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The Assyrian
Woe to Those who Write Scripture…
The 10th chapter of Yasha’yah picks up right where we left off, with Yahowah exposing and condemning religion and politics. These evil human appendages would cost His people their reputation, possessions, and lives.
This time, God ascribes blame, identifying the common denominator in these pervasive worldwide schemes. We will be introduced to an extraordinarily arrogant and merciless implement, to the Assyrian. We will discover how this tool, whether wielded as a rod, staff, scepter, or spear, denoting the implements of economic, religious, political, and military control, would seek to rise above his Maker and come to defraud the masses as if he were God.
This all came as a bit of a surprise to me because I did not expect to be introduced to the Adversary or have God explain from whence he came or how he would prevail until we were well into the 14th chapter of Yasha’yah / Isaiah. And while I realized that the key to understanding who Satan is and how he operates would lie in those words, and while I was aware that the Adversary was nothing more than a spiritual implement gone awry, I was pleasantly surprised that Yahowah unambiguously described him as such.
We will soon learn that God would let Satan do as he desired because by acting upon his corrupted programming, the Adversary could be used to teach God’s wayward children a lesson they should have understood. 237But in fact, Yisra’el would not learn this lesson for another 2,700 years and Satan would never come to respect his limited role.
The reason that I had previously been unaware that the 10th chapter’s portrayal of the Assyrian was actually Satan is because the Adversary is identified with Babylon in the 14th chapter of Yasha’yah. But what is the difference between ‘Ashuwr and Babel? Is it not the same place, the same people, the same militant approach, the same religious devotion?
It was during this time, circa 725 to 700 BCE that Assyria adopted the Babylonian name for their god and began to call him “Bel – Lord.” They too were now “Ba-Bel – With the Lord.” There was no longer any distinction between them and little between them and the worldwide religions that would emerge from them: Christianity, Islam, and Talmudic Judaism.
This then will make the transition from religious Scripture to Satan especially telling. So, without further ado, thus begins the 10th chapter of Yasha’yah…
“Woe (howy – alas, this warning signaling impending doom) to those who inscribe (chaqaq – to those writing and enacting (qal participle active)) deceitful, idolatrous, and inappropriate (‘aown | ‘awon – corrupt and immoral, inaccurate and fraudulent, unfavorable and troublesome, wicked and evil, unjust and unjustified) statutes (choq – prescriptions for living, regulations and decrees, thoughts and ordinances, portrayals and inscriptions) and (wa) to those who compose and record (kathab – who write down, issuing a written statement (piel active – the object suffers the effect)) scripture, writing letters and books (kathab – inscribing documents, publishing books, and communicating things in writing), which are troublesome and laborious (‘amal – oppressive, unpleasant, and unappealing, perverse and miserable, works oriented, 238requiring considerable effort, which are wearisome; from ‘amal – to labor and toil intensively, unrelenting and unrewarding work).” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:1)
For those prone to quoting Paul’s final letter to his lover, Timothy, and objecting by suggesting that “all Scripture is inspired by god and profitable for teaching” (2 Timothy 3:16), you may want to be careful. First, Paul’s god was indistinguishable from the Assyrian whom we will meet momentarily. And second, he wrote grapho, which was the common Greek word for “writing,” the equivalent to the Hebrew “kathab – writing.”
Paul’s toxic scribbles only became “Scripture” because a misguided theologian transliterated the Latin word for writing, scriptura, into English. Yahowah does not inspire Scripture. He has no association of any kind with Latin, with Rome, with Greek, with the Greeks, with Paul, with Timothy, with Paul’s Epistles, or with their resulting “Scripture.”
Yahowah is warning His children, telling them to avoid anything that has been written by religious Jews, Christians, Mormons, or Muslims. Rabbis wrote their Talmud as a collection of religious arguments which they fraudulently ascribed to God. In so doing, they replaced the learning and liberty we enjoy in the Towrah with a suffocating and wearisome religion with countless rules and regulations.
Christians created an inappropriate and idolatrous (recognizing that their Trinity is Babylonian and the Lord is their god) religion with an endless set of laws which they inscribed in their Scripture and Church Canon. Worse, they deceitfully portrayed Yahowah’s Towrah as “unrelenting and unrewarding work” in their New Testament.
The Mormons require ten percent of their members’ income, and 18 months to two years of each person’s life 239as part of their mission, in addition to imposing highly restrictive rules on conduct. The conditions which must be met to allow entrance into their inner sanctum are particularly burdensome.
Muhammad was illiterate, so while this does not apply directly to him, Islam is a works-based religion. The prayers, donations, and hajj are mandatory. And while jihad is required of every male, Muslim women have no rights and are punished for the smallest and most arcane infractions of Islamic Law.
While there are many culprits here, if we were to nominate four, they would be Paul, Akiba, Maimonides, and Joseph Smith. But they did not work alone.
Yahowah’s position on His Towrah | Guidance is clear: it will never change, therefore do not add to it nor subtract from it. Therefore, how does one justify the Pauline New Testament, the Babylonian Talmud, Maimonides’ Mishnah Torah, Muhammad’s Quran, or Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon?
They all attempt to derive their credibility from Yahowah’s Towrah but then supplement and negate it, all claiming that their new twist on things was Divinely sanctioned. This religious position is not only ignorant and irrational, it is unGodly. Even worse, we will soon discover that Scripture is Satanic.
“For (la) they scheme to pervert and turn away (natah – they plot, warp the process, and conspire to bend and twist, deceptively leading) the powerless and impoverished (dal – the poor and needy, those without status in the community, the helpless and weak, but also the languishing and apathetic) from justice (min dyn – from a proper defense and from exercising good judgment, from justly resolving disputes, from engaging in debate, and from rational decisions).
240And then (wa), they rob (la gazal – they steal, snatching away and seizing) those who are downcast and forced to bow down, who are too preoccupied to respond (‘any – the unpretentious and straightforward, those without hubris or status, those they oppress and afflict; from anah – to be preoccupied and depressed, humbled and afflicted (negatively) or to answer and respond (positively)) of My people (‘am ‘any) of the means to justly resolve disputes and to exercise good judgment (mishpat – of the proper plan and prescriptions and of their share of the whole) such that (la) the forsaken and silent religious widows (‘almanah – the bound (which is the basis of the word religion) and dumb who have been silenced and thus have no voice in what happens) serve as (hayah – shall exist as) their prey (shalal hem – their spoil) and (wa) the fatherless (‘eth yathowm – the child without the Father, an orphan of the covenant) are their plunder (bazaz – are held in contempt and despoiled).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:2)
It is a popular myth promoted among liberals that they are compassionate and help the poor. But in actuality, they are contributing nothing of their own to them and are robbing them of both character and opportunity. Stealing someone else’s money, and thereby punishing success, and then allocating some of it to the poor, enriches and empowers those who administer the bankrupt system while keeping the poor dependent upon the liberals orchestrating the impoverished scheme.
Worse, by perverting the truth, by tweaking the process to serve their agenda, and by imposing the ultimate neshamah / conscience killer, Political Correctness, they have conspired to rob billions of the means to exercise good judgment. Deprived of the ability to think, they have made Yahowah’s means to resolve disputes inaccessible. Secular Humanists have even throttled the people’s ability 241to engage in debate. Most people are not only ignorant, but they are destined to remain that way.
