Prophecy Update: Gog Magog War is Antisemitism 1/24/2020
Last week I focused on some of the international developments surrounding the setting up of the Gog Magog prophecy. This week I would like to continue that focus. The countries involved with the prophecy are mostly Muslim and they have demonstrated extreme anti-Semitic behavior. One commentator last week wrote an article about Muslim antisemitism driving Europe to attack Jews. Europe has always had a problem with antisemitism. Whether it is old or new antisemitism, it is all the same, finding some pretext to attack and destroy Jews. Adding Islam to the European mixture of antisemitism makes things worse. Here are some recent articles describing this antisemitism:
Majority of Israelis fear for Jews living in France: Jan.21, 2020. “The majority of Israeli citizens are concerned for the safety of Jews living in France as fears over the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and the western world continue to grow, a new survey commissioned for i24NEWS and revealed on Monday finds.
Don’t Blame the Surge of European Anti-Semitism on the Populists: By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
May 29, 2019. “European Union survey of German Jews conducted last year showed that a plurality of Jews who say they experienced anti-Semitic harassment said the perpetrators were Muslim extremists.” With the rise of populist candidates in Europe, the press will only say that antisemitism comes from the right. ‘Right’ is used as a derogative term to lump everyone together who is against globalism. The meaning that the press in Europe and America want to convey is that anyone on the ‘right’ is anti-Semitic. Therefore, in America if you are a Republican you are anti-Semitic and if you’re a Democrat you are not anti-Semitic.
In Ezekiel 36-39 we have the prophetic teaching on the reestablishment of Israel in her land and the subsequent attack of the nations who comprise the Gog Magog invasion. What is interesting about the total prophecy is the emphases put on the ‘mountains of Israel.’ The term ‘mountains of Israel’ appears eleven times and it is clear that Israel needs to be in the land and occupying the ‘mountains of Israel.’ Currently that is not the case because the Arabs occupy more of the ‘mountains of Israel’ then Jews do. 2.1 million Arabs live in the West Bank and 450,000 Jews live in the West Bank. That is quite a difference but God says in Ezekiel 36:8, ‘But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.” God makes clear in the 11 occurrences of this phrase that Israel will have the land to herself, very few if any Arabs will be living there. 36:12 makes clear what God is going to do with the cities in the West Bank—“Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.’
For the Gog Magog prophecy to happen the lands of Judea and Samaria need to be occupied by Jews and that is not the case today. The prophetic passages about the ‘mountains of Israel’ make clear that the war happens in the mountains, which Israel occupies. For instance, Ezekiel 38:8 agrees with chapters 36-37 when it says, “After many days you (Gog) will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.” God will bring back the Jews from Europe and America to Judea and Samaria to live and prosper. This is called Aliyah, which means the return of Jews to the land of Israel. The only way I see that Israel will take the land back is through war. The reason is because the Arab states and the 57 Muslim countries of the world have made it clear that Israel is occupying their land. That is why what is happening in Israel today is so miraculous! Here is an article that is blowing me away because it concerns the Holocaust.
Massive Gathering of Kings in Jerusalem on Thursday: By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz January 20, 2020. “On Thursday, Jerusalem’s role as a gathering place for kings will appear. The event commemorates the Holocaust but one rabbi sees it as a decisive moment in which the nations will choose which side they will fight for in the final battle between Good and Evil. The Fifth World Holocaust Forum called “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism,” organized by the World Holocaust Forum Foundation in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, will take place on 23 January 2020 at the museum’s Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem. The event marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.” “Whenever world leaders gather in Jerusalem, its a sign the holy city is claiming its rightful, biblical place as the seat of global leadership,” said Rabbi Tuly Weisz, publisher of Breaking Israel News. This is good news because there are still people who want to live in peace and protect the Jews. On the other hand, there are many who want to kill all of the Jews. Look at this headline:
We will soon establish the caliphate, liberate Jerusalem and conquer Rome’: January 19, 2020 / MEMRI. Rome will be conquered by Islam in the near future, Palestinian preacher Nidhal Siam told an enthusiastic crowd last week at an event in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque marking the anniversary of the 1453 C.E. capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. Siam can be seen telling a crowd that three prophecies will soon be fulfilled and expressing his hope that his audience will be the ones to fulfill them. The three prophecies, said Siam, are that a rightly guided caliphate will be established; that Jerusalem will be liberated and established as the capital of the caliphate; and that Islam “will throw its neighbors to the ground” and its reach will span the globe. Can you imagine that—Jerusalem has 49 nations coming together saying ‘never again’ while Muslims are saying ‘we will do it again.’ Here are a few more examples this week of this horrible antisemitism:
Apple goes Full BDS as Siri calls Israel ‘Zionist Occupation State’: By David Sidman January 19, 2020. “Apple customer Stephen Ackerman asked Apple’s voice-activated virtual search assistant ‘Siri’ a simple question: “Who is the president of Israel?” Siri’s response, however, came as quite a shock to Ackerman after she answered: “Reuven Rivlin is the President of the Zionist Occupation state”.
PA Calls to Commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day by Killing Jews (Seriously): By Palestinian Media Watch January 19, 2020.
