Episode 27: Magog is Moscow and Gog is China

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 27

Gary discusses new “research” that has now determined and revealed China’s role in Bible prophecy.

Ezekiel was given a revelation that described his world. Consider the following description of the trading that was taking place among the various nations in Ezekiel’s day and note how these same nations are mentioned in Ezekiel 38. Speaking of Tyre: “Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares. Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise. Those from Beth-togarmah gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares. The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.… Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders…” (27:12–16, 18).

Ezekiel was not describing our world; he was describing the world of his day. You don’t have to be a biblical scholar to figure this out. It’s all in the pages of Scripture. The people living in these nations were alive and well and living in proximity to Israel in Ezekiel’s day. There is no question about this claim. There is no way to refute it except to create an alternative future with new nation names. To maintain that the nations that will attack Israel are nations in our day is not allowing the Bible to speak for itself. “To seek the fulfillment in the dark region of the end of the days,” Ernest Hengstenberg writes, “is the less possible, because most of the nations named either no longer exist, or are no longer heathen. Magog, Gomer, Meshech and Tubal, Phut [Put], Sheba, and Dedan, are no more to be found” on any modern map.

Ezekiel’s prophecy is about the protection of the Jewish people of his day. Without the restoration and rescue of Israel after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities there could be no Redeemer (see Rev. 12:1–6). If Israel had suffered annihilation at the hands of “Gog,” then God’s redemptive plan would have been thwarted. According to Ezekiel’s prophecy, God rescues Israel so the promised redeemer—Jesus the Messiah—would be born. Jesus makes it clear that He is the focus of the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy and all prophecy, “for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev. 19:10). “Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, Jesus explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27).

The Gog and Magog End-Time Alliance

Jet planes … missiles … and atomic weapons. You will search in vain in Ezekiel 38 and 39, and you will not find them. You will, however, find horses, bows and arrows, shields, clubs, and chariots. If the Gog and Magog prophecy was written for a time more than 2500 years in the future from Ezekiel’s day, why didn’t God describe the battle in terms that we could relate to and understand? Why confuse Ezekiel’s first readers and us?

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Gary discusses new “research” that has now determined and revealed China’s role in Bible prophecy. With the publication of each day’s news, prophecy speculators are writing blogs and releasing videos that reinterpret the previous day’s speculations and surefire “end time” predictions.

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