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[music] >> We're told in scripture in the Bible, Ezekiel 38, very famously, that nations will go to war against Jerusalem at the end of days. Same thing in in Zechariah chapter 12. And God is going to be destroy of all the enemies against Jerusalem. As it turns out, the name of this enemy is called Gog. What does Gog mean? What does Gog mean? Like, what is Gog? I don't know of a country named Gog, do you? Welcome to another chapter of Gog and Magog. Uh this is an ongoing saga. We've been talking about Gog for for a few months. But now I really want to tackle one specific part, and perhaps we could from there go quite a bit further. You see, who is Gog and Magog? And furthermore, why do they come up against Jerusalem? What's their motive? And who are their What's their motive? And who are their allies? And what is the land of Magog? And why do they have to fall coming up against Jerusalem? But this chapter tells us clearly that before Messiah comes, the Jewish people return to the land of Israel. Nations come to attack Eretz Yisrael over Jerusalem, and God destroys them all. And then, once the Jews are in Eretz Yisrael, and V'haya Bayom Hahu, V'akash Hashem L'chol Hagoyim Habolim Al Yerushalayim, that God will destroy all the nations that come up against

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1. 0:01[music] >> We're told in scripture in the Bible, Ezekiel 38, very famously, that nations will…
2. 1:34the nations that come up against Jerusalem. This is these What I want to show is…
3. 3:07Well, the Maharal explains that the Jewish people being chosen created a theological problem for their…
4. 4:41prophecy >> [snorts] >> of the war of Gog and Magog. So, what is Gog and…
5. 6:18place, is a war between the people who trust in the roof against those who trust…
6. 7:50when Iran or any country goes to war against Israel, what essentially they're saying is two…
7. 9:23month has something very special in it. Besides for the 28th of Iyar, when Jerusalem was…
8. 10:56did not have a portion in the land of Eretz Yisrael. But they came to Moshe…
9. 12:27This is such an important message that we can choose even though we have a portion…
10. 14:01of the Jewish people. Now, one of the prophecies that says in the Bible is about…

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