S47 || Gog’s Defeat and Israel’s Future || Ezekiel 39:1-29 || Session 47

A single chapter can reset how you read prophecy, and Ezekiel 39 does exactly that. We trace the defeat of Gog, the shocking aftermath in Israel, and the unmistakable claim that God will end the profaning of His name and make Himself known among the nations. The language is concrete, the timeline is pointed, and the implications touch how we understand Israel’s future, the church age, and the character of God.

We start with the text itself—God’s stacked “I will” statements, the scale of the coalition, and the seven-year and seven-month cleanup that follows. From there we explore the core question: has there ever been a time when the nations stopped profaning God’s name and Israel knew the Lord from that day onward? History says no, which pushes the promise forward. That conclusion gathers strength from Ezekiel 36–37, where God promises to put His Spirit within Israel, unite them under “David,” and settle them in the land given to Jacob forever. If “forever” holds its plain sense, then the restoration is durable, visible, and God-driven—not earned by Israel but anchored in His name.

We also confront the common pushback about horses, bows, and wooden shields. Ezekiel wrote with the vocabulary of his age; the point is not the exact hardware but the totality of the defeat and its public witness. Keeping our hermeneutics consistent—letting “Israel” mean Israel across adjacent verses—protects the logic of the chapter and keeps grace at the center. And for clarity, we map the key differences between Ezekiel’s Gog and Magog war and the revolt in Revelation 20: different timing, leadership, objectives, and outcomes. One precedes the messianic reign with extended aftermath; the other concludes the millennium with instant judgment.

If you’re ready to see how Ezekiel 39 shapes a coherent, future-facing hope—where God vindicates His name, restores Israel, and confronts the nations—this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review telling us where you land on the timing and why.

Chapters

• 0:20 Setting Ezekiel 39 In Context
• 1:33 God’s “I Will” And Sovereign Certainty
• 3:51 Timing Clues: Profaning God’s Name
• 6:55 Reading The Aftermath Of Gog’s Defeat
• 10:20 Objection: Horses, Bows, And Futurism
• 13:40 Consistent Hermeneutics: Israel Means Israel
• 17:05 Restoration, Spirit Outpoured, Lasting Peace
• 20:28 Why Ignoring The Old Testament Distorts
• 22:05 Key Texts That Force A Future View
• 26:40 Distinguishing Ezekiel’s War From Revelation 20
• 32:15 Summary: All Israel Saved And Next Steps

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:20

Today we are in Ezekiel chapter 39. So if you have your Bible, turn there. If you've been with us, you've done that. We are covering the portion of the book of Ezekiel that has the restoration of Israel. This chapter 39 is the last chapter in that section. At the end of that section today, we're going to summarize what we hold to be the futurist position for the restoration of Israel. Hang in there till the end of the session today, and we'll summarize all the passages that we believe support a futurist position. But if you were with us last time, the war with Magog, which is a coalition of northern countries, is going to come in and attack Israel under a leader named Gog. We're right in the middle of that story. We're going to read in Ezekiel 39. As we read this, notice how many times God says, I will, or you will, and what others will do. As we read this, notice that. Steve, can you read the first six verses of Ezekiel chapter 39?

SPEAKER_00: 1:29

You, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God. Behold, I am against you, O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal. And I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand. You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you. I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. You will fall on the open field, for it is I who have spoken, declares the Lord God. And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety, and they will know that I am the Lord.

SPEAKER_01: 2:20

Here the Lord is very descriptive, it's very graphic language of what God says he will do and what will happen. The Lord repeatedly is determining what will happen. The Lord's predictions are sure and certain. Steve, first question: Does God bring about his will with certainty in the future, even though we have free creatures in the world?

SPEAKER_00: 2:45

Yeah, and the reason we know that he does that is because we have the historical evidence from other nations. We've gone through all of those in the previous chapters here. We also have other books that we have talked about and the things that have happened. Exodus is a huge story related to the nation of Egypt and what's happened. We have archaeological finds. We have historical artifacts of things that are talking about that these nations are no longer here and no longer around. They're spoken of here in the scriptures that God is dealing with them. We have the historical archaeological evidence that they no longer exist. So I would declare that yes, he deals with nations with certainty.

