Isn’t Persia Persia, under the rule of Cyrus the Great, who conquered the Babylonian Empire in the 6th century B.C.? And weren’t Ezekiel and Jeremiah written in that same century B.C.?
No, because the Bible is a book of superstitions that predates nuclear power by thousands of years. I don’t know what Gog and Magog refers to but I suspect that someone will be along shortly to explain that, like all the other End Times Bible prophecies I have seen, your interpretation of scripture is dubious.
400 miles? That would have to be one hell of a big accident. The Israelis could freaking nuke the place and babylon wouldn’t even notice. Time to go back to harrassing gays and Catholics, dude.
Ezekiel and Jeremiah were writing during the Babylonian exile and trying to reassure people that God would destroy Babylon and restore the Jews to Zion. Babylon eventually was captured by the Persians and the Jewish captives wnt back to Judah, but nothing really happened the way Ezekiel and Jeremiah fantasized that it would.
The exact identification of “Magog” is unknown, but it was likely a reference to Assyrians,
In any case, those books had everything to do with the Babylonian captivity of the Jews in the 6th Century BCE and absolutely zero to do with today. Those weren’t even accurate prophecies about what would happen to Babylon, much less about anything now.
Certainly, certainly. It’s the end times I tell you! You should probably be looking to get rid of all your worldly possessions in anticipation of Apocalypse. If you like, I will be more than happy to take them off your hands, since I’m not one of the Select, and so will be staying put, comes the Rapture. Sad for me, but good for you! Let me know when you need me to come take possession of all your stuff…
To the OP, aren’t Ezekiel 38 and 39 explicitly about the prince of Magog, a dude named Gog, who was living at that time and was known to the contemporary audience of the book?