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Ezekiel 39 offers details of the conclusion of the future battle between Israel and Gog, that God will conduct on behalf of Israel, and in which the forces of Gog will be summarily defeated (vs. 1-5, 9-20.) The canard often used against Israel, to wit God\u2019s complete rejection of them as evidenced by their exile from their land, and their numerous defeats by their enemies, will be shown to be false.\u00a0 What had dogged this people down through the centuries, was merely God\u2019s displeasure over their not observing His commandments (vs. 23-24,) something that could eventually be rectified!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In these two verses (23-24), God presents the idea of His having \u201chidden His face\u201d- failing to directly protect His chosen people, as a justification for the people\u2019s punishments, rather than as evidence of their complete rejection by Him:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And the nations shall know that the House of Israel were exiled for their iniquity, because they trespassed against Me, so that I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. When I hid My face from them, I dealt with them according to their impurity and their transgressions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 39 appears to constitute a different \u201ctake\u201d on the hiding of the Divine face, that appears earlier in the Torah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then My anger will flare up against them, and I will abandon them and hide My countenance from them. They shall be ready prey; and many evils and troubles shall befall them. And they shall say on that day, \u201cSurely it is because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us.\u201d Yet I will keep My countenance hidden on that day, because of all the evil they have done in turning to other gods\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[God] said: I will hide My countenance from them, and see how they fare in the end.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For they are a treacherous breed, children with no loyalty in them (Deut. 31:17-8, 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The references in Deuteronomy speak to God\u2019s indifference and sense of experimentation, rather than a deliberate plan, as Ezekiel maintains. Has the explanation of the hiding of God\u2019s face changed over time, from its first iteration in Deuteronomy, to Ezekiel\u2019s version? Is such an explanation too \u201canthropomorphic\u201d\u2014people over time change, but not God\u2014or can it be maintained? Is Ezekiel acting as God\u2019s defender, or was his explanation always applicable, even during the times of Deuteronomy?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAll\u2019s well that ends well:\u201d God explicitly commits to not repeating this act of hiding His face, as part of His reconciliation with Israel in the end of days, following the defeat of Gog:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I will never again hide My face from them, for I will pour out My spirit upon the House of Israel\u2014declares the Sovereign GOD (39:29).<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":95188,"alt":"","title":"job34-dark hide hole","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-225x300.jpg","medium-width":225,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-768x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-768x1024.jpg","large-width":768,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-900x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":900,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-315x420.jpg","home_baner-width":315,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"God\u2019s Hidden Face","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Looking forward to a future of no more hiding","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":95188,"alt":"","title":"job34-dark hide hole","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-225x300.jpg","medium-width":225,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-768x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-768x1024.jpg","large-width":768,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-900x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":900,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/job34-dark-hide-hole-315x420.jpg","home_baner-width":315,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"39","chapter_main_number":"491","date":"20270718","wall_id":"491"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":3,"id":"119271","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"Gog And Magog ","post_title":"Gog And Magog","slug":"gog-and-magog","old_id":"119271","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> details the destruction and burial of Gog and his armies. This follows the invasion by Gog in the preceding chapter (<\/span>Ezekiel Chapter 38<\/span><\/a>). There, Gog is described as the ruler of Magog, \u201cthe chief prince of Meshech and Tubal\u201d. In<\/span> Genesis<\/span><\/a>, Magog is mentioned as one of the descendants of Noah, while historically, Gog may be identified with Gyges, the 7<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE King of Lydia in Asia Minor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In post-Biblical Jewish tradition, Gog and Magog become two parallel names for the same enemy nation. For example, in the early midrash on Exodus,<\/span> Mekhilta<\/span><\/a>, Rabbi Elazar says: If you observe the Sabbath, you will be saved from three punishments: the day of Gog and Magog, the upheaval preceding the coming of the Messiah (<\/span>hevlo shel Mashiah<\/span><\/i>), and the great day of judgment. Here we see that Gog and Magog have already assumed the eschatological role that they will continue to have in later tradition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma<\/span><\/a> compares the plans of Gog and Magog to destroy Israel to Haman\u2019s plan \u201cto destroy, massacre, and exterminate all the Jews, young and old, children and women, on a single day\u201d (<\/span>Esther 3:13<\/span><\/a>). Gog and Magog reasoned that the \u201cformer