Actions In The Middle East Point Directly to Ezekiel 38

The Recent Actions of Turkey and Israel Solidly Point To The Prophetic Chapter

20 August, 2026: Recent events in the middle east are increasingly mirroring the Bible, and specifically Ezekiel Chapter 38. In that famous chapter, the character ‘Gog’ of the land of Magog is drawn into a regional conflict with Israel. And now we may very well be seeing the precursor to that.

It all started on August 18, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes against the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northwestern Syria, near Aleppo and relatively close to the Turkish border. At least eight strikes hit the facility, damaging runways and hangars, although there were no reported casualties. Israel says Syria was preparing to allow Turkish troops to deploy at the airbase. Israel regarded that as a serious security threat and said Damascus had been warned repeatedly.

Ankara denies that it was preparing to establish a Turkish military base or permanent troop deployment there. Syria’s foreign minister has also said that Damascus had assured Israel that there was no plan for a permanent Turkish military presence at Abu al-Duhur.

There actually was a Turkish military delegation at the airbase shortly before the Israeli attack, however. Syrian officials say the delegation was there to inspect rehabilitation work being done at the facility.

The Ezekiel 38 Connection

Now this is where it definitely begins to get interesting. For years, largely thanks to the Cold War, many Bible students, including myself, were convinced that Gog and Magog represented the Soviet Union, and when it collapsed, then we moved our sites to Russia. And for years many of us spent time trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It was quite the undertaking to, without the help of the Internet, trace down all those ancient lands and find out their origins.

But now, I have, along with many others came to the conclusion that Gog of the land of Magog may be pointing to Turkey instead of Russia. But look at current events and see where this is going:

² Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, ³ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: ⁴ And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: – Ezekiel 38:2-4 KJV

This goes back to the fall of Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Turkey has become one of the principal supporters of Syria’s new government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Ankara has been helping Syria rebuild its military and governmental institutions and has been providing military training and other support.

Israel, meanwhile, has been extremely suspicious of Syria’s new leadership and has conducted numerous strikes against Syrian military infrastructure. So what we’re watching is really a contest over who is going to have military influence inside post-Assad Syria. And Turkey is becoming increasingly important.

Israel and Turkey are now openly warning each other

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz publicly warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not to test Israel’s resolve and accused Turkey of getting involved in “dangerous adventures” in Syria.

Turkey has responded very sharply, condemning the Israeli strikes and accusing Netanyahu of using false allegations to justify what Ankara considers unlawful attacks on Syrian territory.

And there’s an important third party here: The United States is worried enough that Washington is trying to establish a direct military “deconfliction” mechanism between Israel, Turkey and Syria.

That’s basically a communications system designed to prevent one country’s military from accidentally getting into a confrontation with another country’s military. U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said Turkey wasn’t even warned about the Israeli strike and could potentially have responded militarily when it saw Israeli aircraft heading toward the area.

That’s a pretty remarkable statement. To make matters even worse, President Donald Trump’s stance on Israel is becoming more erratic, as does most of his actions when it comes to the middle east. With his position changing on a daily basis, even fellow Republicans are having a tough time knowing what page the President is on.

And here’s the part I think is most significant

This isn’t simply Israel versus Syria anymore. Turkey and Israel are both major military powers operating inside Syria, and their interests are increasingly colliding. Turkey is backing the new Syrian government. Israel is trying to prevent what it considers hostile military forces from establishing themselves in Syria. And Syria is caught between them.

Reuters is reporting that the head of Israel’s Mossad actually spoke with Syria’s foreign minister on August 14, specifically about Turkey’s expanding military presence, just four days before the Israeli strike. So this wasn’t an impulsive event that came out of nowhere. There had been high-level Israeli-Syrian discussions about Turkey immediately beforehand. And now the rhetoric between Ankara and Jerusalem has become much more threatening.

