EZEKIEL 38

TODAY, WE WANT TO EXPLORE THE PROPHECIES OF EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 38 AND 39.
PRIMARILY, THESE PROPHECIES WHERE GIVEN TO EZEKIEL, CONCERNING THE LATTER DAYS, AND TIMES. INVOLVING A VAST ARMY THAT WOULD ASSEMBLE AGAINST ISRAEL. IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE HERE, THAT GOD SAID HE WOULD "PUT HOOKS IN THE JAW OF GOG, OF MAGOG" EZEKIEL 38:4 THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL. MOST PROPHECY SCHOLARS AGREE: THAT THIS LEADER ( POSSIBLY FROM RUSSIA) WOULD GATHER A GREAT MUSLIM CONFEDERATION, TO INCLUDE: PERSIA,( IRAN ) ETHIOPIA, AND LIBYA. EZEKIEL 38:5 AND GOMER, AND ALL HIS BANDS; AND MANY PEOPLE WITH HIM ( THE HOUSE OF TOGARMAH, OF THE NORTH QUARTERS )

TO SIMPLIFY THIS, WE SEE RUSSIA, AND IRAN, PARTS OF THE FORMER U.S.S.R. ; AND OUTLINING ARAB COUNTRIES THAT WOULD ASSEMBLE TO TAKE A GREAT SPOIL. FROM ISRAEL. WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE; IS THAT THE LORD, GOD, SAYS THAT GOG, WOULD HAVE AN EVIL THOUGHT, AND THAT EVIL THINGS WOULD COME INTO HIS MIND. SIMPLY STATED, GOG WILL WANT TO PILFER ISRAEL.

WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE, IS UNTIL RECENTLY; ISRAEL HAD NO REAL NATURAL RESOURCES ( SAVE, THE MINERAL WEALTH IN THE DEAD SEA ) BUT, RECENT DISCOVERIES OF BILLIONS, IF NOT TRILLIONS, OF METRIC TONS OF NATURAL GAS HAD BEEN DISCOVERED OFF THE COAST OF ISRAEL. NOT TO MENTION THE EXPLORATION OF OIL FIELDS; IN NORTHERN, AND SOUTHERN ISRAEL ( I.E.MIRA). ANOTHER POSSIBLE MOTIVATION, WOULD INCLUDE THE CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

IF WE LOOK AT CURRENT EVENTS, WE SEE THE SLEEPING BEAR OF RUSSIA; WAKING UP!!! SIGNING AGREEMENTS OF MUTUAL COOPERATION, AND ARMS SALES, WITH THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL. NOT TOO MENTION, MOVING THEIR NAVAL FLEET TO THE WARMER WATERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA; AND AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING OUR BACK YARD, IN SOUTH AMERICA.

ALSO, WORTH MENTION HERE; IS THE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING SHEBA, AND DEDAN, AND THE MERCHANTS OF TARSHISH ( WITH ALL HER YOUNG LIONS ) THEREOF.
THESE ARE BRITAIN, AND HER COLONIES I.E. AMERICA. EZEKIAL 38:13 WHAT THE WORD SAY'S, IS THAT THEY WOULD ASK A QUESTION OF GOG, AND HIS MERRY BANDITS; ASKING GOG IF HE HAD COME ( TO ISRAEL ) TO TAKE A GREAT SPOIL OF: SILVER AND GOLD, CATTLE AND GOODS. EZEKIAL 38:13

WHAT THIS TO ME, SUGGESTS;IS THAT THE WEST INPARTICULAR, AMERICA, WILL TURN THEIR BACK " ON THE APPLE OF GOD'S EYE ". NOT HARD TO IMAGINE, CONSIDERING THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON. APPARENTLY FORGETTING ABOUT OUR LONG STANDING FRIENDSHIP/RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL; PREFERRING TO BOW THEIR KNEE TO FOREIGN KINGS; AND ALIGNING THEMSELVES WITH THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.

BUT, THIS ISN'T WHERE IT ENDS. WE FIND LATER IN THE CHAPTER, THAT GOD'S WRATH WILL BE POURED OUT ON THIS ENEMY HOST. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THE SAME TIME WHEN GOG SHALL COME AGAINST THE LAND OF ISRAEL,SAITH THE LORD GOD, THAT MY FURY SHALL COME UP IN MY FACE. FOR IN MY JEALOUSY AND IN THE FIRE OF MY WRATH HAVE I SPOKEN, SURELY IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE A GREAT SHAKING IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. EZEKIEL 38:18-19

THE CONCLUDING VERSES SPELL OUT THE METHOD OF HIS VENGEANCE WITH: OVERFLOWING RAIN, AND GREAT HAILSTONES, FIRE, AND BRIMSTONE. EZEKIEL 38:22

THUS WILL I MAGNIFY MYSELF, AND SANCTIFY MYSELF; AND I WILL BE KNOWN IN THE EYES OF MANY NATIONS, AND THEY SHALL KNOW I AM THE LORD. EZEKIEL 38:23

THE PIECES ARE COMING TOGETHER FOLKS, AND THOUGH I DON'T EXPECT THIS PARTICULAR PROPHECY, TO COME TO FRUITION ANY TIME SOON. I DO SEE THE BATTLE SPOKEN OF, IN PSALMS 83, JUST AROUND THE CORNER.