SPEAKER_01: 3:32

In this passage, God is saying he's going to bring this coalition of nations to attack Israel from the north. God says he's going to bring them there and destroy them. That's what we just saw. In the next couple of verses, God gives us a small clue as to when this will happen, at least in the sequence. I'm reading in verse 7: My holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the holy one in Israel. Behold, it is coming and it shall be done, declares the Lord God. That is the day of which I have spoken. Steve, he says here very clearly, My name, my holy name will not be profaned anymore. The question is, is God's name being profaned anywhere in the world today?

SPEAKER_00: 4:25

It's being profaned everywhere in the world today. In fact, it's dropped quite often as a slur and a curse word used by people against others. Yes, God's name is most certainly, in the majority, being profane today in the world.

SPEAKER_01: 4:43

He also says in that passage, the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. That phrase has been repeated several times in this section. Do the nations today, or was there ever a time when the nations around Israel were sure of who is the real God?

SPEAKER_00: 5:02

We do see some evidence from the other books of the Bible of certain kings. Nebuchadnezzar is one, that at some point he acknowledges that God is the most high. But in general sense, no, we don't see the other nations acknowledging God. You know, that was one of the reasons why God developed the nation of Israel. It was for the nation to be an example to the other nations of the relationship of the one true God, Yahweh, with them as an example to all the other nations. But yet throughout history, we see all these other nations continually attacking Israel. Some of it is in judgment. It's God's judgment on Israel for their being worshiping idols. That's the earlier part of Ezekiel here that we've talked about. But in general, it's the other nations really not recognizing Yahweh, the God, the most high overall. I think that's the reason why they continue to attack Israel.

SPEAKER_01: 6:04

Those two phrases give us a clue as to the timing of this whole section. He says that my name will not be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the true God. Because God's name is still being profaned, has been, and the nations do not recognize God as the true God, we can tell with certainty that this is still future. Because of these things, we hold a futurist position. The Lord says, quote, I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. We just take that to be what it says. Next, the Lord gives a description of the aftermath of this war, this battle with Gog in Israel. Steve, can you read verses nine through twenty?

SPEAKER_00: 6:54

Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them. They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons, and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the Lord God. On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the valley of Haman Gog. For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. Even all the people of the land will bury them, and it will be to their renown on the day that I glorify myself, declares the Lord God. They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. As to those who pass through the land, pass through, and anyone sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the barriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. And even the name of the city will be Hamona. They will cleanse the land. As for you, Son of Man, thus says the Lord God, speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field. Assemble and come gather from every side to my sacrifice, which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. So you will eat fat until you are glutted and drink blood until you are drunk from my sacrifice, which I have sacrificed for you. You will be glutted at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war, declares the Lord God.

SPEAKER_01: 9:22

This description is just very horrible. It's a quite graphic scene of a terrible war. The description gives an idea of the huge amount of humanity that will be destroyed in this battle. The human condition is to have war. The human condition is to have bloodshed and violence. We see that here in a great scale. God takes the violent people, and if you were with us in some of the previous sections, one of the reasons he condemned these other nations is because of the violence. Well, God takes these violent nations and rubs their nose in it. Is going to end the attacks on Israel for all time. This is a quite graphic scene with a huge amount of humanity that gets killed all in one section of real estate, namely the nation of Israel. Now, the section we just read has one of the main challenges to the futurist position. It talks in verses 9 through 10, speak of wooden weapons, firewood. Back in 3815, it talked about Magog riding on horses. So the criticism is that it's really hard to see how horses, bows, arrows, wooden shields talks about firewood, really hard to see how this would apply to future warfare. Steve, what would be a response that we would have to such a position?

