[80] However, the earliest fusion of Alexander's gate and the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog is a product of late antiquity, in what is known as the Syriac Legend of Alexander. 12The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. The invasion is sometimes referred to as the Gog-Magog war since it is led by Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal from out of the far north (Ezek 38.2,15). Under President Ergodan, Turkey now has a powerful President who is sympathetic to Egypts suppressed Muslim Brotherhood, link. As in history, todays Amalekites actively conspire to kill off Gods chosen people the Jews and we can see this in Iran and in ISIS. Think about the billions of humans born since the world began. It seems that, for believers, time has gone full circle to what God planned in the beginning. [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. The significant point here is that historians link the Scythian peoples to Magog. The Mandate did not grant any national political rights to Arabs, but Article 2 did safeguard the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race or religion. These forces blind the nations the politicians, the media, the institutionalized church, the man in the street and the adherents of political Islam such that they believe a lie (2 Thes 2.10,11). [13][3] Gog or Goug the Reubenite[c] occurs in 1 Chronicles 5:4, but he appears to have no connection with the Gog of Ezekiel or Magog of Genesis. Or simply just watch Israel and see what unfolds! The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. So Jesus gives a final warning: Revelation 22.18,19 Whilst western nations led by the US and the UN favour the two-state approach, it is NOT the solution favored by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas or the Palestinian people! Todays news suggests that this is close to fulfillment. Even so, Israeli farmers have come a long way since the Zionist pioneers began clearing rock-strewn fields and draining the swampland. The descendants of Japheth subsequently settled across Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and those in the eastern parts became known as Scythians. So they take Meshech as Russias capital, Moscow. So the restoration of Israel will be a sign or witness to the nations that the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, the only true God, loves mankind. God indeed intervenes in world affairs! It also appears that some of the Hebrew festivals are reinstated, as in the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech 14.16). [47], Various nations and peoples in history were identified as Ya'juj and Ma'juj. After the Holocaust, the Jewish people recognized that they must have their own state, a homeland where they could forever be safe from a repetition of such horrors. Why did the Creator of the universe give man the mandate to procreate and proliferate? If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Furthermore the New Testament also keeps up the theme. [55] The "Abbasid orthodoxy" believed the Ilkhanate Mongol invaders who laid siege to and then sacked Baghdad, were Gog and Magog. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Walking along a line of huts and the railway siding where their forebears had been worked and starved and beaten and frozen and gassed to death, were a group of Jewish schoolchildren, one of whom was carrying over his shoulder the Israeli flag, a blue star of David on white background. Surprisingly, in contrast to prophecy, Israel also has a working relationship with Russia, link! [83] The legend claims that Alexander carved prophecies on the face of the Gate, marking a date for when these Huns, consisting of 24 nations, will breach the Gate and subjugate the greater part of the world. [US Energy Information Administration, Wikimedia Commons], Israels past and future borders. "[20], Internal evidence indicates that the Gog oracle was composed substantially later than the chapters around it. But there is hope. 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. Image: Free Israel Photos, Israel's deserts produce abundant fruit. Sadly, not all partake of this eternal blessing and fellowship with God. Whilst the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must play a part in the war, prophecy implies that they receive supernatural help. Jews have won a total of 41% of all the Nobel Prizes in economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of physics and 19% of chemistry. (Isa 17.1). This is a mystery accepted by faith. Gog of Magog Becomes Gog and Magog This 17th-century Russian manuscript shows Satan, Gog and Magog attacking the city of Jerusalem in ancient Israel. Despite the intervention of the God of Israel to protect her, two end-time wars against Israel must surely take their toll? One view within Christianity is more starkly apocalyptic, making Gog and Magog, here indicating nations rather than individuals,[3] allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation. By the end of the 1949 War of Independence the fledgling Israeli forces had defeated five invading Arab armies. It is different to the last war of this age Armageddon. All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth. Very often in Britain, especially when faced with the overwhelmingly anti-Israeli bias