Post by Lee on Oct 11, 2014 17:39:50 GMT
Chs. 38-39 tell the familiar story of the descent and destruction of Gog, to manifest God's glory and power to all the earth. Not only is the rebirth of Israel a guarantee of the fulfilment of this next step, but we actually see Gog himself devoting all his resources to building the greatest military and naval power the world has ever known, and openly & avowedly dedicated to bringing the earth under his system.
And even further: his enmity is specifically and especially directed toward that one little land: that little Mordecai who dares oppose him.
And with him in enmity stand the red-handed papal power, & Libya and Ethiopia and Assyria, just as prophecy requires. When a recent Pope visited the Middle East, he fawned effusively on the Arabs who want to destroy Israel, but he walked gingerly around the borders of Israel as if he were walking around a deep black hole.
The glorious consummation is described at the end of ch. 39— "Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity [spiritual Israel?] among the heathen: but I have gathered them into their own land, & 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, saith the Lord'
This ended Ezekiel's message to them in the 12th year of the captivity, when the news of the city's destruction
1978 Berean p383
And even further: his enmity is specifically and especially directed toward that one little land: that little Mordecai who dares oppose him.
And with him in enmity stand the red-handed papal power, & Libya and Ethiopia and Assyria, just as prophecy requires. When a recent Pope visited the Middle East, he fawned effusively on the Arabs who want to destroy Israel, but he walked gingerly around the borders of Israel as if he were walking around a deep black hole.
The glorious consummation is described at the end of ch. 39— "Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity [spiritual Israel?] among the heathen: but I have gathered them into their own land, & 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, saith the Lord'
This ended Ezekiel's message to them in the 12th year of the captivity, when the news of the city's destruction
1978 Berean p383