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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 38:22
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood, &c.] Not only the sword of the Jews and the sword of Christian princes shall be drawn against him, and the sword of Gog’s soldiers against one another; but the Lord himself would plead with him by his judgments, or take vengeance on him, as the Targum; and send a pestilence in his army, which should destroy vast numbers of it; as the army of Sennacherib was destroyed by one when before Jerusalem; and make a great slaughter among them by that and other judgments: and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain; a horrible tempest of divine wrath, (<191106>Psalm 11:6) as he came into the land of Israel like a storm, so he shall be destroyed by one much more terrible: and great hailstones; such as were cast upon the Canaanites, (<061011>Joshua 10:11) and as there will be on men, the enemies of the church of God, at the pouring out of the seventh vial, (<661621>Revelation 16:21): fire and brimstone; as God rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, (<011924>Genesis 19:24), signifying that in like manner will God deal with those enemies of his people; so at the battle of Armageddon, which seems to be the same with this here, the beast and the false prophet will be taken alive, and cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone, (<661920>Revelation 19:20), and to this rain or tempest of fire and brimstone upon Gog there is an allusion in (<662009>Revelation 20:9).
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