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📚“Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord God: See, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh 📖, Meshech and Tubal, 2 📚and I will turn you around, and lead you along, and cause you to come up from the far north, and will bring you onto the mountains of Israel. 3 📚And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall from your right hand.39:3 If these chapters foretell an event at the end of this age why speak of bows and arrows? or swords and shields (Ezek 38:4)? or lances and spears (Ezek 39:9)? Guns and tanks and bombs and planes had not yet been invented and the Hebrew language had no words for them. But the weapons mentioned in these chapters may signify the more destructive weapons that nations have today. The prophets had only the language of their day to speak of things far in the future.⚜
4 📚You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your troops, and the people who are with you. I will give you to the birds of prey of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 📚You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. 6 📚And I will send a fire on Magog, and among those who live in safety in the coastlands; and they will know that I am the LORD.
39:6 This speaks of the land of Gog. Sending fire suggests some terrible destructive force. God may, of course, use other nations to send the fire on Magog.⚜
7 📚“So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let them profane my holy name any more; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8 📚See, it is coming, and it will be done, says the Lord God; this is the day 📖 of which I have spoken. 9 📚And those who live in the cities of Israel will go out, and set the weapons on fire and burn them, both the small shields and the large shields, the bows and the arrows, and the lances and the spears, and they will be burning them in the fire for seven years 📖, 10 📚so that they will not take wood from the field, or cut down any from the forests; for they will be burning the weapons in the fire. And they will plunder those who plundered them, and loot those who looted them, says the Lord God.
11 📚“And it will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of travelers east of the Sea 📖; and it will block the way of travelers. And there they will bury Gog and all his hordes, and they will call it The Valley of Hamon-Gog.
12 📚“And the house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, to cleanse the land 📖. 13 📚Yes, all the people of the land will be burying them; and it will mean fame for them on the day that I am glorified 📖, says the Lord God.
14 📚“And they will set apart men continually employed to go throughout the land to bury those who had been coming through, who remain on the surface of the ground, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. 15 📚And as those going throughout the land go along, if anyone sees the bone of a man, he will put up a sign beside it, until those doing the burying have buried it in The Valley of Hamon-Gog. 16 And the name of the city will also be Hamonah 📖. Thus they will cleanse the land.
17 📚“And, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to every feathered bird, and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come. Gather together from every side to my sacrifice, which I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. 18 📚You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And in the sacrifice I sacrifice for you, you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk.
39:17-19 The destruction of these godless armies will be like a feast God provides for the animal creation.⚜
20 📚Thus you will be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all the warriors, says the Lord God.’
21 📚“And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my judgment that I execute, and my hand that I lay on them.
39:21 Verse 13; Ezek 38:23.⚜
22 📚So the house of Israel will know from that day on that I am the LORD their God.
39:22 This deliverance from their enemies will have a permanent effect on Israel.⚜
23 📚And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to me. Therefore I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword. 24 📚I acted toward them in accordance with their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
25 📚“Therefore thus says the Lord God: So I will bring Jacob back from captivity 📖, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name, 26 📚after they have borne their shame 📖, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to me, when they were living in safety in their land, and no one was making them afraid. 27 📚When I bring them back from the peoples, and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, and show myself holy among them in the sight of many nations,
39:27 Ezek 36:23. God has determined to show the nations of the world an aspect of His character they are very prone to forget – His holiness. One instrument He will use to do this is the nation Israel.⚜
28 📚then they will know that I am the LORD their God, who caused them to be led away into captivity among the nations, but have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them there any longer 📖. 29 📚And I will not hide my face 📖 any more from them; for I will have poured out my Spirit 📖 on the house of Israel, says the Lord God”.