THE ORIGINS OF ASSYRIA & GERMANY

By Kelly Marshall @ Exit & Support Network™ on December 1, 2004

Herbert W. Armstrong boldly and authoritatively claims in Chapter 5 of Mystery of Ages:

“The Assyrians settled in central Europe, and the Germans, undoubtedly, are, in part, the descendants of the ancient Assyrians.” (p. 183)

Herbert W. Armstrong (July 31, 1892 – January 16, 1986) was an American evangelist who founded the Worldwide Church of God (WCG). An early pioneer of radio and television evangelism, Armstrong preached what he claimed was the comprehensive combination of doctrines in the entire Bible, in the light of the New Covenant scriptures, which he maintained to be the restored true Gospel. These doctrines and teachings have been referred to as Armstrongism by non-adherents. Armstrong’s teachings required observance of parts of the Mosaic Law including seventh-day Sabbath, dietary prohibitions, and the covenant law “Holy Days”. He also proclaimed that behind contemporary world events loomed various Biblical prophecies, interpreted in light of British Israelism. As founder and head of the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, Armstrong and his advisers met with heads of governments in various nations, for which he described himself as an “ambassador without portfolio for world peace.”

Although he speaks with confidence on this matter, he does not give any historical references to back up his claims.

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Mystery of the Ages – Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

Since Herbert W. Armstrong challenged his followers to “prove all things,” we will take him up on the invitation.

We will first examine the statements made by him concerning ancient peoples, then we will look at some reference materials to see whether his information can be verified.

In his book, The United States and Britain in Prophecy (heretofore abbreviated as US&BIP, 1980), Herbert Armstrong goes into what seems to be great detail to prove the modern identities of ancient peoples.

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The united states and british commonwealth in prophecy – Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

He uses the identity of these ancient peoples to prove his version of Bible prophecy.

Exposing Spiritual Corruption: Spiritual Alchemy & the Bible – Library of Rickandria

So, it is important that we prove whether the “facts” he states are true, for if we can prove what he said as fact, then he will prove himself as a true prophet and apostle.

But if we find erroneous information, and contradictions, then he will qualify himself as a false prophet and apostle, because a true apostle does not need to resort to:

deception
distortion
lies

HWA invites readers of the MOA to write for a free copy of the US&BIP to get further details concerning the true identity of modern-day Israel, the end times and how it relates to Bible prophecy.

Once he convinces the reader that the U.S. and Britain are Ephraim and Manasseh, he will begin to frighten the reader with graphic details of impending invasion, also known as the Great Tribulation (WW III):

“Now it becomes painfully clear!

The Great Tribulation is this sevenfold intensity of corrective punishment which God is now soon going to lay on Britain-America!” (p. 175)

So, it is imperative that we make 100% sure that the information we receive from this prophet is absolutely correct.

First, let’s examine what HWA said concerning Assyria and its role with the U.S. & Britain [emp. mine]:

The Assyrians—before 604 B.C.—left their land north of Babylon and migrated northwest—through the lands that are now Georgia, the Ukraine, Poland, and into the land that is called GERMANY today.

Today the descendants of those Assyrians are known to us as the GERMAN people. (p. 143-144)

That YOKE of SLAVERY without mercy is to be laid on the U.S. and Britain by the coming united nations of Europe!

It has started already, through the economic Common Market and the recently implemented EMS (European Monetary System) …

The prophecy does not literally say so, but in all probability, by present indications, the head of this new WORLD POWER will be in central Europe.

And it will precipitate World War III.

And this time it will be allowed to succeed!

Many of the ancient Assyrians migrated NORTHWEST from their ancient land south of the Caspian Sea and settled in central Europe, just as the House of Israel migrated from the land of their captivity to the coastlands of northwest Europe.

So, when you read about Assyria in prophecies pertaining to NOW, they refer to central Europe.

So, history is to repeat!

