The Invasions of Gog & Magog

(FOT Day 7)

Fred R. Coulter—October 13, 2025

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Greetings, everyone. Welcome to Day 7, the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, but there's one more day to go tomorrow, which is The Last Great Day, and the encore for everything that God is doing as He's revealed to us.

Then after that, what is it going to be like when God reveals what it's going to be like in the whole universe? With the Plan of God as outlined by the Feast and Holy Days that He has. Isn't it interesting that since the world does not keep them, they don't understand, which is a real key in understanding the Word of God. How many times have we covered:

• believe God
• obey God
• love God

What's going to happen during the Millennium as we'll just review a little bit of it, and then we'll get to what's going to happen at the end of the Millennium when the rest of the dead are raised to a second physical life!

Micah 4 We've covered this before, but let's review it, and then we will get into another event that happens right at the end of the Millennium that involves Satan and Gog and Magog. But first let's come to:

Micah 4:1: "But it shall be in the last days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it."

So, everything's going to center there at Jerusalem. And as we have seen, the House of the Lord at that time will be a tremendous, huge tabernacle! something so spectacular that it can only be handled in two verses in Isa. 4, and that doesn't tell us very much. But they're all going to come to God to find out:

• how they should live
• what are the laws
• what God is doing
• why they're here
• why God has done what He's done
• what is right
• what is wrong
• what is good
• what is evil
• what is righteous
• what is an abomination

Verse 2: "And many nations…. [notice it doesn't say all; we will see that's an interesting statement] …shall come and say, 'Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways…'"

ALL of the ways of God, and that's what's missing in the world today. That's what's missing in religion today.

"'…and we will walk in His paths'…" (v 2)—that is, as a way of life they will live according to the ways of God!

"…for the Law shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem" (v 2).

So, the Law goes out and the Word is the instruction of God. That comes down through all of us, as we will see. We're going to be the kings and priests, and we're going to be the teachers and everything like that, as we have already covered.

Verse 3: "And he shall judge among many people..." So, judgment will always be all during the Millennium!

What does it say of the Church today? For judgment begins at the House of God, which is the Church. What will be the end thereof of the sinners? Now, here's what's going to have to happen, and we'll see that in a little bit.

"…and [He] will rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore" (v 3).

Quite a thing! Now, let's see what we're going to be doing:

Isaiah 30, which is all a part of a continuous process during the Millennium. There are going to be many, many people brought in to the Kingdom of God, and we will see that here in a little bit.

Let's look at what it says concerning the people and what will happen to them.

Isaiah 30:18: "And therefore, will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you…."

That's to Israel, that's to Judah, and also to all of the nations, because what happens to Israel and Judah happens to all the nations.

"…And therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you, for the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him" (v 18). That's exactly what it's going to be!

• they will learn the way of God
• we will teach them the way of God

We will see what will happen a little later in the book of Isaiah.

Verse 19: "For, O people, who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you shall weep no more; He will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you."

Everything's going to be totally changed. When they pray to God, Who's going to answer that prayer? God is, through us!

• to them
• to teach them
• to help them
• to show them

Now, it's going to be a great responsibility, and the whole society is going to be built around:

• God's Law
• God's Truth
• God's grace
• God's mercy

God's dealing with sin for those who choose to sin!

• What will He do?
• How will that be handled?

Verse 20: "And though the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction… [that's what it was before they came into living in the Millennium] …yet, your teachers shall not be removed into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers."

• they're going to see us
• we're going to be with them
• we'll be talking to them

We'll manifest ourselves as flesh and bone as Jesus did when He manifested Himself to the disciples after His resurrection.

Then we will also have times of glory when we go to Jerusalem, when we go to be with Christ, when we go right there where all the patriarchs are and all the glory. What a magnificent time that is going to be.

Of course, the key patriarch is going to be Abraham! Amazing thing! Now, here's what it will be. Here's how we will do it. We will teach them what to do. And when they go wrong, then we will be able to help them and correct them in a very short period of time. Listen:

Verse 21: "And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left." So, that's what it's going to be right there!

• they will hear us
• they will see us
• we will teach them

Isa. 65—because as we have seen, this is how it's going to be all during the Millennium, and let's pick up some other understanding so that we understand the book of Revelation when we come to the end of the Millennium. We'll read that in just a bit here.

Isaiah 65:13: "Thus the Lord GOD says, 'Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry…. [that's to those who reject the Word of God] …Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be ashamed. Behold, My servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will howl for vexation of spirit" (vs 13-14).

Very interesting; this shows that if they sin, it's going to be found out right away.

Verse 15: "And you will leave your name for a curse to My elect… [if you don't repent; because we will see what will happen to all of the wicked in Rev.20] …for the Lord GOD will slay you, and call His servants by another name."

