Q: Why do you believe gog and magog are demon spirits rather than people or nations?
A: In short, my belief is the result of perceiving The Bible as Heaven’s spiritual, strategic warfare manual for humanity, in general, and for The Lord’s ‘righteous elect’, in particular. 1 It is so much more than ‘just a religious book’ that’s packed full of stories of ancient times.
Background: God, through and for Jesus, created mankind as spirit, soul and body. 2 Though our physical body will decay and die, The Bible reveals our spirit and soul are our immortal essence that one day will be assigned an immortal/eternal human body. He created us to be (reign as) gods/lords of Earth following a cataclysmic event that occurred in Heaven when Lucifer led a third of all angels in an attempted coup d’etat. They failed, were cast out of Heaven, and landed on Earth. They were present to witness the creation and inauguration of man as Earth’s gods/lords. Lucifer, who was transformed into satan, deceived Eve to sin (disobey The Lord), and Adam followed suit, though he was not deceived. In doing so, he abdicated his designated role, and satan legally became the god/lord of this world. This explains the steady deterioration in the spiritual quality of life since Eden.
In Genesis 3:15, The Lord signaled to satan that the war he initiated in Heaven would continue over and upon Earth for several millennia, and would be transacted through mankind. Later, He signaled this war would conclude in blazing glory for all who are righteous, and in a fiery lake for all others, including all demons who would be forever assigned immortal, human bodies – spirit, soul and body. 3
Opposing spiritual forces are thus arrayed to influence human beings. The greatest accomplishment of demonic spirits has been to convince most of us that they and Heaven’s holy agents, do not exist. Apostle Paul confirmed demonic spirits are arrayed ‘in heavenly places’, generally regarded as the second heaven - between Earth’s atmosphere and the third heaven noted in 2 Corinthians 12:2. A few Bible verses indicate these spirits are assigned over geographic regions of Earth. 4 Other verses demonstrate spirit forces, both good and evil, achieve their influence over humans via the imaginations of our heart/spirit, imaginations we are easily prone to act out, physically. 5
A perfect example of The Lord’s perspective view of this is presented in Ezekiel 28. In the midst of upbraiding the wicked King of Tyre, The Lord, through the prophet, addresses Lucifer/satan, the king’s motivating spirit.
Within this broad context, Bible references to gog and magog, whether to people or lands/nations with those names, are about wicked motivating spirits, because THIS is ultimately what The Lord is concerned about in the unfolding spiritual war that continues to rage through us humans.
Physically, the 66 ‘books’ of The Bible were written over several millennia by an untold number of Jewish scribes. Spiritually, it is best perceived, read and studied as one book, guided by One Mind – The Mind of Jesus Christ. His presence across its pages and ages, is easily perceived by born-again citizens of Heaven. Paul refers to this as the hidden, yet revealed mystery of Father God, in Jesus Christ, The Lord God, in us (born-again Christ followers). Because revelations therein are released over time, line-upon line, precept-upon-precept, here a little, there a little (per Isaiah 28), it may be best to give our greatest attention to the final mention of topics we study. In this regard, I believe it would be erroneous to interpret the final reference to Gog and Magog, in Revelation 20:7-8, literally as the names of two men, or worse yet, ALL ‘the nations in the four corners of the Earth’. Rather, the inference seems clear that, by then, ALL nations will be strongly under the deceptive influence of these two demon spirits. Per Ezekiel 38, they might be the demonic forces currently influencing events in ‘the land in the far north’ (presumably of Israel). It seems clear they will someday successfully motivate the final war in human history, the post-Millennial Reign age. 6. Strategically, to me this signals a ‘significant promotion’ for these two, powerfully-deceptive demon spirits! (Selah…)
Uppermost, The Bible is to be read with a spiritual mindset, not a carnal mindset.
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1 See: God 101 - Who Are God’s Elect (Part 1 and Part 2)
2 See: Hebrews 1:2-10 and Colossians 1:16-17
3 See: The Grand Finale Goshen Effect (Poem, Part 5)
4 See: Earth’s Cloaked Satellites (Poem) and also Ephesians 3:10 and 6:12, Daniel 10, 12:1, and Ezekiel 38
5 See: Genesis 6:5-8, 8:21 and Luke 1:51
6 See: Revelation 19:11-21, and especially Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel.
