His coming, which had been prophesied by the seers of Israel, shall be accompanied by a theophany and great convulsions in Nature. They are sometimes individuals, sometimes peoples, and sometimes geographic regions. In both cases alike the vision describes the final workings of the world's evil and its results in connection with the kingdom of God, only the starting-point is placed further in advance in the one case than in the other. See the entry for in , G. Their bodies shall be food for the birds, their weapons shall serve as firewood for seven years and their bones shall be buried East of the Jordan in Hamon-gog and thus not defile the holy land. They were to come upon the mountains of Israel and cover the land like a cloud. Gog will fall where he stands 39:4 and Magog will perish through fire 39:6.
Hence, in f ὁ Γώγ and ὁ Μαγώγ are used collectively to designate the nations that at the close of the millennial reign, instigated by Satan, will break forth from the four quarters of the earth against the Messiah's kingdom, but will be destroyed by fire from heaven. According to Ezekiel's account Gog's army included in its numbers Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer or the Cimmerians, and Togarmah, from the extreme North. But while Ezekiel contemplates the great conflict in a more general light as what was certainly to be connected with the times of the Messiah, and should come then to its last decisive issues, John, on the other hand, writing from the commencement of the Messiah's times, describes there the last struggles and victories of the cause of Christ. He has been identified with Gagi, ruler of Sakhi, mentioned by Ashurbanipal, but Professor Sayce thinks the Hebrew name corresponds more closely to Gyges, the Lydian king, the Gugu of the cuneiform inscriptions. And the city in the valley? The people of Israel will take seven years to burn all the weaponry 39:9 and seven months to bury the people of Gog in the valley of Hamon-gog 39:11-12. Because we've already linked God and Magog to the altar of incense see above , the most remarkable usage is in Exodus 30:3 and 37:26 where גוג denotes the top of the altar of incense.
In both cases the number is vast, the destruction is by supernatural means, and is complete and final. The names are applied likewise to two giants, survivors of a race found in Britain by Brute of Troy, effigies of whom stood at the Guildhall Gate, symbolic defenders of the city. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of , which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. In Ezekiel the invasion of Gog occurs during the Messianic age, while in Revelation it occurs just at the close of the millennium. Magog is often mentioned in conjunction with Gog and Gog is the name of a 1 Chronicles 5:4 , but later also the name of a certain prince of , and literally the Chief Prince of the Occupied Zone that is The World — Ezekiel 38.
The altar on which continuously incense burned see had horns on its four corners Exodus 38:2 and Daniel also speaks of the defilement of the altar 11:31-32. The vision respecting Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse is in substance a reannouncement of this prophecy of Ezekiel. In general it seems to refer to the last and desperate attempts of a dying heathenism to overturn the true religion of Yahweh, or make capital out of it, profiting by its great advantages. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. Later this name came to denote a region Ezekiel 38:2. His territory was known as the land of Magog, and he was the chief of those northern hordes who were to make a final onslaught upon Israel while enjoying the blessings of the Messianic age.
In Ezekiel, Gog and Magog are gathered by Yahweh for their destruction; in Re they are gathered by Satan. The male goat is explained to be Greece 8:21 , or in. Reeve These files are public domain. Or it may come from the particle מן min; often abbreviated to a single mem , meaning from. Nouns that start with an m often describe place or agent of the parent verb. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Javan was a son of Japheth, and a brother of Magog, Meshech and Tubal Genesis 10:2. Gog roof; covering Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names. Magog might literally mean Place Of The Roof and describe a center of wisdom, or Agent Of The Roof and describe a person who works in such center. Magog is a son of , son of Genesis 10:2. But Gog may mean Roof, and Magog may subsequently mean Off The Roof, which means more in English than in Hebrew.
They are represented as a vast mixed horde from the far-off parts of the North, the limits of the horizon, completely armed and equipped for war. . The fulfillment of this strange prophecy can never be literal. These dictionary topics are from M. Note that the information technology that currently drives our society began in the Bronze Age with the invention of the alphabet and hyper-complex fractalic narration. Their context can be either genealogical or eschatological and apocalyptic, as in the Book of Ezekiel and Revelation.
This prophecy has been regarded as fulfilled in the conflicts of the Maccabees with Antiochus, the invasion and overthrow of the Chaldeans, and the temporary successes and destined overthrow of the Turks. This is remarkable because sees a vision of a male goat whose one horn becomes four horns towards the four winds of heaven, which may allude to a world-wide altar Daniel 8:8. Their purpose is plunder, for the people of Israel are rich and dwell in towns and villages without walls. A panic shall seize the hosts of Gog, rain, hailstones, pestilence, fire and brimstone shall consume them. Góg: Gog, associated with Magog Original Word: Γώγ, ὁ Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Góg Phonetic Spelling: gogue Definition: Gog, associated with Magog Usage: Gog, in Ezekiel a king of Magog, a land of the remote north; hence, in Revelation, of a people far remote from Palestine. . .
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