07/01/2026
🔥 THE FALL OF NINEVEH — “THE NIGHT THE LION WAS SILENCED”🔥
Amostiasis — Time-Travelling Correspondent, Nineveh, 612 BC
THE YEAR HISTORY TURNED — 612 BC
The Amostiasis portal opened into 612 BC, a year carved deeply into both biblical prophecy and secular history.
This was:
• Almost 90 years after Jonah’s warning
• About 80 years after Assyria destroyed Northern Kingdom of Israel (722 BC)
• During the reign of Josiah in Judah
• Just before Babylon became the world superpower
• When Egypt was scrambling for relevance
• When Greece was awakening intellectually
• When China was in the Eastern Zhou period
Assyria, once feared across three continents, was about to collapse in one night of judgement.
THE CITY THAT THOUGHT IT WAS IMMORTAL
Nineveh sat on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
By ancient standards, it was obscene in scale:
• Walls up to 30 metres high
• Walls wide enough for three chariots abreast
• A perimeter of about 12 km
• Massive gates with guardian bull-gods (lamassu)
• Palaces lined with war reliefs celebrating torture and conquest
Assyrian kings bragged about flaying captives alive.
They carved their cruelty into stone so the world would remember.
My Naija people go talk say:
“Assyria no get joy, dem no dey hide wickedness.”
I laugh in ancient Akkadian accent.
Meanwhile, here among my British home people - “An empire lacking subtlety.”
HONESTLY SPEAKING, ASSYRIA WAS A GLOBAL BULLY
By the 7th century BC, Assyria had:
• Destroyed Israel
• Humiliated Egypt
• Terrorised Babylon
• Subjugated Syria
• Ruled from Iran to the Mediterranean
Their military was unmatched:
• Iron weapons
• Siege engines
• Psychological warfare
• Deportation policy
• Total brutality
Their deportation policy was the most evil.
They would deliberately uproot people from their ancestral lands, and repopulate those lands with people from other different nationalities.
They too were forcefully pulled out from their own lands too.
Remember the people that became the Samaritans in Jesus days!
And yet, the prophets had spoken.
NINEVEH WAS ON A PROPHETIC COUNTDOWN
Two prophets announced Nineveh’s end:
Nahum (c. 650 BC)
“With an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place.”
Zephaniah
“He will make Nineveh a desolation, dry like the wilderness.”
Jonah had once delayed judgement by repentance.
They had seen a man that came out of a fish to preach repentance to them.
They quickly repented partly because one of their chief gods was a fish that had part-upper body of a man.
Jonah coming out of a great fish was definitely a messenger from their supreme deity they supposedly believed.
Now after 90 years, repentance was no longer on the table.
Grace had expired.
Next thing on the menu was judgment!
THE GREAT ALLIANCE — WHEN ENEMIES UNITE AGAINST A TYRANT
By 612 BC, Assyria was weakened by:
• Internal rebellion
• Economic strain
• Overextension
• Moral rot
A coalition formed:
• Babylonians under Nabopolassar
• Medes under Cyaxares (The Kurds today are mostly the descendants of the Medes.
• Scythian forces from what is now Ukraine and part-Russia.
Even old enemies agreed on one thing: Assyria must fall. Nineveh must fall!
You can now understand why Hezekiah was happy to make friends with the rising city-state of Babylon after he miraculously survived his sickness that was initially terminal.
Foreign policy dictates that you make friends with nations that share the same common enemy with you. Hezekiah was ready to go into bed with the Babylonians.
Assyria was so evil that it was easier for different nations to agree together to form a huge alliance that would match the Assyrians at the battlefield.
Hezekiah would rather encourage Babylon and make friends with them, than continue to constantly watch his back in fear of the Assyrians.
He needed a rival power that can keep Nineveh at bay.
About 86 years later, King Josiah, the great grandson of Hezekiah would follow the same policy of supporting Babylon to engage in a battle that was not his.
Babylon and their fighting allies were dismantling the Assyrians gradually in series of battles.
Meanwhile, the Egyptians under Pharaoh Necho II of the 26th dynasty was not ready to see a new rival power emerge in place of the Assyrians.
The Egyptian 26th dynasty owed the Assyrians a huge favour.
Why?
The previous 25th dynasty that ruled Egypt were the Nubian/Cush*te kings from the region known as Sudan/South Sudan and Ethiopia today.
The Assyrians helped to dislodge these Nubian-Cush*te kings in favour of the 26th dynasty that Necho II belonged to.
So?
Necho’s mission:
• Marching north to assist the Assyrians
• Target: halt the rise of the Babylonians and allies
• Final decisive objective: Grand battle at Carchemish, on the Euphrates!
Necho explicitly told Josiah he had no quarrel with Judah (2 Chr. 35:21) and he should step aside.
