The Four Fun Facts About the Assyrian Invasion

The first two thirds of the book of isaiah deal with this moment, directly or indirectly. Biblical prophets don't even appear on the scene until the middle of the eighth century during the assyrian crisis. Because they were crisis managers, profits were not in the future prediction business. Prophets read the times. They had a sense of where the political winds were blowing. And their predictions concerned the months and years ahead, maybe a decade or two.