So are you now saying that this 3rd group of humans who are supposedly from "the edge of society" (whatever that means) that are too wicked to be glorified and too righteous to be destroyed sin when Satan is allowed to have his little season?
No third group. Another smoke screen. Can normal human beings not change their minds? Do you place all humans in groups every time their mind changes? Would that currently be about 8 billion groups?
The verse says from the four "corners".
"And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the
four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went
up on the breadth of the earth."
These gog and magog types are from the very ends and come across the earth. Symbolically they refer to nondescript people, not specific nations. The term was used by Alexander the Great hundreds of years before the first century. They were naked barbarians that Alexander allegedly built a huge wall to prevent them from just walking into his kingdom and disrupting the peace. Modern lingo would be homeless zombies. Yet naked, without any normal human reasoning skills. Symbolically John pointed out some by that time would be susceptible because he called them gog and magog. John could just as easily described them as both "small and great" from all over and from every nation. He did not do that. I doubt he was giving them any legitimacy by giving them a name, because historically by itself that symbolism just shows the outcast of society. I would say it is the same usage in all Scripture. They are just the barbarian rifraff that the named Nations hired to fight their battles, so to not sacrifice their own civilians. If you want to give them legitimacy, maps of the ME in the first century place them in modern day Turkey. And the mountains north of Turkey is where this alledged wall was built by Alexander.
I don't think John was actually drawing from history, just using historical symbolism. Turkey is not the four quarters/corners of the earth. Saying the corners is the actual Greek meaning. Not sure why pointing out these people came from the edges and marched to the center where the camp of saints was, the ME, is hard to understand? They were not specified, not a known nation. They were just normal people who listened to Satan, and the further removed from the central government the larger the numbers of people who changed their minds about that central government.
Is it not logical to state that over the 1,000 years, people kept expanding to the four corners because they ran out of room to build? That the largest population and the most people lived the furthest from the center? They did not build upwards in tall buildings. They built outwards in normal houses with normal people. Isaiah 65 says once they built a house they never left. So obviously the next generation had to build further away, and that happened in all directions.
You claim there is no Scripture and we just make this up: Isaiah 65:21-23
"And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and
their offspring with them."
They keep having offspring and keep living in the same houses. This happens for 1,000 years. Every new generation builds their own place, and never moves. Each generation moving out and building further away. Each house producing it's own "farm". So not just buildings but farm land. So the houses are further apart and no local stores. Just houses and farm land.
Take all this symbolically and just make up your own imagination. The literal words do not need any additional imagination. No one is forcing any one to think a certain way.
