The Gog-Magog specter

The Gog-Magog specter - Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ While we sense the powers and principalities at their nefarious work just beneath the surface of what we can see, the prophetic specter of one of human history's most catastrophicwars emerges. I refer to the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, which, of course, we've looked at many times in these commentaries. Stage-setting for the final act of the age is taking place at a blistering pace. The drive to completely erase God from the minds of earth's inhabitants and replace Heaven'sgovernance with man-centered authority is full-speed ahead. A borderless world suited for the one-world order longed for by both the human and spiritual echelons in high places is no longer a surreptitious goal. The minions are out in full force, trying, ina major step, to bring America down so as to form a more perfect union, in the eyes of those globalist entities. It will ultimately become a hellish order that God promises to deal with in the most bitter, harshest terms as outlined in Psalm 2. It's obvious that the consummation of the end of this Church Age (Age of Grace) is near. Not even in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 has American liberty been so affected. World War I and all other activities in that pandemic, which was tremendously worse in termsof numbers of deaths than COVID-19, didn't bring about a complete national shutdown. The minions in high places have used this so-called pandemic to forge their construction for Antichrist's soon-to-come launching platform. Two nations prophesied to be key in the assault are increasingly in the news. Prophetic overtones cannot be missed when analyzed by those who serve as watchmen on the wall. Meantime, the Middle East is seething with the rise of evil that is barely restrained from bursting forth in one of earth's final, major conflicts. Spectral foreshadows presagingthe Gog-Magog attack from Israel's north are darkening the region's geopolitical horizon by the day. We will look at a couple of nations in current news that, in part, comprise Ezekiel's Gog-Magog force that will assault God's chosen people of Israel. We begin with Turkey, which was within the region in ancient times known as Togarmah. The nation is one of three major countries scheduled to assault Israel in a coalition ledby Rosh-or Russia, as most scholars conclude. It is most interesting that this nation is sounding off on its plans for Jerusalem, and for the Temple Mount in particular. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "liberate al-Aqsa mosque" from Israel after "resurrecting Hagia Sophia" as a mosque on Friday. The decision to change the status of the ancient Hagia Sophia church, which had been transformed into a mosque in 1453 and then into a museum in 1934, was made controversiallylast week... The resurrection of Hagia Sophia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa mosque, the Turkish Presidency website says. "The resurrection of Hagia Sophia is the footsteps of thewill of Muslims across the world to come... the resurrection of Hagia Sophia is the reignition of the fire of hope of Muslims and all oppressed, wrong, downtrodden and exploited." (Seth J. Frantzman, "Turkey Vows to 'liberate Al-Aqsa' after Turning Hagia Sophiato Mosque," Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2020) An even more key nation scheduled to attack Israel in the Gog-Magog assault is front and center in the news. We have covered a number of times the prophecy that the ancient areaof Persia called Elam will suffer a catastrophe of some kind. We, along with others who study the prophecy, believe it will be a nuclear problem of some sort. People will, apparently, be forced to flee the area because of the disaster. That mountainous area in Iran is thought to contain Iran's nuclear development facilities. Strange things have been going on there recently. Iran is facing a total intelligence breakdown. With another explosion on Thursday night, reportedly at an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility, the question is not only how anyone has pulled off up to sevenattacks in around two weeks, but how has the Islamic Republic repeatedly failed to stop them... What the world is witnessing right now is someone - the United States, Israel or Saudi Arabia, possibly with Iranian dissident proxy help - hitting Iranian nuclear and conventionalweapons and IRGC facilities practically at will. And they are doing it in a way that has virtually never been witnessed in recent memory... The questions remaining then, are how long these attacks can continue and whether Iran can cope with them or try to make some sort of secret contact to cut a deal to get themstopped. If it does not, the message from whoever is making this happen is clear: Continued aggressive actions on nuclear and other fronts will lead to consequences that the ayatollahshad never imagined. (Yonah Jeremy Bob, "What the World Is Witnessing Right Now Is Someone Hitting Iranian Nuclear and Conventional Weapons and IRGC Facilities Practically at Will," Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2020) Hatred of Israel by these and other diabolist states of the Middle East are raising the specter of the Gog-Magog war a visible, looming certainty. We believe the Rapture willimmediately precede that attack-the next-to-very-last war before Christ's return at Armageddon.