It was ancient Assyria which invaded the House of Israel and carried them out of Samaria into the Assyrian’s own land. (p.174)

We can clearly deduce that HWA believed and taught that:

The Ancient Assyrians migrated and settled into central Europe and are the German people of today.
All bible prophecies, pertaining to NOW, that mention “Assyria” are speaking specifically of the Germans.
The head of this new WORLD POWER will be in central Europe. Since the Germans live in central Europe, this is speaking about them. It will head the united nations of Europe (also known as the European Common Market).
The united nations of Europe will punish the U.S. and Britain.
History is repeating itself. Since the ancient Assyrians invaded the House of Israel, and the U.S. and Britain are this modern-day House of Israel, then the modern-day Assyrians (Germans) will invade the U.S. and Britain and start World War III.

Notice in every statement above, HWA did not give ANY historical references–any concrete data–to back up his claims!

The US&BIP is supposed to give further details, but what we find is a lot of sensational speculation and no proof!

HWA could have given a simple reference to an encyclopedia, but he doesn’t.

Why?

Let’s take a closer look.

Here is an excerpt from Collier’s Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, p. 38, (1959), “Germany: Racial Origin” [emp. mine]:

The German’s racial origin, like that of other Europeans, is very complex.

They cannot be regarded, as the Nazis and some German anthropologists have maintained, as a “pure race” with dominant Nordic characteristics.

Hitler’s Genealogy – Library of Rickandria

It is sufficient to say that the Germans are largely a mixture of Nordic, who would predominate in the north, and Alpine, who would predominate in the south, with further blends of the Dinaric in the southeast and Baltic in the northeast, and with a substratum of remnant prehistoric types.

While there is great uniformity of language and considerable ethnographic similarity, there are still many differences of:

stature
head shape
hair color
customs
traditions

and philosophy, all showing diversity of background.

During the Volkerwanderung, from the first to the fifth centuries, the Germanic peoples migrated in tribal units from the Nordic center around the western Baltic–southern Sweden, Denmark, and the mainland between the lower Elbe and Oder rivers.

In the process of settling central Europe, they mixed with other groups who were previous settlers, or who later moved into or through the area.

From this article we can derive that the racial origin of the modern Germans is largely Nordic, from around the western Baltic.

Notice the countries of Sweden and Denmark are named as descendants of the Germans.

This is significant, as we will later see.

The Germans are also descended from the many other racial blends, so to believe that there is a “pure” Germanic race is quite erroneous.

It also appears that in settling into central Europe, they have intermarried and mixed with other groups that were already settled there.

What can also be derived from this is the total silence of the Germans descending from Assyrians.

Even if the “substratum of remnant prehistoric types” refers to any Assyrian descent, they are a negligible minority.

Now let’s examine the history of the Assyrians.

We previously noted that HWA did not give any detailed references to prove the origins of the Germans.

Neither does he give any historical proof concerning the Assyrians.

Did the Assyrians migrate into central Europe “before 604 B.C.” just like HWA claimed?

Let’s see what the encyclopedia has to say concerning this.

I have extracted paragraphs that apply from the article on Babylonia and Assyria [emp. mine]:

Assyria lay north of Babylon along the upper Tigris and the waters of the Great and Little Zab rivers; its modern boundaries would be Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, and Syria in the west.

Where Was Babylon & Does It Still Exist? – Library of Rickandria

In general, modern Iraq, north of the Euphrates, includes most of the ancient territory of Babylonia and Assyria.

Babylonian Brotherhood: Ancient Great White Brotherhood – Library of Rickandria

With the Kassite occupation of Babylonia, the rise of Assyria as an independent state began.

In the time of Hammurabi, Assyria had been a province of Babylonia, but the Kassites were unable to keep the Assyrians in subjection.

What’s so important about the Code of Hammurabi? – Library of Rickandria

Thus, along the upper Tigris, the warlike, predominantly Semitic Assyrians began to lay the foundations for an empire larger than any of its predecessors.

[Author’s note: I skipped over the first two Assyrian dynasties and only used the last dynasty since it applies to the article].

By 745 B.C. order in Assyria had been restored by Tiglath-Pileser III, who also accomplished the re-conquest of Babylonia and was crowned king in the ancient city of Hammurabi in 728.

