Nah, that's trying to 'spiritualize' the literal things in Bible Scripture.
I didn't. God did that I can understand with spiritual discernment. You? Doubtfully because you are brainwashed by your own doctrine thinking God has prophesied about everything in literal sense.
The Gog-Magog army for the end is given in Ezekiel 38 by the nation alignment shown there, which today, the only nation shown not yet in the alliance with 'Rus' (word "chief"), is Togarmah, which was the old area of Cappadocia, which today is the nation of Turkey.
So when you read in Ezekiel 38 about Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, Togarmah, Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish, you tend to believe God must have talking about physical land or countries where these countries used to be in Ezekiel's day? I used to think this way as hardcore premillennialist myself but God has opened my spiritual eyes to see the Truth.
We must study Scripture in the light and knowledge of who the true believer is. God, much of the time, speaks through the use of parables containing symbols, allegories, metaphors, etc. all in PICTURESQUE language. It is imperative to understand that we are NOT dismissing the literal and historical events of the Old Testament as mythical or fables in any way. God forbid! No, but rather we know without doubt that God moved the events of ancient Israel and her enemies as EXAMPLE: 1st Corinthians 10:11, and as our school master, Galatians 3:24, for the purpose of instructing His Church, the then future Bride of Christ, including both Jews and Gentiles.
Today God’s Church is identified as the
Elect of God, Colossians 3:12; the
Bride of Christ, Revelation 21:9;
The Church, Matthew 16:18;
Christians, Acts 11:26;
The Holy City, Revelation 2:11;
The New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:2;
Mount Zion, Joel 2:32;
The Whole House of Israel, Ezekiel 37:11, and
The Israel of God, Galatians 6:16. There are certainly more titles that God places upon His Church, no doubt.
The one main ingredient or key to understanding the symbolism of Old Testament Scripture is in understanding the fact that
Old Testament Israel was a prefigure or foreshadow of the New Testament Church - the Israel of God, Galatians 6:16. Once we come to truth on this matter.
Scripture will then open up to us with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and many more marvelous truths will then begin to fall into place. The true worshipper of Christ must know and understand
who we really are! One cannot truly understand the Gog/Magog Battle apart from
realizing that the
true believer in Christ is a New Testament spiritual Jew. And our church is spiritual Judea. Our eternal kingdom, our eternal life resides within and upon the spiritual “mountains” (kingdom) of Israel. Why?
Because Jesus Christ is the Israel of Scripture!
So we should understand that the church is "Mountain of Israel" where Spiritual Jews are. The enemy countries of Ezekiel 38 are to signify our spiritual enemies within the church - the professed Christians, along with false prophets and christs. Please pay attention to this, look at what they wear!
Eze 38:3-5
(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:
Armour, bucklers, shields, swords, helmet. Sounds fimiliar? Aren't they similar to what we, Christians, wear in Ephesians 6:10-18?! God is telling us that our spiritual enemies are NOT Russians or Islamic States but
PROFESSED CHRISTIANS among us who also wear the same clothings and weapons yet they lack Truth and Salvation. They come into the mountain of Israel, the church, to spoil her and to burn her because God no longer protect the unfaithful church. There are a lot more to tell you about Ezekiel 38 but I want you to understand first what God is trying to tell us. And the battle of Gog and Magog, to be quite frank, is actually taking place right now if you have spiritual eyes to see what's going on with churches all over the world. But you are too busy looking for physical fulfillment in the MIddle East with Fox News!
Wake up! We are Israel of God in the New TEstament. God gave us the Holy Spirit with armour, loins girt, breastplate, feet shod, shield, helmet, sword to fight against spiritual principalities and armies that wear almost the same WITHIN the Church all over the world!
Selah!