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Gog as cool symbol that ties OT AND NT TOGETHER​

IT’S ALL GOSPEL:
The really cool thing about Gog / Magog is the way this last chunk of Ezekiel leaves the more literal prophesies against Israel back then - and starts to glimpse forward - exploring big changes coming to God’s kingdom. The really SAD thing about Gog is how misunderstood it is when eschatological futurists try to separate it from the gospel message anticipated by Ezekiel.
IT STARTS
Chapters 34 to 37 are prophecies about the RESTORATION of Israel - and more gospel focussed stuff about the future. Remember the end of Chapter 11? There is hope - even though Jerusalem falls during the earlier part of Ezekiel’s ministry.

A NEW HEART
But one day God is going to resurrect this dead nation! A new David (Jesus) will bring a new people of God to life. With a new heart! Just like the promise at the end of Deuteronomy. They’ll have soft hearts. Then there’s the vision of the valley of dry bones – and new humans – a re-created nation is alive! It’s a new act of creation.
This starts as Persia lets the Jews return home to setup the scene for Jesus to arrive. Then Jesus is incarnate, and dies in our place, rises again to show our punishment is paid, and gives us the Holy Spirit to trust in him and being the journey of building those new hearts!

ALL ENEMIES JUDGED
Chapters 38 to 39: God will defeat all the evil in the nations. Gog is from Genesis 10 – a powerful enemy nation – and the way Ezekiel describes Gog is as representative of ALL the enemy nations against God. Ezekiel describes this great ‘Gog’ with bits and pieces of all his previous descriptions of Egypt and Tyre and Ammon etc. Gog is a construct, an amalgamation. Gog represents ALL enemies of God - rolled into one.
Then it happens. Gog gets judged so thoroughly it requires 3 symbolic acts that cannot be literal - because each is so devastating nothing would be left for the next! Trying to put them all end-to-end literally is ridiculous - but each has its own unique description of destruction worth taking to heart. We do not want to be God’s enemies. There is earthquake, fire, and bodies being left in the fields to be eaten by animals for 7 years. The massive earthquake is so utterly destructive that no body would be left to be burned, and the fire so destructive no body would be left to rot in the field. It’s Ezekiel’s vivid symbolism describing the awful judgement against the nations that will fall when the Lord returns.

A SUPER TEMPLE?
The rest of the book explores the SUPER-TEMPLE and the land becoming a new creation. Ezekiel’s heavenly temple is OBVIOUSLY symbolic. What temple could be built in Jerusalem that has a river coming out the front door and down the front steps that brings the Dead Sea area back to life?
But we see that Jesus fulfils this vision in his gospel ministry - but in eschatological tension. In the now but not yet of the Kingdom of God present on earth now - but not ruling. EG: Jesus said HE was the perfect temple! HE would be torn down and raised in 3 days.

A RIVER OF LIFE!
Jesus explained to the Samaritan woman at the well (a place in the OT where a groom meets his future bride!) that HE is the Messiah. (And really the groom come to find his bride - the Samaritans). He says both Jew and Gentile will worship ANYWHERE - in “Spirit and in truth”. HE is the living water that brings life!
Jesus is the perfect temple AND the river that brings new life to the world. Then in Acts we see Peter declaring that the Last Days had started because of this gospel. And by the end of Acts it had gone from Jerusalem to Rome - the ends of the earth. Everything has been fulfilled except the final promise that one day God will return and judge Gog - all his enemies for all eternity.
We see in Hebrews 12 a vision of the super-temple - but it’s Christians worshipping God and Jesus through prayer. In Revelation 20 we see a vision of God’s overwhelming climactic victory against Gog - almost as an afterthought. It doesn’t play to Hollywood’s normal rules of good writing and suspense, with the hero coming through almost by sheer luck. No! God just sends fire on them - and they are gone.
For more detail try these videos - the author has a Phd in Hebrew apocalyptic symbolism.