THE ATTACK OF GOG OF MAGOG, AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD, HAS BEGUN (Part 1)
“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Ma′gog, the head chieftain of Me′shech and Tu′bal, and prophesy against him” (Ezekiel 38:2)
Who is Gog?
“Gog” is an unknown name. It is cryptic name, a “play on words” as a biblical message from God, to the devil and his earthly military forces. Yes, the “cryptic or symbolic” expression of “Gog of the land of Magog”, in itself seems to be a simple message to Satan, that shows how God sees him as “serpent” and with his human posterity, as “crushed” (Genesis 3:15)… If it is a “cryptic” message it must be “decrypted” in due time, it must be understood (Daniel 12:4; Matthew 13:34–36).
The assonance of the expression (Gog of Magog) shows clearly that it is a play on words, a pun based on a real kingdom which existed (Magog), and a transformed name (as to respect the assonance) of a former name’s king with a similar pronunciation.
What could be the name of this mysterious human king “Gog” behind this cryptic expression? “Gog” and “Magog”, and the intermediate shape between these two expressions which is “agog” that makes think to the king “Agag”, an Amalekite king… In Numbers 24:7 it is written: “Water keeps trickling from his two leather buckets, And his seed is sown by many waters. His king also will be greater than A′gag, And his kingdom will be exalted”.
It is interesting to know that in the manuscripts of MSyVg and SamLXX, instead of “Agag”, it is written as “Gog” that seems to support the idea according to which Gog is an assonance with Magog, would refer to “Agag” as “Gog”… Also, “The name or title “Agag” applied to more than one king of the Amalekites”. And we know that the common purpose of Amalekites kings was the same as the “Gog of Magog”, in Ezekiel 38, the extermination of the Israel of God, as People of God… Anyway, the term “Gog of Magog”, is a qualifier as an expression of declaration of what Jehovah will do against his worst enemy: the destruction of Gog and his Kingdom, Magog (Ezekiel 39: 5)…
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