Here tonight, I want you to turn to Ezekiel chapter 38 Ezekiel chapter 38 a my message tonight is Russia in Bible prophecy is Russia in in Bible prophecy, and I'm being honest, I didn't want to go here all week. I was very determined, very sure that I wouldn't even go near this, because with Ezekiel's war, we've taught on it before. I very much intend to teach on it again fully. I'm not teaching on Ezekiel's war tonight. I won't be doing that. but I intend to in the future when it happens. I am so convinced it's going to happen, and it's going to happen soon, that I'm saving my messages until Russia actually invades Israel. Then I'm going to teach on it more fully, more clearly than ever I have before. That's how sure I am of that it's not a long time off, but it's certainly not this present time. But my message is specifically, is Russia in Bible prophecy? Is it mentioned in the Bible? Is Russia as a nation mentioned there? Is its name mentioned there? Is it inferred? Is it hinted at? Is it assumed? We're gonna look at this tonight, reading from Ezekiel chapter 38 and verse one. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshach and Tabal, and prophesy against him. And say, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am against thee, O Gog. the chief prince of Meshech and Tabul. And I will turn thee back and put hooks in thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth an all-night army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet. Goomer, and all his bands, the house of Tugarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited. In the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many people. against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste. But it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely, all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm. Thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou and all thy bands and many people. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for the Word of God, the Word of prophecy, that the Holy Spirit not only spoke through men of God in times of old, but you speak to us now through your Son in the written scriptures. And we love the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that you make us to glory in the Lord Jesus Christ even tonight. My God, to rejoice that you are sovereign in the nations that you are deity, that you are God of all creation, that you know all things before they happen, that you record them in your book thousands of years before they even begin to come to pass, and you do this that we might know that you are God. that Israel might know that you're the God of the Bible, that the heathen nations might know that we in this room and in this meeting tonight. Lord God, I pray, O God, show us the reality. Make us to know that you are God. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. We know that dominating the news at this time is Russia. Christians everywhere are talking about Russia. Everyone is saying, are we about to see Ezekiel's war? Is this the hour? Is this the time? I want to tell you, this is not the hour. Russia is not going to fall in Ukraine. Russia's military might is not going to be brought down to the dust in this hour. But the Bible does prophesy when, where, how that Russia, or shall I say Magog, is going to fall. I believe the Bible prophesies very clearly that Russia is going to fall on a specific small short range of mountains in a particular land. It's called Israel and those mountains are called the mountains of Israel. There aren't two places like that on the earth. There is only one, and the Bible predicts that. My message here tonight is Russia mentioned, spoken of, predicted in the Bible. This great nation, this great people that are dominating the world scene, Are they actually contained within Bible prophecy? When we come to Ezekiel's prophecy, we read a certain term 72 different times. Listen to what it is. And they shall know that I am the Lord. Right in the midst of all the exact prophecies about nations, about Israel being restored to her nation, about Israel being recovered from all nations of the world and restored again on the mountains of Israel. He says, I'm doing this so that you will know that I am the Lord. And many other prophecies are given. 72 times this is said and stated in Ezekiel. Prophecy isn't given for entertainment. It's not given to satisfy curiosity. Why is prophecy given? Why are predictions made? Why did God restore Israel to her nation after 1900 years? Why did he do that? Is it so that we can merely be entertained or have some information? Why did he do that? There's one reason why God restored Israel to our ancient nation. Only one reason. The Jew might know that I am the Lord. And I'll tell you what's more, there's other prophecies and we're going to mention them here. He gives other things that haven't happened yet. They're about to happen. And Israel needs to be internation before they happen. They only happen after Israel was restored. And after 1900 years, she was restored in 1948. But there are other things to happen. And in fact, the Bible emphasizes that God has recorded these things and that he's going to do them for this reason. That you, the heathen nations, that you, Israel, that you, my people, will know that I am the Lord. I mean know that I am the Lord. So my question tonight, is Russia