ISIS, Iran and Turkey -- Gog, Magog & The Primary Invaders of Israel in Ez 38 & 39?

[I originally published this blog on February 1, 2015.  It was deleted.  I am republishing it today with minor revisions, as its content is ever more so relevant as we appear to be approaching World War III.]

Much has been written about a future invasion and battle in the land of Israel described in Ez 38/39.  I have studied this Biblical account for several years and have prayed for understanding and insight regarding the truth about the peoples and nations involved.  In this blog, I express what I believe God has shown me.  Although that which I write herein rubs against what is commonly taught on the subject, I give it to you so you may study it out for yourself and take it to God to confirm it.

The main actors in Ez 38/39 are commonly taught as being Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya and Sudan (a large Islamic nation which is part of ancient Ethiopia.  Ethiopia once included what is now Ethiopia, Somalia and much of Sudan).  Most who teach this have set their minds to believe that the word translated as "Rosh" in Ez 38:2 is Russia.  Without getting into great detail, I will say simply that I have read scholarly articles and books in regard to the translation of the word Rosh which appears in English translations of Ez38:2 adjacent to the Hebrew word "נְשִׂ֕יא" (pronounced "nshia") which is typically translated as "prince".  I have come to the conclusion, based on the scholarly works which are quite well researched, that "prince of Rosh" is an incorrect interpretation in Ez 38:2.  Rather, the word Rosh is grammatically structured in the Hebrew in Ez 38:2 to be a modifier to the word translated as "prince", such that these words should be translated together to indicate that Gog is the "chief prince" of Meshech and Tubal, not that Gog is the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. Gog is not the leader of Russia.  Magog is not Russia. 

So, let us continue by accepting this conclusion based on the assumption that Gog is the chief prince, the main influencer, of Meshech and Tubal.  I believe that although Ez 38/39 does not describe Russia as Magog, I believe that Russia is described in the Bible elsewhere as a force which will come into play in this event, but not under the influence of "Gog".  But more on that later regarding Russia's role and the scriptures which describe Russia.

So, who are Meshech and Tubal, who is Gog, and where is the land of Magog? 

As seen in the map above, Meshech and Tubal are ancient people groups which were located in what is now modern Turkey.   The same teachers (typically on TV and those writing books) that teach that Rosh is Russia also teach that Meshech is Moscow and that Tubal is Tbilisi.  Both of those cities are in Russia.  Most likely, they teach this because those names in English sound like Moscow and Tubal.  Such teachers may also try to make the case that Meshech was in the area of Russia near Moscow.  This people group, however, migrated to that region long after they were originally located in what is now Turkey, as shown on the map above.  I will spare you additionally detail, but my research leads to a conclusion that the map above is correct regarding these people groups, and that Meshech and Tubal refer to the people groups who once lived in the area of modern Turkey.  Therefore, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal in today's world appears to be Obama.  It is he who gives the orders to the West, and to NATO to which Turkey belongs.  Turkey is the home and financial supply ground of ISIS.

Regarding Gog of the land of Magog (Ez 38:2), my conclusion is that Gog is the wicked spiritual force behind the coming anti-Christ, who will be an actual or spiritual "Assyrian" (i.e., likely, to be a follower of Islam).  To illustrate the location of Meshech, Tubal and Magog, please refer to the map above which shows these ancient designations being being located in modern Turkey.  These conclusions are detailed in my 3-part blog on the coming Assyrian anti-Christ.  Please refer to these three blogs to gain full insight and analysis, based strictly on scripture, regarding why the coming anti-Christ will be "Assyrian", and what his attributes, intentions and activities will be.  This blog also describes how the book of Amos discloses that Gog shall lead an army of invaders from the east against Israel, which are described as locusts (Muslims, for reasons given in the blog) which have as their leader King Gog.  Is not the leader of the West the "chief prince", or leader, of ISIS? (To understand the intent of ISIS, which is to bring about WW III, please visit a Dec. 3, 2015 article which explains this thought.)

