EZEKIEL 39


1 Therefore, thou son of man [Ben Adam], prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith Adonai Yahweh ; Behold [Hineni], I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince [nasi Rosh] of Meshech and [Tuval]:

Gog‭;

‭...‬when in gorgeous blossom,‭ ‬will seize the baited hooks,‭ ‬enticing him to plunder and spoil the Holy.‭ ‬He will swallow the bait with all-devouring greed,‭ ‬being insatiate,‭ ‬and of boundless ambition and pride‭-‬Hab.‭ ‬2:5.‭ ‬He invades the Holy and takes Jerusalem‭; ‬but‭

‭"‬the day of vengeance and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion‭"

comes‭; ‬the blossom is cut off‭; ‬it falls upon Israel's mountains‭;

"‬and the Holy is avenged.‭"

‬Seven months the house of Israel bury the carcases of the slain,‭ ‬that they may tahhair eth-ha-aretz, cleanse the land.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, July 1856.




5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith Adonai Yahweh.

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

Such is the locality and the fuel of the lake of fire; the fire itself that consumes the wood, hay, and stubble, or "the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars" (ch. 21:8), is the burning anger of YAHWEH'S Name, as it appears in Isaiah 30:27, saying, "Behold, the Name of Yahweh cometh from far, his anger burning, and the burden heavy; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire. And he shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones". As Paul, therefore, truly saith, "our God is a consuming fire".

Such is the fire the anger and indignation of the Deity, descending with consuming effect upon the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, in the form of pestilence, famine, and war. The furnace from which this stream of devouring fire is poured forth, is the capital of the Great King, "whose fire" saith the prophet, "is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem". From thence, when he hath established himself there, "he will send a fire into Magog, and among them that dwell confidently in the isles; and they shall know that I am YAHWEH" (Ezek. 39:6).

Eureka 19.11.



The winepress of Divine wrath is trodden "without the City." That is, the fearful judgments to be manifested will not be confined to the Ten-Streeted Babylon, which is geographically bounded by the Rhine, the Danube, and the Euphrates, the English Channel, and the Atlantic. There are extensive regions beyond, or "without," these limits, equally obnoxious to the "fierceness and wrath of Almighty God". "Without the City" there is Germany, in its largest sense, styled by Ezekiel "Magog", upon which, saith Adonai Yahweh, "I will send a fire".

This Magog, or land of Gog, will include Prussia, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Poland. "Without the City" also are "them that dwell carelessly in the isles", among whom the fire is to be sent also.

These isles will include the dominions of Great Britain, that may not obey the proclamation in midheaven commanding obedience to the King of Israel. "Without the City" also there are Canada and its sister provinces the United States, Mexico, all South America, the Chinese Empire, Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Egypt. All these countries, which include what Daniel styles, "the Rest of the Beasts," in ch. 7:12, the Lion, the Bear, and the Leopard, are all to be visited with "the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God;" which results in "taking away their dominion," though not in extinguishing their political existence, which continues "for a season and a time," or 1000 years.

All these are "cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God," when, having destroyed the Great City of Ten Kingdoms, in its threefold dominion of the Seventh Vial, they are trodden in the judgments of the winepress "without the City"

The reader may easily conceive what an immense shedding of blood is implied by such a vintage as this. It is "the supper of the great God" prepared for the fowls of the heaven, who fill themselves with "the flesh of horses, and of them that sit upon them". The phrase "oceans of blood;" as expressive of the quantity shed in these extensive warlike operations of the Saints, or Angel of the Sickle, would hardly be an exaggeration. The blood which flows from the down-trodden armies of the nations, is represented as ascending to "the bridles of the horses for a thousand six hundred furlongs". This taken literally, would be about five feet deep, and two hundred miles long; but how broad we are left to imagine.