mentioned in Bible prophecy? My answer is yes. And I'm going to show you, and I want you to learn this tonight. There's a Bible study. World events are moving around us. News is dominated by Russia, but is Russia explicitly and clearly mentioned in the Bible? I want to give you three points to prove Russia is mentioned explicitly, blatantly, publicly in our Bible. And I want to give you three ways to prove it so that you know, so that you can show someone else And so that we as a church know we are grounded in the scripture. It's not an idea. It's not a trend. It's not a theory that goes through the church. I want to prove to you that Russia is. And here's my three reasons or three proofs. And I could give you more, but I'm going to limit it to three. So you can learn this, believe this, and understand this. Number one, And this is the first reason why I believe Russia is mentioned in Bible prophecy. Number one, ancient Magog is present day Russia. I'm going to prove to you or show you that Magog is clearly mentioned in the Bible. It's explicitly mentioned here. But I'm going to show you the ancient name Magog is the present day name for Russia. It's one and the same. Now this term Magog, we've read it here in Ezekiel 38 already. It's the main nation mentioned in this prophecy. It's the number one nation. It's the first nation. And there's a prophecy to the general or the leader who is going to come from this nation. He is born in that nation. He is from that nation. And he's going to lead an army from that nation. The nation is called Magog. Now the first mention of this name Magog in the Bible is further back in Genesis chapter 10 and verse 2. When you go back to Genesis 10, you read the table of nations. What you have there in Genesis is an exact family tree from Noah. The flood has happened. Noah and his three sons come off the ark. And then you begin to read the children. of Japheth and Shem and Ham, the three sons of Noah. And you begin to read the names of these children, and then the grandchildren of these children, and then the tribes and the people that come out. In fact, you read 70 nations, or 70 languages that come forth. You know the tower of Babel, they were all of one language, they were all in one place, they were all united together and God came down and confused them. How did he confuse them? By giving them different languages. And do you know what he separated them into? It was 70 different peoples or nations. Do you know what that shows me? There must have been 70 different languages in order to separate all the people of the world. You know, language experts today say that all languages go back to about 70 languages. That's about the amount of original authentic languages. And so when you go back to Genesis 10, you have all of the original people that were born from Noah. You have the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren. And each of these men who are mentioned become the head of a family, and then a head of a people, and then a head of a tribe, and a head of an entire nation. I mean an entire nation is named after them. And then wherever they settle, that country or bit of land where they settled gets named after that entire people. Okay, so if you understand that, It says in Genesis 10 verse 2, the sons of Japheth, listen to who they are, seven of them, Gomer, Magog, see that name Magog, Madi, Javan, Tubal, we've already mentioned him, Meshach, and Teraz. So look at this Japheth, and I'm descended from Japheth, okay? Brother Soph probably isn't. And so you have a genealogy here that goes right back to the very beginning. And what you have here is Magog mentioned as the son of Japheth, the grandson of Noah. He is a man, he's an individual. And yet we know later when we come to Ezekiel, there's an entire people called Magog who are still going to exist in the last days. When Israel is gathered out of all nations and put in their nations, the Bible says there is an entire people called Magog. That's their ancient name. And if you go back and can find who was Magog in old days, If you find that out, who Magog was, you then know who is going to invade Israel in the last days. You can find that out. You can discover that. There were seven sons of Japheth. And Magog was the grandson of Noah. Now, Josephus, who is a historian in the first century, during the lifetime of Jesus, the early church, and he wrote ancient history. He was actually living within the Roman Empire when the Roman soldiers destroyed Jerusalem. He was an early historian who wrote about all of the ancient history. Listen to what he says about this. He said, Magog founded the Magogians. thus named after him, but who were by the Greeks called the Scythians. Here he says, and you can trace all the Greek writers, going back to the time of Ezekiel and before Ezekiel and after Ezekiel, all of them talked about this great people called the Scythians. And Josephus, this historian, reading the Greeks, he said, those that we call Magog, the people of Magog, or the land of Magog, is actually called the Scythians by the Greeks. That's how they recognized them. Let me tell you for a moment who the Scythians were, where they lived, and what sort of a people they were. The Scythians were a people that lived just above the Middle East in a place called the Steps of Russia. That is an entire region 5,000 miles long. It begins with Ukraine, and