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����� RUSSIA IN BIBLE PROPHECY ‑By Bertrand L. Comparet
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��� RUSSIA IN BIBLE PROPHECY
����������������� By Bertrand L. Comparet
��� Today all well‑informed people know that we will soon receive a
treacherous attack by communist
��� hordes, led by Russia. Those who are well informed in the word
of Yahweh, have known this for a long
��� time, the prophets described it in detail, written some 2,500
years ago. We find it principally in Ezekiel
��� chapter 38 1:2 & chapter 39 beginning, "And the word of Yahweh
came unto me saying, Son of man, set
��� thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince (or
prince of Rosh) Meshech and Tubal and
��� prophesy against him and say, Thus saith Yahweh, Behold I am
against thee O Gog, the chief prince of
��� Meshech and Tubal." Of whom is Yahweh speaking?
��� Gog, in ancient Hebrew, meaning huge or gigantic, is from the
root word G‑G. The same root is found
��� in Agag, a king of Amalek, sometimes written Agog, this fits
Russia's great size. Magog, in ancient
��� Hebrew and Arabic, geographers applied this name to the area
lying north of the Black Sea and the
��� Caspian Sea, the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan) and Altai, western
and southwestern Russia. The root
��� M‑G‑G also underlies Mongol, you know the proverb, "Scratch a
Russian and you find a Tartar".
��� Magog was the 2nd son of Japhet, others being Mesheh and
Tubal, and was known to have migrated to
��� southwestern Russia. Meshech in ancient Hebrew is a word of
three letters corresponding to M‑S‑C or
��� M‑sh‑ch. This root is found in many place names near and
including Moscow. The ancients understood
��� this to mean Moscow, Tubal in ancient Hebrew, written with
three letters corresponding to th‑b‑l. Later
��� it was sometimes written Thubal, sometimes Thobal. It is the
root from which is derived Tobolsk‑Tobal
��� plus the Russian suffix "sk" indicating a place name.
��� Moscow is the capital city of western or European Russia, while
Tobolsk for most of its existence has
��� been the capitol city of eastern or Siberian Russia. For at least
the last 150 years, scholars have
��� recognized these words as identifying Russia as the power
spoken of in these verses.
��� Ezekiel 38:4 continues, "And I will turn thee back and put hooks
into thy jaws, and I will bring thee
��� forth, and all thine 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". Russia's previous invasions of Europe
��� were turned back, until the treachery of our own leaders gave
her Eastern Europe in 1944‑1945.
��� Yahweh turned back all premature advances of Russia, keeping
her out until the proper time. Note the
��� references to armor, for the last 2 centuries this did not seem
realistic. However, in the last few decades,
��� all major armies have made use of fiberglass/plastic body armor
as protection against steel splinters from
��� bursting shells, so Ezekiel is really up to date.
��� The Hebrew word parash is translated horsemen in this verse
and probably correctly so. It is noteworthy
��� that Russia has more horse cavalry than in all other armies
combined and her Mongolian allies will furnish
��� her more. Some have wondered if parash might be a suggestion
of parachute troops. If so, Russia
��� originated paratroops and now has over 1,000,000 trained
paratroopers.
��� Then the Bible goes on to name in Ezekiel 38:5‑6 Russia's allies,
not just conquered satellites. "Persia,
��� Ethiopia and Libya with them; all with shield and helmet: Gomer
and all his bands; the house of Togarmah
��� of the sides of the north and all his bands; and many people with
thee."� Persia's modern name is Iran; it is
��� under heavy Russian pressure and subversion. It adjoins
Russia's southern border, a natural target for
��� Russian expansion both as a warm water outlet and for its rich
oil fields.
��� Ethiopia, whose Hebrew name Cush was applied to both
Ethiopia, in Africa south of the Sudan, and to
��� Afghanistan (Hindo Cush) adjoining Russia and a natural
gateway to India. The Russian occupation of
��� Afghanistan now exists in all but name. Libya, on the
Mediterranean coast of Africa just west of Egypt,
��� will naturally follow Egypt.
