Peace in the name of our Redeemer Yeshua the Messiah.
Below is a table I created in 2008 as an Ezekiel 38 study. Keep in mind, as in my previous posting on this chapter, that I am no longer convinced Gog is Russia. I've concluded that it's more of a worldwide globalist system of nearly all nations united against Israel. Rather than a literal invasion of Israel, I submit that it has a mainly political antitype.
Since these comments were written I've studied more by Bro's. Russell and Johnson, and therefore my updated thoughts will be forthcoming on this, Lord willing. Nevertheless, though some comments may be disregarded, much of the following is still valid and may be of interest to others. It is with this hope that I post my thoughts, to the edification of all. Feel free to share and comment. Thank you.
Yours in Truth,
Regan Balman
| Ezekiel LORD=Yahweh [Rotherham] | ||
| This entire commentary is based on the common supposition that Russia is Gog. [RcB: For those reading since 2018, insert Globalist Elite instead of simply Russia. However Russia still acts as an adversary to Israel at this time. 5/4/18]
Meshech and Tubal=Moscow and Tiblisi (Jamieson, Fausett & Brown)
Today's events [8/8/08] show Moscow heading toward possible full control of Tiblisi, in their aggressive moves against Georgia. At very least they have exerted military control over southern Ossetia, away from Georgia, which may follow. | ||
| "Finally
Gog as the capitol of the eastern bloc, will rule over Great Russia,
Armenia (Meshech) and Tubal (Caucasian Georgia, with its capitol
Tbilisi), and will assemble alliances with Iran (Persia), Black Africa
(Cush, not just Ethiopia), and North Africa (Phut: Libya to Mauritania),
plus North Europe (Gomer, at the Black Sea and its northern
tributaries, including Germans {Ashkenaz} and Slavs {Riphath} from Gen.
10:3) and the Turkic tribes (Togarmah). The pipeline for the western
bloc will continue to be Israel—a prize too tempting for a resurgent Gog
to resist (38:1-12)." ["Ezekiel in Brief" http://www.heraldmag.org/literature/proph_6.htm] [RcB NOTE 5/4/18: This writer is fond of Bro. Parkinson yet does not endorse his view nor do I reject it. It was a useful study at the time, however the bloodline argument has been refined since. See previous posting.] | ||
| The Soviet military regime has a long history of always owning one of the largest standing armies and one of the largest standing navies, even prior to the Revolution. Ever since they have celebrated militarism above all else, televised to the world with yearly dazzling displays before the politburo in stark red. Horses and horsemen are philosophies (doctrines) and their promoters, who have trumpeted Anti-Semitism, the teaching that supports their military actions. | ||
| Persia=Iran, Cush=Ethiopia and North Africa, (left to right on the map: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt?) and Put=Libya - also Lebanon and Jordan (Ammon, Moab and Edom are the three parts of modern Jordan) | ||
| Gomer=Black Sea area (Chechen Caucasus Mount Torgarmah = Turkey From my previous notes on Ezekiel 38... Gomer = N. Europe, Germans and Slavs. Togarmah=Turkestan | ||
| Russia was constantly ready for war all the time, and was the shield and supporter of the Arab nations. | ||
| "After many days" [nations under communist umbrella] "thou shalt be visited" [KJV] [Recompense: 1989?] "in the latter years" = possibly better translation: "latter years OF the last days" "Restored from war" = Could it not refer to Israel after 1945? They were not a state yet at that time, but after the world war the nation of Israel was restored by very reason of the war itself. The U.N. helped create the state of Israel, and in May of 1948 they had been restored to a nation. The land of Israel itself was the target of Adolph Hitler and his Muslim cohorts during the war, and so after the important battles of World War II that stemmed the tide of Rommel's charge through Africa toward the Holy Land, it could be said that the land itself was "restored from war." The nation of Israel was brought into being - again. It was because of the war. "Brought" Strong's 7725 "Shuwb" [Shoab] meaning "to turn back, hence, away - to retreat, come again, consider, withdraw - see Strong's 935 "bow" [...bring against] See Ezekiel 39:27 reference to the Jews "brought back" from their enemies lands] See Jer. 27:16 "brought again from Babylon" | ||
| Many
people see this as happening all at once at the end of the world.
