16<\/strong>. Cf. Eze 38:9<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n shall be sanctified<\/em> ] Or, get me sanctifying, i.e. recognition as “holy” “holy” having the meaning of all that which God alone is. The rendering “shew myself holy” is less natural, though the meaning is virtually the same. Jehovah shews his great deeds in the sight of the nations, and thus they recognise his Godhead, cf. Eze 38:23<\/em><\/span>. He gets him sanctifying “in” or through Gog, as the object on whom his great operations of power are manifested.<\/p>\n In these verses Jehovah is represented on the one hand as bringing up Gog in order that he may be sanctified in him in the sight of the nations; and on the other hand Gog is represented as coming up of his own will, prompted by evil purposes, by the hope of an easy conquest and by lust of spoil. The first representation must not be pressed as if this case of Gog were something special, as if Jehovah for no object but to shew his power brought up against his people a leader and nation from the ends of the earth, who otherwise would have remained in peace in their distant abodes. Because such a view of the episode of Gog forgets in the first place the other side of the representation, viz. that Gog comes up of his own will, and with evil intent. It is the hope of an easy conquest and lust of spoil that animates him as well as the merchant peoples who follow in his train. This spirit of irreligious traffic on the part of these peoples is reprobated by the prophet and represented as antagonistic to the religion of Jehovah, just as it is in the case of Tyre (26 28). And secondly the view forgets the general teaching of the prophet, to the effect that Jehovah is in truth the author of all the great movements in the world, and that his operations have one great end in view, to reveal himself as that which he is to the nations of the world. His raising up Gog with this view is not a special thing, but one among many other similar things. To signalize it as something distinct and lift it out of the general current of the prophet’s conceptions creates an untrue impression of his teaching.<\/p>\n I shall be sanctified in thee – <\/B>I shall be shown to be holy and just in avenging Myself of Mine enemy.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 16<\/span>. When I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog<\/B><\/I>] By the defeat of his troops under Lysias<\/I>, his general. 1Mac 3:32, 33<\/I>, &c., and Eze 6:6<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n On the first part of the verse, see Eze 38:9<\/span>. <\/P> In the latter days:<\/B> see Eze 38:8<\/span>. <\/P> I will bring thee:<\/B> see Eze 38:4<\/span>. <\/P> That the heathen may know me:<\/B> Gog gathers all from all quarters to be with him to take the spoil, God brings them together to do that among them which may make he heathen see and own his hand. They do it in proud contempt of God and his people, but God doth it to glorify his own name, and to vindicate his people. <\/P> Sanctified; <\/B>confessed to be a great God over all, a gracious and faithful God to his people, and a just though dreadful enemy and avenger against the wicked and proud tyrants. <\/P> Before their eyes; <\/B>in the sight of all the heathen that are with Gog in his expedition and much more in the sight of Gods own wonderfully delivered people. <\/P> <\/p>\n 16. I will bring thee against myland, that the heathen may know me<\/B>So in Ex9:16<\/span>, God tells Pharaoh, “For this cause have I raised theeup, for to show in thee My power; and that My name may be declaredthroughout all the earth.”<\/P><\/p>\n And thou shall come up against my people of Israel<\/strong>,…. Which is repeated for the certainty of it; and not for his comfort, but his ruin; not to the terror of Israel, but for the glory of God:<\/p>\n as a cloud to cover the land<\/strong>; the land of Israel, so great should be his army; [See comments on Eze 38:9]<\/span>,<\/p>\n it shall be in the latter days<\/strong>; of the Gospel state, or kingdom of the Messiah, when the Jews shall be converted, and are returned to their own land, Ho 3:5<\/span>:<\/p>\n and I will bring thee against my land<\/strong>; not to possess it, nor to hurt it, or to any injury to the people of it: but<\/p>\n that the Heathen may know me<\/strong>; the Pagan kingdoms of China, and others; who by God’s judgments on the Turks will come to the knowledge of the true God, and acknowledge him, and will become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, Re 11:15<\/span>:<\/p>\n when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes<\/strong>; that is, when God shall appear to be a holy and just God, in inflicting deserved punishment on the enemies of his people; when his omniscience and omnipotence, his power and faithfulness, and other perfections of his will be displayed, in fulfilling those prophecies concerning Gog or the Turks; infidels will be convinced of the truth of divine revelation; of the God of Israel being the true God; of Jesus being the Messiah; and of the Christian religion being of God, and shall profess the same. The, Targum is,<\/p>\n “that the people may know the vengeance of my power, when I shall be sanctified in thee, who shall see thy vengeance, O Gog.”