Romanized Jewish historian Josephus knew them as the nation descended from Magog the Japhetite, as in Genesis, and explained them to be the Scythians.
Christianity's interpretation is more starkly apocalyptic: making Gog and Magog allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation.Ī legend was attached to Gog and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah.
The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the " end of days (آخِرُ الزَّمَان) ", but not necessarily the end of the world. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land in Genesis 10, Magog is a man, but no Gog is mentioned and centuries later Jewish tradition changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog", which is the form in which they appear in the Christian New Testament's Book of Revelation, although there they are people rather than individuals.
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