Revelation 16:14. Lucifer is one desperate rascal. Ezekiel chapter 28, God condemned Lucifer to ashes, lake of fire. Is Satan trying to AVERT his death sentence. Revelation 16:14. . Satan as antichrist will gather armys/people in armeggeden, at the end of the 6th trump. What purpose or strategy is Lucifer using against God?. Is this man of sin really going to wage war against Jesus at 7th trump?. Or is satan trying to break God's spirit?. Which fundamental applies logically?.
1. The following Ezekiel 38 passage isn't only about the Israel in the middle east. This is about a people dwelling safely "all of them dwelling without walls". Where would that be, since the nation of Israel in the middle east definitely does dwell with walls about them? There are 2 Israels per God's Word, in case you are not aware. The ten scattered tribes that are among the nations of Gentiles represent the "house of Israel" today.
2. This prophecy is about the day of God's Wrath involving "many countries".
Ps 110:5-6
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; He shall wound the heads over many countries.
KJV
This attack on the last day will involve the western Christian nations also, not just Jerusalem.
Ezek 38:10-13
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, "Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?"
KJV
Tarshish refers to an old Phoenician trading settlement in ancient southern Spain.
That means EUROPE. (see Ezekiel 27:12 for the type of goods brought from Tarshish, which are selective of European Iberia or Spain at the time.)
Ezek 39:6-7
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let them pollute My holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
KJV
Jerusalem is not... in "the isles" where some "dwell carelessly", i.e., safely without walls.
Ezek 39:21-29
21 And I will set My glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
After God split the old kingdom of Israel in Solomon's day into two separate kingdoms per 1 Kings 11, only the northern "kingdom of Israel" of ten tribes were called the "house of Israel" after that historical point.
God is speaking about the ten lost tribe "house of Israel" that are still scattered among the Gentiles to this day. The Jews know who they are, and kept their heritage as part of Israel. But the ten tribes of the "house of Israel" did not, and were lost (but not to God, for this is the point when He is going to reveal the ten tribes to all... nations at the end of this world.)
The ten tribes of Israel are not known as Jews, for that title belonged to the Jews of the southern "kingdom of Judah" in the southern holy land, at Jerusalem-Judea. However, there are Jews living in the western Christian nations also, probably more than are living in today's nation state of Israel in the middle east.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against Me, therefore hid I My face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
See the Book of Hosea. The ten northern tribes of Israel is who God is pointing to above with that "house of Israel". God showed through His prophet Hosea what He would do to them. And Apostle Paul would quote from Hosea about the believing Gentile Romans in Christ, which reveals where The Gospel went after Christ Jesus was rejected by the majority of Jews at Jerusalem.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid Hy face from them.
As shown in the Book of Hosea, God did not hide His face from Judah (Jews). The Jews of the "house of Judah" kept their heritage as part of Israel. But not the ten tribes. When God scattered the ten tribes of the "house of Israel", He said He would give them the full strength of their Baal worship they chose instead of Him, and they would not find their way back, and they would lose their heritage of His holy days, new moons, etc. That is what this hiding His face from them is about.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name;
When Jacob is used to identify along with phrases like, "the whole house of Israel", that specifically means all... the 12 tribes of Israel, i.e., the Ezekiel 37 joining of the faithful remnant of the two sticks back to the holy land.
26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against Me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
One should begin to see that this is especially about the scattered ten tribed "house of Israel" dwelling in the Christian west, where none of the nations have made them afraid, i.e., none came upon their un-walled lands (like Russia and China plan to do on the last day).
27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, Which cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide My face any more from them: for I have poured out My spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
KJV
Just the fact that these are gathered "out of their enemies' lands", and that God had hid His face from them, points especially to the ten lost tribes of the "house of Israel". Most of them to this day do not know who they actually are. But on this day when God does this, then they will know.
Thus Satan's army out of the northern quarters on the last day is ordained for this purpose that God says here, so that the nations will know and understand what He did with scattering lost Israel of the ten tribes, and how He is going to protect them, and gather them.
What will provoke Satan to come upon both Jerusalem (Jews) and the Christian West (ten lost tribes with Gentiles in The Gospel)?? Towards the end of the coming "great tribulation", some of Christ's elect are going to be delivered up to councils and synagogues (i.e, false churches), to give a Testimony for Jesus against the beast. They are told by Christ to not premeditate what they will say in that hour, but to speak whatever The Holy Spirit gives them to speak in that hour. That will be the 'real' cloven tongue event reserved for the 'end' that Apostle Peter pointed at the end of Joel 2, just prior to Christ's future return. The whole world... is going to hear God speak through His elect servants via that cloven tongue. That is going to make Satan terribly angry so that he will wish to destroy God's people once and for all, and will go with his armies out of the northern quarters (i.e., the nations of Ezekiel 38 led by Russia (Gog-Magog).