Nothing in eze 38 says God gathered them to be invaded. When He gathers them HE invades!
And I never said so. Boy you really love putting words in my mouth or implying things I never did!
Ezekiel 38 shows Israel back in the land and will be invaded by Russia and its allies!
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Israel (specifically Jerusalem) has been the most fought over land in history! Since Israel was reborn, they have had to fight four major wars for their survival. So Israel today is a land bought back from the sword.
Israelites have come from over 120 countries. that fulfills many people.
The land was as Mark Twain said, th emost desolate place on earth. the desert now blooms like the rose as prophesied.
This basttle has to take place in the last days, has to take place at least 3 1/2 years before the tribulation starts as Israel gathers and burns the weapons of war for fuel for 7 years.
Either God gathers them or not. When He does we will know.
Well millions of believers and Jews who are still Gods covenanted people already know! You disagree because the Mossad and Ergun were involved. do you believe God ordered Joshua into the promised land and okayed it though they killed innocent women and children and even cut out babies form the womb? Did the Ergun do as much?
But when do you think this gathering is to take place?
Ezekiel 20:33-38
King James Version
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
You say in the tribulation or some future date as this regathering that i s taking place has nothing to do with God.
So do you believe that God will scatter the Jews living in Israel in the future to gather them again to fulfill this?
Sorry but to say this was fulfilled in the return from Babylon is a lie! The return from Babylon did not fulfill this passage even under the most fanciful allegorical reinterpretaion of Gods Word here.