God indeed intervenes in world affairs! The very day after the UN declared Israel a country in 1948, five Arab countries attacked, and she has been struggling for her right to life ever since. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 1 Chronicles 5:4. Prophecy states that regathered Israel will go through a time of great tribulation and distress as the world system persecutes Israel. They form a timeline from Abraham to the Millennial age. [45], The early Muslim traditions were summarised by Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) in two popular works called the Cosmography and the Geography. Generally these kingdoms are situated somewhere west . The truth is that a New Heaven and a New Earth is prophesied. And also Where to go Access Live map Pocket map Guided walks at 3pm The Lord Mayor Elect . When they do break through, they will be so numerous that, "Their vanguard is in Syria and their rear in Khorasan". This means all the Gentiles. In the Genesis account of mans creation the Bible speaks of mankind made in Gods image: In Genesis 1:26 After some 2,500 years of dispersion amongst the nations, Israel will again take on her intended role in the world: You are My witnesses says the Lord, And My servant whom I have chosen (Isa 43.10). We will worship and then we will come back to you., Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the Gog and Magog implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine become clear, more previously hidden clues are coming to light. Rather, they fall on the mountains of Israel and in the open field (Ezek 39.4,5). He sums it up like this: 1 Corinthians 15.53 An independent legend of Gog and Magog surrounds two colossal wooden effigies in the Guildhall, London. They are also mentioned in the Qur'an as Yajuj-Majuj. A Byzantine ruler protected by two Vikings, often compared with Gog and Magog The early Muslim traditions were summarised by Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) in two popular works called the Cosmography and the Geography. Why? And what role do they both play in the future? The center branch represents Divine light (understanding) from God and the six branches represent human efforts to spread this light to the Gentiles (Isa 42.6). Although the name Russia is not in the Bible its location helps to identify it. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham! You can find out more about cookies at our Privacy Policy. A legend was attached to Gog and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. This is the severe persecution of Israel under the final world government and world ruler, link the time of Jacobs trouble (Jer 30.7). But living securely may refer to the fact that most Jews will by then have returned to Israel where they find safety from hostility e.g. [15], The Biblical "Gog and Magog" possibly gave derivation of the name Gogmagog, a legendary British giant. In fact Jewish mystical interpretation (Kabbalah) superstitiously has a method of calculates numbers from Hebrew letters from the words Gog and Magog = 70. We need to look to mans future. Revelation 21.8 says: But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is spearheaded by the World Council of Churches (WCC) which has called on member churches (Anglican, Methodist ) to support an international boycott of Israeli settlement produce and services, link. Azal may be several km south of the present-day Mount of Olives, link. Today this extreme ideology is underscored by ISIL. [7] Alternatively, Gog may be derived from Magog rather than the other way around, and "Magog" may be code for Babylon. A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. What about Tarshish? [z][132] Confined Jews were later to be referred to as "Red Jews" (die roten Juden) in German-speaking areas; a term first used in a Holy Grail epic dating to the 1270s, in which Gog and Magog were two mountains enclosing these people. Israel is governed by a western-style multiparty parliamentary system. [73][74] According to these teachings, the conflict between Russia and the United States as two superpowers, or the militant rivalry between the communist and capitalist systems and their impact over the nations of the world, is thus seen as having occurred in accordance with prophecies concerning Gog and Magog. [34], The anti-Roman Bar Kokhba revolt in the 2nd century AD looked to a human leader as the promised messiah, but after its failure Jews began to conceive of the messianic age in supernatural terms: first would come a forerunner, the Messiah ben Joseph, who would defeat Israel's enemies, identified as Gog and Magog, to prepare the way for the Messiah ben David;[g] then the dead would rise, divine judgement would be handed out, and the righteous would be rewarded. So today Israel is meeting much of its water needs by purifying seawater from the Mediterranean and some 80% of domestic water in Israeli cities comes from desalinated water (the desalination facilities are connected to the NWC). [24] One explanation is that the Gog alliance, a blend of the "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10 and Tyre's trading partners in Ezekiel 27, with Persia added, was cast in the role of end-time enemies of Israel by means of Isaiah 66:19, which is another text of eschatological foretelling. new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en', layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE}, 'google_translate_element'); [139] But as the century progressed, apocalyptic expectations receded as the populace in Europe began to adopt an increasingly secular worldview. [49] The wall dividing them from civilized peoples was normally placed towards today's Armenia and Azerbaijan, but in the year 842 the Caliph Al-Wathiq had a dream in which he saw that it had been breached, and sent an official named Sallam to investigate (this may be related to Ergenekon). The government is headed by the Prime Minister, who is elected in nationwide elections for a period of four years, and an elected President who has a largely apolitical ceremonial role. The Tartar Relation, an obscure account of Friar Carpini's 1240s journey to Mongolia, is unique in alleging that these Caspian Mountains in Mongolia, "where the Jews called Gog and Magog by their fellow countrymen are said to have been shut in by Alexander", were moreover purported by the Tartars to be magnetic, causing all iron equipment and weapons to fly off toward the mountains on approach. But the UN is not all bad: in 2015 the UN began to address issues of concern to the Jewish community, particularly anti-Semitism. [120][121][122] Marco Polo, traveling when the initial terror had subsided, places Gog and Magog among the Tartars in Tenduc, but then claims that the names Gog and Magog are translations of the place-names Ung and Mungul, inhabited by the Ung and Mongols respectively. For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people (Zech 2.10-11). Dr. Reagan: When it comes to the War of Gog and Magog, the Bible does not specifically say when it is going to occur. [33] The Samaritan Torah and the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made during the last few centuries of the pre-Christian era) occasionally introduce the name of Gog where the Hebrew original has something else, or use Magog where the Hebrew has Gog, indicating that the names were interchangeable. [Ezek 38.22-23]. [6], The names are mentioned together in Ezekiel chapter 38, where Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. This implies that the true church may well see this invasion before she is taken up in the rapture. History shows that God had a special task for Jacob and his descendants and He later changed Jacobs name to Israel (Gen 32.28). Joseph was to be blessed with precious things from the deep (Heb tehom: sea, abyss) lying beneath (Deut 33.13), Asher was to dip his foot in oil (Deut 34.24) and Zebulun and Issachar were to find treasures hidden in the sand (Deut 33.19). Gods dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. Since these tribes will once more take up their role as a witness to the nations during the Millennium (Ezek 37, Ezek 40-48), it follows that they must be amongst those who are returning to the State of Israel today. The God of Israel says to the invaders: I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand (Ezek 39.3). Recall that when Israel obeys her God then she is specially blessed: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country (Deut 28.3). Clearly, this is not true of present-day Israel. That stands today. --by James Arendt. The countries involved appear to be mainly the Islamic nations surrounding Israel, possibly led by Iran and Russia. These are children not born through a womans pregnancy, but born of God. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son., Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ramcaught by its horns. But it is possible for mankind to be translated to an immortal spiritkind like his Creator. This is confirmed in Deuteronomy 7:12: 59386287). But when Israel became divided into northern and southern kingdoms (the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah) the term Jew came to apply to all those in the Kingdom of Yehudah (Judah). It explains how mans free will (choice) can be destructive, or constructive. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. At this time Gods anger is kindled against the invading armies of Gog (Ezek 38.18) and He fights for His people Israel: You will fall on the open field declares the Lord God. In July 2006, to take one example at random, Hezbollah crossed the border of Lebanon into Israel and killed eight patrolmen and kidnapped two others, and that summer fired four thousand Katyusha rockets into Israel which killed a further forty-three civilians. What were they born for? Man has a choice and Jesus gives a plea to mankind: I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this message for the churches. Some Bible translations use the word Put, which is simply the Hebrew place name for the area currently occupied by present-day Libya. This is a mystery accepted by faith. The area as a whole is undefined but is roughly the . 