The city here is the New Jerusalem described symbolically in Revelation 21. NO: The terms Jerusalem and Zion do not even appear in the Quran, and Mohammad never visited Jerusalem in person. In fact, the number of Jews in Israel today has increased by over 7,000 percent in just 100 years! The invasion could be imminent given the present Russian-Iranian alliance and Irans declared hatred of Israel. As mentioned, the so-called Gog-Magog war does not involve all nations of the world. Under Gods call, Abram (later called Abraham) migrated from the city of Ur sometime between 1900 and 1750 BC to Gods appointed land, Canaan (todays Israel). All over Israel, people now recite this prayer. So, on the one hand we see the Vatican demanding control over Jerusalems religious sites, link, the UN stating that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and Palestine, and Palestinians claiming Jerusalem as their capital. We see this in his attempts to redefine marriage for example, and in his attempts to replace national Israel with the church (Replacement Theology). Psalm 83 speaks of an alliance of invading nations, a mainly Arab-Islamic alliance. The house of Israel and the house of Judah had broken Gods covenant (Jer 11.10), and by the first century all twelve tribes were scattered amongst the nations (Ja 1.1). [93], This Gog and Magog legend is not found in earlier versions of the Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes, whose oldest manuscript dates to the 3rd century,[l] but an interpolation into recensions around the 8th century. Magog (/ m e /; Hebrew: ; Greek: ) is the second of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.. Israel's Purpose, Borders, & Future in Prophecy God's People, God's Land, "Now learn from the parable of the fig tree when it puts forth its leaves ", You [Zionist regime] will not see 25 years from today! [Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Sept. 2015], function googleTranslateElementInit() { They were to follow the statutes of holy living, various laws and observe mandated Holy Feasts at their appointed time. Placing the invasion before the 70th week allows Israel seven years to use Gogs weapons as fuel (Ezek 39.9,10) before they start to suffer in the great tribulation under the beast (Jacobs trouble Jer 30.7). Some 350,000 Jewish settlers live in the relatively lightly populated Area C, link. Sadly, not all partake of this eternal blessing and fellowship with God. Sadly, this legal fact is often ignored by the UN. I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Israel is considered by third parties to be the only free country in the region in that there is a climate of respect for civil liberties, freedom of expression, significant independent civic life, an independent media, and a military under civilian rule, link. A legend was attached to Gog and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. She has visited 14 Arab countries, so it cannot have been that she wasnt in the region. They are arranged as follows: Ezekiel 38:1-13 - The Lord's anger with Gog and his armies for their attack on Israel during the Millennium. The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the "end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world. In fact, since prophecy is not precise, some see several major Middle East wars just before the close of this age and the Second Coming of Christ. And just as a Palestinian state would maintain a demographic balance in favour of Palestinians, so the Jewish state of Israel maintains a demographic balance in favour of Jews by controlling immigration. The answer to these questions is found in a mystery: we must be changed or born again as the Bible puts it. This question is only meaningful in a spiritual (rather than secular) context. [40], Chapters 19:1121:8 of the Book of Revelation, dating from the end of the 1st century AD,[41] tells how Satan is to be imprisoned for a thousand years, and how, on his release, he will rally "the nations in the four corners of the Earth, Gog and Magog", to a final battle with Christ and his saints:[3], When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the EarthGog and Magogand to gather them for battle. They sit on the sides and accuse the invaders of wanting to plunder Israels wealth see Ezek 38:13, WOULD HIGH TECHNOLOGY SAVE THE WORLD FROM COLLAPSOLOGY DESTRUCTION ANNIHILATION Would they have been given the gift of immortality as a reward? In Romansthe 3rd chapter, the apostle Paul wrote: Today this extreme ideology is underscored by ISIL. It is up to the Palestinians to maintain water networks, utilize wastewater, improve existing supplies and drill new wells. Composed between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC. //