While that is going on in Jerusalem, Russia has moved another step closer to full dictatorship with Putin. He does not want to leave office and he is acting more and more like Gog.
The Rise Of Gog? Putin Positions Himself To Influence Russia For Life: The move is intended according to many for Putin to retain power after the end of his presidency in 2024. “It’s not clear what role he will play, what will his status be. The only thing which is clear is that he will keep his role as the No. 1 person,” Alexey Chesnakov, a political analyst who previously served as a Kremlin aide, told The Wall Street Journal. Putin called for 150,000 more troops in the last three months. He gave a state of the union speech that can be characterized as a call to war.
On Jan. 23, Putin will give an address at a ceremony in Israel commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, but Polish President Andrzej Duda has refused to go because he hasn’t been given a chance to speak. The antisemitism currently in the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, and Poland will be a major incentive for the Gog Magog war to start. The reason is because all of those nation have declared that Israel is an occupying power. Imagine what they will say when Israel takes sovereignty over Judea and Samaria?
You don’t have to wonder anymore because Israel is currently in the process of declaring Judea and Samaria sovereign Israeli territory. This is in reaction to the Peace Deal from President Trump. Whatever is in that deal, it is inspiring Israel to declare the land theirs!! Here is an article about this:
Netanyahu seeks green light from White House to annex Jordan Valley: JERUSALEM POST STAFF, TOVAH LAZAROFF JANUARY 22, 2020. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his office appealed to the White House on Wednesday for a green light to apply Israeli sovereignty on the Jordan Valley and the northern region of the Dead Sea before the March 2 elections, Kan 11 News reported on Wednesday morning. Yisrael Beytenu partly head Avigdor Liberman also said his party supported the move, noting that it had attempt with no success to put forward a Knesset bill on sovereignty in Judea and Samaria already in December, noting that Netanyahu could use his bill. He urged Netanyahu to include in his initiative places in Area C of the West Bank such as Gush Etzion, Ma’aleh Adumim, Givat Ze’ev and Ariel. It’s presumed that should the matter come to a vote, Netanyahu would have the support of Beit Yehudi, the New Right, his Likud Party, Yisrael Beytenu, Shas and UTJ. That would give him at least 63 votes.“
This is an amazing article and one which I have been following closely because it is very specific to Bible Prophecy happening now. On Thursday, President Trump asked if they would wait to annex the Jordan Valley until after the Peace Deal was revealed. I am worried about this peace deal because all of them have asked Israel to give up her land. Hopefully this announcement of the White House means that they can annex the Jordan Valley. If Israel annexes the Jordan valley, the cry from the UN and the Muslim countries will be unlike you have ever heard. I have a caution for everyone though, right now Putin and Russia do not show the kind of animosity towards Israel that the prophecy foresees. God has to drag Russia into this by putting a hook in her jaw and pulling her into the war. Interesting article that sheds some light on this:
Why Russia’s Putin has a soft spot for Israel and Jews: Yochanan Visser, 19/01/20
“Putin’s attitude toward Israel could be best dubbed as ambivalent. On one hand, he’s allowing Israel to carry out airstrikes against Iran-related targets in Syria despite the deployment of the S-300 missile shield which is designed to shoot down incoming fighter jets except for Israel’s F-35 Adir stealth warplane. On the other hand, the Russian leader isn’t afraid to seek a confrontation with the Jewish state such as the crisis that erupted over the alleged Israeli downing of a Russian IL-20 reconnaissance plane over northwest Syria in September 2018.”
Putin is acting like Gog but hasn’t made a move against Israel yet. The Russian army is in the position to invade by being in Syria, but they are not ready to invade. Israel is moving into Judea and Samaria little by little, but they are not where the Bible says they will be when the prophecy happens. So there is much to watch and pray about. If the Gog Magog prophecy happens before the Rapture, then I expect this year that Israel will take the West Bank back fully, so there will be some kind of regional war. I can see that happening any day.
Pay attention to Aliyah, the return of Jews to the land. God has called the Jews to go back to the land but from some places, they are not coming. Jeremiah 16:14-16 says, “Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers. “Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.” Soon Jews will be leaving America for their homeland because God has willed it. I love the Jews and want them to stay because they are a great people and bring the blessing of God to the land.
It is Friday morning and the big news is that on next Tuesday the Trump Administration will reveal the Deal of the Century. Word is that the USA will back Israel claim to the Jordan Valley and will stand by them in that claim. This is setting up a conflict because the Palestinian Authority will oppose it completely. Sunday night we will talk about this at length and I will be doing a history lesson on why Israel owns all of the land. International law and the claims of the Muslim countries are subject to Gods claim to the land. Nothing trumps what God has declared that Jewish land extends from the river in Egypt to the Euphrates River and from Lebanon in the north to the Red sea in the south. Even the peace deal by the Trump Administration does not go far enough to give them all of the land. Every peace deal has fallen short of what God said would happen. Warning: do not divide the land of Israel because it will bring the wrath of God. One reason for the tribulation period is the peace deal from the antichrist who will also divide the land and then try to destroy Israel. Can’t wait to talk about this Sunday night. Maranatha everyone!
