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    Gog
And Magog


Part Two
Chapter Three

“God, who at various times and in various ways (in
visions, dreams, and even face to face), spoke in times
past to our fathers by the prophets, has in these ‘last
days’ (which began with the appearance of Yeshua,
Jesus) has spoken to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made
the worlds (universe or the world and everything there
is), Heb 1:1-2.

The Apostle Paul tells us “Now all these things
happened to them as examples, and they were written
for our admonition (instruction), upon whom the ends of
the ages have come upon,” 1 Co 10:1-11.

Paul uses this portion of Scripture because Israel was
delivered from the bondages of Egypt and all Israel past
through the Red Sea being baptized into Moses at the
time of the first Passover; but God was not pleased with
some of them. We who have received Christ, our
Passover Lamb, have also been delivered from “Egypt”
(“world”) and have been baptized into Yeshua, Jesus,
and are in a wilderness experience; so Paul adds “Let
him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” So we
must stop going around and around the mountain! It is
“he who endures to the end.” Israel was in the Old
Covenant and we are in the New Covenant “upon whom
the ends of the ages have come.”

The First Coming of Christ, not His Second Coming
marks the beginning of the ends of the ages. The
Second Coming concludes what the first reveals and will
bring to completion. We live in an, ‘overlap,’ between the
former and the new creation. The very End-Time is set in
the Middle Eastern lands of Asia Minor with Gog the
chief prince, against the children of Israel and Jerusalem.
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The “Mystery Hidden” (behind the Curtain from OT
prophets & the angels who longed to look into these
things), that Paul reveals in Ephesians is that the “Jews
and Gentiles are One” in the Body of Messiah that form a
new race of people, One New Man, who will in the end
inherit eternal life, that is, the Kingdom and the Earth.
This is an eternal kingdom of which ‘flesh and blood’
cannot inherit…you must be born-again into it … you
must be in be in the first resurrection of which the
‘second death has no power,’ Revelation 20:5-6.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets
and stones those who are Sent to you! How often I
wanted to gather your children together, as a hen
gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing!”
“See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you,
you (Jerusalem) shall see Me no more till you say,
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’“
Matthew 23:37-39. One of the signs of the End-Times.
Matthew 24 and Luke 21
Part One: Portions taken from End-Time Project Map
Resources
Matthew 24 & Luke 21 are the most logical place in the
New Testament to start our study of history and future
events of the “last days,” because it is a chronological
illumination or explanation of the endtimes from the
very mouth of Yeshua Himself. It is only an outline of
events responding to His disciple’s questions of shock
regarding the destruction of the Temple and buildings.
The disciples wanted to know the ‘countdown’ to “When
shall these things be?” and “What is the sign of Your
coming and the sign of the end of the world or ages (on
whom the ends of the ages have come)?”

That was indeed what they were asking the Master. He
began by reciting a list of events such as wars, rumors
of wars and earthquakes that will occur with increasing
number, as in frequent repetition, or constant
hammering, before the end-times begin (31/2. After
describing a few things that would take place along the
journey to the end of the world-system, He began to tell
them about certain things that would occur before the
world, as we know it, comes to an end. Now the end of
the world is not the end of the Earth. It will not be a
global meltdown, but the heavens will be shaken and
they will pass away. There are some who teach the stars
that fall from heaven are Satan and his angels, but I
wonder about that, since we are to receive a new
heaven and a new earth!

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But we need to understand Matthew 24 in the order that
it was written, and Luke 21, because Luke separates the
fall of Jerusalem, its destiny and that of Jerusalem’s
people (Jews/Israel) until the prophecy of the times of
the Gentiles are fulfilled … which Matthew 24 does not.

Without properly understanding Matthew 24 & Luke 21
we will not be able to grasp and keep in our spirits and
minds the Book of Revelation or other ‘last day’
prophecies. We must see and not overlook the ‘broad
view’ of what the Lord was saying and end up
overanalyzing every sentence and every little word to
the point of confusion that we are in today! (Last night I
turned on three different Christian TV channels … and
each one was teaching “How to get wealth!” O God help
us! This teaching and others have choked the true Word
of God so that it cannot produce the ‘truth’ of the Spirit
within!