This dangerously points to the scripture above. God says he will pull Gog into a conflict; he says, “I will put a hook in your jaw.” In the context this was written, this is not a reference to fishing. This gruesome practice was done when it came to hostages and prisoners. In order to lead people without resistance, hooks were placed in the jaws of captured enemy Kings and troops as a way of leading them without fear of resistance or escape. In plain language, God is saying he will draw Turkey into a conflict, only to crush them once and for all as vengeance for their longstanding treatment of Israel.

Lying Down With Dogs

As a child, my mother often questioned my choice of friends with the proverb, “If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.” This is exactly the illustration God has given us concerning the land of Magog. Pulled reluctantly into a conflict they weren’t prepared for, they find themselves leader of a larger coalition, all bent on destroying the nation of Israel:

⁵ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: ⁶ Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. ⁷ Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. – Ezekiel 38:5-7 KJV

This translates into a modern-day who’s who of the middle east. Gomer is the lands currently known as Egypt and the Sudan. Persia needs no interpretation; we’ve all heard of the Persian Gulf, and thereby, Persia can only be modern Iran. Ancient Ethiopia was not the land currently known by that name. Ancient Ethiopia was primarily Cush, and Cush included southern Egypt and the Nile Valley, including Nubia. Libya is Northern Africa, which could include the various terrorist cells, such as Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

But at some point, Turkey turns into the aggressor:

⁹ Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. ¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: ¹¹ And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, ¹² To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. – Ezekiel 38:9-12

So we see an ‘all or nothing’ attitude emerge from Gog, and the lands combined together to form this coalition. Gog decides that the land of Israel is before them, and they decide to take the spoils from Israel and wipe the Jews off of the face of the earth. But little will they know at that time that the anger of God has kindled, and he has different plans.

And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. ¹⁹ For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ²⁰ So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

²¹ And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. ²² And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. ²³ Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. – Ezekiel 38:18-23 KJV

There is no wonder that so many Bible scholars consider this to be the event that is the precursor to the great Tribulation. This event, where God openly protects Israel from invasion when even the allies of Israel all stand back and do nothing. God saves his nation in stunning fashion, and leaves no doubt as to who is responsible.

There Is A Bottom Line

I think even the most dedicated atheist is able to see that Turkey is being drawn into a conflict through Syria. Their longstanding ties with Syria, as well as the accusations being made against Turkey by the Israelis are something that is just not going to go away. In many ways, we are already on a road that has no turns. Iran has put itself into a position where they have became anathema to the entire world. The fact that they often attack other Arab nations is proof positive that they now think of themselves as unstoppable. And Bible prophecy or not, it isn’t hard to see that mentality leading to an unprovoked, all out war against Israel.

In fact, there is no way forward out of this mess as long as the IRGC remains in power in Iran. Recently, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei (also spelled Ismail Baghaei) said,

“Iran does not negotiate with the United States under pressure because Iran is fundamentally different from the U.S. approach.”

In that he is absolutely correct: The USA negotiates from a position of wanting peace and wanting the violence to end. Iran loves violence, and loves nothing better than breaking their promises at the drop of a hat. Iran negotiates in order to buy time to restock their ammunition and armaments, in order to propagate war.

If the IRGC’s spokesmen’s lips move, it means he’s lying. In that one statement he told the absolute truth, by accident. The IRGC is nothing like the rest of the world. What they are is a cult-like group of people who believes by starting the third World War, they can simultaneously exterminate the people of Israel and bring about the return of their God.

So here we sit, mid-August and it’s hard to know the good guys from the bad guys without a score card. While the world is in awe over Islam, Christianity and Judaism is hated like never before. Which, if you think about it, is the way it should be. The world hates God because their deeds are evil, just like Jesus said. I personally would run away from any religion, no matter how ‘peaceful’ they claim to be, if that religion was being embraced by a world filled with lawlessness, hatred and violence.

I don’t even have to search the Bible any longer: I can search the daily news and find plenty of scripture right there in the headlines and captions of the stories that are told.

2 responses to “Actions In The Middle East Point Directly to Ezekiel 38”

moshe kerr

August 24, 2026

Again wish to thank Gamma Hans whose pro UN opinions has compelled a rational response rather than emotion packed propaganda political rhetoric.