Most everyone agrees that the Persia, Cush (Sudan) and Put (Libya) described in Ez 38:5 refer to modern Iran, Sudan and Libya, which are all Muslim countries. Turkey also is a Muslim country.  Russia is not a Muslim country, except for the southern Muslim provinces of Russia which include Chechnya.  Thus, an Islamic leader would not hold much sway over Russia, but would indeed hold sway over Muslim countries such as Persia, Turkey, Sudan and Libya.

Let us visit Dan 11 to get more information on the Ez 38/39 invasion of the land of Israel. 

In Daniel 11 God shows us through the writing of the prophet Daniel various individuals who will, in their own time in history, be a respective "King of the North" and "King of the South."  Beginning in Dan 11:25-28, God shows us an end time "King of the North" (who I say is the coming Assyrian anti-Christ, as discussed in my 3-part blog referenced above) who will carry out various nefarious activities, including: (1) attacking the land of Israel and the "King of the South" (modern Egypt); (2) deceiving, defeating and then looting Egypt; and (3) returning later a second time to come against Egypt (Dan 11:29-30).  He is stopped from invading Egypt a second time by ships from the west (Kittim - e.g., NATO, or its successor).  Most likely, the first invasion of Egypt by the coming anti-Christ stuns and catches the west off guard, but the second attempted invasion of Egypt is thwarted by the west.

At the time of the end, the King of the North (the coming Assyrian anti-Christ) will be attacked by the King of the South (perhaps Egypt), but the King of the North will counter-attack and defeat the King of the South with the use of many ships, tanks and and soldiers (Dan 11:40-43) and carry away and firmly control various treasures of Egypt.

However, at that time, the King of the North will hear news of forces advancing to his rear from the north and to his flank from the east.  This news will trouble him (Dan 11:44)  He will go out to confront these forces, but will not prevail and will ultimately be destroyed at the time Jesus returns to defeat the armies surrounding Jerusalem who are about to destroy it.  This will be the battle of Armageddon described in Rev 16:16 and Rev 19.

Those advancing forces from the north and east are coming to the land of Israel to stop the King of the North anti-Christ, since at that time, the headquarter of the King of the North anti-Christ will be located near Jerusalem. (Dan 11:45 )  China is obviously the force advancing from the east with its 200 million man army (Rev 9:16), and Russia is the force advancing from the north.

The motivation behind Russia and China coming to the region of Jerusalem is uncertain at this time, but the motivation may at least include a desire to stop and "put a lid" on the King of the North anti-Christ.  The motivation will certainly be revealed to us in time.  Do Russia and China also have a "bone to pick" with Israel?  Perhaps they simply want to control the large natural gas fields off the coast of Gaza which may be coveted and then-controlled by the coming Assyrian anti-Christ, and to keep him from controlling the oil fields of the middle east?  Time will tell. 

So, where is the United States in all this?

I believe that at least by the time of the third confrontation between the King of the North Assyrian anti-Christ and the King of the South (although perhaps earlier), the United States has been relegated to being a non-world power through: (1) internal civil war; (2) a nuclear attack and/or invasion by Russia and China; (3) a catastrophic event (e.g., eruption of the large volcanic cauldron in Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, large earthquakes destroying California and/or the mid-west in the region of the New Madrid fault); or (4) a combination thereof.  It seems clear that the United States, at the time of the Ez 38/39 battle, is not mentioned and must no longer be a world power.  Thus, the anti-Christ will have little fear of invading Egypt, and Russia and China will have little fear of invading the land of Israel to confront the King of the North anti-Christ. (Read for yourself the prophecies of the destruction of an end times Babylon in Jer 50, Jer 51, Is 47, Rev 17/18, etc.  These passages of scripture refer to a nation which is the spiritually daughter of the ancient Babylon of the Bible.  A wicked nation which has turned from God and is destroyed.  I believe the United States is this end times Babylon.  It is not hard to see that, at present, the United States is being transformed into the end times Babylon which is doomed to destruction.  See my blog on this subject, based on scripture.)

