Question: Why does the Gog-Magog war that starts just before the Millennial rule of Jesus and the Church, ends only after the Millennial rule ends? Who are God and Magog nations of Ezekiel 38-39 and Rev 20:7-10?
Some interpretations suggest Russia as a possible candidate for Gog based on:
1. Ezek 38:6 - "From the far north"
2. Ezek 38:2 - "Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal"
Geographical location: Russia is in the far north. Ancient connections: Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal may be linked to ancient Russian regions. Military power: Russia's military capabilities align with Ezekiel's description.
Gog and Magog's invasion represents: Satan's final rebellion (Rev 20:7-10), God's judgment on nations (Ezekiel 38:22-23) and Israel's restoration and end (Ezek 39:25-29; Rev 20:7-10).
Gog and Magog can be viewed as specific nations, as representative of evil forces and also as spiritual principle of how human heart is fallen in sin and can be used by Satan if they are not born again.
While Ezekiel 38-39 describes Gog's invasion of Israel in the pre millennial Armageddon, while Rev 20:7-8 mentions Gog and Magog's post millennial involvement against God and his saints who rule from Jerusalem.
Gog and Magog are proposed various connections by scholars around the world like: some says, Gog is modern-day Turkey or ancient Lydia. Other associate Gog with Russia, citing Ezekiel's "far north" description. Some connect Magog to China considering Ezekiel's mention of "Magog" and China's ancient name "Magog". Another theory links Gog to Iran, given it geographical location and biblical connections.
What do you think about Gog and Magog nations? Which nations are those in our modern day map?
Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!
Russians are Scythian's of the warrior tribes from Europe who invaded that part of the land of Magog, the Mongolian heritage nations, of which China is a main part in today's world. Russia have ever since its inception has extended its boundaries and have settled over and controlled a huge chunk of land, which once used to be Soviet Union Of Russia, which has got disintegrated to become the Russia of what we see today in our times which is the actual Gog of the Bible.
The dominant communist leftists agenda of socialism is the religion of both Gog and Magog in our times. Where China the Magog with the help of USA has amazed wealth through trade with western countries, and other nations of the world, and have thus maintained that socialism under the guise of capital materialism, with communist agenda of dictatorship has helped China become the huge economic mammoth of what it is today in our times. In Ezek 38:2, the land of Gog is identified by the warring prince of the end of end times, from the far north, whose identity comes from Russia of Moscow and Tobolsk.
So Gog and Magog are the spiritual entities who deny God as atheist, and want to make themselves the King of the earth, the master of their own fate, and wanted to be the sole ruler of their heart and soul without God, which is impossible. That is why Jesus rules a Millennium on earth to prove that man is man and God is God. Man cannot overpower or rule over God, or else rule without him in this temporary earth too.
This attitude of Gog of Russia and Magog of China, will start a war with God and with His Son whose anger will burn and consume them before the Millennium, and also sweep the existence of the unsaved godless of the present earth in to eternal hell fire at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church. Hallelujah! Glory be to God!
This sinful attitude of wanting to deny the existence of God as atheist fools, and rule over the earth through Fabian socialism of humanism, God will deal with it right from the second half of the Daniel 70th week through the two prophets who are Elijah and Enoch, along with the 144000 Jews from the twelve tribes who will be a testimony of God's power to the world, and Jesus and the Church from the new earth will end such godlessness completely before the Millennium starts, which will be the beginning of the end of the Gog coalition on earth in the war of Armageddon under Antichrist and False Prophet. These will all be defeated by Jesus Christ and the Church in a moment of time with the breath of his mouth and with the sword of his word which comes out of his mouth. For a thousand years after this, Jesus Christ and His Church will rule the world with a rod of Iron in righteousness and in justice of heaven. Hallelujah!
Thus the Gog of Russia, the military pride of the end time, Magog of China the economic power of humanism of the end of end times, the root of both socialism and communism will be completely defeated by Jesus Christ! Glory to God! Praise the Lord!
Humanism of 666 through Antichrist seated as king over the entire earth and in the hearts of all nations of the end of end times, which is the Antichrist agenda against God and his saints will be completely defeated through the Great Tribulation and wrath, which will then end in Armageddon. There the Ezekiel 38 and 39 nations of Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, North Korea and the like, will all be uprooted during the Armageddon and dismantled from the earth as Satan will be thrown in to the prison for a thousand years time and sealed inside until it ends.
Glory to God!
But when the thousand years are over and done, Satan will be released for a little while from his prison, and immediately he will let loose his deception upon the unsaved world of the nations in all the earth. Satan will raise up a physical army like the sand of the sea, to come and surround the camp of the saints in Jerusalem, after which the whole earth will be burned with fire and become gas for all the unsaved to be judged at the White Throne Judgment for eternity. And all the unsaved will be put in the pit of display for all eternity in hell fire which is the second death, burning yet unconsumed and tormented in worms that does not die, to continue to be a display of the glory of God for all eternity. This happened for rejecting the free and precious salvation that was never taken seriously by them to become saved from sin, which was promoted as humanism by the Gog-Magog nations that starts just before the Millennial rule of Jesus and the Church, and ends only after the Millennial rule ends. Who are Gog and Magog nations of Ezekiel 38-39 and Rev 20:7-10? They are generally the people who remained unsaved before, during and after the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church from the nation of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital, these people stay unsaved till physical death, ever hardening their heart towards God and ending up in hell, which was not initially made for man but for the fallen angels with whom the unsaved remain hand in hand without repentance towards God. Maranatha! O Come Lord Jesus! Praise the Lord!
Thus we see a spiritual principle at play in the lesson from the Gog and Magog nations, that whosoever remains unsaved can be used as a pawn in the hands of Satan to fulfill his will, and thus let loose his evil in all the earth, even against God and his saints! Thus to be saved at all cost is the need of the hour for all humans in all generations, past, present and future! To remain unsaved from sin and rejecting the precious free salvation given through Jesus Christ now will make all unsaved humans to end in the tormenting flames of horror and endless regret for eternity in hell fire. Hallelujah!
YES INDEED, the Gog-Magog war that starts just before the Millennial rule of Jesus and the Church, ends only after the Millennial rule ends! Hallelujah!
Much Blessings....