it's above the Mediterranean, above the Middle East. And beginning at Ukraine in the West, it goes all the way through to Mongolia in the East, a distance of 5,000 miles. If you go further and higher, it gets very cold and mountainous. If you come lower, it gets very hot and you're into all of the other nations. A part of this whole region that was part of Scythia was Serbia. Serbia today has about 10% of the world's land mass of ground that you can inhabit in the entire world. It's a massive region. And these Scythians lived in this area just above the Black Sea. So from Ukraine to Mongolia, you had this entire region. In ancient accounts, they said that the Scythians were nomads. They were horsemen. They traveled. They didn't just settle. They didn't build houses. They're constantly on the move, all through the steppes of Russia, all through from Mongolia, all the way through to Ukraine. They are a moving, warring, fighting people. They're different tribes. In fact, a confederation of different tribes, different peoples. And they reached their height during the days of Ezekiel. From about 900 BC through to 200 BC, they dominated that whole region of the world. They just traveled. They dominated. They were a fighting people. But they had the same culture, all distinct tribes, all in different areas, all moving in different directions. And yet the one same culture. They had the same dialect. They wore the same clothes. They lived the same lifestyle. They even made the same horse gear for the horses. And they're noted by the mark of tattoo on their body. The one people worldwide who tattooed their body were these Scythians. They were noted for it. They painted their bodies. So all of their habits, all of these tribes, they're all horsemen. They're all fighters and warriors. Do you know how we know about them? They didn't leave any written history. The Greeks wrote about them, and the Chinese, and the Armenians, and the Syrians wrote about them. You know why all those nations, you had these tribes up above them. In that entire wide region of thousands of miles. And you know at times they would come down and invade the Greeks. And they would come down and invade the Assyrians. And they would come down and invade the Chinese. And they would come down and invade various nations. And they would write about them. That these men, these warriors would come down and invade them. But you know it's not too long ago. That all of a sudden, I think about 300 years ago. that explorers began to discover ancient burial sites all through that entire region. And in fact, the burial sites were utterly untouched. No one had robbed them. No one had opened them. And they went back 2,500 years to the days of Ezekiel. They'd never been opened. These are ancient kings. And you know what? They were frozen in there. Because of the temperature of the weather, everything was preserved. And the archaeology, they could go in and see all that this people were. And so you had in the days of Ezekiel, they are raiding the inhabited nations below them. As Syria, Armenia, China, and the heartland of this people. Listen to this carefully. The heartland of this people were Ukraine and Russia. That's where they dominated. That was their very homeland. To the north and the east of the Black Sea was where they made their fundamental base, and that's where they moved out from, and that's where they always come back to. This is above Turkey, directly above Turkey, above Armenia, above Iran, and this is where they dwelt. When the Bible talks about Magog, it's speaking about the Scythians, unknown people. And yet there's a prophecy here in Ezekiel's day. Ezekiel knew about this people. He knew about their raids. But do you know what? They never raided Israel. They wouldn't get anywhere near Israel. You had Turkey and Armenia and the Assyrians. You had great nations between Magog and the little tiny nation of Israel. When Ezekiel is prophesying, he prophesies about Magog. He knew where they were, he knew who they were, and he knew their reputation. And he's prophesying about a day and an hour and a time when they are going to invade the nation of Israel, the mountains of Israel. This is very, very specific. You see, Magog, was a real place and a real nation. Now, over the centuries and millennia, you'd get people going out from Magog and they'd migrate. They would move. They didn't all stay in the same place, but the region, the land of Magog remained the same. It doesn't change. Do you know why I say that? because there was immigration. This will shock you what I'm about to tell you, unless you read our first newsletter in this church seven years ago, because I give the information there. Do you know Magog, descendants from Magog went out across the earth? Do you know in the ancient records of Ireland, do you know where our only authentic Irish records, where they said the first inhabitants of Ireland, who they were and where they came from? In our record books, in the book of invasions of Ireland, it says it was Magog, descendants of Magog. It says it was the Scythians who came with Egyptians and who landed on Ireland. They were the first ones to reach Ireland and begin to inhabit it. This is the ancient records also of the Picts in Scotland. They say, we go back to Magog. We are of the Scythians. Why do you think the Picts, they still haven't translated the language