Ezekiel 38:22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
What God showed Ezekiel would have been very difficult to understand in terms of modern warfare. It would be easy to convert prophecy into current events in the hope that an end to all this is coming soon. That is man’s hope but is it the truth? God only knows,
The battle of Gog and Magog described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is perhaps one of the most debated events in biblical prophecy. Some approach these chapters as non-literal, having only an idealist or figurative meaning, without any historical reality. This provides no possibility of a future fulfillment of the details contained in the passage, which leaves the reader to find a meaning relevant to present circumstances without any significant controls to govern that meaning. Quote by Les Crawford posting on Friends of Israel website.
Ezekiel 39:6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Misinterpretation of prophecies easily twists the vision to satisfy our hopes. We are warned against this because it could be vanity to hope in anything but God.
He gave the vision to Ezekiel with purpose, to make Himself known. That purpose is still alive today. God still wants to make Himself known. Given that mankind can and often does turn to believe in God during times of trouble, let our hope for this present danger be that hearts will seek to know God.
What I discovered during my time in war is just how wrong my thinking could be. Know that God still turns hearts of stone in these present dangers into flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
This too was a message given to Ezekiel to share with mankind with purpose.
May the Word do His bidding. AMEN