Tuesday, May 18

I [will] sanctify myself through you before their eyes, O Gog.

—Ezek. 38:16.

Gog will trust in his “arm of flesh”—his military might. (2 Chron. 32:8) We will trust in Jehovah our God—a stand that will seem foolish to the nations. After all, the gods of the once powerful Babylon the Great did not save her from “the wild beast” and its “ten horns”!

(Rev. 17:16)

So Gog will expect an easy victory. “Like clouds covering the land,” he will attack Jehovah’s people. But Gog will soon see that he has marched into a trap. Like Pharaoh at the Red Sea, Gog will learn that he is fighting against Jehovah. (Ex. 14:1-4;Ezek. 38:3, 4,18,21-23) Christ and his heavenly armies will defend God’s people and crush Gog’s hordes. (Rev. 19:11,14, 15)

But what about Jehovah’s chief enemy, Satan, whose lying propaganda led the nations to Armageddon? Jesus will hurl him and his demons into an abyss, where they will be locked away for a thousand years.—Rev. 20:1-3.

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Babylon the Great who according to Watchtower folklore was devestatingly destroyed in 1919 when a trickle of church goers left and became Jehovahs' Witnesses. According to Watchtower folklore Babylon the Great is also again devestatingly detroyed later on as well, closer to the Great Tribulation.

In the Watchtower interpretation Babylon the Great is almost like a drunk man who left the bar in1919 feeling ill, to stagger and arrive home sometime after 2021 to keel over and expire.

To be fair the mysteries encapsulated in the Revelation vision have perplexed scholars for years, centuries, millenia. There is no shame in being mistaken over misunderstanding the greatest of mysteries. The shame comes with forcing unsound interpretations on others in the attempt at creating unity of thinking when humility states all intrepretations belong to God.