Ezekiel 39:25

"Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah."

ISRAEL TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT (Ezekiel 39:25-29)

This final paragraph is not a part of the Gog prophecy. "The prophecy here returns to the point of view in Ezekiel 33-37."[23] "These verses also form a fitting conclusion to the whole prophecy of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1-39) down to this point."[24]

"I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel ..." (Ezekiel 39:29). This promise had already been conveyed to Israel in Ezekiel 6:27 and in Ezekiel 37:14, also in Joel 2:28 and Zechariah 12:10; and, "The citation of Joel's words by Peter on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:17) prove that he regarded the remarkable effusion of the Holy Spirit upon that day as a fulfillment of the promise here recorded by Ezekiel."[25] Therefore, we must construe the verb, "I have poured out" in this promise as a prophetic perfect, in which a promise of God is given as something already done.

There is no evidence whatever that Israel as a whole ever manifested any evidence of being possessed of the Spirit of God during the pre-Christian centuries, nor in their wholesale rejection of the Christ when he came.

Returning, for a moment to the Gog, Magog prophecy, we should observe that Gog is depicted as "the last enemy," "at the end of the times," and that it is presented as gathering together against God and his people the nations from the "uttermost parts of the earth." All of the ancient enemies of Israel such as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Antiochus, all long ago departed from the stage of human affairs and had presumably perished. But notice also another tremendously important deduction that is required by this. "The boundaries of Israel, at that remote time, shall stretch far beyond the limits of ancient Palestine"![26]

For those who wish to pursue further the implications of this remarkable prophecy, we refer to that place in the Apocalypse of the Apostle John (Revelation 20:9,9), where according to Keil, and also according to the conviction of this writer, the Gog, Magog prophecy is concluded.