I came across this article the other day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/06/putins-anti-semitism-is-dragging-russia-into-darkness/
It started off with these words:
Speaking to Russian state television, Putin made an absurd and anti-semitic attack on President Zelenskyy’s ethnicity. “Western curators”, he said, “have put a person at the head of modern Ukraine – an ethnic Jew, with Jewish roots, with Jewish origins” in order to assist with “covering up the glorification of Nazism”. His words are as absurd as they are ignorant. However, they show the real nature of the Russian regime.
Further...
At its core, modern Russia is still an aggressive chauvinist neo-empire. And with his imperial narrative, Putin is reopening Pandora’s box, with the same homegrown anti-Semitism, chauvinism and xenophobia we’ve seen before. One can recall the Soviet period, when Jews were considered “enemies of the people” and were advised not to be hired anywhere in high-level posts. Or more recently, in the 1990s, when the term “natsmen” (nation minority member) was popularized in Russia, a derogatory term used to stigmatize all non-ethnic Russians in the country.
Instead of building a tolerant modern democratic state, Putin is setting Russia several centuries back. In his imagination his country is powerful, but in reality it’s a failed state, the country of the Black Hundreds – far-Right chauvinists who organised pogroms. In a sense, if Putin is already allowing himself such petty statements, Russia has already slipped into the dark ages of its history.
I'm reminded of an article written by Dr. Grant Jeffrey here:
https://www.raptureforums.com/forum...39-russias-day-of-destruction-in-israel.3859/
These points stand out from the article:
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, Ezekiel prophesied about an invasion by Russia (called "Magog") and her allies that would occur during the last days, "after many days." He said that after Israel was reborn as a nation, Russia and her allies would attack her in a violent attempt to completely annihilate the Jewish state. Naturally, Ezekiel did not describe the present nations of Russia, Germany, Syria, and Iraq by their modern names. Rather, he referred to them by the names of the ancient tribes that occupied the geographical territories of the present nations at the time of his writing. The prophecies found in Ezekiel, chapter 38 and 39, describe this massive, future Russian-Arab invasion of Israel and the spectacular defeat of the enemies of the Jews by the supernatural act of God.
And...
Ezekiel was given an astonishingly accurate prophetic vision about the rebirth of the nation of Israel that would occur in the spring of 1948, as detailed in chapter 3. He foretold that Israel would arise miraculously from the graveyard of the nations, where she was buried with the ruins of Jerusalem in a.d. 70 by the Roman army led by Titus. Incredibly, God promised that the Jews, after almost two thousand years of exile, would return to the Promised Land. The ancient prophets also foretold that the Jewish exiles would become "a mighty army" in her ancient homeland. In 1948, Israel triumphed against an invasion by six well-armed Arab armies. Israel's military forces consisted of a small, voluntary citizen army composed of unskilled farmers and scholars who were equipped with inadequate weapons, a few jeeps, and two small airplanes. Israel's armored force consisted of several vehicles captured from her enemies, including trucks with improvised steel plates. Yet, like David's miraculous victory over Goliath, God supernaturally intervened to allow a weak Israel to survive and prosper, defeating her Arab enemies against incredible odds.
Ezekiel's amazing vision depicted the Jewish people as a "valley which was full of dry bones." This certainly described the fate of Israel after it's destruction by Rome in 70 a.d. and the centuries of persecution that followed. Israel was buried in the graveyard of the ancient nations. Anyone who has seen the sickening scenes of the huge pits full of emaciated, skeletal remains of victims from Nazi death camps can imagine that this might have formed part of the vision that the prophet saw twenty-five centuries ago. The Lord asked him, "'Can these bones live?' and I answered, 'O Lord God, thou knowest"' (Ezekiel 37:3). Yet God told Ezekiel to watch a miraculous resurrection of these "dry bones." "So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army" (Ezekiel 37:10). Today, Israel has the world's third most powerful air force and possesses more tanks than any other nation except the United States and Russia. The Israeli Defense Forces have rewritten the military manuals of the world with their audacious and brilliant tactics. Today (according to many military analysts), the small nation of Israel has the fourth most powerful armed forces on earth after America, Russia, and China.
