The Great Eastern Confederacy

Ezekiel 38:17  •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 10
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The great Assyrian1 is typified by Nebuchadnezzar, the head of the great image seen by him in his dream spoken of in Daniel 2. Nebuchadnezzar gathered the whole earth in overwhelming power. Also in Daniel, chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar lost his reason and was driven from among men until seven times passed over him and, having learned to know God by the judgment that he executed, he acknowledged that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever He will. Thus all of the nations shall learn to bow the knee to the Son of man whose title will be the most High when He takes His kingdom in that day. This will complete the times of the Gentiles (the seven times). The dream of Daniel 4 will prophetically be fulfilled at the great winepress. At that time all peoples will have bowed or been destroyed.
“For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness” (Isa. 26:9).
Previously, in the consumption, every power in the prophetic earth had been humbled. The Lord was terrible to the kings of the earth, as the Son of man rode on a swift cloud. The remaining nations, for the most part, shall rally under a powerful leader, Gog,2 prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD: Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them” (Ezek. 38:17)?
 
1. Observe that the Assyrian will be involved in many events from the end of the great tribulation to the end of the indignation. This shows that the term “Assyrian” embodies many nations and peoples as was the case with the ancient Assyrian. (See page 9.)
2. Gog. The name “Gog” is used in Ezekiel 38 and 39. He will be the chief prince of Russia in the Day of the Lord. He is the same as the one often referred to in Isaiah, Micah 5:55And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. (Micah 5:5), Nahum 1:99What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. (Nahum 1:9), etc., as the “Assyrian” because at the end he leads the Assyrian confederacy. (See Ezek. 38:1717Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? (Ezekiel 38:17).) Although he will dictate the policies of the nations in the Eastern confederacy, yet he himself with his armies does not come down until nearly the end of the crisis. He personally leads in the second attack upon Jerusalem, not knowing that the Lord is there. He will find his grave on the mountains of Israel.