SPEAKER_00: 10:54

If you look at the history of warfare, really horses were used up to a little over a hundred years ago, as to when we're speaking here. At the beginning of World War I, there were divisions that were using horses to drag the caissons up to the front lines. The caissons are the items that hold the ammunition for the artillery and other things. Prior to that, you had horses that were used primarily in war. You had the development of firearms, but for the movement of troops, horses was a major thing that was used. It was during World War I that tanks were developed, airplanes were developed. All of that modernization of troop movements and stuff is really, if you look at the overall history, relatively new. That would be one point that I would make. The second point I would make is that at the time that Ezekiel is speaking here, you know, five, six hundred years BC, how is it that he is going to describe the weapons of modern warfare? Jets, tanks, helicopters, those type of things. I think given here, his description is in general. He's describing the weapons of warfare that were used at the time of Ezekiel's period. He gives the description of what's used bucklers, shields, spears, bows, arrows, horses, all of those things were what were used in warfare. I believe that what we can take out of that is that he's describing a part of war that's going to happen, and he's describing the instruments of the war, whatever period that might have been in. Future to us, technology is getting even greater, where some of these weapons are becoming smaller and even becoming autonomous. Again, even if we describe things in our day and age here, what we use, if this war happens 200 years from now, well, I can tell you that the technology that exists in 200 years from now is going to be different from what we have today. I think it's prudent to be able to say is Ezekiel is basically just describing the warfare and giving a picture that it's going to be massive, that there's going to be myriads of troops and peoples, and it's going to be a slaughter to the point that the birds of the air are going to come down, the carrions are going to come down and feast off of the bodies of the men that are going to be fighting in this war.

SPEAKER_01: 13:34

If we're trying to decide at what point this war with Magog is happening, there's a group of Christians that hold that it was fulfilled in the past. As we've said, we would hold it to be future. Here's the reasoning. And in order to come to this determination, you have to take the really the entire book and at least this whole section of Ezekiel and not just one couple of verses which talks about one thing like wooden shields. What you have to do is carry your interpretation through to the rest of the section and really the rest of the book. If we do that, what we find is that every interpretation of the book of Ezekiel has to take something figurative. Every position has to take something in Ezekiel and make it figurative. The question then is which uh position and which figurative interpretation best fits with the normal use of the language? That's really what is before us. If we look at chapters 36 to 39, eight times God says Israel will be in the land permanently, forever. Eight times in those chapters. Six times in those chapters, God says the pagan nations around them will see what is happening and recognize the true God. We'll go over these again at the end of the session today. This passage that we've read here says that the war with Magog will begin with Israel at a time of peace, and it's going to end at a time of peace. Therefore, the view that we would hold that the war is future only requires the weapons to be figurative, whereas the other interpretations of this have to allegorize or make figurative terms like forever and phrases like know that I am the Lord. Well, those get very difficult to allegorize or make into a figurative phrase. The best fit of the normal use of the language is to merely take the weapons and make them future. Otherwise, we're having to take forever, not mean forever, or no, not mean no. Those are the positions that really don't fit this interpretation. As Steve said, if modern man were to run out of oil, then we'd be very quickly back to using primitive weapons. Let's go ahead and read the next section. Starting in verse 21 says this, and I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my judgment, which I have executed, and my hand which I have laid on them. And the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God from that day onward. The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against me, and I hid my face from them. So I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, I dealt with them, and I hid my face from them. In this section, verse 22, the sense here is that all of Israel is going to know the true God starting on that day, and then forever after that. This will happen in the last days. It has not happened yet. There never was a time in the past where Israel, all of them, knew the true God and stayed that way forever. Today, in the church age, people are measured by whether they believe in Christ, not what ethnic origin they are. We have here in this section we just read a clue as to how to interpret the rest of Ezekiel. Look at verse 22. It says, quote, the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. And that means that they are recognizing God as true, their God, it says. The very next verse, verse 23, quote, the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity. We have there in those two verses the term Israel used in one of the verses as Israel that's going to be under judgment because of their sin. The other verse has the same word, Israel being in a right relationship with God. Some Bible teachers falsely go over to the New Testament and then say that Israel in the Old Testament is the church. Well, the church didn't go into exile for its iniquity. The church isn't judged for its iniquity because the church's sins have been cleansed. So it can't be that in verse 22, Israel is symbolic of the church recognizing the true God. Then the very next verse, verse 23, Israel is ethnic Israel being punished for sin. The only way to have a consistent biblical hermeneutic is to make Israel to be ethnic Israel across the entire section. We can't make a hermeneutical switch between sentence to sentence and phrase to phrase. Likewise, if we look at the rest of the book, chapters four through 24 speak of Israel being punished for disbelief. And in chapters 36 to 39 speak of Israel being rebuilt and blessed by God. It's just a bad hermeneutic to switch in the middle of a book or in the middle of a sentence or in the middle of a phrase. What I see here is God repeating these ideas for emphasis. He mentions it over and over. Why is it so hard for the modern mind to come to grips with what he's actually saying?

