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. Some accounts and maps began to place the "Caspian Mountains", and Gog and Magog, just outside the Great Wall of China. 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). But prophecy states that one day soon it will be totally destroyed: Damascus will cease from being a city it will be a ruinous heap. My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel (Ezek 39.5-7). [81], In the Syriac Alexander Legend dating to 629630, Gog (Syriac: , gwg) and Magog (Syriac: , mgwg) appear as kings of Hunnish nations. [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. I am both the source of David and the heir to his throne. 2022 24 Feb Gog and Magog symbolize something sinister having to do with the End Times. The IDFs soldiers and the security forces are prepared for any development We will fight whoever tries to harm us We stand tall in the face of those who threaten to destroy us. The area as a whole is undefined but is roughly the . Moscow. This war appears imminent and so occurs when the 12 tribes are numerous and scattered throughout the gentile nations. 9 Bible Verses about Gog and Magog. Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder? (Ezek 38.13). The origin of the term is not clear, this name indicates either a person, or a tribe, or a geographical reality (country or city). So Jesus gives a final warning: Revelation 22.18,19 In fact, these future borders are almost identical to the borders of ancient Israel given to Moses in Num 34.1-12 as he was about to divide up Canaan for the twelve tribes (enlarge map). [v][122][133], The Flemish Franciscan friar William of Rubruck, who was first-hand witness to Alexander's supposed wall in Derbent on the shores of the Caspian Sea in 1254,[w] identified the people the walls were meant to fend off only vaguely as "wild tribes" or "desert nomads",[x][136] but one researcher made the inference Rubruck must have meant Jews,[y] and that he was speaking in the context of "Gog and Magog". An independent legend of Gog and Magog surrounds two colossal wooden effigies in the Guildhall, London. 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. In biblical terminology this contract between God and Israel is often referred to as the Mosaic Covenant. No author provided. The proportion of Jews with IQs of 140 or more is estimated to be about six times the proportion of any other ethnic group. Prior to the December 2017 summit of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, the popular Turkish daily Yeni Safak published an article titled A Call for Urgent Action. Do not do anything to him. This is the fundamental reason why religious Jews claim that the Land of Canaan (modern Israel) is their land, covenanted to them by God. So God could use Abraham for the future and He rewarded him through several unconditional promises. 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. Note Gods warning to rebellious Israel: And among those nations you shall find no rest there the LORD will give you a trembling heart your shall fear day and night (Deut 28.65,66). 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. 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. [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 fact Jewish mystical interpretation (Kabbalah) superstitiously has a method of calculates numbers from Hebrew letters from the words Gog and Magog = 70. 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. Future wars against Israel will be different from previous wars. Jerusalem is the site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod. Map copyright: By No machine-readable author provided. [145], In the Islamic apocalyptic tradition, the end of the world would be preceded by the release of Gog and Magog, whose destruction by God in a single night would usher in the Day of Resurrection. Ethiopia was inhabited by Hams son Cush. The is a solution, but prophecy indicates that it will not occur in this present age. From the rise of Zionism to the present day, Israel has not been welcomed on the world scene. 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. The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 8The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. When during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery; today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long. This is both dramatic and traumatic, but ends in glory and victory. The problem here is that Israel has already declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, and this is compounded by the Palestinian leadership which does not even recognize the Jewish State: Palestine will not recognize Israel as Jewish state [Abbas, 2014]. 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. The History Press Ltd, 2005. He said to me: It is done. The Torah teaches that Amalekites exist in every generation, link, and so today many Israelis regard their adversaries as Amalek either in reality or in symbolism. [106], The Gog and Magog are not only human flesh-eaters, but illustrated as men "a notably beaked nose" in examples such as the "Sawley map", an important example of mappa mundi. The Levant objective falls under the general Islamic ideology of a world-wide caliphate, link. These are some of Israel's future invaders, Turkey will take part in a war against Israel, Some see Russia leading an Arab war against Israel, Israel's invaders will be destroyed on the mountains of Israel. That stands today. We will fight them wherever we can on the ground, underground, and if we have airplanes, we will fight them from the skies. Israels King