Tiglath-Pileser III[b] (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, meaning “my trust belongs to the son of Ešarra”; Biblical Hebrew: תִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶר‎ Tīglaṯ Pīlʾeser) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 745 BC to his death in 727. One of the most prominent and historically significant Assyrian kings, Tiglath-Pileser ended a period of Assyrian stagnation, introduced numerous political and military reforms and more than doubled the lands under Assyrian control. Because of the massive expansion and centralization of Assyrian territory and establishment of a standing army, some researchers consider Tiglath-Pileser’s reign to mark the true transition of Assyria into an empire. The reforms and methods of control introduced under Tiglath-Pileser laid the groundwork for policies enacted not only by later Assyrian kings but also by later empires for millennia after his death. The circumstances of Tiglath-Pileser’s rise to the throne are not clear. Because ancient Assyrian sources give conflicting accounts concerning Tiglath-Pileser’s lineage and there are records of a revolt at around the time of his accession, many historians have concluded that Tiglath-Pileser was a usurper, who seized the throne from his predecessor Ashur-nirari V, who was either his brother or his father. Other historians’ postulate that the evidence could just as easily be interpreted as Tiglath-Pileser inheriting the throne through legitimate means and the debate remains unresolved. Tiglath-Pileser early on increased royal power and authority through curbing the influence of prominent officials and generals. After securing some minor victories in 744 and 743, he defeated the Urartian king Sarduri II in battle near Arpad in 743. This victory was significant since Urartu had for a brief time equaled Assyrian power; Sarduri had eleven years earlier defeated Tiglath-Pileser’s predecessor Ashur-nirari. After defeating Sarduri, Tiglath-Pileser turned his attention to the Levant. Over the course of several years, Tiglath-Pileser conquered most of the Levant, defeating and then either annexing or subjugating previously influential kingdoms, notably ending the kingdom of Aram-Damascus. Tiglath-Pileser’s activities in the Levant were recorded in the Hebrew Bible. After a few years of conflict, Tiglath-Pileser conquered Babylonia in 729, becoming the first king to rule as both king of Assyria and king of Babylon.

Under Sargon II, who established a new Assyrian dynasty in 722 B.C., the Assyrians began a truly imperial age.

Sargon II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Šarru-kīn, meaning “the faithful king” or “the legitimate king”) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 BC to his death in battle in 705. Probably the son of Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 745–727), Sargon is generally believed to have become king after overthrowing Shalmaneser V (r. 727–722), probably his brother. He is typically considered the founder of a new dynastic line, the Sargonid dynasty. Modelling his reign on the legends of the ancient rulers Sargon of Akkad, from whom Sargon II likely took his regnal name, and Gilgamesh, Sargon aspired to conquer the known world, initiate a golden age and a new world order, and be remembered and revered by future generations. Over the course of his seventeen-year reign, Sargon substantially expanded Assyrian territory and enacted important political and military reforms. An accomplished warrior-king and military strategist, Sargon personally led his troops into battle. By the end of his reign, all of his major enemies and rivals had been either defeated or pacified. Among Sargon’s greatest accomplishments were the stabilization of Assyrian control over the Levant, the weakening of the northern kingdom of Urartu, and the reconquest of Babylonia. From 717 to 707, Sargon constructed a new Assyrian capital named after himself, Dur-Sharrukin (‘Fort Sargon’), which he made his official residence in 706. Sargon considered himself to have been divinely mandated to maintain and ensure justice. Like other Assyrian kings, Sargon at times enacted brutal punishments against his enemies but there are no known cases of atrocities against civilians from his reign. He worked to assimilate and integrate conquered foreign peoples into the empire and extended the same rights and obligations to them as native Assyrians. He forgave defeated enemies on several occasions and maintained good relations with foreign kings and with the ruling classes of the lands he conquered. Sargon also increased the influence and status of both women and scribes at the royal court. Sargon embarked on his final campaign, against Tabal in Anatolia, in 705. He was killed in battle and the Assyrian army was unable to retrieve his body, preventing a traditional burial. According to ancient Mesopotamian religion, he was cursed to remain a restless ghost for eternity. Sargon’s fate was a major psychological blow for the Assyrians and damaged his legacy. Sargon’s son Sennacherib was deeply disturbed by his father’s death and believed that he must have committed some grave sin. As a result, Sennacherib distanced himself from Sargon. Sargon was barely mentioned in later ancient literature and nearly completely forgotten until the ruins of Dur-Sharrukin were discovered in the 19th century. He was not fully accepted in Assyriology as a real king until the 1860s. Due to his conquests and reforms, Sargon is today considered one of the most important Assyrian kings.