��� For the rest of the roll call of Red allies, we turn next to Ezekiel
30:1‑6. "The day of Yahweh is near, a
��� cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. And the sword
shall come upon Egypt and great pain shall
��� be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt and they shall
take away her multitude, and her
��� foundations shall be broken down. Ethiopia, and Libya and Lydia,
and all the mongrel peoples and
��� Chub and the men of the land that is in league with them by the
sword." Chub and the land that is in
��� league, we cannot yet identify, but Egypt is already in the Soviet
orbit. Ethiopia is now the center of
��� Russian communist subversion in all Africa. Libya, as we have
seen, adjoins Egypt and is coming under
��� its influence; Lydia is now part of Turkey.
��� Psalm 83:1‑8 gives us the rest of the Red alliance. "Keep not
Thou silence O Yahweh: hold not Thy
��� peace and be not still O Yahweh. For lo, Thine enemies make a
tumult: and they that hate Thee
��� have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against
Thy people and consulted against Thy
��� hidden ones. They have said, Come and let us cut them off from
being a nation; that the name of Israel
��� may no more be remembrance for they have consulted together
with one consent: they are confederate
��� against Thee: The tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites: of
Moab and the Hagarenes: Gebal and
��� Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre; Assur also is joined with them."
��� Communism and those who created and still control it are surely
Yahweh's enemies, those who hate
��� Yahshua. Making a tumult, is their favorite occupation, they have
taken crafty counsel against us. Here is
��� further recognition that the Anglo Saxon people are the Israel of
the Bible, Thy hidden ones. Our Israel
��� identity is still hidden from most people.
��� They have said, "Come and let us cut them off from being a
nation", for they are trying desperately to
��� reduce us to a mere conquered province of the United Nations,
with all of our national independence gone.
��� The first enemy mentioned is Edom. We know today that the
Edomites are the inventors of communism
��� and the leaders of it today in all nations. The Jewish
Encyclopedia, in its article on Edom says, "The
��� Edomites today are found in modern Jewry."
��� Next the scriptures mention the Ishmaelites, the Arabs; they
would naturally be our allies against Godless
��� communism. However, our politicians, seeking Jewish money
and votes in the big cities, have made us
��� the enemies of the Arabs by pouring out our wealth and our
official support for the Jewish invaders of
��� Palestine. Thus the Arabs are reluctantly compelled to recognize
us as enemies by our own choice, not
��� theirs. Moab, Gebal, Ammon, the Philistines and Tyre are all
found within the territories of the Arab
��� nations. The Hagarenes would also be either Arab or Egyptian
for Hagar was an Egyptian, the mother of
��� Ishmael. Amalek was one of the Edomite Jewish tribes. Finally
Assur, the Assyrians. After the fall of
��� Assyria, the survivors fled what is now southwestern Russia.
Several prophecies about the Assyrians are
��� now being fulfilled by Russia.
��� Let's go back over these verses, for they are far more significant
than just a roll call. Surely as Ezekiel
��� 30:3 says, "Today is the time of the heathen". By their numbers,
they now completely rule the United
��� Nations. We crawl humbly on our bellies before them, vainly
imploring their approval of our efforts to
��� forestall the catastrophe they are promoting. We impoverish our
own taxpayers to pour billions of dollars
��� into fattening and strengthening our enemies. We ruin our own
industries by building and subsidizing the
��� industries of the heathen nations and admitting their products to
our country with little or no tariff
��� protection for our own workmen.
��� All the mongrel people, the mixed breeds of Asia, Africa and
India, who have but one thing in
��� common, their bitter hatred of the white man. They will ally
themselves with anything, which promises
��� them that they can pillage and rape in the lands of the white
man. All these nations, so far listed, will be
��� true allies of Russia; they will fight for the loot, which Russia
promises them. Unlike the enslaved satellite
��� nations of Eastern Europe, which are unwilling to destroy the
free nations, which are their own, last hope
��� of rescue. Why aren't the European satellite nations listed here?