Eureka 14.13

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7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith Adonai Yahweh; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

That is, the day of the outpouring of the Seventh Vial is "the Great and Terrible Day of Yahweh". It is the day in which, after the fall of Gog upon the mountains of Israel, Adonai Yahweh will "send a fire on Magog, and among them who dwell confidently in the isles;" and which shall cause them to know that He is Yahweh.

"So," saith he, "willI make my Holy Name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my Holy Name any more; and the nations shall know that I, Yahweh, am the HOLY ONE in Israel".

During "the great and terrible day," the Nave smokes with indignation against Gog's land, or Magog, and against Babylon the Great, and other more distant lands.

Eureka 16.4.2.



The exhausting of the judgments of this vial consummates the sounding of the seventh trumpet which transfers the Kingdoms of this world to Yahweh, and his Anointed Body -- the saints. The wrath of this vial is poured into the Air -- the firmament of the appropriated kingdoms. When the wrath upon "the House of the Wicked" is expended, the Times of the Gentiles will have wholly expired, and a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne proclaims, "It is done!" (Ezek. xxxix. 8; Apoc. xxi. 6)

Yahweh's bow is now made quite naked, even that word which went forth "conquering and to conquer" (Hab. iii. 9-13; Apoc. vi. 2).

But, between the advent of the Son of Man and the proclamation aforesaid, is an interval of several years. This interval is Daniel's "time of the end" -- the time specially appointed for the judgments of the Little Open Book. In it is developed the antitype in full of the Passover, of the First Fruits, of the Blowing of Trumpets, of the day of Covering of Iniquity, of the Jubilee, of the Feast of the Tabernacles, and of the Bearing of Palms.

The antitypical celebration of the last three feasts of Yahweh consummates the time of the end, and inaugurates the reign of the thousand years.

Eureka 5.2.3.iv



9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:


--The symbols of war shall be destroyed in the land of Israel (Ps. 46:9; Ps. 96). It was an

ordinance of the Law of Moses that everything taken as spoil in war be subjected to fire, and those metals that stood the test should be cleansed and used (Num, 31:21-23). The

weapons of Gog will likewise be subjected to fire.

The destruction of the weapons of war in which man today places his trust will serve as a

token of Yahweh's power and man's inadequacy, and will indicate that no longer will confidence be placed in fleshly power. Isaiah says,

"they will learn war no more" (Isa. 2:4).

The ceremonial and national burning of weapons will testify that there is no further need of such, so that lasting peace will ensue. "Seven years"-Seven is the number of the covenant, and seems here to point to that covenant that ensures a millemum of peace. In preparation for it, seven years will be occupied in repairing the ravages of war.

During this period of time, probably, Christ will consolidate his power in Israel, and issue the ultimatum to the nations to voluntarily submit to his rule, or take the consequences.

The Christadelphian Expositor



11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

Before the Lamb can enter Zion with the 144,000, it will be necessary for him to expel the enemy. He comes to redeem Zion from the power of the foreigners, who have "come in like a flood", and afflicted her with "desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword". At this crisis of Zion's history, coeval with "darkness covering the earth, and gross darkness the people," Yahweh inquires through the prophet, "What have I here that My people is taken away for naught? They who rule over them make them to howl, saith Yahweh; and My Name continually every day is blasphemed". "They have scattered Israel among the nations, and they have parted My land;" and "the king of the north hath planted the tents of his entrenched camp between the seas to the mountain of the glory of the Holy One" (Isa. 59:19; 52:5; Joel 3:2; Dan. 11:45).

Such are Zion's relations, domestic and foreign, social, civil, and spiritual, at the crisis immediately preceding the appearance of the Lamb and his company within her walls. Being assembled in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and having laid successful siege to Jerusalem, they rifle its houses, ravish its women, and send half of its population into captivity, many of whom they sell to the Greeks for slaves at the vilest prices (Zech. 14:2; Joel 3:3). This prostrates Jerusalem in the dust, and fastens bands around the neck of the captive daughter of Zion.