David asked a similar question. Thankfully, according to Bible prophecy, such disputes will be short-lived as this age rapidly comes to a close. Image: Eli E. Hertz. When they do break through, they will be so numerous that, "Their vanguard is in Syria and their rear in Khorasan". In 1915 there were just 83,000 Jews in Palestine (modern Israel) but this increased to over 6 million Jews by 2015, corresponding to an amazing 7400% increase! That said, an alternative and more favoured location of Magog is a region north and east of the Black Sea and in the area surrounding the Caspian Sea. As traveler and Friar Riccoldo da Monte di Croce put it in c. 1291, "They say themselves that they are descended from Gog and Magog: and on this account they are called Mogoli, as if from a corruption of Magogoli". According to Sahih Muslim, the Prophet said: Some scholars further attempt to relate the last portion of the interpretation of Yajuj and Majuj to the Lake of Tiberias, currently known as the Sea of Galilee, the Earth's lowest freshwater lake, and the Dead Sea. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. This was a city in southern Spain. Whilst the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must play a part in the war, prophecy implies that they receive supernatural help. It appears that we currently nearing the end of approximately 6,000 years of human government and the start of 1,000 years of peace on the earth the Millennial Age when Christ rules the earth (Zech 14.9). Yet we tend to treat Israel like a leper on the international scene, merely for defending herself, and threatening her with academic boycotts if she builds a separation wall that has so far reduced suicide bombings by 95% over three years. Put simply, todays church is often blind to her Jewish roots. More , Jerusalem Old City at Dawn. Currently, Israel has strong support from some western NGOs like Freedom House. [q] Routed by Alexander, they escaped through a defile in the mountains of Tus (or Turs),[r] and were sealed by the wall erected there, to last until the advent of the Antichrist. 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. Clearly, this is not true of present-day Israel. History confirms the reality of such statements. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 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. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husbands will, but born of God. Image: truthnet. and if anyone takes away from or distorts the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away [from that one] his share from the tree of life and from the holy city (new Jerusalem), which are written in this book. [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. Right at the beginning we read a mystery, namely, that the God of the Bible reproduces His kind. Israels climate change is certain since her God is faithful to His promises. 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. In the course of researching my latest book on the Second World War, I recently visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. This mass migration is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy that towards the end of this age and just before Christ returns, God will call the children of Israel out of the nations and once more put them in their own land: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and bring them into their own land (Ezek 37.21). Nothing has changed, and today Islamic leaders proudly boast of their coming destruction of the Jewish nation, Israel. So here Jesus was referring to a time dispensation rather than to the literal end of 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! [146] Reinterpretation did not generally continue after Classical times, but the needs of the modern world have produced a new body of apocalyptic literature in which Gog and Magog are identified as Communist Russia and China. This spirit of hatred against the Jews exists today and Irans leaders insist that Israel must be wiped off the map as foretold in Psalm 83 verse 4. [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. He agrees to build it for them, but warns that when the time comes (Last Age), Allah will remove the barrier. Amazing! This question is only meaningful in a spiritual (rather than secular) context. Clearly, on this analysis, it seems that Turkey is directly involved in the war against Israel. The Hebrew word Yehudi (Jew) originated from the name Judah (2 Kings 16.6). It seems that mortality was the consequence of eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It also appears that some of the Hebrew festivals are reinstated, as in the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech 14.16). Since Israels establishment in 1948, the country has almost tripled the territory used for farming and production has multiplied 16 times. 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. More , Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us [Golda Meir, 1957], From my childhood, I have believed Jews and Arabs can live together, and I believe now they should live together. In the hands of Early Christian writers they became apocalyptic hordes. Such a fate of the invaders is suggested in Zech 14.12. Between 1955 and 2013 there were 77 UN resolutions against Israel, and just one against the Palestinians, link. And when Jesus came He wept for His people for He knew they were going to suffer and be dispersed amongst the nations. 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). 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. 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