5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

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.

When the Assyrian gets fairly under weigh, he is to rush like a whirlwind, and many countries will be overthrown. This wind may begin at any moment, and when it shall begin to blow, who shall stay the tempest?

It will not be a time of rebuilding new commercial emporiums, but of heart-failing for the ruin on every side.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, June 1858

17 And the light of Israel [Ohr Yisroel] (the logos) shall be for a fire [become an eish], and his Holy One [Kadosh] (The perfected Yahoshua) for a flame: and it shall burn and devour [consume] his thorns and his briers in one day [Yom Echad];

In this testimony "the Light of Israel" is the Logos of John; He is the fire; and his flame is the Holy One symbolised by the Son of man with his eyes as a flame of fire. This is the Mighty Hero to whom Jacob shall return.

Eureka 1.5.9.

21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob [Ya'akov], unto the mighty El [El Gibbor].

This "remnant" is that portion of the Jews which accept Jesus of Nazareth as "the Holy One of Ail;" who in Apoc. i. 18, says, "I am the First and the Last and the Living One; and I was dead, and behold I am living for the Aions of the Aions: the Amen." This is the AIL GIVBOR, the Hero-Power, or "Mighty God," to whom Shearyahshuv, or the "remnant shall retum," called the remnant of Jacob, "which shall stay upon Yahweh the Holy One of Israel ".

If the reader peruse this prophet attentively, he will see that the Eternal Spirit, who styled himself YAHWEH at the bush, identifies himself with "the Holy One," as in the form quoted, "Yahweh the Holy One of Israel." But in Hos. xi. 9, the Spirit saith, "I will not RETURN to destroy Ephraim; for I am AIL, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of Israel."

Now in Isa. x. 17, a distinction is apparent between Yahweh and the Holy One. YAHWEH is there presented as "the Light of Israel for a fire;" and the Holy One as "His Holy One for a flame:" but in (xliii. 3, 11), he saith to Israel, "I am Yahweh thine Elohim, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I even I, Yahweh, and beside me there is no saviour."

Yet the Spirit saith to AIL, concerning his "flesh" or his "soul," "My flesh shall dwell in confidence; for thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol (the place of the dead), nor wilt thou permit THY godly one to see corruption" (Ps. xvi. 9). Here the "godly one" in death, the Spirit styles his flesh, or his soul. That dead flesh, or soul, was not the Holy One; but when that mortal and corruptible flesh, or soul, was made alive by the Spirit of AIL, it became the "Yahweh Elohim, the Holy One of Israel;" or Yahweh, and "His Holy One" -- the Light, the Fire, and the Flame of Israel.

"That which has been born out of the Spirit is spirit." The Spirit-Logos first became flesh; and at its resurrection, that flesh became spirit; and therefore, "the Holy One and the True One;" for the Spirit is holiness and truth.

The glorified Jesus is the Logos or Divine Spirit, in Holy-Spirit flesh -- the Holy and True One. Before he was "perfected by Spirit," in speaking the words of the Spirit, he said, "I am the Way, THE TRUTH, and the Life;" and "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;" and the reason he gave was that he was "in the Father, and the Father in him" (John xiv. 6, 9,10).

In reference to this Elohal manifestation of the truth, John says, "We know that the Son of the Deity hath come, and hath given to us understanding that we may know THE TRUE ONE -- and we are in THE TRUE ONE, in His Son Jesus Anointed: the same is the true Deity and the Life of the Aion;" or Aion Life (1 John v. 20). To be "in him" is "the Way;" therefore he is "the Way:" the True Deity is the Anointed Logos in flesh, styled "Jesus Anointed;" and therefore "the Truth;" and the Aion-Life is "Christ our life;" and therefore "the Life."

Eureka 3.2.1.

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh 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.

