Isaiah 14:25
25 That I will break [shabar] the Assyrian ['Ashshuwr] in
my land ['erets], and upon my mountains [har] tread him under foot [buwc]:
then shall his yoke [`ol] depart [cuwr] from off them, and his burden [cobel] depart [cuwr] from off
their shoulders [shakem]. KJV-Interlinear
25 to break Assyria in My land,
and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from
them, and his burden removed from their shoulder. NASB
With the promise of the
breaking of the power and evil of Babylon, which is still future with respect
to Isaiah’s day, God now promises to break the back of Assyria, which is the
current threat in Isaiah’s day, toward Judah.
Babylon is a future
threat. Assyria is a current threat.
The phrase, my land and
my mountains, from Gods perspective, is a specific reference to Judah and
Israel, but it is also a reference to any place where God’s people live. And
that of course includes the entire world.
Babylon symbolically
represents Satan and all of his evil. Assyria symbolically represents all of
the evil of man.
One day, at the second
advent of Christ, all sources of evil will be destroyed and all instruments of
evil and its influence will be forever removed from history.
When Christ begins his
millennial reign, nothing of Satan, and nothing of prior human history, will
enter into the kingdom of God here on earth.
All of the burdens and
barriers and problems of life that are common to humanity, will cease, and a
new era under the rule of Christ will begin and continue for a period of 1000
years.