SPEAKER_00: 19:20

I think it's because they don't go back here and study the Old Testament. They think that the Old Testament is something that is not useful today, that it's really we should be preaching the gospel of the New Testament. I agree with that. We both agree with that, that we should be teaching and preaching the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. But we should also teach the Old Testament because that's where we find out a lot about God Himself, His character, His attributes, and His faithfulness to the nation of Israel itself. If we don't ever go back here and look at these Old Testament prophets and study their books, whenever we began this, the very first session, we mentioned how many times have we heard Ezekiel preach from the pulpit, or how many times had we actually taught it in our churches, you know, because the curriculum had us to teach it. And it was really very few, if any, that we had had seen that. The answer to your question, I think, is they can't grasp it because they don't go and look at it. We've already gone through a couple of the Old Testament books, and we're gonna go through all of them. But as we go through them, we see this restoration of Israel over and over again. God disciplines his people because they have wandered and they've gone into idol worship, but he's also very clear that he's gonna restore them. He says he's gonna do it as he most famously did back in chapter 36 because of his name. I think it's very dangerous for the people in modern times to just mark Israel off and say that God doesn't have anything to do with Israel anymore, because really, in my opinion, when they do that, they're also marking out a part of what God has promised to his people. I think it's a cautionary tale for people that they should go back, take a look at these Old Testament books, understand them, go verse by verse, like we have. When you do that, you have to deal with the text. If you don't ever go back and study it, then you don't have to deal with it.

SPEAKER_01: 21:29

In these next verses that wrap up chapter 39, God once again brings up the iniquity that Israel had done in the past, but yet it's in the section of restoration. So it's quite fascinating. I'm starting in verse 25. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetuated against me when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid. When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I made them go into exile amongst the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land, and I will leave none of them there any longer. I will not hide my face from them any longer, for I will have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord God. Steve, was Israel deserving of God's blessing of bringing them back to the land?

SPEAKER_00: 22:43

Israel has never been deserving of the land. It's God's land, by the way. It's land that God owns, and he is the one that has declared he's going to give it to the nation of Israel. But in earlier sessions, we talked about you go back in Deuteronomy. Moses is very clear, you're going to go into the land. God has given you this land, but yet you don't deserve it because you're going to go and return to idol worship. You're going to go and falter with God and you're not going to believe in him totally. You're not going to do everything that he tells you to do. You're not going to completely obey his ordinances and statutes. If you don't do that, then you're not going to live long in the land. So it's clear that God is not blind to what the human nature is. And he's not blind as to Israel itself. He knows that they are going to struggle in following these ordinances and statutes, but yet it's a story for us. He also knows that whenever we have individual salvation, coming to a belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that we're still going to struggle in this world with these fleshly bodies. We're going to have to make it until the end of our life. What would we do if we can't look back and see how faithful God is with the promises he made to the nation of Israel? What would we do with our lives? How do we know and have the assurance that he's going to be faithful to the promises that he's given us of eternal life? To me, that's a key factor for us to be able to understand. And it's not about Israel, it's about God and his character and his attributes and his faithfulness to us, to his creation.