This next line, and the statement which follows, may speak to near and far fulfillments. The Assyrian assault on Yisra’el was devastating, and it would occur in the near term. But as we now know, Yahowah’s return will be catastrophic for those who are in opposition to Him and His people, much like the Day of Midian. Therefore, this question remains relevant today…
“So (wa), what will you do (mah ‘asah – how will you engage) on the appointed day of visitation and reckoning, of responsibility and accountability (la yowm paqudah – upon the assigned and authorized day of judgment, of conviction or clemency, of assembly and oversight, of punishment or mercy; from paqad – to attend the appointment overseeing judgment, of observation and consequence) during the destruction and desolation (wa ba showa’ ah – of eradication and elimination) which shall come (bow’ – which will arrive (qal imperfect)) from afar (min merchaq – from a distant place)?
To whom (‘al my – unto what) will you flee (nus – will you escape to (qal imperfect)) for help (la ‘ezrah – for assistance)? And (wa) for how long (‘an – now and then later as an interrogative questioning a period of time, either simultaneous to or overlapping another period of time) will you abandon (‘azab – will you forsake and disassociate from) your status and honor (kabowd – your reward and dignity, your manifestation of power and enrichment)?” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:3)
The obvious implication is that when the government, military, legal or economic system people have chosen to rely upon fails, or their wealth proves insufficient, God isn’t going to save them. So then, who are most people going to turn to? Deeper still, how long will Yisra’el forsake the status and honor they have with Yahowah? 242How long before they reject what man is offering so that they can accept what God is willing to provide?
This appointed day of visitation, of reckoning, judgment, accountability, punishment, or mercy is Yowm Kipurym in year 6000 Yah. As I edit these words, it is nine years hence and will occur at sunset, 6:20 PM in Yaruwshalaim, Sunday, October 2nd, 2033, on the Roman Calendar popularized by the Roman Catholic Church. You have been invited to attend this meeting.
If you, or those you love, have survived the ordeal up to this point, but have not yet decided to attend Yahowah’s Miqra’ey | Invitations to be Called Out and Meet, it will be too late. If you didn’t accept Yahowah’s Invitation to benefit from His Son’s Passover and UnYeasted Bread sacrifices, resulting in Firstborn Children and the Promise of the Shabat, you are now ill-prepared to meet with God.
The last to change their ways and return to Yahowah will be Yahuwdym in Yisra’el, and it is for them that this book is written. And for them, the final Pesach, Matsah, and Bikuwrym will occur on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday through Saturday, beginning and ending at sunset, on April 13th through 16th, 2033. They will be three extraordinarily rewarding days seven months from the conclusion of three exceptionally horrible years.
While it should be obvious, the rivals to God have always been religion and government. Most people have been conditioned to rely upon them for everything from guidance to salvation, from liberty to the necessities of life. But they will fail on all accounts, leaving the political and religious forsaken and forlorn.
And what they will have forgone is the opportunity to be part of Yahowah’s Family, and of receiving the benefits of the Covenant. They will have squandered their inheritance, especially if they are Yisra’elites.
243If my understanding of this next statement is accurate, then there is something worse than losing your freedom or your life, and that is to bow down before men, to capitulate to them. Those who do will be seen as having capitulated to the religious, political, economic, and military schemes inspired by the Assyrian.
Believing that they are with God, they will be without Him. Such is the case with anyone and everyone who bows down to worship their god.
“Without Me (bilthy – by negating Me and disassociating from Me), they bow down on their knees (kara’ – they prostrate themselves, miserable and dying, slumped over in worship (qal perfect)) beneath (tachath – below, instead of, in exchange for, and as a consequence of) those in fetters (ha kebel – the chained, shackled, and bound [from 1QIsa vs. the MT with the similar ha ‘asyr – the captives being bound and confined by force against their will) and (wa) below (tachath – beneath, instead of, in exchange for, and as a consequence of) the fallen (naphal – the dying) who have been slaughtered (hereg – whose lives have been intentionally and viciously taken).
And even with (wa ba – in and through) all of this (kol zo’th) His disappointment and frustration (‘aph huw’ – His resentment and displeasure, His anger and animosity) have not returned (lo’ shuwb – has not turned away (qal perfect)), and still (wa ‘owd), His hands (yad huw’) are outstretched (natah – stretched out (qal passive)).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:4)
Yes, there is something far worse than being enslaved, incarcerated, or dying, and that is to bow down to those who would otherwise deprive a person of life or liberty. The souls of those who die apart from God cease to exist, while those who bow down in submission in a religious or political setting, will find themselves eternally separated 244from Yahowah and susceptible to being imprisoned in She’owl.
This is the fourth time we have read this concluding statement. I mention it because there is a subtle and profoundly different way to translate it. ‘Aph can be interpreted as anything from “disappointment and frustration” to “animosity and anger,” with “displeasure and resentment” sitting somewhere in between.
It makes a considerable difference because, while it is a bad idea to “frustrate and disappoint” God, should that be the extent of it, if we were to adopt a different approach, response, and attitude, His perception of us may change. But “anger and animosity” are typically the result of much more egregious behavior, which is considerably harder to resolve, much less, forget.
That said, these differences are actually less concerning compared to whether Yahowah’s resentment “has not turned away from” or “has not returned to” Yisra’el. If it is the former, God’s hands (yad is plural in 1QIsa) are outstretched against His people while if it is the latter, He is welcoming Yisra’el back with open arms. With all that they have done, especially considering what He has offered to do for them, Yahowah would be wholly justified in continuing to see them as a huge disappointment.
In this case, Yisra’el was showing no signs of wanting to come home to God, so Yahowah was not in a position to protect them. They would experience up close and personal the sting of nationalism and militarism as inspired by the Assyrian.
Before we press on, please consider this quick review of the introductory statements in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:1-4. God remains focused on exposing and condemning all aspects of religious and government malfeasance. And foremost among their crimes is publishing and promoting Scripture.
245“Woe, this warning signaling impending doom to those who inscribe inaccurate, idolatrous, and inappropriate, fraudulent and unjustified statutes and portrayals, and also to those who compose and record Scripture, writing letters or books which are troublesome, imposing wearisome and laborious tasks, requiring unrelenting and unrewarding work. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:1)
For they scheme to pervert and turn away the poor and needy, the powerless and impoverished, even the languishing and apathetic who are too preoccupied to respond, from justice and from exercising good judgment, as well as from engaging in rational decisions and debate.
And then, they rob those they force to bow down, those they oppress and afflict who are too preoccupied to respond, of my people of the means to justly resolve disputes and to exercise good judgment, such that forsaken and silent religious widows have become their prey and the fatherless have become their plunder. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:2)
So, what will you do on the appointed day of visitation and reckoning, of judgment and destruction, of responsibility and accountability, of punishment or mercy, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help?
And for how long now and thereafter will you abandon your status and honor, your reward and dignity, and especially your manifestation of power and enrichment? (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:3)
Without Me and by disassociating from Me, they bow down on their knees, and they prostrate themselves, miserable and dying, slumped over in worship beneath those in fetters and below the fallen, under the dying who have been slaughtered.
246And even with all of this, His disappointment and frustration have not returned, so still, His hands are still outstretched.” (Yasha’yah / Yasha’yah 10:4)
The question lingers in the air for those who remain religious, who are political and patriotic: what do you trust and who do you rely upon? On whose side will you be on come the day of judgment: man’s or God’s?
Since Yahowah is warning the Assyrian, it might be a good idea to distance ourselves from him and distance ourselves from the arenas in which he operates. We do not want God to find us in his company.
In this next statement, Yahowah is revealing something that was unsaid, but should have been obvious, in the story of Satan’s influence on Chawah in the Garden. Satan was not only allowed in by God, and thus served a purpose, the Adversary was desirous of deceiving mankind and of robbing humans of the benefits of the relationship God had intended.
That is to say, Satan was an egregiously faulty implement whose programming had gone haywire. And that is why, in this case, Yahowah deployed the jussive mood to affirm that He was allowing the Adversary to do as he desired, which was to infect man with the same virus that had caused him to abandon his purpose. And the only reason that God was allowing this was because by letting the Assyrian into Yisra’el, their interaction would demonstrate quite tangibly what life without a correct understanding of God would be like.
