The principle of the generality of the elections ensures the active right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 18 years old, to vote and the right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 21 years old, to be elected. The center branch represents Divine light (understanding) from God and the six branches represent human efforts to spread this light to the Gentiles (Isa 42.6). The tragic truth is that it suits Arab states very well to have the Palestinians endure permanent refugee status, and whenever Israel puts forward workable solutions they have been stymied by those whose interests put the destruction of Israel before the genuine well being of the Palestinians. Gomer was an Aryan group who conquered Armenia (essentially north-eastern Turkey) from their Ukrainian homeland, and Togarmah was the south-eastern part of Turkey near the Syrian border, link. Jesus talked about world events at the end of the age in Mat 24.3. "Russia will join China in the war" Rabbi Asor added. In fact, the Hebrew word cush and its Greek equivalent Ethiopia are used interchangeably throughout the Bible. No. In 2015 the UN General Assembly adopted 20 resolutions against Israel, but only 3 against the rest of the world [UN Watch]. Fundamentalist Christians believe that modern Israel, and not the church, will be central in world affairs at the close of this age. Although they make up less than half of one percent of the world population, between 1901 and 1950 Jews won 14% of all the Nobel Prizes awarded for Literature and Science, and between 1951 and 2000 Jews won 32% of the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, 32% for Physics, 39% for Economics and 29% for Science. This tiny war-ravaged and unpopular nation is predicted to be the ruling power of the future? According to one interpretation, "Goth and Magothy" are the kings of the Unclean Nations who Alexander drove through a mountain pass and prevented from crossing his new wall. In chapter 8 of Pauls letter to the Romans he spoke a mystery. And to this day it is said, On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided., The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. The German Bible critic Gesenius regarded Rosh as indicating the Russians, who are mentioned in Byzantine writers of the 10th century under the name of Rhos, link. In the Quran Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) are suppressed by Dhu al-Qarnayn "The Two-Horned One". It is quite remarkable how Israel has survived attacks from overwhelming invading armies. 4. As we read on in the Bible we discover that man in immortal (spirit) form will one day live with his Creator God on a new and perfect earth! History shows that God had a special task for Jacob and his descendants and He later changed Jacobs name to Israel (Gen 32.28). The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. This is confirmed in Deuteronomy 7:12: A. C.; Carey, H. C.; Lea, I. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. Today this extreme ideology is underscored by ISIL. After alls been said and done, the Bibles bold declarations culminate in its last book, Revelation. A Pre-Covenant Invasion: In this scenario, the invasion takes place before the revealing of the secular world dictator (the beast of Rev 13.1) and the false ecclesiastical head (the antichrist, Rev 13.11). Was this attack on Israel motivated by a spirit of Amalek? Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. He spoke of a hope of mans spirit form in the future, as distinct from flesh and blood. Israel is the central player in that spiritual world. This is the second death. The Gog Magog Hills are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge in England. Gebal and Tyre), Syria is not specifically mentioned in Psalm 83, or in Ezekiel 38. [101], Gog and Magog also appear in Thomas de Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie (c. 1180), where they are portrayed as cave-dwellers who consume human flesh. NO: The terms Jerusalem and Zion do not even appear in the Quran, and Mohammad never visited Jerusalem in person. [55] The "Abbasid orthodoxy" believed the Ilkhanate Mongol invaders who laid siege to and then sacked Baghdad, were Gog and Magog. They fall on the open fields and mountains (Heb har hill country) of Israel and fail to reach Jerusalem (Ezek 38.19). He wrote in the 8th Psalm: When I consider your heavens,the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars,which you have set in place,what is mankind that you are mindful of them,human beings that you care for them?. And (perhaps between these wars) Israel also goes through a time of distress or tribulation referred to in Dan 12.1 and Mat 24.15-25. What is the current situation? Note that, whilst it is common to refer to Abrahams descendants as Jews, this is not strictly accurate. [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. The descendants of Japheth subsequently settled across Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and those in the eastern parts became known as Scythians. Block, but their remoteness and reputation for violence and mystery possibly "made Gog and his confederates perfect symbols of the archetypal enemy, rising against God and his people". So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: Death is destroyed; victory is complete!. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. The stones of a palace erected by King David himself are even now being unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem. These tribes (enlarge image) are listed in Gen 49. Lund, Niels "The Danish Empire and the End of the Viking Age", in Sawyer. This seems likely with what is said above. The people of Israel are once more becoming Gods witness to the nations. The History Press Ltd, 2005. A Byzantine ruler protected by two Vikings, often compared with Gog and Magog The early Muslim traditions were summarised by Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) in two popular works called the Cosmography and the Geography. Come quickly Lord Jesus. The Mandate did not grant any national political rights to Arabs, but Article 2 did safeguard the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race or religion. He said that mortal man was meant to become immortal (that is the plan of his Maker) and then live with His Maker eternally. Bible prophecy describes how the increasing political bias of western nations, and the increasing aggression of Arab-Muslim nations finally leads to another