In the first mention of these peoples Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. By the time of the New Testament’s Revelation 20:8, Jewish tradition had already changed Ezekiel’s ...

The word of Hashem came to me: O mortal, turn your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of ... Robertson said that “you can look at your map. You can read your newspapers.

The prophecy of Gog and Magog is found in the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 38-39), describing a future battle where a coalition of nations, led by Gog from the land of Magog, will rise against Israel.

Israeli newscasts featured Gog & Magog maps of the likely alignment of nations ... refers to a great world war centered on the Holy Land and Jerusalem and first appears in the book of Yechezkel ...

“Son of man,” says the prophet Ezekiel, “direct your face against Gog, of the land of Magog.” The last book of the Bible, Revelation, takes up the names when it says that at the end of the ...

They do not want Israel to dwell securely in their land; rather, they covet it for ... the war against Gog and Magog is also understood as a war fought for the sanctification of God’s name ...

in which Gog is a landowner and Magog is the name of the land. Later on, in Revelation, they become one entity — a representation of the hostile nations of the world (in 1971 US president Ronald ...

In the book of Ezekiel, the hero/villain dynamic is embodied by the eponymous prophet and his (and Israel’s) nemeses of biblical proportions: Gog and Magog — a leader and nation that, ...