Wednesday, 17 April 2013

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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