Turkey and Iran, at the time of the Ez 38/39 battle, are controlled and influenced by the Islamic Assyrian anti-Christ (Gog) from N. Iraq with his ISIS army (or whatever ISIS evolves into) to come against the land of Israel to destroy it.  Incidentally, most of the atrocities being committed today by ISIS (e.g., beheadings and the horrific slaughter of civilians) started to occur in the region of N. Iraq, but are spreading throughout the middle east; the geographical location of wicked ancient Assyria (Magog) and its capital Nineveh.  The motivation of these Muslim nations and people groups to invade and destroy Israel is simple -- hatred.  They hate Israel and the God of Israel.  They will be influenced and controlled by the satanically possessed (Rev 12) King of the North anti-Christ (i.e., Gog), who will skillfully use the religion of Islam to be his controlling mechanism to unite Turkey, Iran and the nations of Sudan and Libya to join in a Islamic coalition to invade and destroy Israel.  This is the Ez 38/39 coalition.  Egypt is not named as part of this coalition since by that time it will have been attacked and pillaged by the King of the North, as described in Dan 11.

Thus, in summary, we see that at the time of the battle of Ez 38/39 in the future: (1) Russia will be a player in the final battle of this age, the battle of Armageddon, although not described in Ez 38/39 as being lead by Gog, who is the coming Assyrian anti-Christ; (2) the battle of Armageddon of Rev 16:16 and Rev 19 is the same battle as the battle described in Ez 38/39, which coincides with the last actions of the King of the North anti-Christ described in Dan 11; and (3) at least by the time of the advance of the armies of Russia and China toward the land of Israel to confront the King of the North Islamic anti-Christ, the United States is out of the way and is no longer a world power capable of stopping the anti-Christ, Russia or China.  (Incidentally, in late 2014 China overtook the United States as the world's largest economic power. Thus, America's downfall has begun.)  After the United States becomes completely impotent as a world power, Russia will become the new military power of the world.

Time is short.  Repent, and prepare your heart for God.

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WW III To Begin Soon in Syria? -- What Does the Bible Tells Us?

The Bible, in Rev 9:13-15 tells us:  
"Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, 'Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.'  So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind."
  
In Syria today, we have ISIS fighters, Syrian soldiers, Russian planes and troops, Iranian troops, and soon...Chinese planes and troops.  Additionally, the US and NATO said today that they are considering entering the fray by placing themselves between Russia and ISIS to "protect the moderate rebels."  Exactly what is a moderate rebel?  This is simply crazy.  Can so many hostile enemies be in such a small geographic area without a major event unfolding?  

Unless cooler heads prevail or God intervenes, I believe that we are witnessing the beginning of WW III, as predicted almost 2,000 years ago by John the Apostle as told to him by an angel sent by God to reveal the future of mankind.

If you study the image above of the location of the flow of the River Euphrates, you can easily see that this river, which is the Bible-predicted geographical "ground zero" for WW III, flows southward from Turkey through Syria.  With the confluence of political and military powers assembling now in Syria for a showdown, can a hot war be far away?  Only God knows when WW III will begin, but in the natural, the prelude to WW III appears to be forming before our eyes. 

According to the Bible, during WW III one-third of mankind will be killed.  Only a war which includes the use of nuclear weapons and/or bio-engineered disease weapons could accomplish this.  

With a world population today of about 7.3 billion people, we are looking at the destruction of almost 2.4 billion people.  No doubt, this destruction to mankind will be brought about in a matter of months, and not years (as in previous world wars).  

We need to intervene through prayer to postpone this disaster and to ask for God's grace and mercy to do so. 
 
Time is short.  Repent, and prepare your heart for God.

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The Two Interwoven Prophecies of Ez 38 & 39 -- The Gog/Magog Battles: Pre-Millenium and Post-Millenium

I have been prodded by God over the past several weeks to read (again and again) Ez 38.  Now, I was quite familiar with this chapter, as well as Ez 39.  We know these chapters as the "Battle of Gog and Magog".  However, God was trying to show me or teach me something specific to Ez 38.  That's how He deals with me  sometimes regarding reading the Bible.  He prods me to read a certain chapter of the bible to show me something I had not really understood fully.

So, I read and re-read Ez 38 over the past few weeks five or six times.  I was beginning to think that perhaps I was simply hearing my own thoughts and was becoming fixated on this chapter.  I consciously did not want to keep re-reading the same (I thought) familiar passages in Ez 38.  So, I  began to believe that it was my own thoughts that were having me go over this same ground again and again.  I even asked God if I was really hearing Him, or whether it was simply me.  I felt gently, yet firmly, prodded to read it once again -- which I did yesterday, reluctantly, out on my back porch during the afternoon of a beautiful summer day.  What I finally saw in Ez 38 took me by complete surprise.  Verses that I had read many, many times before somehow "jumped" up into my mind as something I should stop and ponder.  This is how God deals with me when He wants to teach me something in His word.  He may deal differently with you.

