Bible Study: Gog/Magog War

Gog and Magog War

If the war Israel is fighting with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon is the Psalm 83 war, it will spread to other countries neighboring Israel— Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. All the Arab Muslims countries are in this inner circle. Psalm 83 prophesies that Israel will defeat these countries and it possibly grows in size to include the land that was promised to Abraham.

Now we come to the second prophetic war — the War of Gog and Magog. This war includes Islamic nations beyond the ring of Arab nations of the Psalm 83 war. It is prophesied to “possibly” be led by Russia, the former Soviet Islamic states, Turkey, Iran and other Islamic nations across northern Africa.

Ezekiel 38:3-6: ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you. 

Ezekiel 38:8: After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.

This happens in the latter years! 

Ezekiel 38:10-12: ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— 12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited.

·Perhaps Israel feels safe after defeating their Arab Islamic enemies in Psalm 83 war. 

Now we come to the second prophetic war — the War of Gog and Magog. This war includes Islamic nations beyond the ring of Arab nations of the Psalm 83 war. It is prophesied to “possibly” be led by Russia, the former Soviet Islamic states, Turkey, Iran and other Islamic nations across northern Africa.

Ezekiel 38:10-12: ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— 12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited.

·Perhaps Israel feels safe after defeating their Arab Islamic enemies in Psalm 83 war.

Ezekiel 38:16:  You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”

Ezekiel 38:21-23: I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God.

 “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.  And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” 

Ezekiel 39:4-5,8: You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God. “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. 

Ezekiel 39:9,11-12: “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley Hamon Gog. For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:27-29: When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, 28 then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer. 29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”

· Some think the Gog and Magog war is Armageddon, what do you think?

· Let’s see another reference to God and Magog after the Millennial reign of Christ.

Revelation 20:7-10: Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

· Gog and Magog are mentioned again after the thousand years of the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ.

· Does the use of the names of Gog and Magog again mean that some of the same peoples that came against Israel in Ezekiel 38 will come against our King after a thousand years or are they the same war?

· Does this mean that the Gog and Magog war doesn’t happen in pre-Tribulation?

· Or are these two separate wars?

· Why is Satan mentioned in Revelation and not in Ezekiel?

· The dead in Ezekiel are buried for seven months, what happens to the dead in Revelation?

· What’s God’s purpose for bringing the battle in Ezekiel compared to the battle in Revelation?

· Does the seven years to burn the weapons in Ezekiel have any significance to the comparison?