Syria in Bible Prophecies

Overview

• Modern Day Syria• Syria in the Bible: main land area of Assyria• Assyria, one of the 10 Horns of the Beast Empire• Antichrist is called the Assyrian• Judgment on Assyria• Judgment on Damascus• Return of Israel people from Assyria after Armageddon• God’s blessing of Assyria in the Millennium• Appendix: Damascus in Quran Prophecies

Modern Day Syria

• Capital: Damascus• Largest City: Aleppo• Language: Arabic, Kurdish• Population: 22 Millions• GDP: $100 Billion

Syria in the Bible: Assyria

• Main land area of the Assyrian Empire• Capital: – Asshur 934 BC– Nineveh 706 BC– Harran 612 BC

• Large Cities: – Babylon– Damascus

Depiction of Jehu King of Israel giving tribute to King Shalmaneser III of Assyria, on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III from Nimrud (circa 827 BC) in the British Museum, London.

Assyrian Empire 934 to 609 BC

Deportation of Jews by Assyria

Assyria, one of the 10 Horns of the Beast Empire

• Please see the Islamic Antichrist presentation (slide 68 to 108) for a detail study of the Beast Empire.

Horns Country

1 Turkey

2 Iraq

3 Iran

4 Syria

5 Lebanon

6 Saudi Arabia

7 Jordan

8 Egypt

9 Cush: Ethiopia and/or Sudan and/or Saudi Arabia

10 Libya

Psalms 83 NationsPsalm 83 People Modern Day Nation

Edom Jordan, South East Israel

Ishmaelites Arabs: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Sudan

Moab Jordan

Hagrites Jordan

Gebal Jordan

Ammon Jordan

Amalek Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait

Philistia Gaza,

Tyre Lebanon

Asshur Syria, Iraq, East Turkey

The Beast Empire

Revelation 13:2 combination of Babylon (Lion), Medo-Persia (Bear) and Greece (Leopard)

Antichrist is called the Assyrian• Isaiah 10:5-7 Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my

fury! Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;

• Isaiah 14:24-25 YHVH (The Lord) of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot, and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.”

• Isaiah 31:8-9 “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor. His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” declares YHVH (the Lord), whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Antichrist is called the Assyrian (2)

• Isaiah 52:3-4 For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.

• Micah 5:5-6 And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men; they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

Antichrist is called the Assyrian (3)

• Numbers 24:21-24 And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock. Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive.” And he took up his discourse and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this? But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.”

Judgment of Assyria

• Isaiah 30:31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of YHVH (the Lord), when he strikes with his rod.

• Ezekiel 32:22 “Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

• Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Judgment of Damascus• Isaiah 17:1-3 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away

from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says YHVH (the Lord) of hosts.

• Jeremiah 49:23-27 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turned herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says YHVH (the Lord) of hosts. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

Judgment of Damascus (2)

• Amos 3-5: Thus says YHVH (the Lord); For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holds the scepter from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, says YHVH (the Lord).

Judgment of Damascus (3)

• Zechariah 9:1 The oracle of the word of YHVH (the Lord) is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For YHVH (the Lord) has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel, and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

Israel People called out of Assyria after Armageddon

• Isaiah 11:11 In that day YHVH (the Lord) will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

• Isaiah 27:12-13 In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt YHVH (the Lord) will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Jews called out of Assyria after Armageddon (2)

• Zechariah 10:10 I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.

• Micah 7:12-13 In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain. But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.

God’s blessing of Assyria in the Millennium

• Isaiah 19:23-25 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

Appendix

• Damascus in Quran Prophecies:• Isa, the Islamic Jesus (the false prophet of

Revelation 13) will appear in Damascus:• Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 7015: “At this

very time Allah would send Christ, son of Mary, and he will descend at the white minaret in the eastern side of Damascus wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two angels”