The Ezekiel 38-39 Gog Magog War Occurs at Armageddon and END of 1000 Years

Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 are written in reverse order. Chapter thirty-eight describes an attack on Israel by Russia and its hordes. This is not a pre-millennial event but rather a post-millennial event. Most every teacher of Bible prophecy gets the timing of this invasion wrong. Ezekiel chapter thirty-eight fleshes out details of the final rebellion briefly described in Revelation chapter 20. It is a pre-curser to the New Heavens and the New Earth, not a pre-curser to the millennium. 

See in-line notes. The words of ADONAI YHWH are in red.

1: And the word of YHWH came unto me saying  2: Son of mortals set your face against Gog the land of Magog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him 3: And say Thus says ADONAI YHWH Behold I am against thee O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal 4: And I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen all of them fully armed even a great company with large and small shields all of them handling swords 5: Persia Ethiopia and Libya with them all of them with shield and helmet 6: Gomer and all his bands The house of Togarmah of the north quarters and all his bands And many people with thee 7: Be thou prepared and prepare for thyself thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto them 8: After many days you shall be mustered In the latter years ^{After the 1000 yrs} you shall come into the land ^{of Israel} that is restored from the sword and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel which have been always deserted ^{by its promised people} but it is brought forth out of the nations ¹⁹⁴⁸ (/) ^{1000 yrs} and they dwell trustingly all of them 9: You shall ascend and come like a storm You shall be like a cloud to cover the land you and all your combatants and many people with you 10: Thus says ADONAI YHWH It shall also come to pass that at the same time shall things come into your mind ^{Because Satan is loosed at the end of the 1000 yrs} and you shall think an evil thought 11: And you shall say…“I will go up to the land of unwalled villages ^{No Iron Dome} I will go to them that are at rest ^{Peacetime. No war. No army} that dwell trustingly all of them dwelling without walls ^{No iron dome} and having neither bars nor gates ^{No one guarding perimeter. Sitting ducks}12: To take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the [once] desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations ^{1948 (/) End-Time Gathering at 2nd Coming, Mat 13:30,24:31,} which have gotten cattle and goods that dwell in the midst of the land” 13: Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions of it ^{Those not with the attackers} shall say to you “Have thou come to take a spoil? Have you mustered your armies to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods, to take a great plunder?” 14: Because of this son of mortals prophesy and say to Gog Thus says ADONAI YHWH In that day when my people of Israel dwell trustingly shall you not know it? 15: And you shall come from your place out of the north parts you and many people with you all of them riding upon horses ^{agrarian culture. Where is the mechanized equipment?} a great company and a mighty army 16: And you shall come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land It shall be in the latter days ^{After the 1000 yrs. When Satan is loosed.} and I will bring you against MY land that the nations may know me when I shall be made holy in thee O Gog before their eyes 17: Thus says ADONAI YHWH Are you ^Gog he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? 18: And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel declares ADONAI YHWH that my fury shall come up in my face 19: For in my jealousy and in the fire ^{Rev 20} of my wrath have I spoken Surely in that day ^{After the 1000 yrs. When Satan is loosed.} there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel 20: So that the fishes of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the people that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground 21: And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains declares ADONAI YHWH every man's sword shall be against his brother 22: And I will judge against him ^Gog with pestilence and with blood and I will rain upon him and upon his combatants and upon the many people that are with him an overflowing rain and great hailstones fire and brimstone 23: Thus will I magnify myself, and hallow myself and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I YHWH 

CHAPTER 39

There should not have been a chapter-break here. The Most High God is in the middle of speaking, and the translators interrupt him with a chapter break. Ezekiel chapter 39 describes the Battle of Armageddon and aftermath (compare to Revelation 19:17). The chapter finishes as Jacob/Israel is gathered back to Israel [from the scattering] and enters the Millennium in right standing with YHWH ELOHIYM.

       1: Because of this thou son of mortals prophesy against Gog and say Thus says ADONAI YHWH Watch ME! I am against thee O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal 2: And I reverse you [and leave but the sixth part of thee ^KJV] I allure you up from recesses of the north and I bring you upon the mountains of Israel 3: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand 4: You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel you and all your combatants and the people that are with you I will give you to the birds of prey of every sort ^{Revelation 19:17-20} and to the animals of the field to be eaten 5: You shall fall upon the open field For I have spoken it says ADONAY YHWH 6: And I will send a fire on Magog and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles and they shall know that I YHWH 7: So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more and the nations shall know that I YHWH the Holy One in Israel 8: Behold, it is come and it is done says ADONAY YHWH this is the day whereof I have spoken ^{Psalm 118:22-24} 9: And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and shall set on fire and burn the weapons both the shields and the bucklers the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the spears and they shall burn them with fire seven years 10: So that they shall take no wood out of the field neither cut down any out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons with fire ^{Contamination from a nuclear explosion (9-10)}  and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them declares ADONAY YHWH 11: And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea and it ^{[the smell of decay]} shall stop the noses of the passengers and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog 12: And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them ^{all the hordes that came against Israel}  that they may cleanse the land 13: Yes all the people of the land shall bury them And it shall be to them a renown The day that I shall be glorified says ADONAY YHWH 14: And they shall sever out ones of continual employment passing through the land entombing the ^{bodies of the} trespassers (the ^{dead bodies of the} ones being left upon the surfaces of the land) to cleanse it After the end of seven months shall they search 15: And the passengers, the ones passing through the land, when any see bones of humans then shall they set up a marker by it till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog 16: And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah Thus shall they cleanse the land ^{after Armageddon} 17: And you son of mortals thus says ADONAI YHWH Speak to every feathered bird and to every animal of the field Assemble yourselves and come Gather yourselves on every side to MY sacrifice ^{Revelation 19:17} that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that you may eat flesh and drink blood 18: You shall eat the flesh of the mighty ^{Nephilim (fallen angel human hybrids)} and drink the blood of the princes of the earth of rams of lambs and of goats of bullocks all of them fatlings of Bashan ^{Remember Og of Bashan was Nephilim} 19: And you shall eat fat till you be full and drink blood till you be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you 20: Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots with mighty men and with all men of war declares ADONAI YHWH 21: And I will set my glory among the nations and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them 22: So the house of Israel shall know that I YHWH ELOHIYM from that day and forward 23: And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me Because of this I hid my face from them ^{Numbers 6:24-26} and gave them into the hand of their enemies so fell they all by the sword 24: According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them and hid my face from them 25: Because of this thus says ADONAI YHWH Now will I reverse the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for my holy name 26: After that they have borne their shame and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me when they dwelt safely in their land and none made them afraid 27: When I have brought them again from the people and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations 28: Then shall they know that I YHWH their ELOHIYM which cause them to be led into captivity among the nations but I have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of them anymore there 29: Neither will I hide my face ^{Numbers 6:24-26} any more from them For I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel ^{Zechariah 12:10-14} says ADONAI YHWH

Summary: Sometimes there is a back and forth, what this writer calls, “free-flow,” to Bible prophecy, which is not always given in chronological order [though sometimes it is]. Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 are examples of this and are written in reverse order. Chapter 38 describes the final rebellion that takes place at the end of the Millennial Kingdom, while chapter 39 describes the Battle of Armageddon which takes place at the Second Coming of Christ before the Millennium.

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