Ezekiel 38:1 - Exposition

The word of the Lord came unto me . Although this oracle is unaccompanied by any note of time, it was obviously delivered before the twenty-fifth year of the Captivity ( Ezekiel 40:1 ), and most likely in immediate succession to the preceding prophecy, with which also it has a close relation in respect of purport, being designed to show that against restored and united Israel, i.e. against the Church of God of the future, the strongest combinations of hostile force would not prevail, but would fall back defeated and self-destroyed.