Gog and Magog Timing — Israel's Unwalled Villages Don't Mean What You Think

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]How soon can the Gog of Magog war begin?

[00:00:03]Well, just about every precondition that you've heard for that war is wrong. And if they're wrong, it can happen a lot sooner than you're thinking it can.

[00:00:14]What is the one condition almost every Bible teacher says must be in place before Gog and Magog can invade Israel?

[00:00:23]Peace, right? A sustained comprehensive peace.

[00:00:26]Israel disarmed, Israel at rest, dwelling without walls. They point to Ezekiel 38:11.

[00:00:34]I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, without bars or gates.

[00:00:43]So, if disarmament is what the text means, I think we could be waiting a long time, maybe decades, maybe generations, maybe until after the millennium.

[00:00:54]Today, we're going to see that unwalled villages without [snorts] bars or gates means a great deal more than what you've been told. It is not just a military description, it's also a legal and covenantal term.

[00:01:11]And it's a spiritual term.

[00:01:13]And when you understand all three of these, you'll see that the conditions for the Gog and Magog invasion are happening and forming right now. By the end of this video, we'll even answer that question, how soon? How soon could it really happen?

[00:01:32]Let's begin with the argument you've heard 100,000 times. And let's be honest why it doesn't work.

[00:01:39]The standard teaching says Israel must be militarily unguarded before God can move. You know, that would mean no Iron Dome, no IDF, no nukes.

[00:01:49]At a minimum, no walls or barriers.

[00:01:52]A naive, peaceful Israel sitting exposed and vulnerable. Gog sees this.

[00:01:59]And when he does, he strikes.

[00:02:02]The idea is that Israel's going to sign some kind of covenant with death as per Isaiah 28 and Daniel 9:27, and he's going to lay down his arms. Israel does make a covenant, but they will not lay down their arms.

[00:02:20]Here's the immediate problem. Israel will never voluntarily disarm. They've seen five major wars.

[00:02:27]They've seen two intifadas.

[00:02:29]They've seen all sorts of missile attacks. There's no way that they're going to disarm. Now, they will divide their land, but they will never lay down their weapons. They will never take down their walls.

[00:02:46]But that doesn't mean Ezekiel 38 is going to have to wait all the way until Jesus returns and even after the end of the millennial period.

[00:02:58]That is not biblically possible.

[00:03:03]The text of Ezekiel 39 makes it really clear that waiting for the millennium is impossible. Ezekiel 39 and the Gog of Magog war must first be fulfilled at the conclusion of Daniel's 70th week.

[00:03:18]Yes, Revelation 20 does say that there is a Gog and Magog war at the end of the millennium, but Ezekiel 39:7 says this, "In my holy name, I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, >> [snorts] >> and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore.

[00:03:38]And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the holy one in Israel." Those are the things that have to happen after the Gog war. So, that can't be after the millennium. In the millennium, Jesus reigns from Jerusalem. The Jews the Gentiles have known about Jesus at that point for a thousand years.

[00:03:57]Not just at that moment. So, it can't just be only a war at the end of the millennium. It also has to be one that takes place at the end of this age.

[00:04:10]Two wars, one then, but one now.

[00:04:14]And if that's true, what does this phrase about unwalled villages actually mean?

[00:04:21]Let's read Ezekiel 38:11 again carefully.

[00:04:24]I will go to those that are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, without bars or gates.

[00:04:36]The key phrase here isn't without armies.

[00:04:39]The key phrase is without walls, bars, or gates.

[00:04:44]Gates and bars control entrance into your sovereign territory.

[00:04:50]Think about it. When the gate is closed, the enemy can't enter your city, right?

[00:04:55]That that's the whole point.

[00:04:57]So, a gate, and a bar, and a wall are protecting your points of entry. But in the future, Israel is likely to give away their walls, their bars, and their gates, and allow entry into their sovereign land.

[00:05:18]How's that going to happen?

[00:05:20]Well, just think about what this means in modern terms. The West Bank is the gate to Jerusalem from the east. If the West Bank is no longer under Israeli military control, whether that happens through a two-state solution or a political concession of some sort, if Israel's land is divided, the gates to historic Judea will effectively be in somebody else's hands.

[00:05:45]Israel's enemies don't need to breach a wall, then. All they need is to be invited into the territory that Israel no longer controls, and just walk right in. Isn't that interesting? In an agreement like that, Israel's so-called walls are going to move from all the way where they are now on the Jordanian border to the outskirts of Jerusalem itself. And this is exactly what Jesus described in Luke 21:20. He said, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is near." Well, how does a modern military power like Israel end up with enemies surrounding Jerusalem?

