I did a basic look up here. Its pretty interdasting.
The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the "end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world. Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah. One view within Christianity is more starkly apocalyptic, making Gog and Magog allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation.
Throughout the Middle Ages, they were variously identified as the Vikings, Huns, Khazars, Mongols or other nomads, or even the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Some contemporary Muslim historians and geographers regarded the Vikings as the emergence of Gog and Magog.
Throughout the Middle Ages, they were variously identified as the Vikings, Huns, Khazars, Mongols or other nomads, or even the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
And that is why ascribing our often mistaken beliefs on to others is not going to make any difference in the end.
People have been trying to make every major event out to be the Biblical end of days, it happens constantly with any major shifts in the world, and it has not happened yet.
You cannot successfully or consistently apply temporal meanings to divine revelation. Divine revelation first and foremost refers to inner spiritual movement within the soul as it approaches the divine presence. For more info look into the great mass of hidden writings of christian mystics and early church fathers.
I did a basic look up here. Its pretty interdasting.
And that is why ascribing our often mistaken beliefs on to others is not going to make any difference in the end.
People have been trying to make every major event out to be the Biblical end of days, it happens constantly with any major shifts in the world, and it has not happened yet.
You cannot successfully or consistently apply temporal meanings to divine revelation. Divine revelation first and foremost refers to inner spiritual movement within the soul as it approaches the divine presence. For more info look into the great mass of hidden writings of christian mystics and early church fathers.