The Assyrian would reveal the extent of his participation in religion, government, economics, and especially the military, doing so unambiguously. This 247demonstration and subsequent declaration exposes the many ways these human institutions are capable of abusing God’s people. Forewarned is forearmed.
“Woe (howy – this warning of impending doom) to the ‘Ashuwr | Assyrian (‘Ashuwr – the Assyrian, the one who fights to conquer, the one who treads upon in the name of the Lord and ‘Ashur, the sun and warrior god symbolized by an archer with a winged disk), the rod, staff, scepter, and spear (shebet – the symbols of economic, religious, political, and military power, the oppressor’s club) of My disappointment and frustration (‘aph ‘any – of My resentment and displeasure, My anger and animosity).
The nation’s means to project its influence (mateh – the tribe’s and race’s symbols of authority and means to extend its control, its military’s missiles, arrows, lances, and spears and its government’s capacity to discipline, beat, and control; from natah – to extend and stretch out, to influence and thrust aside) in their hands (huw’ ba yad hem) is an expression of My righteous indignation (za’am ‘any – is the appropriate response based upon My oft-stated resentment and clearly communicated disappointment, My disenchantment and dissatisfaction with that which I denounce and abhor).” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:5)
The “‘aph – disappointment and frustration, resentment and displeasure, even animosity and anger” was Yahowah’s and it was directed at His people. The shebet were associated with Assyria. The “rod, staff, scepter, and spear” were all implements that served as “symbols of the nation’s means to control its people and others through economic, religious, political, and military oppression.”
Similarly, the mateh represent the Assyrian’s “means to project his influence.” Based upon natah, these are not just “symbols of authority,” they are the “implements 248deployed to extend the individual’s or government’s control, his or its military’s missiles, arrows, lances, and spears and his or its political will to discipline the people while beating others into submission.”
Za’am isn’t a word we have seen very often, and yet it serves as the forbearer of what we would call “an expression of righteous indignation.” By using za’am, Yahowah is “stating that He has clearly communicated His disappointment and dissatisfaction.” This should not come as a surprise because He is on record “denouncing what He considers abhorrent.”
Isn’t it true that the entirety of Yasha’yah thus far has been devoted to this very thing – to announcing Yahowah’s righteous indignation against religion and politics, militarism and abusive economic practices? Even when Yahowah has addressed positive things, such as planting His vineyard with Dowd and His desire to celebrate Dowd’s life and lyrics, it was to reveal the contrast between His offer and man’s response, thereby explaining and justifying His disappointment.
There are implements Yahowah deploys and casts aside, as a farmer might do with a troublesome spade. The Assyrian was used and will be discarded.
There are times, as I’ve mentioned previously, when “gowy – gentile” is used in reference to Yisra’el, but that is only when Yisra’el is so wayward that the nation has become indistinguishable politically and religiously from the “gowym – gentile nations” surrounding them. This could be one of those times. But I don’t think so. I suspect that the Godless individual who is wholly distinct from Yisra’el is the Adversary.
“As (ba – with) a Godless (chaneph – an unGodly, profane, common, and defiled, desecrated and polluted) gentile individual and / or nation (gowy – gentile, typically used to depict a foreign individual or nation 249(singular), a population of heathen animals), I will allow him and / or it to stray (shalach huw’ – I will allow him to wander into another area as an extension of his and its influence (piel imperfect – the family suffers the effect of the action)), thereby (wa) be in opposition to (‘al – over or upon, opposed to) the family (‘am – people who are related, typically used to describe the Children of Yisra’el) causing My intense displeasure (‘ebrah ‘any – of insolence and a haughty attitude toward Me; from ‘eber – beyond and opposite and ‘abar – to pass over).
I authorized him to do as he desired (tsawah huw’ – I commissioned and instructed him to do as he always wanted (piel imperfect jussive – the object, who is the Assyrian, suffers the effect of this authorization well into the future as a result of acting upon his individual cravings and desires because the jussive is an expression of volition in the third person)), which was to plunder (la shalal – which was to loot, seizing the possessions of) his prey (shalal) and to (wa la) carry off that which was valuable which he had stolen from those he would conquer and loot (bazaz bazaz), and to set himself over them (wa la sym huw’ – to place him upon them), trampling them down (mirmas – stepping on and treading upon them) as if they were (ka – like) mud (chomer – undesirable and malleable clay, pliable, slimy, and swampy sludge) in their public places (chuwts – in their streets and marketplace).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:6)
As we moved deeper into the statement, it became increasingly obvious that Yahowah was addressing a lone individual and not a nation. It also became clear that the gowy was not Yisra’el but instead a foreign influence.
While the ‘Ashuwr / Assyrian is the leader of a wicked regime, in the material realm, tyrants have armies. And they typically plunder for money. Rather than work themselves, militants were encouraged to steal from those who were productive. Islam was born this way. It was the 250explicit purpose of every one of Muhammad’s seventy-five terrorist attacks, beginning with Badr (chronicled in the 8th Sura). They call this approach socialism today. But then it was little more than a criminal enterprise. There was precious little to distinguish Muhammad from the Godfather of the Mafia.
Before modern military contrivances, belligerents were not equipped to exterminate surrounding nations or obliterate their cities, because that consumed too many resources without a commiserate gain. So as was the case with the Romans, the Mongols, and the Muslims, they murdered just enough people and destroyed sufficient property to prevent anyone from opposing their parasitic operation. If everyone was killed and if everything was destroyed, the belligerents would run out of prey and would have to actually work to support themselves. That wasn’t part of their plan.
There were some belligerents, however, who thought of themselves as gods. As narcissistic psychopaths, they tortured people and abused others sexually for the sadistic pleasure it brought them. Examples would include some of the Devil’s best (Author’s Note: if you are squeamish, you may not want to read these depictions. If you already know that man isn’t basically “good,” there is nothing in this list that will enhance your understanding of Yahowah):
Tamerlane (the Muslim madman whose murderous campaigns slaughtered seventeen million people, decapitating civilians and leaving monstrous mountains of skulls as a memorial of his demonic intent),
Roman Emperor Tiberius (a mass murderer and sexual deviant who trained thousands of little boys to crawl between his legs and give him oral satisfaction before throwing them over the wall of his home and to their deaths in the ocean below),
251Roman Emperor Caligula (who enjoyed barbecuing and then eating his prisoners, watching animals mutilate his enemies, and then having sex with his sisters),
Roman Emperor Commodus (who got off on watching people die and therefore staged lavish games to satiate his perversion),
Phalaris, the Tyrant of Acragas (he either crucified his rivals or roasted them alive inside a bronze bull),
Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible (who fed the heads of foes to hungry dogs, beat his pregnant daughter, and murdered his son, then watched as one thousand citizens of Novgorod were tortured to death for presumed disloyalty),
Vlad the Impaler (who impaled 20,000 men, placing pointed stakes up their anus so that they would die slowly, hacking thousands of children to death and feeding them to their mothers, cutting off the breasts of women and forcing the husbands to eat them),
Elizabeth Bathory (sexually abused, publicly humiliated, and then systematically mutilated and murdered 650 girls, torturing them for weeks on end in the most perverted ways imaginable, all because she believed virginal blood made her skin glow),
Attila the Hun (dismembered tens of thousands by ripping their bodies apart, limb by limb),
Genghis Khan (poured melted metal into his foes’ eyes to kill them as painfully as possible),
Roman Emperor Nero (burned and boiled his rivals alive for his entertainment),
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King of the Seleucid Empire (circa 170 BCE this pagan monarch tried to remove Jews from Israel and impose his own Greek gods and goddesses upon them, ultimately slaughtering eighty 252thousand Yisra’elite men, women, and children in their homes because they wouldn’t worship him or his gods),
Persian King Cambyses II (after conquering Egypt, he killed everyone associated with the Apis Bull cult to celebrate the birth of the Son of the Sun),
French Revolution leader Maximilien Robespierre (obsessed with decapitating friends and family alike as the best way to demonstrate forgiveness),
Communist Dictator Mao Zedong (caused over seven million citizens to commit suicide, chopped off the fingers of hungry children, and nailed the hands of others to their tables, while burning those he didn’t like alive after dousing them in kerosene (Socialist Secular Humanism is so liberating and compassionate, it’s no wonder its devotees see it as superior to Free Enterprise)),
Sultan Ibrahim the Mad of the Ottoman Empire (raped virtually every overweight woman in his kingdom while their husbands watched and then executed them),
Spanish Dominican Friar and Grand Inquisitor Tomas De Torquemada (tortured tens of thousands to death, especially Jews, using the cruelest, most perverted, and demented methods ever devised by men, taking great delight in ripping apart his captives’ genitals while serving his Lord (Catholicism at its finest.)),
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (slaughtered millions of Chinese men, hanging them by their tongues and genitals by iron hooks, then disemboweling and roasting them while murdering countless Chinese women, whom after they had been raped were hypocritically stabbed to death by jamming bamboo sticks into their privates),
Belgium King Leopold II (created the Congo Free State Project which led to the demise of three million Congolese),
253and let’s not forget: Adolf Hitler, Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, Grand Mufti Muhammad Hussein, all of whom focused their perverse ways on Jews, or Pol Pot who managed to obliterate a quarter of his comrades.
