“It is not for your
sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which
you have profaned among the nations where you went. I will vindicate the holiness of My great
name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst. Then the nations will know
that I am the Lord.” Declares the Lord God, “when I prove Myself holy among you
in their sight” (Ezek. 36:22b-23).
Hey Gang: Throughout
my eighty- three years on this earth I have heard Gog and Magog preached many
times, often at prophecy related conferences, as the next great event facing
Israel; the one that will kick the final days of earth, as we know it, into
effect.
For some reason, most pulpits are silent in what God said
through Jesus, the disciples and the prophets of old -even though one fourth to
one third of the Bible is prophetic.
Jesus said, “I tell you these things before they happen so that when they
do happen you will believe that I am He”
(John 13:19; 14:29; 16:4). It seems very strange to me that every
pastor of the land is not including the Prophetic Word - in this day when
darkness is covering the earth and the prophets are speaking loud and clear the
Words of Jesus, “One will be taken and one will be left”.
Getting back to the subject, Gog and Magog as the next great
event in the history of the last day.
Several of the well- known prophecy gurus of our day appear to be firm
believers in this hypothesis. I in no
way consider myself to be a prophecy guru, but have done considerable reading
and studying on the subject and I disagree.
My question has always been not who is involved in that
battle, but rather who is not! Ezekiel
38 tells me Gog of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal are involved. Also involved is Persia (which we know as
Iran), Ethiopia, Put, Gomer with all its troops and Beth-togarmah from the
remote parts of the North with all its troops.
As I look at the Middle East map, I find the tents of Edom,
[Southern Jordan]; the Ishmaelites [Saudi Arabia]; Moab [Central Jordan]; and
the Hagrites [Egypt]; Gebal [Northern Lebanon]; Ammon [Northern Jordan], and
Amalek [Sinai]; Philistia [Gaza Strip] with the inhabitants of Tyre [Southern
Lebanon, Assyria [Syria] also has
joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot [Moab and Ammon above] (Psalm 83:2-8) all touch Israel’s Borders.
All of these nations butt up against Israel and all of these
nations have a common denominator- they hate Israel and the Jews and do not
want them eliminated from the land by the boot ,but rather through completion
of what Hitler began in his sadistic use of the Third Reich. “They
have said, “Come, and, let us wipe them out as a nation. That the name of Israel be remember no more”
(vs. 4).
I believe the Psalmist laid the groundwork for why these
nations were not mentioned in the Gog-Magog war. “Let
them be ashamed and dismayed forever, And let them be humiliated PERISH”
(VS. 17). They are no more.
Bill Salus, in his book Isralestine wrote the
following comments pertaining to Psalm 83. “Asaph wrote this Psalm when the nation of
Israel was experiencing the blessing of Abrahamic Covenant in an unprecedented
manner; they were a people of prominence entering a period of prosperity and
residing in their own land under the leadership of their God-ordained king
David.
As a people, their focus was on the growth of the nation,
and building God His first house of worship on Earth, (the Jewish Temple). Unexpectedly,
Asaph introduces a futuristic threat to the Covenant God made with their patriarchs, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, – a warning so severe that the survival of the thriving
nation could be in question.
Is there a more perfect description of what is happening in
Israel at this very moment than verse two through 5 in Psalm 83? “For
behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their
head. They have taken crafty counsel
against Your people. And consulted
together against Your shelter dons. They have said, “Come, let us cut them off from
being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Would you say that the Middle East is a tinder box waiting
for some fool too lite the fuse? Hello
UN! And is there not more than a few fools willing to lite the fuse. I wonder how long Israel will put up with the
constant barrage of threats from those neighbor nations, and from all of the
world, for that matter. How long will
they sit idly by, as Iran openly builds a nuclear force and makes no bones
about it. Their montra: calling Israel, number one on their hit list the Little Satan,
followed closely by America, the Big Satan.
On one trip to Israel there was a very popular T shirt printed,
“Don’t worry America, Israel will protect
you!” With what our President has
done to our military - and congress has allowed like silent pussy cats- I am so
very thankful that Israel is there to protect us. Would I be surprised to wake up one of these
days and hear that Bibi Netanyahu and his defense minister lost patience and
released the Israel Defense Forces to do what they have known since becoming a
nation? Was hangs over their Nation like the clouds in the heavens.
Our leaders may be impressed with Iran’s bellicose posturing
and threatening, all who will listen, with the use of their new toys, missiles
and soon to come on board, atomic weapons, but Israel is not. There is a very eye-opening and interested
prophecy in Jeremiah 34-39 pertaining to this very arrogant and bellicose
nation. Elam is the western portion of
Iran and is the location of most of Iran’s atomic infrastructure.
It is reported that their oldest Atomic plant, which
provides a huge amount of their power, sits on a seismic area. Some have called it the most unstable place
in the world and could erupt at any time.
Jeremiah 49:38 gives fair warning: “Thus
says the Lord of Hosts; The finest of their might. I will bring upon Elam the four winds from
the four ends of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds from the
four ends of heaven, and will scatter them to all these winds; And there will
be no nation. To which the outcasts of
Elan will not go.”
There is another prophecy, that I believe directly points to
a coming event in Israel,that we should be aware of and watching for: Isaiah 17:1
“The oracle concerning
Damascus. Behold, Damascus is about to
be removed from being a city and will become a fallen ruin”. In verse 3 we read “The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and sovereignty from
Damascus.”
There is a fourth deep concern on the part of Israel: I believe this tie-bars with the removal of
Damascus as a city. It is believed by
many that when Syria was pressured to give up their chemical weapons, they did
so, to a small degree; it is also believed that, if Assad begins to lose
control and sees that he is going to go the way of Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, and
Kaddafi, he will suddenly find those and use them towards Israel.
Now several points on
this issue that I believe are very feasible: first, if Assad fires one chemical
missile into Israel, I believe Israel will retaliate with their Sampson effect.
(atomic weapons). Most every major
Islamist terrorist organization is headquartered in Damascus, the longest
continuously inhabited city in world history. A single strike of a relatively
low-yield nuclear weapon could do the job in a single flight of an Israeli
fighter-bomber. All the heads of the terrorists’ hydra-headed serpent could be
lopped off in that single blow. That would
certainly set the table for Israel’s victory in the fulfillment of the Psalm 83
prophecy.
Well, folks there is so much happening so fast. So we are going to go to Israel and see for
ourselves.
Blessing,
Gramps
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