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There is an ancient terrible prophecy of doom.

An event known as the invasion of Gog, from the land of Magog.

It is a threat that is prophesied to come upon

the lands of the Jews during the last days,

and be a punishment for the wicked and the unbelievers.

A great war is set to take place,

in which millions will die and empires will collapse.

Are we finally close enough to the last day

to be able to decipher this coming cataclysm

and understand God's plan before it unfolds?

This mystic prophecy, the true meaning of which has been purposefully hidden

by the Ancient of Days, only to be understood in the times of revelation,

lies in the cryptic pages of the Old Testament.

In the book of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 38:

Son of man, set thy face against Gog,

the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

And say, Thus sayeth the Lord GOD;

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,

and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen…

…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…

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.

The identity of Gog from the land of Magog has

remained shrouded in mystery for thousands of years.

Many look for clues, signs and hidden methods of deciphering his name.

But his true identity remains hidden and all attempts

at revealing it fail as unconvincing speculation.

But who is this frightful and dreaded enemy bound to clash with the nation of Israel?

Is there really a way to understand the prophecies and

the evidence and come to a definitive conclusion?

Can the mists of ancient history be dispersed to reveal the hidden truth?

Let us examine the details surrounding this mysterious invader.

From the genealogy given in the book of Genesis which

describes the ancestral tree of the ancient people

we know that Magog is the second of the seven sons of Japheth.

Japheth is one of the three sons of Noah.

After the flood ended, and the waters subsided, the ark rested on Mount Ararat.

And the descendants of Noah spread in the area of the Middle East,

and settled in different places.

They multiplied and different tribes formed from their progeny.

It is difficult to trace where exactly Magog settled,

but there is a very old map which might give us a clue.

The Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography, by Coleman from 1854,

contains a map describing the world according to

the Hebrews in the ancient times after the flood.

On it is shown where the land of Magog is.

The map points us to the area between the Black sea and

the Caspian Sea in what is today south-west Russia.

This leads many to the association of Magog with Russia,

and it is a common interpretation in western Christian organizations today.

However, it should be noted, that Russia is the largest country in the world.

And that little part of it certainly cannot be considered her heart.

Actually, from the perspective of the vast human history,

these south western lands could hardly be called native to Russia.

They were conquered by the Russians around the year 1560

after the fall of the Mongol empire.

Before that time this area of the world

was controlled by the Scythians, believed to be of Persian or Turkic origin.

It later fell into the possession of other central

Asian Turkic tribes, like the Huns and Khazars.

Russian origins, on the other hand, are located in the areas to the North West,

where around the year 870 the Kievan Rus monarchy was formed.

However, a closer examination of this old Hebrew map

reveals that the land south of the Caucasus Mountains,

which is today Turkish and Georgian territory, is also labeled as "Meshech Gog Magog".

Meshech was one of those mentioned in Ezekiel’s prophecy.

He is one of Magog’s brothers.

Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him…

We can also see Tubal nearby.

Again, another brother of Magog.

Other names also mentioned in the prophecy are Gomer, and Togarmah

more of Magog’s brothers.

They are in the list of countries who will join Gog in his invasion on Israel.

Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters,

and all his bands: and many people with thee.

So from all this it is becoming clear that we are

talking about countries from the Middle East

and tribes which inhabited the lands of Anatolia

which is today entirely controlled by Turkey.

All this doesn’t seem to have much to do with Russia.

Now let’s examine Gog himself.

If you research the identity of Gog among today’s western Christian organizations

you may find interpretations like this:

Gog is a person who rules over the land of Magog (Russia).

Magog means the "Prince of Rosh."

(Gog) Rosh is the old root word for the land of Russia.

These claims however, seem to be completely unsubstantiated

and verging on cold war era anti-Russian propaganda.

As we saw, the old root word for ancient Russia is Rus.

From the Kievan Rus monarchy, which was centered around the city of Kiev,

which is today the capital of Ukraine.

Actually, the name Gog is not cryptic at all.

It does not require decoding or interpretation.

It is a literal name which a race of ancient people have had for a long time.

Central Asia has been occupied by Turkic tribes for thousands of years.

They have been causing invasions, and raids, and waves of immigration

in the surrounding lands many times.

The Hun invasion that brought down Rome.

The Avar invasion.

The Khazar invasion.

The Cuman invasion.

All coming out of Central Asia spilling into Europe.

Even the ancient ancestors of the Mongols, before they mixed genetically

with the Chinese, were a pure Turkic tribe.

In 550 AD, in the eastern parts of central Asia,

these Turkic tribes were known as the tribes of Rouran.

Later on Rouran was divided in to two khaganates.

They were known as the eastern and western Gog Turk khaganates.

These are the people of Gog that we have been looking for.

Hidden and tucked away in eastern Asia.

These two khaganates were eventually unified around 580 AD

And then broke up again.

And the eastern part was conquered by the Chinese.