As to the‭ "‬Assyrian‭" ‬and the Russian being the same,‭ ‬this conclusion arises from the fact that the latter-day achievements of the Assyrian,‭ ‬as described in the prophets,‭ ‬are identical with those which we know from Ezekiel and Daniel,‭ ‬are assigned to the Russian.‭

Thus,‭ ‬the Assyrian is the power to be broken in the land of Israel,‭ ‬preparatory to the appearance of the rod out of the stem of Jesse‭; Isaiah x, 24-34 ‬read in connection with the‭ ‬11th chapter,‭ ‬which is a continuation:‭ ‬chapter‭ xiv, 25; xxx, 30-31; xxxi, 8; ‬Micah,‭ v, 5-6‬.‭

It is unnecessary to prove that Russia will occupy this identical position at the identical time here spoken of.‭ ‬This fact is too palpable and well known to require demonstration here.‭ ‬The only point to be considered is the circumstance of the same power receiving two designations.‭

This is,‭ ‬doubtless,‭ ‬owing to the fact that both descriptions are,‭ ‬in their own place,‭ ‬correct.‭ ‬Politically,‭ ‬the power will be Russian:‭ ‬geographically and morally,‭ ‬in its relation to events in Palestine at the moment,‭ ‬it will be Assyrian,‭ ‬approaching the Holy Land through Assyria,‭ ‬and bearing the same hostile relation to God's land and people as that observed by the Assyrian of old.

‭The Ambassador of the Coming Age, April 1867. p104

26 And Yahweh 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.

ARMAGEDDON. Armageddwu.

"And the sixth angel gathered the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable into the place styled Hebraistically Armageddon."—(Rev. 16:16.)

Speaking of the period when the nations are to be gathered for judgment, which is the Harmagedon crisis of the Apocalypse, Yahweh saith,

"When I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather (by the Frog Power agency) all the Gentiles, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land."

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of judgment; for the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of judgment. The sun and the moon (of the Gentile heavens) shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Yahweh also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but Yahweh will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the sons of Israel. So shall ye know that I am Yahweh, thy God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more."—(Joel 3:1, 2, 12, 14–17.)

The words in italics prove this prediction to be unfulfilled; for when accomplished, Jerusalem will not be trodden under foot of the Gentiles, as she is at the present time.

"I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen."

"I will break the bow, and the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely. And I will betroth thee, O Israel, unto Me for ever; and Israel shall hear Jezreel. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves One Chief; and they shall come up out of the land (of the enemy), for great shall be the day of Jezreel."—(Hos. 1:7; 2:18, 19, 22; 1:11.)

And again, speaking of the child born and the Son given to Israel, and who appeared as a Great Light in the Harmagedon region of Palestine, the Spirit says of him, when he comes to "break in pieces the oppressor" of Israel,

"They joy before thee according to the joy of harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire."

"Therefore," thus saith Yahweh, God of Hosts,

"O, My people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian. For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and Mine anger in their destruction. And Yahweh of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. 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."—(Isa. 9:3–5; 10:24–27.)

By this testimony, we have Gideon's battle of Jezreel adduced as typical of the overthrow of the Assyrian, when Israel shall rejoice in the division of the spoil, and shall thenceforth be no more oppressed by a power exercising dominion over Assyria and Palestine.

The Assyrian yoke is to be destroyed, because of the anointing." This phrase is so obscure...But Micah explains it, by telling us that the Assyrian is to be destroyed by him who was to be born in Bethlehem—Ephratah, and who was anointed for this and other purposes.—(Mic. 5:2–6.)

Let the reader examine this testimony; and, if he admits that Jesus of Nazareth is the Bethlehem-born Ruler mentioned there, he will perceive that Jerusalem and the Holy Land are to be delivered from the Nebuchadnezzar or Assyrian Image Power by him: and, according to Israel, he will effect the deliverance "according to the slaughter of Midian, " by the sword of Yahweh and of Gideon," in the place called in the Hebrew tongue, Harmagedon."

A Bible Dictionary - Bro. Thomas

The Christadelphian, July 1872