Now, that eventually will happen, but we'll see what will take place. But here's what's going to be for the main part of it.

Verse 16: "He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of Truth…."

So, Truth is going to prevail. Remember what Jesus said: I'm the Way, the Truth and the Life! And the Spirit that we receive is the Holy  Spirit of God, which is also called the Spirit of Truth.

Everything during the Millennium is going to be run by the  Spirit of God, by Truth, and by what we will be teaching.

"…And he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of Truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes" (v 16).

Now then, here's what He's going to do, as we have seen, for the Millennium. The whole earth is going to be revamped, because the earth, when we come back to it, at the time of the first resurrection, it's going to be in total destruction from one end of the world to the other. That's going to be an amazing thing!

Verse 17: "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things will not be remembered, nor come to mind."

Gradually down through the Millennium, everything will be so great. It will be handled in a way that is an amazing thing indeed, as we will see according to the Word of God. Some of it we have to estimate what it will be, so we don't know all of it and all the details that we need to.

Verse 18: "But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will joy in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying" (vs 18-19).

Why is that going to be? Come to Isa. 61 and see what it talks about that we will be. This is interesting indeed when we look at it, because not only we're going to be:

• teachers
• priests
• kings
• rulers

but here it describes what it's going to be like! So when we, as the teachers, will say to those who are living and doing what they need to do, when we instruct them and manifest ourselves to them, it's going to be quite a thing.

Isaiah 61:6: "But you shall be called the priests of the LORD…"

Isn't that something? Priests of God! We're not yet a priesthood; there's no priesthood now. That's in the future, as the Apostle Peter wrote, that we are a royal priesthood. That is, he's looking forward to the time of the resurrection!

"…it will be said of you, 'The ministers of our God'…" (v 6).

Because the whole world's going to worship God, Amazing thing,

"…'The ministers of our God. you will eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you will boast in their glory" (v 6)—that's us!

When we're kings and priests and all of that sort of thing, we're not going to be paupers. We're not going to be without recompense and whatever God wants to give us in the way for our service.

But if God has given the tithe to the Churches today, and as we have seen to Israel in the past, we'll have to just see how that goes. Because this is going to be a tremendous time of wealth. Tremendous time of everything. We'll see that in just a minute because we will bring this about.

Then it's talking to us and all the things that we suffered to get into the Kingdom of God to be the kings and priests that He wants us to be.

Verse 7: "For your shame you will have double; instead of dishonor they will rejoice in their portion; therefore, in their own land they will possess double; everlasting joy will be theirs."

Let's continue on right in v 8[transcriber's correction] Listen to what it says; we covered this on Day 6, yesterday, on Just Judgment.

Verse 8: "'For I the LORD love justice…'"

That's what we're going to bring. because we will have the mind of Christ. We will have the understanding of the Word of God. We will be able to deal with people as Jesus did when He was on the earth. He could read their thoughts. He would know what they were doing, and all of this sort of thing.

"…I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in Truth…" (v 8).

What did we read over here? God of Truth! So, that's what it's going to be all through the Millennium. Truth! Truth! Truth! Anything contrary to it, any sin, we'll see what happens here in just a bit and how that's going to be handled.

We're not going to have it like it is today and have this great convention that we had this summer over in Colorado with all the homosexuals and transgenders and everything like that! That will never be again! Going to be in Truth. There aren't going to be any demons and Satan the devil around to transmit lies.

However, every person in the flesh is going to have to choose what they will do because God has always given choice to us as human beings.

"…and I will make an everlasting covenant with them" (v 8).

That is a covenant unto eternal life! That applies to us in our relationship at the resurrection, as well. An everlasting covenant! Think about what is ahead for us and as many of the greatest terms we can possibly think of. Because what God has prepared:

the eye has not seen nor the ear heard nor has it entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those that love Him

• we're the ones
• we are being trained
• we are being prepared

to save the world and humanity!

Verse 9: "And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people; all who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the seed the LORD has blessed." Quite an amazing thing!

Verse 10: "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation…."

WOW! Think of what that's going to be like. An honest scale that we have not imagined nor can we imagine, because the things that God is preparing are so great.

"…He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels" (v 10).

That's talking about the marriage of Christ and the Church. There it is right here. So, remember this: The Old Testament contains everything we need to know to complete the Gospel of the New Testament. It's not complete without the Sabbath and Holy Days. It's not complete until we live in these times and experience it.

Now, notice what the earth is going to be like right here:

Verse 11: "For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to grow before all the nations."