Because their part is in the revolt among
��� the Russian hordes, is discussed separately.
��� Ezekiel 38:9 describes Russia's two pronged attack. One line of
attack will be to seize the eastern end of
��� the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal; this cuts off this
important lifeline of the civilized world. This
��� especially cuts off Europe from all her supplies of oil from the
Middle East. Without this oil, Europe's
��� mechanized armies and air forces will come to a halt. However,
the long march across hundreds of miles
��� of mountain and desert from Russia to Egypt, would take too
long. The Bible foretells that Russia will
��� seize this area by paratroop attack. "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 with
thee". Ever since 1945, Russia has built 5
��� transport planes to our one and she has over 1,000,000
paratroops. Ezekiel chapter 30 and Daniel
��� chapter 11, show that this part of the war will be fought largely in
and around Egypt, obviously for
��� control of the Suez Canal.
��� Ezekiel emphasizes that Russia will also strike in another
direction while this is going on. Ezekiel 38:10‑12
��� continues, "Thus saith Yahweh: It shall come to pass that, at the
same time shall things come into thy
��� mind and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I
will go up to the land of the unwalled
��� villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwelleth safely, all
of them dwelling without walls and
��� having neither bars nor gates, to take a spoil and to take a prey;
to turn thine hand upon the desolate
��� places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have
��� gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land".
Ezekiel 38:9 describes the paratroop attack.
��� "And thou shalt think an evil thought." The Hebrew word here
translated thought, is makh‑ash‑aw‑baw,
��� which also means a device or machine.
��� So things will come into Russia's mind concerning an evil
machine, which they have. They shall make an
��� attack to take a spoil, a prey, out of a wealthy nation. This
certainly can't refer to the flea bitten poverty
��� of the people of the Near East, where the first attack is made.
Who is this wealthy nation?
��� From the clues given in Ezekiel chapter 38, you should be able
to tell who this nation is. First, the land
��� that is brought back from the sword. This is not true of Palestine,
which is an armed camp, ready to erupt
��� into war at any moment. Zechariah 12:2‑3 promises that
Palestine and Jerusalem shall be a cup of
��� trembling and a burdensome stone, nothing peaceful about that.
But, the United States is a land brought
��� back from the sword. The last major war on our soil was over a
century ago and even the Indian wars
��� ended about 80 years ago. We do dwell safely in unwalled
villages and are at rest. However, this has not
��� been true of Palestine for 2,000 years and is not true of Palestine
now. They dwell in fear, behind barbed
��� wire entanglements, wondering when the next raid will come.
We are a nation gathered out of many
��� people, and brought forth out of the nations. We have gotten
cattle and goods, the principle form of
��� wealth in Ezekiel's time. Not only are we the wealthiest nation in
the world, but also we can even be
��� literal about it. Part of our wealth does consist of tremendous
numbers of cattle and we have more goods
��� of practically any kind than any other nation.
��� This wealth is what makes us the target for the attack, even the
desolate places that are now inhabited,
��� fits us. This describes our great southwest quarter, desolate
until we reclaimed its parched lands with
��� irrigation. "The mountains of Israel which have been always
waste", also identifies us. Note this doesn't
��� say desolate, for our mountains are not desolate, it says waste.
Waste means unused or unoccupied, our
��� mountains were always waste until we occupied them, for the
Indians put them to no use. This would not
��� fit the mountains of Palestine, for they have been inhabited for
dozens of centuries.
��� Even the description of the attack upon us further identifies us.
"I will go up to the land of the unwalled
��� villages; thou shalt come up against My people Israel, out of the
north parts". If you look at a map, you
��� will note that north is at the top. Yes, even the Russian maps are
drawn that way. Russia will have to go
��� down, south and west, to go to Palestine and Egypt. She will
have to go up north, across the North Pole,
��� to attack us. She will strike us out of the north parts, as her air
fleets cross the North Pole and drop
��� down upon us.
��� What form will the attack take? The attack will be partly from the
air, for Ezekiel says, "And thou shalt
��� come up against My people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land".
