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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Ezekiel 36-39

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"THE CURRENT MID-EAST CRISIS"
I. GOD FIRST OF ALL PROMISED TO BRING HIS PEOPLE FROM AMONG THE HEATHEN AND BACK INTO THEIR OWN LAND.
A. Great agricultural projects.
B. Great rebuilding.
II. HE PROMISED TO MAKE THEM A NATION AGAIN.
A. No longer a divided kingdom - but one nation.
1. The Jews in Yemen were a persecuted miserable lot - through the years of hardship they had become primitive and small. The average adult male weighed between 75 and 80 pounds when they finally migrated back to Israel.
2. When the Israeli govt. heard of the refugee camps in Aiden - where they had begun to gather to return home - they started an airlift.
III. THE TIME OF THIS RE-GATHERING.
A. 38:8 - "After many days"... "In the latter years" - translated in Greek: "In the last days" - The last days before the great day of the Lord.
IV. THE COMING INVASION BY RUSSIA.
Magog - Ancient Scythians. Herodotus said: "the Scythians are savages." Scythia is a region of vast boundaries lying north of the Black Sea and the Caspian
Sea - Also north of the Caucasus Mts.
Meshech - His descendants were called "Mosche", then later "Muscovites" - present day "Moschev".
Tubal - Josephus calls the children of Tubal the "Muschoi". The ancient Assyrian records state that the "Tobali" and the "Muski" lived in the vast land of mountains north of the Black Sea.
Gomer - Balkan states - including Poland.
Togarmah - The area belonging to Armenia.
Rosh -
Persia - Iran.
Ethiopia - Cush - So. Africa.
Libya - Put directly west of Egypt - paralleling the coast.
V. GOD'S JUDGMENT - MOUNTAINS AND CLIFFS WILL BEGIN TO FALL AND TRAP THEM, THEN TREMENDOUS CLOUD BURSTS FLOODING THE VALLEYS, GREAT HAILSTONES PLUMMETING THOSE TRYING TO FLEE, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE -- IN THE CONFUSION OF IT ALL THEY WILL START SHOOTING EACH OTHER.
5/6 of invading force destroyed. Supplies to last for seven years. Seven months to bury the dead.
VI. THE END RESULT - GOD WILL AGAIN POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT ON THEM.
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