In today’s news from aljazeera.com, we read about how the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq are planning to vote to officially declare their independence.  This region, formerly the center of the Assyrian Empire, will indeed soon become a sovereign nation once again and its importance to Biblical prophecy cannot be understated.

Why?

It’s because it is from this region, and specifically from ancient Assyria that the anti-messiah will emerge to establish his fraudulent one-world government and one-world religion.  To discover the progress of the Kurd’s effort toward independence, click here:

In fact, the generation that we are currently living in is patterned after the entire lifetime of Yahshua Anointed over 2,000 years ago.  Most of you know that he began his ministry at age 30, as explained in Luke.

Luke 3:23–“²³ And Yahshua himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,”

In an earlier post, I explained how we can pinpoint the exact day of Yahshua’s birth as Sept. 11, 3 B.C.E., which you can read here.  The 2,000 years that followed since that time brought us to the fall of 1998.  From that point forward, “this” generation will follow the same 33 1/2 years as was the life of Yahshua from over 2,000 years ago.  With this in mind, we need to realize that the anti-messiah has already been born and is now about age 19.  In just over 11 years from now, he will emerge on the world stage and he will come FROM the same Kurdish region that is the focus of today’s news story.

So, this is no random story about the Kurdish people.  The reintroduction of this sovereign nation–formerly Assyria–will have significant Biblical importance.  Their independence will be officially declared and they will be ruled by three “kings” in succession.

How do we know that the modern Kurds are actually the revival of the ancient Assyrians?  Also, even if this is true, how do we know that the revived Assyrian people are the nation from which the anti messiah will originate?  Isn’t this just speculation?

The first question is obvious by simply looking at a map of the Assyrian Empire and seeing what parts of the Middle East comprised that kingdom.  The second question can be answered by carefully reading Daniel chapters 7 and 11 and Revelation chapters 13 and 17.

When Daniel describes the four great beasts in chapter 7, he’s referring to four kingdoms on earth.  The fourth “beast”, or kingdom, exceeds the power of the previous three kingdoms.

Dan. 7:7–“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.”

The ten horns are a clear reference to the ten kingdoms that will surround Israel in the latter days as described in Revelation 17, lead by this powerful fourth beast, but the reader is not informed of the  location.  Daniel makes this clear in chapter 11 when he identifies the king of the north.

Dan. 11:6–“And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the KING OF THE NORTH to make an agreement….”

At first glance, few readers would understand where this kingdom was located because they don’t understand that virtually all of Biblical prophecy pertains to land–specifically the lands in and around the holy lands of Israel.  When the Bible refers to the east, it’s identifying lands directly to the east of Israel.  If it speaks of the lands to the south, it could be Syria, Egypt or other African nations.  Thus, the king of the north is a nation within the Middle East that is north of Israel.

In fact, of the four beasts, or kingdoms, spoken of in Daniel, all four are kingdoms or empires within that same region.  The Babylonian Empire came first.  Then, the rise of the Medo-Persian Empire which dominated the region.  Later, the Greek Empire, which was in existence during Yahshua’s lifetime, was the most dominant nation on earth.

The fourth kingdom–a nation which once was the Assyrian Empire–will come again and in today’s news story we can see these seeds being planted for this prophecy to be fulfilled.  All four kingdoms will, to a certain degree, be in existence simultaneously in these latter days.

The Kurdish region will become the most important nation in the Middle East and thus the most important nation on earth, once it rises into prominence.  The anti messiah will introduce his fraudulent one-world government and one-world religion to every nation on earth.  With this evil rule will come death and destruction, as described by Jeremiah.

Jer. 1:14–“Then Yahweh said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.”

Jer. 6:1–“O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.”

Jer. 46:20–“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”

In each of these circumstances, the kingdom that comes out of the north is identifying the northernmost region of the Middle East, not “north” as in Finland or Canada.  Or in this case, the reintroduction of and ancient Assyrian Empire as a new modern nation.

The destruction that Jeremiah is talking about is the anti-messiah uniting ten Arab nations to go to war against Israel.  For a time, the anti-messiah will successfully take his seat upon the throne in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, but this will be short-lived.  Any person who dares sit on the throne that is reserved for Yahshua alone is an abomination that pollutes the sanctuary [Temple].  He will soon afterward be destroyed upon Yahshua’s return as ruler of the earth.

Dan. 11:31–“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.”

It is for this reason that we need to keep a close eye on the push for Kurdish independence.  When (not if) they’re successful in establishing their independence, I won’t be surprised if they decide the change their name back to Assyria once again.  It has a nicer ring to it than Kurdistan.  We’ll see.