It was Sargon II who captured and deported the Israelites, destroyed the Hittite fortress of Carchemish, and extended his realm to the borders of Egypt.

Egypt: Land of Kemet – Library of Rickandria

Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.) carried the Assyrian standards into Elam and also destroyed the city of Babylon after it had revolted in 689.

Sennacherib (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Sîn-ahhī-erība or Sîn-aḥḥē-erība, meaning “Sîn has replaced the brothers”) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BC to his own death in 681 BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of the most famous Assyrian kings for the role he plays in the Hebrew Bible, which describes his campaign in the Levant. Other events of his reign include his destruction of the city of Babylon in 689 BC and his renovation and expansion of the last great Assyrian capital, Nineveh. Although Sennacherib was one of the most powerful and wide-ranging Assyrian kings, he faced considerable difficulty in controlling Babylonia, which formed the southern portion of his empire. Many of Sennacherib’s Babylonian troubles stemmed from the Chaldean tribal chief Marduk-apla-iddina II, who had been Babylon’s king until Sennacherib’s father defeated him. Shortly after Sennacherib inherited the throne in 705 BC, Marduk-apla-iddina retook Babylon and allied with the Elamites. Though Sennacherib reclaimed the south in 700 BC, Marduk-apla-iddina continued to trouble him, probably instigating Assyrian vassals in the Levant to rebel, leading to the Levantine War of 701 BC, and himself warring against Bel-ibni, Sennacherib’s vassal king in Babylonia. After the Babylonians and Elamites captured and executed Sennacherib’s eldest son Aššur-nādin-šumi, whom Sennacherib had proclaimed as his new vassal king in Babylon, Sennacherib campaigned in both regions, subduing Elam. Because Babylon, well within his own territory, had been the target of most of his military campaigns and had caused the death of his son, he destroyed the city in 689 BC. In the Levantine War, the states in the southern Levant, especially the Kingdom of Judah under King Hezekiah, were not subdued as easily as those in the north. The Assyrians thus invaded Judah. Though the biblical narrative holds that divine intervention by an angel ended the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem by destroying the Assyrian army, an outright defeat is unlikely as Hezekiah submitted to Sennacherib at the end of the campaign.[8] Contemporary records, even those written by Assyria’s enemies, do not mention the Assyrians being defeated at Jerusalem.[9] Sennacherib transferred the capital of Assyria to Nineveh, where he had spent most of his time as crown prince. To transform Nineveh into a capital worthy of his empire, he launched one of the most ambitious building projects in ancient history. He expanded the size of the city and constructed great city walls, numerous temples and a royal garden. His most famous work in the city is the Southwest Palace, which Sennacherib named his “Palace without Rival”. After the death of his eldest son and crown prince Aššur-nādin-šumi, Sennacherib originally designated his second son Arda-Mulissu heir. He later replaced him with a younger son, Esarhaddon, in 684 BC, for unknown reasons. Sennacherib ignored Arda-Mulissu’s repeated appeals to be reinstated as heir, and in 681 BC, Arda-Mulissu and his brother Nabu-shar-usur murdered Sennacherib,[b] hoping to seize power for themselves. Babylonia and the Levant welcomed his death as divine punishment, while the Assyrian heartland probably reacted with resentment and horror. Arda-Mulissu’s coronation was postponed, and Esarhaddon raised an army and seized Nineveh, installing himself as king as intended by Sennacherib.

