The War of Gog and Magog: Part 1

        I feel a since of urgency to write a blog specifically about the prophesy of Gog and Magog described in Ezekiel 38 and 39—which results in the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem. I cannot just dive into chapter 38 and 39 without giving background into the way Ezekiel wrote his prophesies whom God gave to him. These were not just random prophesies without any logic or theme to them, but were carefully designed for a reason. The design of how God prophesied through Ezekiel was always given in logical order: 1. God declares what He does 2. God tells Ezekiel what happens in the days of the prophesy, and 3. God tells Ezekiel the results of that prophesy.

        In Jeremiah, God prophesied to him, but God never really told him the result because the result was determined by the decisions of the men that Jeremiah talked too. God’s actions were determined by rather the men repented from their evil ways or not. Jeremiah prophesied that way, but Ezekiel didn’t. God called Ezekiel to be a watchman for Israel, and there’s a certain process that a watchman had to do—details in Ezekiel 3:16-21. They were to warn the people and/or person, prepare the people and/or person, and wait to see the results of what happens.

        Well, I don’t know what it’s going to take for God’s people to wake up, and return to Him. God desires His bride, and she needs to make herself ready for her Husband. When will she wake up and realize this calling is still a mystery, there’s much in-fighting and spiritual wars because we still ask the question: “Whose the greatest?” I contend that no one is the greatest except Christ who chose to come as a man to die for us! He chose to be a slave in the flesh to condemn sin in the flesh—according to Paul in Philippians.

        Thus, why would God reveal the truth to us babes? Deuteronomy 29:29: “the secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” God had revealed this so that His people would see, be at awe, and, most importantly, repent! God wants His people to repent and return to the Law of Moses, which the founders of America graciously considered to be the law of the Republic: Liberty in Law. Not only does God want His people to repent and keep the law of God; He wants us to return to Jesus Christ His Son: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). You cannot know the spiritual intent of the law of Moses without God revealing that to you through Jesus Christ, the Son of God: “think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill (Give full meaning or spiritual intent)” (Matthew 5:17).

        The spiritual intent of the reason why the War of Gog and Magog has to happen in today’s time in history can only be given to us from the LORD Jesus Christ Himself. I can go through some scriptures to reveal the truth as the LORD showed it to me. First is from Mathew 23:37-39:

37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’”

        What Jesus is saying in this passage is pretty simple. The second temple will be desolate, and Jesus will not see Jerusalem until God’s people sing the verse from Psalm 118:26 to Him. He was speaking about Jews at the time. Notice the verse in Psalm 118:26:

        “Blessed is he that comes in the name

            Of the LORD!

        We have blessed you from the house

            Of the LORD.”

        Did you notice that Jesus only quoted half the scripture when he was talking about never seeing Jerusalem again? The other half of the same verse talked about the house of the LORD—which is the temple. If Jesus said that the temple in the day of his earthly ministry was to be desolate and that He would not return to Jerusalem unless there’s God’s Jewish people in Jerusalem blessing Him from the temple (as the rest of psalm 118:26 implies), then Jesus must have known about a third temple that must be built before His second coming. The details and design of the temple were laid out in Ezekiel chapters 40 – 48—Ezekiel 39 is the ending of the War of Gog and Magog. Chapter 40 of Ezekiel must be a new beginning with the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem.

         Now, what does all this have to do with the War of Gog and Magog? Simple, two important things must take place before His return: 1. there must be a revival of God’s true church combined with once blinded Jews that would bless Jesus Christ, and 2. there will be a Temple built to bless Him from. This will come into full effect after Gog and Magog is fulfilled: Ezekiel 39:29. The first is happening in America. There has to be a spiritual revival in the Jewish communities of America and Israel too. There are Messianic Jews in Both countries--especially the Messianics in New Jersey. Those Messianic Jews blew the Shofar in New York city at America's Gate before 9/11 happened.