Iraq I s
Renovating Interior Of Ezekiel’s Shrine,
Arabs and Persians Believe Ezekiel’s Prophecies,
But their interpretation is quite different from Ours,
Magog & Gog Do Quite Different Things in The Koran,
Making non-Muslims partake Allah’s Armageddon Woe!
A land of Magog (Russia) army will rush south down Hills,
3 & ½ Years after Gog, the chief prince of Meshech & Tubal,
Drives Israel into the Negev, but the unbelievers are Muslims,
Who have Suffered Strong Delusion by Believing False Prophet!
I Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
May 7, 2009
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Gog and Magog in the Koran Prophecies
Since we, as a nation, have become so politically and economically pushed onto
the world stage in an entanglement with the culture of Islam, what they think of us, and how they see our prophetic future in the Koran, is worth considering.
What the Old Testament Bible teaches, concerning our prophetic future with Gog and Magog, is vividly outlined above in our Prophecy Update Archives in Numbers 27 and 28. The Koran shows a different picture in the following direct quote:
Begin Koran Quote
The Prophets 21:92-97 – Your religion is but one religion, and I am your only Lord. Therefore serve only me. Men have divided themselves into schisms, but to Us they shall all return.
He that does good works in the fullness of his faith, his endeavors shall not be lost: We record them all. It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again. But when Gog and Magog are let loose and rush headlong down every hill; when the true promise nears its fulfillment; the unbelievers shall stare in amazement crying: ‘Woe to us! Of this we have been heedless. We have done wrong.’
End Koran Quote
I am persuaded that some three and one-half years before the residents of the land of Magog (Russia) rush down every hill, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal in Syria, at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, will attack with a coalition of 10 Islamic nations, and drive Israel into the Negev. Three and one-half years after the initial attack, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal (Antichrist), will call for the army of the land of Magog (Russia) to come down and help him to finally destroy God’s nation of Israel at Armageddon.
EZEKIEL IS TOLD TO SET HIS F ACE
AGAINST A LAND AND A MAN.
THE MAN IS GOG, WHO IS THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH & TUBAL. THE LAND IS THE LAND OF MAGOG, WHICH IS RUSSIA.
AT THE TIME OF THE WRITINGS OF EZEKIEL THE DESCENDANTS OF MESHECH AND TUBAL WERE SETTLED IN SYRIA, LEBANON, SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF TURKEY, AND NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF IRAQ.
THIS IS THE INITIAL ASSAULT AGAINST ISRAEL BY GOG, THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL.
Ezekiel 38:1-6 – And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee,
O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Before they do let loose and run southward down the hills, eventually to come up on Israel, the land of unwalled villages, they will devise an evil plan to lull it into a false sense of security.
Ezekiel 38:8-11 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Ezekiel 38:14-16 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it
? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
IN THE THREE SETS OF SCRIPTURES, WHICH FOLLOW, THE BOOKS OF DANIEL, REVELATION, AND EZEKIEL DESCRIBE THE SCENARIO WHEN THE ARMY OF THE LAND OF MAGOG (RUSSIA) COMES DOWN TO JOIN ANTICHRIST, THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL (SYRIA), AT THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Revelation 16:12-16 – And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. [13] And 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. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Ezekiel 39:1-9 – Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: [3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right
hand. [4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. [8] Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
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Iraq launches project to renovate Ezekiel’s shrine
May. 1, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Iraqi government has launched a project to renovate the interior of the prophet Ezekiel’s shrine in the small town of Kifl, south of Baghdad, and the country’s Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities says it hopes to eventually repair and renovate other Jewish sites across the country.
“The ministry is concerned with all Iraqi heritage, whether it is Christian or Jewish or from any other religion,” ministry spokesman Abdelzahra al-Talaqani told AFP. “The present plans do not include the synagogues in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Fallujah and other places because of lack of funding, but I think they will be included in future plans.”
Iraqi Jewry was once one of the largest and most prominent Jewish communities in the Middle East.
But after Israel’s establishment, more than 120,000 Iraqi Jews moved to Israel in the 1950s in a clandestine operation dubbed Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
Outside the shrine of the prophet – who followed Jews into the B abyloni
an exile in the sixth century BC – is a 14th-century brick minaret, while the inside is shaped like a synagogue, with old wooden arks that used to contain Torah scrolls and the remains of a Mehitza – a separation for men and women.
On the w alls inside
appears Hebrew script under a dome with medieval Islamic floral designs.
Until the mid-20th century, up to 5,000 Jews used to visit the tomb during Passover.
Muslims believe the tomb to be that of Dhul-Kifl, considered by some to be a prophet of Islam and by others to just be a righteous man mentioned in the Koran.
It had been protected by Saddam Hussein as a holy site.
The tombs of the prophets Daniel, Ezra, Nahum and Jonah are also purported to be located in Iraq.
Michael Freund contributed to this report
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