I previously believed that the battle described in Ez 38/39 was the "Battle of Armageddon", which will occur just before Jesus' return. I strongly believed that, based on my reading and studying Ez 38/39 -- until yesterday.

Yesterday, as I read through Ez 38 (and Ez 39, for good measure), the same familiar verses I had read previously numerous times took on a new meaning, and I was presented with a dilemma.  These chapters speak of an invasion force coming against a land and people who live in safety.  But, if this battle does occur, as I previously believed, not at the beginning of Daniel's 70th week (commonly referred to incorrectly as "the tribulation") as many believe and teach, but as part of the Battle of Armageddon just prior to Jesus' return, how could those in the land of Israel be living safely at that time?  After all, the anti-Christ will at that time be persecuting severely Jews (and Christians too) beginning at the mid-point of Daniel's 70th week when he declares himself to be "god" and the abomination of desolation is set up, likely by him. (See, Dan 9: 27; Mat 24: 15-22)  They (Jews and Christians) will be persecuted right up to the time of Jesus' return for 3 1/2 years.

I had never seen this rather sharp contradiction previously in Ez 38.

God then, as He does sometimes with me, asked me how to resolve this incongruity.  Sometimes He makes me think about it to figure something out.  Instantly, I remembered the description of a future battle of Gog and Magog which occurs at the end of Jesus' millennial reign, as described in Rev 20: 7-9.  That battle is described as being quite short-lived, as God simply wipes out and destroys the invaders coming against Jerusalem by sending fire down on them from heaven.  Not much of a battle, really.

Also, in Ez 39: 7 it describes that after this future battle God will not allow His name to ever be profaned again.

So, this presented another contradiction, since the final battle of Gog and Magog at the end of the millennial reign of Christ will most certainly involve the final rebellion against God.  No doubt, during that final rebellion leading up to that final battle God's name will be profaned once again ... but for the last time forever.

Therefore, the scenario of Ez 38/39 describing a single "battle" as a single event which occurs just prior to Jesus' return at Armageddon fails for at least these two factors, which I had never before noticed.  In summary, the two factors are:  1) that the people live in safety and not in persecution, and 2) that God's name will never again be profaned.

These two factors cannot be satisfied anytime prior to the end of the Christ's millennial reign, and yet, many other events described in Ez 38/39 appear to fit well as a description of the Battle of Armageddon just prior to Jesus' return.

So, this sparked the idea in me that perhaps the "battle" described in Ez 38/39 was actually two separate events -- two battles being described and interwoven through these passages.  One battle occurring just prior to Christ's pre-millennial reign and the other at the end of the millennium reign.  Could this be?  I felt compelled to investigate further.

I felt inspired to go online and find the Septuagint version of Ez 38/39.  After all, it was the version of the Old Testament in common usage when Jesus walked the earth (it is a Greek translation of the original Hebrew and Aramaic version of what we call the "Old Testament").  Perhaps there was something (hopefully) in the English version of the Septuagint online that would help me to resolve the riddle.

God reminded me, at almost the same time, how the millennium-end battle will end with fire coming down from heaven to defeat Gog and the armies with them, very quickly.  Very decisive.  No fighting required by those on the earth.  Also, Ez 34:28 describes that when Jesus returns and gathers His people Israel to Himself, "they shall all dwell securely and none shall make them afraid."  This confirms that the time of "security and safety" occurs during the millennium, which gives further evidence that Ez 38/39 also describes a millennial-end battle.

Well, low and behold.  Every English version of Ez 39: 6 in various versions of the Bible that I have read to date says that God will send fire on Magog -- meaning the land of Magog, and not Gog.  Indeed, many teach that the description of fire coming on Magog signals the destruction of Russia -- who those who teach this idea say Russia is the land being referred to as the land of Magog.