Chapter Four
End-Times Project Outline
We will use the EndTimes Project outline on Matthew 24
(and SheepShed’s on Luke 21) for this lesson, but not its
entire discourse. Please don’t look for a hidden message
between every syllable and keep yourself, your ‘mind’ in
the context of what God is actually saying.

Let us begin by looking at selected verses because they
are like the skeleton of the body on which our flesh is
wrapped. These verses will give us structure for the
whole chapters and make it clear as to what order the
different events, especially of the end-times, will occur.
   Most of the other verses that surround the other ones
are warnings and/or encouragements not to ‘fall away’
under persecutions and hard times which warnings and
encouraging words one will need for endurance to the
end. Jesus gives His admonitions in various places and
ways, as did His disciples in their teachings, but they
have no bearing on how things will transpire. In other
words, at the same time Jesus is laying out the course
of future events, He is giving us certain warnings of what
we should or should not do while those events are
unfolding. The ‘filler verses’ do not help us to
understand the chronology of the endtimes. Because of
Jesus’ compassion for us, He is speaking to us words
that will live in us by the Spirit, as they lived in Him,
making us victorious in the midst of the many trials the
future will bring.
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Please pay close attention as you read Matthew 24/Luke
21 to all the words that relate to “when,” “then” and
“after.” These words reinforce for us the fact that Jesus
is speaking these things in the order in which they will
occur. He is speaking rationally, intentionally and
chronologically and not in some ethereal spiritualistic
way that just kind of floats from one subject to another
without any direction or consideration for appointed
timing.

One thing Jesus does not mention in Matthew 24/Luke
21 is the armies of “Gog & Magog” that will come and be
defeated by Him, but not before the rest of the endtime
events begin to unfold! You’ll recall that Gog fills the
mountainous areas of Israel with troops in anticipation of
total victory against Israel ...   indicating the Gog &
Magog war may or may not be the Man of Sin …
addressed as Antichrist, so some teach! End-Time
Project believes Gog is not the Antichrist. (Ezekiel’s
prophecies must be read carefully! Think it out)!
Pastor John Hagee:
On Christian DayStar TV yesterday, January 30, 07, John
Hagee taught this. “The Church could be raptured
tonight. The ‘EU’ will make a treaty with Israel and the
Arabs. Then Israel will be at rest and Gog (Russia who is
the Commander, Guard Ezk 38:7, with and of the Arab
alliance) will come down to take a spoil (the oil reserves)
and Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish who
are Britain and the United States (Britain’s young Lions)
will say, “Have you come to take plunder? Have you
come to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to
take away livestock and goods to take great plunder?”
which booty Hagee interprets as Arab oil reserves, 38:10
seq., but in fact will do nothing more. Pastor Hagee
continues to predict, “When America pulls out of Iraq
she will never engage in any war in the Middle East
again, not even to help Israel! She is broke! O How true!
If you are in debt get out of debt, America is broke!” End
quote. That is true America is in debt and broke! But
note: Sheba is in southwest part of the Arabian
Peninsula Ezk 27:22; Dedan: see 25:13; 27:22’ the
merchants of Tarshish: see 27:12; Jer 10:9. You decide!

