Is this current conflict in Israel predicted or prophesied in the Bible?
Well, I am not sure. However, there is a war foretold in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39 that has not yet happened in Israel’s history because all the nations listed that come together to make war on Israel have never in history united in war against Israel. And it is not the final battle where Jesus, will come back as King of Kings and LORD of Lords and destroy all His enemies by Words of commands from His lips. This would indicate that it is a war that is yet to come for the Nation of Israel.
Ezekiel the prophet of Israel foretells of a war against Israel where Gog, Magog, Meschech, Tubal, Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, and Beth-Togarmah will come together in war against Israel. Well, I don’t know about you, but those names seem strange to me, and I only recognize 2 of them as nations that exist today.
However, all those other names that we don’t recognize show up in other places in the Bible. In Genesis 10, where we have a list of many of the descendants of Noah after the flood, we see all those other names show up. But how does that help us understand what Ezekiel was trying to tell us?
Herodotus, known as the Father of History, who was a Greek historian in the fifth century connects them for us in his first 5 books of history where he traces the descendants of Noah by name and all their tribes and where they migrated and settled throughout the known world.
Why are those strange names important? Because the names of cities, nations, nationalities, and people’s groups change from time to time and sometimes generation to generation, but our ancestry never changes. God, through the prophet Ezekiel names each of those nations by their ancestral names rather than by national names so they can be traced throughout history.
We are told here in Genesis 10 by the direction of the Holy Spirit that all the people on earth are the descendants of Noah’s 3 sons. We are given here the names of 70 of Noah’s descendants. We can’t focus on all of them. Why are these important enough that the Holy Spirit would have given them to us?
Herodotus tells us he was a descendant of Gomer who settled in North-Eastern Europe. That tells us that at least some of the Eastern European nations will be involved in this war. Togarmah, a son of Gomer is father of the Armenians, which borders on Iran and Turkey will become part of this conflict.
Magog’s descendants settled north of the Black Sea & Caspian Sea from the Ukraine valley to Mongolia & Northern China & eventually into Siberia. They became known by the Greeks as the Skippians & later the Russians.
Tubal and Meschech migrated and settled into what we know as central Russia today will be part of the conflict.
And finally of the nations Ezekiel lists coming to war in this alliance is Persia. Persia, in Ezekiel’s time was made up of what we know today as Iran, Iraq and Syria who are allies. In a very real sense, the Iranians are the ones who are promoting and financing the current war with Israel.
I don’t know if this is the war Ezekiel foretells, but the forces of most of these nations already have alliances with each other and no one can predict where this conflict is going from here as it escalates into what appears to become an all-out war.
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