The Aftermath of The Battle of Gog And Magog!

The reason behind Dr. Cooper's conclusion is found in Ezekiel 39, where the prophet states that it will take seven years to clear away the rubble and burnt out weaponry left behind by the invading armies. Verses 9 and 10 describes the process in these words- "and they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand staves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord Jehovah. "This seven-year period dovetails with the seven years biblically allotted to the tribulation, specifically noted in Daniel 9 and revelation 11. No similar seven-year period is mentioned anywhere else in the bible, including following the battle of Armageddon. Armageddon, which many people confuse with the battle of Gog and Magog, is a totally different war. Gog and Magog involve a limited number of nations in a confederacy to invade Israel, and God uses natural forces to destroy these invading armies. But even before the smoke and radiation clears, the world leader the bible calls the Antichrist will step forward to take and rob God of the credit for giving the victory to Israel. Surprisingly, not only will the rest of the world, including Israel, believe the Antichrist's boast and go along with his blatant theft of God's glory, this man of sin will even start believing his own story and self-promoting press‑clippings to see himself as a godlike personality. The European powers, from which the Antichrist comes and gets his power, will unify behind him so that he will be commissioned to step forward and forge a real peace treaty between Israel and her Arab neighbours. Where before, and even today, neither the Palestinians nor the other Arab and Moslem people are serious about resigning themselves to the reality of the Jewish homeland in their midst, in the aftermath of the deadly war and the hundreds of thousands of grieving families throughout their nations, they will at last be ready both emotionally and politically to sit down and sign some kind of interim peace accord with Israel.