The word came, is the Hebrew word Haya. It is used in Genesis 1 saying, let there be. I believe this is an insight on how Prophets receive prophecy from Yahuah. Yahuah Elohiym says, become knowledgeable of prophecy and the prophet does.
Gog of the land of Magog is Turkey and the ruler of Turkey. The other nations today would be Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and up into the Caucus Mountains.
Son of man is how Yahusha Hamashia talked about Himself. But in this verse the son of man is the Prophet Ezekiel. What Ezekiel has in common with Yahusha Hamashia is that they are both Prophets.
Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.
Persia is Iran. Cush I believe is Yemen and Somalia. Put is not Egypt or the Gaza strip. It may be Libya or the Sudan, but perhaps it is Eritrea.
Gomer, Beth-togarmah, I believe to be East European nations that side with Turkey.
Meshech and Tubal I believe could be Georgia North of the caucus mountains to Jordan.
7-9. “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
These three verses are interesting. The question is, who is Yahuah Elohiym taking about. It was the Northern Tribes of Israel that was taken into Assyrian territory. The book of Ezekiel I believe was written 593–571 bce. About 140 years earlier in 721 B.C. is when Assyria captured the Northern Israelites. Soon after there was northern people known as the Sacans. I believe a small part of these northern people are called the Saxons. The land whose people that was gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel sounds like the USA. The question is, will they be in northern Israel at the time of Gog and Magog? It's not just the USA, the whole coalition. The question is, why do they need to come to Israel in our future? This appears that Turkey and it's coalition will attack Israel and the western nations who stand with Israel. Is it a battle for the financial gains of the Red Sea passage, oil, or religion? Does the City of Neom have anything to do with it?
10-16. Thus says Yahuah Elohiym: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’. “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says Yahuah Elohiym: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
The Turkish coalition will have two targets. The quiet people that dwell safely and the destroyed areas. It's no wonder what nations who live safely and have wealth. That's western Europe and Israel. But it is Jerusalem that is centered on the Earth. The destroyed areas would be the Gaza Strip and cities in Syria and perhaps Iraq and Iran.
But what I find interesting is that Dedan is in the area of the New city of Neom in Saudi Arabia. Sheba on the other hand, research says it is Yemen. Yemen could be Cush also. Perhaps there will be a military base north of Yemen. Certainly Yemen is a point of interest in Bible prophecy. Ships of Tarshish is the Navy of the west Mediterranean Sea Nations.
17-23. “Thus says Yahuah Elohiym: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares Yahuah Elohiym, my wrath will be roused in my anger. For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Yahuah Elohiym. Every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahuah.
This last section reminds me of movies where the corrupted world powers are Incapacitated. Local leadership defend themselves or attack their own neighborhood rivals.
This chapter of Ezekiel has a long timeline. It was written about 2,600 years ago. But yet it sounds like the news today. But we need to compare Ezekiel 38 with other end time prophecy of the Bible. If the nation of Israel signs an agreement with it's Muslim neighbors and they become defenceless, their Messiah may be Antichrist. The Third Temple is not Ezekiel's Temple. The false Messiah will betray Judah. Daniel chapter 11 plays a part of all this. Will Gog attack Northwest Saudi Arabia? What happens north of Gog and Magog that disturbs Antichrist? Who is the Eastern Army?