Perhaps. It was a longstanding strategy of Saddam Hussein of Iraq to
create a "million man army" that would cover Israel like a cloud all at
once. This is symbolic but also perhaps quite literal, however in a
different way than most commentators view it.. A storm cloud may take weeks to muster, which could translate to years of symbolic political storm cloud gathering. A storm cloud may sit and hover, as Israel's enemies always have, it may rain, pour, or just pass.... Could it not be that this is referring to the "demographics" issue that has taken center stage after many decades of Arab influx into the Holy Land? This verse describes a growing danger, just like a slowly advancing weather storm. The threat of Arabs one day outnumbering Jews within Israel has guided Israeli policy all along as the issue of supreme importance in the Arab-Israel conflict. The Arabs demand their "Right of Return" - the right to literally flood the land with alleged refugees from their own failed attempt at conquest. | ||
| Anti-Semitism
is the evil thought. It may turn out that the Russian KGB, who
recently were found to have issued an order to assassinate the Pope, is
also responsible for the very plan that the Arabs have implemented
against Israel; to use a fictitious "Palestinian" people to create a
wedge in order to destroy Israel from the inside out. Other evil thoughts that enter the minds of nations may have to do with chemical, nuclear and biological weapons. | ||
| "Unwalled villages" = Israel prior to statehood, 1947 Their plan was always the same, to attack Israel, kill the inhabitants all at once, and take their property and their land. They tried it in 1948, they tried again in 1956, again in 1967 and again in 1973. So there is no missing this fact for anyone who's lived through the last half of the 20th century, this was their plan all along, and it has not changed, but for the nuclear element. | ||
| to seize spoil and carry off plunder= to take the material wealth created by Jews to assail the waste places which are now inhabited, = Arabs routinely destroy Jewish property, holy sites, etc. and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods are the target of this Grand Larceny - the Jews themselves, and Jerusalem. The goal is to kill the Jews, and take their land and possessions. who dwell at the center of the earth.= the heart of the earth - Jerusalem. Recent events [2008] show that the Olmert led government in Israel is negotiating the dividing of Jerusalem itself - long considered by many Bible students as THE SIGN of the immediacy of the final "last days"conflagration. Anti-Semites know the Bible story. Arabs and atheists alike are aware of the concept that "The Law shall go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem". This they hope to pre-empt at any price. There are many examples of the fulfillment of this passage, none more blatant than May 1948, when seven Arab armies attacked to prevent Israel from becoming a state. The Jews lived there in numbers, having gathered from the nations gradually since Herzl in the late 1800's, adding to the numbers of those who already dwelled there. | ||
| The
NATO nations, the Capitalist Alliance, were always the direct opposer
of all Soviet policies in the Middle East. These policies shaped the
very nature of the entire cold war. Arab armies have always been
supplied by Russia and still are today, while Israel is the traditional
ally of the West. In the verse, the words in quotes represent the war
of words that characterized the cold war, where hardly a shot was fired
in anger, but both sides constantly accused each other of bad motives
and false pretenses. This is diplomatic language. Tarshish= Celts in Westernmost Europe including Celitberians (sp?), Britons, Welsh, Irish, Scots, Belgians, Galicia (southern Poland), Galatia (central Turkey) Sheba, Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish can mean Yemen, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates - nations now aligned with NATO and under American influence. | ||
| Many
think Israel has never yet experienced "dwelling securely" and
therefore they look for this to happen after a future war. Could it not
be that "dwelling safely" happened at the time of the creation of
Israeli statehood? From the time of the Roman destruction in 69 AD they had not had any opportunity for "dwelling safely", not while living in the mostly anti-Semitic nations to which they were dispersed. Now that the Holocaust had ended, they were returning to their own land and establishing a state, finally standing on their own two feet as a nation. May 1948. This is a sight that caused the communistic/atheistic forces to unite with Islamic opposition to Israel, forming an unholy alliance that has been at Israel's throat for decades without a moment of peace. Does this defeat the premise of "dwelling safely"? Not when you consider that Israel's nuclear weapons program has kept their Arab neighbors and their Russian handlers at bay, thus "dwelling securely" indeed for many years now. | ||
| From
up north (where it should be none of their business,) here the
Russians, diplomatically and politically as well as militarily and
physically, have literally kept Israel surrounded by enemies and made
sure those enemies were well "armed to the teeth" for going on 7 decades
now. Even last year, [2006], Russian leadership has endorsed Syria,
Iran and the Hamas representatives of the "Palestinians" - the wedge to
destroy Israel. Horses are doctrines or teachings, and here the teachings inspire immigration to Israel. At the heart of the Arab plan to destroy Israel is the teaching of the "Right of Return" - Arabs returning to lands lost in the 1948 attack on Israel. Leftists and Socialists inside both Israel and in America only add to this army of those against Israel. | ||
