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OMEDAY, Israel will be like a
piece of flesh being squeezed in a vise. Well, I guess she already is. But
someday it will get worse – much worse. In Ezekiel 38 & 39 we find an extensive
prophecy regarding a final attack on Israel by the many enemies which surround
her. There is no universal agreement among biblical scholars about who all of
these nations are, but there seems to be 2 primary possibilities that are
espoused.
Gog is believed to be some
non-Jewish world leader... perhaps a Russian dictator or Czar. Magog (Genesis
10:2) is believed by many to be Russia (Ezekiel 38:15). There are historical
reasons as well as linguistic reasons for this interpretation. Persia (Iran),
Ethiopia (eastern Africa) and Libya (northern Africa) are not nearly as open to
interpretation. It is postulated by some that Gomer and Togarmah may be a
reference to Germanic peoples and to those who live in the regions of Turkey
and/or Armenia. Other scholars think that this confederacy of nations will not
be so widespread but will be comprised of the Muslim nations that are the more
immediate neighbors of Israel. In some ways, it makes no difference really. We
know that God will protect His people from this attack. And, when these doomed
armies are all planted in Hamongog (Ezekiel 39:11), it won't matter who they
were before.
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