There are more, many of whose stories are told in the opening volume of Babel, but you get the point. Demon-possessed men and women are Satan’s little helpers. But it was important for us to consider the consequences of men and women. And as a surprise to many, when it comes to killing Jews and abusing women, the Book of Ezekiel keeps pace with the Quran, demonstrating common authorship.
What follows is designed to affirm that the Assyrian will be used up to a point. This foreign foe and Yahowah are not in agreement regarding the outcome of the impending siege. Being a narcissist and model psychopath, the Assyrian would have preferred to destroy everything and annihilate everyone, but God could not allow that to happen because of the oath He had made to reconcile His relationship with Yisra’el.
The Assyrian will be allowed to take a spoil, looting Yisra’el to his heart’s content, even take some hostages, as he had done long ago in ‘Eden, but Yisra’el, as was the case with the Garden, would not be totally destroyed nor would God’s people be completely exterminated. The Adversary was given access but put on a short leash. He would be restricted, otherwise, the damage would have been irrecoverable and catastrophic.
Based upon this, an argument can be made that ha Satan does not know his fate, or barring that, does not want to accept it. And since we mere mortals know that his destiny is to be incarcerated in She’owl along with those who advocated on behalf of his political, religious, economic, and military institutions, it must be the latter. 254Satan has not only beguiled billions of men and women, along with some mal’ak / spiritual messengers, but he has also managed to fool himself into believing that somehow, some way, he will manage to prevail.
“But (wa – and, or but, even in addition) he does not, however (huw’ lo’ ken – he (still speaking of the Godless gentile nation) does not so much as), intend to perish (damah – expect to be destroyed or plan to serve as a parable whose ruinous actions will eventually cease). In his heart, and from his perspective (wa lebab huw’ – as it relates to his attitude and judgment) he does not consider that it will play out as such (lo’ ken chashab – he does not impute this outcome similarly).
Indeed (ky – to the contrary), from his perspective it is his desire (ba lebab – in his judgment and heart, his intent is) to destroy, decimating and exterminating everyone else (la shamad – to demolish everything and annihilate all others (hifil infinitive construct – to do to them in the fullness of time what is intended for him)) and to (wa la) cut down and disassociate (karat – to cut off, uproot, tear apart, and eliminate) not a few gentiles and nations, but many (gowym lo’ ma’at – not a relatively small number of uncultured and pagan people unrelated to Yisra’el, but many).” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:7)
I suppose his mantra may be: if I kill enough souls, if things get so far out of hand that God is revolted by the whole scene, He’ll be too disgusted with everything He created to hold the implement He conceived for this purpose accountable. So that is how Satan sees all of this playing out. Billions will die so that one misguided tool might not be thrown away and discarded.
It is especially telling, however, that Satan knows that his ability to kill Yisra’elites is limited but that it is open season on Gentiles. The only restrictions on gowym would 255be on behalf of Covenant members adopted into Yah’s Family, of which there would be as few as one in a million. But with Yahuwdah and Yisra’el, a remnant would remain. A promise would be kept. Satan’s franchise on death would be territory specific and come with an expiration date.
The Assyrian, however, would not allow these restrictions to hamper his style. As was on display in the Garden, this snake remained impressed with himself and with the new-found sovereignty of those he dragged along with him…
“For (ky – because, and to prove the point, surely), he says (‘amar), ‘Are not (ha lo’) my commanders (sar ‘any – my captains and officers, my princes and rulers, my soldiers and warriors, my religious and societal leaders) altogether (yahdaw – completely) embodied with political, religious, and military authority (melek – sovereign and able to do as they desire)?’” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:8)
All of Satan’s demons are AWOL. They used their restricted freedom, which was limited to a single act of rebellion, to follow ha Satan out of Heaven. And since they were programmed to follow Yahowah’s orders, outside of the chain of command, they are now free to do as they please, at least until they are eternally incarcerated in She’owl.
But that isn’t what the Assyrian is suggesting. He would not have used sar to describe his fellow mal’ak / spiritual implements. If you misappropriated sar as I just did, don’t feel bad. It took me three days and three edits of this statement, those which precede it and those which follow, to figure it out. And yes, I called myself a nincompoop for having failed to see it.
So, now, let’s try again, cognizant of what Yahowah had just said of the Assyrian. Remember: “Indeed, from his perspective it is his desire to destroy, decimating and 256exterminating everyone else, and not to cut down and disassociate a few gentiles and nations, but many.” With that in mind, the Adversary in the guise of the Assyrian, replies…
“To prove the point (ky – for because, indeed, truly and surely), he says (‘amar), ‘Are not (ha lo’) my commanders, my kings and dictators, my princes and political leaders, my captains of industry and military officers, and especially my religious and societal authorities (sar ‘any – my government rulers, my soldiers and warriors) altogether and completely (yahdaw – thoroughly, collectively, and abundantly) embodied with political, religious, and military authority as the leaders of their nations and institutions (melek – sovereign and able to do as they desire)?’” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:8)
Satan isn’t bragging that his fellow mal’ak / spiritual implements are sovereign leaders imbued with uncontested authority but instead that the world’s clerics, kings, priests and presidents, captains of industry and generals of the army are “his,” in that he is controlling them and that they are collectively working for him.
It was the shortest line in the entire chapter, and yet it may have been the most revealing. If you want to find Satan, don’t seek out a witch or warlock, don’t pull out a Ouija Board or attend a séance. March up to Capitol Hill, check out an Army base, harken the doors of a church, enter a mosque, or peek inside a synagogue. And while you won’t see Satan standing there, beaming brightly, proud of what he has accomplished, you’ll find his influence. It is yet another reason Yahowah wants us to walk away from these things.