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon[6] and Ashurhaddon (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , also Aššur-aḫa-iddina, meaning “Ashur has given me a brother”; Biblical Hebrew: אֵסַר־חַדֹּן‎ ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father. After Sennacherib’s eldest son and heir Aššur-nādin-šumi had been captured and presumably executed in 694, the new heir had originally been the second eldest son, Arda-Mulissu, but in 684, Esarhaddon, a younger son, was appointed instead. Angered by this decision, Arda-Mulissu and another brother, Nabû-šarru-uṣur, murdered their father in 681 and planned to seize the Neo-Assyrian throne. The murder, and Arda-Mulissu’s aspirations of becoming king himself, made Esarhaddon’s rise to the throne difficult and he first had to defeat his brothers in a six-week long civil war. His brothers’ attempted coup had been unexpected and troublesome for Esarhaddon, and he would be plagued by paranoia and mistrust for his officials, governors and male family members until the end of his reign. As a result of this paranoia, most of the palaces used by Esarhaddon were high-security fortifications located outside of the major population centers of the cities. Also perhaps resulting from his mistrust for his male relatives, Esarhaddon’s female relatives, such as his mother Naqiʾa and his daughter Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, were allowed to wield considerably more influence and political power during his reign than women had been allowed in any previous period of Assyrian history, with the possible exception of Sammuramat in the 8th century BC. Despite a relatively short and difficult reign, and being plagued by paranoia, depression and constant illness, Esarhaddon remains recognized as one of the greatest and most successful Assyrian kings. He quickly defeated his brothers in 681, completed ambitious and large-scale building projects in both Assyria and Babylonia, successfully campaigned in Media, Persia, Elam, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Levant, defeated the Kushite Empire and conquered Egypt and Libya, enforced a vassal treaty upon the Medes and Persians and ensured a peaceful transition of power to his two sons and heirs Ashurbanipal as ruler of the empire and Šamaš-šuma-ukin as king of Babylonia after his death.

Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C.) in 671 carried out the conquest of Egypt; and between 669 and 626 B.C. during the reign of his son Ashurbanipal, the Assyrian empire attained it greatest limits and began to disintegrate.

Ashurbanipal[a] (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-bāni-apli,[10][b] meaning “Ashur is the creator of the heir”) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal inherited the throne as the favored heir of his father Esarhaddon; his 38-year reign was among the longest of any Assyrian king. Though sometimes regarded as the apogee of ancient Assyria, his reign also marked the last time Assyrian armies waged war throughout the ancient Near East and the beginning of the end of Assyrian dominion over the region. Esarhaddon selected Ashurbanipal as heir c. 673. The selection of Ashurbanipal bypassed the elder son Shamash-shum-ukin. Perhaps in order to avoid future rivalry, Esarhaddon designated Shamash-shum-ukin as the heir to Babylonia. The two brothers jointly acceded to their respective thrones after Esarhaddon’s death in 669, though Shamash-shum-ukin was relegated to being Ashurbanipal’s closely monitored vassal. Much of the early years of Ashurbanipal’s reign was spent fighting rebellions in Egypt, which had been conquered by his father. The most extensive campaigns of Ashurbanipal were those directed towards Elam, an ancient enemy of Assyria, and against Shamash-shum-ukin, who gradually began to resent the overbearing control that his younger brother held over him. Elam was defeated in a series of conflicts in 665, 653 and 647–646. Shamash-shum-ukin rebelled in 652 and assembled a coalition of Assyria’s enemies but was defeated and died during Ashurbanipal’s siege of Babylon in 648. On account of a lack of surviving records, much of Ashurbanipal’s late reign is poorly known. Ashurbanipal is chiefly remembered today for his cultural efforts. A patron of artwork and literature, Ashurbanipal was deeply interested in the ancient literary culture of Mesopotamia. Over the course of his long reign, Ashurbanipal utilized the massive resources at his disposal to construct the Library of Ashurbanipal, a collection of texts and documents of various different genres. Perhaps comprising over 100,000 texts at its height, the Library of Ashurbanipal was not surpassed until the construction of the Library of Alexandria, several centuries later. The more than 30,000 cuneiform texts that have survived from the library are a highly important source on ancient Mesopotamian language, religion, literature and science. Artwork produced under Ashurbanipal was innovative in style and motifs and is regarded to possess an “epic quality” otherwise absent from much of the art produced under previous kings. Ashurbanipal is recognized as one of the most brutal Assyrian kings; he was one of the few rulers to boast of his gory massacres of rebellious civilians. His extensive destruction of Elam is regarded by some scholars as a genocide. The Assyrians won many battles under Ashurbanipal, campaigning further from the Assyrian heartland than ever before, but several of his campaigns achieved little strategic advantage. Ashurbanipal failed to maintain control of Egypt, and his wars in Arabia cost time and resources without establishing longterm Assyrian control. His extensive sack of Babylon after defeating Shamash-shum-ukin weakened the resources of the empire and fanned anti-Assyrian sentiment in southern Mesopotamia, perhaps contributing to the rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire five years after Ashurbanipal’s death. Whether Ashurbanipal’s policies led to the fall of the Assyrian Empire only two decades after his death is disputed in modern Assyriology. A distorted legend of Ashurbanipal was remembered in Greco-Roman literary tradition under the name Sardanapalus, purportedly the effeminate and decadent last king of Assyria whose vices led to the fall of his empire.

