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The day of the Lord mentioned in Joel 2 is the same day of the Lord in zech 14 when jerusalem.has been taken ,the houses ransacked and the women raped.
Zech 14
14 A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
2 I 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.
No it's not.
Zechariah 12 is though. In the Ezekiel 38-39 narrative, it doesn't say that Gog and Magog successful attack Jerusalem. Additionally, Zech 14's plague does not include fire and brimstone. They are two different occasions, as I have been saying.
This narrative is reminiscent of the story of Sennacherib invading and besieging Jerusalem from the north. Hezekiah tried to bribe Sennacherib into not invading by tearing off the gold from the temple doors and giving it to him. This didn't work. Others considered fleeing to Egypt, but Isaiah warned against that. Hezekiah decided to put on sack cloth, fast, and pray to God for deliverance. That night, God slayed the Assyrian armies as they camped in the mountains.
When you read Joel 2, they line up fairly well.
Gog does not take Jerusalem ransacking the houses and raping the women.This day of the Lord when Jesus comes takes place 1000 years before Gog and the nations outside the promised land get the idea to start something.
Notice all the nations From Egypt to Assyria are not with Gog,Ethiopia and Libya?There's a reason why they don't come against Israel.
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Gog is the ruler of the nations that seek to rule over Israel and Jerusalem, and seeking to stop the Messiah from ruling. Magog is Assyria, from parts of Turkey, to Syria, and parts of Iraq. Iran, Sudan, and Libya are with him. These are all nations run by Islamists that seek to set up their own caliphate.
Everyone from Assyria to Egypt will be holy during the 1000 years.It will be one kingdom.
Isaiah 19
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance
If the Turkish regime and Iran's mullah's fall, such a thing is possible, even before the 1,000 years. Interesting that you speak about thirds though.
Here is where things get really interesting:
Daniel 7 says that ten horns will arise out of the beast and, after them, another horn will arise and supplant three of the horns.
After the dragon in Revelation 12 is unable to destroy the woman (Zion), he turns his wrath against the rest of her offspring (the churches) and causes a beast to come up out of the sea. This beast is the same Daniel 7 spoke of.
How does the dragon fail? He sends a RIVER to sweep away the woman with a FLOOD, but the earth swallows it up. Ezekiel 38 says a great earthquake will cause all creatures and people to hide. This is the event that swallows the flood. If you're not picking up on what I'm saying, the River is the Jordan River and the Flood is the Al Aqsa Flood. That was the trigger that will lead to the first battle of Gog and Magog. After that battle, the beast will rise.
The beast of Daniel 7/Revelation 13 comes from the nations that come up against Israel in that day: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine, and possibly Azerbaijan. That or Algeria (I'm sure Morocco wouldn't mind). The post-war division of these nations.
One kingdom from the Euphrates to the Nile.
I'm just going to go out and say this instead of alluding to it anymore: Jerusalem will become the capital city (Babylon) of the ten-horned kingdom. Everyone is looking at a revived Roman Empire or for an Islamic Caliphate led by a mahdi. Nope. Jesus said false messiahs would mislead many. The ten horns will turn against Jerusalem because of the two witnesses opposing the False Prophet (see Zechariah 13) and will sack it, which then brings us to the Zechariah 14 invasion, the event that precedes the coming of our Lord.
