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A FURTHER EXEGESIS OF THE "ASSYRIAN".

Jehovah uses as His "rod" a cruel nation, symbolically described as the "Assyrian", to strike a Godless or apostate nation. (Isaiah 10:5 NEB NWT). Jehovah used Nazi Germany as His "rod" against apostate Jews during the Second World War when 6,000,000 of them were gathered from the nations overrun by Nazis with "Assyrian" natures and exterminated. (10:5 7 NEB).

THE "ASSYRIAN" GLORIFYING HIMSELF TODAY.
Those who are part of the symbolic "Assyrian" "axe" today even believe they can "enhance [themselves] over the One chopping with it" or "magnify [themselves] over the One moving it back and forth, as though the staff moved back and forth the ones raising it on high, as though the rod raised on high the One who is not wood" ! trying to magnify themselves over Almighty God Jehovah and His holy angels ! (10:15). For their insolence, Jehovah will "keep sending upon his fat ones a wasting disease". (10:12,16).

Many among the inhabitants of Iran and Iraq (modern-day Assyria) have expressed the wish "to cut off nations not a few", and as the means of doing this have often disrupted the supply of oil. (10:7). Oil is an essential commodity for those "driving others to work". (14:4). Inhabitants of modern-day Assyria falsely claim to be worshippers of God. But they put their faith in a false prophet, Mohammed, and powerful demon angels, the jinn. By ignoring the Spirit Law of God contained in His Holy Scriptures they are proven to be an apostate nation, of whom very few will survive. (10:17-19).

Jehovah has described the means by which He will punish the insolent "Assyrian": "Israel's Light must become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it must blaze up and eat up his* weeds and his* thornbushes in one day." (the Assyrian*). (10:17,18). All "Assyrian" glory-seekers worldwide, including those of an "Assyrian" disposition in Iran and Iraq, will waste away by the Spirit "fire" of the Lord's Judgement burning "under [their] glory" (within them) until these "weeds" and "thornbushes" though as great as a "forest" are destroyed. All the "fat ones" now receiving glory shall waste away with sickness at the overflowing flood of righteousness from God within them. (10:22 NEB & footnote).

The "instrument of final destruction" for the extermination of glory-seekers will reach all that have lifted up the "staff" of oppression and persecution against spiritual sons of "Jacob" in the way that Egypt did. (10:24) (14:1 6). Just as ancient Egypt stubbornly refused to release God's chosen people Israel until a death-dealing wasting disease from God befell them to effect their release from Egypt's "yoke", so the breaking of the mighty "Assyrian" is the plan prepared for the whole earth by Almighty God:

"The Lord of Hosts has sworn: In very truth, as I planned, so shall it be; as I designed, so shall it fall out: I will break the Assyrian in My own land and trample him underfoot upon My mountains; his yoke shall be lifted from you, his burden taken from your shoulders. This is the plan prepared for the whole earth, this the hand stretched out over all the nations. For the Lord of Hosts has prepared His plan: who shall frustrate it? His is the hand stretched out, and who shall turn it back?" (14:24-27 NEB).

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