WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GOG” AND “MAGOG”?
GOG is the leader and MAGOG is the nation. Here is a little information from Easton’s Dictionary. “GOG: 1.A Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:4), the father of Shimei. 2. The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezek. 38,39, as coming from the “north country” and assailing the people of Israel to their own destruction.” “MAGOG: Region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation…” WHEN AND WHY WILL THIS BATTLE HAPPEN? There are a variety of views of when the Gog and Magog battle will happen, some excellent commentators view the battle as happening in the middle of the “week” of seven years (the Tribulation). Israel will be dwelling in relative peace (Ezek.38:8), the Antichrist will have confirmed a peace covenant with Israel, see Daniel 9:27. Then the covenant will be broken, and the obscenity of war will engulf the Holy Land again. It seems from Daniel 11:41 that the invasion from the North could be an even