New invasions of the Near East by the Cimmerians and Scythians and the rise of nationalism in Media and Babylonia saddened the last years of Ashurbanipal and sapped the military and financial reserves of Assyria.

A combined force of:

Medes
Babylonians
Scythians

captured the Assyrian capital of Nineveh in 612 B.C. and thus brought the independence of Assyria to an end.

After 539 B.C., Babylonia and Assyria ceased to be independent and passed successively under the rule of:

and the other later conquerors of the Near East.

(Collier’s Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 635-638, 1959)

Now let’s corroborate this with following excerpts from, The Assyrians (Elaine Landau, 1997) [emp. mine]:

One of the first places this first occurred [civilization] was an area in what is now the Middle East known as Mesopotamia–a land where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the Persian Gulf.

There on a hot, dry, windswept plain now referred to as a ”cradle of civilization,” some of the earliest cultures arose.

Among these was Assyria, an area on the upper Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia…Another important region, known as Sumer, occupied 10,000 squares miles in southern Mesopotamia.

Sumer & the Anunnaki – Library of Rickandria

Sumer later became Babylonia. (p. 11-12)

Assyria, which existed from the 14th century B.C. to 612 B.C., was situated on the upper Tigris River.

To its north lay the Armenian mountains, while the Zagros Mountains and the hills of Iran bordered Assyria to the east. (p. 16)

Eventually the Assyrian empire reached remarkable heights…

Yet a number of factors were actually working against Assyria.

At one point, its empire spanned a distance of more than 1,000 miles, an immense area for any ancient state to control for an extended period.

With its acquired territory so widespread, it became exceedingly difficult for Assyrian rulers to stamp out the rebellions that sprang up on various fronts at the same time.

As a result, Assyria’s strong grasp on its empire began to weaken…(p. 53)

Then near the end of the seventh century B.C. the region’s balance of power began to shift.

Determined to seize the opportunity, the Medes, a little-known people of the Iranian plateau, joined forces with the Chaldeans of Babylonia to topple an already weakened Assyria.

They destroyed the magnificent Assyrian cities of Nineveh and Assur, as well as other important Assyrian centers.

Unlike it had done in the past, Assyria never recovered.

In the centuries that followed, the area that had been Assyria was invaded by a number of foreign powers, including the:

Greeks
Arabs
Turks

When Britain defeated Turkey in WWI, the land fell into British hands.

They renamed the region Iraq and established an Arab government that operated under British control…

Britain finally granted Iraq its independence in 1932.

A visitor to modern-day Iraq would never know that Assyria once existed in the country’s north.

All that is left of this once great military power are the recovered ruins that reveal its dramatic story. (p. 54)

We see absolutely no historical references of the Assyrians migrating north to Europe and being the ancient descendants of the Germans.

