Ezekiel 38:18-23

18-23. “In that day, when Gog shall come against the land” (Ezekiel 38:18, R.V.), Jehovah’s fury shall come into his “nostrils” (Psalms 18:8). He shall breathe hard, and in his hot and “jealous” anger (see Ezekiel 21:31; note Ezekiel 5:13) he declares that the whole of Israel shall be shaken as with an earthquake (Ezekiel 38:19), and all nature, sea and land, shall be terrified (Ezekiel 38:20; compare Zephaniah 1:14; Jeremiah 4:23-26) when he appears in judgment against the enemy (Ezekiel 38:21), turning each man’s sword against his brother and pleading with the foes of his people no longer with words, but with bolts from heaven (Ezekiel 38:22; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 13:13; Psalms 11:6) until the nations shall acknowledge him for what he is: the holy, the merciful, the mighty Jehovah (Ezekiel 38:16). This is a most graphic and fearful description, full of the symbolism which is so characteristic of Ezekiel.