Jim Bakker Show - Are We Close to the Gog-Magog War? | Derek Gilbert on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2022-04-01
Duration: 03:42


=== Mount Tephon: The Uttermost North (03:02) ===

[00:00:00]  Absolutely.
[00:00:00]  Derek, Russia has also threatened Israel, declaring that Jerusalem is not its capital and that the Golan Heights doesn't belong to them.
[00:00:15]  You think Putin's being compelled by God to move into Israel?
[00:00:21]  And could we see the beginning of the Gog and Magog war?
[00:00:25]  That's a big question, but I've been wanting to get to it and I'm putting it in all right now.
[00:00:28]  Well, that is a big question.
[00:00:30]  I think that, and I wrote about this in my book, Last Clash of the Titans.
[00:00:34]  I believe the Gog-Magog war ends at Armageddon, and there's good scriptural evidence to support that theory.
[00:00:40]  Gog in Ezekiel 38, 39 is the Antichrist.
[00:00:44]  And Jewish religious scholars see this today.
[00:00:46]  I mean, they believe that the Gog-Magog war is the end of all wars.
[00:00:51]  We tend to think Russia is connected to that because of the verses in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that mention the uttermost north.
[00:00:57]  come from the uttermost north.
[00:00:59]  The uttermost north is where...
[00:01:00]  What is uttermost north in Hebrew?
[00:01:02]  Where else do we find it in the Bible so we can get a clue?
[00:01:04]  Because if we just look at a map and draw a map line from Jerusalem north, we come to Russia.
[00:01:09]  That makes sense.
[00:01:10]  But in Hebrew, it's Yarakate Zephon.
[00:01:13]  And it's only two other places in the entire Bible, which means it's weird.
[00:01:17]  And as our friend Dr. Michael Heiser says, if it's in the Bible and it's weird, it's important.
[00:01:22]  Psalm 48 is one reference.
[00:01:24]  And in Psalm 48, the psalmist compares Mount Zion, which is God's holy mountain, with this other place called the uttermost north.
[00:01:34]  Mount Zion, beautiful in elevation in the uttermost north.
[00:01:36]  Now, wait a minute.
[00:01:37]  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.
[00:01:45]  In Hebrew, it's Harat Zion, Yarakate, Zephon.
[00:01:49]  The psalmist is having a little wordplay there, but he's comparing two mountains, Zion and Tephon.
[00:01:56]  What is Mount Zephon?
[00:01:57]  Well, we get the clue in Isaiah chapter 14.
[00:02:00]  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?
[00:02:04]  He wants to establish his mount of assembly on the sides of the north, the heights of the north, the uttermost north, Yarakate, Sephon.
[00:02:12]  Mount Zephon in the ancient world, everybody knew was where Baal's palace was located.
[00:02:18]  That's where Baal ruled over the cosmos.
[00:02:21]  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.
[00:02:32]  This was such an important location in the Hebrew mind that the word for north, the compass point north, is Sephon.
[00:02:39]  In every other Semitic language, it's Samal.
[00:02:42]  But to the Hebrews, because of the location of Baal's palace, Mount Tephon became the word for north.

=== Supernatural War Prophecy (00:54) ===

[00:02:50]  Where is it today?
[00:02:51]  It's in Turkey.
[00:02:54]  It's a mountain called Jebel al-Akra.
[00:02:55]  It's in Turkey, very near ancient Antioch.
[00:02:58]  I don't think that's a coincidence because Antioch is where Christians were first called by that name.
[00:03:03]  It's near Antioch, just across the border from Syria.
[00:03:06]  The point that Ezekiel was making in the Gog-Magog prophecy is that this is a supernatural war against a supernatural enemy.
[00:03:14]  Gog is the Antichrist.
[00:03:15]  He is Satan's commander-in-chief.
[00:03:17]  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.
[00:03:26]  This is Ezekiel 39, 7.
[00:03:27]  And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
[00:03:32]  Yes.
[00:03:33]  That's the only place in the Old Testament where you see that phrase, the Holy One in Israel.
[00:03:38]  Every other place, it's the Holy One of Israel.
[00:03:41]  Why in Israel?