Geographically, Israel occupies an area of land smaller than the state of New Jersey - only one-half the size of tiny Switzerland. Yet, despite its insignificant size and a population of only five million, Israel has attained a position of prime importance in the global struggle between nations. For the last several years, almost half of all of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations have concerned Israel. Newspapers throughout the world carry front-page stories about Israel several times a week. This astonishing fact can be explained only by prophecy and the deep hatred for Israel expressed by Russia, the former republics of the USSR, Iran, the Arab nations, and many Third World nations.
The prophet Zechariah prophesied twenty-five hundred years ago, "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it" (Zechariah 12:2*3). Ironically, the first nation to formally recognize the state of Israel was Russia. In 1948, Joseph Stalin hoped that Israel would become a socialist nation and help offset the growing influence that the Western powers exercised in the Middle East. However, as Stalin soon came to realize, Israel would not become a Russian pawn, so Russia quickly turned to the Arabs and encouraged their hatred toward the Jewish state.
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, Ezekiel prophesied about an invasion by Russia (called "Magog") and her allies that would occur during the last days, "after many days." He said that after Israel was reborn as a nation, Russia and her allies would attack her in a violent attempt to completely annihilate the Jewish state. Naturally, Ezekiel did not describe the present nations of Russia, Germany, Syria, and Iraq by their modern names. Rather, he referred to them by the names of the ancient tribes that occupied the geographical territories of the present nations at the time of his writing. The prophecies found in Ezekiel, chapter 38 and 39, describe this massive, future Russian-Arab invasion of Israel and the spectacular defeat of the enemies of the Jews by the supernatural act of God.
Further...
Anti-semitism is listed as a possible motivation for the coming Gog-Magog scenario in Ezekiel 38-39 here:
https://www.raptureforums.com/end-t...d-in-the-signs-in-world-politics-part-2-of-3/
Either way, the other nations of the world will sit idly by as Gog-Magog descends on Israel — perhaps motivated by growing antisemitism. And, as the power of the United States ebbs away, there is another predator nation poised to ascend to world dominance.
Going back to the original article above, I think it is interesting that this article the other day mentions Putin's and the growing anti-semitism climate in Russia.
I think that just shows that prophecy is slowly but surely headed to the conclusion that the Bible has foretold.
We need to stay sober and keep watching. Time is short. JMHO.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/06/putins-anti-semitism-is-dragging-russia-into-darkness/
It started off with these words:
Speaking to Russian state television, Putin made an absurd and anti-semitic attack on President Zelenskyy’s ethnicity. “Western curators”, he said, “have put a person at the head of modern Ukraine – an ethnic Jew, with Jewish roots, with Jewish origins” in order to assist with “covering up the glorification of Nazism”. His words are as absurd as they are ignorant. However, they show the real nature of the Russian regime.
Further...
At its core, modern Russia is still an aggressive chauvinist neo-empire. And with his imperial narrative, Putin is reopening Pandora’s box, with the same homegrown anti-Semitism, chauvinism and xenophobia we’ve seen before. One can recall the Soviet period, when Jews were considered “enemies of the people” and were advised not to be hired anywhere in high-level posts. Or more recently, in the 1990s, when the term “natsmen” (nation minority member) was popularized in Russia, a derogatory term used to stigmatize all non-ethnic Russians in the country.
Instead of building a tolerant modern democratic state, Putin is setting Russia several centuries back. In his imagination his country is powerful, but in reality it’s a failed state, the country of the Black Hundreds – far-Right chauvinists who organised pogroms. In a sense, if Putin is already allowing himself such petty statements, Russia has already slipped into the dark ages of its history.
I'm reminded of an article written by Dr. Grant Jeffrey here:
https://www.raptureforums.com/forum...39-russias-day-of-destruction-in-israel.3859/
These points stand out from the article:
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, Ezekiel prophesied about an invasion by Russia (called "Magog") and her allies that would occur during the last days, "after many days." He said that after Israel was reborn as a nation, Russia and her allies would attack her in a violent attempt to completely annihilate the Jewish state. Naturally, Ezekiel did not describe the present nations of Russia, Germany, Syria, and Iraq by their modern names. Rather, he referred to them by the names of the ancient tribes that occupied the geographical territories of the present nations at the time of his writing. The prophecies found in Ezekiel, chapter 38 and 39, describe this massive, future Russian-Arab invasion of Israel and the spectacular defeat of the enemies of the Jews by the supernatural act of God.
And...
