God's New Revelations

The Prophet Ezekiel

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- Chapter 39 -

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Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, speak for me about the terrible things that will happen to Gog. Say this to him: ’Gog, I am your enemy, you who rule Meshech and Tubal.
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I will turn you around and drag you and your armies from far north of Israel and send you to fight on the mountains of Israel.
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When you are there, I will snatch your bows from your left hands and cause your arrows to fall from your right hands.
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You and all the soldiers that are with you will die on the mountains of Israel. I will give your corpses to be food for the birds that eat dead flesh, and to the wild animals.
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You will die in the open fields. This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said that it will happen.
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I will cause many fires to burn in Magog and to all those who live safely in the areas along their coasts, and they will know that it is I, Yahweh, who have the power to do what I say that I will do.
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I will enable my Israelite people to know that I am holy. I will no longer allow them to mock me, and the people groups in the other lands will know that I am Yahweh, the God whom Israel worships and honors.
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That day is fast approaching. I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that those things will happen soon.
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At that time, the people who live in the cities of Israel will go out and gather the weapons from the dead soldiers, and will use them to make fires to cook their food. They will burn the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs, and spears. There will be enough weapons to use as firewood for seven years.
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They will not need to gather firewood in the fields or cut wood from trees in the forests, because those weapons will be all the firewood that they will need. And they will take valuable things from those who took valuable things from them, and steal things from people who stole things from them. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare will happen.
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At that time I will create a graveyard for you, Gog, and your soldiers, in the valley east of the Dead Sea. That graveyard will block the road that travelers usually walk on, because you, Gog and all the soldiers of your huge army will be buried there. So it will be named the Valley of Hamon Gog.
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For seven months the people of Israel will be burying your corpses. It will be necessary to bury all of them, in order that the land will not be defiled because of any unburied corpses.
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All the people of Israel will do the work of burying them. The day when I win that victory they will honor me, and they will remember that day forever.
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After those seven months are ended, the Israelite people will designate men to go throughout the land to bury any remaining corpses, in order that the land might not remain defiled.
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When they go through the land, whenever one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it. When the gravediggers see the markers, they will pick up the bones and bury them in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
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There will be a city there named Hamonah. And by doing this work of burying the corpses, they will cleanse the land.’”
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Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, this is what I, Lord Yahweh, say: Summon every kind of bird and wild animal. Say to them, ’Gather together from everywhere and come to the feast that Yahweh is preparing for you. It will be a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat men’s flesh and drink their blood.
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You will eat the flesh of strong soldiers and drink the blood of kings as if they were fat animals from the region of Bashan, as if they were male sheep, lambs, goats, and bulls.
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At the feast that Yahweh is preparing for you, you will eat fat until your stomachs are full, and you will drink blood until it is as though you are drunk.
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It will be as though you are eating at a table that I have set up for you. You will eat all you want of the flesh of horses and their riders, strong soldiers of every kind.’ That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.

Israel to Be Restored

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’I will show people of the nations that I am powerful, and all the nations will see how I punish them.
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At that time, the Israelite people will learn that I, Yahweh their God, have the power to do what I say that I will do.
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And the people of the other lands will know that the Israelites had been forced to go to other countries because they sinned by not being faithful to me. I turned away from them, and I allowed their enemies to capture them and kill many of them.
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I punished them as they deserved because of their disgusting behavior and sins, and I turned away from them.
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Therefore, this is now what I, Lord Yahweh say: I will now bring back from exile the descendants of Jacob; I will have mercy on all the Israelite people, and I will also make sure that they honor me.
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When the Israelite people are back in their own country, they will live safely in their land, with no one to cause them to be afraid. They will forget about the disgraceful and unfaithful things that they did previously.
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When I have brought them back from their enemies’ countries and gathered them together in Israel, the people of many nations will know how holy I am because of what I did for my people.
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The Israelite people will know that I, Yahweh, have done this. They will know that because I forced them to go to other countries, and then I gathered them together in their own country. I will not leave any of them in those countries.
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I will no longer turn away from them; I will give my Spirit to the Israelite people. This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it.”
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You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
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I will turn you around, will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel.
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I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
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You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
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You will fall on the open field, for I have spoken it,” says the Lord GOD.
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I will send a fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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“‘“I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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Behold, it comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord GOD. “This is the day about which I have spoken.
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“‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;
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so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord GOD.
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“‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there, and they will call itThe valley of Hamon Gog’.
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“‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
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Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord GOD.
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“‘“They will set apart men of continual employment who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.
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Those who search through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
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Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’
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You, son of man, the Lord GOD says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
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You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
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You shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord GOD.’

Israel to Be Restored

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I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
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So the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God, from that day and forward.
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The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
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I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.
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Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.
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They will forget their shame and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land. No one will make them afraid
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when I have brought them back from the peoples, gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am shown holy among them in the sight of many nations.
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They will know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more.
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I won’t hide my face from them any more, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD.”