I may have asked this already, so I'm sorry if I did, but I was hoping that someone would answer it.

Why in the very passage that prophesies about Jesus being born in Bethlehem,

it also speaks of him being the peace when the Assyrian shall come into the land,

and that he will deliver them when the Assyrian comes into the land?

Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

  3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

  4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

  5 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.

  6 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 cannot be speaking of when Assyria took the northern kingdom captive,

or when Assyria came and threatened Jerusalem in Hezekiah's day,

because those events were hundreds of years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

Also, the Assyrian didn't come into the land during Jesus' earthly ministry, as Rome was there instead.

So, will Assyria come into Israel during the tribulation, like in the old testament?

Or, will the fallen spirit, that the antichrist will have, be the fallen celestial prince of Assyria,

that possibly has been in the bottomless pit, but comes up for the tribulation,

to possess and drive the antichrist?

Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

The antichrist & Judas are the only ones called the son of perdition:

II Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Judas also had a devil problem:

John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

If this is so, then could Micah be prophesying about Jesus delivering Israel from the antichrist,

who may be possessed by the fallen prince of Assyria, which came up out of the bottomless pit?