This week’s commentary on the Social Gospel Blog will be about the situation in Ukraine, with a detailed account of Russian and NATO involvement

Are Biblical End Time Prophecies Coming True In Ukraine?

by Pastor Paul J. Bern (Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39, part 1)

The ramping up of tensions between Russian and NATO forces over the country known as Ukraine are confirmation for on-their-knees Bible-believing Christians, whether they attend church regularly or not. The “Gog-Magog War” from Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 is getting closer, having already been written into Biblical prophecy, as you will soon see. To explore the Biblical significance of this, today I am posting the first of a 2 part series on this topic to try and better explain this prophecy, since there is so much material to go over. So let me get started by pointing out some related prophecies elsewhere in the Bible that relate to what we’ll be examining today.

Mideast Wars of the Past

First, we have the Psalm 83 war, which describes an unsuccessful invasion of Israel by its neighbors. This appears to have already occurred in the form of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which resulted in the recaptured of Jerusalem by the Israeli Defense Force. Those old enough to remember the Yom Kippur War of 1973 have undoubtedly heard the argument that the Psalm 83 war was actually that war, but that’s just Christians and Jews arguing with other Christians and Jews. Since that prophecy has, either way, already been fulfilled, there is no further point in debating this issue.

If those self-appointed critics spent the time they devote to internal or doctrinal disagreements and spent that on the needs of the people — especially their Spiritual needs — the world would be a much better place. There are at least one and possibly two world wars that will occur very closely together (see Ezekiel chapter 7 and Revelation 18, both of which describe America’s coming destruction, and Revelation chapter 9, which describes World War Three in alarming detail), but none of those can be called the ‘Gog-Magog’ war for reasons that I am about to make clear. For my text for today, I will start in Ezekiel chapter 38, commencing at verse one.