The uncircumcised and the unclean, then in possession of Tyre and Zidon, and the coasts of Palestine, are in high feather over their success. This will be truly the day of Jacob's trouble, in which there will be none to help, nor any to uphold (Isa. 63:5; Jer. 30:7). But, Zion's extremity is her Redeemer's opportunity. "When," saith Moses, "he seeth that their power is gone, he will repent himself for his servants;" and saith Joel, "He will then be jealous for his land, and pity his people, who shall no more be made a reproach among the nations" (ch. 2:18,19; Deut. 32:36).

''The Harvest of the Earth," according to Joel, and John's angel that comes out of the nave, hath been ripened; "for their wickedness is great". The harvest is composed of vast multitudes of ripened wickedness in the plain, or valley of judgment, unconsciously awaiting a terrible overthrow. Joel in vision saw them all assembled there, as expressed in the words, "Multitudes, multitudes (hamonim, hamonim) in the valley of the judgment; for the Day of Yahweh is near in the valley of the judgment" (ch. 3:14). These hamonim are the hamon-gog of Ezekiel 39:11 - the multitude of Gog, which is buried in the valley of the judgment executed; and gives name to an adjacent city, called Hamonah, that is, Multitude.

This and the preceding chapter of Ezekiel are parallel with Joel 3, and John's vision of the reaping. The prophet is indignant at their wickedness. He does not pray for their conversion, nor for their salvation; but for their sudden and complete overthrow, in the words, "Thither cause to come down with violence thy mighty ones, 0 Yahweh!" Nor will Joel's prayer be in vain; for, referring to the same crisis, Zechariah says, "Yahweh Elohim shall come in, and all the Saints with thee" (ch. 14:5).

This coming in to Jerusalem will be with violence, and a terrific outpouring of wrath upon the multitudes in arms. In the words of Ezek. 38:18, "Adonai Yahweh saith, my fury shall come up in My face: for in my jealousy and in the fire of My wrath have I spoken, surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel.... and all the men that are upon the face of the land shall shake AT MY PRESENCE, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the towers shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 

And I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all my mountains saith Adonai Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him and upon his bands and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire and brimstone". 

Thus, Yahweh goes forth and fights against these multitudes, as in the days of old (Zech.14:3).

Eureka 14.11.



22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their Elohim from that day and forward.

"YAHWEH is known by the judgment he executeth" (Psa. ix. 16). This New Power of Southern Asia is known to be theocratic, as was that of Joshua and his hosts by the Canaanites, when the walls of Jericho fell at the sounding of Israel's trumpets the seventh and last time.

The treading of the winepress in its initiation at Bozrah is accompanied with a great shaking in the land of Israel, by which mountains are overturned, and towers fall, and all walls are prostrated (Ezek. xxxviii. 20); for it is "the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall;" when "Yahweh causes his glorious voice to be heard, and shows the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering and tempest, and hailstones; for through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be beaten down, who smote with a rod" (Isa. xxx. 25,30).

But the Rainbowed Angel's pedal pillars of fire may not halt long at Bozrah. Isaiah in vision saw him "coming from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah;" and describes him as "glorious in his apparel, and travelling in the greatness of his strength" (lxiii. 1).

John's rainbowed angel is symbolical of this traveller, who proclaims himself "mighty to save;" and powerful to tread down the peoples in his anger, and to make them drunk in his fury, and to bring down their strength to the earth (verse 6). The mutual slaughter of the enemy, the sword called for against him throughout all the mountains of Israel, and the pestilence, make his overthrow coextensive with the land. It reduces the invading hosts to only one sixth of their original force; as it is written,

"I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee" (Ezek. xxxix. 2,4).

This wreck of the invading force falls back upon Assyria, to which the war is transferred from the Holy Land.

