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Ron Susek: Hello my friend, Ron Susek here once again. Once again I'm taking you with me to North Dakota. What a time I had up there. These are great people. Did an evangelistic crusade there many years ago. It was the citywide crusade held in the convention center of Bismarck. It was a wonderful time.

The only thing I don't like about Bismarck is that I don't want to land there in the winter at forty degrees below zero. But they are marvelous people. And this church, New Song Church, under the Pastor Chaffee, invited me to the church and we did four sessions. And at the end of the fourth session, they opened it for questions and answers.

The questions were so fantastic. I'm glad they were recorded. We're going to play them for you today and show you the answers. We're going to have a great time because we're talking about the Assyrian people and how God is raising them up and preparing them for a tremendous use under the coming Messiah. Stay with me. I'll be right back.

Guest (Male): Finding and knowing God is a faith walk. The Bible says that without faith, it is impossible to please God. Our hope lies in the coming Messiah who will establish God's peaceful kingdom on earth.

This is FaithWalk with Ron Susek. Dr. Ron is an evangelist committed to encourage and equip your faith walk as we pass through these turbulent end-time days, awaiting that soon-coming kingdom. Here again is Ron Susek.

Ron Susek: So the question is just for those that are online: Jonah went to Nineveh, Nineveh was controlled by the Assyrians, and the Assyrians were bad to the Ninevites. And what is the true story of the Assyrians and the Ninevites, is that what you're asking?

Guest (Male): Yeah, and how does that fit into this?

Ron Susek: I can't wait till tomorrow morning. You are going to be as shocked as I was when in the middle of the night as I was studying the scriptures, the Lord opened up something to me that is just mind-bending for me because it shows us a flow of history.

Keep in mind, Jonah hated them because they had taken out the top ten tribes of Israel. But his attitude was totally wrong. And you'll find out tomorrow in a very unique way what really happened when they took out the top ten tribes of Israel. And we have to know that the Assyrians, I believe, always had a remnant coming through that knew the truth.

Like all nations, including Israel and including America, they strayed from the truth. And that's when Jonah reluctantly, because of his bitterness over the top ten tribes being taken out, he goes up there so unhappy he'd rather die than go. And even when it was over, he wanted to die. And but that was his problem because that is one of the signs to us that the Ninevites always had.

Well, let me give you a history behind what I'm about to say. The Assyrians are mentioned in Genesis chapter two. They go that far back, 6,000 years. And I said last weekend I was speaking to Assyrians in Chicago. I said, how you must have been great swimmers to get through the flood. No, they came through Shem. They are Semites. And so that's how they got through the flood. One, this is in your Bible now, one of Noah's sixteen grandsons was named Asshur.

How did the Middle East come to pass? Noah's grandsons scattered and began families. Families grew into cities. Cities grew into nations. It just so happens that Asshur in Asshur and then also Nineveh, Asshur started as a family, became a city, became a nation. But they were such God-gifted geniuses they built the cradle of civilization. You are doing things today that they created. And they became an empire.

And so Jonah's bitterness, the sign that there was a core of true believers who never lost sight of the true God and the truth is that they repented. The nation repented with a three-day fast. Now, if they did not know the truth and that core group was not spreading out saying, "Hey, this guy's got it. We better repent," they would have laughed him out of there and killed him.

So I'm convinced that and plus Abraham was an Assyrian. Who taught Abraham to follow the true and living God and not even know where he's going? Who taught him that? That core group, I think. The wise men we think were also Assyrians. So you're going to find out tomorrow, yes, just like us, just like every other nation on earth, they went out of bounds but they were not, I will say this for tomorrow, but they were not the evil, wicked, barbaric, pounding stakes.

I'm really irritated at the Museum of the Bible in DC because they show them pounding stakes down people's throats. Not true. They actually built and blessed the nations that they conquered in amazing ways. And that's part of what you'll see tomorrow night, I think tomorrow night. I hope, because I had to wrestle with that one to think it through because I, like you, I had just lived with what is called the historians, well non-Christian historians.

They just jumped on that and really gave them a bad rap. The church bought that up and now I read Bible commentaries really giving them a rap of being mindless barbarians. They were not that, and we'll be seeing that. Thank you for that question. I mean that's a hot question. Anybody else a question? Yes?

Guest (Male): I'm not sure I heard you right. Did you say something when you talked about them going into the caves? Who were those people called? Were they Catholics, did you say?