However, the Septuagint version of the Old Testament (which Jesus knew and read, since it was the prevalent version of the Old Testament when He walked the earth) translates Ez 39: 6 to say that God will send fire on Gog.  This lines up perfectly with Rev 20: 7-9, discussed above, where God will destroy Gog and his armies the end of the Millennium with fire -- not the land of Magog.  Wow!  This understanding also frees up the timing of the first battle of Ez 38/39 so that it can take place ANYTIME prior to Jesus' return.  Perhaps prior to Daniel's 70th week, perhaps during the 70th week, or perhaps at the time of the Battle of Armageddon immediately prior to Jesus' return.

So, I then felt further inspired to be sure and to again "analyze" Ez 38/39 verse by verse.  I read carefully each single verse of Ez 38/39 of the Septuagint version, verse by verse, and coded each verse individually as referring to the "pre-millennium" time period or to the "millennium end" time period, or to "both".

I created two Word documents and simply copied and pasted every verse I coded into one, or both, of these two documents -- one document for "pre-millennium" verses and the other for "millennium-end" verses.  I put each verse coded as "both" into both documents.  I did not read either document until I had analyzed and moved each and every verse of Ez 38 and 39 into one or both of the two documents.  What I read in each document after I finished this work was, quite frankly, God-given and amazing.

I have provided the text of each of the two documents below for your review.  I had simply analyzed and sorted verse by verse, as I felt led by God.

When you read the two documents, you can see that the verses applicable to one time frame or the other, or both, which were indeed describing two separate events that were interwoven in Ez 38/39 read as separate and distinguishable events even though the verses are not all consecutive!

So, I believe God was fine-tuning my prior understanding of Ez 38/39 to show me that I had missed a few major points which were hiding in plain sight.

My conclusion:  Ez 38/39 describes two battles involving Gog of the land of Magog.  The first battle occurs any time prior to Jesus' return.  The second battle occurs at the millennium-end just prior to the Great White Throne Judgement found in the Book of Revelation.

See for yourself, below.  Let it bless you.  God rewards those who seek Him. Praise be to God.

Ez 38/39 Pre-Millennium Prophecy

38:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him

38:3 and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel

38:4 and I will gather thee, and all thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords

38:5 Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields

38:6 Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with thee

38:7 Be thou prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to me for a guard

38:9 And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee

38:10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall come up into thine heart, and thou shalt devise evil devices

38:13 Sabba, and Daedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils

38:15 and come out of thy place from the farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force?

38:16 And thou shalt come up upon my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last days, that I will bring thee up upon my land, that all the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in thee before them

38:17 Thus saith the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art [he] concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring thee up against them

38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, saith the Lord God

38:19 [that] my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel

38:20 and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall

38:21 And I will summon against it even every fear, saith the Lord: the sword of [every] man shall be against his brother

38:22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him

38:23 And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord

39:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel

39:2 and I will assemble thee, and guide thee, and raise thee up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring thee up upon the mountains of Israel

39:3 And I will destroy the bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel

39:4 and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, [even] to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured

39:5 Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord

39:8 Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken

39:9 And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years

39:10 and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, saith the Lord

39:11 And it shall come to pass [that] in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial-place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and [the place] shall then be called the burial-place of Gog

39:12 And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months

39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a [place] of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, saith the Lord

39:14 And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek [them] out

39:15 And every one that goes through the land, and sees a man's bone, shall set up a mark by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burial place of Gog

39:16 For the name of the city [shall be] Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed

39:17 And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all [places] round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, [even] a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood

39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves

39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you

39:20 And ye shall be filled at my table, [eating] horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, saith the Lord

39:21 And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them

39:22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from this day and onwards

39:23 And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword

39:24 According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them

39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name

39:26 And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify [them] 

39:27 when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations

39:28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, hen I have been manifested to them among the nations

39:29 And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God

Ez 38/39 Millennium-End Prophecy

38:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him

38:3 and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel

38:4 and I will gather thee, and all thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords

38:7 Be thou prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to me for a guard

38:8 He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when [the people] are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely

38:9 And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee

38:10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall come up into thine heart, and thou shalt devise evil devices

38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors

38:12 to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is [now] inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land

38:14 Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus saith the Lord; Wilt thou not arise in that day, when my people Israel are dwelling securely

38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, saith the Lord God

38:19 [that] my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel

39:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel

39:6 And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord 

39:7 And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy [One] in Israel 

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Time is short.  Repent, and prepare your heart for God.

