The Assyrian - Don't look to Europe or USA for Antichrist

And this [one] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. - Micah 5:5, 6

For 20 years I expected, as do many Believers, that the antichrist will rise up from Europe or maybe even the USA. Now I believe that my belief was wrong. The Word of G_d points to a leader rising up from the Middle East as being the "little horn".

It is true that the antichrist will come from the Roman Empire, but in the West, our pride prevents us from seeing past ourselves. The Roman Empire comprised all the nations which touched the Mediterranean Sea, including Syria, Babylon, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan.

Assyria actually is made up of parts of Babylon/Iraq, Turkey, and Syria.

Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

Some believe that this refers to the fact that the antichrist will have existed in the past and will be resurrected bodily. Given other passages, it would appear if this interpretation is correct that the antichrist is the person, Nimrod. The one who founded Babylon and Assyria. The one who built the Tower of Babel. The one whose very name means "to rebel".

I do not claim to know who the antichrist is but I do believe that he will rise up from the Middle East through an miraculous appearance such as one mentioned above or through the political realm such as Prince Hassan of Jordan.

There is a good chance that we, the true church, will never see this man because of the sounding of the Shofar on the "day that no man knows", i.e. Rosh Hashanah

Let it be.