Notice that it does say that the ancient Assyrians are the modern-day Iraqis!

It is interesting to note that the Assyrians were Semitic, a fact that HWA never brings up!

Let’s look at another entry in the encyclopedia–“Mesopotamia”–that will verify this.

I have extracted sections that apply [emp. mine]:

MESOPOTAMIA, the “land between the rivers,” the name often applied to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley…

In ancient times it included the territory of Babylonia and Assyria; today it is the kingdom of Iraq.

Sumerian-Akkadian (4000-1850 B.C.)—In the Sumerian-Akkadian Era, while Neolithic tribes of a different linguistic stock dwelt in the highlands, the mysterious Sumerians from the northeast and Semites from the desert moved onto the plain…famous Sumerian city names include:

Ur
Eridu
Umma
Erech

and Nippur.

While these states traded and fought with one another, to the north in the vicinity of what was later to be Babylon the Semitic tribes were gradually assimilating the Sumerian culture and becoming civilized.

Old Babylonian (1850-1600 B.C.) – A new Semitic invasion, principally from the west, resulted in the establishment of the Old Babylonian Kingdom…

The sixth king of the new Semitic dynasty was the noted lawgiver, Hammurabi (c. 1700 B.C.). Old Babylonian civilization was founded on the Sumerian, but the ancient Sumerian language gave way to the Semitic tongue of the rulers…

As in Babylonia, so in Assyria the Semitic element became the predominant one.

Mitannian and Kassite (1600-1200 B.C.) – In the succeeding age, however, Semites suffered a temporary eclipse.

About 1600 B.C. in Babylonia and at least a century earlier in Assyria new groups came into prominence.

Out of the northern mountains came the Hurrians, who spoke a language quite different from the Sumerian or the Semitic tongues.

These people overran Assyria and formed…the Mitannian Kingdom…

But the Hurrians were not the only invaders of Mesopotamia in this period…

The Kassites overthrew the Old Babylonian Dynasty about 1600 B.C. and remained in control until about 1200….

Both the Mitannian and Kassite kingdoms ultimately fell before the resurgent Semites.

In the 14th century a Semitic kingdom was established in Assyria, which pushed the Mitannians westward to the region of the upper Euphrates.

Euphrates dries up in revelation – Search (bing.com)

By the above articles, we observe that not only are the Assyrians Semitic, but they are also the descendants of modern Iraq.

We do not see any information concerning a north-westward migration, nor that they descended into the modern Germans.

In fact, the peoples of the Assyria and Babylon were so intermeshed that they are both descended from the same Semitic origin, and both of them comprise the peoples of modern-day Iraq.

HWA claimed that the Assyrians migrated around 604 B.C., but he never mentioned any specific circumstances or historical evidence to back this up.

We can see from the above article that Assyria’s capitol, Nineveh, was destroyed in 612 B.C., and afterward (539 B.C.) was invaded by the Greeks,

Arabs
Persians
Turks

–conquerors of the Near East, not the northwest!

Now let’s observe where HWA said the Assyrians carried the House of Israel [emp. mine]:

The people of ten-tribed Israel also migrated northwest.

Though the Assyrians had taken Israel into captivity, the Israelites did not remain as slaves of the Assyrians in Europe.

They continued on a little further – into Western Europe, the Scandinavian Peninsula, and the British Isles! (p. 144, US&BIP, 1980).

Note carefully that HWA gives absolutely no historical references, nor any kind of “proof” to back up this claim.

A Study of History by Miles Mathis – Library of Rickandria

He gave no dates, no detailed information as to when the Israelites were “freed” from Assyrian captivity to continue their journey northwestward.

HWA states that the Israelites migrated into the Scandinavian Peninsula and has stated that:

Denmark
Sweden
Norway

are part of the “Lost Ten Tribes.”

But as we observed the article from the encyclopedia, it is the Germans who have their racial origins from Sweden and Denmark.

HWA clearly stated that the Germans settled in central Europe, while the Israelites continued on and settled in Scandinavia.

But credible references state otherwise.

