The Destruction of Gog
The Book of Ezekiel becomes ever more vague and mysterious as it approaches its close. Chapters thirty-eight and thirty-nine tell of an invasion to come upon Israel apparently in the days of her restoration. The invaders are an unknown people, whom the prophet calls Gog and Magog. They shall come from the north, even as the Scythian hordes had come. They shall be wild and terrible and seemingly irresistible as the Scyths had been.
Through them shall God prove His affection for Israel, and His immeasurable power to save as well as to destroy. The hordes of the invaders shall melt before His wrath. “Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."
“Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God."
“And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
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