And many authorities add that Meshech and Tubal are the names of the Scythian tribes, whose names have been standardized as modern place names. More . Muslims see Mecca as the holiest place in the Islamic world, and so turn their back on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem when praying. [45], The early Muslim traditions were summarised by Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) in two popular works called the Cosmography and the Geography. After this comes the literal end of the world the physical destruction of the present earth through intense heat (2 Pet 3.7,10). Here we find the blessings (fruit) of the symbolic tree of life first mentioned in Genesis 2.9 in the Garden of Eden. But apart from the coastal regions of ancient Syria (e.g. In military terms, this is the South Military District of the Russian Federation the South Strategic Command with their headquarters in Rostov-on-Don (a port on the Black Sea), link. The Jewish National Fund has planted over 250 million trees, which are known to be beneficial to the climate. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. It doesnt say that mans reward is to go permanently to heaven. Persia, Ethiopia (Heb: Cush), and Libya (Heb: Put) are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troopsmany people are with you. This is a truly mind-blowing concept, but that is what the Bible says. 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]. Instead, water is often used as a political weapon, and so authorized wells are not dug and leaks are not repaired. So God could use Abraham for the future and He rewarded him through several unconditional promises. So today Israel is meeting much of its water needs by purifying seawater from the Mediterranean and some 80% of domestic water in Israeli cities comes from desalinated water (the desalination facilities are connected to the NWC). And when Jesus came He wept for His people for He knew they were going to suffer and be dispersed amongst the nations. In the Genesis account of mans creation the Bible speaks of mankind made in Gods image: In Genesis 1:26 She has to preach the good news (the Gospel). 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). So it is very conceivable that Libya could join an Islamic invasion of Israel. So is there a deeper reason for the boycotts? In fact, the Hebrew word cush and its Greek equivalent Ethiopia are used interchangeably throughout the Bible. It is in order. Under Gods call, Abram (later called Abraham) migrated from the city of Ur sometime between 1900 and 1750 BC to Gods appointed land, Canaan (todays Israel). The timing is not clear in scripture but it is generally taken to occur before Armageddon. This is the so-called millennial age on earth, when the whole world is at peace and nations are at peace with Israel. In fact Jewish mystical interpretation (Kabbalah) superstitiously has a method of calculates numbers from Hebrew letters from the words Gog and Magog = 70. 4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestockthe calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. The Bible says God is Spirit but clearly we are flesh and blood. At one point, it was the Turks, who threatened Baghdad and northern Iran;[48] later, when the Mongols destroyed Baghdad in 1258, it was they who were Gog and Magog. "This is the place of My throne" (Ezek 43.7). 15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. 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. This tiny war-ravaged and unpopular nation is predicted to be the ruling power of the future? For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed. But Israel will be at peace with her neighbours in the Millennium! And the Lord God commanded the man, You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.. Required fields are marked *. It explains how mans free will (choice) can be destructive, or constructive. A Pre-Covenant Invasion: In this scenario, the invasion takes place before the revealing of the secular world dictator (the beast of Rev 13.1) and the false ecclesiastical head (the antichrist, Rev 13.11). Abraham!, Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. 4. The blogger writing under the pseudonym, Yankev, reported on several such clues. 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). In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. This is an amazing achievement bearing in mind that Jews comprise less than 0.2% of the worlds population! No longer will there be any curse. It seems that mortality was the consequence of eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Area A is under full control of the Palestinian Authority, Area B is under Palestinian civil control and shared Palestinian and Israeli security control, and Area C (62% of the West Bank) is under full Israeli control. Gog and Magog (/omo/; Hebrew: , Gg -Mgg) appear in the Bible and the Quran as individuals, tribes, or lands. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. 