Speaking of the origins of ancient Babylon, HWA states in the US&BIP (1980) [emp. mine]:

Her [Mystery Babylon] KINGDOMS over which she ruled were called “The Holy Roman Empire” of A.D. 554 to 1814, briefly revived by Mussolini and SOON to have a last and final “resurrection” by a political-military union of ten in Europe (Rev. 17:8-4).

Historian Philip Morgan states:

“Since the Depression was a crisis of laissez-faire capitalism

Capitalism is a Collapsing System – What’s Next? – Library of Rickandria

and its political counterpart, parliamentary democracy, fascism could pose as the ‘third way’ alternative between capitalism and Bolshevism, the model of a new European ‘civilization.’

Bolshevism: From Moses to Lenin – Library of Rickandria

As Mussolini typically put it in early 1934,

‘From 1929 … fascism has become a universal phenomenon …

The dominant forces of the 19th century,

democracy

socialism

liberalism

Liberalism is Communism – Library of Rickandria

have been exhausted … the new political and economic forms of the twentieth century are fascist’ (Mussolini 1935: 32).”

Liberalism & Communism: Two Sides of the Same Jewish Coin – Library of Rickandria

And where, today, are the ancient BABYLONIANS—the Chaldeans?

Chaldean Genesis: The Secret Legacy of the Architect-Priests – Library of Rickandria

They migrated west and settled in ITALY.

Their religion was the Assyrian-Babylonian MYSTERY religion.

It is going to come as a breathtaking, awesome, shocking surprise when the world learns that one Simon, the sorcerer of Samaria in the time of the original apostles, leader of the BABYLONIAN MYSTERY religion having the title of PATER or PETER, meaning PAPA, actually appropriated the NAME of Christ and the Christian principle of GRACE, which he turned into LICENSE, doing away with GOD’S LAW (Jude 4) and started what is today called “Christianity.”

Exposing Christianity – Library of Rickandria

Carefully note the lack of any detailed references to back up these revelations.

He quickly throws up smokescreens, detouring the reader with words in capital letters (BABYLONIAN MYSTERY, PATER or PETER, PAPA, GRACE, LICENSE, GOD’S LAW) like well-placed street signs.

The Zombie-Like Lives of Sheeple from Birth to Death – Library of Rickandria

These paragraphs are filled with emphatic sensationalism, but where is the “proof” that the ancient Babylonians migrated into Italy?

HWA cannot give any outside sources to prove his speculations because absolutely none exist!

This is the real reason why HWA:

trained
employed
appointed

“Dr.” Herman Hoeh to write the Compendium of World History.

The Compendium is a compilation of fictional history invented by Hoeh so it would agree with HWA’s doctrines!

world-history-volume-1-herman-hoeh Download

Whenever a church member became confounded as to why he couldn’t find historical records to back HWA’s claims, he was handed a copy of the Compendium, while being admonished that,

“History was written by worldly men deceived and inspired by Satan.

Who is Satan to the Jews? – Library of Rickandria

History books are filled with error, but Dr. Hoeh has carefully researched and restored true biblical history.”

The Truth About the Bible – Library of Rickandria

Those who attempted to read the meaty, two-volume series were rendered comatose after the experience.

Others, who didn’t buy into the concocted history and continued to question its “validity,” would be put out for “questioning God’s apostle” and the scholarly “Dr.” Hoeh.

Is Your God a Devil? – Library of Rickandria

Can we see what lengths HWA will go in order to make history agree with his revelations?

He readily condescends to:

lies
omissions
distortions

to keep his sheep blind and his empire intact.

In brief, HWA has omitted accurate historical facts, and has fabricated history to suit his own agenda, clearly proving himself a false, deceiving apostle.

Everything his hand touches is twisted into a lie, whether it be:

church history
secular history
scripture

or prophetic calculations.

“It is going to come as a breathtaking, awesome, shocking surprise”

when HWA tells the truth about anything.

For further study:

How could HWA teach the white Aryan race is “God’s elect” and still be anti-German?

British-Israelism–True or False? (exitsupportnetwork.com)

British-Israelism–True or False?