A great and marvellous change comes over this country politically, socially, and physically. The peace so long and earnestly prayed for (Psa. cxxii, cxxv, cxxviii), and promised (Psa. lxxii. 3,7; lxxxv. 8,10; Isa. ix. 6,7; xxvi. 12; xxxii. 17; liv. 13; lxvi. 12; Ezek. xxxiv. 25), is at length established; so that "from this day forward" (Ezek. xxxix. 22) there will be no more war in the land of Israel for a thousand years; and the house of Israel will come to know that the ETERNAL SPIRIT is Yahweh their Elohim, manifested in the Lord Jesus Christ and his Brethren, symbolized by the Rainbowed Angel of the Rainbowed Throne.

Eureka 10.6.



25 Therefore thus saith Adonai Yahweh; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

I will be jealous for my holy name;

This object of Israel's restoration - for the honour of Yahweh's name - is the one that least appeals to the sympathies of the natural man. It is one thing that makes the subject so uninteresting and positively distasteful to the common run of people.

They might have a kindly thought for the restoration of the Jews on "the principle of nationalities," or because of the vigour of an ancient patriotism, or the interest excited by an historic race; but this "theological ingredient" mixed up with it excites their aversion.

What is this but the prejudice of barbarism? An enlightened state of mind takes just the opposite attitude. Enlightenment recognises God as the "possessor of heaven and earth," and the Bible as the present index to His mind; and His views and objects therein expressed, the ultimate light in which everything is to be contemplated.

In this way of looking at things, the divine purpose is the only stable element in the situation. Human life and human history are in themselves but shifting shadows on the ocean-mere elements in the working out of the divine purpose.

The "theological ingredient" is the only philosophy of the whole. God's relation to the case gives us the only rational solution of what the highest intellects feel to be the universal mystery. This relation we apprehend by means of the Scriptures and by that means only, and when apprehended, it alters our relation in harmony with itself.

We become no longer interested in nations from an ethnological point of view. The "principle of nationalities" and all other aspects as they present themselves to a merely natural observer, fail to interest. They are only apprehended in their actual nature as transient appearances; phases of affairs incident to the great purpose governing the whole evolution.

God's relation to a matter becomes the only real element. Consequently, it comes to pass that while the Jews as a race would excite in the subjects of this enlightenment no interest, and the question of their futurity and the disposal of their land would be dismissed as an arid and uninviting subject, as the factors in a divine problem they excite surpassing and everlasting interest.

Standing related to the revelation of God in the past, and involving the working out of His glorious purpose in the future, they become capital and supreme subjects. Involving Yahweh's honour, they are dear to the hearts of all Yahweh's children, while current interests and greatness, bringing with them only the melancholy ascendancy and renown of man, fall dead on their hearts.

Yahweh's jealousy for the honour of His name appears a stern and unattractive feature of the Bible at first; but a great change comes over the mind when the nature and effects of the jealousy are apprehended. It is not a human jealousy, which denies to others their due. It is the desire for the ascendancy of eternal and beneficial truth.

The honour of Yahweh is founded on the eternal constitution of things. All things are in Him; they are the concretion of His own invisible energy. Consequently, if they are not in harmony with Him, there can be no well-being. Without the honour of Yahweh, there can be no well-being of man; for man's highest interests are bound up with the recognition, love, service and obedience of His Creator.

In the nature of things, it is man's highest happiness to give to God the highest praise. Consequently, Yahweh's jealousy of His name is one of the glorious attributes of the eternal character.

Seasons 1.87.



29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith Adonai Yahweh.

The difference between this outpouring of the Spirit and that of Pentecost is, that the latter was only upon a few of Judah's Commonwealth who believed: whereas the former will be an outpouring upon the whole twelve tribes of Israel engrafted into their own olive tree again.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, April 1855



This ended Ezekiel's message to them in the twelfth year of the captivity, when the news of the city's destruction had come, and all present hope had been utterly destroyed.

Bro Growcott - Prophecies in the captivity