The point of this next statement is that from the perspective of a money-grubbing and territory-grabbing 257despot, every place looks the same. In his own mind, the Assyrian was free to torment Yisra’el just as he had…
“‘Is not (ha lo’) Kalnow (Kalnow – transliterated, Calno (a Babylonian and Assyrian city near Aleppo (meaning: Fortress of Anu (an Assyrian deity)))) like (ka – akin to) Karkamysh (Karkamysh – transliterated Carchemish (capital of the Hittite Empire along the northern Euphrates (meaning: Tower of Chemosh)))? Is not (ha lo’) Chamath (Chamath – transliterated Hamath (located in northern Syria (meaning: Fortress or Walled))) similar to (ka – resemble) ‘Arpad (‘Arpad – transliterated Arpad (another northern Syrian city, also conquered by the Assyrians (meaning: Supported)))? Is not (ha lo’) Shimrown (Shimrown – transliterated Shimron (a Canaanite royal city later allotted to Zebuwluwn (meaning: Dregs))) the same as (ka – comparable to) Dameseq (Dameseq – transliterated Damascus (capital of Syria (Tears)))?’” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:9)
What the Adversary is saying here is that while the names of the gods, governments, and militaries differed, the essence of what these places represented was really all the same. Apart from the names, the Fortress of Anu was indistinguishable from the Tower of Chemosh. What is the difference, Satan is asking, between Bel and Ba’al, Zeus and Jupiter, Osiris and Dionysus, Allah and Jesus?
Chamath and ‘Arpad were both military fortresses and garrisons. Did it really matter where they were located? Shimrown and Dameseq were political capitals. Were the names of the cities or kings relevant, or were the governments and rulers essentially the same?
I suppose that there is a history lesson here worth investigating. At the time, Sargon was king of Assyria. He was the individual responsible for adopting the Babylonian name for god, “Bel – Lord.” By this time, he may have 258conquered much of Syria and the Northern Kingdom and would have had Samaria and then the ultimate prize, Yaruwshalaim and Yahuwdah, in his sights.
This would have been the second conquest of Kalnow because Sennacherib brags of taking it and selling off its inhabitants as slaves. Karkamysh was famous for its Tower to the Gods and thus has been considered a potential site for the Tower of Babel. This may also be the city where the “abomination of the Moabites” occurred. (1 Kings 11:7)
Originally a Babylonian settlement along the Euphrates, it was conquered by the Hittites and became their leading commercial site. The Hittites would lose it to the Egyptians under Thothmes I, circa 1600 BCE. A subsequent revolt was suppressed by Ramses II. It was then completely razed by Shalmaneser IV. And long after this prophecy, Pharaoh Necho’s army was defeated at Karkamysh by Nebuchadnezzar.
Chamath was the capital of the Aramaeans. They paid tribute to Dowd. That would not last. Without Yisra’el’s protection, and in conjunction with Damascus, the city was subdued by Shalmaneser IV following a failed revolt. It would once again join with Damascus, but this time also in concert with Samaria, in rebelling against Assyrian subjugation, only to be reconquered by Sargon.
About all we know about ‘Arpad is that it was sufficiently important politically, religiously, or economically to be besieged by Tiglath-pileser II for three years. It would join with Chamath during their fight against Sargon and lose.
The final two cities, Shimrown and Dameseq, were wrapped up in the history of Retsyn (the Self-Willed and Pleasure-Seeking) and ben Ramalyahuw (the son Exalted Above Yahowah) which was detailed in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 7 and 8. They would rise up in unison against Tiglath-pileser and then again against Shalmaneser.
259The point is, all of these places actually existed. They were capital cities and the seats of government, important places of commerce, centers of worship, or sites where the military was garrisoned. They were all pummeled at one time or another by Assyria, but also by Egypt and Babylon. So, while it took an array of despots to subdue these places, they all eventually fell. Bodies are no match for spears and arrows, much less bullets and bombs. Man has clearly mastered the ability to subdue and subjugate, to destroy and kill.
The Assyrian is the ultimate curator of false gods. If ever there was one, he is a religious aficionado. But no matter his perverted fascination with mythological beings, if his braggadocio could be trusted, Yisra’el and Yahuwdah could compete with the best of them when it came to making worthless objects of worship.
“As (ka’asher – because) my hand (yad ‘any) discovered (matsa’ – found and uncovered, encountered and attained) the governments (mamlakah – the kingdoms and states) of religious images (ha ‘alyl – of the objects of worship, of idolatrous reverence and extortion, of worthless and ineffectual pagan effigies and false gods) and (wa) their representations of false gods (pasyl hem – their carved, cast, or chiseled idolatrous images used in religious worship [plural in 1QIsa]), they could be compared with (min – were from or more abundant than) Yaruwshalaim (Yaruwshalaim – Source of Teaching on Reconciliation) and (wa) compared with (min – were from or more abundant than) Shomarown (Shomarown – Observe Light).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:10)
In business and life, my preference has always been cooperation over competition, but that has seldom been the mindset of tyrants, militants, or the religious. And it sounds as if Shomarown and Yaruwshalaim were in competition 260with Gentile nations when it came to idol production. But at least, Satan was duly impressed.
In that there was nothing distinguishing the capital cities of Yahuwdah and Yisra’el from those of the Gentiles, as they had become equally religious, the Assyrian posed a logical question to God:
“Shouldn’t I do the same thing (ha lo’ ka’asher ‘asah – shall I not act similarly) to (la) Yaruwshalaim (Yaruwshalaim – Source of Teaching on Reconciliation) and (wa) her objects of worship (la ‘atsab hy’ – her statues crafted to appear as if they were gods and illicit religious reverence) as I have done to (ken ‘asah – as I have acted and profited with) Shomarown (Shomarown – Observe Light) and her religious images (wa la ‘alyl hy’ – of the objects of worship, of idolatrous reverence and extortion, of worthless and ineffectual pagan effigies and false gods)?” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:11)
Fair is fair, after all. Doesn’t every object of worship deserve a similar fate?
The Assyrian megalomaniac, religious enthusiast, world conqueror, and mass murderer, was given the opportunity to speak for the forces of evil everywhere. He is the voice of nations, of religious institutions, and of military establishments. And while it is already obvious, soon there will be no doubt as to why the unnamed Assyrian has become so influential.
So now that this Adversary has spoken, it’s the prophet Yasha’yah’s turn to respond. Ultimately it would not matter what the Assyrian desired or would boast. It is Yah’s will that matters. Yahowah is not in competition with this Adversary. He is the One allowing Satan restricted access to His people and place.
261“Then (wa) it shall come to pass (hayah – it will occur) that (ken – because truthfully [from 1QIsa]) my Upright One (‘edown ‘any – my upright pillar) will complete (batsa’ – will finish and fulfill (piel imperfect active – the object, Tsyown, is put into action through the fulfillment with ongoing implications)) all (kol – the entirety of) His work (ma’aseh huw’ – His labor and undertakings and occupation, His focused expenditure of energy in order to accomplish His goal; from ‘asah – to act and engage) around (ba – among and with) the ridgeline (har – Mount and mountain range) of Tsyown (Tsyown – of the Signs Posted to Mark the Way) and within (wa ba – and around) Yaruwshalaim (Yaruwshalaim – Source of Teaching and Guidance on Reconciliation).”
