Who is the Assyrian?

The other day I mentioned in passing that the anti-Christ could have a Muslim father but didn't have room to explain why I thought that.

I've seen two camps on this on Christian TV. One side of prophecy "experts" believes the anti-Christ will be Muslim. The other "experts" say that he can't possibly be Muslim because Jews will never ever accept a Muslim messiah. There's even a teaching that Islam will be destroyed and be irrelevant in the Tribulation. That's a beautiful thought, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm not one of the experts, but this is my thinking. Of course, the anti-Christ could be Muslim, and here's how. When Muslims wage jihad, they rape the enemy's women. This is going on in Europe right now. In their minds they're creating more Muslims, because in their culture Muslim identity passes down through the father. Women don't matter to them. They're property like a camel.(Google what happens to American women who marry Arab men and then move to the Middle East. It's not good.)
Because of things like jihad, in Jewish culture Jewish identity is passed down through the mother. The reasoning is that you can't always tell who the father is, but you can always tell who the mother is. In spite of a long, patriarchal history, the father doesn't matter when determining Jewish identity. It's all about the mother. Google "who is a Jew" and take a few years off to read. :)
Neither camp in the prophecy debate seems to know anything about this aspect of Muslim and Jewish culture.

So, the Muslims are looking for the mahdi, their messiah figure. Jews are awaiting the Messiah. A man with a Muslim father and a Jewish mother would match both cultures's expectations. Muslims would focus on his father and know he's a true Muslim. Jews would focus on his mother and know he's Jewish regardless of the father. Imagine a peacemaker who understands both sides. That's how he would be presented to the world: "understands both sides". "If he can't bring peace between the Arabs and the Jews, no one can!" When talking to Muslims, he'd talk to them as a Muslim. When talking to Israelis, he'd speak as a Jew. Both cultures would see what they wanted to and be deceived.

There's a fascinating theory that certain verses with the phrase "the Assyrian" refer to the anti-Christ. These are only found in the KJV. I suspect the anti-Christ will be a Palestinian of Syrian descent.

Micah 5:5-6 And this man 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.

It's too much to go into here, but those are a couple of verses.

Historically, there's no such thing as an Arab Palestinian. Palestine is a Satanic counterfeit for Israel. The anti-Christ is a counterfeit Messiah. One of the Greek meanings of the word anti is "in place of" or in other words a replacement. I think it makes sense that the replacement Messiah would come from Satan's replacement nation.[Psst: Replacement Theology is taught in the "in place of" or anti-church.] And if he's going to be the best counterfeit possible, he will had to have been born in Bethlehem(Micah 5:2), a city with an ample supply of Muslim fathers. Why Bethlehem? Satan has to fulfill as many prophecies as he can. If could fulfill that particular one, the anti-Christ's messianic claim would be far easier. And it would be a slap in God's face.

To sum up, I expect the anti-Christ to be a Palestinian of Syrian descent born in Bethlehem to a Muslim father and Jewish mother. However, this is simply my opinion based on things I've learned over the years. It may not work out exactly that way because the Bethlehem prophecy would take some effort to fulfill, but I expect the Muslim/Jewish parents and some kind of Syrian/Assyrian connection to be there.