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. Add to this the Hamas objective of replacing the Jewish State with an Islamic caliphate, link, then the two-state solution is clearly impossible! Joseph was to be blessed with precious things from the deep (Heb tehom: sea, abyss) lying beneath (Deut 33.13), Asher was to dip his foot in oil (Deut 34.24) and Zebulun and Issachar were to find treasures hidden in the sand (Deut 33.19). In October 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel (the Yom Kippur War) but were eventually defeated. Rain in the Judean desert. The origin of the term is not clear, this name indicates either a person, or a tribe, or a geographical reality (country or city). Jews have won a total of 41% of all the Nobel Prizes in economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of physics and 19% of chemistry. We will now see that prophecies in Ezekiel confirm this conclusion. But, despite severe losses, a remnant of Israel survives and leads Israel into a time of peace with the world. Israels strongest ally, the US, provides a diplomatic shield for her at the United Nations. Probably. So Jesus gives a final warning: Revelation 22.18,19 Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state, link. 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 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). Satan knows all this and end-time prophecy underscores the attempts by Satan to eliminate Israel: the dragon (Satan) persecuted the woman (Israel) who gave birth to the male child (Christ) (Rev 12.13), This hatred was evident in the holocaust and subsequent wars against Israel, and culminates in all nations turning against Israel at Armageddon (Zech 14.2, Rev 16.16). A common interpretation of the relevant prophecies is that the immediate future for Israel is bleak as nations attempt to eliminate her by war, link. Lets read the incredible test that earned Abraham an incredible reward for his descendants. Twentieth-century scholars have used the term to denote the eschaton in a malleable sense, not necessarily meaning final days, or tied to the Apocalypse. Today it is common to refer to Abrahams descendants, or anyone who practices Judaism as Jews. The world is not even aware of 2 Thes 2 and the church doesnt read as it is but changes it to conform to pet doctrines. Study of prophecy strongly implies that the end of the age and the end of the world are separated by 1,000 years. [1] The meaning of the name Gog remains uncertain, and in any case, the author of the Ezekiel prophecy seems to attach no particular importance to it. This is both dramatic and traumatic, but ends in glory and victory. All this is pretty specific on location and seems to involve principally Arab-Islamic nations in the Middle East. Both invasions are defeated by the God of Israel. But I will chasten you justly and will by no means leave you unpunished (Jer 30.11). Website by Stormhill Media, Map of Gog and Magog. There will also be a great earthquake in Israel (Ezek 38.19). To Abram (Abraham) God promised: I will make you a great nation and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Gen 12.2,3), And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to make a name for Himself (2 Sam 7.23). He agrees to build it for them, but warns that when the time comes (Last Age), Allah will remove the barrier. On the other hand, Psalm 83 verse 6 does imply Arabic aggression. Of His sanctuary near Jerusalem the LORD says: This is the place of My feet, where I shall dwell in the midst of the children of Israel (Ezek 43.7), Millennial life around Jerusalem is described in some detail. The result of such unbiblical teaching is that the institutionalized church takes the worlds view and essentially rejects modern-day Israel, and so pays little attention to end-time prophecy about Israel. The problem is that Israel is now occupying land previously conquered by Islam. She has been on the front line in the War against Terror and has been fighting the Wests battles for it, decades before 9/11 or 7/7 ever happened. The Oxford Bible Atlas identifies Meshech and Tubal as regions in Asia Minor or Turkey, as indicated in Map 1, link. King David conquered Jerusalem in 1052 BC and today, in the Old City of Jerusalem (enlarge image), lies the rock (Mount Moriah) where Abraham offered up Isaac for sacrifice to God around 1800 BC (Gen 22.2). 7The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. The Golan Heights must be involved. Israels neighbours are posed to attack. We all have to analyse our daily lives to see if we are living right for God & Jesus (One True God in the flesh!). At the start of this week the end-time world dictator makes a covenant with Israel: That ruler will have a firm agreement with many people for seven years (Dan 9.27 GNT), This may be a peace covenant, but in reality it is a covenant with hell (Isa 28.11). Politics: Not all Islamic nations appear to be involved, principally Egypt, and probably also Syria (possibly for reasons already discussed), Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cite error: A list-defined reference named "jean-edward-smith" is not used in the content (see the help page). [t][28], Early Christian writers (e.g. Image: Joels Trumpet. The Gentile nations at last acknowledge Jerusalem (Zion) as the Holy City (Isa 52.1): The Gentiles will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn the sons of foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you the sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel (Isa 60.3,10,14). We are closer now than ever before. Future wars against Israel will be different from previous wars. So during the last days a remnant is preserved, albeit through a time of refining and affliction: See, I have refined you I have tested you in the furnace of affliction (Isa 48.10)I will not destroy you completely. The current world situation aligns very well with this prophetic interpretation. It explains the chosen paths of Hitler and Wilberforce for example; one man destroyed humanity whilst the other helped humanity. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. In Genesis chapter 1 we read that God made mankind male and female and blessed them to be fruitful and multiply. 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. The 3rd book of the Sibylline Oracles, for example, which originated in Egyptian Judaism in the middle of the 2nd century BC,[29] changes Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" to "Gog and Magog", links their fate with up to eleven other nations, and places them "in the midst of Aethiopian rivers"; this seems a strange location, but ancient geography did sometimes place Ethiopia next to Persia or even India. [38] The rabbis associated no specific nation or territory with them beyond a location to the north of Israel,[39] but the great Jewish scholar Rashi identified the Christians as their allies and said God would thwart their plan to kill all Israel. In the early 20th century the land of Israel was a mix of many peoples representing some 50 languages and there was no common Arab identity. Whilst the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must play a part in the war, prophecy implies that they receive supernatural help. The real reason for the aggression is spiritual, not political or even humanitarian. Israel is still prospering, with the highest average living standards in the Middle East, the highest density of high-tech start-up companies in the world (high-tech exports c$19bn a year) and a lower Government debt to GDP than the USA or the UK. [109][u] The Byzantine writer Procopius said it was the Huns Alexander had locked out, and a Western monk named Fredegar seems to have Gog and Magog in mind in his description of savage hordes from beyond Alexander's gates who had assisted the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610641) against the Muslim Saracens. A little more It seems very plausible that chapters 38 and 39 in the prophet Ezekiel refer to an invasion of Israel prior to the last battle of this age (the so-called Battle of Armageddon) and that this war involves mainly those Arab-Islamic nations surrounding Israel. Even so, Israeli farmers have come a long way since the Zionist pioneers began clearing rock-strewn fields and draining the swampland. Rather, they fall on the mountains of Israel and in the open field (Ezek 39.4,5). Some claim that Russia is implied by the term Rosh (Ezek 38.2,3 NKJV, NASB). [Ezek 38.22-23]. On the above analysis, the current world scenario, and particularly the Middle East scenario, seems well aligned to prophecy. 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. At the very end of this age prophecy indicates that all nations (Gentile and Islamic) will attempt a final invasion of Israel: I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle (Zech 14.2) Persia was one of the former great empires of the world, ruling 539-331 BC. 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. The Jewish contribution to finance, science, the arts, academia, commerce and industry, literature, philanthropy and politics has been astonishing relative to their tiny numbers. The significant point here is that historians link the Scythian peoples to Magog. But the truth about this powerful spiritual world is blurred, corrupted and buried by spiritual forces of darkness: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Eph 6.12). Why such Jewish genius? 44117. They are coming from all over the world, from wherever they have been scattered amongst the nations. Would they have continued to live and not die? This was an area on the outer edge of the then known civilized world, link, link. The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, Ezekiel 38:2-11. The government is headed by the Prime Minister, who is elected in nationwide elections for a period of four years, and an elected President who has a largely apolitical ceremonial role. As the story recounts, the first humans failed the test and were driven away from Paradise. At the very end of this age 144,000 are drawn from twelve tribes of Israel and sealed for their protection (Rev 7.3,4). Israel also reuses treated sewage, and computerized drip irrigation and micro-sprinklers for agriculture. The atomic constants and the molecular structure of matter were made through Jesus. This means all the Gentiles. This populous of people in Israel now claiming to be the 12 true Tribes is bogus. [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], Wikimedia Commons. (Ezekiel 39:6) The great earthquake (Revelation 16:18) and the 100 pound hailstones (Revelation 16:21) tell of a comet impact. Map 5: And again, Magog is placed in Russia. An EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon exploded over areas north of Israel could disable all modern electronics-based weapons, link, forcing the use of primitive weapons. They are arranged as follows: Ezekiel 38:1-13 - The Lord's anger with Gog and his armies for their attack on Israel during the Millennium. In fact, according to prophecy, Israel receives Gods help to defeat Iran. After the (largely Islamic) Gog-Magog war we read: I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgement which I have executed (Ezek 39.21). Your email address will not be published. Map 1: Possible location of Magog, Meshech, Tubal and Gomer (Holman Bible Atlas). NO! Currently, Israel has strong support from some western NGOs like Freedom House. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. 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