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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Ezekiel 39:1-29
Gog, his allies, his satellite countries and their countless hordes will be annihilated "upon the mountains of Israel". To give us some idea of the fearful scale of this final onslaught, v. 9 tells us that the abandoned weapons of war will provide enough fuel for the inhabitants to keep them warm for seven years, and v. 14 adds that seven months will be needed for the burial of the dead. And so this country that Gog wanted to possess will become his grave. Furthermore, God will also send a judgment upon Magog, the aggressor’s own territory.
Everything about the destruction of the Assyrian and his armies has been kept in reserve for more than twenty centuries in God’s Book (cf. Ezekiel 38:17). But that will not prevent the multitudes, blinded by Satan, from hurling themselves upon the place designated for their massacre. In just the same way the Gospel has been declaring for two thousand years where the broad road leads to (Matthew 7:13), and yet what a great number there are that follow it recklessly to go down into perdition.
Such will be the last events preceding the reign of Christ. Thereafter Israel will dwell in peace; none shall make them afraid, and many nations will learn the fear of the LORD.
