“And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back [from Ukraine?], 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…

“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: 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, 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 38:3-4, 10-12

Recent developments and a proposal from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Arab Gulf countries regarding the difficulties with the Strait of Hormuz due to the US/Israeli war against Iran have given way to the title of our article, God’s Hooks in Gog May Be Coming into Focus.

Here are two recent articles on this subject:

From Only long-term solution for Hormuz crisis is a pipeline through Israel, says PM Netanyahu – but Turkey and Syria compete for strategic route | All Israel News:

The only long-term solution to the danger of the Iranian regime blocking access to the strategic Strait of Hormuz runs through Israel, asserted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Monday interview with Newsmax.

“Long-term solutions include rerouting energy pipelines westward, across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, bypassing Iran’s geographic choke point,” Netanyahu said, adding that the pipelines should reach Israeli ports to ensure “free flow of oil and gas” in the future…

While he didn’t specifically mention it in the interview, Netanyahu’s statements referred to the existing “India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC),” also known as the “Peace Railway,” which was announced at the G20 Summit 2023 in India.

It envisions creating a route for the transport of goods from India to the United Arab Emirates via ship, and from there, via a 2,000-kilometer (1,240 miles) land route through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel to the port of Haifa and then onwards toward Europe, shortening shipping distances via the Suez Canal.

However, Syria and Turkey are reportedly working on an alternative plan to “cut out” Israel from the corridor, Kan News reported this week, and are lobbying Saudi Arabia for it.

And from Gulf countries consider potential Haifa pipeline route as alternative to Strait of Hormuz | All Israel News:

Gulf countries are considering the construction of new oil pipelines that could transport crude via Haifa on the Israeli Mediterranean coast as an alternative route to the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, according to the Financial Times (FT). The deliberations come amid concerns about Iranian disruption of the Strait, a key artery for global energy exports…

Israel’s Haifa port is seen as a stable outlet for exporting Middle Eastern oil to global markets. The FT noted that proposed Gulf pipelines to Haifa would also advance the U.S.-backed IMEC initiative, which envisions connecting the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea through the Middle East and Israel.

NewMed Energy CEO Yossi Abu says the potential pipelines to the Mediterranean would allow people in the region “to control their own destinies, with their friends.”

“You need oil pipelines, railway connectivity throughout the region, onshore, without giving others bottlenecks to choke us,” he said.

Gog and Islam: Spoil, Prey, and Genocide

Here is what we suggested regarding God’s hooks in Gog in Gog and Islam: Spoil, Prey, and Genocide:

The Absolute Necessity of Energy in an End-Times World

One commodity that is of immense value in today’s world, and will be until Jesus comes back, is energy of all types. Energy is a universal standard commodity that every nation on Earth needs to survive and thrive.

Vladimir Putin and other national leaders have rightly claimed that whoever breaks out first and successfully with AI will rule the world, and energy is of the utmost necessity in this endeavor. In fact, AI utilizes vast amounts of energy!

Antichrist will also need vast amounts of energy to operate his worldwide Mark of The Beast economic and worship system; therefore, energy will be of vital importance to this system’s success. Energy may also be another hidden motive when Antichrist – in attempting to annihilate the Israeli people after the Abomination of Desolation, purging the nation of Israel of every Israeli in the Promised Land in the Great Tribulation – prepares to install his Mark of The Beast economic and worship system.

So, how can we come to a logical conclusion of energy being potentially the main objective of Gog’s invasion of Israel, as recorded for us in Ezekiel 38, since these modern-day energy sources were not in existence and/or unknown in Biblical times? Can we make sense of energy commodities, using the same ancient spoils and prey that God uses in Ezekiel?

Silver and Gold

“Silver and gold” are derived from earth and rock.

In just the same way, so is one of the world’s greatest energy sources and multifaceted elements in innumerable products for modern-day humanity, oil! We drill in the earth and frack in rocks to obtain this precious commodity, very similar to how the world has procured silver and gold since creation.

Though Israel is currently ranked 67 in the world in crude oil production, and does import additional oil, this could always change as more deposits could be found. However, for such an incredibly small country to be 67^th in the world is pretty darn impressive, and even with their current production of 15,000 barrels a day and what they will have in import reserves would seem to be an easy spoil for Gog in his evil plan.

Personally, I would not be surprised in the least to hear of Israel finding more oil reserves – potentially vast amounts of reserves – in the not-so-distant future.

During the time immediately following the rapture, going forward, I expect that “climate change” will not be the fantastical, farcical issue that it is today, and even if it was, Gog would certainly care less.

Oil, when refined into petrochemicals, often has a silver and/or gold tint or hue.

Oil and/or petroleum is also known as “black gold”!

