The leader will be “Gog, of the land of Magog” (Ezek. God gave three identifying marks for that leader. The five nations of Ezekiel 38:5–6 will be led by a sixth in the future attack against Israel. The Identity of the Leader of the Invasion 8 If that happens, all the nations named in Ezekiel 38:5–6 will be characterized by a militant Islamic hatred of Israel. As a result, some leaders fear that Turkey could become another Iran. 7Ĭonsidering the location of the fourth and fifth nations in Turkey, it should be noted that the present secular government of Turkey is being threatened by Islamic fundamentalists. 6, 1 ), who settled in Cappadocia, now eastern Turkey. The people of the fifth nation, Togarmah, were identified by Josephus as the Phrygians ( Antiquities, I.
In Ezekiel’s time, they had settled in what is now central Turkey. They originally lived north of the Caucasus Mountains in the southern part of what is modern Russia. The people of the fourth nation, Gomer, were also known as the Cimmerians. It is strongly anti-West and anti-Israel, and Western intelligence has been informed that Libya has hired Eastern European and former Soviet military scientists to aid its development of military power.
The third nation, Libya, the western neighbor of Egypt, is also an Islamic nation today. 3 Today it is known as Sudan and is dominated by an Islamic fundamentalist government that is using brutal means, including crucifixion of Christians, to attempt to establish a pure, Islamic state.
Instead, it occupied the area later known as Nubia. The second nation, Ethiopia, was not the same as modern Ethiopia. 1 It has openly declared its commitment to the annihilation of the Jewish State of Israel.
It is currently ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist government that is building significant military power, including the development of nuclear weapons. The first nation, Persia, is now the modern state of Iran. Five of those nations are identified in 38:5–6 with the names they bore in Ezekiel’s time. Ezekiel 38–39 foretells a massive future invasion “of Israel by the armed forces of six nations.
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