Are there any similarities between the Assyrians of the 7th century BC and prior and ISIS? Assyria encompassed the area which now comprises Syria, northern and central Iraq. This is the same area and peoples group of ISIS today. What does the acronym ISIS stand form? Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. I want share a brief view of the actions of the Assyrians against its enemies. Reliefs and inscriptions found by archaeologist of recordings by Ashurnasirpal II which were to record his actions and also to instill fear and terror on anyone who would resist:
"I flayed as many nobles as had rebelled against me, draped their skins over the pile [of corpses]; some I spread out within the pile, some I erected on stakes upon the pile. . . I flayed many right through my land, draped their skins over the walls..."
"I felled 50 of their fighting men with the sword, burnt 220 captives. . . I cut off the heads of their fighters. . . I burnt their adolescent boys and girls."
On another account he records:
"I cut off of others their noses, ears [and] extremities. I gouged out the eyes of many troops. I made a pile of the living, one of heads. I hung their heads on trees around the city."
The LORD GOD used the Assyrians against Israel, the northern kingdom, because Israel had turned its back on GOD, they had blasphemed GOD and refused to repent. Look at the brief description of the type of people were the Assyrians. Look at the actions of what could be called the rise of a Neo-Assyrian group calling itself ISIS. As GOD called Israel to repentance, so GOD is calling America to repentance. If America continues to defy the LORD GOD, continue to blaspheme the LORD, He will unleash judgment against, not only America, but the world who has made the itself the enemy and hater of the Creator, the LORD GOD of hosts.
[The emphasis is mine]