major war against Israel. [70], The 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus equated Magog with the Scythians in Antiquities of the Jews, but he never mentioned Gog. [144] For the most fervent, the countdown to Armageddon began with the return of the Jews to Israel, followed quickly by further signs pointing to the nearness of the final battle nuclear weapons, European integration, Israel's reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967, and America's wars in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. A contract can be defined as an agreement between two parties which obliges each party to do or not to do a certain thing. Moreover, from that day, Israel starts to know her God as He pours out His Spirit on her: So the House of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward for I shall have poured out My Spirit on her (Ezek 39.22,29). This view is supported by the fact that some nations denounce the invasion (Ezek 38.13) and by the fact that the God of Israel is hallowed (revered and honoured) in the sight of many other nations through the defeat of the invader (Ezek 38.16, Ezek 39.27). [142][143], Some post-Cold War millenarians still identify Gog with Russia, but they now tend to stress its allies among Islamic nations, especially Iran. When the Russian alliance invades Israel some nations question the motive: Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, Have you come to take plunder? Abraham answered, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And the two of them went on together. In October 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel (the Yom Kippur War) but were eventually defeated. Composed between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC. "Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince . 9The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. Under President Ergodan, Turkey now has a powerful President who is sympathetic to Egypts suppressed Muslim Brotherhood, link. The Golan Heights must be involved. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Look! Right at the beginning we read a mystery, namely, that the God of the Bible reproduces His kind. In the Genesis account of mans creation the Bible speaks of mankind made in Gods image: In Genesis 1:26 In fact Jewish mystical interpretation (Kabbalah) superstitiously has a method of calculates numbers from Hebrew letters from the words Gog and Magog = 70. It seems America, Europe and Saudi Arabia will voice strong objections to the Gog-Magog invasion, but are not directly involved. Tooman's view is that the "latter days" means "the end of history-as-we-know-it and the initiation of a new historical age". In todays terms, they settled mainly in the area currently claimed by Israel, including the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, although the tribes of Benjamin, Gad, Reuben and part of Manasseh settled east of the Jordan. The descendants of Japheth subsequently settled across Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and those in the eastern parts became known as Scythians. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. The millennial age is one of firm government from Christ, but also one of universal peace. [CDATA[ More , Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us [Golda Meir, 1957], From my childhood, I have believed Jews and Arabs can live together, and I believe now they should live together. But the UN is not all bad: in 2015 the UN began to address issues of concern to the Jewish community, particularly anti-Semitism. We see the majority of the nation now following Gods Holy Feasts and keeping the Jewish Sabbath. Russian military support for Iran comes via arms deals between the two countries, as in the supply of S-300 air defense systems, Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter jets and advanced Russian T-90 tanks, link. [46] They dig into their wall each day until they almost break through. 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). Under the 1995 Oslo II Accord, Israel continues to supply agreed water amounts to Palestinian areas. The Tartar Relation, an obscure account of Friar Carpini's 1240s journey to Mongolia, is unique in alleging that these Caspian Mountains in Mongolia, "where the Jews called Gog and Magog by their fellow countrymen are said to have been shut in by Alexander", were moreover purported by the Tartars to be magnetic, causing all iron equipment and weapons to fly off toward the mountains on approach. 15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Interpretations of the Bible abound, but what is actually written? Israel was to return and seek God after the gospel had been spread to the Gentile nations (Rom 11.25). King David conquered Jerusalem in 1052 BC and today, in the Old City of Jerusalem (enlarge image), lies the rock (Mount Moriah) where Abraham offered up Isaac for sacrifice to God around 1800 BC (Gen 22.2). One view within Christianity is more starkly apocalyptic, making Gog and Magog, here indicating nations rather than individuals,[3] allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation. Add to this the Hamas objective of replacing the Jewish State with an Islamic caliphate, link, then the two-state solution is clearly impossible! This battle concludes with the Second Coming of Christ to reign as King over all the earth (Zech 14.9), the last form of human government (probably centered on the EU) having been taken away like chaff in the wind (Dan 2.34,35). Map 4: Again, Magog is placed deep in the Russian interior. Gow, Andrew. Syria is mentioned some 300 times in the Bible and Damascus (now probably the worlds oldest, continuously inhabited city) is mentioned about 60 times. In fact, during the Millennial Age God actually comes to dwell with Israel and the nations through Jesus the Messiah at Jerusalem: Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! [112][113] Arab traveler ibn Fadlan also reported of this belief, writing around 921 he recorded that "Some hold the opinion that Gog and Magog are the Khazars". But there is hope. They are coming from all over the world, from wherever they have been scattered amongst the nations. [120][130][131] As noted, Riccoldo had reported a Mongol folk-tradition that they were descended from Gog and Magog. In Genesis they read Gods promise to Jacob, grandson of Abraham: The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you (Gen 35.12). 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