of the Picts. Remember the Picts, what's the notable mark of the Picts? They painted their body. They tattooed their bodies. They were warlike. And so that's by the way, I want to tell you Ireland is not going to invade Israel in the last days. Very important that you know that. But do you know what? A low Magog, descendants of Magog went everywhere across the world. I don't know who some of your ancestors are to be honest. But do you know what? The land of Magog remains the same. When you come to Ezekiel 38, We read a prophecy against Gog of the land of Magog. Magog is a land, it's a country, it's a region in the world. There's a prophecy given that once Israel gets gathered back out of all nations, then the land of Magog, a great leader from the land of Magog, is going to invade Israel. And so I hope you realise there's an explicit prophecy about Russia. What was Magog? It was the Scythians. It was that entire region north of Israel, above the Middle East. It was all of that land mass. My second point. The first one is, ancient Magog, the name Magog is present day Russia. They're both in the same place. Number two, Magog comes from the extreme north. Three times in this prophecy of Ezekiel 38, the extreme north is mentioned in connection with this invasion and with this army. Look at verse 6, it says, Now there's several nations mentioned connected with Magog, or Russia, who invade Israel. One of them here, and only one of the other several, is mentioned being in the north. All of the rest, we're not told they're in the north. That means all of the other ones that are mentioned, like Libya and Persia, they're further south. And we know those nations are further south. But here is a nation that's going to be joined to Magog. It said it comes from the north quarters and all his bands, many people with thee. So there's one nation that's aligned with Magog and it says it's towards the north. Then listen as well. Verse 15, and thou shalt come, speaking about Magog and Gog, thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army. So where does Magog come from? From the land of Magog. Where is the land of Magog? It is in the north parts. It's to the north of these other nations. And then last of all in chapter 39 in verse 2, And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. Here's an entire army, and we're being told they come from the north parts, and they'll invade the mountains of Israel. The word north that's used here in connection with Magog. Listen to what it means in the Hebrew. It means the dark and gloomy region. You wouldn't say that about the Mediterranean. If you go on a Mediterranean cruise and come back and tell me it was dark and gloomy and dour. I'm going to have a few questions for you. But if you go north of the Mediterranean, the entire north of the Mediterranean, its name in ancient culture and in the Bible is called the dark and the gloomy region. You know you need to go north in order to reach a dark and gloomy region. Italy is not dark and gloomy, neither is Greece, neither is Turkey, neither is Israel. You've got to move up into the north in order for it to be dark and gloomy. And then look at the word attached in these three verses to the north. The North Quarters, the North Parts. Now this term is very interesting. The term Quarters and Parts. When you look that up in the Hebrew, it means the uttermost parts. The furthest part of the North. far north or on the coastal regions of the north. Do you know what it's saying here? It's speaking about going as far north as you can possibly go. When it talks about Magog invading Israel, it's talking about an entire army coming from the very far Golumi region and province and invading the little nation of Israel. So we see first of all that Gog Magog is the ancient name for the name Russia. But we also see here it's talking about an army in our day and generation that's going to come from the far north and invade Israel in a remarkable way. Here's something else about this term north to show you and to prove that it can't be anything else than Russia. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both prophesied that Israel would be scattered throughout all of the nations and then regathered from all nations. This was not fulfilled when they went into captivity in Egypt. And it wasn't fulfilled when they went into Babylon. And it wasn't fulfilled when they got carried into captivity in Assyria. Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, it's not that. But it's prophesied about a time when Israel would be scattered amidst all nations of the world. That's only happened once. And that was after AD 70 up to 1948, for a period of 1,900 years. It didn't happen at any other point in history apart from that period. They were scattered in all nations, not one or two nations. And what Ezekiel and Jeremiah say is that at a time when they're scattered amongst all nations, God is not only gonna scatter them, but he's gonna regather them from all nations to the little nation of Israel. He goes further than that. Listen to this, he goes further. And he says, not only will he regather them from all nations, But at that same time when they're being regathered from all nations, that they're specifically going to be gathered from a particular place. It says there in Jeremiah chapter 31 and verse 8, Behold I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the