Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky

"Fire and water must have made you their daughter," is a line from a famous tune from 1970 named Fire and Water. If you think about it, references to fire and water in American songs are quite common. Of course, Satan's minions, we know from the Bible, are huge fans of both.

When Jesus Christ returns at the Second Coming, Zechariah 10:11 tells us, [11] And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Similarly, Habakkuk 3 says, [9] Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

[10] The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
[13] Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

“The ‘head out of the house of the wicked’ is the Antichrist,” explains Richard Jordan. “He’s the head of the satanic policy of evil and the judgment on the rivers . . .

“The cloaking effect in the rivers, where they’re trying to hide, and the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, have places where there are openings that go down into the heart of the earth into hell—places where some of Satan’s emissaries hide in these waters.

“When Christ comes back and judges these things, He’s not just pitching a hissy fit and being capricious; there’s a connection between the satanic program and that stuff.

“In Zechariah 10:11, Jesus Christ is literally assaulting the demonic forces of the Adversary and there’s that army and that fight.

“In Joel 2 we talked about that at great length. He’s come to put all of that away; He’s literally going to take the armies and artillery of the strongman and bind him and put an end to the conflict. The Second Coming of Christ settles the battle that started in Genesis 1.

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“When the Israelites go into captivity in that fifth course of judgment it’s called the Assyrian captivity. It starts off with Babylon, but in Isaiah 14 the king of Babylon is called the king of Assyria. Isaiah 52:4: [4] For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

“When the Israelites were down in Egypt, who was oppressing them? The Assyrian. There wasn’t even a kingdom of Assyria then but the Bible identifies a guy as the Assyrian. You remember in Exodus 1 where it says a pharaoh rose up that knew not Joseph? It’s this same guy. What it’s talking about is that satanic program behind the kings of the earth.

“Ezekiel 31: 2-3 says, [2] Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
[3] Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

“Wait a minute, who is this guy? Pharoah king of Egypt is also the Assyrian. What you’re seeing there is that behind . . .

“You remember Ezekiel 28’s ‘prince of Tyrus’ turns out to be Satan? These kings of the earth are literally just his minions. He’s the power behind the throne. Revelation 13 talks about the Antichrist and it’s Satan that gives him his power and his authority and his seat of government.”