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Mount Tephon: The Uttermost North
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| Absolutely. | |
| Derek, Russia has also threatened Israel, declaring that Jerusalem is not its capital and that the Golan Heights doesn't belong to them. | |
| You think Putin's being compelled by God to move into Israel? | |
| And could we see the beginning of the Gog and Magog war? | |
| That's a big question, but I've been wanting to get to it and I'm putting it in all right now. | |
| Well, that is a big question. | |
| I think that, and I wrote about this in my book, Last Clash of the Titans. | |
| I believe the Gog-Magog war ends at Armageddon, and there's good scriptural evidence to support that theory. | |
| Gog in Ezekiel 38, 39 is the Antichrist. | |
| And Jewish religious scholars see this today. | |
| I mean, they believe that the Gog-Magog war is the end of all wars. | |
| We tend to think Russia is connected to that because of the verses in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that mention the uttermost north. | |
| come from the uttermost north. | |
| The uttermost north is where... | |
| What is uttermost north in Hebrew? | |
| Where else do we find it in the Bible so we can get a clue? | |
| Because if we just look at a map and draw a map line from Jerusalem north, we come to Russia. | |
| That makes sense. | |
| But in Hebrew, it's Yarakate Zephon. | |
| And it's only two other places in the entire Bible, which means it's weird. | |
| And as our friend Dr. Michael Heiser says, if it's in the Bible and it's weird, it's important. | |
| Psalm 48 is one reference. | |
| And in Psalm 48, the psalmist compares Mount Zion, which is God's holy mountain, with this other place called the uttermost north. | |
| Mount Zion, beautiful in elevation in the uttermost north. | |
| Now, wait a minute. | |
| Even 3,000 years ago, the Jews of King David's day knew that Mount Zion, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is not in the uttermost north. | |
| In Hebrew, it's Harat Zion, Yarakate, Zephon. | |
| The psalmist is having a little wordplay there, but he's comparing two mountains, Zion and Tephon. | |
| What is Mount Zephon? | |
| Well, we get the clue in Isaiah chapter 14. | |
| How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? | |
| He wants to establish his mount of assembly on the sides of the north, the heights of the north, the uttermost north, Yarakate, Sephon. | |
| Mount Zephon in the ancient world, everybody knew was where Baal's palace was located. | |
| That's where Baal ruled over the cosmos. | |
| In fact, even the Greeks, their version of Baal, Zeus, fought a mighty battle at Mount Zephon with a monster called Typhon, whose name comes from Mount Sephon. | |
| This was such an important location in the Hebrew mind that the word for north, the compass point north, is Sephon. | |
| In every other Semitic language, it's Samal. | |
| But to the Hebrews, because of the location of Baal's palace, Mount Tephon became the word for north. | |
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Supernatural War Prophecy
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| Where is it today? | |
| It's in Turkey. | |
| It's a mountain called Jebel al-Akra. | |
| It's in Turkey, very near ancient Antioch. | |
| I don't think that's a coincidence because Antioch is where Christians were first called by that name. | |
| It's near Antioch, just across the border from Syria. | |
| The point that Ezekiel was making in the Gog-Magog prophecy is that this is a supernatural war against a supernatural enemy. | |
| Gog is the Antichrist. | |
| He is Satan's commander-in-chief. | |
| And when this war happens, and in Ezekiel 39, we see it end with God saying, the nations, I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. | |
| This is Ezekiel 39, 7. | |
| And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. | |
| Yes. | |
| That's the only place in the Old Testament where you see that phrase, the Holy One in Israel. | |
| Every other place, it's the Holy One of Israel. | |
| Why in Israel? | |