coasts of the earth. It's talking about extreme distance. A great company shall return hither to Israel. So at the very same time that God is regathering them from all nations, he actually prophesies two and a half thousand years ago, 1,500 years before he scatters them, he's prophesying about regathering them. And at the time he regathers them, one of the most notable places is the land of the North, the country of the North. That country has to have a name and an identification. Listen again what is prophesied here in Jeremiah 23 verse 7. to verse 8, it says, In fact, he goes further and he prophesies and he said, Just as you used to be known as the nation that was brought out of Egypt, and brought up. Wasn't Israel known as the nation delivered out of Egypt by Moses? He said, you won't be known by that name anymore. You, in the days ahead, when I regather you again and gather you out of all nations, when you come from all nations of the world, you are going to be known as the people that have been brought out of that northern nation. And I believe that gives us the identification of the country that's going to invade them as well. Let me give you a few facts here from our generation. In just one Decade. Do you remember when communism fell? Remember when the communist nations opened up? I can remember as a child we prayed for the communism, for the Berlin Wall to fall all through my childhood. And you'd pray against communism and that the Jews would get released and the Christians wouldn't be persecuted anymore. That was my childhood. And then I remember the day watching the television when the Berlin Wall fell and communism fell and Gorbachev come out and release the people. Listen, in just one period of decade, one period of 10 years, from 1989 to 1999, 800,000 Jewish immigrants left Russia for Israel to seek citizenship. Before 1989, there were more Jews in Russia than any other country in the entire world. Since the year 2000, it has been noted that 20% of Israel's population were born where? In Russia, one out of every five. and still speak in this new millennium, they still speak Russian in their Israeli homes, in Israeli cities, they're Israeli citizens. And yet there's times and even cities in Israel, if you go to today, 50% of that population speak Russian as their first native language. Russia is now the third language in Israel after Hebrew. and Arabic. As we look at all of these things, you begin to see the Bible The Bible clearly identifies Russia in the last days. What was the first thing? Magog, ancient Magog, is the same as present day Russia. The names, the region, the area, the people. The second point is that Magog comes from the region of the north. There is only one region. What other country competes with Russia to the north? What other one could you confuse it with that's north of the Middle East? There is no other nation. It is this nation. Israel is now known as a nation regathered from many nations of the world. They are the most diverse culture in the entire world. It's remarkable. but they're also known as a nation recovered, restored from Russia. Pardon me. I told you a few years ago, and I read it at the time in the newspaper, how Putin had just inherited a house in Jerusalem. His old school teacher that taught him as a young boy was a lady, a Jewish lady who then moved back to Israel, back to Jerusalem. And when she died, she left in her will that Putin now had her house in the city, in the city of Jerusalem. And so he's got a better land. He's got a better, I don't know what he done with it, whether he sold it or gave it away. But we see from this, that the land of the North is Russia. And it's the land of the North this army is gonna come from. The same nation out of which so many Jews have come out of. Pardon me. It's the same nation that's going to invade Israel in the last days, third and lastly. Magog confederates with contemporary nations. Let me say that again. Magog, that is spoken about in the Bible, that ancient land, in the last days, in our generation, confederates with contemporary nations that we all know and we look at in the news all the time. Look at Ezekiel 38, verse 3. And say, thus saith the Lord God, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshach and Tabul, Persia, verse five, Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them. Verse six, Gomer and all his bands, and the house of Togomer of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee. So you see that Magog is mentioned with several other distinct nations. They're named, they can be identified, and in fact it takes very little research to identify all these countries as countries that we know. Each of these countries have a military force. All but one of them is a Muslim nation. All but one is very against Israel. And all but one is presently aligned with Russia in some sort of union. When you begin to look at these nations, Russia is being identified by its name, it's Magog, from the north, the region it is in, where Israel has been regathered from. But you also see now that Russia as Magog is joining in our lifetime and present history, is joining with each one of these nations. And in fact, I've researched this and I've taught on it before, how that each of these nations, Russia has armed them all. I've gone through all the interconnections of Russia with each one of these