<\/p>\n (16) Latter days.<\/strong>The expression is indefinite but concurs with those in Eze. 38:8<\/span> in indicating a distant future.<\/p>\n Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.<\/p>\n Ver. 16. And thou shalt come up against my people.<\/strong> ] Oh happy they in such a privilege, maugre all thy malice! Deu 33:29 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the latter days.<\/strong> ] Before the coming of the Messiah, first and second. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And I will bring thee.<\/strong> ] But for thy bane. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Against my land.<\/strong> ] “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof”; Psa 24:1 but that land where God is sincerely served is his peculiar portion. It was said of old, Anglia regnum Dei; <\/em> England was the kingdom of God, a<\/em> it is now so much more. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I shall be sanctified in thee,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> Glorified in thy just and utter destruction. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Polyd. Virg.<\/p>\n in the latter days = in the end of days. Still future. See notes on Eze 38:2 and Eze 38:8. <\/p>\n the heathen may know, &c. See note on Eze 6:10 <\/p>\n heathen = nations. <\/p>\n when I shall be sanctified, &c.: or, by My hallowing Myself, &c. <\/p>\n as a cloud: Eze 38:9 <\/p>\n it shall be: Though it is not generally agreed what people or transactions are here predicted, yet it seems evident that the prophecy is not yet accomplished. Nothing occurred in the wars of Cambyses, or Antiochus Epiphanes with the Jews, that answers to it; and the expression here used, in the latter days, plainly implies that there should be a succession of many ages between the publication of the prediction and its accomplishment. It is therefore supposed, with much probability, that its fulfilment will be posterior to the conversion of the Jews and their restoration to their own land; and that the Turks, Tarters, or Scythians, from the northern parts of Asia, perhaps uniting with the inhabitants of some more southern regions, will make war upon the Jews and be cut off in a manner predicted here. Eze 38:8, Deu 31:29, Isa 2:2, Dan 2:28, Dan 10:14, Hos 3:5, Mic 4:1, 1Ti 4:1, 2Ti 3:1 <\/p>\n that the: Eze 38:23, Eze 36:23, Eze 39:21, Exo 14:4, 1Sa 17:45-47, 2Ki 19:19, Psa 83:17, Psa 83:18, Dan 3:24-29, Dan 4:32-37, Dan 6:15-27, Mic 7:15-17, Mat 6:9, Mat 6:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 20:13 – he was Jdg 3:12 – and the Lord 1Ki 11:23 – God 1Ch 5:4 – Gog Isa 30:8 – the time to come Jer 30:24 – in Jer 49:39 – in the Eze 30:25 – they shall know Eze 38:17 – whom Eze 39:7 – will I Eze 39:27 – and am Dan 8:23 – in the Mal 1:5 – The Lord Heb 1:2 – these Heb 12:1 – a cloud Rev 17:17 – until Rev 20:9 – went<\/p>\n Eze 38:16. In the latter days agrees with prophecy in verse 14, and means that the things predicted will be later than the period of Israels exile. I will bring thee agaitist my land. God never forces a good man to become a bad one, but He does sometimes use an evil person to carry out a divine purpose. In this sense these wild people of tbe northern country were to be used in the way described that the heathen (other peoples) might know the Lord. Be sanctified, in thee means that the Lord’s goodness will be made manifest to these other countries when they see how He deals with this wicked army. (See the definition of sanctified at chapter 36: 23.)<\/p>\n 38:16 And thou shalt come against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the {k} latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I {l} shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.<\/p>\n (k) Meaning in the last age, and from the coming of Christ to the end of the world.<\/p>\n (l) Signifying that God will be sanctified by maintaining his church, and destroying his enemies, as in Eze 36:23; Eze 37:28 .<\/p>\n And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 16. Cf. 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