Try reading Ezekiel 38. God is not done with Israel yet
Try reading Ezekiel 38. God is not done with Israel yet
I have practically memorized Ezekiel 38, and if you have read commentaries and sermon notes on those passages for the last several centuries, you would quickly note that the Futurist's interpretation is not found until the last century. IOW, the Futurist's view is unorthodox, and demonstrably heretical - it is about as authentic and doctrinally harmonious as Mormonism or the faith system of the Jehovah Witness.
If you studied Issac Newton's work, or that of any of the Historisists, you would note that the argument is between it being fulfilled in Cambyses, king of Persia, or in Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria - both centuries before the incarnation of our LORD - not yet future battle.
Though the passages fit these scenarios far better than some imaginary future battle with literal swords and spears (as we are seeing a nuclear Iran - a very far cry from horses, chariots and archers), the Futurist robs herself from the comfort of knowing that God's care is not isolated to a demographic that hates him, has disobeyed the law for thousands of years, and actively works to destroy the Church, but that every generation of those of like faith of Abraham can enjoy the knowledge that the enemies of God (which especially includes those who war against the Church) will, in effect, eat themselves when it seems that the time is most bleak.
I think an excellent picture of a pre-fulfilment of this is found in the narrative of Gideon and the three hundred (a type of the "remnant") in Judges 7.
If you want to believe in a Future cosmic Star Wars intervention that goes against the Gospel and mocks the words of the Prophets, do so at your own loss.