Isaiah predicts that three branches of God's people will live into a millennial age of peace: "In that day Israel shall be the third party to Egypt and to Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. Jehovah of Hosts will bless them, saying, 'Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance'" (Isaiah 19:24-25). Five cities-states in the land of "Egypt," moreover, will swear loyalty to God and covenant with him by sacrifice. These appear to be the sole survivors when God "smites Egypt" with a civil war and a foreign (Assyrian) invasion. God sends these covenanters a "savior" and in the end heals Egypt (Isaiah 19:2-22).
When Israel's ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom went captive into Assyria in 722 B.C. (2 Kings 15:29; 17:6), they disappeared from known historical records. The emergence of an end-time people of God called "Assyria"-which parallels the similar emergence of an end-time people of God called "Egypt"-thus implies that those of end-time Assyria who survive God's Day of Judgment consist of the descendants of those who were taken captive into ancient Assyria. While the Assyrian armies who conquer the world ultimately perish (Isaiah 10:16-18, 24-26; 14:24-27; 30:30-32; 31:8-9), some "Assyrians," whose names are recorded, survive (Isaiah 10:19).
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