In your 1/09 post
GOG-MAGOG
vs. ARMAGEDDON (fivedoves.com) you
have shown why you think the battle of
Gog-Magog takes place at the beginning
of the Great Tribulation period of 1,260
days and why you think the Battle of
Armageddon takes place at the end of the
Great Tribulation period of 1,260 days
while I believe that the Gog-Magog
battle is part of the Battle of
Armageddon.
As you know the woman
(Israel) flees into the wilderness at
the beginning of the Great Tribulation
of 1,260 or 42 months according to Rev.
12:6 &14 because of being persecuted
by Satan. However, after the
Gog-Magog war Ezekiel 39:11-12 says, "And it shall
come to pass in that day, that I
will give unto
Gog a
place there
of graves in
Israel, the
valley of
the passengers on
the east of
the sea: and
it shall stop the noses of
the passengers: and
there shall they bury Gog and
all his multitude: and
they shall call it The
valley of
Hamongog. And seven months shall
the house of
Israel be
burying of
them, that they may cleanse the
land. Yea, all
the people of
the land shall
bury them; and it
shall be to them a renown the
day that
I shall be glorified, saith the
Lord GOD." The
house of Israel cannot be fleeing into the
wilderness for 1,260 days or 42 months at
the beginning of the Great Tribulation
period if Israel is burying Gog and all
his multitude for the first 7 months of
the Great Tribulation period of 42 months.
But it would be possible for the house of
Israel to bury Gog and all his multitude
for 7 months at the end of the Great
Tribulation period of 42 months when they
are no longer in the wilderness.
Also if the Gog-Magog war
were to happen at the beginning of the
1,260 day or 42 month Great Tribulation
period and Gog-Magog is defeated on the
mountains of Israel, how is the Antichrist
going to take over Jerusalem and rule from
there and also set up his image (the image
of the Beast) in the holy place of the
Temple?
Also in Ezekiel 39:17-20, the
Lord tells every feathered fowl and every
beast of the field to assemble themselves
together to eat the flesh and drink the
blood of the men of war and their horses
who died on the mountains of Israel in the
war. Then the Lord according to
Ezekiel 39:21-22 says, "And I
will set my
glory among
the heathen, and
all the heathen shall
see my
judgment that
I have executed, and
my hand that
I have laid upon
them. So the
house of
Israel shall
know that
I am the
LORD their
God from
that day and
forward." (These verses sound like
the end of the Great Tribulation
period when the Lord Jesus returns
to earth because He is not going
to be on earth during the Great
Tribulation period according to
Matthew 24:21-26.) Rev.
19:17-19 also shows al the fowls
in the midst of heaven being told
to gather themselves together to
eat the flesh of kings, captains,
mighty men, and horses after the
battle of Armageddon.
Also according to
Ezekiel 38:18-20 there is going to be a
great earthquake at the same time that
Gog shall come against the land of
Israel which results in the mountains
being thrown down and all the men that
are upon earth shall shake at the Lord's
presence, and the steep places fall and
ever wall shall fall to the
ground. If that were to happen at
the beginning of the Great Tribulation
period the Antichrist would be ruling
from Jerusalem for 42 months and setting
up his image to be worshipped in a city
whose temple walls have fallen down
along with all the walls in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 38:20 also says all the men that
are upon the face of the earth shall
shake at the Lord's presence. It sounds
like the great earthquake that happens
when the Lord returns with all His
saints and His feet stand on the Mount
of Olives with the Mount of Olives being
thrown down in the middle into two parts
(Zechariah 14:4-5.) Also Rev.
16:18-20 shows us that all the cities
fell and the mountains are not found
when the great earthquake takes place
just like all the walls falling down and
the mountains are thrown down in the
great earthquake of Ezekiel 38:18-20. I
believe that the Gog-Magog war is part
of the Battle of Armageddon when all the
nations come against Israel.