[00:06:26]Not because Israel was disarmed, but because the entry points into Judea, the gates of the West Bank, will no longer be under Israeli jurisdiction. Gog is likely invited through the open gates that a political agreement already unlocked right up to the walls of Jerusalem.

[00:06:50]And notice something else. Ezekiel 38:11 says that Israel at that point will be dwelling securely. That doesn't mean they're disarmed, quite the opposite. It means they're trusting in their armaments, in their military power, in their technology, that they think they don't have anything to worry about.

[00:07:13]They're dwelling securely.

[00:07:15]But, [snorts] they don't see the risk that letting their gates and their bars and their walls down in the outer section, in the West Bank, or Judea as we like to call it, they don't see that as a bigger risk as what Gog realizes it is.

[00:07:40]Which raises the question, how does a situation like that come about? How do the gates get legally opened while Israel still feels secure? And the answer comes from the prophet Joel.

[00:07:53]Joel 3:2, God is speaking. "I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel because they have scattered them among the nations and they have divided up my land." Divided my land. That's God's formal indictment of the nations, not that they attacked Israel.

[00:08:23]Not that they threatened Israel. But they divided my land, God's land, the land God gave them.

[00:08:31]This is the precipitating legal event of their judgment by God.

[00:08:37]Now, here is something I want you to think about carefully.

[00:08:40]>> [snorts] >> It is almost unthinkable to imagine that Israel will both divide its land and lay down all its military arms. It is more likely that they will allow a division of the land.

[00:08:56]We know that from Joel. We know that's going to happen. It's prophesied.

[00:09:02]But they will not lay down their technology, their IDF, their missile systems. All those things will remain because that is what will make them feel secure. They're dwelling securely after all.

[00:09:20]So, the open gates are not the result of disarmament or even tearing down their existing physical walls. They are the result of a political agreement that hands over Judea, the walls and the gates to Jerusalem to somebody else.

[00:09:37]While Israel still believes its weapons are enough. See how this works?

[00:09:43]This resolves the apparent contradiction in Ezekiel 38:11 perfectly. Dwelling securely means military confidence is still intact. No walls, no gates, no bars means that they are jurisdictionally vulnerable. Israel will be confident and exposed same time. Confident in their weapons, exposed because of their dividing of their land. So, this brings us to the question I want you to hold on to. How soon could a two-state solution be happening? How close are we to Joel 3:2?

[00:10:21]Look at the Middle East today. Probably closer than you think. So, keep that question open cuz we're going to come back to it later today.

[00:10:31]But, Joel 3:2 is only half of the legal picture. Something happens covenantally between God and Israel when Israel gives up their land or has it taken from them.

[00:10:43]And for this, I have to give a shout-out to Ryan Rigo and Fisherman who brought this up to me and it just blew my mind because no other Bible teacher has connected unwalled villages to the covenant in this important way.

[00:11:01]Leviticus 25, the Jubilee law which transfers land back to the original owners upon each Jubilee is the key.

[00:11:11]In the Mosaic covenant, God established two legal categories of land.

[00:11:16]Walled city land, land inside a city with walls, and that type of land could be permanently sold. After 1 year, the transaction was final and irreversible.

[00:11:30]But, unwalled village land, land out in the open countryside outside of city walls, could never be permanently transferred according to Leviticus.

[00:11:41]It always reverted back to the original owner upon each Jubilee. There were no exceptions. The original covenant heirs always got their land back.

[00:11:53]So when Ezekiel 38 refers to the land of Israel as unwalled villages, it's making a legal covenantal distinction here that all the land of Israel are to be considered unwalled villages according to the Jubilee law.

[00:12:11]And Gog of Magog sees this, understands this, and that may be part of the reason he acts. Let's explain why.

[00:12:22]Because Jubilee land, unwalled village land, cannot permanently be given away.

[00:12:29]The land must be returned to its covenant heirs every Jubilee.

[00:12:34]So from God's perspective, the dividing of Israel is only going to last until the next Jubilee.

[00:12:41]And here's the real bombshell.

[00:12:45]When the nations divided the land of Israel, they were not just making some political decision that would last forever. They were actually triggering a requirement by the God of the Bible, the most holy one, to come back and deliver that land back to its original owners on the next Jubilee.

[00:13:10]The Jubilee clock was starting the moment of that division. The land must return. The heirs must be restored.

[00:13:19]>> [snorts] >> And Gog of Magog, he sees this. He's watching a covenant clock counting down and realizing that the two state solution is going to be void and all the land is going to be returned to Israel.

[00:13:34]But Gog of Magog thinks to himself, "There are no Jewish people left in the land. If there are no heirs left, no one to receive the Jubilee restoration, well, maybe he can keep the land."

[00:13:49]So, a deep motivation for the Gog and Magog war is to kill all the living heirs so they can't get their land back.