Among all the things that will happen before the end, the
most important is that the gospel will be preached in all
the world. After that the end-times start in earnest as a
process or series of events. We need to notice in
Revelation 14:6-13 that, three angels having the
everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the
earth (at this time) to every nation, tribe, tongue, and
people…
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“before” the mark of the beast is commanded. It must be
universal because the angel proclaims the gospel to
every human being, (and I do not believe the angel is a
Christian satellite)! There does not appear to be any
resurrection as yet because the angel’s statement, is,
“Here is the patience of the saints (not addressing Jews
only), here are those who keep the commandments of
God and the faith of Jesus. Then I heard a voice from
heaven saying to me, “Write: Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord from now on: Yes, says the Spirit that
they may rest from their labors, and their works do
follow them.” This is the tribulation period of the Beast
and not the wrath of God. This is a warning not to take
the mark of the Beast, in order to escape the wrath of
God, Saints. The gospel that the angel preaches is the
unchanging, eternal, agelong and the unending … it is
the same gospel that Yeshua Messiah and the Apostles
preached. The “Wrath of God” that follows immediately
after the Tribulation is against the “Gog & Magog
coalition of nations,” that is violently thrown into His
Wrath. It is God taking back control of the earth from
Satan through His Son Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah
(Psalm 2) and putting those who serve Satan through a
much greater torment than what they have heaped upon
the righteous and innocent. However, some do teach it
does not happen in an instant; it will be a series of
events that happen over a short multiyear timeframe
before the Millennium begins; or stretching into the
Millennium reign? We need to study that interpretation
carefully with scriptural facts.

It appears to me, that after the Tribulation, we see
immediately the Son of Man coming on the clouds with
great power and great glory sending His angels to gather
His elect from the four winds (Mark 13:26-27), who are
the harvesting angels that the Lord spoke of in His
Parables of the Kingdom, Mathew 13, see also Rev 14:
14. Selah! (Pause…and think of that), Selah!
Chapter Five
Matthew 24 and Luke 21
Part Two
1)        And Jesus went out, and departed from the
temple: and His disciples came to Him for to shew Him
the temple buildings.
2)        And Jesus said to them, do you see all these
things? Truly I say to you, there will not be left here one
stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
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3)        And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the
disciples came to Him          privately, saying, “Tell us,
when shall these things be? And what shall be the ‘sign’
of Your coming, and of the end of the world?” Mark tells
us that the disciples asking the questions are Peter,
James, John & Andrew.

Please notice that the disciples have grouped the days
of the destruction of the temple buildings together with
His coming and the end of the world, as though they
were somehow one event. But the Lord separates their
questions.
Let us now read Luke’s account 21:
   7) So they asked Him, saying, “Teacher, but when will
these things be? And      what ‘sign’ will there be when
these things are about to take place?” (The destruction
of the temple buildings? How are we to know this? What
is the sign? It appears here that they did not ask about
His coming.
The ‘sign’ is in verse 7, 20) “When you (the disciples/the
believers) see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, (not the
‘abomination of desolation’) then know that its
desolation is near, (70 A.D.”) 22) “Because these are the
days of vengeance, that all things that are written (for
that generation) may be fulfilled.” And from that time of
desolations on, Jerusalem is under Gentile rule until
their fulfillment of the ‘Appointed Time.’ From the times
of 70 A.D., the Jewish people are led captive into every
nation…until they are gathered back into their land, 1948,
and in 1967 Jerusalem became Israel’s capital.
Regardless of what some may teach … the Jews/Israel
will not be led away captive into all nations again! She
will be grafted into the “Olive Tree.”
   Israel and Jerusalem is still dealing with the Gentile
nations even after they have been brought back … the
Arab Islamic Muslim nations, the EU will play a role as
the Iron does not mix with Clay, and this is where we are
today right here in this verse repeating the primary
fulfillment of Jerusalem and a tribulation period set in
the Middle East, with a “global currency meltdown,” next
verse: 25) Because it gives the condition of the “earth’s
distress of nations in perplexity, the sea and waves
roaring, signs in the sun, moon and stars; 26) men’s
hearts failing from fear and the expecting of those things
coming, for the powers of the heaven will be shaken …
then will they see the Son of Man coming on a cloud with
power and great glory,” (Via Satellite).
27) “Now when these things begin to happen, look up
and lift you your heads, because your redemption
(resurrection) draws near.” See verse 31) “…know that
the Kingdom of God is near to rule. 32) Assuredly, I say
to you, ‘this
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generation’ will by no means pass away till all things
take place. 33) Heaven and earth will pass away, but My
words will by no means pass away.” This generation is
the generation that is seeing these things forming now.

