISLAM, and worldwide terrorism. 'Sitteth' means "to occupy or have a fixed abode." This indicates that Islam is the dominate religion that 'OCCUPIES' this 10/7 Islamic empire of the beast which is an Islamic Caliphate of sorts, headquartered and operated from the Dome of the rock.
The Assyrian anti-Christ.
Finis Dake, Arthur Pink, E.W Bullinger, and Benjamin Newton, and many others all believed that the end-time anti-Christ would be an Assyrian and come from Babylon just like Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus Epiphanes did. He is the rod of God's anger against Israel in the end, the man God uses to bring Israel back to Him just before Christ returns.
A yoke is cited in some of the Assyrian chapters and I believe they're referring to Nebuchadnezzar's yoke of iron. Jeremiah 30:6-8 speaks of a yoke that will only break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble. The Assyrian is an instrument of God's wrath against Israel.
Isaiah 10:6-7 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. 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.
In Isaiah 14, the Assyrian anti-Christ is also called, "the king of Babylon" and he's also likened to Lucifer.
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!"
Isaiah 14 9-11 says that the occupants of hell are moved to meet the Assyrian anti-Christ when he arrives. Then in verse 12,... "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" The king of Babylon i.e. the Assyrian, is taunted and likened to Lucifer in Isaiah 14:16-20.
The anti-Christ - the Assyrian - the king of Babylon is destroyed in Israel and his yoke - AKA 'Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke of Iron' removed. NOTE: Daniel 8:25 says that the little horn (anti-Christ) will not be destroyed by human hands, and that's in accord with Isaiah 14 and 30 about the Assyrian!
Isaiah 14:25-26 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. 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 10:27 says the yoke is removed and destroyed and proves it's future because of "the anointing."
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.
Isaiah 30:27-32 is the Day of the Lord where he beats down the Assyrian anti-Christ.
v. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 10, 14, and 30 and Daniel 8 all say the Assyrian anti-Christ, AKA - the King of Babylon is destroyed by the LORD.
What does Micah say about the Assyrian?
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. 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.
Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria and located in "Ashur" or Northern Iraq. Nimrod founded Babylon and built the tower of Babel.
Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke of Iron.
Nebuchadnezzar was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28:48 as to the yoke of iron that would one day come on Israel if they kept disobeying God. Jeremiah writes about Nebuchadnezzar as, "the yoke of iron king." Jeremiah 30:6-8 speaks of a yoke that will only break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Jeremiah 30:6-8 "Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:"
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, (Nations of Israel) that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Isn't it just a bit strange that Nebuchadnezzar would impose a yoke of iron upon Israel that has NOT yet been broken, BUT WILL BREAK, at the time of tribulation?
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was also called a "king of kings" in Ez. 26:7. He's the king of Babylon, or, "THE OPPRESSOR" mentioned in Isaiah 14. An instrument of God's wrath.
Isaiah 14:2 says Israel "shall rule over their oppressors." (nations against Israel) That means when the yoke is broken, Israel will rule over the Arabs and Muslims in the region. This can only happen after the Lord returns and sets up His Millennial kingdom.
This "king of Babylon" or "Assyrian antichrist" could very well be a resurrected Nebuchadnezzar!
Jeremiah 30:7-9 tells us that the yoke will break at the end of the time of Jacob's trouble.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
This yoke can't be broken until the captivity or the 70 years are accomplished. Now look at how these verses are worded.
Jeremiah 25:11-12 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I WILL VISIT YOU, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 25:10-11 has yet to be 'completely' fulfilled because Nebuchadnezzar or the Babylonian kings never ruled the entire seventy years required to fulfill that prophecy.
The second invasion of Nebuchadnezzar came in 597. Jerusalem was captured, King Jehoichin was deported to Babylon, and Zedekiah was placed on the throne. 2 Kings 24:17 Nebuchadnezzar ascended to the throne of Babylon on the death of his father Nabopolassor in September 605 after defeating the Egyptian armies at the famous battle of Carchemish. Egypt was weakened and Babylon became the greatest gentile power in the world. Daniel, and others were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar in the same year 2 Kings 24:1. King Jehoiakim was made a vassal at that time, but soon proved rebellious. In 605 B.C. Jerusalem was attacked and Daniel and other captives were taken to Babylon. Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to their homeland in 538 BCE.
The math.
605 minus 538 = 67 years. NOT 70!
Some bible scholars just can't believe that God would make a mistake about a 70 year prophecy that lasted only 66-67 years.
Some attributed the missing 3 1/2 years of it's fulfillment to historical error, and some have changed the dates. Most do agree that the Babylonian captivity/servitude of Israel didn't last 70 years but say, "that's close enough!. Well God doesn't approximate!
It lasted between 66 and 67 years. Only 66.5 years of the Babylonian captivity has been fulfilled. That leaves three and a half years of "unfulfilled prophecy." That's the precise length of time the end-time anti-Christ is said to reign in the book of Revelation.
Now check out some things about this "Assyrian" who was born between the Euphrates and the Tigris...the middle of ancient Assyria. First...
We as Christians believe Jesus Christ taught that "we must be born again." We also believe that Jesus IS the resurrection. Did you know...
Saddam Hussein believed he was the god of rebirth and resurrection AND the re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar? He idolized Nebuchadnezzar and the Assyrian Empire.
The bible say's that the "man of sin" will recover from a fatal head wound. Saddam's head was nearly removed from his body when he was hung. I'm not at all convinced we got the right Saddam because there were 3-4 Saddam's! I just don't believe that the real Saddam would have been found in a hole in the ground with the amount of money he had. I think we found one of his doubles.
I think, as crazy as it sounds, that Saddam will return to fulfill the remaining 3 1/2 years prophecy as the biblical anti-Christ, who could also be the Islamic dajjal. The Mahdi. In Arabic, al-Mahdi means, “The Guided One.” He is also sometimes referred to “The Lord of the Age” and “The Guided/Awaited One.”
On the day Saddam was captured, Time Magazine (European version) had its articles written and the cover photo done about another very important person. But because of the significance of Saddam's capture, they only had a few days to "replace" the cover photo and all the articles of this other person with Saddam's. The person that Saddam replaced was none other than...Jesus Christ. Is all of this COINCIDENCE?
The person Saddam idolized most was Nebuchadnezzar. The empire that Saddam emulated most was the Assyrian Empire. Saddam, the former "king of Babylon," qualifies as the Assyrian and a fatally wounded one at that!
Saddam had his and Nebuchadnezzar's name inscribed on every brick of some temples he built in honor of his greatness. Nine-tenths of all the bricks amid the ruins of Babylon are stamped with Nebuchadnezzar's name on them.
As of now, Saddam is my choice for antichrist. I suppose it could also be someone from Iran or Turkey.
