Ezekiel — Chapter 39

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1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Abrahamic Catechism
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Ezekiel — Chapter 39
✦ Talmud

• **Sanhedrin 98b** teaches that God will personally make war against Gog — the divine declaration "I am against you, O Gog" with pestilence, blood, flooding rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone (39:6) is YHWH directly engaging the second-heaven adversary's last coalition without routing the counter-attack through any human army; the war has been running for all of history through human proxies, and at its end YHWH fights it directly in the first heaven.

• **Avot 5:8** lists various disasters that come on the world — but the weapons of Gog's army burned for seven years (39:9-10) and the burial taking seven months (39:12-14) establish that the clean-up operation after the final battle is a first-heaven task assigned to restored Israel; they become the sanitation and logistics force for their own liberation.

• **Berakhot 58b** prescribes blessings for miraculous deliverances — the seven-year fuel supply from enemy weapons and the seven-month burial detail are the divine economy at work: the enemy's own military hardware becomes Israel's energy supply for the reconstruction period; the Sitra Achra's weapons are repurposed as covenant infrastructure.

• **Yoma 86b** teaches that genuine repentance brings healing to the whole world — the nations knowing YHWH after Gog's defeat (39:23) is the second-heaven intelligence brief delivered to all remaining first-heaven principalities simultaneously: the hiding of the divine face was judicial, not abandonment; the covenant was never dissolved; the final battle was always going to end this way.

• **Sanhedrin 99a** teaches about the new world order after the Messiah's coming — the pouring out of the divine spirit on the house of Israel (39:29) is the post-battle establishment of the permanent new covenant covenant operating system; the enemy has been defeated, the face is no longer hidden, and the divine spirit is the new command authority for every individual in the restored first heaven.

◆ Quran

• **The Destruction of Gog** — Surah 21:96-97 describes the release of Gog and Magog followed by the nearness of the Day of Judgment, implying their destruction is linked to the final reckoning. This supports Ezekiel 39:1-6 where God destroys Gog with fire and brimstone. Both accounts present Gog's invasion as ending in total divine annihilation.