As Yahowah’s prophet, Yasha’yah knows the yearnings of God’s heart. He understands what He intends to do and where He expects to accomplish it. He is even aware of God’s propensity to love His work. He recognizes Yahowah’s “ma’aseh – is focused expending the energy required to accomplish His agenda” on Tsyown in Yaruwshalaim – not in the Vatican, in Mecca, in Washington, in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, or Moscow. He is not working in conjunction with the Church nor with any nation. In fact, Yasha’yah knows that Yahowah is actually opposed to the unmitigated belligerence and arrogance of Gentile institutions and nations. After all, he heard God say…
“I will hold accountable (paqad ‘al – I will summon and reckon, count and list, record and attribute) the exceedingly conceited and self-aggrandizing (godel – the overwhelmingly improper and arrogant) attitude and judgment (leb – perspective and approach) manifested by (pary – generated and produced by) the dictatorial leader (melek – the ruler and sovereign, the tyrant and despot, the most influential individual) of ‘Ashuwr | Assyria (‘Ashuwr – to fight, conquer, and tread upon in the name of ‘Ashur, 262a warrior god symbolized as an archer with a winged disk), because I’m in opposition to (wa ‘al) the haughty, self-willed, and unwarranted (ruwm – self-promoting and self-elevating, independent and exalted, defiant, rebellious) boastful look (tiphe’reth – exaggerated view of himself and self-glorification) in his eyes (ba ‘ayn huw’ – associated with his appearance). (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:12)
For he says (ky ‘amar – indeed, he claims), ‘By the might of my hand (ba koach yad ‘any – by the power, strength, ability, authority, and resources in my control), I have acted (‘asah – I have engaged, producing and accomplishing this) and by my sage wisdom and superior intellect (wa ba chakmah ‘any – and through my intelligence and my acumen, my aptitude, shrewdness, and skill), because I know how to assess the situation, understand what is happening, and deduce the appropriate response (ky byn – because I’m smarter, quickly considering and fully comprehending, for I am perceptive and discerning (nifal perfect – the king is responsible for and then claims to benefit from his understanding)).
I remove (wa suwr – I abolish) territory and boundaries (gabuwlah – the government and its borders; from gebuwl – the territory, lands, nations, or states) of peoples (‘amym – of families and nations, of ethnic groups).
Whatever they had planned and prepared to accomplish (‘athyd hem – no matter the future they were poised to enjoy, their destiny or fate, whatever they were fit to achieve) I spoil and steal (shasah – I pillage, plunder, ransack, and loot under compulsion or military might (poel perfect – the victim suffers the effect which is intensified)).
I descend upon and subjugate (wa yarad – I come down upon, conquering, bringing down and humbling) the 263inhabitants (yashab – the settlements and communities where people live) as if (ka – as, like, in the manner of, and similar to) Almighty God (‘abyr – a strong and mighty warrior, a vigorous stallion, or aggressive bull, the Mighty, Strong, and Powerful One with the strength and ability of God).’” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:13)
It’s a good thing to develop and hone our skills, but not when they are used to deprive entire communities of their liberty, lives, and possessions, their hopes and dreams. There are few things more empowering and beneficial than understanding, but it is counterproductive when used to play God and promulgate a self-serving political, religious, or military agenda.
Beyond this, self-reliance cripples our ability to be effective witnesses. Yahowah’s Word is the source of everything we come to know and understand which has value in life. These are not our words, this is not our plan, it is not predicated upon our ability, but His. And it is Yahowah who gave us the capacity to shamar | closely examine and carefully consider His testimony in the first place.
We cannot even take credit for what God is offering, in that it is Him, not us, who is providing the benefits of the Covenant. Moreover, when we engage with God, we are constantly reminded that we are dimensions removed from His intellect and capability, resources and power.
The best we can do is apply the intellect and skills we have been given and refine them to examine His Word so that we come to know, understand, accept, and share Yahowah’s Towrah, Naby’, wa Mizmowr. If we are to excel at something, let it be something worthwhile and enduring. May that be our conquest. May our victory be pleasing to Him. Then, perhaps, one day we will be thrilled to hear Him say, “I’m proud of you, My son. Well done.” 264Rather than pretending to be God, let’s enjoy Him making us more like Him.
There have been countless chiefs, kings, pharaohs, and emperors who have claimed to be gods. But even then, they were so small, limited, and frail, the most arrogant of them seldom went beyond claiming to be the son of god, his representative on Earth. That is not what is happening here. The Assyrian descended upon people as if he were Almighty God. He wanted to be seen, known, worshiped, and feared as God – or at least as his interpretation of God.
The Assyrian is, therefore, none other than Satan. He is the only being sufficiently arrogant, sufficiently evil, sufficiently powerful and enduring, to even attempt such a thing. Who else would seek to convince a world of people over the entire course of human history to actually believe a created being, an implement no less, was God and worthy of worship?
Just pulling off the irrational idea that God, the Creator of the universe, would want His creation to worship Him, to fear Him, to bow down in submission to Him, was so preposterous, it’s a wonder he even attempted to promote such an absurd and counterintuitive notion, much less think he could pull it off. And yet he did. And it worked.
The Adversary is a lot of things, irrational, misguided, duplicitous, and unreliable, but he is not stupid. And yet, he isn’t nearly as brilliant as these words suggest. He has overstated his prowess. He is neither omnipotent nor omnipresent. And while his influence is pervasive, his ability to hamper humankind has been restricted. He is not allowed to perform miracles, inspire prophecies, alter history, harm Yahowah’s Covenant children, or actually reveal himself as light. His capacity to create is essentially nil. His every religion is a pathetic counterfeit. While he is immortal, he will never be forgiven. Nothing he promises can ever be relied upon.
265And yet, with all of these limitations, the Adversary has been remarkably effective. He has fooled far more people than God has convinced. For every individual who has chosen to engage in a relationship with Yahowah, a million or more have been beguiled into worshiping Satan.
The Assyrian would boast…
“‘My hand (wa yad ‘any) has found and taken possession (matsa’ – has discovered the location, uncovered, and attained) of what could be equated to the likeness of (ka – compared to and the equivalent of) the nest (ha qen – the receptacle) of the capabilities and wealth (la chayl – the vigor and strength, the aptitude and character, the military prowess, even the socio-political and religious identity) of the peoples and nations (ha ‘amym – the families, ethnic groups, and citizens identifying with a political entity).
And as one gathers and removes (wa ka ‘asaph – in the manner one takes and collects, withdrawing) eggs (bytsah) which have been neglected and abandoned (‘azab – which have been left behind, released on the condition of servitude, and forsaken) all over the entire earth (kol ha ‘erets – throughout all the land), I (‘any) gathered and removed them (‘asaph – I collected and took them, withdrawing and assembling them together).
And there did not exist (wa lo’ hayah – and there was not) a wing or appendage (kanaph – or so much as the outermost edge of a garment or feather) that fluttered or fled (nadad – that moved or escaped, which flew or wandered away, which attempted to stray or flee), nor anyone who so much as opened their mouth (wa patsah peh – nor who dared to speak out), not even a twitter or chirp (wa tsaphaph – nor whisper, not letting out a peep).’” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:14)
266Fear! His victims were afraid to move, afraid to speak. This is the how and why behind terrorism. But the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of people lack the courage to stand up against evil, and will consistently capitulate rather than take a stand, ought to be a wake-up call for humanity. It isn’t what God would do. It isn’t what He expects from us. It’s why He stated earlier in this prophecy that there was something worse than losing one’s life and liberty.
This should lead the rational to two vital conclusions. First, in that God is denouncing this tactic, the Christian and Muslim mantra that “good men are god-fearing” is preposterous. Second, if you are going to take this stand and if you are going to do what we are doing, which is to boldly and bluntly expose and condemn governments, religions, militaries, and economic schemes, you’d better be right. Learn the truth and then act upon it. The last thing the world needs is another religious martyr or political hero.
Inspiring national aspirations the world over, the Assyrian is articulating the reason why God despises politics and religion, patriotism and militarism. In his view, the world and everything in it was his to do as he pleased. No one and nothing else mattered. The Assyrian was a wannabe god, lord of all he could see – the embodiment of Satan.
