BAAL, THE OWNER.
Ezekiel 38 1: The army. 8: The malice of Gog. 14: GOD's judgment against him.
10 : The LORD GOD says : "AT THAT TIME A THOUGHT WILL ENTER YOUR HEAD and
YOU WILL HATCH an EVIL PLAN."
11 : "You will say : 'I shall attack a land of open villages and fall upon a people living quiet and
undisturbed, undefended by walls or barred gates.' "
12 : "YOU WILL EXPECT TO COME PLUNDERING, SPOILING, and STRIPPING BARE
the settlements WHICH ONCE LAY IN RUINS, BUT ARE NOW INHABITED BY A
PEOPLE GATHERED OUT OF THE NATIONS, A PEOPLE ACQUIRING LIVESTOCK
AND GOODS, AND MAKING THEIR HOME AT THE VERY CENTRE OF THE
WORLD."
13 : "SHEBA and DEDAN, the TRADERS of TARSHISH and HER LEADING MERCHANTS,
will say to you, 'IS IT FOR PLUNDER THAT YOU HAVE COME? HAVE YOU MUSTE-
RED YOUR HOST TO GET SPOIL, TO CARRY OFF SILVER AND GOLD, TO TAKE
LIVESTOCK AND GOODS, TO SEIZE MUCH BOOTY?"
14 : "Therefore, O man, prophesy and say to GOG : ' The LORD GOD says : ON THAT DAY
WHEN MY PEOPLE ISRAEL ARE LIVING UNDISTURBED, WILL YOU NOT KNOW
IT? "
15 : "And YOU SHALL COME FROM YOUR PLACE OUT OF THE NORTH PARTS, YOU,
and MANY PEOPLE WITH YOU, all of them RIDING UPON HORSES, a great company,
and A MIGHTY ARMY."
16 : "YOU WILL ADVANCE AGAINST MY PEOPLE ISRAEL LIKE A CLOUD THAT
COVERS THE EARTH. IN THE LAST DAYS I SHALL BRING YOU AGAINST MY
LAND, THAT THE NATIONS MAY KNOW ME, WHEN THEY SEE ME PROVE MY
HOLINESS AT GOG's EXPENSE."
17 : Thus said the LORD GOD : " IT WAS YOU WHOM I HAVE SPOKEN IN OLD TIME BY
MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL, WHICH PROPHESIED IN THOSE
DAYS UNCEASINGLY THAT I WOULD BRING YOU AGAINST THEM."
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