The Empire of Assyria was on the move as nation after nation fell before their power. They were a fierce and cruel nation that brought fear and trepidation and alarm into those they were conquering. In the Bible the kings of Assyria and of Babylon were types of the Antichrist who will come with his armies against the nation of Israel in these last of the last days. In the time of Isaiah the northern kingdom of the people of Israel with its capital city at Samaria had fallen to the Assyrians in 722BC. The southern kingdom of the people of Israel called Judah with its capital at Jerusalem was also under threat by the Assyrian king Sennacherib in the time of the prophet Isaiah…
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