nations, and it's remarkable. But before I finish on this point, I want to move something out. Bad interpretation of Scripture. Bad application of Bible prophecy. I don't like it. I hate it when Scripture is taken out of context, when it is stretched, when it is pulled so wide it loses its meaning. I hate people trying to push Bible prophecy into meaning something it doesn't mean. I don't like that, okay? So I'm going to move something out of the way that people try to do that with. You see three times in this prophecy in Ezekiel 38, three times, listen to what it says. Gog, the chief prince of Meshach and Tabul. Gog is a man. Gog is a title of a general, a captain, or a leader. That's what Gog is. It's like Caesar or Kaiser are some of these titles. And so it identifies a man, a leader. He is from the land of Magog. He is a Russian. He is from the land of the north. And yet here it says, he is the chief prince or the leader of Meshach and Tabul. And so certain Bible teachers, to prove this is Russia, they press it, the text, further than they ought to. What they actually say is Meshech, mentioned here, is Moscow. That's what they say, the capital city of Russia. They then look and see Tobol. They say, that's Tobolsk, a province in Russia. And then they look further in this simple statement and the word chief there, Gog the chief prince. If you look it up in the Hebrew, the word chief is the Hebrew word Rosh. And they said Rosh is where we get the name Russia from and Russians. And so they say, there you go, you have Moscow, you have Tobolsk, and you have Russia, all identified with Gog. Now I want to tell you, That is bad interpretation. And you know what? People then laugh at this sort of thing and they threw Russia out the window. And they try to make Magog to be Turkey. And they say, it's a Muslim nation, it's Turkey. And the idea of Russia being Magog, it's a crazy idea. You see, when you don't treat scripture right, truth gets thrown out and gets mocked and gets ridiculed. So let me tell you why I don't believe this is Moscow and it's not Russia written here. This Hebrew word Rosh is used 600 times in the Old Testament Hebrew, 600 times. Guess how many times out of the 600 it's talking about a nation? Absolutely none unless you make this a country, Rosh, Russia. All the other 599 times, it means the top, the beginning, or the chief. It can mean the source, the head, or the leader. It's talking about a chief prince, not Roche, not the Russians, not the Ruskies. This word actually means the prince who exalts himself, a king, a leader of a nation, the head man of the entire military force. And so we see that Gog from Russia is going to be the chief prince of Meshech and Tabul. Well, if Meshech and Tabul isn't Moscow and Tobolsk, then what is it? Well, you can identify all the nations. When you begin to look at Meshach and Tabal, they're always mentioned together in the Bible. You can go back into ancient records. I'm not even giving you the information here tonight. I just want you to learn the truth. Is Russia mentioned in the Bible? We are going to preach and teach on Ezekiel's war again in the future because it's going to happen. I don't believe it'll be 30 years away. I believe at least some of you are going to be sitting here. You're going to be alive and you're going to see it happen and you're going to read about it happening. I don't know if I will or not. But I tell you what, it's close enough for me to see it. And I intend to preach on it. And I've got my notes and I'm not preaching it. Maybe until then. So who's Meshach and Tabul? Meshach isn't Moscow. The name actually comes from a very ancient people in Ezekiel's day. They're called the Meshki. or the Muskie. Just because something sounds the same doesn't make it the same. Don't make that mistake. Where were the Muskie from? They were from central Turkey in the region of Phrygia. What about Tabul? The Tabul was the Tabali or the Tabarani. They're in eastern Turkey in the part of Pontus. So here's two names mentioned of two peoples. Both of them were in Turkey. And then look at verse 6, it mentions Gomorrah. Do you know Gomorrah was also in the region of Turkey? So it mentions three different peoples who settled in certain areas and it was all within present day Turkey. This is the first country after Magog or Russia that's mentioned here. And because it's mentioned in three different ways, three different peoples, you know what? It's very important. Do you realize that this Russian leader is going to be the head or the leader of Turkey, the military power of Turkey, the military army? Do you know that Turkey has one of the biggest armies in the world? It's got one of the biggest tank forces in the world. And we're told here this Russian leader is going to arise and he is going to be the chief leader of Turkey or the military force of Turkey. So that's the first country aligned with Russia here. What's the second one? The second one, it talks about in verse four, all of God's army. And then in verse 5 it mentions Persia. So there's a description of all of the army here. And the next country it's mentioned is Persia. Russia, Turkey, then Persia. Who is Persia? Until 1935, the ancient name of Persia from Ezekiel's day remained the same right through until 1935. It was Persia. Iran is present-day Persia. In 1935, the name was changed to Iran. But we still know it as