Gog, Iran and the Middle East: A biblical perspective

Gog, Iran and the Middle East: A biblical perspective - N. Brad Carter Jr. - http://www.meridianstar.com/opinion/columns/gog-iran-and-the-middle-east-a-biblical-perspective/article_22e11a95-e3f8-5600-b903-c074cb4da970.html

 

Russian media Pravda.Ru announced that Russian warships returned to the Mediterranean Sea with the statement that "Today, (April 8, 2017) the frigate of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Grigorovich, joined the permanent formation of the Navy in the Mediterranean Sea." All of this is in response to President Trump's order to send Tomahawk missiles flying to Shayrat, Syria airbase as a national judgment by the USA for the war crimes of Syria in bombing the innocent civilians which included women.

 

All of this is in response to President Trump's order to send Tomahawk missiles flying to Shayrat, Syria airbase as a national judgment by the USA for the war crimes of Syria in bombing the innocent civilians, which included women, children and babies. The "substance" believed to be used in the bombs was a nerve gas called "sarin gas." The sarin gas agent poisoned Syrian masses in 2013 and 2017.

 

The U.S. missile action was taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It should be understood that the Russian military was attached to the Shayrat airbase when the Syrian forces bombed Syrian civilians. As a former specialist in the Army Chemical Corp and located at a research and development post I can assure anyone that the Russian personnel knew the location and disposal plan of the munitions as they went out from the Shayrat airbase.

 

It was approximately 535 BC when God inspired Daniel to reveal this truth regarding a "latter years" prophecy. (Dan11:40) "The king of the north (Russia) will storm out with ...a vast navy." And this Russian navy has been building since the near collapse of the Soviet Union and the associated financial ruin that Russia experienced in the 1990s. Russia has always been ice-bound in the north seas, but with the land grabbing of Crimea they gained access to the Black Sea and ultimately to the Mediterranean Sea.

 

The Soviet Union and Syria entered an agreement in 1944, which matured in 1971, to allow the Soviet Union to open its naval military base in Tartus. This gave Russia a major port in the Mediterranean Sea that is a deep water port and at the same time in 2009 through military aid they gained a major port city of Latakia that has been developed into a major airbase. Latakia has become even more significant as it is the home of Russia's largest foreign electronic eavesdropping facility. And, in 2015 Russia opened an additional airbase in Shaayrat. This gives Russia two ports (Tartus and Latakia) in addition to two major airbases (Latakia and Shaayrat). It is very interesting that a people who avow "there is no God" are shown the development of their future by a God whom they disavow. 

 

Believers today are seeing the news spoken yesterday. In fact the entrance of the Russian/GogMagog navy into the Middle East in alliance with Persia/Iran and other Islamic states is like reading a billboard sign with the hand writing on the wall of the palace. (Ezekiel 38) Yes! There is trouble in the Middle East!

 

The Bible includes other players in this war invasion by the Russia and Iran prophecy in Ezekiel 38 and 39. God states that Libya, Ethiopia, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia will all be involved. With this invasion (Ezekiel 39:1 & 2) God tells Russia in no uncertain terms that "I am against you, O Gog (Russian comrades)...and I will turn you back and leave but the sixth part of you upon the mountains of Israel." Five (5) out of six (6) coalition invaders of Gog's army will die on the mountains of Israel.

 

God says that the time for this battle will be in the latter years. (Ezekiel 38:8) You are encouraged to verify the scripture regarding the possibilities for invasion by the armies involved.