Completely different! Now then, they will all have their human nature, but not as carnal. The law of sin and death will be diminished so it is not predominant in their lives. But it doesn't mean that they can't sin. And it doesn't mean that we will only be dealing with righteousness alone and won't have to deal with sin. But there it is right here. Everything's going to be completely different. Here's what it's going to be like:

Isaiah 60:16: "You will also suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings…"

Now that's a figurative kind of speaking to show that for all the sons of God, who are ruling and reigning with Christ, that we will be able to be blessed with the best of everything.

Then for God, the best of the best for everything. Now this also ties in with Rev. 21, where the nations will bring their riches to New Jerusalem. So, there's a dual application right here.

"…and you shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob" (v 16).

They will know it! They don't know it now, but we will help bring that to pass because:

• we'll teach them
• we'll help them
• we'll show them

Can you imagine what it's going to be like for the full explanation of the Word of God? It will make what we have as the Bible look like an elementary book of the first, second, and third graders in school.

Verse 17: "For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver; and for wood I will bring bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make your overseers to be peace, and your rulers to be righteousness."

That's us! That's what we're going to bring! That's why it's so important that we really learn to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and being; because this is going to be the greatest harvest of God until tomorrow, The Last Great Day!

Now notice this; think about this today; v 18: "Violence will no more be heard in your land, neither wasting nor ruin within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise."

That's an amazing thing! Now then, it goes on to show, because all of the teachers who are the sons and daughters of God, who are the kings, priests, rulers and administrators during the Millennium. We will be bringing the whole application of everything that God wants. Now, we've touched on it. We don't know it as complete as we ought to, but this gives us an idea what it's going to be like.

Verse 19: "The sun will no more be your light by day…" That means, figuratively speaking, it will still be there, but that will not be the only light.

"….nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you for an everlasting Light…" (v 19).

Now, that ties in with John 1 in the Gospel of John, that He is:

• the Light of men
• the Light of Truth
• the Light of Righteousness
• the Light of Life

See, that's what He's talking about here!

"…be to you for an everlasting Light, and your God your glory. Your sun will no more go down, nor your moon withdraw; for the LORD will be your everlasting Light…" (vs 19-20).

So, it's merely saying here that it's going to be greater than anything you've ever known when you compare it to the sun and the moon.

"…and the days of your mourning shall be ended. Your people also will all be righteous; they will inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified. A smallest will become a thousand, and the least one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time" (vs 20-22).

And the time is the Millennium; all for the thousand years.

That's quite a thing! Quite a thing there that the reward that's spoken of in the New Testament is defined in the Old Testament in quite wonderful detail.

Now, let's see what will happen here. Some of this we can know. Some of it we can surmise, so we will have to put all of that in its proper perspective.

Isaiah 65:20: "There will not be an infant who lives but a few days… [we will see that this applies also to the Last Great Day, the 100-year period] …nor an old man that has not filled his days, for the child will die a hundred years old; but the sinner who is a hundred years old shall be accursed."

We'll have to look at that and see if we can understand it, how it's applied and what it tells us in the book of Revelation. We will see that that also ties in with Gog and Magog. It shows that if someone sins, they're going to live to be 100 and then die.

• How is God going to do it?
• What is going to happen?
• How will it be?

Verse 21: "And they will build houses and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat; for like the days of a tree are so will be the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands" (vs 21-22).

How's God going to handle it? We've seen two things:

• Isa. 30—when they sin, we will tell them what they need to do:

Speculation: What IF they don't repent? I surmise that there will be 'rehabilitation centers' where they will go:

• where they can be specially taught
• where they can learn

because God doesn't want to lose any; yet, He doesn't take away free choice! So, here they are:

• IF they repent
• IF they learn
• IF they prove themselves

they can come back to society.

• What's going to happen IF they don't?

Rev. 20—we may get a perspective on that, concerning this, that is probably true, because it says in Isa. 65, that the sinner shall die 100-years-old!

Revelation 20:7: "Now, when the thousand years have been completed… [we'll talk a little bit more about this in a little bit] ….Satan shall be loosed out of his prison." When he is loosed:

• Where's he going to go?
• What's going to happen?
• How is it that this final war takes place?

Verse 3: "…and after that it is ordained that he be loosed for a short time." For what purpose?

Verse 7: "Now, when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison; and he shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea…  [there are a lot of people there] …to gather them together for war" (vs 7-8).

Let's talk about Gog and Magog a little bit.

• Is there a place in the world that IF the sinner does not repent after coming to a 'rehabilitation center'?
• What are you going to do with him, because he's going to live to be a hundred?

You're not going to have him living in the community, because he's already isolated from the community because of his sin.

IF he won't repent, then it's all likelihood that they are exiled to a place in Gog and Magog where the sinners will live.

• What they will do there is continue to live; they're sinners!
• Will they repent? We don't know!

It's possible that they may and come back to the 'rehabilitation center' and then come back into the community. We don't know! That's all going to have to be worked out when it comes.

