I will break the Assyrian in my land and on my mountains tread him.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“I will break the Assyrian in my land and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.”

(Isaiah 14:25)

The prophet Isaiah is one of the most cited by Jewish scholars. Interestingly, the oldest preserved Masoretic manuscript about his prophecies dated back to around 900 AD, and from which is originated the Old Testament in our Bibles. Remember that before there were no facilities to preserve documents like now, much less a paper mill, but the books were copied from generation to generation; nevertheless in 1947, about two kilometers from the Dead Sea, some Bedouin merchants while seeking for a goat that had strayed, found in a cave one of the most renowned archaeological discoveries in history, which were called later: ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls.’

Well, among the scrolls preserved for centuries wrapped with linen coated in wax and inside of clay jars, there was a manuscript of this book of the prophet Isaiah that we are analyzing here, and dating back to over 2000 years ago, coinciding with the same having in our Bible. As always, the critics of today busily trying to ignore God, and who are hidden behind university doctorate’s diplomas and philosophers, which said (with supposed reliable evidence) that the book of Isaiah was a modern invention, had to––once again––make the ridiculous; and it shows how God, in his omniscience of time, has kept the Holy Scriptures intact until the End of that Time.

Here the prophet Isaiah, after having previously described the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which occurred later in 722 BC under the Assyrian emperor Sargon; emphatically tells us that a few years later, in the time that king Hezekiah of Judea reigned from Jerusalem; this fearsome Assyrian Empire would suffer, this time at the hands of his successor son Sennacherib, a crushing defeat on the part of God in the land of Israel. It would be a globally recognized defeat that shall totally rock the empire till its imminent future ruin at the hands of the resurgent Babylonian Empire (606-536 BC).

Indeed this happened later, as we see in 36:1-15, 37: 21-38, where the angel of Yahweh exterminated nothing more and nothing less than 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who tried––uselessly––mocking God, to occupy the holy city of Jerusalem, where it was then located the Temple of God; and to put under submission the Southern Kingdom, mainly the tribe of Judah, into captivity and bondage.

The Jewish people did not have to ‘move a hair’ as we see it was a defeat led and executed directly by the hosts of God. This fulminant defeat prophesied by Isaiah beforehand––as aforementioned in this note––resonated throughout the land. Note that this army was the equivalent today of the U.S. army, equipped with the best stocked and supplied technology of the time. So the humiliation received by Sennacherib (son of Emperor Sargon), and now head of the empire himself at the front of the Assyrian army which had not sufficiently strong opponents in the world at that time (701 BC), it was due mostly to their idolatrous insult (37:36-38) and attempt to divide Israel including Jerusalem. Once returned to his land he was later murdered by two of his sons; succeeding to the throne other one son named Esarhaddon (2 Kgs 19:32-37). Thus ends up those who test the power of God.

Many today are carrying the same pride of the Assyrians and despise the children of God calling them fanatics and fools! Yahweh God promised to the Hebrew Abraham and his Israelite descendants, by making a perpetual covenant which ensures: “And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you…” (Gen 12:3, Nm 24:9).

(What will life be on our planet once the Lord fulfills the promise of his coming? If interested you can read it in the form of a literary narrative, recreated in the author's book entitled: 'The King Victorino').

[These and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Major Prophets of the Old Testament;' in print and digital editions] 

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