39:11-16
The hordes of Gog will be buried in Israel. The place they sought to conquer will be the place where they perish. Hamon Gog means “hordes of Gog”. As I mentioned earlier, the key message is the complete destruction of evil. There will be so many dead that it will take the Israelites seven months to bury them. So again we have the number seven. We may find it hard to imagine such a scene, but if you read histories of the first world war you will find it a little easier to imagine, but no less horrific. The land will be cleansed, but it will take them seven months to do so.
39:17-20
The dead hordes of Gog are then described as a feast for the birds and wild animals. This would be going on before they were all buried. The emphasis is on the completeness of the destruction, and that the seemingly mighty and invincible forces of the enemy are defeated. It is the mighty men, the military horses who all die. Forces which claimed to be mighty, which even seemed to be mighty, come to nothing at all. Before God there might is meaningless.
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