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favor of God. They shall achieve victory only with the help of God and His 
angels. They will defeat the Arabs everywhere, in Europe, and even into the 
Arab lands. This war will be both glorious and horrifying. Many will suffer 
unimaginable grief, loss, and pain. But in the end, the Christians will be 
victorious. 
    The great monarch is described in the book of Daniel. He is the one 
conspicuous horn (Dan 8:5), that is, the one conspicuous leader of the allied 
forces. He and his forces are represented in the book of Daniel by the 
he goat (Dan 8:6 7). He will be made leader of all Europe and king of 
Greece (Dan 8:21). 
God's Purpose in the Forty Years 
     Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury! Against a godless 
nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to 
take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the 
streets.  (Isaiah 10:5 6). 
  God will use the Arab nations as a rod to punish the Christian nations, 
which have become godless. Yet God does not excuse those Arabs who 
behave arrogantly, who think that their success in war comes from their own 
power (Isaiah 10:7 11). 
     When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on 
Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his 
haughty pride.  (Isaiah 10:12). 
    When the time of the punishment of the Christian nations is completed, 
God will turn his wrath against the Arab oppressors (Isaiah 10:15). God will 
send a wasting disease upon the army of the Arab forces who are occupying 
Europe (Isaiah 10:16). God Himself will fight against those who are 
oppressing and persecuting the Christians. Yet only a remnant of the 
Christian people will remain, for the wrath of God against the sins of 
Christians will be brought to completion (Isaiah 10:21 23). 
The End of the Forty Years 
     Therefore thus says the Lord, the L
ORD
 of hosts: `O my people, who 
dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they smite with the rod 
and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did. For in a very little 
while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to 
their destruction.'   (Isaiah 10:24 25). 
    God is comparing the time of the Forty Years to the time when the 
Israelites were in slavery in Egypt. God will free the Christians from the 
persecution by the Arabs with great power, signs, and wonders, just as He 






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