And yet this arrogant and maniacal individual was nothing more than an implement, a tool. Therefore, with this example and dialog, we are introduced to the Adversary, his arrogant attitude, his self-serving nature, his desire to take away people’s futures, their opportunities, their lives, to rob them of everything.
It has always been the case when religion, government, economics, and militarism are commingled. Those who benefit from this union, the pastors and priests, 267the prime ministers and kings, the captains of industry and generals in the army, work together to assure their future success. Those who wouldn’t capitulate, those who wouldn’t bow down in submission, those who didn’t show the expected zeal for cleric and country, would be ostracized or imprisoned, abused and usually tortured, and often killed – all too typically horribly and publicly.
And that is why Satan could boast that no one lifted a finger to counter his ambitions, no one spoke out against him, no one even tried to flee. Instead, during these periods of crisis, most people became even more religious and patriotic.
We see it today the world over after a terrorist attack or call to war. The more the government and the military fail, the more supportive of their government and their military the people become.
Consider what has happened in America, especially the rise of patriotism following the 9-11-2001 Islamic Suicide Bombings and subsequent failed invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. A monstrous proxy war with Russia followed. Anyone who dares say that the things the people are relying upon and praising are actually the cause of the problem, not the cure, are publicly condemned, ostracized by society, and threatened by the thoughtless political and religious zealots.
It has always been this way. Bad people inspired by a bad spirit do bad things and their victims forgive them, hand over their souls, and go about the remainder of their lives as zombies.
Let me share some examples. Islam is responsible for perpetrating ninety-nine percent of all terrorist acts worldwide, and the best Muslims have done so for the past forty to fifty years. And yet the United States sells hundreds of billions of dollars worth of especially deadly and 268destructive military hardware to overtly religious, dictatorial, and militant Islamic regimes.
It invades Islamic countries and destroys them, sending a tsunami of Muslim refugees out to infect the rest of the world. Not knowing who it is fighting or why, America has consistently made bad situations far worse the world over, bankrupting the nation in the process. Incapable of learning from past mistakes, it continues to repeat them as if insane. In fact, the military is actually praised for its role in making these bad situations worse, and thereby assuring America’s ultimate demise.
But it gets worse. Islamic women have no rights. They are treated like animals. Even little girls are kidnapped, taken from their homes, stripped naked, and then auctioned off as sex slaves. There are forty million of them worldwide.
Little boys are turned into armed combatants. But where is the outrage? The silence is deafening, especially from feminists allegedly supporting women’s rights. The leftists actually march in support of Muslims, somehow ignorant of the fact that virtually every Islamic nation is fascist.
Moving to Christianity, when I inform a believer that Paul admitted to being demon-possessed in his second letter to the Corinthians and demonstrate that it is impossible for someone to speak for God while continually contradicting Him, they get mad at me, not Paul.
When a Christian political candidate like Roy Moore, the Alabama Supreme Court judge who is running for the U.S. Senate, is shown to be a pedophile, sexually abusing fourteen-year-old high school girls while he was in his thirties, he and his handlers blame everyone but themselves for the fallout and justify the behavior by suggesting that “Joseph was much older than Mary when Jesus was born,” 269and “just like Jesus, Roy is being crucified by the government establishment for his Christian values.”
The overwhelming preponderance of what the Roman Catholic Church claims to be true is actually false and easily proven to be so, and yet, billions believe. Roman Catholic priests have sexually abused hundreds of thousands of little boys under their care, and Catholic mothers and fathers still send their sons and daughters to their churches and schools.
How is it that the Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials didn’t scuttle the religion? How is it that Roman Catholics don’t know that God refers to them as the Whore of Babylon?
Even these religious zealots who pretended to speak out against the Devil, especially those behind the aforementioned inquisitions and witch hunts, did more for Satan than anyone, save Paul and Muhammad. Satan does not want to be known as “ha Satan – the Adversary” or worshiped as such.
He is leading the parade to attack and condemn that title. He wants to be seen as God and worshiped as the Lord. And that is why it is telling that Sargon, the Assyrian king at the time of this writing, renamed ‘Ashuwr “the Lord – Bel” after the Babylonian god.
As I mentioned during the introduction to Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10, I had thought that our introduction to ha Satan would not occur until the 14th chapter, and yet here we are in his presence. The Assyrian is the Adversary revealed and exposed before our very eyes.
And let’s not be coy about this. Too much is at stake. This Lord actually said that he would descend upon and subjugate the inhabitants of the world as Almighty God. He has put us all on notice that he is out to steal the life and 270liberty, the hopes and dreams of humanity, even their most valuable possessions – their children.
Surely you don’t think that the Assyrian was actually into collecting “eggs from the likes of nests” do you? Was his fetish for omelets, poached, scrambled, over easy, or Fabergé? Plucking eggs from a nest is symbolic of taking children from their homes and doing so without either parent fluttering their wings or letting out a peep to protect them – from Satan!
The Assyrian is mocking the one thing humankind was specifically designed to do well: raise children. But now for a short and miserable lease on life, parents will sacrifice their own children. And they have done so to an evil implement with faulty programming, to an Adversary who cannot be trusted and is offering nothing in return.
The history of the world, the story of civilization, the purpose of religion and government, of militaries and economic schemes, as well as Satan’s role within them, has just been explained, written in black and white, and we’ve all missed it. How is this possible? How is it that the world still does not see that Satan has played them all for fools?
This, then, is Yahowah’s response…
“‘Should (ha) the axe (ha garzen – the chisel or pick) raise itself up and glorify itself (pa’ar – rise up and honor itself, endowing itself with splendor, adorning itself to infer that it is beautiful and pleasing, worthy of respect, boast with unwarranted pride and haughtiness while wearing a turban (hitpael imperfect – on its own initiative continually glorify itself for its benefit alone)) over (‘al – above) the One who actually cuts and engraves with it (ha chatseb ba huw’ – the brilliant light and craftsman wielding it or the stonemason designing, carving out, dividing, and constructing with it (qal active))?
271Isn’t it irrational for (‘im – under what unreal circumstances contrary to fact should) the saw (ha masowr – hand tool used for cutting) to magnify itself as greater than (gadal – to boast of its high status and exalted position, to promote itself as being more important, more powerful and praiseworthy (hitpael imperfect – on its own initiative continually make this boast of itself and solely for its benefit)), as over and above (‘al – before and against), He who moves it (nuwph huw’ – He who wields it, moving it back and forth (hifil participle construct))?
It is as if (ka) a club, a staff, a scepter, or a spear (shebet – the implements of economic, religious, political, and military control) should move itself to and fro and wield itself (nuwph – raise itself up, wielding itself), or (wa) lift itself up on high (‘eth ruwm huw’ – rise up over and against all, rebelling by exalting and extolling itself, magnifying its rotten and wormy self).
It is as if (ka) the club, staff, scepter, or spear (shebet – the implements of economic, religious, political, and military control) being raised (ruwm – being lifted up) was not wood (lo’ ‘ets – was other than a plank of wood).’” (Yasha’yah / Freedom is from Yahowah / Isaiah 10:15)
And all the little Muslims and their jihadists screamed: “Allahu Akbar – Allah is Greater!” Satan is not only alive and well, posing as the God of Islam and the Lord of Christianity, the faithful remain oblivious. They get down on their knees and worship Satan rather than stand up and walk with God. One glorifies death via jihad while the other celebrates it by keeping their god nailed to a crucifix in the agony of death. Well done, Satan. I’m sure you are justifiably proud of your accomplishments. Too bad they are all about death and destruction, deceit and duplicity.
It took me a long time, but I finally came to this realization regarding Satan in 2003, back when I was writing Prophet of Doom – Islam’s Terrorist Dogma in 272Muhammad’s Own Words. It was absolutely obvious that Allah, as Muhammad’s alter ego, was modeled directly after Satan. Allah, like the demon-possessed Muhammad, craved submission over freewill, religious worship over relationship, prostration over standing upright, praying over listening, death over life, and lies over truth.
