I find this quote very interesting and timely. The alliances mentioned in the passages from Ezekiel 38-40 and are in place. What is described sounds very much like some sort of nuclear confrontation. Many Christians feel this scenario could very well happen soon. There are also passages in Isaiah that speak of the total destruction of Damascus and that it will be a ruinous heap and never to be inhabited again. This certainly hasn't happened yet. It also says in Isaiah that God gave us these prophecies so that we may know that it was from Him. It is judgement on a sinful unrepentant world.
From Ezekiel 38:
11 "I will go up against a land of open villages and attack the peaceful people who are living in security, all of them living without walls, having neither bars nor gates,
12 to plunder and pillage, turning my hand against the ruins that were repeopled and against a people gathered from the nations, a people concerned with cattle and goods, who dwell at the navel of the earth."
Sadly, this does not sound like Israel today. Clearly, Ezekiel spoke of an overwhelming attack against a quiet, peaceful Israel. Peace has to happen first. And THAT has not happened in the 57 years that Israel has existed.
Ezekiel 38 isn't ready to happen....yet.