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Ezekiel 38:17
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15 aThen you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.  
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 aknow Me, when I am bhallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”  
17 Thus says the Lord God: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

Judgment on Gog

18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face.
19 For ain My jealousy band in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: c‘Surely in that day there shall be a great1 earthquake in the land of Israel,  
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Ezekiel 38:17

Gog - is not mentioned by name in any existing prophecy before Ezekiel' s time. The reference here shows

(1) that the conflict with Gog does not represent a particular event, but one of which the prophets in general had to speak;

(2) that in the interpretation of Old Testament prophecy we are to look beyond special fulfillments.

Events in the world' s history come within a prophet' s ken as parts of the divine administration whereby evil struggles against but is overcome by good. As every such conflict is a prelude to the final struggle, so its prediction has reference ultimately to the consummation here foretold.




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