Persia. It has existed all through these ages. It's in the same place, it's the same people, and it has the same name. Their language is called Persian. One of their two languages is Persian. And so we see this ancient prophecy isn't something strange, archaic, outdated. It's actually very contemporary. And so we see Russia with Turkey with Iran aligning. Is it happening in our day? And so we identify who Magog is, where they lived. We see that it's going to come from the northern region and there's no competitors. But in this third one, we see an alignment of Magog joining itself to certain nations in our generation. After Israel's back in her land. After Israel blossoms again. After Israel is prospering. It only happened in 1948. It says after that, that Magog will join itself to Turkey and Iran. Has this happened? Do you know that until 2002, Turkey was a very mild nation? It wasn't fundamentalist. In fact, Erdogan, who is the present leader of Turkey, he was in a prison cell for five months for his radical Muslim views. for his extremist views, so they put him in prison. That's what the Turkish authorities thought about him. But in 2002, there was a revolution, and Erdogan took over and gained power, and he made Turkey a radical Muslim nation. When I was young, you never heard Turkey mentioned, apart from Turkish delight. That was the only Turkey you ever heard of. Not the military, not Islam, not extremism. It was a mild non-entity. But since the year 2000, Turkey has risen as one of the greatest enemies of Italy. or sorry, of Israel as a militant enemy. What about Iran? Iran used to be a mild nation until the CIA went in, started a revolution, and she became a radical Muslim nation. You want to know why Iran is such a problem to America and to the Western world and is such a threat to Israel? Do you realize it used to be friendly and non-combative? And it wasn't radicalized, but the CIA, like with so many other nations, you know it was only in 2016, the CIA went in and tried to bring about a coup in Turkey, and it failed. You know who told them? Russia. Russia warned Turkey, said, you know what, the CIA are coming in to bring a coup in your nation. and they clamped down on it. Thank you, Russia, for letting us know. Who else is aligned with them here? Ethiopia, or Put. Sorry, Ethiopia, which is Kush. That's the nation of Sudan, a radical Muslim nation. Then it mentions Libya, which is still called Libya. It could include Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Watch out brother Soph. And so you have an alignment there. Then you have Armenia mentioned. That's Togarmah. Remember the other one that's to the north? Mentioned to the north of all these other nations. Where's Armenia? It's right up there. Just below Russia. It's the most northern nation above the Middle East. Do you know Armenia? Do you know in their ancient books they say in olden days we were called Togarmah? Culturally, they now talk about themselves like that, like the Irish do about Magog. You need to be careful about Ireland in these days, I want to tell you. And so we see here an alignment with Magog that's going to happen in our day and generation. Turkey will be there. Iran will be there. Sudan will be there. Libya will be there. Armenia will be there. Algeria will be there. and many other forces and troops and bands of soldiers and they're all going to join with Magog and a great leader is going to arise. This utterly convinces me that Russia is prophesied in the Bible and is going to play a significant part in our day and generation and they're not going to fall in Ukraine. And they're not going to be brought down to destruction. They're going to fall in Israel. They're going to invade Israel. Do you know with all the Western forces, and I don't understand this. You know, two weeks ago, all the people, all my friends on Facebook, and all Americans, and all the people in Britain, all the people in Northern Ireland, and all these nice Christians who are against masks, and we're against vaccines, and they're saying the media's being hijacked, and the Western powers of the UK and Ireland and America and Canada are abusing us. Two weeks and they've forgotten that. And now all of a sudden in the past week, they're actually being affected by the same media and the same politicians to say Putin is the worst tyrant, And the Canadian Prime Minister, and the British Prime Minister, and the EU leadership are all standing up and saying, we're standing for democracy and liberty in Ukraine, and freedom of rights, and we are standing, and we're against the tyrant Putin, and we're against Russia, and Russia is terrible. And all these Christians, I'm watching them on Facebook and everywhere else. saying how bad Putin is. Now Putin or whoever is in power is going to be judged and is going to fall very soon. But if you're listening to the media and you're demonising Putin at this present time, you are brainwashed. Do you realize all the Western powers who are against Putin have been tyrannizing us, and taking away our liberties, and taking away our rights, and trying to force us, and saying, we'll shut down your bank accounts, and we'll deny you the right to work in your job. And now they're looking at Ukraine and saying, we're for liberty and freedom, and all the Western powers are uniting. Isn't it strange? Boy, someone just switched me off on YouTube. I