Whether your pastor has preached it, you heard a TV preacher speak on it, or you read in your bible, the Ezekiel 38-39 account of a huge war. Remember there are three major end time and post rapture wars that will take place. If you haven't heard, here's the compact version: first, Russia will join forces with Iran, Iraq, Germany, and other nations in Europe. The nations will come in and attack Israel. Then, after a ''break'' in the war, after things have settled, China will join in and there will be a second campaign. The third, and final, war will be the biggest, bloodiest, war EVER - the battle of Armegiddon. Those will be a man and spirit war, where Christ and His saints will gather to fight Satan and his demons. But, we'll look at these more in depth later.
What I am going to share with you, friends, is an event occurring before the Gog-Magog war. Scripture leads us to believe the three campaigns I mentioned in the last paragraph occur at the onset and ending at the end of the tribulation period. There is something no one reaches about, I call it the ''Pre-Gog-Magog War''. This will be taking place (as can be observed today).
So then, what is this ''Pre-Gog-Magog'' event? Grab a cup of coffee and your bible, get comfy, and let's dig in. Ready? (I'll try to make this as concise and understandable as possible).
Let me begin with a note on Magog. The Scythians are a group of people included in the peoples of Magog. After being repulsed from Media the Scythians settled in the fertile area of the Ukraine, north of the Black Sea and to the west of the Caspian Sea. (Colossians 3:11 shows the Scythians not outside of Gods salvation). Elam is believed to be the area of Iran.
Important to note, Russia supplies weapons to nations in the biblical end time nations, for example in Ezekiel 38-39.
Next, let's compare Genesis 16:12 with Ezekiel 38:21. Because Israel has not returned to God, He will allow armies to come against them. In Genesis 16, scripture tells us Hagar is with child, and his name was Ishmael. He was a wild man. He was the father of the Muslim nations and people, as Jacob was the father of the Jewish people. As the Ezekiel account tells, these role shall come to take a spoil, or to take advantage of them and rob them. The Jewish people will return to God later, as we'll see in another study. i will say, however, that the way this can happen is Israel will dwell in the land carelessly (or belach, sp. Hebrew for ''false confidence).
There will be a huge earthquake in Israel at the time of this great invasion (see Ez 38:19-20).
Read throgh Ezekiel 38 and 39. You will notte that these nations do not border israel directly. Now, turn with me to Psalm 83. These are nations that do border Israel. What else can we see in this psalm? These people do not merely wish to take a spoil, they hate Israel and the Jews, and want to wipe them off the map, forever! I bellieve the psalm descrbes this prelude, the ''Pre-Gog-Magog Battle''. Ezekiel tells its a God hating people. Before this as Ezekiel 37 tells us, Israel was not a nation, then in 1948 they became a great nation!
Psalm 83, verses 4-5, show a Muslim coalition. A people under Islam. Edom are the Palestinians and the south Jordanians (the tenants of From are the Palestinian refugees). Remember Esau? He is. The father of the Edom people (Ge32:5;; Ge 36:8; Ro9:10-11;De2:4-5;Josh24:4). The land of Seir was occupied by Esau's descendants.
Edom refused Israelites passage via the King's Highway (Nu20:14-21;Nu21:4;Judg11;17-18).
Ammon consists of Palestinian refugees.
The Edomites (Ps137:7-9) like in the Babylonian times, watched and encouraged as Israel was invaded and attacked. (Sidebar - The Rockefeller'sand Rothschild's , meaning ''red shield'', are descendants of the Edomites). Edom became Idumea, the name on the maps until Rome changed it to Palestine, choosing the name as it would be most offensive to Israel. Note, the judgment of Edom is mentioned more than any other in scripture (is 11:14;Is34:5-17;Is63:1-6;Jer9:25-26;Jer25:17-26;Jer45:7-22;Lam4:21-22;Ez25:12-14;Ez35:15;Joel:19;Amos 1:11-12;Amos:11-12;Obadiah 1:1-21;Mal1:4).
Let's look at some more nations. Psalm 83:6-8. Moab is a descendant of Of, today are Palestinian refugees and central Jordan. Hagarenes are the Egyptians. Gebal is northern Lebanon. We mentioned Ammon above, did you know the capital of Jordan is Ammon? Amalek consists of the Arabs south of Israel. Philistines are modern day Palestinians/refugees, and the games oof the Gaza Strip. Tyre is the Hezbollah and the southern Lebanon. Assur was Assyria, today is Syria and into northern Iraq. Sissera, Ps83:9-10;Jud4-5. Then, ndor is the northern slope of little Hermon, about seven miles from Jezreel.
Next, I refer you to Ezekiel 25-32. Throughout these texts you will see Am on,Moab, Edom, Phillistia, Tyre, Sidon, Egypt. All are muslim nations.
Let's posit a set of events:
Israel regathered in the land. (Ez 37:12;Is11:11-12; Due 30:3-5)
Ancient cities rebuilt and inhabited. (Ez 36:1-5, 8-10)
They meet Arab (Muslim) resistance. (Her 44:16; Zeph 2:8; Ez 25:12;
Ez 32:5; Ez 36:2; Ob 1:10)
Israel establishes an army for defense. (Ez 36:6-7; Ez 38:8)
Adjacent Muslim nations confederate. (PS 83:1-8)
The confederacy is committed to the destruction of Israel. (PS 83:1-5,10)
War starts between the confederacy and Israel. (Jer 49:2, 8,19)
''My people Israel'' title is regained. (Ho 1:8-10; Ro 9:25-26; Ez 36:8-12)
Israel defeats the confederacy. (Ob 1:9,16; Ez 25:13-14; Jer. 49:10, 20-21;
Is 11:12-14; Is 17:1; Is 19:16-25)
Israel has become an exceedingly great army. (Ez 37:10; Jer 49:21)
Israel takes prisoners of war. (Jer 48:46-47; Jer 49:3-6; Zeph 2:1-11)
The region is reshaped. (Is 49:2,10; Zeph 2:4)
israel expands its borders. (Ob 1:19; Jer 49:2; Is 19:18-19)
Israel dwells securely in the land. (Ez 38:10-12)
What does all this mean? Well, look at the list I made, and ask yourself at each point, ''Has this happened/Is this happening?" This whole thing leads up to the events that take place in the Gog-Magog War. If you've been following the news, you can't have missed the situation in the middle east. It took off, for america, when Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice (under the Bush administration) began devising, revising and implementing her ''Roadmap to Peace''. Israel would give up land in exchange for peace. She stated in an interview that israel must not interfere with palestine's becoming a state. The sympathy was for palestine. Today, Israel given up over a third of its land and there is no more peace resulting. Recall Joel 3:2, where God gives a direct warning against anyone coming against Israel and dividing its land.
In very brief overview of Daniel's 70 weeks of years, there are 68 weeks, a 69th week of ''waiting'', and then the 70th week, ushered in with the rapture. The church age, where we are now, is when the theory I posited in this post, will occur. The interval of the 69th week (Dan 9:26) is a time of preparation and setting up for the rapture of the church and the onset of the tribulation. Recall, the next thing to occur is the "Pre-Gog-Magog Battle'', then the rapture, then revealing of Antichrist, the 3rd temple/peace treaty (Dan 9:27), and the tribulation begins. I will post more on this in time, but feel free to read my blog on ''what's next??"
Blessings until next time. As always please feel free to leave comments, and share these posts with your friends and family.
In His Service
Pastor Aaron
All bible verses from the KJV
Sources of additional information from C. Missler, and the Department of the State archives.
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