that is endemic in our liberal media and the BBC, we fail to ask ourselves what we would have done placed in their position? [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. The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, Ezekiel 38:2-11. The Gog-Magog invasion of Israel seems imminent. Gow, Andrew. According to the Bible, Israel is indeed a special nation, chosen by God to bless mankind and to make a name for Himself. In todays terms, they settled mainly in the area currently claimed by Israel, including the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, although the tribes of Benjamin, Gad, Reuben and part of Manasseh settled east of the Jordan. Few would doubt that Jews have for centuries been substantially over-represented in many fields of learning and accomplishment, notably of course is Albert Einstein. Certainly, the evidence to date is that each time Arab nations attack Israel, they are defeated and their end-state seems worse than their first. The outcome is the total defeat and humiliation of militant Islam in the sight of many nations. Her Majesty the Queen has been on the throne for 57 years and in that time has undertaken 250 official visits to 129 countries, yet has not yet set foot in Israel. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. [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. If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the Lord your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors. Prophetically, war with Iran is certain, and in response to Irans hostile threats, Israels Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in 2018: Israels armed forces are ready to meet any threat coming from Iran and to pay the price of conflict, if necessary We are hearing the threats coming from Iran. Since then, Israel has had to fight no fewer than five major wars for her very existence. Nations will willingly go up to Jerusalem to worship the LORD and listen to His teaching (Mic 4.2 Isa 66.23). We owe to the Jews, wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together. On the other hand, Psalm 83 verse 6 does imply Arabic aggression. He also addressed many minds (Westerners or otherwise[132]) being credulous of the notion that Mongols might be Captive Jews, but after weighing the pros and cons, he concluded this was an open question. More . [116] In 1251, the French friar Andr de Longjumeau informed his king that the Mongols originated from a desert further east, and an apocalyptic Gog and Magog ("Got and Margoth") people dwelled further beyond, confined by the mountains. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. Then one day, as they stop digging for the night, one will say, "Tomorrow we will finish, God Willing", and in the morning, it is not restored as with every night. Put another way, here Paul is saying that the inspired Hebrew scriptures of the Jews are the very words of God! Click the image to find out. Traditionally, the UK government has had good relations with Israel, including good intelligence cooperation, and has been viewed as one of the worlds friendliest countries to Israel, link. The Oxford Bible Atlas identifies Meshech and Tubal as regions in Asia Minor or Turkey, as indicated in Map 1, link. In other words, not all nations seem to be involved. And over a two-year period, the Israeli Air Force ventured across the Israel-Egypt border and made more than 100 attacks on ISIS targets in the Sinai Peninsula to assist Egypt, link. The Dead Sea contains some 45,000 million tons of salts rich in minerals which are exploited by Israels mining sector. This settlement aligned with the boundaries God gave Israel at the time: I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates (Exod 23.31). Israel is abiding by the 1995 Oslo II Accord and supplying agreed water quantities. 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). She has visited 14 Arab countries, so it cannot have been that she wasnt in the region. 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. It seems that Russia is visited by fire and her forces are driven towards Siberia! That stands today. Do not be amazed that I said to you, You must be born again.. The Revival of the Hebrew LanguageMore Click the image below to read 54 prophecies about Israel. So an anti-Israel alliance with these countries seems rather distant, especially since Turkey-Israel relations could even improve, link, link. New immigrants embarked upon an extensive program of afforestation, and since 1900 almost 250 million sub-tropical trees have been planted in all regions of Israel. Sometimes this gas reaches the surface resulting in fire flashes and explosions. Psalm 83 adds more Islamic groups based in Gaza, Lebanon, and possibly northern Iraq (Assyria). Get a larger copy of this map and a license to use it in your presentation, book or website. But Bible prophecy says they will fail! [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). In Ezekiel 38:2-3, we are told that Gog is "of the land of Magog." Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal." Ezekiel 38:2-3 (NASB) Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah. 