Ezekiel was given an astonishingly accurate prophetic vision about the rebirth of the nation of Israel that would occur in the spring of 1948, as detailed in chapter 3. He foretold that Israel would arise miraculously from the graveyard of the nations, where she was buried with the ruins of Jerusalem in a.d. 70 by the Roman army led by Titus. Incredibly, God promised that the Jews, after almost two thousand years of exile, would return to the Promised Land. The ancient prophets also foretold that the Jewish exiles would become "a mighty army" in her ancient homeland. In 1948, Israel triumphed against an invasion by six well-armed Arab armies. Israel's military forces consisted of a small, voluntary citizen army composed of unskilled farmers and scholars who were equipped with inadequate weapons, a few jeeps, and two small airplanes. Israel's armored force consisted of several vehicles captured from her enemies, including trucks with improvised steel plates. Yet, like David's miraculous victory over Goliath, God supernaturally intervened to allow a weak Israel to survive and prosper, defeating her Arab enemies against incredible odds.
Ezekiel's amazing vision depicted the Jewish people as a "valley which was full of dry bones." This certainly described the fate of Israel after it's destruction by Rome in 70 a.d. and the centuries of persecution that followed. Israel was buried in the graveyard of the ancient nations. Anyone who has seen the sickening scenes of the huge pits full of emaciated, skeletal remains of victims from Nazi death camps can imagine that this might have formed part of the vision that the prophet saw twenty-five centuries ago. The Lord asked him, "'Can these bones live?' and I answered, 'O Lord God, thou knowest"' (Ezekiel 37:3). Yet God told Ezekiel to watch a miraculous resurrection of these "dry bones." "So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army" (Ezekiel 37:10). Today, Israel has the world's third most powerful air force and possesses more tanks than any other nation except the United States and Russia. The Israeli Defense Forces have rewritten the military manuals of the world with their audacious and brilliant tactics. Today (according to many military analysts), the small nation of Israel has the fourth most powerful armed forces on earth after America, Russia, and China.
Geographically, Israel occupies an area of land smaller than the state of New Jersey - only one-half the size of tiny Switzerland. Yet, despite its insignificant size and a population of only five million, Israel has attained a position of prime importance in the global struggle between nations. For the last several years, almost half of all of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations have concerned Israel. Newspapers throughout the world carry front-page stories about Israel several times a week. This astonishing fact can be explained only by prophecy and the deep hatred for Israel expressed by Russia, the former republics of the USSR, Iran, the Arab nations, and many Third World nations.
The prophet Zechariah prophesied twenty-five hundred years ago, "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it" (Zechariah 12:2*3). Ironically, the first nation to formally recognize the state of Israel was Russia. In 1948, Joseph Stalin hoped that Israel would become a socialist nation and help offset the growing influence that the Western powers exercised in the Middle East. However, as Stalin soon came to realize, Israel would not become a Russian pawn, so Russia quickly turned to the Arabs and encouraged their hatred toward the Jewish state.
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, Ezekiel prophesied about an invasion by Russia (called "Magog") and her allies that would occur during the last days, "after many days." He said that after Israel was reborn as a nation, Russia and her allies would attack her in a violent attempt to completely annihilate the Jewish state. Naturally, Ezekiel did not describe the present nations of Russia, Germany, Syria, and Iraq by their modern names. Rather, he referred to them by the names of the ancient tribes that occupied the geographical territories of the present nations at the time of his writing. The prophecies found in Ezekiel, chapter 38 and 39, describe this massive, future Russian-Arab invasion of Israel and the spectacular defeat of the enemies of the Jews by the supernatural act of God.
Further...
Anti-semitism is listed as a possible motivation for the coming Gog-Magog scenario in Ezekiel 38-39 here:
https://www.raptureforums.com/end-t...d-in-the-signs-in-world-politics-part-2-of-3/
Either way, the other nations of the world will sit idly by as Gog-Magog descends on Israel — perhaps motivated by growing antisemitism. And, as the power of the United States ebbs away, there is another predator nation poised to ascend to world dominance.
Going back to the original article above, I think it is interesting that this article the other day mentions Putin's and the growing anti-semitism climate in Russia.
I think that just shows that prophecy is slowly but surely headed to the conclusion that the Bible has foretold.
We need to stay sober and keep watching. Time is short. JMHO.