Ron Susek: The Copts. Coptic. Coptic Christian. Coptic is a language and that's where the name comes from, the Egyptian Coptic Christians. If you say Coptic in Egypt, that's parallel to saying Christian. That's the best.

Guest (Male): So do we have Assyrians living among us that don't know they're Assyrians?

Ron Susek: Yes. The question for the tape is are there Assyrians that don't know they're Assyrians? Many. We know of three and a half million that declare we're Assyrian and can prove it. But when you think of all that were abducted over the centuries and all that has happened, if once that nation is established and it's safe and guarded and it's safe for any Assyrian to go home, I think we're going to find Assyrians coming out of the woodwork from all over the place.

Finally changing their names just like Sabro. He was Sabri Atman because he was living in Turkey and if they figured him out, he'd be dead. So now he's Sabro Ben-Gauze. So there are many like that. And so it could be that after that nation is established, within five to ten years it's going to go from three and a half million to ten, twenty million people.

Guest (Male): How many Assyrians are in Syria, modern-day Syria?

Ron Susek: Modern-day Syria. I'm going to take a wild guess. It would not be over 100,000 to 200,000. And they are right now, as you know, under the gun. Their chances are very thin right now. So if ever we've prayed for the ones that are getting persecuted and oh yeah.

We have to remember that the new head of Syria was the head of Islamic terrorism. And he's smiling to make DC happy but in his heart we know what's going on. Very dangerous time for them.

Guest (Male): Was Syria a part of Assyria?

Ron Susek: Thank you so much because that's a confusing thing for many people. Syria was ancient Persia. Cyrus was the head of that. If this is my map, that's down here. Assyria was up here. Totally different people. Even though the name is close they're not related at all.

Guest (Male): So was Syria before Assyria? Or were they there at the same time? I know they weren't linked, but were they there at the same time?

Ron Susek: Yes they were. They were and Assyria was first because they're probably the oldest known nation on earth. They go back because you read in Genesis chapter two that it was Nimrod who went up and established Nineveh. Okay, any other questions? I was getting my haircut the other day and I was talking to the girl that was cutting my hair about Assyria and Syria. And she's never heard of any. We're confused. It's just like North and South Dakota. Dakota. Marv?

Guest (Male): Do you feel that this all has to take place with the three countries prior to the coming of Christ?

Ron Susek: Thank you for that question. The question is will the three countries be in place before or after the return of Christ? Right. I can't proof text what I'm going to say, but I think we are now in the role of John the Baptist of preparing the way for the coming of the Messiah. I don't think the prophecy is finalized until the Messiah comes. But that shouldn't hold us back from paving the way. That's what we're looking at. Thank you.

Guest (Male): So we could have all three nations in existence prior to the return of Christ or it could be after. We're not really sure.

Ron Susek: My hunch is that the events we're going to be talking about will happen before his coming. When he comes, we know that there's going to be a global earthquake. We know that everything is rattled and shaken and rebuilt. But I think that these three nations, I think they'll be in place because I think what they have to go through.

By the way if you want to know what Egypt has to go through, it's in Isaiah chapter nineteen, the same chapter, the first twenty-one verses. And it's pretty radical where God's going to bring pressure and relief and finally five cities will honor Jesus Christ. So that's what I think. Again now I can't proof text what I'm saying. It's just making more and more sense the more I study it, that I think that we are fulfilling the role of John the Baptist preparing the way of the Lord.

Guest (Male): Did Assyria have different gods? Were they I mean they weren't always obviously a Christian nation.

Ron Susek: They did. That's why I said they strayed. But I think there was a remnant who hung on to Noah's God. But they did develop other gods and we do know that they boasted at the walls of Jerusalem of conquering all these other gods. And then that night lost 185,000 soldiers to our God.

Guest (Male): Were they part of the Kurdish mountain too, the Kurds? I mean with all those different religions over there that are centered in Iraq and stuff like that, they have all of these different religions. Were they dominant by any of the other religions?

Ron Susek: You mean Assyria? No, they delighted in tearing down their gods and proving them powerless. But they did drift into some of their own other ideas of God. And that I think that is what Jonah went up and said, "Repent." And they did for a season. Then they drifted again.

Guest (Male): And one thing that you had said, Ron, is I don't know about you guys but sometimes I get overwhelmed or I feel like, "What am I supposed to do?" or "What am I not supposed to do?" and at the end of the day, it's God's, like you said. It's the Father's plan. I just don't want to miss my part in whatever that is, right?