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. Israels enemies should take note of Gods promises to Israel: Whoever assails you will fall because of you no weapon that is formed against you will prosper (Isa 54.15,17) This speaks of two births of man: a physical birth through woman and a spiritual birth through Gods Spirit. In Deuteronomy 28:1-16, we read: 1If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. Israel is considered by third parties to be the only free country in the region in that there is a climate of respect for civil liberties, freedom of expression, significant independent civic life, an independent media, and a military under civilian rule, link. THE FALLACY Jesus gives a warning: Revelation 22.15 InJohn 1:9-14, we read: The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. Resolutions accuse Israel of settling in Occupied Palestinian Territory, and ignore Article 80 of the UN Charter which upholds the right of Jews to settle anywhere west of the Jordan! See https://www.factsaboutisrael.uk/ten-lost-tribes-of-israel/. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. Rosh Russia? But to date rainfall statistics show no long-term rainfall improvement since the 1970s, link. [70], The 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus equated Magog with the Scythians in Antiquities of the Jews, but he never mentioned Gog. As history shows, the people of Israel strayed from their promise on Mount Sinai. [5] Dhul-Qarnayn, having journeyed to the ends of the world, meets "a people who scarcely understood a word" who seek his help in building a barrier that will separate them from the people of Yajuj and Majuj who "do great mischief on earth". But Israel will be at peace with her neighbours in the Millennium! We must not forget what has already happened. [76] Islam is then seen as that which alone would succeed in bringing people of different nations together as per the Quran (18:99). [93], This Gog and Magog legend is not found in earlier versions of the Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes, whose oldest manuscript dates to the 3rd century,[l] but an interpolation into recensions around the 8th century. Over the past 100 years the nation and people of Israel have come to prominence on the world scene. [74][75] These powers cannot be defeated through military force and are to be overcome through prayer and divine intervention. [CDATA[ Ezekiel 40.2 and Zech 14.10 suggest that the millennial Jerusalem is elevated above a plain. Note that, whilst it is common to refer to Abrahams descendants as Jews, this is not strictly accurate. This is the second death. In a fallen world who can deny that man can do either? In the light of Israeli anti-discrimination law and Israels right to self-determination as a Jewish State, the accusation of racist against Israel is unjustified. 59386287). Here, Al-Zahar is choosing his words from at least 109 verses in the Quran that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule, link. It is in order. These wars will directly glorify the God of Israel as He openly defeats the attacking forces. The seven-branched lampstand (Israels Menorah) well-summarizes the purpose of Israel both now and in the Millennium. The so-called Gog-Magog war in Ezek 38-39 results in the attackers being defeated by the intervention of the God of Israel, rather than by the armies of Israel (Ezek 39.3). (The Quran says:) Kill them wherever you may find them Allah did not define the 1967 borders or the 1948 borders. 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). Palestinian nationalism only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, partly in response to the emergence of Zionism. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed. Gog and Magog are said to engage in human cannibalism in the romances and derived literature. The truth is that a New Heaven and a New Earth is prophesied. God says He will fulfill this amazing promise to the thirsty. Gog is a person who rules over the land of Magog (Russia). [86][87] The earlier-dated Syriac Alexander Legend contains a somewhat different treatment of the Gog and Magog material, which passed into the lost Arabic version,[88] or the Ethiopic and later Oriental versions of the Alexander romance. As Jews started returning to their homeland around the start of the 20th century, the need to combat desertification became one of national importance. And (perhaps between these wars) Israel also goes through a time of distress or tribulation referred to in Dan 12.1 and Mat 24.15-25. Who is Paul speaking to but the church and not to the world. A condensed account occurs in a derivative work, the Middle English King Alisaunder (vv. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are okay with it. They believe that prophecy shows that Israel will become (if not already) Gods main witness in the world. She is Gods chosen witness in the world and it is through Israel that Christ came (He was of the tribe of Judah) to provide redemption for the world. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. It is up to the Palestinians to maintain water networks, utilize wastewater, improve existing supplies and drill new wells. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Romanized Jewish historian Josephus knew them as the nation descended from Magog the Japhetite, as in Genesis, and explained them to be the Scythians. This was an area on the outer edge of the then known civilized world, link, link. 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