There will also be a land attack, for
��� Ezekiel also says, "And thou shalt come from thy place out of
the north parts, thou and many people with
��� thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a
mighty army".
��� We know Russia has more cavalry than all the armies of the
civilized world put together. Because of the
��� general lack of good enough roads for mechanized forces, she
uses horse drawn equipment to a great
��� extent. Also, the nomadic people of Inner and Outer Mongolia
and Sinkiang, all adjoining Russia's
��� southeastern border, are horsemen. They would certainly join in
the great looting expedition into the
��� world's wealthiest nation. For some time, our Air Force
Intelligence officers have known of the great
��� fleets of invasion barges in the ports of Siberia and Manchuria.
Obviously they are being amassed there
��� for a purpose.
��� If the hordes of Asia could be landed on the coasts of southern
Alaska and Canada, they would consider
��� the conditions there no hardship. It would be paradise compared
to what they are used to in most of
��� Asia. They would need very little supplies other than
ammunition, for they would live off the land and live
��� better than at home.
��� Nomadic warriors, dispersed through the vast forests of the
western Canadian mountains, would be very
��� hard to hunt down and destroy. Our great production centers of
Detroit and Cleveland for machine tools,
��� Pittsburgh and Gary for iron and steel, Chicago as a great central
hub of transportation, the Puget Sound
��� region with its naval base and aircraft factories, are very
vulnerable. With all of these areas devastated by
��� treacherous rocket attacks and air raids, with many coastal cities
atom bombed by rockets launched
��� from Russian submarines we would be very vulnerable. With
this damage done to us overnight without
��� warning, Russia may well feel that she can launch her land army
attack with a large chance of success.
��� Our capacity to equip large forces will be for a time at low ebb. If
we keep such forces as we have for
��� our own defense, Europe will fall for lack of our assistance. If we
send our troops abroad, to defend the
��� rest of civilization, we will be weak at home when the Asiatic
hordes roll in like a flood in our
��� northwestern states. From a materialistic point of view, it is a
cleverly planned strategy.
��� However, Russia overlooks Yahweh's promise that He will take
the decisive part in this war. Here is
��� what Yahweh promises in Ezekiel 38:18:22. "And it shall come to
pass at the same time when Gog shall
��� come against the land of Israel, saith Yahweh, that My fury shall
come up in My face. For in My jealousy
��� and in the fire of My wrath have I spoken. Surely in that day shall
there be a great shaking in the land of
��� Israel; so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven
and 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 land, shall shake at My
��� presence; and the mountains shall be thrown down and the
steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall
���to the ground. And I shall call for a sword against him throughout
all My mountains, saith Yahweh: every
��� man's sword shall be against his brother, And I will plead against
him with pestilence and with blood; and
��� I will rain upon him and upon all his bands and upon the many
people with him, an overflowing rain and
��� great hailstones, fire and brimstone."
��� Note the weapons used. One is the tremendous forces of nature,
which will break up their organization
��� and send them fleeing in panic in all directions. Another is
mutiny among all the conquered countries, now
��� she faces a dilemma. If she leaves them at home while she
sends Russian armies out to war, not only will
��� Russia be weakened by having to bear all the losses, but also
the satellite countries will seize the
��� opportunity to revolt at home, as did the Hungarian Red army.
Therefore, to make them bear the losses
��� and to get them away from their own lands so they can't liberate
their own people, she will put them in
��� the invading armies. In the confusion of battle, the satellite
armies will mutiny and attack the Russians.
��� At least twice before Yahweh has used this device to destroy
enemy armies. Judges 7:22 tells how, when
��� Gideon attacked the Midianites at night, in the confusion
"Yahweh set every man's sword against his
��� fellow, and they destroyed each other." I Samuel 14:20 tells how
Yahweh used this method against the
��� Philistines, "Every man's sword was against his fellows and
there was a very great confusion."
��� Now it will be used against the enormous hordes of Russia and
China and the satellite armies, this is
��� confirmed by Haggai 2:21‑22. "I will shake the heavens and the
earth; and I will overthrow the throne of
��� kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the heathen; I will
overthrow the chariots and those that ride
��� in them; and the horses and their riders will come down, every
one by the sword of his brother."