Cattle

The Hebrew word for “cattle” in both references of Ezekiel 38:12-13 is 4735 מִקְנֶה “miqnê” and means cattle, livestock, cows, sheep, goats.

When this interpretation came into my mind, I was blown away. This can only be understood in today’s generation.

Today, there is a war on cattle in this crazy world we live in, something never seen or even thought about in past generations. Climate fanatics are obsessed with the flatulence of cattle, especially cows, known as methane gas. Methane gas from living creatures is obviously a natural gas. Natural gas?!?!

God, in his omniscient foreknowledge, knew that this environmental idiocy would occur in the end-times. He also knew that natural gas would be a valuable energy source in the future. Therefore, it is no stretch to suggest that cattle are representative of natural gas as an energy source. There would seem to be no better way for God to use this Hebrew word for cattle, knowing what would transpire in the last days, and linking cattle to the energy source of natural gas.

Natural gas is Israel’s primary energy source for electricity production!

The Leviathan gas field recently discovered off Israel’s Mediterranean coast boasts 22 trillion cubic feet in recoverable natural gas!

Gog will certainly covet this immense energy source!

Now, with the proposed pipeline, if built, Israel will have even more energy resources for Gog to covet!

If this pipeline gets assembled from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States going through Israel to Haifa, then the protest from “Sheba and Dedan” (Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States) and “the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof” (United Kingdom/United States) against Gog’s invasion of Israel begins to take on a greater meaning:

“Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee [Gog], Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” – Ezekiel 38:13

If this scenario comes to fruition, then our title may very well change to God’s Hooks in Gog is Coming into Greater Focus. The prophetic community should be keeping their collective eyes open to this potentially prophetic turn of events.

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After creating mankind, giving him free will to do as he pleased and surrounding him with beauty, a verdant garden, and womankind to keep him company, God only gave him one restriction – not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and human beings have failed Him to this very day.

I feel so sorry for such a benevolent Creator, who created all things for our good pleasure, to be snubbed by humankind. It makes me angry. But we are obstinate and have been corrupted by the Evil One. And so, it’s in our very genes to do wrong, even to the extent of killing millions of infants through abortion – his most precious gift to mankind.

Mankind has even gone so far as to deny his very existence. Neither have they obeyed his commandments, and instead have tried to obliterate the Ten Commandments from even our Christian country, and are ushering in Sharia. No one can say that they are innocent, “For there is none righteous – no NOT ONE, for all we like sheep have gone astray.”

People would prefer to read other human beings’ thoughts on a matter rather than consulting God on a matter – by cracking open a Bible. Opening a Bible is a scary proposition to most. So, I have written the content concerning such things in this article for you to read.

Ask God for guidance and read the words carefully.

A warning to priests Malachi 2:1-2: “’And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve under my name’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”

Malachi 2:7-9: “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Malachi 3:17-18: “On the day when I act,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.’”

Malachi 4:1-5: “Surely the day is coming, it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes on the soles of your feet on the day when I act,’ says the Lord Almighty.

“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and the laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.’”

 Notice that in these passages, there is a marked resemblance to the state of the nations at this very moment, with criminal politicians being exposed and the enemies of God and Christ Jesus being stomped out by severe bombings in the Middle and Far East. To students of the Bible, this can only mean one thing – that our redemption is drawing near.

Although the word of God is aimed at the Jewish people, the Word of the Lord applies to ALL mankind. Notice how things end for those who deny God and carry on as though he didn’t exist, or at best, as if he is a mythological character. It’s incredible to believe such garbage.

All the learned in the world can’t explain God, with their limited capacity of knowledge. With the limited amount of gray matter between their ears, they propose to know about things already revealed in the Holy Bible. Things like, “Let us make man in our image and likeness.”

But being lazy and puffed up with human pride, they neglect the Bible altogether!

Human thought is frail and – at best – corrupt. The Bible tells us that all are sinners and are only saved by the grace and lovingkindness of God.

Today, with the continued bombing of Israel, there exists the possibility that the Dome of the Rock will be struck by accident (God). Can you imagine what the enemy would do if that happened? Many Muslims worldwide would come alive with fierce anger toward Christians everywhere. This will usher in the time of Jacob’s trouble as in the Great Tribulation. Already, we are experiencing the precursor of those eventful and fearful times.

This could be the very reason that I’m finally getting my movie made. It seems that my inspirational first book will finally be made into a movie, as God is eager to save as many as possible now, by any means. Pastors and church leaders have failed Him by preaching manmade thought, theory, and saying nothing about repentance.

Don’t be discouraged by my writing this way. God loves you, and so do I. So, hang in there – read the New Testament. (It’s too late to read the Old). Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and NO man comes to the Father but by Him. Pray always, thanking God for EVERYTHING.

YBIC

Jim Towers

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