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To: Scythian

The Scyth’s were Mongols? I don’t think so.


244 posted on 04/16/2011 11:18:44 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians

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To figure out the different countries who have a role to play we need to start at the beginning with the Table of Nations in Genesis 10:2. This is where we first see these names appear.

Many ancient sources have clearly identified “Magog” as referring to the “Scythians” which were the ancestors of the Russians.

One of the earliest references to Magog was by Hesiod, “the father of Greek didactic poetry” who identified Magog with the Scythians and southern Russia in the 7th century B.C. Hesiod was a contemporary of Ezekiel.

In the 5th century B.C. Herodotus of Harlicarnassus, known as “Father of History” wrote extensively about the the Scythians, and how they terrorized the southern steepes of Russia from the 10th century B.C. to the 3rd Century B.C.

“No one confronting them can escape on foot, and if they wish not to be discovered it is impossible to engage with them. The reason is that they do not build towns or fortresses, but all of them are mounted archers and carry their homes with them... How can they fail to be invincible, and immune from attack?” - Herodotus, 5th century B.C.
Another well known source is Josephus Flavius, who records that the Magogians were called “Scythians” by the Greeks.

“Magog founded the Magogians, thus named after him, but who were by the Greeks called Scythians.” “But even the Scythians, who delight in murdering people and are little better than wild beasts, nevertheless think it their duty to uphold their national customs.” - Josephus Flavius, 1st century A.D.

Philo, is another in the 1st century who identifies Magog with southern Russia.

The Great Wall of China, in an 8th century reference, was called: Sud Yagog et Magog “The Rampart of Gog and Magog.”

The Moslems refer to Gog and Magog as Vadjudj wa madjudj in the Koran.

“Herodotus recounts many bizarre and savage practices of the descendants of Magog known as the Scythians: they drank the blood of the first enemy killed; they carried the heads of their victims to their chiefs; they scalped their enemies and used their scalps as “napkins”; they used the skins of their victims to cover their quivers; they drank from the skulls of their victims; they practiced blood brotherhood by drinking each other’s blood mixed with wine. The Scythians “bathed” in the vapor from heated hemp seeds. When their king died they sacrificed one of his concubines and several servants . After a year, they commemorated his death by sacrificing fifty servants and fifty horses. ... Rough bunch, these Scyths.”

The tortuous path from the horseback archery of the early Scyths to the nuclear missles of the Russian Federation includes many centuries of turbulent history. The various descendents of Magog terrorized the southern steepes of Russia from the Ukraine to the Great Wall of China.” (The Magog Invasion - Chuck Missler - pg 30-31)

In the New Testament the word Scythian occurs once. Paul is stressing the point that even people with the most diverse backgrounds can still be one in Christ.

“Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” Colossians 3:11 Ancient authorities clearly identify the Scythians as the ancestors of the present day Russians.
However, even without that information. The identity of Magog is not too difficult to figure out. In Ezekiel 38:15, it says: “And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee ...” The “north parts” is literally the “extreme, or uttermost” parts of the north.


263 posted on 04/17/2011 5:18:18 AM PDT by Scythian
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