But nevertheless, Gog and Magog is some place in the area where we might say is Manchuria; that part of the earth. They will die there because it says 'the sinners shall die a hundred' and the Millennial reign is a thousand years.

Now, at the end of the Millennium, end of the thousand years, it says that there are many people there like the sand of the sea! So that's quite a thing.

Now, we'll pick it up there a little later, but let's look at Gog and Magog for a minute to see why that area was chosen or will be chosen by God to get rid of the incorrigible sinners who won't repent. Gog and Magog has always been a problem. We look at what happened in Europe when the Mongolians came and conquered China and conquered all of Asia and came and conquered the Middle East, came up through Turkey, and came right at the doorsteps of Vienna before the Germans came and defeated them.

That's one of their great invasions of the past. So let's look and see that when the Millennium begins, that there will yet be another invasion from Gog and Magog to come and try and take over the Kingdom of God!

So let's see, beginning here in Rev. 9 about the kings of the East. Let's see about the war that they will declare. Let's see how many there will be.

Here, it says it will be 200-million. In Rev. 20 it says they'll be as the sands of the sea! This is Gog and Magog coming right about midway through the last year and a half of the Great Tribulation, which is three and a half years.

Revelation 9:13: "And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God; and it said to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet, 'Loose the four angels who are bound in the great River Euphrates.' Then the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year…" (vs 13-15).

Does God have a set time schedule according to His schedule that He is going to use for these events that take place? Yes, the answer is down to the hour! Think about that.

"…were loosed, so that they might kill a third of men" (v 15).

Now, that's an awful lot of death that's going to take place, but, you know, human beings have a hard time learning the lessons, don't they?

Verse 16: "And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred thousand thousand…"—200 million!

All of the people from the East, Russia, China, Manchuria, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, India, Persia, all of those! Then they will gather other nations to come with them. So, before the Millennium begins, here is the first invasion from Gog and Magog.

And then it tells about it, all their fighting and so forth, and then God intervenes and punishes them.

Rev. 16—we see a temporary repeat; this is just before the saints in Christ come back to the earth! This is the pouring out of the seven last plagues.

• all of the saints in Christ are on the Sea of Glass
• the wedding supper of the Lamb has taken place
• we've all received our rewards
• we know what we're going to do
• we know who we're going to follow
• Christ is going to lead us to the earth at that time

But before then there are the seven last plagues. Let's look at it. Let's see what this is here. Let's see what it's talking about, because all the 200-million in the first part of the invasion weren't killed. There were still those afterwards that were going to come, part of the seven last plagues.

Revelation 16:10: "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; yet, they did not repent of their works" (vs 10-11).

Now, see, all the way through, we read that back there in chapter 9. They didn't repent of their works. So, here again, with all of the seven last plagues leading up to this fifth one, they didn't repent. They all had a chance to repent.

Verse 12: "And the sixth angel… [just like the sixth trumpet plague] …poured out his vial into the great River Euphrates; and its waters were dried up…"

It dried up one time when the armies came; the river began to flow again and now they're going to dry it up again.

"…the great River Euphrates; and its waters were dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared" (v 12).

So again, they're going to come, the great hordes of the East. And with the Sea of Glass up there and all that's going on, they're going to think these are invasion from outer space, which it is, but it's Christ and all the saints!And we'll be looking down there and we'll see that this war is developing. So this is the second one, Gog and Magog. The first one was the sixth trumpet plague; this one here is the sixth seal.

Verse 13: "Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are spirits of demons working miracles, going forth to the kings of the earth…" (vs 13-14).

They're going to rally all the kings of the earth. The kings of the East, all the nations there, all the others, to come and fight Christ. So this is the second invasion! Actually, if you go back:

• to the one in the 1300s
• the sixth trumpet plague
• and this one here
• one shortly after the beginning of the Millennium
• the one that we read of in Rev. 20

So, five coming out of the kings of the East!

Verse 14: "For they are spirits of demons working miracles, going forth to the kings of the earth, even of the whole world, to gather them together to the battle of that great day of the Almighty God"—Armageddon.

A lot of people say Armageddon. People say, false prophets say, well, Gog and Magog has happened, or it's ready to go. NO! None of it has happened in this particular way.

Verse 17: "Then the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the Throne, saying, 'IT IS FINISHED.'"

Amazing! It's finished! That's another whole sermon in itself.

We will see that right as the Millennium begins was then the fourth invasion of Gog and Magog! Then we will see at the end of the Millennium again that we touched on at the beginning, there is the fifth invasion of Gog and Magog!

(break@43:57)

We're looking at Gog and Magog, and let's just review. The first major thing from all the nations of the East was when Manchuria conquered all of China, all of Southeast Asia, all of the area of the Middle East, and was turned back at the gates of Vienna by the Germans in the 1300s.

