God’s Word is His Own Dictionary – THE GOG/MAGOG WAR – http://spiritualbiblestudies.com CHAPTER TWELVE
fashion. If the same spiritual teaching is in view, then we must define “defensed cities” as it is used in the spiritual application. Before we look at the Hebrew word that is translated “defenced,” let us quote another very important passage that adds to our premise that “defenced cites” may well be where believers are to flee to once we see the Abomination of Desolation in the global congregations.
Jeremiah 34:7 - When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
When the Babylonian Kingdom attacked Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, it was the defensed cities that survived or remained. The cities that remained in Judah were the defensed cites! Is God showing us a spiritual picture of where we are to flee to once the global churches (spiritual Jerusalem, spiritual Judah, and spiritual Israel) come under attack from Satan’s forces of Gog and Magog? Again we emphasize that the ancient Babylonian Empire and its king were a strong type of Satan at the end of time and his false Christian masquerading kingdom of Babylon. Do we have literal defensed cites today in which to flee to? Of course we do not because our warfare is spiritual, but what does the Old Testament defenced city mean for us today in light of the New Testament? Let us search the Scriptures. The Hebrew word “Defenced” as in defenced cities is defined from Strong’s Hebrew as follows: H4013 - Defenced mibtsar mibtsarah mib-tsawr', mib-tsaw-raw' From H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively a defender: - (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold). “Defenced” is rooted from the following Hebrew word: H1219 ּבצר batsar baw-tsar' A primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes; also to be isolated (that is, inaccessible by height or fortification): - cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather (-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold. It would appear from these definitions that the word “defenced” must hold highly figurative language, and ultimately salvation language at that! There are only nine verses in the Old 280