I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU A DREAM I HAD A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. I WAS IN ISRAEL, NEAR THE TEMPLE MOUNT. WHAT WAS PARTICULAR ABOUT THIS DREAM; WAS THAT I HAD THE SENSE OF HEAT; AND COULD SMELL THE EARTH. NOT SOMETHING COMMON IN DREAMS; AT LEAST NOT MINE.

WHAT ELSE I FOUND PARTICULAR, WAS THAT I COULD SPEAK, AND UNDERSTAND HEBREW. WHICH IN REALITY, I KNOW VERY LITTLE OF. WHILE STANDING THERE IN JERUSALEM THERE WAS A FLY OVER OF THE I.D.F AIRFORCE. MOMENTS LATER, THERE WAS AN INCREDIBLE FLASH; A SHOCK WAVE, AND SEARING HEAT. AND LIKE DREAMS ARE, I HAD THE SENSE THAT I WAS NO LONGER IN ISRAEL, BUT SOMEWHERE NEAR DAMASCUS, SYRIA. THE CARNAGE WAS UNBELIEVABLE; AND I HAD THE KNOWLEDGE, THAT ISRAEL HAD RESPONDED TO SOME TYPE OF CHEMICAL, OR BIOLOGICAL ATTACK, FROM THE SYRIANS; WITH A NUCLEAR ATTACK NEAR DAMASCUS. NOW I DON'T PRETEND TO BE ANY KIND OF PROPHET; AND THE WORD CLEARLY SPEAKS ABOUT THIS VERY EVENT IN ISAIAH 17:1

I CAN'T SHAKE THE KNOWLEDGE, THAT WHILE DREAMING; I HAD ALL FIVE SENSES!!!
SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, OR SINCE, TO ME- OR ANYONE I PERSONALLY KNOW!

SOMETHING TO PONDER TILL NEXT TIME.
SHALOM

THE BIRTH PANGS

IT IS EVIDENT, EVEN TO THE UN-BELIEVER; THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON! FROM THE WORLD FINANCIAL MARKET- TO THE DEVASTATING, AND FREQUENT EARTHQUAKES; THE ONE IN HAITI MEASURING 8.8 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, FOLLOWED BY CHILI, THAN MOSUL IRAQ.
CHRIST TELLS US IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 24; AND THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 21, THE SIGNS CONCERNING { THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE } MY ADVICE, WOULD BE, TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THESE TWO CHAPTERS, THE SOONER-THE BETTER.
HOWEVER, PROPHECY IS WRITTEN THROUGH OUT, BOTH THE OLD, AND NEW TESTAMENTS; BEGINNING IN GENESIS, AND ENDING IN THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS.
AND IS, BY NO MEANS, A QUICK STUDY!!! HOWEVER THE AFOREMENTIONED CHAPTERS IN MATTHEW 24, AND LUKE 21, ARE A GOOD PLACE TO START.

IT HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE, THAT PROPHECY CENTERS AROUND ISRAEL; AND WITH HER RE-BIRTH ON MAY14, 1948 THE REGATHERING OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TO THEIR ANCIENT HOMELAND, HAD BEGUN!

A LITTLE HISTORY HERE: THE DIASPORA FIRST BEGAN IN 721 B.C. WITH THE ASSYRIAN INVASION INTO THE NORTHERN KINGDOM, FOR GROSS DISOBEDIENCE, AND IDOLATRY. REFERENCE: ISAIAH 10:5-7, 2KINGS 17:5-23 THE LAST STAGE, OR SOUTHERN KINGDOM BEGAN IN 586 B.C. UNDER KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR REFERENCE: EZRA 1:1-6,22 AND NEHEMIAH 11:1-13,31

THE PERSIAN KING CYRUS ISSUED A DECREE, FOR 50,000 JEWS TO RETURN IN 539 B.C.

THE FINAL DIASPORA OCCURED IN 70A.D. UNDER THE 10TH ROMAN LEGION, FULFILLING CHRISTS PROPHECY IN MATTHEW 24:2. THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN SACKED, AND BURNED; THE TREASURE TAKEN TO ROME.

FOR ALMOST TWO THOUSAND YEARS, THE JEWS HAD BEEN WITHOUT A HOME. WHAT BEGAN ON MAY 14TH 1948, CONTINUES TILL THIS DAY! JERUSALEM BEING RECAPTURED ON JUNE 6 1967, CONCLUDING THE SIX DAY WAR.

FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT LAYS AHEAD, WE GO TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36 " THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES " THIS IS A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE RE-BIRTH OF ISRAEL; AND HAS BEEN FULFILLED!!! NEXT WE TURN TO EZEKIEL 38,AND39 WHICH IS YET TO OCCUR, AND THIS RELATES TO " THE BATTLE OF GOG AND MAGOG" WHERE WE'LL CONTINUE, ON MY NEXT POST.

SHALOM!
LEVI-MATTHEW