The Assyrian had been sent as God's rod to punish Judah and then was repulsed, but he will seek to return to destroy Israel and will gather many nations under his power, but it will be to their utter destruction. They will gather at the valley of Jehoshaphat outside Jerusalem, multitudes of the heathen in the valley of decision, as a cloud to cover the land.
Joel 3:12
The Assyrian is proud, he does not stay at home, "he enlargeth his desire as hell" to conquer all nations, to heap unto him all peoples. "Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." How true this is of Russia today, as she plans to conquer the world.
Hab. 2:5 Prov. 27:20
This will be the war to end all wars before the millennial day, the climax of the great day of God Almighty, and will decide the controversy of Zion. There the Lord will sit to judge all of the heathen round about.
Matt. 25:31-46
There seem to be two aspects of judgment brought together, that of the warring nations attacking Israel in company with Gog, and also a sessional judgment upon the living nations who have heard the gospel of the kingdom but have rejected it by mistreating the Lord's servants.
The Lord will be against Gog, the great Assyrian, the leader of the world rebellion against God, His Christ, and His people. Gog will say, "I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;..., that dwell safely,...To take a spoil, and to take a prey;...upon the people..., which have gotten cattle and goods."
Ezek. 38:3 Ezek. 38:11
Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer (Germany) and his bands, all the house of Togarmah (Armenia) of the north quarters and all his bands, with many other people will come down like a flood, with Gog, to destroy Israel, "the land brought back from the sword and gathered out of many people."
Ezek. 38:16
The nations of Psa. 83 will also be of the number with Gog, of whom the prophets have spoken in regard to the day of the Lord, the same company responsible for the first attack.
Ezek. 38:17
God's people are told to not be afraid of the Assyrian in this last attack, similar to that of Pharaoh at the Red Sea, for he will be turned back and destroyed.
Isa. 10:24,25
Before the attack a great valley will have been opened when the Mount of Olives slave in the midst to the east and west, and the people of Israel will flee from the Assyrian to this valley.
Zech. 14:4,5
The Lord will come with fire and sword to plead with all flesh, and the slain shall be many, apostate Jews and Gentiles together. Through the mercy of God some of both Jews and Gentiles will escape to be sent as missionaries to declare the gospel of the kingdom during the millennial day to those who have never heard nor have seen His glory of judgment.
Isa. 66:15,16 Isa. 66:18,19
When the whole work has been performed in the heart of Israel, the Lord will destroy the Assyrian who will fall on the mountains of Israel. Edom, the leader in promoting attacks against Israel, will be destroyed without a remnant, and his land will become the last battlefield of the great day of God Almighty. It will take seven months to bury the dead. The Philistines will also lose their land.
Isa. 10:12 Isa. 14:25 Obad. Ezek. 39:12 Isa. 14:29-32
The yoke of the Assyrian upon Israel will be removed forever.
"The name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger,...his lips are full of indignation."
Isa. 30:27
"Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger."
Hab. 3:12
He will "sift the nations with the sieve of vanity."
Isa. 30:28
"I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Amos 9:9
God's glory in judgment upon the Assyrian and His glory in grace in restoring Israel will be manifested. "God came from Teman (Edom),...His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise." Judgment will then be past.
Isa. 63 Isa. 60 Hab. 3:3
"For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
Hab. 2:14
After full deliverance, the hearts of the entire nation will be deeply touched, fully repented, and every family will weep apart. There will be individual mourning because they will remember their ways and will review Isa. 53 which will remind them of their blood-guiltiness, also the sins of youth. They cry "out of the depths," as they mourn.
Ezek. 20:43 Zech. 12:10-14 Psa. 25:7 Psa. 130
The ten tribes will ask the Lord, "What are these wounds in thine hands?" He will answer, "Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."
Zech. 13:6
After mourning days are past, the barren woman Israel, who will then have more children than the married wife, will sing. As blessing will increase in the entire restored nation and death is swallowed up in victory, there will be a feast of fat things, joys never known before.
Isa. 54:1 2 Kings 8:6
The testimony of the true God, given to Israel in the past, will go out to all nations and peoples. All tears will be wiped away, the rebuke of His people gone forever.
Isa. 25
Israel had been told in Joel 2 that "afterward" or "thereupon" the Lord would pour out His Spirit, but after their being restored to Himself He will say, "I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel."
Ezek. 39:29
The Lord will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. He will put His law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts, and He will be their God, and they shall be His people. The new covenant in Israel will never be removed.
Jer. 31:31
Jews and Gentiles who are still on earth after the rapture of the Church, having heard and rejected the gospel of the grace of God in the present day, will experience none of the millennial blessing, but will be consigned to eternal punishment.
Psa. 9:17