Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39. This is an issue that has many different viewpoints. Some see this as before Armageddon, some see it as during Armageddon. The viewpoint that is presented in these notes is that it occurs during Armageddon. I personally am still undecided as to which viewpoint I hold. I have studied both and continue to search out both viewpoints from a biblical standpoint. I highly suggest you do this as well and research all of this yourself and form your own conclusion.
Gog and Magog
Magog is Russia according to most prophecy scholars. Russia arms Muslim nations doesn’t it? But, selling weapons doesn’t mean they fulfill the role of Magog. Circumstances change but God’s word does not. The Bible's warning for Christians in Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
In Ezekiel 38:2 “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,” The word is Rosh in some translations. Those who argue that Rosh in that passage is a proper noun almost universally argue that it is referring to the modern nation of Russia. Others object to this saying Prince of Rosh is better translated as the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Meshech and Tubal are not linked with Rosh anywhere else in the Bible. So it is extremely unlikely Rosh will suddenly take on entirely different meaning as these people try and say. Rosh appears 600 times in the bible and it is also translated head, chief, prince etc.
So who is right? There are other countries in Gog and Magog. Magog encompasses Asia Minor, but some try to point to Russia as well. The land of the Scythians. Josephus called them the offspring of Magog. They are ancient Northern nomadic tribes that inhabited the territory from central Asia to central Russia. This proves that if this is Scythian territory, it is the Southern Region of former USSR, not Russia proper. These are Muslim countries. Scythia includes Asia Minor, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan etc.
These are ALL Muslim nations. Many scholars use the proper references, but draw a wrong conclusions.
Grant Jeffery quotes Rollinson, “The areas…that were ruled by the Scythians are located south of Russia and in the southern republics of the Commonwealth of Independent states. The Former USSR
Correctly" He quotes Rollinson but makes wrong conclusion.
THE INVASION
Most teach Islam is defeated to give rise to a European Antichrist.
At that time Israel will be “Pure” Ezekiel 38:23-39;7-8 Gentiles will know God, God Himself says that after the defeat of Gog and his armies, all the Gentile nations as well as Israel will be convicted of their unbelief and will know that he (Jehovah) is God: They that dwell in the coastlands
How can these be heathen? They are all Muslim. Ezekiel 38:16 “And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.”
Allah or Christ is the choice.
This event happens in the Latter days.
Islam turns EVERYTHING upside down. Christ is present, Gog and Armageddon.
Ezekiel 38:20 who is present, God in the flesh.
Ezekiel 39:7” “ The Holy One IN Israel
This in is crucial. Ezekiel 38:19 My fury will come up in my face.
Destruction of both Gog and Antichrist is accompanied by earthquake of unparalleled proportions. Ezekiel 38:19-20 “For in my jealousy [and] in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.”
Shake at my presence? Is this the same earthquake as Zechariah 19?
Revelation tells this event occurs when the army of Antichrist goes against Israel. Revelation 16:18-20 “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, [and] so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”
Zechariah 14:1-4 “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
Everything about the events, indicate that this war is no mere opening act for the Great Tribulation. The Return of Christ in battle is described in Joel 3:12 “Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.” 3:16 “The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.”
Revelation is teeming with OT passages
Revelation 19 and battle of Armageddon is founded in Ezekiel 38.
Ezekiel 38:17 “Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days [many] years that I would bring thee against them?”
-When this event happens, the Lord asks are you not the one spoken of by the prophets, plural
If Israel’s prophets speak of Gog and Magog as being Russia and leading to a European, western Antichrist, then where are all the references?
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