2All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: 3You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Todays politics support this view. The attackers may also be destroyed by nuclear devices since Malachi 4 refers to a time of fierce heat when invaders are burnt to ashes. Area A is under full control of the Palestinian Authority, Area B is under Palestinian civil control and shared Palestinian and Israeli security control, and Area C (62% of the West Bank) is under full Israeli control. Interpretations of the Bible abound, but what is actually written? According to the Greek version, Gog and Magog served the Belsyrians, whom Alexander fought them, "Tus" in Iran, near the Caspian south shore, known as, The idea that Gog and Magog were connected with the Goths was longstanding; in the mid-16th century, Archbishop of Uppsala, Riccoldo observed that the Mongol script resembled Chaldean (. [112][113], While the confounding Gog and Magog as confined Jews was becoming commonplace, some, like Riccoldo or Vincent de Beauvais remained skeptics, and distinguished the Lost Tribes from Gog and Magog. The problem is that Israel is now occupying land previously conquered by Islam. More , Image: Known oil and gas fields in the Levant Basin. Rosh Russia? Many see an essentially Islamic invasion (Iran, Turkey, Libya, Ethiopia (todays Sudan) ) all probably led by Russia. There is absolutely no lengths to which our Government would not go to protect British subjects under those circumstances, and quite right too. [111], As one nomadic people followed another on the Eurasian steppes, so the identification of Gog and Magog shifted. } The Russian Federation extends south towards the Caucasus region an area between the Black Sea in the west and the Caspian Sea in the east, see map of Russian Federation. The Levant objective falls under the general Islamic ideology of a world-wide caliphate, link. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed. They identify in the psalm specific Arab nations which make war against Israel at the end of this age, although scholars disagree on the particular nations involved, link, link. Now, if we multiply those numbers by nine to get the British equivalent, just imagine what we would do if a terrorist organization based as close as Calais were to fire thirty-six thousand rockets into Sussex and Kent, killing 87 British civilians, after killing seventy-two British servicemen in an ambush and capturing eighteen. Jesus said that unless those days are shortened, no flesh would be saved (Mat 24.22). People will be born and will die in the Millennial earth, just as in the present age. There will be an all-nation invasion of Israel at the very end of the age, with Jerusalem the objective (Zech 14.2). All this of course requires water. Any volcanic action or earthquake (as in Ezek 38.19) could release much more gas which could be carried north to Russia and then ignited. "Cnut: England's Viking King 101635". There never was a Palestinian people or a Palestinian Arab nation. But the truth about this powerful spiritual world is blurred, corrupted and buried by spiritual forces of darkness: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Eph 6.12). during the Babylonian exile. Todays maps identify this area to include the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Paul is saying that both creation and man himself groan due to imperfection and mortality. Christ will reign from a new temple in Jerusalem
In fact, they will especially honor the Jew: In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you' (Zech 8.23). God says He will fulfill this amazing promise to the thirsty. Revelation 20:7-8, Specialized Bible Atlases, Leaders Guides. The conflation of Gog and Magog with the legend of Alexander and the Iron Gates was disseminated throughout the Near East in the early centuries of the Christian and Islamic era. . So, whilst Moscow itself is not directly due north of Israel, the military arm of the Russian Federation is indeed to the far north of Israel (Ezek 38.6,15). Would they have been given the gift of immortality as a reward? Lawson, M K (2004). Clearly, on this analysis, it seems that Turkey is directly involved in the war against Israel. [102][103][104] In the 13th-century French Roman d'Alexandre en prose, Alexander has an encounter with cannibals who have taken over the role of Gog and Magog. [114], After the Khazars came the Mongols, seen as a mysterious and invincible horde from the east who destroyed Muslim empires and kingdoms in the early 13th century; kings and popes took them for the legendary Prester John, marching to save Christians from the Muslim Saracens, but when they entered Poland and Hungary and annihilated Christian armies a terrified Europe concluded that they were "Magogoli", the offspring of Gog and Magog, released from the prison Alexander had constructed for them and heralding Armageddon. The prophet Ezekiel clearly describes an end-time invasion of Israel from the north. The rest of the coalition are nearly all strongly Islamic. Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state, link. Heres the real reason (although you probably wont agree): Politicians, the media, and many NGOs are really just pawns in a spiritual battle between truth and error, between light and darkness, between Christ and His adversary Satan. League of Nations documents of the 1920s refer to the local Arab population as existing non-Jewish communities. As for living without walls, this may be a reference to the sheer multitude of people who have made aliyah to Israel, rather than to the absence of Israels military defenses. By the end of the 1949 War of Independence the fledgling Israeli forces had defeated five invading Arab armies. [s][99][100] Branch IV of the poetic cycle tells that the task of guarding Gog and Magog, as well as the rule of Syria and Persia was assigned to Antigonus, one of Alexander's successors. When Jesus spoke of the appearance of new shoots on the fig tree signalling that summer is near, He was really saying that His return and the coming of the fullness of the Kingdom of God is near even at the doors. This war appears imminent and so occurs when the 12 tribes are numerous and scattered throughout the gentile nations. Say: Thus said the Lord: Behold, I am against you, Gog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal Persia, Cush and Put will be with you also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troopsthe many nations with you. So, through Arab aggression, Israel temporarily lost land mandated to her through the 1922 Mandate for Palestine, and this was only regained in the 1967 6-day war. I am the bright morning star. (Ezekiel 39:6) The great earthquake (Revelation 16:18) and the 100 pound hailstones (Revelation 16:21) tell of a comet impact. Public Domain/Wikipedia For Christians, Gog of Magog underwent a transformation in another apocalyptic text, the New Testament Book of Revelation. Map copyright: By No machine-readable author provided. Well, these are all Islamic countries with Hamas (Gaza) and Hezbollah (Lebanon) vehemently opposed to Israel. Boycotts are social protests with the aim of changing Israeli government policy through economic damage. It doesnt say that mans reward is to go permanently to heaven. The events are separated by at least 1,000 years. In Genesis they read Gods promise to Jacob, grandson of Abraham: The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you (Gen 35.12). In chapter 8 of Pauls letter to the Romans he spoke a mystery. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords II, the West Bank was divided into three areas (A, B, and C) and within these areas the Palestinian and Israeli authorities have different levels of control. It seems that mortality was the consequence of eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Gomer and the house of Togarmah are also mentioned (Ezek 38.6). It is widely known that there are some 100 mud volcanoes under the Black Sea and these are continuously releasing methane gas, link, link. The Ethiopia of the Bible was located to the south of Egypt, extending through the junction of the White and Blue Nile, including, and beyond, what is todays Sudan. [46] They dig into their wall each day until they almost break through. Why such Jewish genius? Around 922 BC the twelve tribes of Israel split into a southern kingdom (called The House of Judah, embracing Judea and Jerusalem) and a northern kingdom comprising ten tribes and called The House of Israel, or simply Israel. Would they have continued to live and not die? God said to him: Then God said, Take your son, your only son, whom you loveIsaacand go to the region of Moriah. As mentioned, the so-called Gog-Magog war does not involve all nations of the world. He who was seated on the throne said, I am making everything new! Then he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true. In the time of Moses God made such a contract with the people (nation) of Israel, although the Bible refers to it as as Gods covenant. Magog was a son of Japheth and a grandson of Noah (Gen 10.2). And the Lord God commanded the man, You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.. This kingdom embraced the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi, so Paul called himself a Jew since he was from the tribe of Benjamin (Acts 22:3), and Jesus was a Jew since His lineage is traced to Judah (Lk 3.23-33, Heb 7.14). So some Bible scholars associate Rosh with Russia, link, link. As of 2015, the world Jewish population was 14.2 million, of which 6.2 million (44%) resided in Israel, link. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. See their fulfillment today! I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates (Ezek 38.11). A Pre-Covenant Invasion: In this scenario, the invasion takes place before the revealing of the secular world dictator (the beast of Rev 13.1) and the false ecclesiastical head (the antichrist, Rev 13.11). In the book of Ezekiel, the pagan Magog people live "north of the World", and metaphorically represent . We see a nation turning to the statutes God laid down under Moses. