About 25 million people accept Jesus as savior every year. So that means around 68,500 people are born again every day, worldwide. link
Seems to me that Israel's close neighbors would be taken out of the way before Ezekiel's battle, maybe Psalm 83 & Isaiah 17?
Even so, come Lord Jesus. Your will Father, not my own.
* Noah's Flood occurred because rampant murder prevented population growth, followed by God's institution of capital punishment to restrain murderers* The confusion of languages at Babel finally forced the rebellious to disperse globally, permitting population growth
* And, of course, the carrying of the Gospel throughout the earth guarantees its universal availability
It just might be that the ISA 17/Psal,83 war Israel has with its border neighbors is the vehicle by which antichrist fools Israel into believing he is their Messiah. The Restrainer may be around a bit after the Body of Christ is removed in the great ‘stand away from’ and snatching up. After all, the Restrainer is holding back the man of sin who comes with all signs and lying wonders by the power of satan.
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,===
Moab and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also has joined with them;
Note that ALL of these entities + the entity in Isaiah 17 - namely Aram -- all of them were taken out of the way in 700 BC -- Edom was absorbed into Israel when the Edomites were forcibly converted to Judaism by the Hasmonean dynasty in the first century BC
Ammon and Moab were destroyed by the Assyrians and the remnants were absorbed into the nation of Israel at the same time as the Edomites
Philistia disappeared before the Assyrian conquest
Assyria itself has never risen again since its conquest by the Median-Babylonian confederation