ones\u201d (<\/span>ha-rishonim<\/span><\/i> in the days of Esther) behaved stupidly in taking counsel against Israel. Did they not realize that Israel has a Benefactor (<\/span>patron<\/span><\/i>) in Heaven (i.e. God)? But we (Gog and Magog) will first engage in battle with their God and then we will engage in battle against them\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 38:10<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThus said the Lord God (to Gog): On that day, a thought will occur to you, and you will conceive a wicked design\u201d seems to have served as the beginning of a<\/span> Haftara<\/span><\/i><\/a> to accompany a triennial cycle <\/span>Seder <\/span><\/i>(Torah Reading) beginning: \u201cThe Lord saw how great was human wickedness on earth, how every plan devised by the human mind was nothing but evil all the time\u201d (<\/span>Genesis 6:5<\/span><\/a>). In<\/span> Aggadat Bereshit<\/span><\/a> an extensive homily on this Torah reading is followed by an extensive homily on Ezekiel 38:10. This homily interprets \u201ca thought will occur to you\u201d as God saying to Gog, Do not think that I do not know what you are devising in your heart! And do not think that I know your heart (i.e. what you may devise) only since I created you. Even before I created you, I knew what you were going to think! 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Chapter 39 continues the tale of Gog and Magog. At the end of the chapter, God shifts gears to discuss how Israel will be redeemed. The nation was exiled because of their actions and their actions alone. It was not due to the merits or power of the attacking nations. The only reason this happened is because God hid from them. \u201cWhen I hid My face from them, I dealt with them according to their impurity and their transgressions\u201d (verse 24). Israel is so blessed that God must turn away from them for them to be punished. When God turns back to them, then their good fortune will return.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They shall know that I the ETERNAL am their GOD when, having exiled them among the nations, I gather them back into their land and leave none of them behind. I will never again hide My face from them, for I will pour out My spirit upon the House of Israel\u2014declares the Sovereign GOD.\u201d (verses 28-29).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God promises to never again hide his face from the people. This is the reverse of what God had to do to punish them. This promise then makes sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what does God mean by \u201cpour out my spirit upon the House of Israel\u201d? Metzudat David explains that this is God\u2019s promise to return the power of prophecy to the people. The final prophets appeared at the start of the Second Temple period with Haggai, Zechariah, and Melachai. Based on Radak\u2019s reading, these chapters of Ezekiel are talking about the final redemption and not the one that restored the people to the land in the Second Temple period. This reading also matches previous uses of this phrase. The prophet Joel promises that in the future God will \u201cpour out My spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy; Your elders shall dream dreams, And your youths shall see visions\u201d (Joel 3:1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not all uses of this phrase refer to prophecy though. Isaiah uses the phrase to refer to increased prosperity. \u201cEven as I pour water on thirsty soil, And rain upon dry ground, So will I pour My spirit on your offspring, My blessing upon your posterity\u201d (Isaiah 44:4). This interpretation would also fit in context. Ezekiel just described an apocalyptic war and destruction on the land. God promised that after the battle, Israel will be restored to the land. It makes sense that as part of this promise of a return to the land, there is also a promise of a return to prosperity. The link to Joel\u2019s prophecy may be more accurate, however, as the Hebrew word used for \u201cpour\u201d is the same in Joel, <\/span>eshpoch<\/span><\/em>. Isaiah uses a different word <\/span>etzok<\/span><\/em>. Isaiah\u2019s word is used most often to refer to anointing either with oil or gold.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter continues the apocalyptic vision of the war of Gog and Magog which precedes the redemption of Israel. The prophet is not sparing in his description of this awful conflict, writing that God \u201cwill assign to Gog a burial site there in Israel\u2014the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It shall block the path of travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It shall be called the Valley of Gog\u2019s Multitude. The House of Israel shall spend seven months burying them, in order to cleanse the land\u201d (33:11-12). Such is the scale of the destruction to be wrought in the war -\u00a0 due to the abundance of corpses, which produce the most serious kind of ritual impurity, dedicated burial teams will work non-stop until all can be interred. The scene calls to mind nothing so much as the aftermath of a nuclear accident, during which the land itself becomes imbued with the presence of death \u2014 redemption as catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such a chilling scene in Ezekiel\u2019s vision of redemption is hardly congenial to our finer feelings. When imagining the perfected world of the messianic age, we are more easily drawn to the peaceful and bucolic images also offered by the prophets, as in Isaiah\u2019s statement that the wolf will lie down with the lamb that the lion will eat straw. This tendency is even more pronounced in those currents of culture which have officially forsworn the idea of a divine redemption but are still animated by the idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The western philosophical and political discourse on progress has very often been but a secularized theology of redemption, and these crypto-theologies have themselves tended to emphasize sweetness and light. Thus the liberalism common to much 19th-century politics and religion tended to imagine a long process of gradual improvement leading to the new Jerusalem. Even in the Marxist theory of progress, which admits that the perfected society might be ushered in by violence, the process itself was for the most part understood to be a necessary one in which one stage unfolds inexorably into the next; fundamentally the journey to redemption is one marked by continuity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The philosopher Walter Benjamin offered a critique of this view of history as a necessary series of events progressing towards a perfected world. History, he insisted, was a catastrophe, and redemption cannot be understood in terms of comfort and light; we experience redemption in the form of a traumatic rupture, much closer to Ezekiel\u2019s vision of Gog and Magog than to the secular visions of redemption through progress. He rejected the secular theories which, through viewing the journey towards redemption as a necessary and mechanical one turned \u201cthe future\u2026 into homogeneous, empty time.