The timing of the Battle of Gog and Magog is still somewhat of a mystery. It fits the timing for 1) the middle of the Seven-Year Tribulation, 2) the battle of Armageddon, and 3) the end of the Millennium. Arguments can be made for all three. This article presents the position of two battles, one in the middle of the Tribulation and one at the end of the Millennium.
All interpreted unfulfilled prophecies are based on connecting the dots of scripture. Each dot is a verse; the greater the number of verses, the clearer the picture becomes.
Furthermore, some prophecies are repetitive, where a “type” is used to complete a prophecy on a future day.
The names Gog and Agag are interchangeable; The Septuagint reads “Gog” instead of “Agag” in Numbers 24:7.
- [The ancient Hebrew texts show two variant readings in Numbers 24:7. The Masoretic Text, the Targum of Jonathan, and the Latin Vulgate read “Agag,” while the Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Aquila’s Greek Translation of Old Testament, Symmachus, and Theodotion read “Gog” (H1463)]
About Agag: “The Amalekites were a nomadic tribe that descended from Amalek, the grandson of Esau.
Israel’s most persistent enemies, the Amalekites, were the first to attack the Israelites after their Exodus from Egypt (Exodus 17:8). In response to this unprovoked attack, God commanded Moses to lead Israel in battle against the sons of Ishmael and Amalek. As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed. Eventually, Joshua defeated Amalek, but the conflict was far from over. Because of their hostility, God declared judgment upon the Amalekites, Exodus 17:14: ‘Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.’” This divine decree set the stage for the events involving Agag, the Amalekite king, during Saul’s reign.
God commanded Saul to blot out their memory, to kill all their men and women, infants, nursing children, and animals. This includes their king, Agag (Gog). (I Samuel 15:2-3)
Saul disobeyed and preserved their king, Agag. When we extrapolate the consequences of disobeying God, we find that during Agag’s short captivity, he was able to have living descendants that beleaguered the Jews: Haman of the book of Esther and the future Amalakite Antichrist, Gog. ~Bibleask.org/who-was-agag-in-the-bible/
At the end of the age, Jesus Himself will wipe out every living Amalekite (I Samuel 15:3) and every living Edomite.
(Jeremiah 49:10)
10 But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And he is no more.
FIRST BATTLE OF GOG AND MAGOG
Ezekiel 38:17 Thus says the Lord God: “Are you he (the Antichrist) of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?
Ezekiel 38:18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face. 19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’ 21 I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’
This coincides with Zechariah 14:18-19, which describes the second return of Jesus with the Saints and the Angels: See Zechariah 14, verses listed separately:
{1 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “For the Last Time …” [Prologue]
{2 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Day of the Lord” [v.1]
{3 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Mid-Trib” [v.2]
{4 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The One Who …” [v.3]
{5 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Showing Patterns” [v.4a]
{6 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Big Shake Up” [v.4b-5a]
{7 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Here He Is!” [v.5b]
{8 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Enlightened” [v.6]
{9 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Twilight” [v.7]
{10 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Living Water” [v.8]
{11 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The One Won” [v.9]
{12 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Flatlands” [v.10]
{13 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “An Open Safe” [v.11]
{14 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “No Feel, No See, No Speak” [v.12]
{15 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Seizures” [v.13]
{16 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Jewelry” [v.14]
{17 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Raider Riders” [v.15]
{18 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Right is Right and the Left is Left” [v.16]
{19 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “A Famine of Rain” [v.17]
{20 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Nay-Shuns” [v.18-19]
{21 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Totally and Wholly, Holy” [v.20-21]
SECOND BATTLE OF GOG AND MAGOG
Rev. 20:7-10 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are (Antichrist from the FIRST Battle of Gog and Magog). And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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