Now then, the next one that takes place is the sixth trumpet plague, Rev.9. Again, the armies cross the river Euphrates, and it is especially dried up so that they can get across. That's going to end up in a great battle right there around Jerusalem. Then the resurrection is going to take place on Pentecost, and all the armies of the world, all the nations going to see the Sea of Glass and see where the saints are being educated there and gathered together in the greatest assembly of all the people of God that will have ever been right there on the Sea of Glass with Jesus Christ and God the Father and the Holy angels.

When we're up there on the Sea of Glass, then the armies are going to be preparing again. They're going to be preparing to come against the Holy Land again, which then is the third invasion, the sixth last plague! Then the armies are destroyed. There are still people back over here in Gog and Magog. The whole earth, not everyone on the earth is destroyed. A great many are with the battle of Armageddon and everything like that.

Now then, let's see the next invasion of Gog and Magog as found in Ezek. 38 & 39. This takes place shortly after the Millennium begins. Of those nations that God has to go and correct (Mal. 4) until they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. In other words, they have to get rid of all of their implements of war! That's after the Millennium begins.

Ezek. 38 & 39 has not yet happened! It's going to happen. It happened in type, but not for the final one as we will see, because they will come and see; 'Oh, look at all of these people peacefully settled here. There are no defenses, no armies, no walls.' Then they're going to come!

Ezekiel 38:1: "And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief ruler of Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him'" (vs 1-2).

Meshech is like Russia. So, look at what is being setup right now with the so-called peace talks to try and get Russia to get out of Ukraine. That is help setting up everything that's going to take place in Revelation and then helping to set up what will take place here in this invasion.

Let's just say seven years—speculation; we don't know—after the setting up of the Kingdom of God.

Verse 3: "And say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most gorgeously, a great assembly with buckler and shield, all of them swordsmen"'" (vs 3-4).

Notice who is also with them; v 5: "Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet."

So there's going to be these countries that are going to be forced to accept the Kingdom of God, and they will be!

Verse 6: "Gomer and all his bands; the house of Togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north, and all his bands; and many people with you. Be prepared; yea, prepare for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days…" (vs 6-8).

Now we don't know how long many days is, I've speculated that that is perhaps maybe seven years into the first part of the Millennium.

Verse 8: "After many days you will be summoned. In the latter years you shall come into the land restored from war, gathered out of many people, on the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste. (But she has been brought out of the nations, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.)"

So, this means at the beginning of the Millennium, because as we saw, when the Millennium begins, God is going to bring back Israel. God is going to bring back the Jews, put some of them there in the Holy Land, put the rest in the lands in the North, the West, the South, and the East, as they were.

It says here the battle is going to happen; v 9: "'And you shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many people with you.' Thus says the Lord GOD, 'And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan'" (vs 9-10). Now let's see what he says about this evil plan:

Doesn't it sound an awful like all the intrigue going on today, diplomatically, and in commerce, and trade, and in armies, and weapons? Yes, indeed! How can you trust them?

Just a little while ago, we had the meeting with Putin and Trump. Well, little old Putin, he wants to be a great man. Well, that's in the heart of those here in the Bible, as well. They won't listen! So, God is going to have to deal with them and make them, as it says we read there in Micah 4.

So, here's the plan; v 11: "And you shall say, 'I will go up to the land of unwalled villages….'" That's the area of the Holy Land. No walls! No defenses!

"'…I will go to those that are at rest….'"

• Isn't that what the Millennium is?
• The great rest of God? Yes!

"…who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and there are no bars nor gates to them, in order to take a spoil, and to steal a prize; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited… [this has got to be at the beginning of the Millennium] …and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land" (vs 11-12).

Then it lists all of these here. This is quite a detailed analysis of this battle.

Verse 14: "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, 'In that day when My people of Israel dwell securely… [the Millennium has started] …' shall you not know it? And you shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army"'" (vs 14-15).

So, instilling the peace during the Millennium is going to take some time. There are going to be those who want to fight God. they're going to want to come when they see the whole nation of the Middle East—now under the control of Christ and the saints—at peace. And they will say:

Look at that! Look at that! All the silver, all the gold, all the things that they have, and they're not even building walls. No defenses. Let's gather our armies together, and let's go take it.

That's what it's telling us here.

Verse 15: "And you shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. And you shall come up on My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It shall be in the latter days…" (vs 15-16). How about that? So, this includes:

• the invasion of the sixth trumpet
• the invasion of the sixth last seal
• he invasion after the beginning of the Millennium
• the final invasion (Rev. 20)

How about that?

"…and I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes" (v 16).

Now, this is to show the whole world at the beginning of the Millennium that:

• Christ is ruling
• the saints are here
• this is going to be the last war until the end of the Millennium

Only Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords and the Prince of Peace!

