Where are getting "dictator" from ? I have never said it.
Putin may be the leader of Russia when Gog/Magog takes place. But i did not call him a dictator.
that is.. really unimportant to the point.
the point was, where does God warn about some other nefarious character from Russia in scripture. Because Ezekiel 17 is a rhetorical question
"Aren't you the guy I warned Israel about through the prophets for hundreds of years?"
There's 2 ways to look at this question:
1. God doesn't know, and is honestly asking if this is the guy
or
2. God does know, and is asking him rhetorically
God is declaring prophecy, something that would happen thousands of years after the prophecy was written down, of course God knows who Gog is and has warned Israel about him through the writings of the prophets for hundreds of years.
and my question to you is... where?
because all the passages I can identify, are about Antichrist. Remember, Daniel was a contemporary of Ezekiel, Daniel is even mentioned by name.
Isaiah 14 starts out as a passage about the King of Babylon, then jumps to Lucifer and his sin, fallen from heaven, IE not a human king, and then God refers to him as the Assyrian.
ALL IN THE SAME PASSAGE. This is Antichrist. The Assyrian is also the title used in Micah 5, that Jesus destroys.
So where then, are prophets warning about someone else that is Gog, but not Antichrist?
THINK NOW, I have been called unto prophecy nigh 40 years now, THINK NOW:
Reread Ezekiel 38 and 39, does Gog & Magog conquer Israel? No, God consumes them with fire.
Now read Dan. 11:40-43, Zech. 14:1-2, Rev. 12 where he chases Israel into the wilderness or Rev. 13 where he overcomes the [Jewish] Saints. And in many more places, the Anti-Christ defeats and conquers Israel, nowhere in the bible can you show me where Gog and Magog defeats and conquers Israel.
I do the simple stuff first brother.
the conquest of Israel isn't discussed in Ezekiel 38 true, but Ezekiel 39 discusses Armageddon, the same stuff as Revelation 19. so yes, Antichrist is destroyed in the mountains to the north in Israel, but after he'd conquered it.
Compare the language in this passage to parts of Revelation
17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
First, the Rhetorical question by God. If God is NOT identifying Gog as Antichrist, then where in scripture is God warning about a non Antichrist invasion from the North? I have yet to ever be answered this by anyone parroting the Russian Non-Antichrist Gog interpretation.
Ever.
They cannot do it. They can't find a passage of scripture about some other guy in the end of the age that does this.
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
This sounds like Revelation 11 and Revelation 16, the great Earthquake, it could also be connected to the 6th seal. Some people overlap those events and to some degree, I have to concede that yes, the Earthquake fits all 3. The thing that doesn't fit is that the trumpets come after the 7th seal.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
These are trumpet and bowl judgement things. 1st trumpet, 1st bowl, and 7th bowl in particular.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
These things will be undeniable acts of God.
and the crazy thing is.. people who do not believe Gog is Antichrist, will say that Gog will get destroyed before ever actually getting into Israel supernaturally, everyone will acknowledge God... and then... completely memory hole all of it and worship Antichrist a couple years later?
and let's go into Ezekiel 39 which makes it even more ridiculous
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
So yeah.. you believe that God will do this pre-trib, and then a couple years later people will just forget all about it and worship Antichrist?
not to mention this:
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God.
Compare with Revelation 19's supper of the great God.