This is the second in a series of seven articles in consecutive issues of Awake! that discuss the seven world powers of Bible history. The objective is to s how that the Bible is trustworthy and inspired of God and it message in one of hope for an end to the suffering caused by man's cruel domination of his fellow man.
THE very mention of Assyria to people of the ancient Middle East may have made their blood run cold. According to the Bible book of Jonah, when that prophet received an assignment from God to preach a judgment message in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, he fled in the opposite direction! (Jonah 1:1-3) Perhaps that was so because the Assyrians' fearsome reputation.
Next time: Trustworthy History
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