SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/24/2015
8:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Cleansing of the Land
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
39:9-16
Spiritual meaning
of the verses: Now here in this
section we see something that makes it hard to understand exactly when this
battle will take place. As we begin to
look at this main section which Dr. Wiersbe entitles “After the Invasion,” we
will see that after this great battle which caused sudden destruction such a
multitude of corpses as we will see in this section of scriptures along with
some military material which is also a topic of this section.
“9 "Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will
go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and
bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them. 10 “They
will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they
will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who
despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them,"
declares the Lord GOD. 11 “On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in
Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off
those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and
they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog. 12 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them
in order to cleanse the land. 13 “Even all the people of the land will
bury them; and it will be to their renown on the day that I glorify Myself,"
declares the Lord GOD. 14 "They will set apart men who will constantly
pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left
on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven
months they will make a search. 15
"As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a
man’s bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it
in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 “And even the name of the city will be Hamonah.
So they will cleanse the land."’”
Like I said that this section causes some difficulty as
to when this war will take place. Let me
explain by saying that we know that the tribulation will last for seven years
and that is why some commentators believe that this war will happen sometime
close to the tribulation period, but not in it.
In the series that Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins wrote called the “Left
Behind” series they actually used Lahaye’s commentary on Revelation to get the
theme of the books and Jenkins wrote the plot of the people in it, but they
said in the story line that this battle came before the Rapture of the
church. Now Warren Wiersbe believes it
will happen right after the tribulation period begins while John MacArthur
believes it is part of the last battle, the battle of Armageddon. Warren Wiersbe believes that the weapons of war
fare that Ezekiel speaks of here will not be the weapons of war fare that will
be used during this battle. It will
probably be jet fighter planes, rockets and modern things like that that will
be used in this war so how will they be able to burn those things for seven
years. Dr. Wiersbe writes “The burning
of the equipment simply says that the Jews didn’t keep it to use themselves and
they destroyed it so nobody else could use it.
God and his army came to spoil Israel, but Israel spoiled them!”
The other problem as far as timing of the battle comes
when we read that it takes seven months to clean the land of dead bodies. MacArthur believes that this could actually
go into the Millennial Kingdom.
Now the whole object of this war is for God to destroy
those nations that have been cruel to Israel in the past and are still to this
day doing the same thing. It is also to
bring glory to God and also cause nations around to understand that it was God
who is behind this and therefore they should glorify Him. When Israel came out of Egypt everyone knew
that it was the God of Israel who destroyed Egypt, but none of them gave glory
to God they only though that He was powerful.
The other reason is that we have is found in “John 3:19 "This is the judgment, that the Light
has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for
their deeds were evil.”
I will now give my take on how I think this could happen
for what it is worth. I believe that
this battle of Gog and Magog happens near the beginning of the Tribulation
Period and as far as the weapons used for fuel I think that it could be
possible that nuclear warheads from rockets will fall harmless to the ground
and Israel will use them to make electric power. I have to admit that I have never read any
commentary who said anything like this but perhaps this is possible.
4/24/2015 9:18 PM
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