Verse 17: "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days, by the hand of My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? And it shall come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,' says the Lord GOD, 'My hot anger will be aroused'" (vs 17-18).

IF there's any one thing you don't want: you don't want God to be angry at youand you don't want him to be angry even more with his hot anger!

So, God is really going to take charge of it here; v 19: "For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, 'Surely in that day there shall be a great quaking in the land of Israel.'"

Now, this is going to be a traumatic thing to take place, but what it's going to do, it's going to establish the Kingdom of God over the whole world from that time forward! But God is going to allow this last invasion right after the beginning of the Millennium so God can:

• show His hand to the world
• show His hand to His people
• show that during the Millennium God is Ruler and the saints are administering that rule

and it's going to bring peace to the whole world!

God is going to show—through Gog and Magog and Tubal and Meshach and all of those countries from the East and the North—that you cannot come against God and succeed!.

Verse 20: "So that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and ALL the men on the face of the earth… [that's all inclusive of everything] …shall quake at My presence…. [here's what's going to happen]: …And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground."

It's not going to be any little old war. This is going to be massive desolation and destruction again because they're coming to fight God! They're all going to be saying that the aliens are ruling on the earth and 'we got to cure the problem.' Well, they won't be able to. God is going to!

Verse 21: "'And I will call for a sword against him… [the sword of the angels] …upon all My mountains,' says the Lord GOD. 'Each man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will judge him with pestilence and with blood. And I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire and brimstone'" (vs 21-22).

A repeat of Rev. 16 and the battle of Armageddon, because these people are so stubborn and so wanting power under the influence and power of Satan the devil that they will not repent until they're almost utterly completely destroyed! What is that going to do for the instilling of the Millennium and taking over the whole world by Christ and all the saints?

Verse 23: "Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will have Myself known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD."

Listen to that statement, because it's repeated quite a number of times in Ezek. 39. What God has for Gog and Magog is worth two whole chapters in the book of Ezekiel! Amazing!

Ezekiel 39:1: "Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Gog…'"

Think about that! You don't ever want to have God against you:

• you're going to lose
• it isn't going to prosper

That's why God has given to us a time of space and repentance and forgiveness, because we don't want God against us!

"…'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about, and lead you on. And I will bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel. And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your bands, and the people with you. I will give you for food to the birds of prey of every kind, and to the beasts of the field. You shall fall upon the face of the open field, for I have spoken it,' says the Lord GOD" (vs 1-5).

This is to establish in full power the rule of Christ and the saints over the whole earth, because this last battle right after the Millennium begins is going to be the final thing that's going to bring peace completely to the world until the end of the Millennium!

Verse 6: "And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell in the isles. And they shall know that I am the LORD. And I will make My Holy name known in the midst of My people Israel…." (vs 6-7).

That's going to be a lesson for all the children of Israel, all the nations that are gathered there!

"…And I will not let them profane My Holy name any more. Then…" (v 7)—not until then! This war has to happen so that the rest of the world will know:

• that the Lord is God
• the Kingdom is on the earth
• there is going to be no more war

"…Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel" (v 7).

Well, that's quite a thing; this is amazing what happened!

Verse 8: "'Behold, it is coming, and it shall be done,' says the Lord GOD. 'This is the day of which I have spoken. And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel shall go out and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears. And they shall burn them with fire seven years'" (vs 8-9).

It's going to take seven years to clean up this great mess this last war which begins the Millennium!

Verse 10: "'So that they shall take no wood out of the field, nor cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons. And they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,' says the Lord GOD. 'And it will be in that day that I will give to Gog a burial place there in Israel—the valley of those who pass by, east of the sea. And it shall block off those who pass by. And there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude. And they shall call it, The Valley of the Multitude of Gog'" (vs 10-11). Remember: you don't fight against God!

So we'll have to see what happens at the end of the Millennium because there's still one more battle with Gog and Magog; it's going to be quite a spectacular battle, because as we have talked about:

Those who sin and are not able to repent and be rehabilitated will be exiled during the Millennium to Gog and Magog. IF they don't repent they will die sinners, that's what Isa. 65 tells us. So, all of this puts together a big picture of what is going to happen at the end!

Verse 12: "'And the house of Israel shall bury them, to cleanse the land, seven months. And all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a day of renown, the day that I shall be glorified,' says the Lord GOD" (vs 12-13).

How about that! This final battle is going to convince a lot of people in the world that God means what He says! They're going to come!

Verse 14: "'And they shall employ men to continually search the land, burying those who remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall begin the search. And as those who pass through the land, pass through, if any man sees a bone, then he shall set a sign beside it until the buriers have buried it in The Valley of the Multitude of Gog. And also the name of the city there is Multitude. Thus they shall cleanse the land. And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD…'" (vs 14-17).