We agree that Torah common law pre-dates British common law by thousands of years! Just as American common law courtrooms. The difference between British common law courtrooms and States common law courts … Parliamentary statute law defines the Constitution of Britain. Whereas the US has a Written Constitution which functions as a codified Basic Law of the US. Torah common law courts more resemble the much later US model rather than the Walpole version of British Constitutional law and courts.

Bunk on the UN fraud of block voting and great power imperialism. Both invalidate the creation of the UN to serve as a forum for diplomacy. The notion that the UN a World government which determines international law a total joke/fraud.

Israelis never throughout our long history as a people have never stated nor even implied we possess a monopoly on truth as have the jack ass Xtian church and Muslim mosque. We say that Jewish self determination expressed through the mandate of Torah common law Sanhedrin courts who maintain Yovel freedom for the 12 Tribes of Israel within the borders of conquered Canaan defines the Torah “Constitutional Mandate” which establishes lateral Federal and Levi Sanhedrin courts from Jerusalem to the 6 or more Cities of Refuge.

Torah mandated Sanhedrin Courts serve as the Capital Crimes Federal Courts whereas lower courts of Torts – 3 man courts jurisdiction – apply equally to Tribes of Israel and Jews in g’lut. Have repeated over and again that Torah commands mussar not history. Your attempts to demand history rather than mussar reflect a foreign monopoly of box rigid thinking. Goyim have their own legal systems. More power to them. Israel has yet to achieve the vision of self determination which stands upon the two legs of Yovel and brit melah as the prophet Yehoshua originally established prior to establishment of the 3 Cities of Refuges small Sanhedrin courts on the other side of the Jordan river as recorded in the first NaCH Book of prophetic mussar.

Torah law and British common law should not be equated because they arise from different legal traditions.

Israel’s non-membership in the Rome Statute by the explicit terms of the Oslo Accords eliminate ICC jurisdiction concerning the PA. Hamas who never agreed to the Oslo Accords and flat out rejects Oslo the ICC cannot declare Hamas as part of the PA since Hamas won the general elections in Gaza and violently expelled the PA from Gaza. Palestine ceased to exist as a UN protectorate the instant that Ben Gurion declared Independence and named the new nation Israel. No different than the US independence on July 4th 1776 from England.

France’s permanent Security Council seat does not depend on Israeli recognition; it derives from the UN Charter. This does not change the cold fact that France behaved like a dog and surrendered to the Nazis virtually immediately. Attempts by the post Shoah ICC try to invalidate the disgrace of Shoah guilt by declaring that Goyim have legal jurisdiction to try Israelis. This invalidates the post Shoah oath – NEVER AGAIN.

The UN obviously fallible based upon the stated flaw fundamental realities of block voting and great power arrogance.

Torah commands mussar not history. Demands of Universal God A or Universal God B a long standing Goyim attempt to impose their monopoly upon peoples and nations. Torah truth – Goyim do not know how the Torah defines the 8 middah of the Oral Torah; the “path of truth” – righteous justice which makes fair restitution of damanges inflicted by Jews upon other Jews within the jurisdiction of the 12 tribe Republic. Goyim truth simply not the path taken by Torah self determination/Zionism any more than Par’o vertical courts in the days of Moshe and Aaron.

Israeli self determination to achieve Yovel liberty and restore the 12 Tribal Republic has nothing to do with the UN. Attempts by foreign states to dictate terms to Jewish self determination utter hog wash. Especially treif UN voting blocks and European & Russian fraud great powers attempts to dominate the balance of power held between the community of nations of the Middle East and North Africa. When Russia converts Istanbul back to Constantinople by UN decree only then can the UN likewise demand that Jews have no rights to achieve our destiny of Yovel liberty for the restored 12 Tribes of Israel.

French imperialism post WWI an abomination on par with British imperialism in China and across the Planet Earth. The British guilty of establishing Concentration Camps in the Boar War! Mussar rather than history not a theological box thinking static deduction. Mussar defines T’NaCH prophesy which both the Goyim Universal God religions have always invalidated. Hence what’s good for the goose good for the gander.