Allah was a lying terrorist who spent all of his time in Hell so that he could personally torture unbelievers. Hylel, which is Satan’s name, from halal, the actionable root of Hylel, even came to denote that which is good in Islam.
Since all of this was obvious, undeniable in fact, why then did the Quran denounce Satan, especially knowing that Allah was Satan? I found that answer in Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, the de facto Scripture of Freemasons. In it and in his speeches, he cites Lucifer disowning the name Satan and then rising above the Adversary title God had placed upon him such that he could be worshiped. That was the answer.
Satan wants to be worshiped as God, not as the Adversary. And for that to happen, Satan must disown the Adversary title and embrace one more suitable to worship. And thus, the Devil has become known as: “the Lord God, Almighty,” and as “Allah.” This occurs even in the Bible, where we find ha Satan pretending to be Yahowah throughout Ezekiel, all while scheming to rape and then exterminate Jews. The book culminates with Satan’s replacement temple complex, one so large, it would bury all of Jerusalem beneath it.
This has been his story, the story of an egotistical spiritual implement with a virus in his programming. For our benefit, Yahowah has allowed ha Satan in the guise of the Assyrian to address us, to confess to the crime, and to explain his means and motive – even reveal the titles of his accomplices while delineating the list of their intended victims.
273It is the crime of the millennia. And to think, even though we were clearly told how he would influence humanity and explicitly shown the consequence of his actions two thousand seven hundred years ago, we ignored the confession. Moreover, these words explain what occurred just thirteen years shy of six thousand years ago in the Garden of ‘Eden, and yet we were oblivious to the means and motive of the first crime committed on our planet.
Most men and women admire Satan’s achievements and praise his accomplices rather than disdain and convict them. Humankind continues to worship the Adversary as if he were God.
Here now is a review of these remarkable insights into the mindset of Satan, the embodiment of evil.
“‘Woe, this warning of impending doom to ‘Ashuwr | the Assyrian (to the sun and warrior god who fights and conquers), serving as the rod, staff, scepter, and spear of My disappointment and frustration.
The nation’s means to project its influence, its symbols of religious, economic, military, and political control, is an expression of My righteous indignation, and a symbol of what I have denounced and abhor. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:5)
As a Godless Gowy, a foreign individual and pagan nation, I will allow him to stray against the family causing My intense displeasure.
I authorized him to do as he desired, which was to plunder his prey and carry off that which he would steal from those he would conquer, to set himself over them, trampling them down as if they were mud, malleable and pliable, sludge in the swamp of public places. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:6)
274But he does not, however, intend to perish. In his heart, and from his perspective, he does not consider that it will play out as such. Indeed, it is his desire to destroy and decimate everyone else, and to cut down and disassociate not a few gentiles or their nations, but many. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:7)
To prove the point, he says, “Are not my commanders, my kings and dictators, my princes and political leaders, my captains of industry and military officers, and especially my religious and societal authorities altogether and completely, thoroughly, collectively, and abundantly, embodied with political, religious, and military authority as the leaders of their nations and institutions, as sovereigns able to do as they desire? (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:8)
Is not Kalnow like Karkamysh? Is not Chamath similar to ‘Arpad? Is not Shimrown the same as Dameseq (because each of them represents an important and subdued national capital, commercial center, religious site, or military fortress)? (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:9)
As my hand discovered the governing bodies over religious images and objects of worship, and their representations of false gods, I found that they could be compared with Yaruwshalaim and with Shomarown. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:10)
So shouldn’t I do the same thing to Yaruwshalaim and her objects of worship as I have done to Shomarown and her religious images?”’ (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:11)
But it shall come to pass that my Upright One will complete all His work around the ridgeline of Tsyown and within Yaruwshalaim.
275‘I will hold accountable the exceedingly conceited and self-aggrandizing attitude and judgment manifested by the dictatorial ruler of ‘Ashuwr, because I’m opposed to the haughty, self-willed, unwarranted, self-promoting persona, and exalted, rebellious, and boastful appearance of self-glorification.’ (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:12)
For he says, ‘By the might of my hand, by the power, authority, and resources in my control, I have acted, accomplishing this, and by my sage wisdom, intellect, my acumen and shrewdness, because I know how to assess the situation, understand what is happening, and deduce the appropriate response. I remove the boundaries and borders of peoples.
Whatever they had planned and were prepared to accomplish, I will spoil and steal through compulsion. I will descend upon and subjugate the inhabitants of the communities where people live as if Almighty God. (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:13)
My hand has found and taken possession of what could be compared to the likeness of the nest of the capabilities and wealth, the aptitude and character, even the socio-political and religious identity of the peoples and nations.
And as one gathers and removes eggs which have been neglected and abandoned all over the entire earth, I gathered and removed them. And there did not exist an appendage that fluttered nor anyone who so much as opened their mouth, not even to twitter or chirp, not letting out a peep.’ (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:14)
‘Should the axe raise itself up and glorify itself, honoring itself, endowing itself with splendor to infer that it is beautiful and pleasing, worthy of respect, boasting with unwarranted pride over the One who actually cuts and engraves with it and above the 276brilliant light and craftsman wielding it, as if greater than the stonemason designing, carving out, and constructing with it?
Isn’t it irrational for the saw, which is only a hand tool used for cutting, to magnify itself as greater, boasting of its higher status and exalted position, promoting itself as being more important, more powerful and even more praiseworthy, and actually as being over and above He who moves it, drawing it back and forth?
It is as if a club, a staff, a scepter, or a spear, the implements of economic, religious, political, and military control, could somehow move to and fro, raising itself up, while lifting itself on high, over and against all, rebelling by exalting and extolling itself, magnifying its rotten and wormy self, as if the club, staff, scepter, or spear being raised was other than a plank of wood.’” (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 10:15)
The “mal’ak – spiritual messengers and heavenly envoys” are “implements,” which makes them “tools to be wielded spiritually.” They operate in a “tsaba’ –command-and-control regimen,” and thus have been granted the same degree of freewill afforded a private when in the presence of a general. They can rebel and refuse an order, but doing so will immediately and unequivocally lead to their incarceration – where their freedoms will be further constrained.
Tools and implements are created to perform a job – nothing more. They facilitate the purpose of the individual wielding them, accomplishing what the hand powering them desires to achieve. When a tool stops performing, it is either fixed or tossed away.
Ha Satan was and remains a “mal’ak – tool” to be used until he fails to perform as intended, and then he will be thrown away. Consider She’owl as the eternal home for 277broken and useless, counterproductive and underperforming, especially rebellious and defiant, mal’ak. It is their prison, the place they transition from the ability to do as directed or rebel, to no freedom whatsoever.
Satan, depicted here as the “ruler of ‘Ashuwr,” became a counterproductive implement, and he led a rebellion to do the opposite of his intended design. Rather than serve Yahowah by conveying God’s message and purpose to man, and thereby serving both God and man, Satan rebelled and sought to convey his own perverted message and twisted purpose.
This tool claimed that he was greater than the One who had created it and was wielding it and did so seeking to be worshiped by man as God. And yet, rather than liberate, enlighten, enrich, and empower man, perfecting him while extending his life, as God intended, ha Satan would subjugate man, confuse and impoverish mankind, weaken and corrupt him, while stealing his life and soul.
He would do this by becoming the god of religion, by having his demons possess, and thus use, the likes of Paul, Akiba, Hadrian, and Muhammad. He is the Ha Shem of Judaism, the Lord God of Christianity, and Allah in Islam.
