Prophecy Update: Russia Rising
Where is Russia? The prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39 describes a future battle led by the Russians. The news talks about Iran constantly and their desire to destroy Israel. God said that Iran would follow the lead of Russia, not Russia following the lead of Iran. In this update, I would like to explore how God is putting the hook in the jaw of Russia to cause them to come against Israel.
Magog/Scythians
“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 of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.”
Ezekiel 38:2-3
In order to understand this passage we have to go back to Ezekiel 36-37. God describes for us the time when He will bring Israel back into the land. Israel will possess all of her land while in a state of unbelief and then at some future point His Spirit will be poured out on His people. What is the event that will open the eyes of Israel that God is real and working to fulfill His promises to the Jews? Ezekiel 38-39 will be the first major event that begins the process of redemption. In the fifth century before Jesus, a Greek historian named Herodotus wrote of the Magogites calling them Scythians. Josephus, the Jewish historian also linked Magog with the Scythians and said they lived north in the territory of Russia.
“Ancient Scythians The Greeks called them Skythians and the Romans called them Scythians. The Scythae were the barbarians (non-Greek and non-Roman), the people north of the Black Sea, on the outer edge of the civilized world. The Bible mentions them in Col 3:11. The country of the Scythae comprised a vast area in the eastern half of Northern Europe, and in Western and Central Asia. The Arabs call the Chinese wall Sud Yagog et Magog, that is, the mud wall, or rampart of Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog are mentioned in Revelation 20:8; and these, says Bishop Newton, “seem to have been formerly the general name of the northern nations of Europe and Asia, as the Scythians have been since, and the Tartars are at present.”biblehub.com
The Gog Magog battle will result in the world recognizing that the LORD intervened for Israel. God will be fighting for Israel! These two passages describe this….
“It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, that My fury will mount up in My anger.”
Ezekiel 38:18
“My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.”
Ezekiel 39:7
How will the Russians come down against Israel? God says that He will make them go down so that He can judge them. In Ezekiel 38 God describes this as a hook in their jaw. Chapter 39 gives further information:
“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.”
Ezekiel 39:1-2
Persia/Iran
Russia does not dominate the news in the Middle East. Iran is in the news every day. God said that Persia would come with the Russians to attack Israel. Right now, at this very moment, Iran and Russia are prepositioned for this war. Both of their armies are camped in Syria to the north of Israel. Iran dominates the news because the Obama false peace deal was scuttled by the Trump Administration. Now that Trump is out of the way, the Iran deal is back on the table. This has Israel anticipating a war with Iran. Russia though is the nation they need to be concerned about! God is using Iran as a hook in the jaw!
“Israel’s Defense Ministry demands special funding for attack on Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday evening with the finance and defense ministers, their top staff, and the chief of staff to discuss the allocation of “at least” 3 billion shekels to prepare for a possible attack on Iran. In an interview with NBC News Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Iran could be “weeks away” from having enough fissile material for a bomb if it keeps up its current pace. Warning that a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with only slight modifications was untenable, Kochavi said that offensive military operations are already on the table.” worldisraelnews.com
One of the goals of the Obama administration was to assist Iran on becoming the dominate player in the Middle East. President Biden will continue that policy. This means that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and a host of other Arab countries cannot trust the United States anymore. The Abraham Accords proved to the world that the Sunni Muslim states would rather trust Israel rather than Iran! These are the exact conditions laid out in Ezekiel 38-39! The two main contributors to the Iranian bullying are Russia and China.
“Why America Should Fear a Russia‐China Alliance. Perhaps most ominous are the growing if still limited ties between China and Russia. Tension between the two nations is real but antipathy to Washington binds them together. Although some analysts dismiss the importance and sustainability of the relationship, Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy contended: “the Xi‐Putin partnership is arguably the most dangerous relationship on the planet today.” cato.org
That is the understatement of the year!
“China intends to “deepen” its partnership with Russia as a bulwark against the United States over the next year, according to a top diplomat in Beijing. We must deepen China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperation … so as to build a Sino-Russian pillar for world peace and security and global strategic stability,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday. U.S. Pentagon analysts have acknowledged “a relatively high degree of military cooperation” between the current and former communist regimes.” washingtonexaminer.com
As China and Russia form their alliance, the United States becomes weaker and weaker. That America does not intervene in the battle has been the mystery surrounding the Gog Magog prophecy. Putin has threatened to nuke America many times in the last 5 years. These next three stories catalogue these threats in 2018, 19, 20. American weakness is a hook in the jaw!
“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of the nation speech in Moscow piled on anti-American rhetoric when he revealed simulated video of a new “immune to interception” nuclear weapon with unlimited range that showed a computer-generated strike against Florida. Putin’s video display during his annual address to the country’s Federal Assembly on Thursday didn’t specify why Florida could be a target of Russian aggression against the United States.” miamiherald.com
“A terrifying new animation shows how 1 ‘tactical’ nuclear weapon could trigger a US-Russia war that kills 34 million people in 5 hours.”Plan A” comes as tensions between Russia and NATO allies ratchet up. Both Russia and the US are testing weapons previously banned under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, often called INF. Russian bombers have also cruised into US airspace repeatedly, and the US recently sent its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber on a mission in the Arctic — right in Russia’s backyard.” businessinsider.com
“RUSSIA’S nuclear forces will conduct more than one exercise every two days ALL year featuring an “unstoppable” 15,000mph missile that could wipe out Texas.” the-sun.com
Is Putin Gog
Putin is one of the most interesting dictators in history. Consider this article and pay attention to the biblical values that are added to the criminal enterprise of Putin.
