After the recent disclosure of how Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used biblical passages as part of the war briefings for President George W. Bush, GQ magazine has an even more disturbing account: Bush lobbied French President Chirac that the war in Iraq was foretold in the bible and told that it was the final struggle with Gog and Magog.
The magazine quotes French sources as saying that Chirac was so confused by the conversation that he reached out to Thomas Römer, a professor of theology at the University of Lausanne to try to figure out what Bush was talking about. This report is supposedly confirmed in Chirac’w own book.
According to the report, Bush lobbies Chirac in 2003 with quotations from the Book of Revelation and told him that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated. The bible states:
7. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, :8. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Gog is known to dwell to the north of Israel.
Evangelicals and Bible literalists often discuss the battle foretold by prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel 38 and 39 as key to the 1000 reign of Christ — working on the precise timing indicators from the Bible to plan ahead.
The report says that Bush told Chirac that the fight in the Middle East was “willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”
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Been wanting to write you for long time. Thanks for intelligent common sense you bring to law and the Constitution. The interpretations of Ezekiel and Rev have been something the fundamentalists have always played with. The book LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH made Hal a rich boy, but nothing else. His “news” on 700 Club are weird to any thinking person.
This sentence could my eye: “Gog is known to dwell to the north of Israel.” Known by whom, a small group of tribes who lived during the late Bronze Age? It is obviously a reference to the Hittites, the empire of which hasn’t been around in quite some time.
As I understand it, the Battle of Gog and Magog precedes the coming of the anti-Christ, who is originally welcomed as a force for good and acquires a great following. BHO, anybody? Also as I understand it,the original text is unclear if Gog and Magog are countries or individual acting as champions, perhaps. The battle between Bush and bin Ladin, of cource had confusions between individuals, movements and states that may have led to the confusions by the original seer. You’ll know I believe this when I put on my flowing whiite robes–no sackcloth and ashes for me–give my goods to the poor and head for the nearest mountain top
Gog and Magog; LOL. According to jewish tradition, the coming of the Messiah will be preceded by this war. It is a battle of two enormous powers. I would think that a world war would be needed, not a 3 week destruction follwed by years of occupation. The war of Gog and Magog is very esoteric and kabbalistic in nature as is everything related to the coming of the Messiah. Bush is no kabbalist.
i could care aless…
I should have said “evangelicalism is a lazy man’s *or a simpleton’s* theology”