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The Last Days Series: Volume 10 The Last Days Volume 12 Joseph A Cortes TeachingFaith Ministries The Last Days: Volume 12 Table of Contents Page Chapter One: Gog & Magog 1 Chapter Two: The Magog Deception 10 Chapter Three: The Scythians 25 Chapter Four: Sons of Isaac 36 Chapter Five: Still Near 47 Chapter Six: Gog Alliance 57 Chapter Seven: I Will Sixth Thee 70 Chapter Eight: The Rise of Turkey 78 Chapter Nine: Armageddon 88 Chapter Ten: Who Were the Ashchenaz? 97 Chapter Eleven: Gog & Magog/Armageddon 104 Chapter Twelve: Gog & Magog Update 112 1 Gog & Magog Ezekiel 38:1-2, “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...” When you read ‘son of man’ here at the beginning of verse two, this is not Jesus who is going to prophecy against Gog and Magog. It is Ezekiel. “And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;”—this is coming from God, Ezekiel is just the messenger—“Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws...” I was reading something from a popular preacher that writes quite a bit on end-time prophecies. He took this verse, “and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,” and was stating that this was Russia that God was speaking about when He gave the message to Ezekiel to prophecy against Gog, the land of Magog. He justified it by the Crimea situation with Russia coming into the area and seizing Crimea again. Crimea is located in the northern area of the Black Sea. And of course, you know the whole situation that is going on there with Russia at this point and time in history. But “and put the hooks into thy jaws”: This particular popular preacher was saying that this was defined by— basically using your imagination—drawing a hook-like imaginary line from north of the Black Sea and curving it over, down and around through the Mediterranean Sea thereby reaching Israel. I said to myself, “How many people will think”—because once again it is fantasy, imaginary Christian science fiction thinking—“Ah ha! Scripture is proven,” because of the geographical location the imaginary hook-like line is drawn and believe I will turn thee back and put the hooks in thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army means that? Well, ‘I will turn thee back’ means this army was there one other time before in the past. So when has Russia been a beast, or even a horn of power, or any other descriptive term God’s Word used for a geographic area of power having control over Israel? We know the Roman Empire did. We know the Muslims have. We know going back all the way to the Assyrian and the Babylonian empires that they did. These are all things I’ve taught on. Those have trampled Jerusalem. Those have been in control in the past over that tiny little nation called Israel. So when you read these verses, unless you are super gullible, you are not going to believe that—but many are, because they paint a pretty convincing imaginary picture causing one to think, “Wow! Just look at that. He put a line on a map and that draws a hook. That must have been what God was referring to in Ezekiel 38:4, I will turn thee back and put the hooks in thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army... that must be referring to Russia... all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling 2 swords.” So they (98% of all the Christian science fiction teachers of last day events) conclude that verses two to four are referring to Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), with a majority of the group using merely verse 2. Verse 5 says, “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:”—I will talk about verse five in the future—“Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years”—we are in those years now—“thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword...”—The ‘land that is brought back from the sword’ is Israel. It was brought back from the sword in 1948, and Jerusalem was brought back from the sword in 1967—“...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. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm...” This other confederacy (and I will get to who they are) shall come like a rushing, devastating storm (literally in the Hebrew), “...thou shalt be like a cloud [or a great army] to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.” Remember I taught on allah and the word used for ‘ascending’ [alah]? The same word is used here in verse nine: “Thou shalt alah and come like a rushing devastating storm.” Is this somehow identifying in God’s Word what this confederacy will consist of? We know what the Psalm 83 confederacy consists of, that it is an Arab confederacy. I pointed it out many times. Their common denominator there also is their worship of allah; a false god, a false religion, made up by a false prophet, Mohammed. “Thou shall alah and come like a storm”—and I will get into how that verse reads out in the future—“and thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 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 [conceive a malicious purpose to bring about evil]: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages...” This ‘land of unwalled villages’ has to happen after the Psalm 83 War. “I will go to them that are at rest...” Israel thinks it’s at rest because it has defeated its neighboring enemies (Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, parts of Iraq) in the Psalm 83 War. You would think that would be convincing enough to this other confederacy (let’s just call it Gog for now) to leave this little tiny nation alone and those who support it; but that doesn’t happen. And Israel will make the mistake and think they have a certain amount of security; but they are wrong, Islam was not defeated. (‘Unwalled villages’ is identified in scriptures to mean a certain thing. I haven’t covered this yet in Psalm 83 and plan to go back to it in the future and pick up near this point where after the Psalm 83 War we have ‘unwalled villages’.) “And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, that dwell safely [confidently]”—that this their problem right there—“all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates...”—this doesn’t mean everybody is going to take away the gates or the bars from their windows, or anything like that—“To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the 3 land. [13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil...” Hmm, some of the defeated areas that we’ve seen in Psalm 83 in that list of confederacies are even going to wonder, What are you doing? “...hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog [whomever Gog is], Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day [which hasn’t happened yet] when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,”—this is why many people think it is Russia, because what is more northern than Russia, that was once considered a superpower—“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: And thou shalt come up [alah] 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. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?” Regarding “Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?”, our question here should be: If 'north parts' means Russia as the Christian science fiction theorists want us to believe, what prophets have ever prophesied against Russia? Think about it.
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