It basically says Gog will be a captain.
Military command authority figure?
That’s how it seems to come off to me.
Maybe their allies provide the foot soldiers.
Time will certainly tell.
God bless.
Granted this is NIV though 🤔🤔🤔
Ezekiel 38
New International Version
The Lord’s Great Victory Over the Nations
38 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog,(A) of the land of Magog,(B) the chief prince of[a] Meshek and Tubal;(C) prophesy against him 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[b] Meshek and Tubal.(D) 4 I will turn you around, put hooks(E) in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.(F) 5 Persia, Cush[c](G) and Put(H) will be with them, all with shields and helmets, 6 also Gomer(I) with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah(J) from the far north(K) with all its troops—the many nations with you.
7 “‘Get ready; be prepared,(L) you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days(M) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations(N) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.(O) 9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm;(P) you will be like a cloud(Q) covering the land.(R)
10 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind(S) and you will devise an evil scheme.(T
The other scenario I see is this....Russia is bloodied badly in Ukraine and is completely backed into a corner by the world...they have “chats” with the leaderships of Turkey, Iran, Palestinians, China ect....they all decide to take their militaries and make a massive thrust “last gasp” “hail Mary” thrust into the Middle East to try and take it and control the world thru capturing its energy supplies or if not successful, they try taking themselves and the whole world down in flames. The USA may or may not be involved...we may have well destroyed ourselves in a civil war and split into several nation states at war with each other.Our own domestic Nukes may have been involved in our own undoing but those who unleashed them earned a pyrrhic victory at best with half the nation poisoned...much to the horror of the envirronmentalists(wait till the see the oceans turned to blood and all the cute whales dead.) Yellowstone also might go off in which case...I’m glad I live in Virginia.
A Yellowstone mega explosion might well be a nation killer!
Of course if Russia and it’s “friends” try what I described we know what God’s response will be by his direct own hand or by some other means that will signify that God was involved.(Nukes aren’t fire and brimstone falling from the sky...but the description of the clean up in the Bible where bodies are marked for later burial suggest radiation or toxic exposure.) Of course we know at some point the Son of Perdition will enter the scene with some genius peace plan and we will also learn which of the various “Trib/Rapture” scenarios will play out.