Which is when the Mongols gained their East Asian traits.

Then they were able to liberate themselves and

again formed a state with the name Gog Turk.

Many years past and many Turkic khaganates and

governmental organizations came and went.

But beneath all the politics and power struggles

the land remained occupied by Turkic peoples.

Around 1040 AD, in the South-Western areas of central Asia,

which is today Turkmenistan, these Turkic people formed the state of Seljuq.

After their victory over the Persians,

they quickly spread in the surrounding area

and conquered the eastern parts of Byzantium.

Eventually their empire collapsed.

But they left a presence in Anatolia

which was never fully recovered by the Byzantine people.

This first wave of Turks into the land of Magog

later formed the Rum Sultanate.

At about the same time, around 12 10 AD,

the eastern tribes of Gog Turk, formed the khaganate of Mongolia.

And they proceeded to conquer half the world.

During that ruthless invasion many of the people of the western Gog Turk tribes,

now renamed to Kara-Kithan and Kwarezm, fled for their lives

and immigrated into the area of Anatolia.

A second wave of Turks into the land of Magog.

The Mongol empire could not sustain itself with such large borders and broke up.

And in those days the large immigration of people from western Gog Turk

into Anatolia were able to organize themselves

and form what would soon be called the Ottoman Empire

After the fall of the byzantine capital of Constantinople

the Ottomans were fueled with riches and power and grew to an immense size.

Later on they were defeated and downscaled.

And became what is today known as Turkey.

So as we can see just like Magog the name Gog has nothing to do with Russia.

And everything to do with Turkey.

Actually the term “Gog from the land of Magog” is

a perfect description of today’s Turkish people.

Explaining both their roots and origin and their current location.

Ezekiel’s prophecy becomes even more impressive when

you realize that it is already half-way fulfilled.

That is so because it is believed that Ezekiel

made his prophecy sometime around 580 BC.

Around 1140 years before the Turkic tribes of the east

started to associate themselves with the name Gog in 560 AD.

And around 1820 years before they immigrated into the land of Magog in 1240 AD.

This interpretation of the identity of Gog being Turkey,

rather than Russia, seems to be much more in tune with today’s political situation.

In 2018 an Israeli jet fighter

conducting military operations in Syria was detected by the Syrian air defense systems.

The Israeli jet hid itself behind an IL-20 Russian military plane.

And the Syrian air defense rocket hit the Russian plane killing 15 Russian servicemen.

This had the makings of a major conflict.

However Vladimir Putin chose to take the path of peace and good relations

with Israel and did not take any retaliatory measures.

The whole incident was forgotten.

Turkey’s Erdogan, on the other hand, is known to often make anti-Semitic statements

and is not shy of constantly making threats against Israel.

With Turkey’s recent orientation towards independence from NATO

and a resurrection of the Ottoman Empire, a conflict

between Turkey and Israel is not farfetched.

So where is all this going and what can we expect this Gog invasion to look like?

In Sura 21, Verse 96 of the Holy Quran it is stated:

Until the Gog and Magog (people) are let through (their

barrier), and they swiftly swarm from every hill.

Then will the true promise draw nigh (of fulfilment):

then behold! the eyes of the Unbelievers will fixedly stare in horror:

"Ah! Woe to us! we were indeed heedless of this; nay, we truly did wrong!"

Verily ye, (unbelievers), and the (false) gods that ye worship besides Allah,

are (but) fuel for Hell! to it will ye (surely) come!

So obviously from the Quran’s perspective the invasion of Gog will be a terrible plague

with which God will punish those of the Jews who are unbelievers.

From Ezekiel’s prophecy we learn:

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, 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 land.

And I will call for a sword against him

throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD:

every man's sword shall be against his brother.

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;

and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,

and upon the many people that are with him,

an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

…Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee…

And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and

will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel…

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.

And seven months shall the house of Israel be

burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

So from all of this we can interpret that Turkey will fail in its invasion

and 5/6 of their armies will be destroyed.

We also see that the fall of Gog is not solely attributed to the war itself

but also to a punishment from God with the raining of brimstone and fire from the sky.

Which will not only affect Turkey but also the

people “dwelling carelessly on the isles”.

That obviously is a reference to Greece since it is the

only island region in the entire surrounding area.

Such a large scale war may seem unlikely to many.

But one should keep in mind that wars do not start with full fury out of nothing,

but are often a gradual escalation.

For example, a possible scenario could be,

a false flag terror operation in the west,

perhaps a dirty nuke in New York, which leads to an invasion in Syria and Iran.

That in turn causing an increase of military presence in the area by Russia.

The possible arming of Iran and Syria with nuclear weapons to deter the western threat.

The possible use of these weapons.

And the retaliation by Israel which would be the

popular prophecy of the nuking of Damascus:

Isaiah 17:

Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,

and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel.

And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,

and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

A retaliatory nuclear strike on Damascus by Israel

could easily justify a full force invasion by Turkey.