| These
enemies are "against" Israel in an adversarial sense, not necessarily
locational. Since they are like a cloud covering the land, it appears
that the enemies are actually found inside of Israel, or want to be
inside Israel, and that is exactly the case as it stands today, even as
Arabs vote with Knesset seats inside Israel's own government which institutes policies that are anti-Jewish - uprooting Jews from Jewish land in appeasement of their enemies. The last line of this verse is ongoing, and in the end the world will generally catch onto the fact that God exists. They will see this through the visible and somewhat gradual defeat of this Russian/Arab alliance. There is nothing to prove that event must happen in mere moments or days. I submit that is has been ongoing for the last 7 decades and is nearly complete. Upon completion, the world will see at last for instance that "Allah" is not "greater" than Yahweh, nor is atheism, communism, socialism, or any other doctrine that opposes God's Zionism of any effect. To coin a word that would summarize not only this entire chapter, but also the entire period of nearly 70 years I would call it "Anti-Zionism." It is near it's zenith now, and I believe it to be in it's death throes. Whether or not it will take more than monetary bankruptcy to completely defeat Russia remains to be seen, but seems likely. | ||
| Here the Bible student is directed to search the Scriptures, specifically the writings of the prophets, and Obadiah's story regarding "the Edomites" is parenthetical to the narrative of Ezekiel 38. | ||
| I
like the translation that says "will come up in my nostrils".* God's
spirit is opposed to Anti-Semitism. The people who are opposed to
Anti-Semitism are of God's spirit, while those who are Anti-Zionists
oppose God's spirit, and often display the traits of the spirit of
Satan. [*RcB 5/4/18 NOTE: How about the social conditions of earth becoming putrid since the little flock left the scene?] | ||
| After so many centuries of "Allah is greater", I would think that jealousy is just on the part of the Almighty Yahweh. The "fire" is not necessarily literal, but refers to the level of intensity of emotion our Creator must have in the protection of "the pupil of his eye", the Jewish nation. The "shaking" is not literal either, though some expect an actual earthquake. Every day in Israel there are political upheavals and shakings among the various political and religious classes in Israel, among both Jewish and Arab populations. The point is that literal blazing and shaking, though they may be occurring, are not required to fulfill these events. | ||
| Some of the group categories are listed here. The details will be for another time. The men are the leaders of governments. They "quake" at calamities near and imagined every day as this characterizes our day. The "presence" is the parousia of the returned Messiah, from 1874 to today. The mountains are governments, especially that oppose Israel, such as Iraq, Iran and Syria. The cliffs are the high crags of society people hold onto such as banks and the various public trusts. The walls are states that relied on the banks. Perhaps. This is just my view - but seems to be born out in recent days [2008] by the failure of several banks and government bailouts of public trusts. | ||
| Post
1914, Russia has suffered under the terror of Revolution, World War, a
second World War, mass starvation and oppression, plus the fear of
nuclear annihilation from the West. In 1989 they collapsed largely from
within. Today they experience terrorism from Chechen guerrillas.
(See "Beslan") Beslan is in North Ossetia. Today, Russia has attacked Georgian forces in South Ossetia. Truly they are beset by terror as those territories that were once unified under the Soviet flag are now at war with one another. | ||
| In
contrast with the freedom loving Western nations, the Eastern bloc has
been mired in miserable circumstances as punishment for their stance
regarding Israel. They have traditionally suffered sickness and death
from war at a much higher rate than western nations. Pestilence and war
have not convinced them of the error of their ways, therefore comes the
torrential rains - the flow of information - that will
destroy their false teachings ("horses"), while hailstones represent
hard truths that will destroy the crops sown by the evil seeds of
anti-Semitism. Fire and brimstone are symbolic of complete destruction,
as the system of error is overthrown over a period of many years time. The literalness of this passage remains to be assessed. However Israel has over 1,000 military advisers in Georgia prior to the war in S. Ossetia. Georgian forces were being trained in Israeli military weapons and tactics, as Israel has oil interests there - in the pipeline to the sea where they have planned shipping routes. They offered Russia a stake in the enterprise and were rejected. Now it is thought that Moscow may seek to punish Israel for their hand in the affairs of Georgia and South Ossetia. See http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1358 | ||
| When
all is said and done people will see for themselves through the events
of history the utter bankruptcy of the vain philosophies of Atheism,
Communism, Socialism, Mohammedanism, all rooted in the poisonous idea of
Anti-Semitism. When the smoke finally clears, be it literal or
symbolic, the masses of people will finally become aware of the presence
of the Messiah, as He will, as Yahweh's vicegerent, begin noticeably overruling earth's affairs. | ||
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