It goes back and shows how He's going to clean it up, just like it at the end right there in Rev. 19; all the birds come and clean it up!

Verse 17: "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to the birds of every kind, and to every beast of the field, 'Gather yourselves and come; gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. And you shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk of My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you'"'" (vs 17-19).

Now that's quite a thing! That's how God looks at this! So, this is going to be a powerful thing that's going to take place in destroying Gog and Magog and all the nations of the East that come up against the Israelites who have just settled back into their lands. Quite a thing! God is going to make it known that this is amazing how powerful that these two chapters are

Verse 20: "'And you shall be filled at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, all the men of war,' says the Lord GOD."

Now then you never want to go against God! It won't work, not even down to the smallest thing!

• a little lying is against God
• a lot of lying is giving yourself over to Satan the devil
• a little adultery and fornication and perverted sex over here ends up in being Sodom and Gomorrah and being burned to death

This ties in with what we have that is named the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a little leaven leavens the whole lumpand can grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and eat itself into rottenness to where anything that is left is completely rotten! So this is going to be quite a thing!

Verse 21: "And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgments which I have executed, and My hand that I have laid on them. So, the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward." (vs 21-22).

Even a lot of people who are brought back by God to the Holy Land are going to think and say, 'Well, I don't know about this.' So, this is going to convince them!

Verse 23: "And the nations shall know that the house of Israel was exiled for their iniquity. Because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore, I hid My face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword."

Then all the captives will come back, so that's quite a thing there with the invasions of Gog and Magog!

Then we have all the Millennium as we have covered and how great that is and how it will be with all people and so let's come back here to Rev. 20 and see the final invasion from Gog and Magog.

So we have to surmise that that has to be referring to the geographical area of the land rather than the people themselves. Because IF  all nations at the time of Ezek. 38 & 39 after the punishing of Gog and Magog that there will be those of Gog and Magog who will repent after that, and they can enter into the blessing of the Millennium!

But there's going to be a certain area of Gog and Magog that God is going to set aside to send the incorrigible wicked, so that they can live the 100 years, and they can die there and they can be buried there waiting the resurrection to the Lake of Fire!

Rev. 20—it says there that Satan is ordained to be loosed for a short season, so let's see it beginning in:

Revelation 20:7: "Now, when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison."

That's going to be a spectacular day for Satan and the demons; so wherever it is in Gog and Magog that all the incorrigible are at that time, Satan is going to come in his full power, in his full satanic glory with all the demons! He's probably going to say:

Look, let's go down and conquer and take Jerusalem and we will rule the world! You've been deprived and shipped over here, because you have used your free moral agency to do what you want. That's unfair of God but you trust in me.

Let's go down there and we will capture Jerusalem and when we capture Jerusalem we will rule the world!

Can you imagine how great that they will feel then? Just like everything else today when you see all of the wicked gathered together flaunting everything that they do against all the other people round about and trying to convince everyone around them that all of their wicked deeds are good!

So likewise it will be with this rally of Satan the devil! He will gather them together after he is loosed out of his prison!

Verse 8: "And he shall go out to deceive the nations… [plural, people from all nations incorrigible, unrepentant, exiled to the land of Gog and Magog] …that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea, to gather them together for war."

Every time there is rebellion led by Satan, what does it lead to? WAR! There was war in heaven third of the angels cast out! Everything that Satan does leads to death and destruction!

So, likewise here God is going to use Satan the devil to get the last of the unrepentant incorrigible wicked to gather together so he can destroy them in their first death when they come up against Jerusalem!

Verse 9: "Then I saw them go up upon the breadth of the earth and encircle the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven and consumed them."

After they're all dead who's left standing there looking at them? Satan and the demons!

God has a special something for Satan and the demons, because after being let out of prison for a while they are going to be cast into the Lake of Fire and when the Lake of Fire has consumed the whole earth, as we will see, they will be exiled into the darkest blackness forever!

Which means probably [speculation] somewhere in the universe there will be a place that will be:

• so black and so dark
• so powerful in its power to hold them in there

that they will be there and tormented forever in the darkness!

That's going to be a lesson to all of those who are in the Kingdom of God: you NEVER rebel against God!

Verse 10: "And the Devil, who deceived them, was cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False Prophet had been cast; and they, Satan and the demons, shall be tormented day and night into the ages of eternity."

First in the Lake of Fire! next we will see in just a minute the blackest darkness forever:

• because of rebellion
• because of war
• because of wanting to be God

That's Satan's whole desire from his first rebellion: to be God!

Well, the created never says to the Creator 'what are you making' and 'I'm going to be something different than You make me!' Never happen! Never happen!

