(Read the end times prophecy)
Ezekiel 38:18-23
this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "When Gog invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil over! In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day. All living things—the fish in the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people on earth—will quake in terror at my presence. Mountains will be thrown down; cliffs will crumble; walls will fall to the earth. I will summon the sword against you on all the hills of Israel, says the Sovereign Lord. Your men will turn their swords against each other. I will punish you and your armies with disease and bloodshed; I will send torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur! In this way, I will show my greatness and holiness, and I will make myself known to all the nations of the world. Then they will know that I am the Lord."
The Jordan Rift Valley, according to the book, is to be the stage, the place of prophecy where God has set for the transformational events of the end of days, and there he will literally shake the world. As the earth opens up and the volcanic cones there blast fire and brimstone into the atmosphere, the invading Russian armies, along with many of the Balkan nations, and The Persian princes will be destroyed in God's great shaking. The mountains there will be laid down upon them. The descriptions of these events prophesied in Ezekiel 38:1-39:20 is completely consistent with the description of the king of the North in Daniel 11:44-45 and the battle of Armageddon described in Revelation 19:15, 17-19. Israel will be invaded by Gog, the prince of Rosh (Russia), Meshech and Tubal (Balkan states) (Ezekiel 38:3). The armies against Israel will be a northern confederacy of nations of the Black and Caspian seas with Persia and North Africa. They will come against the unholy one, the antichrist. Whatever Russia's own motivations for attack and invasion might be, there would be an overriding Divine purpose in this. God draws them into conflict. God compels them into war. Russian will "make an evil plan", a plan to loot and plunder the land. God isn't dragging an unwilling people into this conflict, they have a plan, an evil plan to attack Israel out of economic interest. And they'll do this as the western world watches, they'll object, but ultimately they'll do nothing except maybe to join in on the plundering. These are greedy European rulers and their former colonies, the commercial communities of the west.
They are not referred to as soldiers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, etc., but as merchants. The Hebrew word used by Ezekiel is clearly talking about commerce, the military industrial complex. According to Ezekiel 27:12, the Western World has been conducting foreign trade in the Middle East for centuries. This raises the question, "if it's true they are concerned about protecting their foreign trade relations within Israel, why do they not appear to be fighting alongside the Jewish state in this conflict? Why don't they coalesce militarily to oppose the Magog coalition?" It doesn't say they don't, in the same way they've always done, playing both sides against the middle. Arming, supplying, providing defensive weapons and support. Passive aggression.
My thinking is western a Europe and Great Britain is the location of "Tarshish" and the North American countries most resemble their "young lions." Meaning the Western principalities, former colonial rulers, the great nations of conquering commerce.
Why does the greatest superpower that has ever existed seem to abstain from fighting alongside Israel at this critical point in its future? The USA, in the past, has consistently voted pro-Israel in the United Nations, even when it was unpopular to do so. Yet what do we see today? Why does the USA seem content to remain on the sidelines, or playing both ends against the middle when Russia and its hordes invade Israel?
Some predict a steep and dramatic decline in stature and political power in the USA. I think it's more likely that the USA will be doing business as usual. The military industrial complex will continue to drag our nation into these conflicts. And WWIII will ultimately deplete the USA. The commercial enterprise that is America, (that is it's spirit), will fail to thrive in the waining years of the great world war that the AntiChrist establishes. I hate to think it, but the West will be in league with the AntiChrist. Gog and Magog will ride into the Middle East against him. Our troops will be there I'm sure. They will be doing business as usual. They'll be serving the AntiChrist and his rule.
Pray for America, but chew on this. This is what we've come to. This is who we are. For all our love of liberty and life, we, as a nation, love commerce above all else. Under the banner of liberty we were founded by merchants operating under the love of money. And so we will reap what we've sown.
God bless all those Americans who love God. Give grace to the humble, Lord. Keep them, your faithful children who are living within the national boundaries of a corrupted commercial enterprise. Forgive our people who've tolerated our government's greed. Continue to use your faithful servants who are agreeable to your will. See us Lord, remember us when you come into your kingdom. Your kingdom come, your will be done.