So praying is first and foremost. So if you go to church here, you know we do about every five or six weeks we do just a Sunday morning where we just pray the whole morning and it's just a prayer and worship service, that's all it is. And we've been praying for Israel, we've been praying for Ukraine and Russia, Pakistan and India, America and so on and so forth. But we're going to add Assyria specifically to it.

And it's amazing everywhere I go we're just this last week I was in Denver for our international conference where so there's people from all over the world and talking to people, there's this glimmer of people saying, "Oh yeah, we've been hearing about Assyria. What is up with that?" Because really since 1948 it's been Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel and that was crazy that that even happened. And we almost idolized yes, yes there is.

And God's not done with that or is Assyria. I just know for America, we better be on the right team and that means we need to be praying for our leadership and for those Egypt, Assyria and Israel over there. And so I just encourage you in your own prayer life just add it to your prayer list just those breath prayers of God, Assyria, raise up those people and the leaders and not because of us or we have some great idea, it's because it's the word. It's the prophetic word of God that we get to be part of ushering it in especially as Gentiles.

We're Gentiles, we're dumb. We don't understand Gentiles, we don't get it. We don't have the rich heritage. It's so fun when I get to talk to a new believer in faith as a Gentile Christian they have no background, they've never read the Bible, know nothing. They are just like sponges just want to know but they don't know anything. And so we have our work cut out for us as Gentiles. And so is there any questions? Yes, go ahead. Well here, I'm going to give you the microphone only because then the people online I can't repeat that. It's already too long. So start over.

Guest (Female): I got really excited because you mentioned how there's that legend you heard of of the Assyrian king being one of the kings that showed up at Jesus's birth and how he was still alive after Jesus's death and was specifically apostle Thomas that went to him afterwards and met him afterwards, right? And I've heard that story from a completely different source, not from any any Assyrian legend or anything like that. And what it was, what I heard it from is so in the 1800s, there was this woman.

She was just a poor woman. Most people have never heard of her until very recently her writings weren't even translated into English. And so but anyway, so all throughout her life, she had these dreams. In these dreams and she would tell her parents about them when she was really, really little before she could read, before she could go to church, before anything and her parents, who were Christian, they recognized this little girl's dreams as being Bible stories. But she had never heard Bible stories before.

And she saw visions that were more than what was put in the Bible because we know that not every single word said was put in the Bible. We know not every single scene that ever happened, not every single encounter that Jesus did was put in the Bible, right? So she had all of these visions throughout her entire life and she also had a photographic memory. She had a very good memory, like supernaturally good.

She finally in her she started in her mid-70s. She sat down and started writing out every single vision that she had, right? And she could remember all the ones that she started getting when she was three years old, right? And by the time she was eighty-two, she had finished writing them. There was four volumes of books and then she died right afterwards. That was her life. That's what God put on there for, right? She I've read one of the four books. I have the other three, I haven't finished them though.

But she talks about the three kings because they're just barely mentioned in the Bible, right? And she talks about all of their histories because she saw it all in these visions. And she saw specifically one of the kings from a faraway land and she said that like they were all from lands that that all worshipped the one true God even though they were not Jewish, right? And a couple of them she mentioned were used to be polytheistic but three to four generations earlier they were visited by an angel of God and was just like, "Hey no, like I'm the real God."

And then from then on those countries had converted to knowing the one true God and that was like that was done to herald Jesus's birth because they played such a huge role after his his crucifixion. They all ended up being places that like housed and hid the apostles when the apostles were spreading throughout the world. Like without them the apostles wouldn't have been able to go as far because they found sanctuary in these far-off lands where these kings came from.

And she specifically talked about Thomas, the apostle Thomas going to one of the lands where the king that was there at Jesus's birth was still alive and was so excited to hear about Jesus's life and how he got baptized by St. Thomas and healed. And she mentioned healed but she didn't say what it was for. And that's just...

Ron Susek: That's interesting. We tend to think that we in the West have a bit of an edge on God and we're just privileged to know him and there are amazing ways that the spirit of God is building the church around the world. Right now you're probably aware that one of the greatest revivals of all time is happening in Iran because they're now seeing Islam as being this unbelievably oppressive regime and many underground are turning to Jesus. I get notes periodically from some of those areas where they break through the block out and watch our program and man I tell you they can bring tears to your eye. Okay, any other questions, thoughts?

Guest (Male): Ron, what's really inspired you to pursue this prophecy?

