PROPHECY
Ezekiel For Today
#10
Chapters 38 to 39
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The prophecy concerning Russia and China -
peoples of the East and even from Africa
CHAPTER 38
FEW understand these chapters of Ezekiel. There are TWO
basic reasons for not correctly understanding these chapters.
First, most miss the fact that Ezekiel has a story flow. It is quite simple.
Israel and Judah are to be punished in destruction, then RESTORED as
one people, being brought back to the Holy Land at the coming of the
Kingdom of God on earth. Then after being restored we have the invasion
of the Holy Land by the kings of the East and their armies.
Secondly, most people and certainly most "scholars" so-
called, will not take the time to study where the modern nations
have come from. And for sure most will NOT ADMIT that most of the
Western world is the very people of the House of Israel.
Are you will to prove all this I've just mentioned, especially that the
nations of North-Western Europe, the British Commonwealth and the
United States of America are INDEED THE VERY PEOPLE OF THE
HOUSE OF ISRAEL? I hope you are! Because it is a fact of recorded
history. The very BEST Website on the Internet to prove this truth is:
BRITAM.ORG
Ezekiel is told to set his face against GOG, the land of
MAGOG, the chief prince of Rosh and Tubal. God is AGAINST them!
Most will freely admit that this prophecy is concerning Russia
and China and other nations of the EAST - Persia (Iran) Cush (not
Ethiopia - who are India, Put (not Libya - West and Central
Africa and other countries of the east of the Euphrates river).
These nations will AFTER THE START OF THE MILLENNIUM,
come against the restored people of Israel and Judah, now back in the
Holy Land. God will turn them back and He personally will DESTROY
THESE ARMIES! It will be people from the North and the East and
even the South West into parts of upper Africa, that will come to
invade Israel in the Holy Land.
IF YOU READ CAREFULLY VERSES 7 TO 16 YOU CAN SEE
WHEN ALL THIS IS TO TAKE PLACE.
It is after many days, IN THE LATTER YEARS; the context will
tell you what the latter years are; in this case it is the beginning years
of the millennium, the latter years of Israel and Judah BEING UNITED
and a land BROUGHT BACK FROM THE SWORD, A LAND THAT IS
GATHERED OUT OF MANY PEOPLE, MANY PEOPLE FROM
DIFFERENT LANDS CALLED FROM THOSE LANDS AND
GATHERED BACK TO THE HOLY LAND, THE VERY MOUNTAINS
OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL. THOSE PEOPLE WILL DWELL
SAFELY ALL OF THEM! (verse 8).
Can it be said that the people now living in the Holy Land are
DWELLING SAFELY? You must have a strange imagination if you
can so claim. The people now in the Holy Land are NOT DWELLING
SAFELY!! This prophecy CANNOT be for some invasion of the Holy
Land by the kings of the East in the last years of this age, as most
so-called "prophets" of prophecy would like you to believe.
There is more clear proof this prophecy is not for a time
that most would have you believe, BEFORE Jesus returns.
Notice it all in verse 11. This invading army is going to a
land with UNWALLED VILLAGES, people who are at REST; to a
people that DWELL SAFELY; without ANY WALLS, HAVING
NEITHER BARS NOR GATES.
This is NOT modern Palestine; this is NOT the Holy Land
today. Why the Jews themselves have BUILT A WALL AROUND
THEMSELVES!! All the people of the Holy Land are NOT at REST,
dwelling SAFELY. They are FIGHTING EACH OTHER! They have
BARS AND GATES AND WALLS AND GUNS AND ROCKETS
POINTING AT EACH OTHER!!
This prophecy is for a day "when my people Israel dwell SAFELY
and you will not know it."
This is for a time when MASS TV AND INTERNET AND NEWS
REPORTING AND VIDEO AND CAMERAS HAVE BEEN BLOWN
TO BITS, GONE, DISAPPEARED, AND COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN NATIONS IS NOT AS IT IS TODAY! After all the events
of the book of Revelation has come on this earth, there will be so great
a MASS DESTRUCTION on the earth, with only a mangled world left
behind, it will indeed be like a wild science-fiction world of a blown-up
earth with rag-tag people enduring a survival that will truly be horrendous
in scope. As Jesus said in His Olivet prophecy of Matthew 24, unless
those days were to be shortened NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED
ALIVE!
Out of it all, Israel and Judah, will be RESTORED to the
Holy Land. Jesus the Messiah will be WITH THEM. David and
the 12 apostles will be raised from the dead, and ruling over the 12
tribes of Israel, under Christ. The peoples of Israel will now be
in FULL AND COMPLETE SAFETY, ABSOLUTE PEACE
AND PROSPERITY, NO WALLS, NO BARS, NO GATES, JUST
PERFECT PEACE AND MIGHTY BLESSINGS OF A LAND AS
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
The nations of the East will have been in a war with the Beast
Power of Europe. Those are the days to be shortened or no flesh would
survive from an all out war between the West and the East. The East
is left desolate in many ways, they will be barely handing on as we say.
It will be a time of DESPERATION! They will, with time, HEAR about
how a people in the Holy Land are PROSPERING, LIVING AT PEACE,
LIVING WITH NO ARMY, NO WEAPONS OF KILLING, NO WALLS
OF ANY KIND FOR PROTECTION, AND THEY WILL BAND
TOGETHER IN AN ARMY OF PEOPLE TO INVADE THIS
PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL LAND. THE PEOPLE OF THE
EAST WILL COME AS A CLOUD TO COVER THE LAND. IT WILL
BE INDEED THE LATTER DAYS OF ENDING ONE AGE AND
MOVING INTO THE NEXT AGE.
