This past Wednesday at Deep Springs Baptist Church, I taught a message from Ezekiel 38. This is not an attempt to sensationalize Bible prophecy or to do “newspaper exegesis.” It is significant that some of the major players of the Gog/Magog war are front & center in the headlines these days. Persia (modern day Iran) will be one of those countries that participates in the invasion of Israel. When will this war take place? Only God knows the answer to that. But we are seeing the chess pieces moving on the board into prophetic alignment. There are some (they’re called “preterists”) who insist that the Gog War took place sometime in the distant past. This can’t be true because the details of the event are truly unprecedented. Israel has been attacked in the past but never by this exact coalition of nations. Furthermore, the Divine intervention at the end certainly has no historical precedent.
Perhaps the biggest indicator that the time is closer, is the nation of Israel. Ezekiel predicts that the Israelites will be gathered back into their land prior to the invasion. Not only will they be gathered from one or two countries (as in the distant past with Babylon and Persia), but from all the nations of the earth. It is a historical fact that the Jewish people experienced global dispersion after the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem. It is even more noteworthy, that Ezekiel predicted that they would be regathered as an unregenerated nation (Eze 36:24-25 shows that Israel’s regeneration takes place after the regathering). Thus, Israel returning to their own Land in 1948 is not merely an accident of history. I’ll post a link to the YouTube video of my teaching below for any who are interested.
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