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The Slaughter of Gog’s Hordes
“Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am your enemy, O Gog, ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal.
“Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am your enemy, O Gog, ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal.
I will turn you around and drive you toward the mountains of Israel, bringing you from the distant north.
and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
I will knock the bow from your left hand and the arrows from your right hand, and I will leave you helpless.
Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
You and your army and your allies will all die on the mountains. I will feed you to the vultures and wild animals.
You will fall in the open fields, for I have spoken, says the Sovereign LORD.
And I will rain down fire on Magog and on all your allies who live safely on the coasts. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
“In this way, I will make known my holy name among my people of Israel. I will not let anyone bring shame on it. And the nations, too, will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
That day of judgment will come, says the Sovereign LORD. Everything will happen just as I have declared it.
Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day of which I have spoken.
“Then the people in the towns of Israel will go out and pick up your small and large shields, bows and arrows, javelins and spears, and they will use them for fuel. There will be enough to last them seven years!
They won’t need to cut wood from the fields or forests, for these weapons will give them all the fuel they need. They will plunder those who planned to plunder them, and they will rob those who planned to rob them, says the Sovereign LORD.
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.
It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land.
For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
Everyone in Israel will help, for it will be a glorious victory for Israel when I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the Sovereign LORD.
Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified,” says the Lord God.
“After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again.
Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
(There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means ‘horde.’) And so the land will finally be cleansed.
“And now, son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call all the birds and wild animals. Say to them: Gather together for my great sacrificial feast. Come from far and near to the mountains of Israel, and there eat flesh and drink blood!
A Triumphant Festival
“And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
“And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls — all fattened animals from Bashan!
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them fatlings of Bashan.
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them fatlings of Bashan.
Gorge yourselves with flesh until you are glutted; drink blood until you are drunk. This is the sacrificial feast I have prepared for you.
You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
Feast at my banquet table — feast on horses and charioteers, on mighty men and all kinds of valiant warriors, says the Sovereign LORD.
You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.
With horses and riders,
With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.
“In this way, I will demonstrate my glory to the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power of my fist when I strike.
Israel Restored to the Land
“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
And from that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.
The nations will then know why Israel was sent away to exile — it was punishment for sin, for they were unfaithful to their God. Therefore, I turned away from them and let their enemies destroy them.
The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name —
after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.
When I bring them home from the lands of their enemies, I will display my holiness among them for all the nations to see.
When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
Then my people will know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them away to exile and brought them home again. I will leave none of my people behind.