Sadam Husein: seorang korban Gog dan Magog (Part One)

Di Ezekiel bab 38-39, Gog dan Magog melambangkan dua bangsa baik yang akan mempunyai dominion di seberang bangsa tanah di akhir-waktu. Di buku Pengungkapan Rahasia bab 13, Gog dan Magog mewakili binatang yang akan naik dari tanah dengan dua terompet seperti seekor anak domba.

Menurut buku Pengungkapan Rahasia bab 20, sesudah pemerintahan milenium Kristus, kedua bangsa akan membungkuk kepada setan yang dilepaskan dari penjara yang dia akan berbohong untuk menyerang perkemahan orang suci dan suci kota Yerusalem tetapi api akan turun-menurun dari surga dan memakan mereka.

Dasar atas ramalan alkitabiah, melepaskan kami ke dalam analisa terperinci tentang aktivitas dan sifat Gog dan Magog di akhir-waktu.

Buku ramalan Ezekiel bab 38-39 adalah titik kami belajar memakai Irak sebagai contoh aktuil aktivitas Gog dan Magog pada hari-hari kami. Nama Gog dan Magog menurut sarjana Alkitab merujuk ke dahulu Uni Soviet yang tetap simbolik sebagai peristiwa dunia tak lipat yang mutakhir dengan cara apapun tidak menghitung dengan ramalan kuno Ezekiel.

Ramalan Ezekiel tidak menunjukkan bahwa Gog dan Magog sebetulnya akan menyerbu Isreal cukup berlawanan ke apa yang diajar oleh kebanyakan sarjana Alkitab. Mantan orang Uni Soviet ini memaksa menyerang Isreal tetap simbolik sebagai Uni Soviet tidak lagi di keberadaan tetapi sudah tertumpah ke dalam beberapa bangsa.

Moresore Amerika Serikat dan Inggris Raya tidak bisa menyerang Isreal tetapi memainkan peraturan defensif di sebelah Isreal di daerah Timur Tengah. Di ramalan Ezekiel bab 38-39, orang Uni Soviet tersirat dan dia alied angkatan perang mencurigai untuk menjadi semua negara Islamiah menurut beberapa sarjana Alkitab ialah memakan di samping api dan brime batu di mencoba menyerang Israel dan bela Tuhan Israel dari serbuan baru saja selama Tuhan membela Yerusalem pada hari-hari King Hezekiah dan Prophet Isaiah yang mengatakan kepada raja bahwa tentara-tentara Assyrians yang sadar kembali menyerbu Yerusalem tidak akan menembak anak panah yang mana pun toward itu dan akan kembali di cara sama datang (Isaiah bab 37-38). Di cara sama akan bela Tuhan akhir-waktu Yerusalem baru dan perkemahan orang suci kalau Gog dan Magog akan sadar kembali melinunginya untuk melanggarnya tetapi akan memakan di samping api dan belerang dari surga (Rev bab 20).

Oleh karena itu ramalan Ezekiel simbolik sama sekali di berarti sedangkan meramalkan timbulnya sebanyak dua bangsa baik yang dikenal sebagai Gog dan Magog yang akan mempunyai dominion di seberang semua bangsa tanah dan akan melibatkan tentara-tentara negara lain untuk berkelahi dengan satu negara yang memakai Israel sebagai lambang sebagai ramalan Ezekiel tersirat.

Moreso, Gog dan bangsa Magog tidak adalah salah satu bangsa alkitabiah yang kuno yang sudah memerintah dunia. Oleh karena itu Prophet Ezekiel meramalkan dua Kekuasaan Makan Malam luar biasa yang pemerintahnya akan berbeda dengan sisa kerajaan yang berkuasa terlebih dahulu. Oleh karena itu Prophet Daniel meramalkan timbulnya seekor binatang yang melambangkan kerajaan yang berbeda dengan semua binatang atau kerajaan yang sudah memerintah terlebih dahulu bangsanya akan menghasilkan antichrist di akhir-waktu (Daniel 7;7).

In the book of Revelation chapter 17, reveals the beast(both the past, present and future government to rule the world). The beast or kingdoms are: Egypt, Greece, Babylon, Mede-persia, Assyria, Rome and now Gog and Magog government - making seven in all.This is the seven heads of the beast. In the book of Revelation chapter 17, Babylon is used for the fact the end-time world government will have dominion like the accident Babylonian kingdom which will produce the image of the beast to be worshipped and in which the saints will face persecution just as Daniel and his friends were persecuted some of who were thrown into the fire and cast into the Lion dean. Moreso, the government of this end-time Babylon will be jointly ruled by the saint and the antichrist within the last seven years just Daniel and his friends ruled over Babylon after being tried of their faith(Read the book of Daniel for more details).

Now the seventh heads of the beast is the government of Gog and Magog known as the United States and Great Britain. According to the prophecy of Daniel, the Leopard beast ruled the world; the leopard beast was the government of Greece headed by Alexendar the Great. Now democracy stated from Greece; therefore the book of Revelation chapter 13 indicated that a leopard beast(a democratic government) will emerge whose democratic system of government is being practiced today and spreading like a wild fire into most part of the world. Therefore, the Kingdom system of government like that of King David which is restricted to the royal line will be pushed aside and the ancient introduced democratic system of Greece will soon overtake the world known as the democratic system of government.

While the Gog and Magog known today as the United States and Great Britain controls the nations of the world through the United Nations organization whose headquarted is the United States being the principal donor and sponsorer while the Great Britain controls the Common Wealth of Nations whose headquarters is in the United Kingdom being the principal donor and sponor. Both nations control the world on a democratic basis which is no more limited to Greece alone but has become global. Therefore prophet Daniel indicated that it is different from all other kingdoms that had ruled before(Dan. 7:7). Then revelation chapter 13 indicated that the beast that rose from the earth force every one to worship(abide by the democratic rules of the first leopard beast of Greece); the beast is like a lamb having two horns. The two horns represent the United States and Great Britain which rule they play today by enforcing democracy in every country of the world.

Prophet Daniel indicated that the wild best different from others produces a little horn speaking great things. Thus he foretold the emergence of the antichrist government within the Gog and Magog regime of the end-times who will wage war against the saints of God during the great tribulation upon the arrival of the Ancient of Days known as the end-time Prophet Elijah and as King David who shall defeat him in the war of Armegddeon and cast him into the flame of fire before the second coming of the Messiah with the clouds of heaven(Dan 7:7-end).

The prophecy of Ezekiel reveals that Gog is the leader while Mgog plays a supportive rule; so Gog is more popular than Magog. Therefore, the United States representing Gog is more popular than Great Britain on world issues in the end-time. Being the headquarter of the United Nations and the Common Wealth of Nations both countries influence the United Nations decision on political issue involving any country in the world.

The prophecy of Ezekiel did not indicate that Gog and Magog in collaboration with other nations fight a country to rule the world as a kingdom but rather fight a single county involving armies from other nations to just for a common cause as they did to Iraq while the United States which is Gog play the rule of a world police man and become more popular than Great Britain.

TO BE CONTINUE IN PART TWO