just know it. Probably get unscribed here. Do you know what? We're living in a very interesting day. And there's one reason why we're told all this, that you might know that I'm God. That you would know that I am the Lord. Do you know the Bible predicts very accurately about Magog? Ezekiel, five, six hundred years before Christ, prophesies that this is going to happen, how it's going to be led into, what's happening with Israel and the nations of the world, and immigration, and the birthing of a small nation, and then how these world powers are going to join together, and how they're going to turn against Israel, and worldwide wars. Do you realize it's our God that says all of this? Listen to why He says He's going to destroy that army. on the mountains of Israel. Listen very carefully. I want to have your ears and your heart as we close. It's very important what I'm about to say. We haven't touched on all of Ezekiel's war. I'm just proving that Russia is in the Bible. Now let me finish by showing you why God is going to do this and why he's revealed it in the Bible. Ezekiel 38, 16. And thou, tall about this army, Magog, thou shall come up against my people, Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. it shall be. When is it going to be? In the latter days. Ezekiel wasn't saying in one generation or in this generation. He said in the latter days, the very last days it's going to happen. I will bring these against my land and this is the reason, that the heathen may know me. Why is God going to do this and why is he prophesying that the heathen The unsaved, ungodly nations are gonna know him. Do you realize what an earthquake's gonna happen in our world? Everyone's saying the last revival's over. No, it's not. And they try to say God isn't gonna move again. Don't you know your Bible? Has Ezekiel's war taken place yet? No, it hasn't. Has Russia fallen yet? No, it hasn't. But yet it's all lining up. Do you realize we're heading towards a day in which God prophesies the heathen are going to know that I'm God? Something is going to happen extraordinary. He is going to bring Russia down on the mountains of Israel. And it's so that you can know that He is God. When I shall be sanctified in the Israel, O God, before their eyes. What about verse 23, thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord. Chapter 39 verse 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 anymore. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. And again chapter 39 verse 21, And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day on forward. Right at the end of these two chapters about Ezekiel's war, given all of its details, the very last verse, chapter 39, verse 29. He says, I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. At the end of Ezekiel's war, God sends a revival to the city of Jerusalem right at the end of the war. And he regathers in the last people from all nations of the Jews. And you know what? Something is going to happen. It's going to be earth-shaking. When God makes Russia fall on the mountain of Israel, He is going to reveal His power. I don't believe He'll change the political situation of nations. He won't. But do you know what God's going to do? He's going to move in power in this generation to glorify His name. And nations, entire nations are going to know He is God. And the Bible actually prophesies that after pouring his spirit out on Jerusalem in Israel, that he's going to revive the Gentiles and he's going to touch the Gentiles. I believe revival is coming. And you know what? Politics is going to get worse. Tyranny is going to get worse. Persecution is going to get worse. Immorality is going to get worse. Technology is going to intensify. But right in the midst of that, God is going to reveal himself one last time in this generation. And you know what? God is going to shake the heavens and the earth again. And God is going to show himself alive. And he's going to reveal his power. And right in the midst of one of the most chaotic hours, God is going to show that He is the God of the Bible. He prophesied it. And since there's going to be an hour where people are going to turn on their television, or turn on their mobile, and they're going to see this great army fall. And they're going to say, the Bible says it. The Bible says it. Will you pray with me here? Lord God, we thank you, God, that you are the God of the Bible. Even as we see the nations, as we see everything going on online with television, with these armies maneuvering, we see the media and the rise of world government, of these Western powers, playing games with war and with nations. My God, we know that an hour is coming, that you're going to display your glory and your majesty and your power, that you're going to save a last harvest, you're going to send a last revival. That you're going to revive your church one last time. And my God, I pray, reveal your power. Lord God, by bringing, Lord God, rush it to its judgment on the mountains of Israel. We know that you have an appointed hour, an appointed time. And your purpose is that your name might be glorified in all of the earth. We give you praise and honor and glory tonight. You're our wonderful Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, risen from the grave, triumphant over hell and death. And we love you and we praise you and we bless you in Jesus' mighty name.