Peoples from the North African continent will also hear about the
garden of Eden that the Holy Land has become. When people are in
a desperate state for the basics of survival, such news of a bountiful
land travels quickly, probably through the land of Egypt
(see Zechariah 14).
The movement from one age to the Kingdom age will not all
happen in a short month or so, and will not happen without some
troubles for some people (Zechariah 14). What will be left of the
peoples of the East at the beginning of the millennium will be as
nothing in comparison to what they shall hear is the prosperity
of the people dwelling safely in the Holy Land. The eye of some
people will be on the war-path to invade.
Some looking at this will say it sounds like a people on the
march to invade that have no modern weapons to fight with, so it
cannot be a prophecy for our day. Not so! Such people forget the
context of the world at the end time. Such destruction will have
come, that yes, literally modern weapons of war will have been
blown to bits, most of the cities of the West and East will have
been blown to bits. People will be as nomads, seeking food, and
just barely surviving all the wars and plagues and utter destruction
that has come on the earth in the last 42 months of this age. It will
be for them a survival of the fittest, a bare knuckle fight to live.
When you understand the CONTEXT of the world and end time
prophecy, then what you read here in Ezekiel 38 and 39 will
indeed be a back to basics of fighting to invade another nation.
There will be no nation on earth after the coming of Christ that
will be left with "modern space war machines" to invade another
nation. People who throw out Ezekiel 38 and 39 based upon the
crude way it describes this invasion, just forget to understand
the book of Revelation and the desolation of the earth and the
nations upon it by the time the 1,000 years of the new age begins.
When the people of the North and the East come against the
Holy Land, God will be mighty jealous over His Israel people.
There will indeed be a great shaking in the land. What is
described in verse 20 can hardly be said to have happened. The
shaking of the earth and the mountains being thrown down in the
Holy Land has not been recorded as here mentioned. People
fighting each other, being destroyed by pestilence and with
blood, and with an overflowing rain, with great hailstones, fire,
and brimstone, cannot be said to have taken place in the recorded
history of the Holy Land (verses 18-23).
CHAPTER 39
God will step in, only ONE SIXTH of this army of people from
the North and the East will remain alive. This army of people will
fall on the mountains of Israel; the fallen will be food for the birds
of the heaven, and the beasts of the field to be devoured. It would
seem that either God has not yet at this time CHANGED the nature
of animals like the lion to eat straw like the ox, or for this battle their
old nature is restored to them; or again as a co-worker of mine said,
maybe the birds will continue to be as they are, for animals will die
as they do today, and birds do clean away the body (verses 1-6).
Israel will surely know the name of God in no uncertain way
and the heathen also shall know that the Lord is the Holy One IN
Israel (verse 7).
Those that dwell in the cities of Israel at this time shall go forth,
and shall set on fire and burn the weapons that people will now be using
(yes crude old basic weapons to kill) to destroy each other, FOR SEVEN
YEARS! (verse 9).
There is no space-age weapons left in the nations of the earth by the
time the 1,000 years begins. We are back to the old crude weapons that
peoples have used to kill each other for centuries. Is there ANY RECORDED
HISTORY of Israel EVER taking SEVEN YEARS TO BURN WEAPONS
of killing from the lands of their enemies that would destroy them?
NO THERE IS NOT!! IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED!! IT IS YET TO
TAKE PLACE!!
IT WILL TAKE 7 MONTHS FOR ISRAEL TO BURY THE DEAD
OF THE NATIONS THAT COME AGAINST THEM IN THAT DAY
(verse 12). MEN CHOSEN JUST TO MOVE THROUGH THE LAND
TO BURY THE DEAD WILL BE FOUND. BONES WILL BE MARKED
AND THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL VALLEY CALLED HAMONGOG
FOR ALL TO BE BURIED IN IT (verses 7-16).
The message of a food feast is to go out to all the feathered fowl and
to every beast of the field. They are to feast ON THE DEAD (verses 17-20).
The GLORY of God will be set and felt among the HEATHEN,
THEY WILL SEE HIS JUDGMENT (verse 21).
If there is any doubt in Israel (human nature is still human even with
Israel having God's Spirit) that the Lord is God, this massive destruction
of those invading Israel will make that doubt disappear. Israel will know
from that day forward that the Lord is their God (verse 22).
The heathen will also know that the House of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquities; so God for a time did hide His face from them, and
gave them into the hand of their enemies to be punished. But now they
will know that the God of heaven has healed them and is WITH them,
as He did bring them from their captivity from the lands of the enemies,
and is now SANCTIFIED in them in the sight of many nations.
"Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused
them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered
them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have POURED OUT
MY SPIRIT UPON THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAYS THE LORD GOD"
(verses 28-29).
The House of Israel has NEVER HAD GOD'S SPIRIT POURED
OUT ON THEM AS A WHOLE PEOPLE! BUT AS WE HAVE SEEN
IN ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH THIS OUT-POURING OF GOD'S SPIRIT
ON ALL ISRAEL WILL ONE DAY TAKE PLACE.
THIS PROPHECY IS YET FOR THE FUTURE!
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To be continued
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