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“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, [toward] the land of
Magog, the prince, the head of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him.” (Ezekiel
38:2)
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
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Published July 19, 2015
Will The Treaty With Iran Lead To The Biblical War Of Gog And Magog?
Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu has called the recent permanent Iran nuclear deal as “a bad mistake of historic proportions,” slamming western powers for
capitulating to Iran. Is this agreement with the Islamic Republic the beginning
of the War of Gog and Magog?
The Bible mentions
Gog, the leader of a nation called Magog, in Ezekiel, chapter 38. But who is
Gog and what modern country is Magog?
Just before his
passing in 1995, Rav Levi Sa’adia Nachmani, a mystical rabbi from Israel who
accurately predicted the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973,
clearly stated in this video,
that Korea is Magog.
End of Days blogger
Menachem Robinson consistently states in his blog The
Absolute Truth that Gog is Former US President George Bush whom he calls “the
evil Gog Bush” and Magog is the United States.
A few months ago,
Lisa Haven, writing for the Before It’s News website, stated that “Russia is
Magog and Gog is their leader.” Russia
as Magog is the consensus of many Christian theologians as the bible says it is
the great country of the north. Moscow
is nearly do north of Jerusalem.
As the End of Days
advances, whichever scenario proves true, the recent nuclear agreement with
Iran has Israel supporters worried about the fate of the Holy Land in the War
of Gog and Magog.
Speaking earlier this
year from Lakewood, NJ, Rabbi Mendel Kessin predicted that, after Obama leaves office,
America will elect a strongly pro-Israel president and that America and Israel
will join together in the War of Gog and Magog to fight ISIS and Iran.
Will ISIS and Iran,
fighting the War of Gog and Magog, ultimately destroy the Land of Israel? Not
according to Biblical prophecies and Jewish sources. In fact, there is plenty
of documentation that suggest that Israel will be the safest place in the world
during the War of Gog and Magog.
Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a mystical rabbi living in Southern Israel, writes a weekly
column about a spiritual perspective on world events. His Hebrew newsletter is
distributed in synagogues throughout Israel.
An English translation
of his message from a few weeks ago notes, “Iran
doesn’t care about anything else but being a respected country in the world, a nuclear
power. It is deathly afraid of Israel and does not mess with Israel
directly, only indirectly.”
Earlier last month,
another blogger, Hezbos In YOUR Backyard, quoted Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the powerful and
universally respected leader of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement who
passed away in 1994, as saying “This
world war of Gog and Magog cannot impinge on Jewish life.”
In this
video, Rabbi Schneerson, speaking in
Yiddish, also “says that what happens regarding Jerusalem and Israel is indeed
only happening ‘around’ Jerusalem (but not ‘in’ Jerusalem).” The implication is
that Jerusalem will be spared the pangs of war.
From a Jewish
perspective, the Bible does not give us enough information to determine the
true identity of Gog and Magog. We also don’t know for certain whether the War
of Gog and Magog will be a physical war as we understand the term or whether it
will be a spiritual battle. However, according to Jewish sources, we can look
forward to the ultimate defeat of Gog.
Rabbi Yechiel
Weitzman, in his book “The
Ishmaelite Exile”, predicts a positive conclusion to the War of Gog and Magog that
Bible believers can cling to. “If
we contemplate our sages’ words, we will realize that the feature
characteristic of Gog is his war against belief in God. This being the case,
his downfall will come about through supernatural plagues that will force
everyone to recognize God, and all will proclaim, ‘God is One, and His name is
One.’”
THE BOTTOM LINE: Whatever
definitive flavor of Biblical truth one believes -- it will likely be at least
a little different from all of them. I
personally don’t believe that God is now controlling all the details leading up
to the time he will ultimately take control.
The reason that Gods prophecy is
so perfectly coming to fruition is that He has already seen the movie, He has
foreknowledge of everything that will take place. Just as God did not control what was taking
place before the time of the great flood he lets us make our own stupid
mistakes an fall into moral decay. But finally He took control and destroyed
the world.
This is why one must not run wild
with the truth that God is in control to the point of apathy and do nothing
whatsoever to influence what is going on around us. God is not in the details He is in the big
picture the final outcome will be Gods will.
We are responsible for the details.
God has given us our own will,
our own mind. Moreover He lets us use it to bring about our own desires,, which
usually leads to disaster, or’ we can choose the road that will lead us to
alignment with the will of God.
So between now and when God takes
control we can choose the road we take, if we apathetically choose to do
nothing then the road will be chosen for us by the enemy.
Whether we are subjected to the whims
of the enemy, or the protection of God, is up to us.
I believe that because America
has turned away from the will of God and we are doing nothing to change our
course we are left to the mercy of the enemy, and trust me the enemy has no
mercy.
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence
of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt." - John
P. Curran
Then if my people, who are called by my
name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will
forgive their sin and will heal their land. - II Chronicles 7:14. Emphasis mine
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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