“Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken. Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord GOD. (vv.8-10)
Here the LORD declares there will come a day when those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons of her future invaders from the north, Russia and her allies. Protected by Yahweh, Israel will no longer need the weapons for themselves. Usually weapons left by a defeated enemy would be added to the victor’s cache of arms. After all, there would be other battles to fight, correct? Not so in this case.
For this prophetic war against Gog (Russia) will be no ordinary war, it will be the final battle, whose conclusion will make armaments obsolete. As for the vast amount of military equipment brought by Gog and her allies and left behind on the field of battle, there will be so much that Israel will use their weapons to fuel their fires, for seven years.
The evil Gog and her allies will intend for Israel to fall, and they will fully expect to gather her spoils, and to burn through the nation, but the prophecy explains that, "The plunderers will be plundered and the robbers will be robbed. What the enemy intends for Israel, will be visited upon themselves." (Ezekiel 38:12)
The Truth: "He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire." (Psalm 46:9)
Here the LORD declares there will come a day when those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons of her future invaders from the north, Russia and her allies. Protected by Yahweh, Israel will no longer need the weapons for themselves. Usually weapons left by a defeated enemy would be added to the victor’s cache of arms. After all, there would be other battles to fight, correct? Not so in this case.
For this prophetic war against Gog (Russia) will be no ordinary war, it will be the final battle, whose conclusion will make armaments obsolete. As for the vast amount of military equipment brought by Gog and her allies and left behind on the field of battle, there will be so much that Israel will use their weapons to fuel their fires, for seven years.
The evil Gog and her allies will intend for Israel to fall, and they will fully expect to gather her spoils, and to burn through the nation, but the prophecy explains that, "The plunderers will be plundered and the robbers will be robbed. What the enemy intends for Israel, will be visited upon themselves." (Ezekiel 38:12)
The Truth: "He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire." (Psalm 46:9)