“On Wednesday July 1st, 2020, Putin became president for life. 206 constitutional amendments were packaged and included a critical mechanism that would allow Putin, whose term ends in 2024, to run for president again, potentially enabling the 67 year old leader to remain in power until 2036. Among the recent amendments approved was also the mention of ‘belief in God’ as core national value and a definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman.” thelampstand.com.
Putin runs an oligarchy, a small group of people whom he controls control the country. Several news outlets call him the richest man in the world. He uses Christianity as a tool to unite the country around the Russian Orthodox Church. He is smart enough to know that Christianity holds the key to uniting the Russian people. Unfortunately, the Christianity he espouses has a history of antisemitism. He said in 2014, “Christianity was a powerful spiritual unifying force in the creation of a Russian nation and Russian state. It was thanks to this spiritual unity that our forefathers for the first time and forever more saw themselves as a united nation.” thelampstand.com.
The Russian Orthodox Church teaches replacement theology and has a long history of persecuting the Jews. Here is an article about antisemitism in Russia—-
“In modern-day Russia, anti-Semitism is something that is really prevalent in everyday life. History has shown that anti-Semitism has been a big part of the Russian-Jewish experience, and has affected many generations of Jews living within the Russian Empire. Later on, during the times of imperial Russian, the various czars did not give the Jews much freedom and required them to live in the Pale of Settlement, which included: modern-day Belarus; Lithuania; Moldova; much of Ukraine, eastern Latvia; eastern Poland; and the western border of Russia. This area existed, with varying borders, from 1791 to 1917. For Jews, these years were plagued with pogroms, which were attacks on Jewish shtetls, as well as many other restrictions and problems that prevented them from rising up in society. After Stalin’s death, Russian Jews were continuously persecuted. The Communist regime published anti-Semitic books and executed dozens of Jews in the 1960s and 1970s.” cjnews.com
Russian Antisemitism is a hook in the jaw.
There is no doubt that Russia like much of Europe harbors a hatred of Jews. That hatred will cause more Jews to make Aliyah, go home to Israel. The Bible predicted that this would happen and it is happening more each year. Something will cause Jews to leave America. Will it be a failed economic system, war, or outright antisemitism? Whatever the cause, America has to lose its superpower status for the final kingdom to rise and the Gog Magog prophecy to come to fruition.. The time is coming when Jews and Christians will not be safe in America. Stratcom had an interesting article yesterday:
“STRATCOM Commander: ‘Real Possibility’ of Nuclear War With China or Russia. There is a “real possibility” that a regional crisis with either China or Russia could escalate to nuclear war, the head of U.S. Strategic Command is warning in a call for federal and military leaders to change their approach to nuclear deterrence. He also warned that China and Russia are beginning to “aggressively challenge international norms and global peace using instruments of power and threats of force in ways not seen since the height of the Cold War.” newsmax.com
“If not now, when?’ Thousands of American Jews apply to move to Israel in pandemic. More American Jews applied to immigrate to Israel or inquired about it in May than in any single month over the last two decades, according to Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit organization that promotes Jewish immigration to Israel.” forward.com
Economics is the hook in the jaw!
Russia is envying the increasing riches of gas and oil in Israel. Israel is cutting into the European market, Russia will not stand by and watch as this happens. Turkey is already in a state of war with Greece over the gas pipelines being built from Israel. This is a major hook in the jaw.
“Greece said Tuesday it had approved a landmark $1.68 billion deal with Israel, providing for the procurement of 10 state-of-the-art jet fighters and training of pilots as the government in Athens upgrades its defenses, mainly against its longtime foe Turkey. Last year, Greece and Israel also joined forces with Cyprus to build a 1,900-kilometer undersea pipeline to carry natural gas from the Eastern Mediterranean’s rapidly developing gas fields to Europe.” voanews.com
Greece and Italy are benefitting from the East/Med pipeline. This is causing Rome to rise like the first Roman Empire—fulfilling the conditions for the revived Roman Empire of Daniel 2+7!
“Taking a page from Beijing, Rome is positioning itself as the center of trade, energy, and transportation in Southern Europe and beyond. Rome is rising over the Mediterranean, this time as an economic power. Termed il Mediterraneo allargato (“the enlarged Mediterranean”), the map of Italy’s rising 21st-century commercial prowess looks a lot like the first-century map of the Roman Empire.” foreignpolicy.com
This last statement should send shivers up your prophetic spine!! God is on the move and the last days are like the birth pangs of a woman in labor! Stay alive and awake to what the Lord is doing. Blessings to all of you.
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