��� More of Yahweh's weapons are pestilence and blood, epidemic
disease and infected wounds. Because
��� sanitation is unknown among most Asiatics, pestilence will
spread like wildfire among them.
��� The next weapon is the weather. "I will rain upon him and upon
his bands, and upon the many people
��� with him, an overflowing rain." Transportation will bog down
hopelessly in the bottomless mud. Flooded
��� streams will block all progress, even all retreat, while supplies
run out and hunger takes its toll. The
��� stormy skies will prevent any help from Russia's air fleets,
scattered and destroyed by the fury of the
��� storm. Next to come are great hailstones; it is not certain
whether this really means hailstone or stones
��� from heaven, meteors.
��� That it could be meteors is evident from the fact that on August
15, 1951, what the Iranian newspapers
��� called a downpour of meteors on the south Iranian city of Shiraz
wrecked 62 buildings, killed 12 persons
��� and injured 19 more. Joshua 10:11 records that Yahweh rained
meteors upon an Amorite army and
��� slaughtered them. However, if hailstones is the correct
translation, there are many historic instances of
��� armies halted and even defeated by hailstones, even as recently
as 1895. In Job 38:22‑23, Yahweh asks
��� Job, "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast
thou seen the treasures of the hail, which
��� I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of
battle and war?"
��� Several times in recent years, our American newspapers have
recorded instances of hailstones up to the
��� size of baseballs, easily capable of killing a man hit by one.
Finally, among the weapons, fire and
��� brimstone, which is sulphur. This probably refers to volcanic
eruptions accompanying the great earthquakes.
��� Outbursts of fire and sulphur fumes are common in volcanic
eruptions. Gas masks would be no
��� protection against sulphur dioxide fumes. What is the result of
Yahweh's defense of us? Ezekiel chapter
��� 39 is pretty badly translated in the King James Bible. It suggests
that 1/6th of the Russian forces escape,
��� while the original Hebrew reads, "And thou, son of man,
prophesy concerning Gog and say, Thus saith
��� Yahweh; I am against thee O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshech and
Tubal, and I shall turn thee back and
��� lead thee, and cause thee to come up from the sides of the
north, and bring thee in against the mountains
��� of Israel. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, yea, thine
arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.
��� On the mountains of Israel thou fallest, thou and all the bands of
the people that are with thee".
��� The slaughter is so great that we shall be seven months
gathering up and burying the dead.
��� Ezekiel 32:18‑30 describes the final result. "Son of man, wail for
the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
��� down, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down
into the pit. There is Meshech, Tubal
��� and all her multitude: her graves are round about him; all of
them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
��� though they caused terror in the land of the living. "There is
Edom, her kings and all her princes, which
��� with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword;
they shall lie with the uncircumcised and
��� with them that go down to the pit. There be the princes of the
north, all of them."
��� Finally in Ezekiel 39:7‑8,21,25,29 Yahweh says, "So will I make
My holy name known in the midst of
��� My people Israel; and I will not let them pollute My name
anymore: and the heathen shall know that I
��� am the holy one in Israel. Behold it is come, and it is done, saith
Yahweh: this is the day of which I have
��� spoken. "And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the
nations shall see My judgment that I
��� have executed, and My hand that I have laid upon them."
Therefore, thus saith Yahweh: Now I will
��� bring again the captives of Jacob and have mercy upon the
whole house of Israel, and will be jealous of
��� My holy name. "Neither will I hide my face any more from them:
for I have poured out My spirit upon
��� the house of Israel, saith Yahweh."
��� It is true that incredible stupidity and treachery among our
politicians in high office, have built up the
��� power of communism beyond the ability of ordinary means to
combat it. It is also true that the greatest
��� weapons are those in the hands of Yahweh. He has promised to
use them in our defense. Isn't it
��� comforting to know that THIS IS OUR GOD, YAHWEH!!!