Actually, 1 Chronicles 1-9, the section of codes, mentions the prototypes of both Gog (a Reubenite) and Magog (a Japhethite). This gives a link to the alliance of Iran (Semitic) and Russia (Caucasian). But I should remember Titus 3:9:
Avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels.
While watching for Ezekiel 38-39, pay special attention to the upheavals of nature related to the sixth seal, the cutting of a strong covenant with many in relation to the war, the way in which the land is proposed to be cleansed of its crimes in chapter 39, the confederacies which censure the warriors but do not participate, and the prosperity of Israel that provokes the war.
Ezekial 39/39 is followed directly by a measuring and description of the Temple of Heaven.
So is Revelations 20:8-10.
Ezekial 38/39 describes the people of the unwalled villages, who are at rest, killing the enemies of God for 7 years, after he gathers them under a strong delusion.
Revelations 20:8-10 has satan gathering a multitude against the beloved city before God wipes them out.
There is nothing more delusional than the people that threaten us now. Everything is upside down in the world they inhabit. And they are most certainly at the gate.
Oh, I grant those similarities, thanks. But Ezekiel 39 doesn't say they are killing God's enemies for 7 years, it says their enemies fall in a day (verse 8), they bury them for 7 months, and they burn the weapons for 7 years. The measurements are completely different too; Ezekiel's seems to be on earth.
Are you proposing that in Revelation 20-21, somewhere among the destruction of the army, the throwing down of the devil, the throne judgment, and the new heaven and new earth, we are to shoehorn in the 7 years of burning weapons (or, as you say, killing enemies)? That seems not to fit the flow of the texts and is a weakness of the identification. Gog and Magog represent two past events (1 Chronicles), and can also represent two different future events. But it's not important.
At any rate, we now see Iran poised to attack and if/when they succeed it will be big. Many other current events fit before the biggest endgames. But, if not everything happens immediately after Iran, I wasn't the one moving goalposts.
Actually, 1 Chronicles 1-9, the section of codes, mentions the prototypes of both Gog (a Reubenite) and Magog (a Japhethite). This gives a link to the alliance of Iran (Semitic) and Russia (Caucasian). But I should remember Titus 3:9:
While watching for Ezekiel 38-39, pay special attention to the upheavals of nature related to the sixth seal, the cutting of a strong covenant with many in relation to the war, the way in which the land is proposed to be cleansed of its crimes in chapter 39, the confederacies which censure the warriors but do not participate, and the prosperity of Israel that provokes the war.
Ezekial 39/39 is followed directly by a measuring and description of the Temple of Heaven.
So is Revelations 20:8-10.
Ezekial 38/39 describes the people of the unwalled villages, who are at rest, killing the enemies of God for 7 years, after he gathers them under a strong delusion.
Revelations 20:8-10 has satan gathering a multitude against the beloved city before God wipes them out.
There is nothing more delusional than the people that threaten us now. Everything is upside down in the world they inhabit. And they are most certainly at the gate.
Let the GOOD times roll.
Oh, I grant those similarities, thanks. But Ezekiel 39 doesn't say they are killing God's enemies for 7 years, it says their enemies fall in a day (verse 8), they bury them for 7 months, and they burn the weapons for 7 years. The measurements are completely different too; Ezekiel's seems to be on earth.
Are you proposing that in Revelation 20-21, somewhere among the destruction of the army, the throwing down of the devil, the throne judgment, and the new heaven and new earth, we are to shoehorn in the 7 years of burning weapons (or, as you say, killing enemies)? That seems not to fit the flow of the texts and is a weakness of the identification. Gog and Magog represent two past events (1 Chronicles), and can also represent two different future events. But it's not important.
At any rate, we now see Iran poised to attack and if/when they succeed it will be big. Many other current events fit before the biggest endgames. But, if not everything happens immediately after Iran, I wasn't the one moving goalposts.