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The Time of Trouble is at Hand -- Open Your Eyes and Prepare Your Heart

This message to you is in my spirit.  It must be proclaimed NOW.  Time is short.  The "time of trouble" spoken of throughout the Bible is near.  Economic and societal collapse (at least the beginning stages of each) is MONTHS away and will begin in earnest THIS YEAR -- 2015.  I am not a fear monger.  I am a watchman and am giving you warning.  Take heed for your own sake, for your family's sake, for the sake of those you care about.  He who has an ear to hear, listen to what the Spirit says.

Hear some of the many words God has spoken regarding what is coming, what you must do, and what you are promised by God if you believe He is God and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Ps 9:9 - The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Ps 37:39 - The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord.  He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Ps 10:1 - Why, O Lord, do you stand far away?  Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Ps 49:5-6 - Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me, those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

Is 33:2 - O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you.  Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. 

Ps 27: 4-6 - One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to pray/meditate in His temple.  For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter.  In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me.  He shall set me high upon a rock.  Now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle and I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

Jer 11:12-14 -  Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble. For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.  “Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.  (My comment: since God never changes, He has this in store for America, as well, for the same reasons Judah and Jerusalem turned from Him, and He will only protect those whom are His.)

Jer 14:7-9 - “Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.  O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?  Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save?  Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.”

Jer 15:11-12 - The Lord said, “Have I not set you free for their good?  Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?  Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?

Dan 12:1 - “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. There shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Job 38:22-23 - “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

Mat 24:36 - Concerning that day and hour, on one knows -- But you will know, and you must know the season in order to prepare your heart to get ready, in order to not be deceived and to be able to instruct others what time it is so they may know what to do.

Prepare your spirit.  Prepare your family.  Prepare your pantry.  Prepare your wallet. 

Fill yourself with the Word of God, so you may draw from it in the coming time of trouble.

Time is short.  Repent, and prepare your heart for God.

2015 - True Believer

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Ez 23 -- A "Sister" Prophecy of Ez 38 & 39 Concerning Jerusalem

Many of you have no doubt never read about nor heard of a prophecy about a coming attack against Jerusalem given to us by God in plain sight, found in Ez 23.  I have read Ez 23 previously, but never saw the connection to Ez 38, 39 -- until today when the Holy Spirit showed me that it is a prelude to what is written in Ez 38, 39 regarding the coming invasion and attack of the land of Israel, and specifically Jerusalem.

Ez 23 unlocks more of the feelings, thoughts and rationale behind why God has chosen to have Jerusalem surrounded and attacked in the "last days".  This coming battle is described at length and in great detail in Ez 38, 39.  I am sure that many of you are indeed familiar with those two famous chapters describing God's coming wrath against the hordes which will invade the land of Israel to destroy Jerusalem and to put an end to it.

A question, at least for me, has been WHY?  I mean, why is God going to allow Jerusalem to be surrounded, attacked and nearly destroyed?  Why will God allow 2/3 of the people in the land of Israel to be killed? (See, Zech 13)  Why?  Why? Why? A glimpse of God's reasons for the invasion is given in Ez 38, 39.  However, God tells us more in Ez 23.

In Ez 23 God lays out in parable form (God loves parables, does He not?) how two daughters (i.e., the two houses of Israel) were born of the same mother (Jacob/Israel).  These two daughters are called by God in Hebrew "Oholah" (the elder sister) and "Oholibah" (the younger sister), which loosely translated mean "her own house" and "my house is in her", respectively.  These names are consistent with the names God gives to the two houses of Israel throughout the Old Testament.  God tells us in Ez 23 that the elder daughter is Samaria (one of God's nicknames for the house of Israel -- the 10 northern tribes who "did their own thing") and the younger daughter is Jerusalem (God's temple, His house, was in Jerusalem).

