Our world seems to be on a downhill slide to the events prophesied in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. Just a few resent news stories:
“Putin asked Assad to step down”
Russia setting up a proxy in Syria?
“When Russia's money runs out, the 'real trouble starts'”
Ezekiel 38:12, Russia to “take a spoil?”
Prior to the Gog Magog war I would expect two major prophecies to be fulfilled. Isaiah 17:1, “The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” In error I expected the destruction of Damascus by Israel three years ago when the Damascus military was mixing chemical weapons that had a 60 day shelf life.
Psalm 83:13-15, “O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.” So “stubble before the wind.” The destruction of Damascus?
Psalm 83 is predictive of a future war between Israel and the “inner circle,” her enemies that border her. Bill Salus has written and held seminars on this subject.
Israel will defeat the inner circle of her enemies and then dwell in peace. In peace until the Gog and Magog war. The Gog Magog War will involve Israel’s “outer ring” countries, those not sharing a border with Israel. Here God will supernaturally defeat Israel’s “outer ring” enemies.
There is great interest in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 even by people who know little of Bible prophecies because Ezekiel seems to describe a nuclear confrontation. Thousands of years ago the procedure for identifying hazardous radiation materials and the proper disposal of same was dictated by God Himself.
God is jealous for His Holy Name. In chapter 36, famously known as the Valley of dry bones, God breaths life into Israel and brings her back to her covenant land for His namesake.
Ezekiel 36:23, “And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.” [KJV]
Sanctify is a verb that includes To consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy and set apart. The heathen refers to the Nations (non-Hebrew) and also to a swarm of locusts. [Strong’s]
God keeps His Unconditional Covenants with his chosen people, else He would be a capricious God. With thanks to CM, these include:
The Abrahamic Covenant: Genesis 1 7:7-8
The Land Covenant: Genesis 15:18-21
The Davidic Covenant: 2 Samuel 7:16
The Everlasting Covenant: Genesis 26:3-4
As an aside, God is jealous of His name as Creator. Romans Chapter 1 shares the price paid for denying God as Creator and worshiping at the altar of the theory of evolution. I remember reading in the mid-80s of some dreaded unknown disease spreading across the world. Aids, the price of Homosexuality, was ultimately traced back to an individual man who was a steward on international flights.
Romans 1:25-26, “25, Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26, For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature” [KJV]
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