Chance,

That was really exciting and amazing to read your letter!

You mentioned Joel Richardson leaning toward a Magog / Turkey connection.

Last year, I sent a letter in, referring to Gog / Magog  

There, making mention of the Assyrian court records, 800 years before Josephus, that apparently identified the nations making up Turkey.

Magog, Meshech, Tubal, and Togarmah, comprising, from west to east, what is now modern day Turkey.

That Meshech, Tubal, and Togarmah, were for a while under Assyria, but that Magog was not.

However, Magog fought along with the Assyrian empire, against Gomer, who was an enemy of the Assyrian empire.

In particular, Gomer fought against these four nations from the northeast, from what is modern day Georgia, in the Caucasus.

That would have been in Ezekiel's day, but by the time of Josephus, the four nations had also migrated north of the Black Sea.

So, in Ezekiel:

Ezekiel 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

  3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

Gog is identified as a chief prince, prince like the prince of Persia, the prince of Grecia, or Michael, one of the chief princes.

Apparently he is a celestial being that was around in Ezekiel's day, and will yet be involved in Ezekiel 38 & 39, as well as in Revelation 20.

However, Gog is not referred to as the chief prince of Magog, but rather the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Yet, Ezekiel is to set his face against Gog, the land of Magog.

Perhaps this celestial being will be whom the antichrist is identified with, i.e. the beast that arises out of the bottomless pit, if that is where Gog currently is.

So, like the other son of perdition, Judas, whom Jesus said "is" a devil, although he was a man, and later possessed by Satan for his main act of betrayal.

John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Then, will the antichrist, also, somehow be a devil-man, like Judas was, therefore an evil counterfeit of the God-man Jesus?

Will he be a real man, but somehow also referred to as a devil? like being one with the celestial being Gog, after he comes up from the pit (in chapter 9)?

Apparently, the antichrist, like Judas, will also have Satan move in for the main act, like sitting in the temple proclaiming himself to be God?

If so, then the antichrist will be given Satan's seat:

Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And that seat of Satan was mentioned a few chapters earlier:

Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

  13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

Pergamos was in what is now western Turkey, which in the 1st century was referred to as Lydia, but 800 years earlier was referred to as Magog.

So, could the antichrist's kingdom be in the same place, where 2,000 years earlier, Jesus had seven churches, which he had John write to?

It would have been no coincidence that Jesus had a church planted right where Satan dwelt, throwing down the gauntlet.

The devil persecuted Christians in Lydia, and eventually got the whole area under the false god, allah, until this day.

But will this still further be why he would then give the antichrist his seat, there?

If so, then modern day Turkey could be where the Antichrist's kingdom is?

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