What does World War 3 have to do with Iran, according to God’s Word, the Bible?
When WORLD NEWS intersects with God’s Word!
Who does God say will come against His chosen people?
Listen to the list in Ezekiel 38:5-6.
It is actually quite impressive, almost like this morning’s newspaper. Here are the players in one of the most significant conflicts of all time:
• PERSIA or IRAN as we call it today. In the Bible, this is the family of Elam, the firstborn of Shem. Remember that Abraham comes through the third-born son (Genesis 10:22), Arphaxad, not Elam.
• CUSH This is modern black Africa, which originated in the ancient world between the 2nd and 3rd cataracts of the Nile.
• PUT, or what we call today North Africa, comes through this third son of Ham. Modern Libya used to be called the Puttites. This would include the Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, and Mauritanians.
• GOMER or the Cimmerians are easily identified by looking at the Babylonian Talmud (written during the Jews’ exile to Babylon and then Persia in Daniel’s time and after), where they are called Germania or Germany. These tribes settled and flourished between the Rhine and Danube River Valleys.
• TOGARMAH is the next group, and these are the tribes of Turkey, namely modern Armenia and Turkey.
• MESHECH is the 6th son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2). Assyrian inscriptions locate this group as dwelling in Phrygia and Anatolia (modern Turkey). The Greek historian Herodotus calls these same tribes the Mushki and says they came down from the Black Sea mountains, which is NE of Turkey. In the 1st Century, Josephus says that Meshech dwells in Eastern Turkey.
• TUBAL is the fifth son of Japheth, whose descendants migrated to the same general area. In the war records of the Assyrians, these tribes are called Tibareni and Moschi and are located on the SE shores of the Black Sea—again, all in southern modern-day Russia.
• SHEBA and DEDAN are the grandsons of Abraham in Genesis 25:2 by his 3rd wife, Keturah. These are not from Ishmael but are separate lines. These may be the classic Arabic desert dwellers. They are seen in Ezekiel 38:13 as watching from the sidelines.
• TARSHISH was the grandson of Japhath, the 2nd son of Javan Genesis 10:2, the father of Greece.
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