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Gog and Magog. Israel and Russia or Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck?

From Ted Cruz * to Glenn Beck ** (a short distance covered during a psychotic break)  to the local minister at some evangelical mega-building*** one  is always hearing about Gog (Israel) and Magog (Russia and Iran) and how all hell is about to break loose when Russia/Iran attacks Israel and to be a good christian one has to stand with Israel.

Leave it to these lunatics to think a christian has to stand with Messias-Deniers rather than stand with the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church Jesus Christ established.

(Ted Cruz is a former Catholic, now a baptist, while Glenn Beck is a former Catholic, now a mormon).

One could, correctly, say that Ted Cruz is Gog and Glenn Beck is Magog and real Catholic men do not vote for Ted Gog but real Catholic men can listen to Glenn Magog because laughter (Beck says that God talks to him and, not infrequently, he claims to be filled with the spirit, and he is forever praising his own self for the accuracy of his prophecies).

If the reader is bored or drunk, he can take a peek at this site:


http://trackingbibleprophecy.com/gog_magog.php

OR,


He can read St. Augustine and learn the truth about Gog and Magog.



City of God Book XX:

Chapter 11.— Of Gog and Magog, Who are to Be Roused by the Devil to Persecute the Church, When He is Loosed in the End of the World.

"And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed from his prison, and shall go out to seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and shall draw them to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea." This then, is his purpose in seducing them, to draw them to this battle. For even before this he was wont to use as many and various seductions as he could continue. And the words "he shall go out" mean, he shall burst forth from lurking hatred into open persecution. For this persecution, occurring while the final judgment is imminent, shall be the last which shall be endured by the holy Church throughout the world, the whole city of Christ being assailed by the whole city of the devil, as each exists on earth. For these nations which he names Gog and Magog are not to be understood of some barbarous nations in some part of the world, whether the Getæ; and Massagetæ;, as some conclude from the initial letters, or some other foreign nations not under the Roman government. For John marks that they are spread over the whole earth, when he says, "The nations which are in the four corners of the earth," and he added that these are Gog and Magog. The meaning of these names we find to be, Gog, "a roof," Magog, "from a roof,"— a house, as it were, and he who comes out of the house. They are therefore the nations in which we found that the devil was shut up as in an abyss, and the devil himself coming out from them and going forth, so that they are the roof, he from the roof. Or if we refer both words to the nations, not one to them and one to the devil, then they are both the roof, because in them the old enemy is at present shut up, and as it were roofed in; and they shall be from the roof when they break forth from concealed to open hatred. The words, "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints and the beloved city," do not mean that they have come, or shall come, to one place, as if the camp of the saints and the beloved city should be in some one place; for this camp is nothing else than the Church of Christ extending over the whole world. And consequently wherever the Church shall be—and it shall be in all nations, as is signified by "the breadth of the earth,"— there also shall be the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and there it shall be encompassed by the savage persecution of all its enemies; for they too shall exist along with it in all nations—that is, it shall be straitened, and hard pressed, and shut up in the straits of tribulation, but shall not desert its military duty, which is signified by the word "camp."


http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/17/ted-cruzs-father-my-son-anointed-to-take-control-of-society/




** On the April 7, 2011, edition of his Fox News show -- the day after he announced that the program would be ending -- Beck concluded a long segment about the always-imminent "perfect storm" by highlighting "some new alliances" among world powers.


After saying he likes to call it "Gog and Magog time on The Glenn Beck Program," Beck pointed to Russia helping Iran build a nuclear power station and announced, "Russia and Iran - this one is really important because Russia and Iran - this has never happened. This alliance is a little spooky."

He continued:
BECK: Let me just explain this to you. Iran and Russia -- Russia's building the nuclear power plants and huge trading partners. Egypt and Iran -- that's Sunni Shia. These two do not get along. They're now buddy-buddy and it's getting more and more cozy. Russia and China and Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia is so upset with us right now and our president that Saudi Arabia is negotiating a deal with China for their oil. What do you think is going to happen with that one?
And these three are really critical. Nobody ever -- nobody ever thought these countries could come together and form any kind of alliance. And the reason I say nobody ever thought it is because people have been looking for these three to bring an alliance together for thousands of years. Well, since the book of Revelation said that Gog and Magog would come together. This is the alliance of Gog and Magog. Well, does that mean anything? I don't know. But let me ask you this. Do these countries seem friendly to the United States? Are these countries aligning themselves together to make our world -- our Western way of life -- more stable or less stable? Do they lead to higher gas prices, lower gas prices? More people killed, less people killed? More freedom or less freedom? Less corruption or more corruption? [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 4/7/11, via Nexis]

BECK: The reason why this is important is if you've ever read Ezekiel. It has never happened before, and everyone said it couldn't happen. It wouldn't happen - it's ridiculous. Remember, MSNBC will tell you that the Bible is nothing but nonsense. Well, the Bible is seemingly right on predicting something 5000 years ago. It's surprisingly accurate. I mean, what are the odds? That alliance - you might have heard these two words before: Gog and Magog. That is a huge, huge sign. Gog and Magog, and they come and gather their armies, and they go after Israel. Gang, I'm not saying that this is it, I'm saying that you should probably educate yourself. And what does it mean if you don't stand with Israel? What does that mean? 

*** Catholics have churches and protestants have buildings.