34) “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be
weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and “the
cares of this life,” and that Day come on you
unexpectedly. 35) For it will come as a snare on all those
who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36) Watch
therefore, and pray always that you may be
counted worthy to ‘escape’ all these things that will
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” What
does that mean? It means just what it says!

The times of the Gentiles refer to the interval between
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the Image of Gentile nations
ruling over Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, which is
God’s Land, Daniel 2, and the second Coming of Christ,
during which the gospel is proclaimed to the whole
world. Jesus also redefines the meaning of greatness
“reversing the values of the world” … “the cares of this
life!” measured instead in terms of service without
thought of ‘any kind’ of reward in this our short life as
grass that is here today and gone tomorrow!

And too, the disciples in Matthew’s account must have
already known of His impending crucifixion, His
resurrection, His ascension and His coming again;
otherwise they could not have asked, “What shall be the
‘sign’ of Your coming and the end of the world (age)?”
So that causes me to have an inquiring mind that wants
to know! Perhaps through His Parables the disciples
learned of these events. Also, Jesus foretells His death
and resurrection and the glory of His coming after He
says to Peter, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
the heavens …” “Or what will a man give in place of his
life …” “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory
of His Father with His angels, and then He will give back
to each according to his actions.” Mt 13; 16:19-28; 25:14-
30.
   I learned yesterday that Israel is privately seeking
help from the EU instead of the United States’ ‘Road
Map’ for a “Peace Agreement” in the Middle East. But
the “Big Four” met Friday and the ‘Maps Project’ is back
on. The EU’s chief deputy, Javier Solana, stated he
would have the “Peace Agreement” signed within a few
weeks. This means giving up Judea and Samaria! All this
is bringing ‘prophecies’ into fulfillment! Shame on
America for she is, right now anyway, one of the Big
Four! (America has a new President, Barack Obama, and
he has several different ‘ideas and new plans’ for the
Middle East).
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The Messiah’s Return
The disciples question is twofold: When? and What?
Their focus is on the very end. They assume, as
mentioned before, that “all these things” Jesus said will
be destroyed at the end when He returns. They
evidently considered His coming and the end of the
world to be a single event that would somehow be tied
into leveling of the temple and the other buildings they
could see there.

The end, as they thought at the time, was about the last
day when God withdraws His grace and starts pouring
out His vengeance on those who hate Him, and not the
events that lead up to the end of the world. However,
from verse 4 to verse 28 in Matthew 24, Jesus reveals to
them all the things that will happen before the last signs
of His return and the end of the world ‘s system.

Some of those events become minor signs when placed
in context. It is not until verses 29 and 30 that He
discloses to us what that final one great sign will be.

The Lord Jesus begins His reply in verses 4-14. What He
says in these verses can be applied in a general sense
to all church history … from the time of His earthly
ministry up to the completion of time, or the ‘last day’
when the Resurrection occurs just before the Wrath of
God begins. His words can also be applied specifically to
the final years of world history just prior to the time of
the Anti-Christ (Gog?) and His return.

Jesus proclaims in verse 6 that these tragic things “must
come to pass, but the end is not yet.” The Great
Tribulation, Daniel’s seventieth week or Jacob’s trouble,
Jesus does not mention until verses 15-29. The last thing
that must take place when entering into the endtimes
leading us into the Gog & Magog war of the Great
Tribulation is the Gospel of Messiah Yeshua, which the
angels are somehow part of. I know, I know, we have
been taught that the angels do not proclaims the gospel
but Revelation 14: 6-13 says they do.

All the tragic wars and rumors of wars, famines,
pestilences, earthquakes in frequent succession are
only the beginning of sorrows. Read 7-10) “They will
deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you
shall be hated of “all nations” for My Name’s sake.”
   The Jews in Jerusalem’s 70 A.D. destruction were not
hated by all nations; but only by Rome, because the
Jews rose up in revolt against them, but not for
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the sake of Yeshua’s name! Again, in the time period
before 70 A.D. most of the persecutions of the disciples
came from the Jewish leaders themselves and not from
the hatred of all nations. There is no historical evidence
that exists that Messiah came and resurrected anyone at
that appointed time!