Both of these daughters became harlots, where the many harlotries of the elder sister Oholah (Samaria) are described first.  She lusted for the Assyrians and their idols, so God eventually gave her (10 norther tribes of Israel) over to her Assyrian lovers because of her disdain for God.  She turned her back on God, so God in His anger, reluctantly, turned His back on her by giving her over to the Assyrians. 

This event occurred historically in approximately 720 or so B.C.E. when the Assyrian army invaded the land of Samaria and took away captive to Assyria the 10 northern tribes of Israel.  Thereafter, those 10 tribes (Oholah) were scattered throughout the Assyrian empire and among the gentile nations where they remain scattered today. 

So, what about the younger harlot sister Oholibah (Jerusalem - representing the 2 southern tribes, including Judah)??  What has been, or will be, her fate?

When you read Ez 23: 22-27, you see a description of: (1) who is going to come against Jerusalem and invade her to attack her; (2) why she is being attacked; and lastly, (3) what will become of her.

In essence, those coming against her (Jerusalem - the younger harlot daughter) are described as an invading horde which includes Assyrians (i.e., the modern people groups which equate with the ancient Assyrian empire), which resembles those coming against her in Ez 38, 39.  This is not the same group of invaders/attackers which will come someday soon against the land of Israel which is described as the Ps 83 war.  Regarding Ez 38, 39, I have analyzed the scriptures carefully and have concluded (as have others) that these chapters describe a "last days" battle against the land of Israel and will feature the coming anti-Christ who will be from the peoples of ancient Assyria.  I have written a 3-part blog in 2014 about the coming Assyrian anti-Christ and my reasoning, based on scripture.  But I digress. 

It appears from the context of Ez 23: 24-27 that those coming against the younger harlot sister Oholibah (Jerusalem) will punish her severely, burn her, strip her naked and plunder her.  God tells us why -- because of His jealousy and wrath due to her many harlotries which she first learned in Egypt with her elder sister and never gave up.  In fact, God says in Ez 23 that the harlotries of Jerusalem (Judah) were WORSE than those of her elder harlot sister Oholah (Samaria - 10 northern tribes).  (Ez 23: 11)

I believe from the context of the entire chapter 23 of Ezekiel that Judah's captivity in Babylon (which occurred from about 586-516 B.C.E.) is spoken of, but IN ADDITION, it describes a coming attack on Jerusalem by hordes similar to those described in Ez 38, 39.

The key to this conclusion and analysis is God's description of the invaders and how they will come against her from all sides (Ez 23: 23-24), but also what God says will be the end result of His wrath, judgment and punishment of Jerusalem (Oholibah - the younger harlot sister).  God says that He will "will make you [Judah - Jerusalem - Oholibah] cease your lewdness and your harlotry from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift your eyes to them nor remember Egypt anymore."  (Emphasis added).  (Ez 23: 27)

In other words, God is punishing the younger sister Oholibah by giving her into the hand of her idol worshiping lovers (the invading and attacking Assyrians and those accompanying the Assyrians), but God will bring her back to Himself by redeeming her, pouring out His Spirit on her, and causing her to never turn from Him again.

The cleansing, forgiveness and purifying of Jerusalem will not occur until the Ez 38, 39 invasion.  God tells us in Ez 39: 7, 21-29 that after the invading armies are destroyed He will set His glory in Jerusalem and that His name shall never be profaned again.  Clearly, this will not occur until just before Jesus returns to save Jerusalem from the invading armies. (See Zech 12-14 and Rev 19).  The house of Israel (both unfaithful sisters, Oholah and Oholibah) will know then, without a doubt, that Jesus is their Lord, Savior and God from that day forward - forever. (Ez 23: 7)  This will not happen until this last great battle for Jerusalem occurs, as described in Ez 38, 39.

So, in conclusion, God gives us another view of His feelings, thoughts and intended actions in regard to the two beloved, yet very mischievous and promiscuous houses of Israel -- the daughters, Oholah (the elder harlot sister - Samaria, the 10 norther tribes of Israel, now disbursed throughout the world among the Gentiles) and Oholibah (the younger harlot sister who committed worse idolatry - Jerusalem (the tribe of Judah, and those of Israel associated with Judah) many of whom now occupy and live in the land of Israel today).  Praise God!

Time is short.  Repent, and prepare your heart for God.

2015 - True Believer

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