Thanks Q. Interesting stuff.
I've always equated the Gog and MaGog names with the metals Iron and Copper respectively. Don't ask me why, just a general conclusion I reached somewhere in the big pictures I found in the stuff I read at excellent librarys. That would certainly go hand in hand with the warrior tradition. Weapons, along with agricultural tools and fittings were some of the first implements made with each metal.
It's always been easier for me to understand pictures I create in my head rather than written histories retained singly. In my world they usually and eventually fit together somewhere along the line.
flow....
Well if this is interesting to you then you'll be interested to know that Gog and Magog are not the final episode. There will be a final force that comes to "mop up" the heretofore weakened armies. They allegedly come from across the Yellow river and number 200 million. They too will be wiped out, but in a single day. Can you imagine an army 200 million strong wiped out in a single day?
Currently, there is only one region that can eve come close to amassing such an army, and it ain't India or Pakistan...only China can amass such an army.
There are clues though that the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia will play a significant role in things, namely the breaking the back of the naval forces of the world (at great cost), leaving only ground forces. These countries will be spent after the Naval battles, they will be mortally wounded. Israel will be left alone to defend themselves.
Allegedly this is where God's forces directly step in, at the pass near the ancient town of Armegeddon. By the end of the day, the carrion will be picking at the bones of the dead soldiers, and to them it will be a feast.
Prior to that, plagues must occur and 1/3rd of the world's population must die. A leader must spring forward and take control of the entire world (absolute control). He must be set up as a god like being. Everything is supposed to be rosy for 3 1/2 years, then go crazy for another 3 1/2 years.
This makes perfect sense, since Lucifer thinks man is nothing more than monkeys. He hates man. Destroy God's prized possession. Make them turn on eachother and annhialate to the last human.
See Devils and demons are not the strongest force on earth or in the universe. Aside from God, Man is (or corporial sentient beings, if you fancy others out there, like us). Fallen angels are simply more intelligent than we are. And all angels are only over us for a time.
The problems in the middle east are nothing. It is about to become very interesting times.
Mark my words.
v/r
Joshua
