We know from scripture where the anti-Christ will arise & what his nationality is. We are also told that he is an Assyrian. Now this is a nationality even today. Andre Agassi, the famous tennis player is of Assyrian descent.
Details of the anti-Christ –
His nationality – Assyrian.
(Isa. 31: 8 Micah 5: 5)
No sister, he's not born in old Assyria (Southern Turkey, Northern Iraq, with a sliver of Syria.
The Middle Green version of the Kingdom was the most noted regional power base, as stated above, not the light green kingdom which did not last very long. So, Northern Iraq, Southern Turkey, and a sliver of Syria make up the old Assyrian power base.
Your problem, like many others, is you do not take all of the info about this coming Little Horn/A.C. into account, you only pick and choose what affirms you hypothesis, which is very bad for understanding eschatology in the long run.
So, is he the Assyrian, yes, by bloodline he has to be, but other scriptures show where he has to be born and where he has to arise to political power from, and because of "The Assyrian" angle you discount those facts in full, which is always an error in prophecy, we can not discount any prophecy.
Take Jesus' birth for instance, "he will come out of Egypt" (Hosea 11:1) Then the bile also says he will be born in Bethlehem. He is shown as a conquering king and a suffering servant, he will be a Nazarene, he is born of a virgin, he is the Son of God etc. etc. So, was Jesus an Egyptian by birth? No, he was born in Bethlehem, but he did also come out of Egypt, see my point(s) sister? All of the prophesies have to be fulfilled, not just "The Assyrian" prophesies. Lets say 2000 years ago if certain people choose only to look at Hosea 11:1 and not all of the prophesies about the Messiah they might have thought he was born in Egypt. That is why we can not pick and choose, we have to add all of the prophesies together.
So, is his nationality an Assyrian? No there was will be no Assyria to be born into, so this mention can only be about the "bloodline" sister, not where he is born. Syria, is not Assyria. So, where does this man have to be born at according to the scriptures? Well, we are told, God gives us every Greek king from Alexander the Great to Antiochus Epiphanes IV in verses 21-34 in Dan. 11, then we are shown the Little Horn/A.C. in verses 36-45. Why are we given every Greek king and then also given Little Horn/Anti-Christ at the end of that chapter? Because he is a Greek born king.
Reading Dan. 8:9 shows us this very clearly.
Daniell 8:8 Therefore
the he goat waxed very great(Alexander the Great): and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up "
four notable ones toward the four winds" of heaven.
(Direction)
9 And
out of one of them came forth a little horn(Do you get what this means sister ?), which
waxed exceeding great,
toward the south, and
toward the east, and
toward the pleasant land.
(He has to come out of one of the four generals locations.)
So, does the Anti-Christ conquer Israel? Yes, so we know
waxes great towards means he conquers in that Direction, (four winds is God telling us these four generals are used as directional inferences). And out of one of them, well one of who? Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander (Greece) and Antigones and/or Lysimachus. So, how do we know where he is from? You think (it seems) he is born in Syria (Seleucus) but the scriptures show us different sister? Does that matter to you or is your thesis the be all end all?
This man conquers in certain, foretold directions, toward the East or Seleucus toward the South or Ptolemy, and toward Israel. So lets look at a map and analyze this sister.
Only a Little Horn born in Greece/Cassander can conquer towards the East (Turkey/Seleucus) towards Israel and towards the South (Egypt/Ptolemy). There is no other option in this four way generals battle, known as the Syrian Wars of which there were six wars, the A.C./Little Horn will be the 7th battle. Its not involving Russia nor Iraq/Iran to the East, its an inter kingdom battle only !! We get Daniel 11 for one reason, the end time Little Horn will be a Greek born man.
There of course is one more prophetic statement that has to be fulfilled. Dan. 7:7-8.
Dan. 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold,
there came up among them another little horn(A.C.), before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in
this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
So, this Little Horn/A.C. is a man, who is born amongst the 10 kings, here God uses 10 as completion, so the 10 that arise out of the fourth beasts head simply means that this Beast's territory is reassembled, in full, completely (the E.U.) and then a man is born in the E.U. (10 kings/horns/toes), and he will then be given power by Satan through the E.U. And as we all know Greece is in the E.U.
So, you take the Assyrian and override all of the other prophesies. If you were living 2000 plus years ago your diagnoses of the coming Messiah would have been that he was born in Egypt, if you followed the trajectory you are putting forth here sister. A Little Horn/A.C. being born in Syria dos not pass muster, he will be born in Greece and come to power in the E.U. and he will indeed have an Assyrian bloodline. You see, my understanding allows for the Assyrian prophesy in Isaiah 10, you dismiss Dan. 8:9 and 7:7-8 and we can not dismiss prophecy.
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