I agree with you. The Book of Revelation should be judged against the rest of the Bible to see if it contradicts. There are many contradictions that I show in my study but as you talk about the New Earth etc, here is just one to prove the point.
The Bible only mentions Gog and Magog in two places: Ezekiel 38:1- 39:16 and Revelation 20:7-11, but while these two instances carry the same names, a close study of Scripture clearly demonstrates they do not refer to the same people or events. Both cannot be right, so the question is, which one is the true account of future events.
In Ezekiels's account of the coming of Gods Kingdom, it is through Gog that God will demonstrate to the atheist Israeli Zionist elite that it is He and not them who brought them out of the nations, and by His actions against this atheist Israeli government. God will prove to the entire world that He is God when he brings about His kingdom under the rule of his Son's Second Coming in Jerusalem and the present ungodly Jews will be among them. Never again will the Jews profane his holy name as they do now under the Zionist regime.
"I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel. It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of." (Exekiel 39:7) [bold mine]
In Ezekiel's prophecy, Gog from the land of Magog (Ezekiel 38:1) is the name given to a leader of a great army that attacks the land of Israel and Jerusalem in particular, just before the coming of the Kingdom of God under the rule of Jesus, the Son of God.
"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground." (Ezekiel 38:17-20)
On that day, people all over the world will become fearful when they see Gog and his armies move against Israel. They will know that God had foretold this. The great earthquake described is the same one that the prophet Zechariah describes when he says:
"A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him." (Zechariah 14:1-5)
The prophets Ezekiel and Zechariah are in agreement with the events leading to the Second Coming and the installation of the Kingdom of God under the rule of his Son.
It is important to recognise that Ezekiel's Gog is described as leading a group of nations, those from Gog's own nation of Magog which includes Meshek and Tubal within it area of influence, and joined with him are the armies of Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer and Beth Togarmah from the far north. Many other nations are not involved and when God's kingdom is established we are told that "many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to entreat him." (Zechariah 8:22) and that God will "settle disputes for strong nations far and wide". (Micah 4:3)
"In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." (Micah 4:1-3)
The events described in Ezekiel all come before and at the Second Coming of Christ. Now let us compare this with what the book of Revelation says about Gog.
The first thing to be observed is that Gog of the book of Revelation does not attack before or at the Second Coming of Christ, but a thousand years afterwards - after the thousand year reign of Jesus and the saints that follows the first destruction of all of mankind at the Battle of Armageddon, on the great day of God Almighty. (Revelation 16) Satan however is seized and bound for a thousand years " to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time." (Revelation 20:1-3)
"When the thousand years are over, Satan is released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth-Gog and Magog-and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:7-10)
Incidentally, the term Armageddon does not appear any of the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) nor does it in the Christian Greek scriptures (New Testament), nor in any of the Jewish apocalypses, or in the Apocrypha. This is another invention of the author of the Apocalypse.
There are several things to observe about Gog in the book of Revelation, For starters, Gog and Magog are described as two entities that are evidently symbolic of all the nations of the four corners of the earth. In contrast, Ezekiel, Gog comes from the land of Magog.
Next, in the battle of Ezekiel 38-39, the armies come primarily from the north and involve only a few nations of the earth (Ezekiel 38:6, 15; 39:2) but when Satan is released after the thousand years, ALL the nations are gathered from the four corners of the earth for battle, in other words, these armies will come from all directions, not just from the north. I might add that at the battle of Armageddon and the outpouring of the wrath of God before the thousand years of the saints, I have shown elsewhere that the earth has been destroyed and all the people have been killed. One has to ask from where did the new nations of Gog and Magog spring from that are gathered against God for the last time when everyone had been killed off before?
It should also be noted too that there is no mention of Satan in the context of Ezekiel 38-39 but in Revelation 20:7 the context clearly places the battle at the end of the millennium with Satan as the primary character who is responsible of gathering the nations against Israel. In Ezekiel, it is God who puts "hooks in the jaws of Gog", like pulling fish out of water, and forces Gog to bring his whole army and his allies against Israel and Jerusalem so that Israel and the nations will KNOW Him when he has proved holy through their eyes.
Then there is the matter of what happens after the great battle. Ezekiel 39:11-12 states that after the battle for Israel, the dead will be buried for seven months. But, in the case of the battle described in Revelation 20:8-9 when everyone of all the nations are destroyed (again), we are told that everybody is cremated when, "fire came down from heaven and devoured them." Yet, Ezekiel tells us that after the battle with the nations that had attacked Israel with Gog from the land of Magog, when the Kingdom of God is established at Jerusalem, powerful nations are still intact to witness what he had done. And, from that day forward, the survivors of atheist Zionist Israel will know that God had done this and know that He is their God.
"I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them [on Gog and his allies]. From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God." (Ezekiel 39:21)
Clearly, it will be somewhat difficult for the nations to see God's glory if the nations are destroyed and all the people with them.
The author of the Apocalypse contradicts what Ezekiel and the prophets Zechariah and Micah say who agree that afterwards the existing powerful nations will go to Jerusalem, to have their
disputes adjudicated by God through Christ, and that God's laws will bring about a world of peace. This is what the Kingdom of God is all about. It is this kingdom for which Jesus said we should pray, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (Luke 11:2; Matthew 6:10)
The article in the link below does a good job overall of describing my viewpoint on the topic.
Using the Old Testament to interpret the New Testament often causes confusion.
Gog of Magog - Here a little, there a little - Prophecy
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Joh 21:20 Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"
Joh 21:21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, "But Lord, what about this man?"
Joh 21:22 Jesus said to him, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me."
Joh 21:23 Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?"
Joh 21:24 This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.
Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.
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