[00:14:01]So, it's not just an attack on a defenseless nation.

[00:14:06]It's an attack on a land that has a promise from God to be restored to them.

[00:14:13]So, Gog of Magog is attacking the covenant itself.

[00:14:18]And he has a very narrow window to do it. Let me show you one more layer of this prophecy in this phrase that almost no one addresses. In ancient Israel, a city gate was not merely an architectural feature. It was the seat of civic authority. It was where elders sat to render judgment. It's where legal transactions were witnessed, where sovereign decisions were made. The gate was not just an entry point. It's where the power lived. So, when Ezekiel says there are no gates or bars, it's therefore saying that that's just not an architectural description, it's a statement that Israel no longer has sovereign authority over that area.

[00:15:04]So, let's translate that into modern terms. Under any two-state framework, Israel is legally going to be prohibited from maintaining military checkpoints inside the Palestinian sovereign territory.

[00:15:17]The gates, the control points into historic Judea, are going to be removed, not by military defeat, but by a signed agreement.

[00:15:28]So, the armies that are going to come up against Jerusalem in Luke 21:20, that are going to surround Jerusalem, are not there because Israel was weak.

[00:15:40]They're there because Israel gave up their sovereign authority over the land that comes all the way up to the very gates of Jerusalem.

[00:15:52]That army will likely be invited into that land.

[00:15:57]And then, they're going to be right there on the doorstep, ready to take over the city.

[00:16:04]So, Israel was not weak.

[00:16:06]Israel signed something. That's what caused this, and that is Gog of Magog's opportunity. He needs a political situation that leaves the gates of Judea open and in the hands of someone who will welcome him in.

[00:16:20]Joel 3:2 creates the situation.

[00:16:23]Leviticus 25 explains why God allows it up to a point, up to the Jubilee, and the open gates of the West Bank explain how Jerusalem ends up surrounded by armies, just as Jesus predicted.

[00:16:38]Now, there's a third meaning to unwalled villages in scripture, and I want to deal with that now because it sounds the most spiritual. And a lot of prophecy teachers have looked at this and said, "This is proof that this has to be something taking place after the millennium. It can't be happening now."

[00:17:00]That verse is in Zechariah 2:4-5.

[00:17:03]The angel declares that Jerusalem will be inhabited as unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and livestock. And then, God says, "I will be to her as a wall of fire all around, and I will be the glory in her midst.

[00:17:22]I will dwell in her midst. And that's verse 10.

[00:17:27]On the surface, that kind of looks what Ezekiel was describing, right? Israel without walls trusting in God. Gog of Magog comes in, but God defeats him.

[00:17:37]But this is mistaken. And here's why.

[00:17:41]Ezekiel 39:7, as we discussed before in this video, Israel doesn't trust Jesus to be that wall around them until after the Gog war.

[00:17:53]This is something that happens at Armageddon, not a thousand years later.

[00:17:59]Plus, that verse is very clear in Zechariah 2 that the Holy One of Israel is dwelling within the city of Jerusalem at that point. And that's obviously something that doesn't happen until after Jesus returns. Only then, once Jesus is there, can he be the wall of fire around the city.

[00:18:22]Because if the Zechariah 2 wall of fire was already there before Gog's invasion, the invasion would not succeed. But we know from Zechariah 14:1-2 and Luke 21:20-24 that the initial invasion does succeed.

[00:18:39]Jerusalem is captured. Half the city does go into exile. These are not outcomes of a people under active firewall protection from Jesus.

[00:18:51]So now that we know the preconditions have been misread and that Gog is actually close to invading, let's answer the question, how close is he?

[00:19:04]The dividing of Israel must happen first. We can say that because that's how the gates get opened. That's how the walls come down.

[00:19:14]So, could the dividing of Israel happen this year? Maybe.

[00:19:19]The oil shortage that you've been hearing about in the news is much more serious than most believe.

[00:19:26]Oil reserves worldwide are believed to dry up on this July 3rd. We don't have an immediate answer about the dividing of Israel, but a crisis like this could drive a political event like the dividing of Israel, especially if the whole world is convinced it's the Israel-Iran war that caused their problems.

[00:19:50]That's where we're going in our next video. So, be sure to subscribe and turn the notifications on to see it because this next video is really a bombshell.

[00:20:00]But, while you're waiting for that next video, I suggest you watch this one next because it's really important to know who Gog of Magog is.

[00:20:11]You're probably asking, is he actually a Russian as I've heard so many times, or could he even be an American?

[00:20:18]Well, we're going to answer that question in this video, and I've left a link for it right here.

[00:20:25]Till then, I'm Nelson Walters. This is Applied Bible Prophecy, and I will see you there.