(Continuation of
3.1 --The invasion into Israel of the nations from the north with its allies).
Also Psalm 83:5-8
refers to Arab countries that always seek to destroy Israel and therefore it
can be assumed that they will also accompany the northern countries in their
campaign against Israel. There we read:” All
of them fully agree in their plans against you,
and among them are Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and Phoenicia.
Even Assyria has joined forces with Moab and
Ammon”.
We can say that no
other biblical text mentions the simultaneous alliance of all nations mentioned
in this Psalm. Therefore it can be assumed that the psalm does not refer to a
particular historical fact, but describes a typical situation, as the
people of God, throughout its history, have had to endure the attacks of their
enemies
.... But, the northern
countries and their allies are not going to win but will be punished as we read
in verses 21 and 22 of Ezekiel 38:
“I will terrify Gog with all sorts of calamities. I, the
Sovereign Lord, have spoken. His men will turn their swords against one
another.
I will punish him with disease and bloodshed.
Torrents of rain and hail, together with fire and sulfur, will pour down on him
and his army and on the many nations that are on his side”.
In addition, in
Ezekiel 39: 11-15 we read: “The Lord
said, “When all this happens, I will give Gog a burial ground there in
Israel, in Travelers' Valley, east of the Dead Sea. Gog and all his army will be buried there,
and the valley will be called ‘The Valley of Gog's Army.’ It will take the
Israelites seven months to bury all the corpses and make the land clean again.
Everyone in the land will help bury them, and they will be honored for this on
the day of my victory. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. After the seven
months are over, men will be chosen to travel through the land in order to find
and bury those bodies remaining on the
ground, so that they can make the land clean. As they go up and down the
country, every time they find a human bone, they will put a marker beside it so
that the gravediggers can come and bury it in the Valley of Gog's Army”.
We see here a very
accurate description where God Himself explains the intensity of the efforts of
the Israelites to clean the country. There is even some irony when it
says:" I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, in Travelers'
Valley ....” It is impressive to see that the Israelites need seven months
to bury their enemies and leave the country clean.
Question: ¿Could this be the time, the bible
refers to in Genesis 15 verses 18 – 21, when it says: “Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise
to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the
Euphrates River, including the lands
of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”? This was God’s covenant with Abraham, about
4000 years ago and this covenant is still alive.
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