\u201d Benjamin asserted that the alternative view, according to which redemption comes through rupture and even catastrophe, awakens us to the particularity of each moment, and makes \u201cevery second of time [into] the strait gate through which Messiah might enter\u201d (Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, end).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 38 of Ezekiel described the future battles of Gog, and chapter 39 tells of Gog\u2019s ultimate defeat. The defeat will be total, and instead of conquering the land of Israel, the soldiers of Gog will be buried in the land. Ezekiel says that \u201cthe House of Israel shall spend seven months burying them\u201d (verse 12) in order to give glory to God, who arranged their defeat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This process will require a special crew of workers, as described in verse 14:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cAnd they shall appoint men to serve permanently, to traverse the land and bury any invaders who remain above ground, in order to cleanse it. The search shall go on for a period of seven months.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word rendered here as \u201cpermanently\u201d is <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em>. In modern Hebrew <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is generally translated as \u201calways.\u201d However, that is not the only opinion as to the correct meaning. Others say that it is better translated as \u201cregular\u201d (recurring at uniform intervals) and not \u201cperpetual\u201d or \u201ceternal.\u201d So according to this opinion, a better translation of the verse in Ezekiel would be, \u201cThey shall appoint men in regular employment\u2026\u201d\u00a0 The burial of the dead was to be done every day, not to be done perpetually (as evidenced by the seven-month limitation.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The dispute over the meaning of <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em> impacts our understanding of other phrases using the word. For example, the <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em> offering (Numbers 28:2), is often translated as \u201ccontinuous offering.\u201d But a better translation may be \u201cregular burnt offering,\u201d since the prominent characteristic was that it was brought regularly, twice each day, not that it was continually offered on the altar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another phrase, one that is still in use today, is <\/span>ner tamid<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> This phrase is used in Exodus 27:20 and Leviticus 24:2 to refer to the menorah lit each evening. The menorah is only meant to be lit from evening to morning, so <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em>\u00a0can\u2019t mean \u201ccontinuous\u201d, but rather \u201cregular.\u201d This is the opinion of Rashi and Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:20.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Ramban disagrees with Rashi. Based on an earlier midrash, he says that the <\/span>ner tamid<\/span><\/em>\u00a0was a perpetually lit lamp, and the fire from it was used to light the menorah each night.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even though the meaning of \u201cregular\u201d seems to fit the plain meaning of the verses here, the concept of <\/span>ner tamid<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>being an eternal lamp, that would never be extinguished proved to be much more popular. To this day, such a lamp is hung above or near the ark in synagogues, and remains always lit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the time of this writing, we are living in an unprecedented situation where most synagogues are closed world-round. It is certainly comforting to know that the eternal lamp remains lit, even if we cannot see it ourselves. But we all hope to return to a time when <\/span>tamid<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0can mean \u201cregular,\u201d and we can return to visiting the synagogue at the standard intervals that we were always accustomed to.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The corpses of the armies of Gog defile the land and must be buried in order to purify the land. However, the valley in which they are buried alludes to the valley of Ben Hinom, the valley in which children were sacrificed to Molekh. Thus, on a deeper level the prophet is hinting that the passing of children through fire - which had been common in the land - is what truly caused the land\u2019s defilement. In addition to purifying the land from the casualties of war, this ceremony also purifies the land from the sins of the past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although burying the dead bodies can stop those bodies from causing impurity, the burials cannot stop the graves from becoming a pilgrimage site. In these verses, the dead themselves become flesh for consumption. Those who consume them \u2013 the birds and the beast of the field \u2013 could have been sacrificed as offerings to the dead, while here the situation is reversed: they themselves eat the flesh and drink the blood of God\u2019s enemies, thus ensuring that the graves do not become places of worship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whereas in Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy of destruction, the flesh of the sinners from the nation of Israel is eaten by the birds and the beasts of the field, in Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy of revival it is God\u2019s enemies who succumb to this fate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is posted in conjunction with hatanach.com. For the full article, <\/span>see here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Most curiously, our chapter begins with the same message that began the previous chapter: God instructing Ezekiel to say to Gog, the ruler of Magog, that He will force him to come from the \u201cfar north and lead you toward the mountains of Israel\u201d (39:2). Why the repetition?