2015 Prophetic Year in Review

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peltrostilTN.jpegpeltrostilTN.jpegpeltrostilTN.jpeg For those of us watching possible fulfillment of prophecy in 2014 and 2015, eyes on Russia and Iran were particularly fascinating. Ezekiel 38 speaks of a “Gog” led last-days Israel invasion that will include Persia, the modern nation of Iran, and most of the current middle east.  I cite two possibilities of who the Eschaton’s  Gog could be in my article, “Will the Real Gog Please Stand Up?” Both are from the lineage of Noah’s son Magog, the first named Rosh, Russia; the other possibly a Magog descendant from another European entity. Since I wrote the article 24 years ago, I’m reasonably sure Gog is Russia, because as I’ve watched glasnost and the alliance that developed between Russia and Iran, Russia is in the lead. Now out of power, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unassailable belief in the coming of the 12th Iman (counterfeit return of Christ); his belief that fulfilling Allah’s will is synchronic witRussiaIranh the destruction of Israel and his driven will to develop a nuclear weapon to fulfill that; Russia’s sale of nuclear materials to the Iranian government in spite of the many embargos and financial sanctions placed on the country – certainly pique and eschatalogian’s curiosity. Ahmadinejad’s successor Hassan Rouhani is just like he and their boss Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, only more savy in public relations. See:  Iran and Russia sign on to build more nuclear plants at Bushehr; The Truth About Russian Intentions; Iran and Russia Sign on to Build More Nuclear Plants at Bushehr;  and Iran, Russia working to seal $20 billion oil-for-goods deal. Today in 2014, Russia has invaded and overthrown Crimea and is on the border of Urkraine threatening to do the same.

Contained in our site article “The Battle of Gog” is a systematic theology comparing the prophet John’s Revelation chapters 16 and 19, and the prophet Ezekiel’s chapter 38 and 39 Jerusalem wars. Study it and you will discover through key words and events that their revelations are probably one in the same. Read the article and make the judgment for yourself. This  is what this website is all about. Also suddenly developing has been the al-queda army of the Islamic State of Iraq now threatening Iraq, and Russia’s offer of fighter jets and foreign aid that could be reforming Iran and Iraq into the state of Persia Ezekiel 38 names as an ally of Gog (see Iraq in Prophecy?I am convinced that Russia and Iran today are displaying a history making staging area for the Battle of Armageddon. Their complicity and effrontery to the world community in building a nuclear device are exemplary of the tyrannical alliance that will be led by Gog for destruction at the Second Coming of Christ. It will be the divinely marshaled armies of these nations, not the nation (peoples) themselves, that will be decimated on the plane of Armageddon while all the nations watch.

Ezekiel 39:6
6 “And I shall send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 38:1-6
2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
4 “And I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;
5 Persia (modern Islamic Iraq [1] and Iran [2]), Ethiopia (ancient Africa and the middle east with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer (Armenia and parts of Turkeyl the house of Togarmah (son of Gomer: Armenians of Turkey and Tukistan) of the north quarters and all his bands: and many people with thee.

Remember, in 500 BC when Ezekiel prophesied this passage of Scripture, there was no “Arabia” or “Islamic nation.” The Ishmaelites wandered the deserts, but found their national origins in post World War I British and French consolidations. There was no Jordan or Pakistan. There was no Iran [Persia] or Iraq [Mesopotamia].  Persia and Ethiopia is now Islamic, so as far as the prophecy spoke of known nations then, it is possible that Islam who hates the Jewish people, was spoken of in them.  Either that, or by the end of the Great Tribulation the nations of Ishmael outside of Persia may have been saved during Daniel’s 70th week  and by then  have no will to contribute.  God loves Hagar and her child and has always had an eye on them. If it is Putin in “Gog’s” office at that time, he won’t be the originator of the plan. Ezekiel says God will put a hook in his jaw and force him down to his doom… “to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world’” (Ezekiel 38:12).

If Russia is Gog, in 2013 he was exalted in world prominence when the Obama Administration backed off on its campaign threat to attack Syria if chemical weapons were used in its civil war. Chemical weapons were used and discovered, but the administration relented on its threat, giving opportunity for Putin to take charge of Syria’s stockpile elimination. This world news made it possible for the first time in modern history, for Russia to gain more respect as “peace maker” on the world stage than the United States. If a Republican were elected to the U.S. White House in 2012, chemical weapons might not have been used in the first place for fear of repercussions, and Iran’s plans of nuclear arsenal development may have faced a joint challenge of America and Israel. But as thing are, centrifuges continue to spin and in November an agreement was made with Ahmadinejad’s successor to give the terrorist state $7 billion in return for their “promise” to shelve their nuclear warhead aspirations, possibly hastening the day even more. Israel and Saudi Arabia were livid for the agreement made against their will.  So today, any move on Iran’s nuclear sites would be an independent one by Israel, possibly with Saudi support (amazing), to avert an Iranian nuclear launch.

Also in 2013, the new Islamic Egypt and its pivotal role with America to avert a new Israeli/Hammas West Bank ground war probably set the stage for more retreaded Armaggeddon-bent authority in Middle East Islamic states, just as the  United Nations’ Palestinian State authorization will also probably produce new strife.  Most roads over there today lead to the plain of Megiddo, so this will continue to be an interesting watch in 2014.

Eschatology Today Publisher, Mark Norris M.A.

 

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