After the great promises of chapter 36 and 37 one issue remains: How will God’s Kingdom in the new age remain safe from external attack? What follows is a prophecy that is deliberately echoed in Revelation 19:11ff, which narrates the final great battle between the rider on the white horse and the beast. So, reading Ezekiel 38-39 through the lens of Revelation 19, we should see the battle of Gog as the final destruction of evil on the earth. We are told that God himself will incite Gog to war to draw him to his destruction. This is a tactic that God still uses today. Often God will allow us to come under intensified spiritual oppression in order that the work of Satan in our lives may be brought out into the open and thereby defeated. It might be something that happens to you that is overtly evil in its intent. It might be that you find yourself doing and saying things that shock you. Satan is cunning, but his desires are unrestrained and therefore he is likely to overplay his hand and reveal himself. God often draws him out like this so that he can be defeated. For once his lies are out in the open, he is disarmed completely. The battle has begun. Even now God is destroying the strongholds of Satan. The battle described in Ezekiel 38-39 and in Revelation 19 is simply the climax of a battle that we must engage with now. And as surely as there will be victory then there can be victory now for those who walk with God.
Think about where you have become vulnerable to the work of Satan. Bring this to God.
Read Ezekiel 38 and 39