The greater intensity of the times is right up to the time
when Israel enters the Great Tribulation. The fact of the
matter is, that the things which Jesus enumerates
above, are pre-Tribulation atrocities. They constitute
tribulation in the lives of those who experience them;
however, they are not the Great Tribulation. The majority
of the church seems to be in denial, especially in
America, over the idea that God will allow His people to
go through “The Tribulation,” even though it suffers
tribulation everyday all over the world. However, this
Tribulation will force people to rethink their priorities,
and it will open the eyes of many to their need of a
Savior, Deliverer and Provider. It may even be the
catalyst of uniting the Olive Tree, the Body of Messiah.

The Lord Jesus was speaking directly to His future
Church, His Body, when He laid out the endtimes to His
apostles, giving them warnings and instructions for the
times to come. (And they were not thinking of a 6,000-
year time period from the day of creation, nor a 2,000-
year time period until His return). Nor was He speaking
to unsaved Jews of Israel, nor was He speaking to a
bunch of left-behind Christians)!

But He was speaking to the born-again Jews and
Gentiles who would make up His Church (gathered out
ones) as the one Body of Messiah. He was also
addressing pure hearts when He said in essence, “Don’t
let your hearts become distracted, discouraged or fearful
by all the evil things you see taking place all around you
and all over the globe, but keep your attentions directed
towards God, His Word and His promised return. Or, at
the very least, focus on your martyr’s reward. Never in
the Gospels does the Lord Jesus tell us that His People
are going to mysteriously disappear without seeing any
kind of tribulations in the last days. Indeed, He does tell
us that both sin and righteousness come to their
fullness! Praise God forevermore, Selah!

I would admonish the true Believer to wean yourself
from the internet; that is, don’t waste your precious time
chit chatting about things that deceitfully lead to sin …
be ever so careful! as we will give an account to God for
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every idle thought-word we convey to another, whether
written or spoken, said Jesus. The computer can easily
be a “serpent” coiled-up in your home ready to strike,
believe it or not.

Please bear in mind that those things Jesus has
described so far are the things that will take place before
the endtimes begin, watch for a “Peace Agreement” with
Israel, the Arabs and possibly the European Union …
then when Israel thinks she is at rest … the Gog &
Magog war.

“Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
many,” verse 11. These prophets teach things contrary
to what the Bible says about “the only Name given
“among men” under heaven whereby we must be
saved!” They teach contrary to the Lord’s doctrinal
words that cannot be changed. It is by a tree’s fruit that
you know what kind of a tree it is. So wait … until you
can truly see and taste the prophet’s fruit of the Spirit of
Christ Himself.

12) “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax (grow) cold.” Aren’t you finding this true even
in yourself? I do.

The end that Christ speaks of in verse 13) “But he (the
individual) that endures to the end, the same shall be
saved,” is the end of the Great Tribulation when the tried
and purified Saints will be resurrected. Jesus is
speaking of the end of all things that we must endure
while in this world. Furthermore, when He resurrects His
Body … that will bring about a conclusion to the things
we must endure because we are no longer in the world.
   Jesus is not telling us that we must endure to the
beginning of the end when the Anti-Christ makes his
Peace Agreement with Israel and then we will be gone.
No, He is telling us that we must endure to the final end
when God blows the whistle on the Man-of-Sin and the
rest of the world and declares the saints to be the
victors. The end is when the final trumpet of the
Archangel sounds, the dead in Messiah are raised and
those who are still alive and remain after the Tribulation
in the Body of Christ are caught up (by the harvesting
angels from the four winds of heaven) to meet the Lord
Jesus, Yeshua in the clouds of the air where every eye
shall see Him. All these events must coincide with the
Book of Revelation that unveils these events for us both
Jews and Gentiles alike for we are One Flock with have
only One Shepherd.
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A Visible Event
Wherever the Resurrection/Rapture is mentioned in the
Bible, it is described as a visible event. In Titus 2:13 the
Resurrection is called a “glorious appearing.” In Acts 1:9-
11 Jesus was caught up before the eyes of the disciples
and received in a cloud “while they beheld Him.” Two
angels appeared and said, “You men of Galilee, why
stand here gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus,
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as you have seen Him go into heaven.”
They were speaking of the first Resurrection, even what
some call the Rapture.

