A rather meaningless phrase in the context of armies on horses with shields and swords. One needs a rather vivid imagination coupled with poor analytical skills to see Ezekiel 38 being carried out "to the letter" in our own day.
"Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, ..."
None of these peoples or places exist today, except in the imagination of some futurists. There is no army of Sheba to come against Israel.
"Every man's sword will be against his brother."
"Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years."
How do you see this fulfilled "to the letter"? Tell us plainly without twisting the Scripture.
Assaults seem to multiply and disburse quite plentiful enough from . . . certain . . . TULIP planted regions . . . as is.
I don't know of any of the better modern prophecy sorts; end times sorts who twist the basic Scriptures much at all. They certainly don't AS MUCH and most certainly NOT MORE than the TULIP organizations do.
But, in terms of Scriptural prophecies still pending, much is still coded; through a glass darkly; obscure; oblique--and likely to remain somewhat so until fulfillment makes things crystal clear.
Nevertheless, God has a hobby, passion, affinity, attraction for, to literal fulfillments--often to the nth detail--of His Scriptures.
The one about Israel becoming a nation again IN A DAY comes readily to mind--as it did quite specifically and quite literally at the UN in 1948. Until then, the "in a day" seemed like a highly improbable literal specific.
Not to God--who cares not one whit about doctrines of man; doctrines of demons, private interpretations and the like.
Fancy seeing you around here....
Hey, what happend to the guy in the next office? His clothes are piled on his chair and he's gone? And what are this tiny little pieces of gold on the floor.