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To Malbim, it indicated not redundancy but recurrence: Gog would launch two attacks:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You will launch a second attack against the mountains of Israel. The first time it said: \u201cOn the day that Gog arrives in the land of Israel\u201d (38:18), i.e., his downfall will be immediately upon his crossing their border and arriving in their territory. The second time, however, he will reach the mountains of Israel, besiege Jerusalem, and then\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim\u2019s closing \u201cand then\u2026\u201d alludes to the consequences, described in the next verse, that will befall Gog: \u201cI will strike your bow from your left hand and I will loosen the arrows from your right hand\u201d (3). While right and left sometimes appear as poetic synonyms rather than distinctly opposite sides (cf. Proverbs 3:16, 4:27, Ecclesiastes 10:2), here even Radak, who regularly remarks: \u201cthe same idea is expressed through different words\u201d (cf. Ezekiel 20:8, 21:3, 22:4), took the distinction literally:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I will strike him until I knock it out of his left hand, because the bow is held in the left hand and the arrows are strung with the right hand and the bowstring is pulled with the right. The intent is to declare that none of his weapons will avail him; they will be as though there were none.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If you have ever entered through the main gate of an ancient city (like the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem, or Caesarea), you might recall that immediately upon passing through the gate (not the breach in the wall through which most people enter today) you were forced to make a tight left turn. This was a strategic defensive ploy that assumed, like Radak, that archers held their bows in their left hands. 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39:6 \u201c\u2018And I will send fire against Magog and against those who dwell secure in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this version, not only will Gog\u2019s vast invading army be devastated on the mountains of Israel but also a second prong of divine destruction will be directed towards Gog\u2019s distant homeland and towards its allies or colonies (\u201cthe coastlands\u201d). It is worth noting that this entire vision of Israel\u2019s triumph over its enemies is quite different from anything in the other Prophets. The characteristic Prophetic vision is of Israel restored to its land and dwelling in peace and prosperity after the bitter experience of defeat and exile. Only Ezekiel imagines that the people again ensconced in its land and living in tranquillity will be assaulted by a fearsome invading power which, however, will be utterly destroyed. Perhaps Ezekiel, himself an exile who had witnessed the dominant forces of the Babylonian empire, and who also had in mind the earlier dominance of the Assyrians, could not easily conceive a simple peaceful national restoration. History was felt as a continuing cycle of violent imperial aggressions. In this prophetic version, an ultimate--virtually mythological--aggressor is drawn to the land of Israel where God will bring about his total destruction, at last making Israel genuinely secure. Through this scenario, all the nations of the earth finally \u201cshall know that I am the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Sevenses<\/em>. Seven types of weapons will be used by the Gog\u2019s fighters (count them in verse 9). Those weapons, which will fall to the Israelites as spoils of war, will be used by them for firewood for seven years (ibid), and for seven months they will bury the fallen. Seven in the Bible is more than a number - it symbolizes perfection, the completion of a set or a cycle.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Your arms shall be thrown into the fires<\/em>. Converting the military use of weapons to a more civilian purpose is reminiscent of Isaiah\u2019s vision of peace: \u201cYou shall beat your swords into plowshares, and your spears into pruning hooks.\u201d If all the weapons may be burnt, this is a sign that \u201cnation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore\u201d (Isaiah 2).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Impurity, purity and the priesthood.<\/em> The mass burial of Gog\u2019s warriors is not in honor of their dignity, but to purify the land. Matters of ritual purity are close to Ezekiel\u2019s heart, the priestly prophet. In the prophecies in the coming chapters we will encounter more connections to Ezekiel\u2019s priestly CV.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The battle for the mind<\/em>. What\u2019s the connection between ritual purity and the war with Gog? Commentators and scholars have some interesting ideas. Judging from the final verses, it seems that the battle for the mind of the people in the Land and outside it is one of the main achievements of the war. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Ezekiel 39","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"39","chapter_main_number":"491","date":"20270718","wall_id":"491"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":"","link_teaser":"","listen_link":"","other_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/75117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}