Yovel has nothing to do with religious beliefs any more than Herzl’s “Jewish State” a religious text! Any more than Vichy alliance with Hitler’s Nazis makes France a saint. Attempts to declare Poop Pius XII a saint only prove the despicable cowardice of European barbarians. Does the SC UN veto serves as proof – that the UN as a whole treif? No. But to date seeing the USSR boycotted the Korean Chapter VII SC vote, a error never again repeated, the confusion mad/made by the ICJ to expand Chapter VI Resolutions as on par with Chapter VII reflects how bureaucracies continually grow into Big Brother Governments.

Proof that Israel not alone in mocking “binding Charter obligations”? Name a single country expelled from the UN member status for ignoring these pie in the sky declarations of the post WWII past. SC Chapter VI decisions like 242 – 2334 all treif. Even post Obozo the Clown … 45 & 47th Presidents have invalidate the trash of the Obozo shoe shine boy in the White House, and replaced “its” incompetence with the Abraham Accords!

Repeated attempts to insist that mussar represents a theological rather than prophetic Torah definition of how prophets serve as the police enforcement arm of Sanhedrin courts – over and again attempt to impose a foreign perversion of T’NaCH as a religion based upon theology rather than the vision of Sanhedrin courtroom justice that remains the ideal of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai which only the 12 Tribes accepted. Attempts to pigeon hole “restoration of the twelve tribe Republic” as religious-nationalism proves that Goyim can’t think out of their boxed in static logic patterns. Oral Torah common law stands upon פרדס inductive logic not Greek syllogism deductive logic.

The Jewish state prioritizes brit-alliances and private diplomacy conducted with allies; over the gossip society of the UN which promotes block voting of foreign states interference in the internal affairs of other nations. The post Oct 7th 2023 massacre of Israelis on the last day of a Jewish Chag wherein the UN and ICC slander Israel as guilty of war crimes proves that the UN gossip society an utter abomination. Israel thumbs our noses at the UN and dares that incompetent gossip society to expel the Jewish State from the UN. To quote Eastwood: “Go ahead make my day – PUNK”.

The Torah concept of Yovel separates slavery to Goyim courts like the Par’o Torah example. Liberty for Israelites – to establish Courts of righteous justice which make fair restitution of damages: inflicted by Jews upon other Jews — the tiqqun of hatred without cause. The UN chatter box gossip Women’s Quilting & Terrorist Society prioritizes an eternal UNWRA Balestinian refugee status and right of return; rather than ever condemn the failure of all Arab countries Vichy Nazi\Muff Mufti duplication of Nazism; their refusal to repatriate their dhimmi refugee populations. Like the post Shoah disgrace of Spain who invites Jews back to that despicable European land. Israeli right of return, in fact awarded citizenship to the almost 1 million Jewish refugees violently expelled from Arab countries after the Nakab defeat of Allah and 5 Arab Armies and British/French attempts to re-establish a great power mandate over the Middle East.

Bottom line: Jewish self-determination, understood through Torah, Yovel, Sanhedrin justice, and restoration of the twelve-tribe polity, simply not dependent on UN approval. UN attempts to subordinated Jewish self determination to politically compromised international institutions reflects the revisionist history which denies that Israel won its TWO Independence Wars of ’48 & ’67. To the victors go the spoils, also called Manifest Destiny.

Tim Bowling

August 30, 2026

I appreciate your passion for Torah law, Jewish self‑determination, and your views on international institutions. But at this point, you’re preaching to the choir — I already understand your position, and repeating the same arguments doesn’t add anything new.

If you want a place to express long, detailed essays, WordPress is free and you can create your own blog where you can post as much as you want, exactly how you want.

As for the theological parts of your argument: your rejection of the Messiah is obvious, and that’s your choice — but it’s not something I’m going to debate with you endlessly.

I’ve given you space on my blog for a long time, but that chapter is closed. I’m not hosting any more of your rants or essays. If you want to continue writing, you’ll need to do it on your own platform.

This is the end of the discussion.

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