Josiah, nonetheless:
• Intervened anyway
• Was mortally wounded
• His death marked the beginning of Judah’s irreversible decline
Jeremiah mourned his death.
Josiah’s successor was also anti Egypt and pro Babylon.
Egypt, on their return from their battle at Carchemish against the Babylonians quickly removed the successor and planted their own pro-Egyptian puppet king in place of Josiah.
He ruled for the next 11 years.
I have greatly digressed from Nineveh, but it is good having knowledge of the biblical connections. Let’s get back on track!
THE STRANGE WEAPON USED AGAINST NINEVEH — THE RIVER TURNED AGAINST THEM
During the allied forces siege on Nineveh, something catastrophic happened - an engineered hydrological disaster. Rivers and canals—once the city’s pride—became the instruments of its destruction.
LET US FIRST UNDERSTAND NINEVEH:
Nineveh sat beside the Tigris River and was criss-crossed by canals, the most important being the Khosr River, which flowed through the city itself.
Why this mattered
• Assyrian kings had engineered:
• Dams
• Canals
• Floodgates
• These controlled:
• Water supply
• Agriculture
• Defensive moats
Nineveh was, in effect, a hydraulic city.
Ancient records (including Diodorus Siculus) report:
• Unusually heavy rains
• The Tigris and Khosr rivers overflowed
• Sections of Nineveh’s wall collapsed
• The prophecy of “overflowing flood” was fulfilled literally
The city that trusted its walls was breached by its own water.
The attackers understood that Nineveh could not be taken by assault alone.
So they broke their embankments, redirected canals, and allowed floodwaters to surge against the walls.
Mudbrick foundations dissolved. A breach opened wide enough for invasion.
Assyrian walls were formidable—but vulnerable to water.
My Naija people would say:
“Na river dem trust, na river betray dem.”
“ Fish no go ever believe say na water dem go take cook am.”
So:
THE NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION
Once the walls fell:
• Babylonian troops poured in
• Palaces were set ablaze
• Temples were looted
• Archives burned
• Kings fled or died
The Assyrian king Sin-shar-ishkun died during the sack — likely by su***de.
Nineveh burned for days.
Smoke covered the sky.
The lion’s den became ashes.
THE AFTERMATH — A CITY ERASED
So complete was Nineveh’s destruction that:
• It disappeared from history
• Later writers thought it was mythical
• Xenophon marched past its ruins unaware
• It lay buried until excavated in the 19th century
God didn’t just defeat Nineveh.
He erased it.
GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES
• Assyria vanished as a power
• Babylon rose immediately
• Persia would soon follow
• Judah gained temporary breathing space
• World power shifted further eastward
History pivoted silently.
WHAT THE RUINS OF NINEVEH TAUGHT ME
1. Empires fall when cruelty becomes culture.
2. God may delay judgement, but He never misplaces it.
3. Walls cannot protect nations from moral collapse.
4. What you celebrate today may testify against you tomorrow.
5. When God decides to erase, even memory struggles to survive.
Here is a publication-ready, sharpened version, polished for tone, flow, and authority, with precise biblical references woven naturally into the narrative:
MY PORTAL BEGAN TO CLOSE
In a blinding instant, I beheld the words of the prophets—Jonah, Nahum, and Zephaniah—their declarations converging where divine sovereignty meets human history. It was the junction of judgement: mercy once extended, justice no longer deferred. God does not forget. Nor does He rush.
Nineveh fell exactly as foretold.
The great Assyrian capital had been granted an extraordinary reprieve in the days of Jonah. From king to commoner, the city repented, and judgement was stayed (Jonah 3:5–10). Yet repentance that is not sustained becomes a memory rather than a legacy. Generations later, Nineveh returned to its violence, arrogance, and oppression, and the prophetic verdict was sealed:
“Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her?” — Nahum 3:7 (NKJV)
The fall was total. The city-state was obliterated, its palaces burned, its walls breached, its name erased from the political map of the ancient world. Yet the people themselves were not exterminated. Empires fall; peoples endure.
Nineveh lay buried beneath vast layers of desert earth for centuries—dismissed by sceptics as myth—until its ruins were rediscovered in the nineteenth century along the Tigris River, confirming with spade and stone what Scripture had long declared.
Today, the descendants of that ancient civilisation survive as Assyrian Christians—largely stateless, dispersed across the Middle East, Europe, and the wider world—living witnesses to fulfilled prophecy and the long memory of God.
As the vision dimmed, I closed my eyes. The portal folded inward, time recalibrated, and I was returned to 2026—back to silence, meditation, and the sobering realisation that history does not merely record God’s word; it eventually submits to it.
“The LORD is slow to anger and great in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.” — Nahum 1:3 (NKJV)
SIGNED:
Amostiasis
Time-Travel Correspondent,
Ruins of Nineveh, 612 BC
Amostiasis Time-Travel Edition
