The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

Ezekiel lays out a very simple motivation for this league of

predatory nations: They will want the wealth of restored Israel.

The master planners of the war will see Israel as a jewel ready

to be seized (Ezek. 38:10,12,13). The plan will be to assemble

the might of these nations into a combined army that wil

overwhelm Israel and loot it (Ezek. 38:14-16).

The leadership of this alliance is identified as Gog, who is the

prince of Magog. It is not easy to know who this leader is, and

who northern people are, but we can deduce a general

knowledge of their location. Though the original wording of this

text is not clear, the generally accepted translation is that Gog

is a prince ruling over a northern territory — referred to as

Meshek and Tubal — toward the end of this age.

We do find a reference in Gen.10:2 referring to Magog as a

descendant of Japheth — one of the sons of Noah. According

to early Jewish traditions, Magog was the great Scythian

people, a group evidently far to the north of Israel. The usage

of “far north” seems to be a general depiction of people groups

outside the circle of known nations at the time of Ezekiel.

Gog is not Persia, which was a known nation in the day of

Ezekiel. That would make Magog a people further north than

modern day Iran — possibly pointing to lower Russia and some

of the Euro-Asian states of today.