“AND THE word of The LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, of Meshech, and of Tubal, and prophesy against him,” Ezekiel 38:1-2 AMPC

I remember from Joel Richardson’s book, “The Islamic Antichrist” that he said these are all tribes of Turkey. So I looked into it a bit.

Rosh: רֹאשׁ (rŏsh ROSH ). 1. The seventh son or grandson of Benjamin (Genesis 46:21).
2. In the ASV this word appears in the title of Gog, who is described as “the prince of Rosh” (Ezekiel 38:2-3; 39:1), but the margin has “or, ‘chief prince of.’” A people or country named Rosh is impossible to identify, although Russia and Rasu in Assyria have been suggested. Instead of Rosh the KJV and RSV have the “chief prince of,” but this would imply an unusual construction and is not generally favored by textual scholars and exegetes. Russians are mentioned for the first time in the 10th century A.D. by Byzantine writers under the name of ̔Ρώς, and by Ibn Fosslan under the name of Rus, a people dwelling on the river Volga. It is therefore unlikely that the prophet could be referring to them. (Biblehub)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ROSH (2) (ro’sh; Rhos, variant (Q margin) kephales; Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) capiris):

1. Rosh and Its Renderings :
This name occurs in the prophecies against Gog in Ezekiel 38:2-3 and Ezekiel 39:1, where the King James Version has “Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” This translation is due to ro’sh being the common Hebrew word for “head” or “chief” (compare the Greek variant and the Vulgate), and is regarded as incorrect, that of the Revised Version (British and American), “Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal,” being preferred.

2. Identification with Russia :
The identification of Rosh is not without its difficulties. Gesenius regarded it as indicating the Russians, who are mentioned in Byzantine writers of the 10th century under the name of Rhos. He adds that they are also noticed by Ibn Fosslan (same period), under the name of Rus, as a people dwelling on the river Rha (Volga).
Apart from the improbability that the dominion of Gog extended to this district, it would be needful to know at what date the Rus of the Volga arrived there.

Note : Some versions refer to Antichrist as “the Assyrian”

3. Probably the Assyrian Rasu :
Notwithstanding objections on account of its eastern position, in all probability Fried. Delitzsch’s identification of Rosh with the mat Rasi, “land of Rash” of the Assyrian inscriptions, is the best. Sargon of Assyria (circa 710 B.C.) conquered the countries “from the land of Rasu on the border of Elam as far as the river of Egypt,” and this country is further described in his Khorsabad Inscription, 18, as “the land of Rasu, of the boundary of Elam, which is beside the Tigris.”

Assyria having disappeared from among the nations when Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, Babylonia was probably the only power with which “Gog of the land of Magog” would have had to reckon, but it may well be doubted whether the Babylonian king would have allowed him to exercise power in the district of Rasu, except as a very faithful vassal. It may here be noted that the Hebrew spelling of Rosh presupposes an earlier pronunciation as Rash, a form agreeing closely with that used by the Assyrians. See Fried. Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? 325. (T. G. Pinches)

Rosh: Strong’s Hebrew 7219. Rosh — (bitter and poisonous herb) venom rosh or rosh. 7218, 7219. rosh or rosh. 7220 . (bitter and poisonous herb) venom.

Additional source : Ezekiel 38: Who Are Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, & Beth Togarmah?

“And say, Thus says The LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince (ruler) of Rosh, of Meshech, and of Tubal. And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords — Persia, Cush, and Put or Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet, Gomer and all his hordes, the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north and all his hordes–many people are with you.” Ezekiel 38:3-6.

Note : He says I WILL TURN YOU BACK and PUT HOOKS INTO YOUR JAWS. So this is GOD ALMIGHTY orchestrating this war!

CUSH

The land of Cush has been known by many names throughout history. The Egyptians knew the land as Cush. To the Greeks and Romans it was Aethiopia (or Ethiopia — though not to be confused with the modern nation located on the Horn of Africa). The medieval Arabs referred to the country as Nubia.

Regardless of the name by which it was known, Cush played an interesting role in the history of Canaan, Egypt, and the wider ancient Near East as a whole. Mentioned some 54 times in the Hebrew Bible, Cush features in the historical books — specifically Kings and Chronicles — as well as the prophets. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekial, and Nahum all make mention Cush or the Cushites.

No modern nation corresponds exactly to ancient Cush. Located along the middle course of the Nile — between the junction of the Blue and White Nile and the First Cataract — the territory of Cush lies partly in Egypt and partly in the Republic of Sudan (The Kingdom of Cush)

PUT

Put (Wikipedia) Phut or Put (Hebrew: ּט ּפו Pūṭ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud) is the third son of Ham (one of the sons of Noah), in the biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8).

The name Put (or Phut) is used in the Bible for Ancient Libya, but a few scholars proposed the Land of Punt known from Ancient Egyptian annals. Epiphanius writes: “Thus Mistrem was allotted Egypt, Cush, Aethiopia, Put, Axum, Ragman and Sabteka and [Dedan, also called Judad], the region bordering on Garama.”

