Thus Saith The L-rd!

Shalom!

As we watch the unfolding drama of the "Flotilla Ships" many are wondering "how could Turkey turn on Israel?" For several years, relations between Israel and Turkey SEEMED to be positive...at least there were no open hostilities...

With the election of PM Erdogan, the atmosphere quickly changed. Erdogan is blatantly Anti-Semitic. He has, in rapid fashion, reached out to Iran and Russia to partner with him on questionable matters such as "defense." Turkey was denied membership in the EU and has been sulking and pouting ever since. They have even rebuked our current President, and refused to support a Missile Shield over Europe that could prevent attacks by Iran. None of this should be shocking to any student of Biblical Prophecy!

The prophet Yechezk'el/Ezekiel spoke of these things in Chapter 38 and 39...

Chapter 38:
"The Word of Adonai came to me: 'Human being, turn your face toward God (of the land of Magog) chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval; and prophesy against him. Say that Adonai Elohim says, 'I AM against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all completely equipped, a great horde with breastplates and shields, all wielding swords. Paras, Ethiopia and Put are with them, all with breastplates and helmets. Gomer with all its troops; the house of Togarmah in the far reaches of the north, with all its troops - many peoples are with you. Prepare yourself, get ready, you and all your crowd gathered around you; and take charge of them. After many days have passed, you will be mustered for service; in later years you will invade the land which has been brought back from the sword gathered out of many peoples, the mountains of Isra'el. They had been lying in ruins for a long time, but now Isra'el has been extracted from the peoples and all of them are living there securely. You will come up like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land - you and all your troops, and many other peoples with you.

Adonai Elohim says: 'When that day comes, thoughts will well up in your mind, and you will devise a sinister scheme. You will say, "I am going to invade this land of unwalled villages; I will take by surprise these people who are at peace, living securely, all in places without walls, bars or gates. I will seize the spoil and take the plunder. You will attack the former ruins that are now inhabited and come against the people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and other wealth and are living in the central parts of the land. Sh'va, D'dan and all the leading merchants of Tarshish will ask you, "Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hordes to loot, to carry off silver, gold, livestock and other wealth; to take much plunder?'"

Therefore, human being, prophesy! Tell Gog that Adonai Elohim says this: 'Won't you be aware of it when my people Isra'el are living in security? You will choose just that time to come from your place in the far reaches of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a huge horde, a mighty army, and you will invade my people Isra'el like a cloud covering the land. This will be in the acharit-hayamim; and I will bring you against my land, so that the Goyim will know me, when before their eyes, I am set apart as holy through you, Gog.''

"Adonai Elohim says: I spoke of you long ago through my servants the prophets of Isra'el. Back then, they prophesied for many years that I would have you invade them. When that day comes, when Gog invades the land of Isra'el, says Adonai Elohim, 'my furious anger will boil up. In my jealousy, in my heated fury I speak: when that day comes there will be a great earthquake in the land of Isra'el; so that the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the wild beasts, all the reptiles creeping on the ground and every human being there in the land will tremble before me. Mountains will fall, cliffs crumble and every wall crash to the ground. I will summon a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says Adonai Elohim; 'every man will wield his sword against his brother. I will judge him with plague and with blood. I will cause torrential rain to fall on him, his troops and the many peoples with him, along with huge hailstones, fire and sulphur. I will show my greatness and holiness, making myself known in the sight of many nations; then they will know that I am Adonai.'

Chapter 39:
"So you, human being, prophesy against Gog: say that Adonai Elohim says: 'I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval. I will turn you around, lead you on and bring you from the far reaches of the north against the mountains of Isra'el. But then I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. You will fall on the mountains of Isra'el, you, your troops and all the peoples with you. I will give you to be eaten up by all kinds of birds of prey and by wild animals. You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, says Adonai Elohim.

I will also send fire against Magog and against those living securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am Adonai. I will make my holy name known among my people Isra'el; I will not allow my holy name to be profaned any longer. Then the Goyim will know that I am Adonai, the Holy One of Israe'el. Yes, this is coming, and it will be done' says Adonai Elohim, this is the day which I have spoken about.

Those living in Isra'el's cities will go out and set fire to the weapons, to use as fuel - the shields, breastplates, bows, arrows, clubs and spears; they will use them for fire for seven years; so that they will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut down any from the forests; because they will use the weapons for fire. Thus they will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them,' says Adonai Elohim.

When that day comes, I will give Gog a place there in Isra'el for graves, the Travelers Valley, east of the sea; and it will block the travelers passage. There they will bury Gog and all his horde, and they will rename it the Valley of Hamon-Gog (horde of Gog). It will take the house of Isra'el seven months to bury them, in order to cleanse the land. Yes, all the people of the land will be burying them; they will become famous for it. It will be a day for me to be glorified, says Adonai Elohim. They will then pick men for the continual duty of going through the land and burying with the travelers the corpses still lying out on the ground, in order to cleanse it; they will begin their search after seven months. As they go through the land, if anyone sees a human bone, he will put a marker next to it until the gravediggers have burried it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog. Moreover, "Hamonah" (its horde) will be the name of a city. Thus will they cleanse the land.

As for you, human, Adonai Elohim says that you are to speak to all kinds of birds and to every wild animal as follows: Assemble yourselves and come, gather yourselves from all around for the sacrifice I am preparing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Isra'el, where you can eat flesh and drink blood! You will eat the flesh of heroes and drink the blood of the earth's princes - rams, lambs, goats and bulls, fattened in Bashan, all of them. You will eat fat until you gorged and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrifice I have prepared for you. At my table you will be satiated with horses, horsemen, heroes and every kind of warrior, says Adonai Elohim.

Thus will I display my glory among the nations, so that all the nations will see my judgment when I execute it and my hand when I lay it on them. From that day on, the house of Isra'el will know that I am Adonai their G-d; while the Goyim will know that the house of Isra'el went into exile because of their guilt, because they broke faith with me; so that I hid my face from them and handed them over to their adversaries; and they fell by the sword, all of them. Yes, I treated them as the uncleanness and crimes deserved; and I hid my face from them.

Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: 'Now I will restore the fortunes of Ya'akov and have compassion on the entire house of Isra'el, and I will be jealous for my holy name. They will bear their shame and all their guilt from breaking faith with me, once they are living securely in their land, with no one to make them afraid. This will be after I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies lands, thereby being consecrated through them in the sight of many nations.

Then they will know that I am Adonai their G-d, since it was I who caused them to go into exile among the nations, and it was I who regathered them to their own land. I will leave none of them any more, and I will no longer hide my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Isra'el,' says Adonai Elohim.

If I were Russia, Iran or Turkey, I would't buy any green bananas!