I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 39-40.

Yesterday, I wrote about Ezekiel’s prophecy concerning Gog’s invasion of Israel.  In today’s passage Ezekiel discusses the outcome of that invasion.  The outcome will be that not only will the force invading Israel be destroyed, but fire will rain down on the nations which launched that attack so that they will know the God is the Lord of all.  There are several aspects of Ezekiel’s description of the outcome for which I can think of explanations, but which do not fit modern warfare.  He writes of the people of Israel using the abandoned weapons of the invaders as fuel for seven years and of teams of men being assigned to hunt for dead bodies seven months after the battle.  I am not going to go into possible explanations of these two predictions from Ezekiel.  Instead, I will point to the reason he talked about these things.  The invading force which Ezekiel prophesies will be so large and overwhelming that Israel could only survive with Divine intervention.  When the people of Israel faithfully worship and serve the Lord, He will care for them, no matter what the odds against them are.