DAILY TEXT, Today's Thursday January 6, 2022, He will also invade the Beautiful Land (Dan. 11:41).

DAILY TEXT, Today's Thursday, January 6, 2022

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

He will also invade the Beautiful Land (Dan. 11:41).

What made the land particularly beautiful was that Jehovah was worshiped there. But, since Pentecost of the year 33 of our era, that "Earth" is not a literal place in a geographical sense. And it cannot be, for Jehovah's servants are scattered throughout the world. Rather, "the Beautiful Land" today is the symbolic place where God's people carry out activities such as their worship through meetings and preaching. In recent days, the king of the north has invaded "the Beautiful Land" over and over again. For example, when Nazi Germany was king of the north, especially during World War II, it invaded "the Beautiful Land" by hunting down and killing God's servants. After World War II, when the Soviet Union became king of the north,He invaded this land by persecuting those who worshiped Jehovah and sending them into exile. w20.05 13 pars. 7, 8

Who is “Gog of the land of Magog,” and what can drive him to attack God's people

A prophecy from the book of Ezekiel helps us understand what is possible in the last days of the king of the north and the king of the south. Apparently, the prophecies of Ezekiel 38: 10-23; Daniel 2: 43-45; 11: 44-12: 1 and Revelation 16: 13-16, 21 speak of the same time period and the same events. If so, we can look forward to the following events.

At some point after the outbreak of the Apocalypse, "the kings of all the inhabited earth" will form a coalition of nations (Rev. 16:13, 14; 19:19). The Bible calls this coalition "Gog of the land of Magog" (Ezek. 38: 2). This group of nations will launch a final attack against God's people and attempt to destroy them completely. What will provoke the attack? In connection with this moment, the apostle John saw a storm of exceptionally large hailstones falling on God's enemies. Perhaps this storm represents the severe message of condemnation that Jehovah's servants will proclaim. It may be that this message prompts Gog of Magog to attack God's people with the aim of wiping them off the map (Rev. 16:21).

a) What events is Daniel 11:44, 45 possibly referring to? b) What will happen to the king of the north and the rest of the Gog of Magog?

It is possible that this severe message and the final attack by God's enemies are the same events mentioned in Daniel 11:44, 45 (read it). There, Daniel says that the king of the north will be restless because of "reports from the east and from the north, and he will go out in a rage to [...] destroy many." These “many” appear to be Jehovah's servants. * Daniel may be describing the final attack on God's people here.

The attack of the king of the north and the other governments of the world will provoke the wrath of the Almighty and unleash the war of Armageddon (Rev. 16:14, 16). At that point, the king of the north "will come to an end, and he will have no one to help him" (Dan. 11:45). The same will happen to the other nations that make up Gog de Magog.

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