[107] Gog and Magog caricaturised as figures with hooked noses on a miniature depicting their attack of the Holy City, found in a manuscript of the Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman. 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. NO: The terms Jerusalem and Zion do not even appear in the Quran, and Mohammad never visited Jerusalem in person. [42], Two chapters of the Quran, Al Kahf and Al-Anbiya, discuss Gog and Magog. [5] Some contemporary Muslim historians and geographers regarded the Vikings as the emergence of Gog and Magog. Bible prophecy describes how the increasing political bias of western nations, and the increasing aggression of Arab-Muslim nations finally leads to another major war against Israel. All of Jerusalem was mandated to be part of the Jewish homeland under the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and so Israels sovereignty over all of Jerusalem is well-founded. Despite the intervention of the God of Israel to protect her, two end-time wars against Israel must surely take their toll? I appreciate all your work on the subject and the accurate rendition of bible prophecy joined by current events great job and thanks. In biblical terminology this contract between God and Israel is often referred to as the Mosaic Covenant. And the Negev desert has an almost unlimited underground supply of brackish water, which is being exploited for agricultural irrigation. [17], The Book of Ezekiel records a series of visions received by the prophet Ezekiel, a priest of Solomon's Temple, who was among the captives 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). 2425, Bruno Dumzil, master of Conference at Paris XNanterre, Normalien, aggregated history, author of conversion and freedom in the barbarian kingdoms. The book of Esther tells how a Jewish girl became the queen of Persia and how God used her to save her people (the Jews) from a plot to destroy them. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Look! 8The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. Map 1: Possible location of Magog, Meshech, Tubal and Gomer (Holman Bible Atlas). Oil and gas fields in grey. // ]]>. Both Jerome and Josephus claimed that Magog is a general designation for the many Scythian tribes of the north, whilst Philo (1st century) identifies Magog with the southern Russia area, link. Over the past 100 years the nation and people of Israel have come to prominence on the world scene. 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. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. Prophecy indicates that there will be several major wars against Israel in the near future, just before Christ returns to rule the earth as King (Zech 14.9). The sons of Joel were Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, Ezekiel 38:2-11. Do not do anything to him. Prophecy paints a picture of a world at peace (no war) with Jerusalem (Zion) as the focal point since Christ dwells there. [138], In the Borgia map, a copper-engraved world map probably produced in Southern Germany c.1430, the most eastern part contains two fortified regions depicting Gog and Magog, with the following Latin inscriptions:[126], The Persian king Artaxerxes (either Artaxerxes I or Artaxerxes II, appearing in the Book of Ezra 7) was commonly confused in Medieval Europe with the Neo-Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser V, who according to 2 Kings 17 drove the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel into exile. 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. [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], Wikimedia Commons. / Foter / Public Domain Mark 1.0, Burning mountain: credit: DanDawson / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA. Why did the Creator of the universe give man the mandate to procreate and proliferate? [52] Somewhat later the 14th-century traveller Ibn Battuta reported that the wall was sixty days' travel from the city of Zeitun, which is on the coast of China; the translator notes that Ibn Battuta has confused the Great Wall of China with that built by Dhul-Qarnayn. 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. But I will chasten you justly and will by no means leave you unpunished (Jer 30.11). [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. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords II, the West Bank was divided into three areas (A, B, and C) and within these areas the Palestinian and Israeli authorities have different levels of control. Ethiopia was inhabited by Hams son Cush. new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en', layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE}, 'google_translate_element'); What we do know is that the psalm speaks of a confederacy against Israel with the aim of eliminating Israel: They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more they form a confederacy against You (Ps 83.4,5), Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it [Hamas Charter, 1988] Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be eliminated [President of Iran, 2012]. Also "barbarous nations", "savage tribes". [144] For the most fervent, the countdown to Armageddon began with the return of the Jews to Israel, followed quickly by further signs pointing to the nearness of the final battle nuclear weapons, European integration, Israel's reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967, and America's wars in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. THEY ASSUME THERE IS A PALESTINIAN LAND Evidence from the Tanach (the Hebrew Bible), the New Testament, historians like Josephus, and archaeology all testify to the existence of a huge, impressive Temple in Jerusalem. The population of the United Kingdom of 63 million is nine times that of Israel. Given the close correspondence of Philistia (Gaza) with Hamas, Tyre (Lebanon) with Hezbollah, and the Levant (Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, Tyre, Moab and (northern) Assyria) with ISIS, then Psalm 83 does indeed appear to foresee an end-time Arab-Islamic invasion of Israel. The 1922 League of Nations sub-division. The Septuagint reads "Gog" instead of "Agag" in Numbers 24:7. The oldest manuscript is recension . What are the biblical roles of national Israel and the church today? The Green line was an armistice line drawn up after the 1948-49 war under the auspices of the UN and it was intended to be temporary. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) This mysterious kingdom, which has sculpted our modern world to an astounding (and alarming) degree, once occupied an immense land area of over a million square miles extending from western Hungary/Austria eastward to the Aural Sea, north to the Upper Volga, and its southern region extending to the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Moreover, as a direct result of Article 80, the UN cannot transfer these rights over any part of Palestine (vested as they are in the Jewish People) to any non-Jewish entity, such as the Palestinian Authority. It explains the chosen paths of Hitler and Wilberforce for example; one man destroyed humanity whilst the other helped humanity. Millennial Jerusalem will also be called the LORD is there (Ezek 48.35) and nations will go up from year to year to worship the LORD (Zech 14.16). The West Bank refers to an area bounded by the so-called Green Line and the west bank of the River Jordan (SEE MAP). 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. I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. See https://www.factsaboutisrael.uk/ten-lost-tribes-of-israel/. [e][21] Of Gog's allies, Meshech and Tubal were 7th-century BC kingdoms in central Anatolia north of Israel, Persia towards the east, Cush (Ethiopia) and Put (Libya) to the south; Gomer is the Cimmerians, a nomadic people north of the Black Sea, and Beth Togarmah was on the border of Tubal. [h][80] By the time of Josephus, Alexander was already a Jewish folk hero. 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. In the book of Ezekiel, the pagan Magog people live "north of the World", and metaphorically represent . 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. He refers to Gog of the land of Magog and so some refer to this as the gog-magog war. Yes; that is what the Bible says. In the course of researching my latest book on the Second World War, I recently visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. Arab governments rejected Israels offer to repatriate 100,000 Arab refugees, and the offer of UN money for the refugees. The facts show that Israels role in Arab-Israeli conflicts has always been defensive in response to Arab aggression. 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). So isnt something wrong here? The Levant objective falls under the general Islamic ideology of a world-wide caliphate, link. Today it is common to refer to Abrahams descendants, or anyone who practices Judaism as Jews. It is claimed that the BDS campaign has a much wider objective; namely, the elimination of the Jewish State and should be stopped, link. 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. 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". If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. When it comes to Israel and Jordan, these nations are currently tethered by a peace treaty but the current cold peace could easily turn into a deep freeze, link. In the last days God promises Israel: I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing (Ezek 34.26) Abrahams wife Sarah bore him a son, Isaac, and Isaacs wife Rebecca bore Jacob. Israel also reuses treated sewage, and computerized drip irrigation and micro-sprinklers for agriculture. 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. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war [Benjamin Netanyahu, 2006], We must constantly repeat that the root of the conflict is the very existence of the State of Israel [Benjamin Netanyahu, 2012], The nuclear deal with Iran does not block Irans path to the bomb, it paves Irans path to the bomb [Benjamin Netanyahu, August 2015]. 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