Russia Takes Sides, False Messiah After War
Updated: Jun 15, 2022
June 26. 2019
The headline really says it all here.
Gog and Magog Heating Up? Russia clarifies it Will Side with Iran Against the US and Israel
July 3. 2019
I have a few problems with this article. The author says that the war of Gog and Magog will be incredibly short, lasting only one night (possibly less), and I agree. But then he claims that the short time is due to Iran's advanced weaponry, which isn't possible. Ezekiel 38 & 39 clearly describes God being the one to decisively end the war, not any single nation.
Another issue I have is with the assertion that nuclear bombs will play a role in the war. Prophecy update #3: Spirits and Spoil addresses that theory.
I'm sharing this article because it highlights the attitudes of Jewish religious leaders in regards to the Gog and Magog War. Rabbi Pinchas Winston says that the war, "is a multinational conflict of extreme proportions in the Middle East which focuses on Israel. This clearly fulfills the requirements of Gog and Magog meaning that it could possibly be the war preceding the arrival of the Messiah."
Did you catch that? The rabbi expects that the war could usher in the prophesied Christ, but it's not going to be Jesus. From my reading of the Bible, I believe that this war will roll straight into the Tribulation period, the time when God begins to judge the entire world in preparation for his second coming to the earth. At the beginning of that time, the Antichrist (literally read, the "in place of Christ") makes his appearance, and many Jews will believe that he is the promised messiah.
All that's to say that the Jewish people are ready to accept a false savior, just as the Bible said they would be at the time of the end.
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