Josephus writes: “Phut also was the founder of Libya, and called the inhabitants Phutites (Phoutes), from himself: there is also a river in the country of Moors which bears that name; whence it is that we may see the greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention that river and the adjoining country by the appellation of Phut (Phoute): but the name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons of Mezraim, who was called Lybyos.”

Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy both place the river Phuth on the west side of Mauretania. Ptolemy also mentions a city Putea in Libya.

A Libyan connection has likewise been inferred from Nahum 3:9, where it is said that “Put and Lubim” were the helpers of Egypt.

Other biblical verses consistently refer to the descendants of Put as warriors. In Jeremiah 46:9, they are again described as being supporters of Egypt. Ezekiel mentions them three times: in 27:10, as supporters of Tyre (Phoenicia), in 30:5 again as supporting Egypt, and in 38:5, as supporters of Gog.

The Hebrew Bible substitutes Put in Ezekiel where the Septuagint Greek (LXX) refers to Libues. However, the Hebrew reads Pul in Isaiah 66:19, in place of Put in the LXX.

The Libyan tribe of pỉdw shows up in Egyptian records by the 22nd dynasty, while a Ptolemaic text from Edfu refers to the t3 n nꜣ pỉt.w “the land of the Pitu”. The word was later written in Demotic as Pỉt, and as Phaiat in Coptic, a name for Libya Aegypti, northwestern Egypt.

A fragment of Nebuchadnezzar II’s annals mentions his campaign in 567 in Egypt, and defeating the soldiers of Pu-ṭu-ia-a-man, i.e. Greek Libya (Cyrene). A multilingual stele from al-Kabrīt, dating to the reign of Darius I refers to the Put as the province of Putāya (Old Persian) and Puṭa (Neo-Babylonian), where the equivalent text written in Egyptian has tꜣ ṯmḥw “Libya”. (Put — OpenBible.info)

From Chuck Missler’s video:

This was a shocker in Chuck Misslers’ talk : The Great Wall of China, I believe he said westward including the Scythians is labeled God and Magog!

Picture below from Chuck Missler.

“You [Gog] be prepared; yes, prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and you be a guard and a commander for them. After many days you shall be visited and mustered [for service]; in the latter years you shall go against the land that is restored from the ravages of the sword, where people are gathered out of many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; but its [people] are brought forth out of the nations and they shall dwell securely, all of them. [Isaiah 24:22.] You shall ascend and come like a storm; you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hosts and many people with you. Thus says The LORD God: At the same time thoughts shall come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
And you will say, I will go up against an open country [the land of unwalled villages]; I will fall upon those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates, to take spoil and prey, to turn your hand upon the desolate places now inhabited and assail the people gathered out of the nations, who have obtained livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth [Palestine].
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their lion-like cubs [or satellite areas], shall say to you, Have you come to take spoil? Have you gathered your hosts to take the prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take a great spoil?
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, Thus says The LORD God: In that day when My people Israel dwell securely, will you not know it and be aroused?
And you will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.
And you shall come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. In the latter days I will bring you against My land, that the nations may know, understand, and realize Me when My holiness shall be vindicated through you [vindicated and honored in your overwhelming destruction], O Gog, before their eyes.” Ezekiel 38:716 AMPC

So GOD will make a great display of His power destroying the armies coming against Israel!

“Thus says The LORD God: Are you he of whom I have spoken in olden times by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you [Gog] against them. But in that day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says The LORD God, My wrath shall come up into My nostrils. For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath have I said, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking or cosmic catastrophe in the land of Israel,” Ezekiel 38:17-19 AMPC.

Wrath : H5678 – ebrah – an outburst of passion, anger, rage, wrath

Great : 1419 or (shortened) gadol {gaw-dole’}; from 1431; great (in any sense); hence, older;
also insolent:–+ aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, X sore, (X ) very.

Shaking : H7494 from 7493; vibration, bounding, uproar: — commotion, confused noise, earthquake, fierceness, quaking, rattling, rushing, shaking.

“So that the fishes of the sea and the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall tremble and shake at My presence; and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall [natural or artificial] shall fall to the ground.” Ezekiel 38:20 AMPC

Woa! ALL MEN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH WILL TREMBLE!

Mountains will fall down meaning physical and spiritual, like principalities.

“And I will call for a sword against [Gog] throughout all My mountains, says The LORD God, every man’s sword shall be against his brother [over the dividing of booty]. And with pestilence and with bloodshed will I enter into judgment with [Gog], and I will rain upon him and upon his hordes and upon the many peoples that are with him torrents of rain and great hailstones, fire and brimstone. [Psalm 11:6.] ” Ezekiel 38:21-22.

Picture Sodom and Gomorrah!

“Thus will I demonstrate My greatness and My holiness, and I will be recognized, understood, and known in the eyes of many nations; yes, they shall know that I am The LORD [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].” Ezekiel 38:23

Muslim nations will see the glory of the God of Israel displayed.”

This is the excellent talk by Chuck Missler. He has a bit differing view from Joel Richardson. This was so good.

Chuck Missler — Ezekiel (Session 19) Chapters 38-39

 

~ Priscilla Van Sutphin

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