Revelation 1:7 proclaims, “Behold, He comes with the
clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also
which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall
wail because of Him. Even so, Amen” (So be it)! That
means that not only the saints who are awaiting His
blessed and glorious appearing will see Him appear, but
every human being who is guilty of sin and who refused
to receive Him as Lord and Savior.

The “sign” of the darkening of the skies that precedes
His appearing is the same “sign” that precedes the Day
of God’s wrath. This truth is also brought out when the
Holy Spirit was poured out on the day of Shavuot
(Pentecost) Acts 2:20, “The sun will be changed into
darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and
glorious Day of the Lord is come (manifest). And it will
be that everyone who would call upon the name of the
Lord will be saved (from His wrath).”

With the heavens darkened, as they will be … His glory
will shine brighter and more radiant as He descends with
His angels. Saints notice, that the Holy Spirit is very
active even up to the Day of the Lord. Note too, that the
Lord will give wonders in heaven above and signs upon
the earth below, blood and fire, and vapor of smoke, all
before His glorious appearing. The declaration that Peter
is giving is to Israel … about their Messiah … and still is
today, to all the house of Israel! Read it for yourself,
Peter’s sermon is to them in Acts 2:1-42. You see, we
must compare scripture with scripture. There is no such
thing as a Gentile Church only or Jew only, in the Body
of Christ! Never has been, nor ever will be! If it were not
for the Abrahamic Covenant, we gentiles would have no
hope! That Covenant is fulfilled in Messiah Yeshua,
Jesus as One New Man, this is the Mystery revealed by
the Apostle Paul in Ephesians!
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But the Lord Jesus is now turning His attention not only
to the salvation of the gentiles, but especially back to His
own flesh and blood; remember Jesus was a Jew in His
earthly life! “Salvation is of the Jews (Judah),” says
Yeshua!

Let us read in Revelation the only account of Gog
&Magog that is mentioned, by name anyway, to see
whether this may throw some light on this study.

A Thousand Years
This is generally understood to be one thousand, but this
word, ‘xilia,’ was also used in a general sense, referring
to a very large number. Rev 20:1-6.
This, we refer to as the 1000 year reign with Messiah as
priests over the nations and Satan has been chained up
in prison until those large number of days are over.

20:7) “Then when the ‘xilia’ thousand years are
completed, Satan will be loosed from his prison 8) and
he will come out to who deceive the nations who are in
the ‘four corners’ of the earth, Gog & Magog, to gather
for the battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9)
And they went up upon the breadth of the earth and they
surrounded the camp (army some read?) of the saints
and the beloved city (Jerusalem, The New One?), and
fire descended from the sky and consumed them. 10)
Then the devil, the one who was deceiving them, was
thrown violently into the lake of fire and brimstone
where the beast and false prophet had been cast, and
they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
This is very interesting, don’t you think? But, does it fall
into context with the destruction prophesied in Ezk 38 &
39 if Gog is Antichrist?

In our next Lesson we will study the Book of Revelation
as pertaining to the 144,000 Jews that are sealed, the
Gog & Magog surrounding the camp of the saints!
Perhaps other chapters as well … Is this the Gog
referred to in Ezekiel? Hummmmmm, The inquiring
mind wants to know.
   What do you think? May the Lord keep you and may
you keep your whole body, soul and spirit blamelessly
fixed upon Jesus our Messiah.

Shalom! We love you! SheepShed Sent Ministries

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Gog and Magog Part Two