'Behold, I am against thee, O Gog'

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel made several amazing predictions. First, he predicted that, in the last days, Israel would be reborn as "one nation upon the mountains of Israel." (Ezekiel 37:22)

This prophecy is even more amazing when viewed from Ezekiel's historical perspective. In Ezekiel's day, Israel had already been conquered by Sargon the Assyrian in the 8th century B.C. The Israelites were taken captive and transferred to other parts of the Assyrian Empire to separate the people from the land in an effort to prevent any rebellion.

Judah had been conquered by Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon and Ezekiel was among the captives uprooted from Judah and taken to Babylon. When Ezekiel confidently predicted the re-establishment of Israel, not only was Israel already a historical footnote, but Ezekiel had no reason to believe Judah's fate would be any better.

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