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Gog and Magog Invasion

Gog from Magog leads a coalition to attack Israel. Divine intervention destroys the invading army through earthquake, fire, and supernatural judgment.

Key Hebrew Terms

גּוֹג (Gog, H1463); מָגוֹג (Magog, H4031); יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrael, H3478); רַעַשׁ (raash, H7494)

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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

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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:

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

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Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

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Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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,

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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.

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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? 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?

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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?

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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:

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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.

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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?

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And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

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For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

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So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

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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.

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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.

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Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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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:

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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:

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And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

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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.

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Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

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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.

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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.

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Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

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And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

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So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

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And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

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Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

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And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

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And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

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And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

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Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

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And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

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Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

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And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

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So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

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And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

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According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

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After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

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When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

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Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

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Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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This conflict directly involves key players in the Gog/Magog prophecy - Iran (Persia) facing coordinated attack from Israel and allies. The targeting of Iran's military infrastructure and nuclear capabilities could be preparatory events leading to the prophesied invasion where Gog leads a coalition including Persia against Israel. The regional scope of retaliation (Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Gulf states) shows the broader Middle Eastern involvement prophesied.

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This prophecy details the same Gog/Magog invasion where Iran plays a central role. Iran's statement about considering 'all resistance fronts as a unified entity' reflects the coalition mentality described in Ezekiel 38:5-6, where multiple nations unite under Gog's leadership. The defiant tone about not forfeiting rights suggests the aggressive posture leading to this prophesied invasion.

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Lyse Doucet: Historic US-Iran talks must bridge deep distrust BBC News · 2026-04-10

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Iran's regional military activities and proxy conflicts through Hezbollah could be preliminary positioning for the larger Gog/Magog invasion scenario. The geographic players (Iran against Israel) match the prophetic pattern described in Ezekiel 38-39.

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This correlates with P38 which references the same Gog/Magog invasion as P5. Iran's fear of Israeli military action demonstrates the adversarial relationship that will culminate in the prophesied coalition attack. The current tensions between Iran (Persia) and Israel foreshadow the future conflict where divine intervention destroys the invading forces.

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Anti-war sentiment toward Israel's military capabilities could potentially weaken Israel's defensive position before the prophesied Gog-Magog invasion. While this is a tangential connection, efforts to limit Israel's military resources could create conditions that embolden future enemies to attack, as described in Ezekiel 38-39.

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