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As I have have said to you before, there is no biblical prophecy about any 7-year period in the End Times other than the one in Ezekiel 39, and that takes place after all other events have been concluded.
Gog attacks twice: 1st is Ezek 38:1-23, then the 2nd attack is Ezek 39:1-29.
Ezek 39:9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 10 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.
When Gog is destroyed, then they are seizing the spoils from the locusts/ armies that had previously plundered them (during the tribulation).
At the conclusion of the 2nd attack, the 'glory of the Lord' arrives:
Ezek 39:21 “And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
God's glory is the theophany (Yeshua/ Jesus) which is established here: Ezek 43:2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. 3 And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face. 4As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east, 5the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
The following are the other visions. [The first one here in Ezek 9 could be argued to be Daniel 9:26’s people of the prince to come destroy the city and sanctuary. The ‘prince’ is the ‘man in linen’ who is the same as the ‘man in linen’ angel in Dan 10 and Dan 12 who ‘swears by heaven’ (which confirms the Dan 9:27 covenant.) (This is the same angel ‘man in linen’ as the Rev 10 ‘mighty angel’ who swears by heaven.)
Ezek 9:1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.” 2 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
3 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist. 4 And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.” 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. 6 Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house. 7 Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city. 8 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, “Ah, Lord God! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
9 Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’ 10 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”
11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”
And this
Ezek 1:1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
4 As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal. 5 And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, 6 but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.
26 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance. 27 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. 28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.
Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
The Chebar river is a tributary of the Euphrates river. In other words, this connects to Revelation 9:13-21’s Euphrates river events with the four angels. After the killing of a third of mankind, the ‘glory of the Lord’ comes to inhabit the temple that will come to be. The Revelation 10 'Mighty Angel' is a clear reference to this 'glory of the Lord' who also has a 'bow around his head' in Rev 10:1.
to sum up:
Start of the Trumpets, starts the day of wrath because Gog is attacking (Ezek 38:14).
the locusts are the people of the prince to come who destroy the city and sanctuary.
Start of the 6th trumpet: These locusts 'cut off the daily' (Joel 1:4-9)
God's forces start destroying the unfaithful who are worshipping the abomination in Ezekiel 9's (2nd vision of the glory of the Lord)
Gog's forces are stopped (the events of Rev 9:13-21)
When Gog appears to have been destroyed, the 'glory of the Lord' appears to arrive to confirm the Dan 9:27 covenant of peace (same as Ezek 37:26) and inhabit the temple. This is the arrival of the Rev 10 Mighty Angel.
From the Jewish point of view, this should be the end of the matter. But it isn't (from the Christian POV).
If you think that there is one Gog attack between the events of Ezekiel 38 and 39, then the Revelation 5th Trumpet’s 5 months of locusts combines with the 7 months of clean up (Ezek 39:12) to form 12 months, 1 year, aka one ‘day of the Lord’. The 'glory of the Lord' arrives to confirm the covenant and inhabit the temple and that's that.
But since there are 2 attacks, the ‘7 years’ of Ezekiel 39:9 are actually initiated by the ‘glory of the Lord’ (which is Yahweh’s theophany which is Yeshua/ ‘Jesus’).
[Essentially, Gog is the Assyrian, but is not what people consider to be the 'antichrist'.]
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