SPEAKER_01: 24:38

That last thing you just said, Steve, is really the key to the whole interpretation, which is it's not about Israel. All they did was have disbelief and disobedience. God was clear about that through all of this book. Again, that's why we spent so many chapters going over all of the sin and disbelief and disobedience of Israel. God was quite graphic about going over their disbelief. Yet he comes here at the end in this restoration section and says, I will bring them back. To kind of summarize our position here, I want to go back through and just pick out some places, mainly in chapters 36 to 39, show why we have the interpretation we do. If all we had was one verse, which is 3725, we would still hold to a futurist position. Chapter 37, verse 25 says this they will live on the land, he's talking about Israel, they will live on the land that I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers lived, they will live on it, they and their sons and their sons' sons forever. David, my servant, will be their prince forever. Well, if that's the only verse we had, we would still be forced into a futurist position simply because he's talking about the land of Jacob, it's not some kind of allegorized sense of the church. And he's talking about bringing them back through all their generations forever. But to just summarize these chapters, I have three or four main points here that I would hold to be the key to interpreting this restoration section. First of all, the Lord repeatedly says, He is the one that is going to restore Israel. Returning Israel to the land is his doing, not due to the belief and disobedience of Israel. Chapter 36, verse 11. He also says, quote, I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, 36, 27. So right there, it's not because of their belief, it's because he's going to cause them to have a faith in Jesus Christ and bring them back and have them obey. Did they do that by the first century? No. Jesus told them the Jewish leaders that they were disobedient, dead men's bones. Quote, I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Lord God in 36.32. Quote, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life, 37.5. Quote, I will put my spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land, 37.14. There's no real way to interpret that other than God going to cause this to happen. And he is the one that will bring faith to Israel. Not only that, but the return will be permanent. Quote, never again bereave them of children in 3612. Quote, I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor quote, stumble any longer in 36.15. Quote, they will live on it, they and their sons and their sons' sons forever. 3725. David, my servant, will be their prince forever in 3725. Quote, I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant, 3726. Quote, I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in their midst forever. 3726. Quote, I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore, 39.7. Quote, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid, in 3926. So Steve, has Israel been on the land securely with faith in Jesus Christ forever?

SPEAKER_00: 28:41

They have not. I'm still a little bit unsure, even though you've given all those quotations there of what's going to happen to the nation of Israel. Obviously, I'm saying that tongue in cheek because those are just in these chapters here that you've given a recap in this middle section of Ezekiel. It doesn't come into the other places that God mentions. He's going to do the same thing in other scriptures or other verses of other books. He mentioned the same type of restoration in Zechariah that he was going to, he's going to come to Israel's rescue and he was going to fight for them, as it talks about in Zechariah. It does bewilder me how people can continue to ignore these verses. Again, I think it comes back to that they just don't deal with these verses.

SPEAKER_01: 29:33

But it keeps going. All Israel's sin is going to be removed. Quote, I will save you from all your uncleanness in 36 29. Quote, I cleanse you from all your iniquities, 36 33. Manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations in 28 25. Israel in the first century, when Jesus came, was still quite sinful. Read what Jesus said to the Pharisees, whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones. They were quite disobedient to the Lord. Not only that, it's going to be on the original land of Israel. Quote, they will live in their land which I gave to my servant Jacob, 28-25. And quote, they will live on the land that I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers lived, 3725. And again, there's about six places that also say the pagan nations are going to recognize God. The nations will know that I am the Lord, 37.28. Make myself known in the sight of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord. And there's several more of those. When it says the nations will know that I am the Lord, it can't be that they're still running around denying that God exists and denying that he's the one in charge. With this, we have a very clear futurist position. The futurist, yes, has to take wooden shields and make those into an allegory or a figurative language for a future military action. But the other views really have to torture the text. I think there's also a distinction between the timing of the war with Magog in Ezekiel and the war with Magog in Revelation.

