Dr Paul Allen

Simple Answer: No Then who are Magogo & Gog and why are people saying it is Russia attacking Ukraine? 1. Magog [May-gog] (Uncertain origin and meaning) (Genesis 10:2). Unspecified date. Magog was one of the sons of Japheth. His brothers were Gomer, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The book of Revelation (Revelation 20:8) states that Magog, together with Gog and Satan, will be destroyed by fire from heaven while doing battle against God’s people. The descendants of Magog (Ezek. 38:2), possibly a people who lived in northern Asia and Europe. The Jewish historian Josephus identified these people as the Scythians, known for their destructive warfare.  Magog may be a comprehensive term meaning “northern barbarians.” The people of Magog are described as skilled horsemen (Ezek. 38:15) and experts in the use of the bow and arrow (Ezek. 39:3, 9). The Book of Revelation uses Ezekiel’s prophetic imagery to portray the final, apocalyptic encounter between good and evil at the end ...

The terms “ Gog and Magog ” seem to factor into biblical prophecy quite a bit. Do a Google search for them, and you’ll come up with quite a few conflicting (and sometimes fanciful) articles. Most speculation attempts to tie Gog and Magog’s appearances in Ezekiel and Revelation to a specific geographical location or country. Gog and Magog: a mysterious northern force of evil Two passages in the Bible have cemented Gog and Magog in our minds when we think of the apocalypse: Ezekiel 38–39, and Revelation 20 . Both passages reference a figure named Gog, and a huge army that attacks the people of God . Through the prophet Ezekiel, God says to Gog (of the land of Magog), “You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land” (Ezekiel 38:15–16). Toward the end of our Bible, John the Revelator sees in a vision: “When...

In the book of Revelation, John mentions an earthquake at the end of the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments. Is this a prophecy of a real earthquake that signals that the end has come? Do these prophecies predict suffering through earthquakes that believers have to endure? For John, the earthquake is an image of the end. The relevance of the Old Testament and Jewish tradition of the eschatological earthquake makes this a powerful symbol of God revealing himself in power and glory, in judgment and vindication. John expects that God, whose voice shook Mount Sinai, will at the end once again shake heaven and the earth. The eschatological earthquake is not a sign of the approaching end: it is the end. Will this earthquake be a literal event? Since the earthquake of Mount Sinai was a physical phenomenon, and since John’s readers in Asia Minor were all too familiar with real earthquakes, wreaking havoc on their cities, it is very plausible that the end will begin with a violent earthquak...

John describes the invasion of Gog and Magog as follows: “When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, in order to gather them for battle; they are as numerous as the sands of the sea. They marched up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from heaven and consumed them. And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever” (Rev. 20:7–10). The prophet John explains that at the end, before God’s new world becomes a reality, God will utterly and completely remove from the face of the earth the instigator of all evil and all who followed him in rebellion. In Revelation 20:8, Gog and Magog are not individual nations from the north consisting of military troops. “Gog and Ma...

In the book of Revelation, “Gog and Magog” describes “the nations in the four corners of the earth” (Rev. 20:8), the forces of evil that attack the people and the city of God. It is an attack that ends in total defeat as “fire came down from heaven and devoured them.” The expression “Gog and Magog” comes from Ezekiel 38–39 where we read of “Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal” (38:2) and of his allies “Persia, Ethiopia, and Put are with them, all of them with buckler and helmet; Gomer and all its troops; Beth-Togarmah from the remotest parts of the north with all its troops” (38:5–6). The Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy and End Times begins an entry on “Gog and Magog” with the explanation that “Gog is the leader of a future coalition that will attack Israel, an event described in Ezekiel 38.”1 Interpreters throughout the ages have identified Gog and Magog with very different peoples and places: (1) the invading Goths in the fourth and fifth centuries; (2...