Dear John & Doves,
 
While looking at a map of Lebanon, I noticed that the city of Tyre is located in Lebanon. This brought to mind the passage about the King of Tyrus, also known as Tyre, in Ezekiel 28:11-19 who was "the covering cherub" (Lucifer) in verse  16-17 whose pride was his down fall.  Verse 13 tells that he had been in Eden in the garden of God.
 
If you will recall just yesterday I was discussing the Assyrian who was a cedar in Lebanon of high stature in Ezekiel 31:3. While rereading verses 3-17, I note he was also in the garden of Eden. Verses 8-11 say, "The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.  I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him."  So if the high and lofty Assyrian in Lebanon in this passage is the same as the King of Tyrus in Lebanon who is the covering cherub Lucifer, wouldn't it be amazing if the Assyrian (the Beast in Revelation), the rod of God's anger in Isaiah 10:5-6 indwelt with Satan's unholy spirit and his power, would as a King originate in Lebanon also.
 
As a side note, Baalbek is also located in Lebanon. The great platform at Baalbek may be linked with giants, and it also contains "the almighty Temple of Jupiter, situated besides two smaller temples, one dedicated to Venus, the goddess of love, and the other dedicated to Bacchus, the god of fertility and good cheer" according to an article called Baalbek - Lebanon's Sacred Fortress at  http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/baalbek.htm  "The principal deity they chose to preside over Baalbek was Jupiter, the sky god. He was arguably the most important deity of the Romans, taking over the role of Zeus in the Greek pantheon. Jupiter was probably chosen to replace the much earlier worship of the Canaanite god Baal (meaning `lord') who had many characteristics in common with the Greek Zeus. It is, of course, from Baal that Baalbek derives its name, which means, simply, `town of Baal'."
 
I guess it waits to be seen whether the Assyrian (the Beast of Rev.) will orignate from Lebanon with its pagan idolatrous temples of the past, or from Syria, or Iraq.
 
God bless,
Donna