SPEAKER_00: 31:22

Is there not? Yes, there is. And before I talk about that, in our next session, our final session of Ezekiel, just to add on to your last part there, in chapter 45, God gives an outline of the importions of the land to each of the tribes of Israel. We'll go over that in the next session, but it's clear once again that God is not done with Israel, and He's very specific about it. You've just gone through so many verses, and again, we'll deal with the chapter 45 in our next session. But there is a debate amongst some Christians in their eschatological views, their end time views, whether or not this war that is mentioned here in Ezekiel 38 and 39, Gog of Magog, is the same thing that's mentioned at the end of Revelation over in chapter 20, verses 7 through 10. We can show that they're different. There's some distinctions between both of them as to why we can't say that this war is going to take place at the end of the millennial period or the messianic kingdom. That's one reason is because the timing of it that talks about here with Gog and Magog in Ezekiel is prior to the Messianic kingdom. Whereas over in Revelation chapter 20, it's clearly the end of the millennial kingdom. It's at the very end there. The participants are the leader of Gog from Magog, and he's allied with other nations of Persia, Cush, Put, and other nations in Ezekiel. Whereas in Revelation, it's nations from the four corners of the earth. The state of Israel, they're living securely without walls in Ezekiel, where in Revelation, they're going to be under the rule of Jesus for a thousand years. The location is the mountains of Israel in Revelation. It's the camp of the saints and beloved city of Jerusalem. The attack is initiated by God. It says that he's going to put hooks in Gog's mouth and pull him down over in Revelation. It's Satan that is the leader of this war, Revelation 20. It's the deception of the nations when he's loosed for a little while. We talked about the weaponry here of horses, shields, and bows. There is no weaponry mentioned in Revelation. The reason is to capture, spoil, and plunder in Ezekiel 38 and 39. And the reason in Revelation is to destroy Jerusalem. The aftermath, we just went through it. There's seven months of burying the dead and seven years to burn the weapons. In Revelation, it's immediate judgment, followed by the great white throne judgment. The purpose is to sanctify God's name among Israel and the nations in Ezekiel, whereas in Revelation, it's to expose the final rebellion and usher in the eternal state. While Revelation talks about this war of Gog and Magog, I don't think we can call them both the same war because of just what we outlined here. There's too many distinctions between the two and the reason for the for them both. What do we do then with the title of the Gog Magog at the end of Revelation? Well, one way that we can look at it is that at the end of Revelation, this war from Ezekiel, as we've seen, is a great, great devastation, seven years in order for the cleanup to take place, the cords of man. It's a war that has left an impact. I think at the end of Revelation, it's referred to that's going to be that type of a war. It's going to be a Gog of Magog type war that harkens back to this war in Ezekiel. One way that we could put it would be that if somebody says that they met a great defeat, many times they're saying that that person met their Waterloo at whatever defeat that they have. Well, that's a reference to Napoleon, where he was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. Whenever you mention it about somebody else, they met their Waterloo. Obviously, they're not fighting at the battle place of Waterloo. They're not recreating that. It's a form of illustrating what type of a war it was. It was utter defeat for Napoleon. Whenever you mention it was somebody else's Waterloo, you're just really relaying that it was an utter defeat for them. So I think that's how we can look at it. The Gog Magog at the end of Revelation is not this Gog of Magog that's mentioned here in Ezekiel.

SPEAKER_01: 36:10

To support that, we just point to the other things in the book of Revelation that picks up things out of the Old Testament and uses them in Revelation, such as Jezebel, Babylon, things like that. And in this case, Gog and Magog. To wrap up chapter 39, Steve, we have here this clear teaching that God is going to bring Israel back to the land. He's going to cause them to have faith in Jesus Christ, and he's going to then put his spirit within them. That will fulfill what is told in Romans 11, 26, which is all Israel will be saved. We look forward to that glorious day when they all worship around the feet of Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00: 36:55

Yes, we will. And we're also going to look forward to our final session in the book of Ezekiel. We're going to have some interesting things to talk about.

SPEAKER_01: 37:02

And we'll be there wrapping up that next time on Reasoning Through the Bible.

SPEAKER_00: 37:07

Thank you so much for watching and listening. May God bless you.