Ron Susek: I'll try to condense the story but it all started when I was sitting in my study oh maybe forty years ago and I read that prophecy and I leaned back in my chair and literally said out loud, "God, did you make a mistake? There are no Assyrians." And of course tongue in cheek, I didn't want to be lightning struck. But over the decades no matter where I went that question kept coming back to me. I didn't seek it, it kept coming to me.

And I think I shared this morning then I met a man I spoke on it at a convention and even then I didn't have all the research done it was a very shallow message. But a man came up to me and identified himself as an Assyrian who had written two books on it. And so I began to follow them in AINA news, AINA international news, ainanews.com.

And so then that led to discovering when we took out Saddam Hussein that there were a million and a half Assyrian Christians living in northern Iraq. And I also got a report that Saddam Hussein would only use Assyrians as his bodyguards because they were the only people he could trust not to kill him. And so then I really got interested. And then when when ISIS attacked in 2014, that sealed it. I felt the you know the Bible talks about the heavy hand of God.

I really felt that coming on me that I realized I just found myself crying and begging God what can I do? Here I am, send me. And so that's when the words of that minister came back to me, write the next book. And so I did. And that has been a just a interesting story. I'm hoping that God allows me to live long enough after the victory to write the story of how the whole thing happened so that no one can think that I was someone important or anyone.

The glory has to go to God because he shielded it for 2,700 years. He lifted his hand and amazing things began to happen. And I'm hoping for two things. We are talking about planting a Christian truly Christian nation, declared Christian with a a statement of purpose built on Christianity and I won't go into all the structure we're talking about behind the scenes, but a true Christian nation right in the heart of Islam, which will be one of the greatest evangelistic things that has happened in I don't know when.

Because now the whole world's going to be watching this. Every every TV camera will be there saying, "How did you pull this off?" And I told the patriarch, when that comes, preach the gospel. Go back to what you started it, end it, preach the gospel, preach the gospel. And so the the more I have dug into it, the deeper the passion gets until I would say that out of the last eleven years, the great majority of nights I've been awake most of the night praying and studying the scriptures.

And I can't go to a movie because I sit there fighting the urge to bawl because as I see things happening in the movie my mind is always going to the Assyrians. And how do we get the Assyrian what we need to build in the public, the Christian public first and then the world as well, is a pathos for these people. Right now they don't hear them, they don't see them, they don't care. How do you build a pathos?

And I am free to tell you this and invite you to put it on your prayer list. I just finished writing a letter, we got a direct line to Mel Gibson and I wrote a letter to him asking him if he would meet with me to consider doing a mega motion picture on the Assyrian story. So whether it's Mel Gibson or someone else I don't know yet, but that's one of the fastest ways to make it a buzz for the church.

Guest (Male): Anybody else have a question? Dave, did you have... So you know Mel Gibson's working on the part two of the Passion. Just he is. So wouldn't that be something to piggyback after that? Because remember when the Passion came out how it just took over, stormed the world. And if the second one's probably going to do the same thing and then after that we do the Assyrian. Exactly right. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Okay let's pray. God we do again come to you and we're so grateful that you are not too busy for us or that you your ears are bad, but you are attentive to us because of what Jesus has done. He paid the way, he made us sons and daughters and heirs. And so you hear us. And we're so grateful that Jesus intercedes for us and your spirit is working in the earth. So we do pray that your spirit will continue to stir us up.

People that are our loved ones, Lord. If we know someone that we love that is far from you, that has rebelled, is whatever, we pray that you will give dreams and visions, stir up our loved ones and then stir up we people we don't know, are the leaders. Pour out your spirit, stir your spirit. Lord, we know you want to do it. We know you're going to do it. But we know it's our job to pray and to ask and to fill up those prayer bowls in heaven.

So we just are in agreement God with your plan. It's a beautiful, perfect, wonderful plan. We can take great rest in your plan. We can have great confidence and strength and courage in your plan. Which whatever the world tells us, whatever the devil tells us that oh it's nothing, that's not going to happen, that's all false flat because your word prevails.

So Lord we are grateful that we can come into agreement together with you and we're excited for what's to come. Give us strength to do our marching orders in our time and pass it on to the next generation until you return. We trust it to you. Amen.

Now Dr. Ron has been talking to us about the end-time days and wants us to prepare for the coming kingdom. And he has written a book titled The Assyrian Prophecy that is a missing part of the end-times puzzle. When you reach the end of this book, one question will be in your mind: Lord, what would you have me to do? You can learn more at theassyrianproject.org. Well, thanks for being with us today, and we hope you'll join us again next week as we find courage for the journey in our faith walk.