The Gog magog invasion of
Ezekiel 38-39 not the one in Revelation. That is a tiotally different event separated by at least 1,003 years.
Agreed. Ezekiel 38-39, Gog/Magog takes place right before the 7 years begin, and is not the Revelation 20 reference.
The Gog/Magog event description ends in Ezekiel 39:16. Ezekiel 39:17-20 is seven years later Armageddon feast.
All of
Ezekiel 38-39 is the pre tribulation invasion of Russia, Iran, Syria, Ethiopia, Turkey, and probably the Sudan. Chapters 38-39 are ont thought about one war!
39:4 is the simple fact that god will give the corpses to th ebirds and beasts and verse 17 is the command for that to happen. There can be no other trnslation based on grammar and language.
Ezekiel 38:1-13, the precondition for Gog/Magog.
Ezekiel 38:14-23 the attack and judgement on Gog/Magog
Ezekiel 39:1-6 judgement on Gog's army
Ezekiel 39:7-16 clean up the land in the aftermath
Ezekiel 39:17-29 Jesus's judgement on the heathen 7 years later, and His Return, restoring the house of Israel, bringing all of them back to the land of Israel, none left in the nations..
Regarding the whole interpretation of Ezekiel 39, you are not taking into account that it is Jesus Himself speaking in Ezekiel 39:21-29, having returned to earth, setting his glory among the nations. In those verses, he is recounting the last 2000 years of house of Israel going into dispersion for transgressing against him, rejecting him as the messiah.
And refusing to accept that He is the Lord their God. He is also speaking in the verses about them being back in right standing with Him.
Ezekiel 39:28 equates to Matthew 24:31.
28 Then shall they know that I
am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land,
and have left none of them any more there.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
While currently there are Jews who came from the nations when Israel became a nation again in 1948, there is a still a big portion of them in the nations. And that will be the case when Gog/Magog takes place.
It is not until 7 years following Gog/Magog, and Jesus returned that all of the Jews will be brought back to the land of Israel.
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In Ezekiel 39:21, that Jesus sets his glory among the heathen (the nations at the time) is in Psalms 2. Which is also a description of Armageddon when the kings of the earth decide to make war on Jesus.
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
I am skipping down a few verses....
8 Ask of me, and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth
for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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In Psalms 110 is another, speaking of Jesus and his execution of judgment on the heathen in Ezekiel 39:17-20.
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou
art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among
the heathen,
he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
This is what you need to focus on, right here, to know that Ezekiel 39 is divided up in two parts - separated by 7 years.
Ezekiel 39:
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and
all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
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I made a chart of the path of the arch villain of the end times to the beginning of the great tribulation. You will see on my chart that I have Gog/Magog near the top.
I don't disagree with you that Gog/Magog of Ezekiel 38/39 is not the same as in Revelation 20.
However what you are not getting is that about half of Ezekiel 39 is not about Gog/Magog, but about Jesus's return 7 years later. Ezekiel 39:17-20 is Revelation 19:17-18. And is also Psalms 2 and Psalms 110. And also Ezekiel 39:28 is Matthew 24:31.