Ezekiel 38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

 

(Multiple prophets mention him, but the name, “Gog”, wasn’t used.

Possibly, he was called by another name, by those prophets, and perhaps he could even be the celestial prince of Assyria.

Whom we saw before, may have been confined to the bottomless pit, after Babylon defeated Assyria.

But he later ascends up, out of the pit, with the chapter 9 locusts, possesses the antichrist, and is defeated by Jesus:)

 

Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

  3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

  4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

  5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

  6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

 

(Then, that would connect the battle to the battle of Armageddon, with enemy troops in the north of Israel, in the south in Judah,

and those gathered against Jerusalem; also, it would also connect the great supper of the fowls.)

 

Ezekiel 38:4a And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth,

 

Ezekiel 39:2a And I will turn thee back,

 

(This fallen celestial prince of Assyria earlier came against Israel, taking the ten tribes of the north into captivity.

Then this prince of Assyria came against Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah.)

 

(Gog is turned back to Israel, apparently because he had been there before.

One of the chief princes, who had previously come against Israel, and was mentioned by three prophets, is the Assyrian.

He had brought the king of Assyria and his army, first against the tribes of the north, taking them into captivity.

Then he did the came against Judah, when Hezekiah was king.

Historical Assyrian records show that Meshech and Tubal were longstanding adversaries of Assyria.

They were presumably under Assyrian control during the times of David, then Tiglath-pileser, and then Sargon II.

Assyria did not conquer Magog/Lydia, but fought others in alliance with them.

It is interesting that it says, “Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal”.

And that it did not say, “the chief prince of Magog”, nor “the chief prince of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal.

Magog is where Pergamos was, where the seat of Satan is, which seat will be given to the antichrist.

So, is Gog, the chief prince of Assyria, and therefore also the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal?

Will he, in the body of the antichrist, have rule, once again, over which he had before?

That would then include Meshech, Tubal, and Togarmah, which make up eastern Turkey?

But also, given the seat of Satan in Pergamos, this time, have influence over Magog, the area of western Turkey?

So, if Gog is the chief prince of Assyria, then he moves earthly armies against Jerusalem again, two more times.

Once, at the end of the tribulation, and then again at the end of the kingdom.

Also, he possibly could have been put into the bottomless pit, when the prince of Babylon succeeded him.

If so, then it would have been him that ascended out of the bottomless pit and possessed the antichrist.

Then perhaps he would have been put back into the bottomless pit, along with the devil, when Jesus returned.

Then, also, perhaps, he would ascend back up from the pit, when the devil is released from there.

That would make possible, the devil moving him, and then he in turn, moves Magog, again.)