Ezekiel for Today and Tomorrow
Chapters 38 to 39
The prophecy concerning Russia and China - peoples of the East and even for some in 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 wiling 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 gadren of Eden that the Holy Land has become. When people are in a desparate 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). Note— they have God's Spirit; this can not be a prophecy for today; it has to be for TOMOROW!!! A PROPHECY for AFTER Jesus the Messiah has returned to earth. Israel and Judah will be united again, and will dwell safely. It will take some time, some years, before all nations will submit to the Messiah. 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. THE SPIRIT IF GOD POURED OUT ON THEM AS A WHOLE PEOPLE. THIS PROPHECY IS YET FOR THE FUTURE!!! ........................ To be continued |
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