God’s Word is His Own Dictionary - THE GOG-MAGOG WAR - http:spiritualbiblestudies.com CHAPTER NINE
not analyze the biblical meanings of spoil, prey, silver, gold, cattle, or goods in this study since we have already done so in previous chapters of this study. Suffice it to say that they are all highly spiritual terms or symbols that absolutely depict Christ’s Gospel of the Good News of Eternal Salvation. These metaphorical terms would also include the true members of Christ’s Church. All of God’s children are figuratively portrayed in Scripture as silver, gold, cattle, goods, along with a host of other allegorical terms. The true Christian witness coupled with the pure Gospel of Christ (that all true believers cherish) are indeed the GREAT SPOIL and PREY that Satan is seeking out during this great end-of-time quest or battle. As already stated, we will not replicate what we have already seen and taught in previous chapters of this study, for we say it now; the great spoil and prey that Satan via Gog and Magog seek to destroy from among the corporate churches of the world is every true believer’s testimony and witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the silencing, the shutting down or spiritual killing of God’s true Church as seen from Revelation Chapter Eleven, to name but one reference. The whole of this particular study will now focus on the identity of those who are asking the question, namely Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish with all their young lions. For this question can only be asked by those who understand and truly comprehend what is occurring within the corporate churches of the world. The millions of global “church goers” or “pew warmers” have absolutely no spiritual insight to even fathom a question like this. For they applaud the increasing church apostasy as a means of modernizing today’s church and a way of keeping it up-to-date with the times, something God is totally against, for He declares in Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” The world’s church goers or “tares” as it were do not have the Godly ability to recognize church apostasy for what it truly is, and thus they cannot be the ones who are asking this timely question of Ezekiel 38:13. It is God’s elect, the true spiritual merchants of the world, who are asking this question.
Sheba, Dedan, and the Merchants of Tarshish As we begin to address Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish please expect a highly symbolized study as God has included much symbolism into the events of the Old Testament writings which all typify or prefigure Christ and His Church, consisting of both the wheat and the tares (saved and unsaved). As we study Ezekiel Chapter Thirtyeight we see most certainly that it is aligning with what Scripture teaches will occur within the corporate churches in the latter years once God commences judgment upon the unfaithful church by allowing Satan to ravage, devastate, and desolate the corporate and global church of Jesus Christ. This is the time wherein Christ commands the true believers, once we see the abomination of desolation in the churches, to flee to the mountains of Judaea, which is spiritual language telling us to depart out from among the abominations of the churches and flee solely to Christ and His Word, which in Scripture is shown to be the spiritual mountains of God – the Kingdom of God. Yes, Christ is bringing judgment upon the worldwide harlot church by means of Satan and his global host of Gog and Magog, i.e. the nations of the world. All of this information 177