{"id":27,"date":"2015-09-16T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crowningaking.com\/end-times\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-10-12T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:07:00","slug":"ezekiel-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowningaking.com\/end-times\/ezekiel-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel 38 – Is this ‘end times’ scripture really about the ‘end times’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"freely-10187-preview-973x649\"<\/a>Ezekiel 38:2-6 is often used to discuss the inevitability of Armageddon on the world…<\/p>\n

As it is written, we see that Ezekiel is not in a vision, he’s being told exactly what to write. This means that God himself is using words that Ezekiel can understand as opposed to Ezekiel having to interpret the meanings. God calls out Meshech and Tubal by name. These names having meaning to Ezekiel as we see in our history books that they were a people of his own time. This land today overlaps territories of multiple nations. The borders of these nations\/peoples are now long gone. If God was describing some far off in the future nation, and he wanted us to understand what was going on, he’d call them by their modern names, if he was speaking to us. There’s no logical reason for God to specifically call out 2500 year old nations as some kind of warning to a distant people of today. Simple logic dictates that God was speaking to Ezekiel about people closer to his own time who Ezekiel could understand. If God can name Cyrus 200 years before he’s born, he can name the Russians or Syria as the country that would invade Israel at a later date. Also worth noting here; When was the last time people fought with shields and armor? Isn’t it also just as good a theory that these events happened long before you and I were born?<\/p>\n