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Biblewriter, you say you have done extensive research into the nations involved in the Gog battle. What if it is not the ENTIRE NATION of Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, etc., but only individuals members which would have descended from or who had come out of those nations which would participate in Gog's battle? This is what the LXX indicates. It says that "Persians" (not all of Persia), "Ethiopians" (not all of Ethiopia), "Libyans" (not all of Libya), and so on. Of course, this does not help if you reject the LXX which Christ used, and consider it an "aberrant text". For others who don't have that view of the LXX, however, this might help.
We are told that Gog was going to "turn thy hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land." (Ezekiel 38:12) When Israel was re-gathered in the post-exilic return, they came out from every nation of the empire back to their homeland to dwell in it after those 70 years of exile. That decree of Cyrus allowed for the Israelites to come out from the nations to which they had been scattered; from Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, the house of Togarmah, etc. The descendants of these formerly-exiled Israelites who were gathered back to dwell in the midst of the land of Israel were those whom the "chief prince" would use in his army against their fellow Israelites in AD 69.
We are told that Gog was going to "turn thy hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land." (Ezekiel 38:12) When Israel was re-gathered in the post-exilic return, they came out from every nation of the empire back to their homeland to dwell in it after those 70 years of exile. That decree of Cyrus allowed for the Israelites to come out from the nations to which they had been scattered; from Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, the house of Togarmah, etc. The descendants of these formerly-exiled Israelites who were gathered back to dwell in the midst of the land of Israel were those whom the "chief prince" would use in his army against their fellow Israelites in AD 69.
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