Dragon's two-pronged extermination policy

Isaiah 10, talking about the Antichrist, says: [5] O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

[6] I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
[7] Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

"God is using Isaiah to communicate to this Assyrian, and in this passage He's not talking about the historical Assyria," explains Alex Kurz.

Isaiah 10:24: [24] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

"You see this connection between Assyria and Egypt? The first head of that dragon is the Egyptian empire; it's Satan's assault and salvo against God's wisdom in creating a nation through Abraham, and just because God takes somebody out of his land, Satan in turn plants his guy and he's an Assyrian.

Exodus 1:8: [8] Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

"By the way, this Pharoah is not named; he's nameless and that's interesting because the Antichrist is nameless and yet there is a number associated with him--the number of the beast and all that.

Verses 9-10: [9] And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

[10] Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

"What is this Pharoah, the Assyrian, worried about? There's impending war. Fear has stricken the dragon; he sees what God's doing out there and that Assyrian rises up to ensure that this people don't continue to multiply.

"So what does he do? Verses 15-16: [15] And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

[16] And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

"Here's the second interesting parallel. There's an extermination policy that this Assyrian Pharoah implements. It's that every first-born son . . . Tactic No. 1: Kill the son.

"We read in Revelation 12 about a two-pronged extermination policy. The first phase is, 'Kill the newborn son.'

Verses 4-5: [4] And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

[5] And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

"Under the time past, historical Pharoah, an Egyptian who rises up because of the threat of the fruitful, multiplying nation of Israel, says, 'Policy No. 1: Kill all the male children.' Antichrist is seeking to kill the man child as soon as it's delivered.

"You remember when the Lord Jesus was born and the Roman government and any boy two years old? 

"For Phase 2 of the extermination policy of Pharoah go to Exodus 14. The first phase didn't work because God in His wisdom raised up that fair child called Moses.

"Satan plants an Assyrian in Egypt and what does God do? He implants a Hebrew in the Egyptian government. You see God's sense of humor? Not in the sense that this is funny stuff, but God says, 'Okay, give me your best shot. Go ahead.'

"Satan thinks he's pretty slick. He says, 'You know what, I'm going to implant the empire in that area,' and God says, 'I'll just take one of my own and I'll plant him in the Egyptian government.'

"You can't confound God and don't forget this dragon thinks he's wiser than anything and he thinks God created him for the specific purpose of wielding equal authority in the universe.

Exodus 14:9: [9] But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

" 'I'll let your people go,' could very well have been two million Hebrews that God's leading to the edge of the great sea and what's Pharoah seeking to do? 'We're going to annihilate these people.' What's going to happen in the future?

"Phase two of this extermination policy is described in Revelation 12: [13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

[14] And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

"Some interpret that eagle to be an airplane but no, it's a person. Whoever came down in the shape of a bird? The Holy Spirit. In the first coming of Christ, the Holy Spirit came as a dove. Peace on earth, good will to men. And when Israel crucified her King, the dove becomes a what? A bird of prey. He's an eagle.

"Just as God supernaturally delivers His people back there in history past, when the nation is right there on the water's edge, God's going to do the same thing again. In that second phase of this extermination policy, you have this dragon who's pursuing the nation out there in the wilderness.

[15] And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
[16] And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
[17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

"She will be supernaturally provided for, which is what God did in the past. God splits open that sea, great walls of water, the nation's delivered. So again, what happened in the past is going to be repeated in the future."