39:1
We continue with Gog and Magog, and the complete destruction of Gog and Magog. We will find the details lurid and may wonder why the Bible contains this sort of stuff. Evil is more pervasive and destructive than we ever imagine. What we see here is a picture of the complete overturn of evil, there is nothing left. In the world people were glad when the Nazis were utterly defeated, when the Berlin Wall fell, when apardheid collapsed in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa. But while these were the end of one evil, they were not the end of evil. Evil arose again, just in other forms. What we see in the Bible is the complete destruction of evil.
39:2-6
“I will turn you around and drag you along”. This sort of terminology would normally apply to what happens to a defeated enemy, and indeed it does so, but here Gog is being brought to fight against Israel. We should recognise that the attacks of the world on God’s people are brought about by God. Now this in no way excuses the persecutors, they are responsible for their actions. But it is God’s purposes that are being fulfilled. Here we have the battle at the end of time, and Gog will be struck down by the Lord. All the nations that attack Israel will fall. They will be left as food for the carrion birds and wild animals. None of the attacking nations will be safe.
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