Come to the book of Jude, the last of the general epistles and we will see what Jude wrote about concerning the angels which did not keep 'their original estate'! We don't know where the original estate was, but was probably on the earth, that is true. But we don't know how much access they had into the universe or into the solar system when they were here before they rebelled.

When they rebelled as Isa. 14 says; the 'light bringer' says, 'I'm going to ascend above the clouds to be like the Most High!

Jude 7: "Just as Sodom and Gomorrah—and the cities surrounding them, in the same manner as them—having given themselves over to sexual debaucheries, and having gone after different flesh… [all kinds of things] …are themselves exhibited as a perpetual example of undergoing the punishment of eternal fire."

When the fire came down on Sodom and Gomorrah it burned everything up; nothing was left, no scraps of human beings at all! As a matter of fact, to this very day people can go down to where Sodom and Gomorrah was and they can find balls of sulfur and you put it on a spoon and light it and it burns! So, when it says fire and brimstone came down from God from heaven to burn them all up—it did! And it left the scar where Sodom and Gomorrah were as the most desolate wretched unlivable place on the face of the earth!

Verse 8: "In the same way also, these dreamers of filthy dreams are defiling the flesh, and are declaring as invalid the Lordship of God…" We don't need God we don't want His Laws!

That's what we have today! Not going to be when Kingdom of God is here; it won't last!

"…and are blaspheming the Divine powers. But Michael the archangel, when he was personally taking issue with the devil, disputing about the body of Moses…" (vs 8-9). Just think about this:

• What if Satan the devil had been able to get hold of the body of Moses?
• Wouldn't that make a nice relic for the Catholic Church?

Put him in a glass tomb and fill it with honey so he wouldn't decompose, and use that as a shrine! That's what Satan wanted, because he could say, 'Look, I've got the body of Moses!' Well, God didn't let him have it God buried it Himself!

"…did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment against him, but said, 'The Lord Himself rebuke you!' As for these, whatever things they do not understand, they blaspheme; but whatever things they understand by instinct, as irrational brute beasts, they are corrupting themselves in these things" (vs 9-10). They don't realize it!

• they're corrupting their minds
• they're corrupting their hearts
• they're corrupting their emotions
• they're corrupting every cell in their body

That's why they have to be destroyed! God will not put up with it!

Here He gives the final judgment comparing it to judgments that God gave for those who sinned against Him in the past:

Verse 11: "Woe to them! For they have walked in the way of Cain… [first murderer] …and for gain, they have wholly given themselves up to Balaam's delusion…"

What was Balaam's delusion? I can go curse the people of God! I can do whatever I want and get money from Balak! That's a wonderful thing!

"…and haveperished in the rebellion of Korah" (v 11).

What happened to Korah and those who rebelled against Moses and Aaron when they said:

We're the people of God and we need to have the priesthood to ourselves and not just the sons of Aaron and Levi?

God opened the earth BANG! History! No more! That's quite a lesson!

Verse 12: "These are subversive stains in your love feasts, feasting in person together with you; fearlessly they are feeding themselves. They are clouds without water… [now it shifts into the spirit world—the demons and Satan] …being driven by the winds… [the wind of Satan] …trees of late autumn, without any fruit, uprooted, twice dead."

All those who follow them will suffer the second death! That's what it's telling us. Now then, listen to this:

Verse 13: "Raging waves of the sea, casting up like foam their own ignominious shame; wandering stars…"—angels who have gone out of the way, following Satan the devil!

• thinking that they will have power
• thinking that they can take over everything
• thinking they are great

Well they're not!

"…wandering stars now listen to this for whom has been reserved the blackest darkness forever" (v 13).

That will close the Millennium! Satan will be removed and the earth will be prepared for the Last Great Day, the greatest time of:

• the greatest salvation of God
• the greatest show of
• mercy
• grace
• kindness
• love
• truth

that will be shown to

• ALL of those who were not called to the first resurrection
• ALL of those who were blinded by Satan the devil and didn't know it
• ALL of those who had NOT committed the unpardonable sin

will be raised to a second life of flesh for a first opportunity for salvation!

That is what tomorrow will picture the Last Great Day!

Scriptural References:

• Micha 4:1-3
• Isaiah 30:18-21
• Isaiah 65:13-19
• Isaiah 61:6-11
• Isaiah 60:16-22
• Isaiah 65:20-22
• Revelation 20:7, 3, 7-8
• Revelation 9:13-16
• Revelation 16:10-14, 17
• Ezekiel 38:1-12, 14-23
• Ezekiel 39:1-23
• Revelation 20:7-10
• Jude 7-13

Scriptures referenced, not quoted:

• Revelation 21
• John 1
• Malachi 4
• Revelation 19

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Transcribed: 9/1/25

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