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. [e][21] Of Gog's allies, Meshech and Tubal were 7th-century BC kingdoms in central Anatolia north of Israel, Persia towards the east, Cush (Ethiopia) and Put (Libya) to the south; Gomer is the Cimmerians, a nomadic people north of the Black Sea, and Beth Togarmah was on the border of Tubal. Gog and Magog, or sometimes Gogmagog and Corineus, are descended from mythical pagan giants and their origins lie in mediaeval legends of the early British Kings. Image: Emmanuelm [CC-BY-3.0], Wikimedia Commons. More , Jerusalem Old City at Dawn. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Satan knows all this and end-time prophecy underscores the attempts by Satan to eliminate Israel: the dragon (Satan) persecuted the woman (Israel) who gave birth to the male child (Christ) (Rev 12.13), This hatred was evident in the holocaust and subsequent wars against Israel, and culminates in all nations turning against Israel at Armageddon (Zech 14.2, Rev 16.16). A glance at a map shows that Moscow and the associated western and southern military districts are directly north of the Black Sea. The Bible says God is Spirit but clearly we are flesh and blood. [89][k], The Pseudo-Methodius (7th century[90]) is the first source in the Christian tradition for a new element: two mountains moving together to narrow the corridor, which was then sealed with a gate against Gog and Magog. As discussed, Israel failed and broke the contract, and so in the New Testament era the contract was offered to Gentiles namely the church. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land;[1] in Genesis 10, Magog is a man and eponymous ancestor of a nation, but no Gog is mentioned; by the time of Revelation 20:8 Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog".[2]. Worth Press Ltd, 2000, (Shahadat-ul-Quran, Ruhani Khazain, Volume 6, Pages 361362. Psalm 83 adds more Islamic groups based in Gaza, Lebanon, and possibly northern Iraq (Assyria). [123][124], An explanation offered by Orientalist Henry Yule was that Marco Polo was only referring to the "Rampart of Gog and Magog", a name for the Great Wall of China. [126], In the early 19th century, some Hasidic rabbis identified the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon as "The War of Gog and Magog". The history of Israel confirms this thought; Jacobs descendants, the twelve tribes of Israel (the Hebrew Israelites) have suffered but prevailed for 3,000 years. So it is this one-third remnant of Israel that survives these times and comes through, refined as silver and tested as gold, to be Gods worthy servant in the millennial reign of Christ, link. Here we see the total defeat and humiliation of militant Islam in the sight of many nations. This will be in terms of abundant agricultural produce grains, fruit and wine (Ezek 36.29,30) and nations will remark that desolate land has become like the garden of Eden (Ezek 36.35). The descendants of Abraham formed a nation (Israel) around 1300 BC after their Exodus from Egypt to Canaan under the leadership of Moses, and in 1004 BC King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. It is depicted in this way on Arabian world maps starting from the 10th century, as also on the Tabula Rogeriana , an influential map drawn in 1154 by . Gomer was an Aryan group who conquered Armenia (essentially north-eastern Turkey) from their Ukrainian homeland, and Togarmah was the south-eastern part of Turkey near the Syrian border, link. Moreover, from that day, Israel starts to know her God as He pours out His Spirit upon her: So the House of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward (Ezek 39.22). At the outset it seems unfair on the rest of mankind. Right at the beginning we read a mystery, namely, that the God of the Bible reproduces His kind. The result of such unbiblical teaching is that the institutionalized church takes the worlds view and essentially rejects modern-day Israel, and so pays little attention to end-time prophecy about Israel. 2 Thes 2 speaks of the end times and our gathering together unto him and what must happen first: the falling away of many from the true Christ, and the revealing of the antichrist. We have liberated Gaza, part of Palestine, but I am not prepared to accept just Gaza Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less. [23] "Why the prophet's gaze should have focused on these particular nations is unclear," comments Biblical scholar Daniel I. Instead, water is often used as a political weapon, and so authorized wells are not dug and leaks are not repaired. After alls been said and done, the Bibles bold declarations culminate in its last book, Revelation. Alexander's prayer caused the mountains to move nearer, making the pass narrower, facilitating his building his gate. He said to me: It is done. After the (largely Islamic) Gog-Magog war we read: I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgement which I have executed (Ezek 39.21). 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