Ezekiel goes on to predict that this invasion will be disastrous for Russia and its coalition nations. G-d himself shall send earthquakes, pestilence, and other natural disasters causing all the coalition nations to fight each other until all are almost destroyed. The question is, what are the hooks that cause Russia and this coalition to attack Israel? An Israeli nuclear attack on Islamic allies (Isaiah 17)? Israel natural gas or oil (Deuteronomy 33:24)? Other?
Ezekiel 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4 And I will turn thee back , and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth , and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. 7 Be thou prepared , and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 8 After many days thou shalt be visited : in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Of course this was coming. Now the Russians are right next door to Hezbollah, and don’t need to worry about smuggling arms all the way through Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
What choice is there?
Israel is going to have to take them out.
I read recently that Hezbollah has experienced 25% casualties. They are having a hard time keeping fighters who signed on to fight Israel but find themselves killing other Muslims. I can see this as a bribe to keep Hezbollah on board. They are the shock troops who go in and take the ground. Once it gets turned over to Assad’s army it is often lost again so Hezbollah ends up taking more casualties retaking places they already took once. They want out. Russia needs them there.
The tie with Israel is much less strong that the tie with Hezbollah.
Now, where all of Putin’s fans, the putinistas who praise Putin as the savior of the world?
Stability can benefit Russia and, oddly Iran for the short term. China could walk in right after a regional Mideast war. The problem is for the Chinese is that once the dogs of war are out, there is no way to limit the carnage.
However, you left out one important detail. GOD prophesied to GOG and MAGOG that HE was going to put a hook in their jaw, and draw them down.
What is the “hook in the jaw” that caused the gathering of the nations against Israel ..??
Do you have any guesses ..??
Who is Gog and Magog?
http://absolutetruth613.blogspot.com/2012/04/who-is-gog-and-magog.html
...and...
Gog's weapons are already on Israeli soil...
http://www.rense.com/general66/excl.htm
...Go and read...