Marantha, did you see the thread about Obama's dream?
http://www.christianforums.com/t7729438/
Freaky!
Thanks Sister. I just went and read that today.... that doesn't surprise me in the least bit; I have known for a couple years now about who "The Assyrian" is. Remember that much of Africa was part of the Assyrian Empire, and also part of the Roman Empire.
If you like read Isaiah Chapter 10:5 through Chapter 10:27 and this will even make it MORE clear.
Come Lord Jesus
Marantha
THE ASSYRIAN
{10:5} O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is mine indignation.
{10:6} 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.
{10:7} 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.
{10:8} For he saith, [Are] not my princes
altogether kings?
{10:9} [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is]
not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
{10:10} As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and
of Samaria;
{10:11} Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
{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.
{10:13} For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it,]
and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed
the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man:
{10:14} And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I
gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the
wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
{10:15} Shall the
axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall
the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the
rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if
the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.
{10:16} Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send
among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall
kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
{10:17} And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day;
{10:18} And shall consume the glory of his
forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they
shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
{10:19} And the
rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
{10:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them;
but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in
truth.
{10:21} The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant
of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
{10:22} For though thy
people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of
them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow
with righteousness.
{10:23} For the Lord GOD of hosts
shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of
all the land.
{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. {10:25} For
yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and
mine anger in their destruction.
{10:26} 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.
{10:27} 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.
