- Ezekiel 39:8-22
- 8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD;
this is the day whereof I have spoken.- 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, F183 and the spears,
and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests;
for they shall burn the weapons with fire:
and they shall spoil those that spoiled them,
and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.- and it shall stop the noses of the passengers:
and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude:
and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them,
that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them;
14 And they shall sever out men F184 of continual employment,
passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth,
to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone,
then shall he set up F185 a sign by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. F186 Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man,
thus saith the Lord GOD;- Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come;
gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you,
even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
of rams, of lambs, and of goats, F187 of bullocks,
all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken,
of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table
with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
and all the heathen shall see my judgment
that I have executed, and my hand
that I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward. - Joshua 23:11-16
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11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, F73
that ye love the LORD your God.12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations,
even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 13 Know for a certainty
that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you;
but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes,
until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass,
that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you;
so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things,
until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you,
and have gone and served other gods,
and bowed yourselves to them;
then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
He will repay.Here's something that might give you comfort. I believe it talks about the end of Muslims.
I could be wrong, put picking up dead Muslims for more than seven months sounds like ... what our Lord will have us do.
The Koran is toilet paper ( MIDEAST STRIFE—Will It Lead To ARMAGEDDON? ).
Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible; Chapter 38, Verse 1-13 sheds some light on this.
- The critical expositors have enough to do here to enquire out Gog and Magog. We cannot pretend either to add to their observations or to determine their controversies. Gog seems to be the king and Magog the kingdom; so that Gog and Magog are like Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Some think they find them afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and Russia. Others think they find them nearer the land of Israel, in Syria, and Asia the Less.
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- :E. W. Bullinger's notes of Ezekiel 38 Verse 2 follows:
- Gog. A symbolical name for the nations north and east of Palestine, or the nations as a whole. That the prophecies of chapters 38 and 39 are still future is clear from 38: 8, 14, 16; 39: 9, 25, 26; as Israel will have then already been "gathered", and complete restoration enjoyed immediately following the destruction of Gog: "Now will bring again the captivity of Israel". It must therefore proceed the Millennium; and on that account must be distinguished from Rev. 20: 8, 10; and may therefore perhaps be identified with Rev. 16: 14; 17: 14; 19: 17-21. Compare Matt. 24: 14-30. Zech. 12: 1-4. It marks the climax of Satan's effort to destroy Israel from being a People, and clearly belongs to the close of a yet future kingdom age. ( See 38: 8 & c. , above ). The name is connected with "Og" ( Deut. 3: 1-13 ), and "Agag" ( Num. 24: 7 ), where the Samaritian Pent. reads "Agog", and the Sept. reads "Gog". Here the Arabic reads "Agag". The historical interpretation of this prophecy is confessedly impossible.
the land of Magog = of the land of the Magog. If "Gog" denotes and symbolizes all that is powerful, gigantic, and proud , then "Magog" is symbolical of the same lands and peoples. Magog was a son of Japheth.
the chief prince = the head, or leader of Rosh. Heb Ro'sh, which may point to Russia.
Meshech and Tubal The Sept. renders these Mesoch and Thobel; i.e. the Moschi and Tibareni, occupying regions about the Caucasus. All these are nations distant from Palestine: not near nations, or nations connected by consanguinity. They were also descended from Japheth ( Gen. 10: 2 ).
Who among use cannot clearly see how this applies to us today?
We ignore the laws of God, pollute His Sabbaths, and we wonder why we have the problems of today. Didn't He tell us " I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror " in Leviticus 26:16 ?
Weren't we told in Deuteronomy 28:20 what would become of us for all the wickedness we do by forsaking GOD? We have been warned!!!!
Prophesy passes in front of our face on TV and we sleep... Our preachers don't teach us what to look for.
An example (I'm a student and I could be wrong):
- Daniel 11:40 - 12:4
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the glorious F88 land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious F89 holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise F90 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
FOOTNOTES: (Chapter 11)
F88: glorious...: or, goodly, etc.: Heb. land of delight, or, ornament
F89: glorious...: or, goodly, etc.: Heb. mountain of delight of holiness
FOOTNOTES:(Chapter 12)
F90: wise: or, teachers
Verse 40 "At the time of the end" ...Isn't this the time just before Christ returns? Notice verse 1 of chapter 12... the resurrection.
. Daniel 11:40 ... "push at"... I see the Sep 11, 2004 World Trade Center as a 'push at' situation. And didn't we "come against him' with almost everything we had?
Look at all the countries we're going into and compare it with verse 41 thru verse 43.
The question is in verse 44... what tidings will trouble us, perhaps 'confirmed nuclear weapons like suit-case bombs' in the hands of terrorist?
But all is NOT well, as we see in verse 45. Who is helping us now, and how long will they remain with us against this religious war?
And notice in verse 4 that the understanding may not be given until the end. Isn't knowledge increasing in leaps with todays' computer assisted study tools?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, I'm speaking as a man, a very concerned man.