The following comes mostly from my own imagination, which certainly should serve as due warning for those brave enough (or foolish enough?) to pursue further.
I was napping today, and I awoke with a rather strange thought in my mind. I won't say that God showed me something in a dream, because I have no memory of even dreaming. But Joel 2:28 does prophecy about the "Latter Days" (nothing to do with Mormonism) when he says, "...that I (God speaking through Joel) will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions...". Unfortunately, I must confess to qualifying to the "old men" category.
Anyway, concerning the propecied "Gog/Magog" invasion of the Middle-East (bare with me; I realize my obsession with this prophecy must be getting tiresome to those who have been reading many of my posts. Nonetheless, I feel that this is something new that has never occurred to me before, and so I must share it with the reader and let him, or her decide if there is any merit to it.)
I have always assumed that the prophecy concerning God's turning of the allied invasion forces against each other (Russians, verses the Muslim allies of the region, namely Iran, Libya, "Ethiopia" which may mean Somalia, or even an Iranian conquered Yemen, and any others not mentioned) until their fighting has destroyed their forces to the tune of 83%, probably meant the forces on both sides would most likely be destroyed roughly equally, about 40 some odd per cent on each side. But, what occurred to me today, upon awakening ( I won't claim it was God-inspired, because if it wasn't I won't blame Him for my foolish imaginings) was this: If the Russian field commander realizes that his forces have already been severely decimated, and are about to be overrun, mostly by his former Iranian allies, and he knows that he has mid-range, tactical nuclear weapons at his disposal, wouldn't he be very tempted to use them??? It occurred to me that he might! Therefore, perhaps the 17% survivors were to be all Russian, with the complete destruction of the Iranian forces. Perhaps this would happen upon their home territory, which would also destroy the civilian population. I realize this is a callous, and even gruesome thought, but when God has had enough of an evil people, total destruction has been His way of ending their evil ways, especially when it has been directed towards His people, Israel.
As a Biblical support for my musings, I recalled the prophecy of Isaiah 13, which dealt with God's judgment for ancient Babylon. This ancient Empire covered the present-day territories of both today's Iran and Iraq, which is becoming less, and less of an important distinction daily, as Iran's army "assists" the Shiite dominated Iraqi government in fighting the threat of the I.S.I.S. insurgents ( because our cowardly President refused to commit our "boots-on-the-ground", leaving the door wide open for Iran to step in). After the I.S.I.S. insugency is defeated, you can bet that Iran will simply decide to stay there. Anyway, verse 19 (of Isaiah 13) says, "And Babylon (now Iraq, and Iran combined), the glory of kingdoms (obviously referring to it's ancient splendor) the beauty of the Chaldees's excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gommorrah." The imagery of the complete destruction of those ancient cities sure carries the present-day image of a nuclear explosion, at least for today's version.
The prophecy continues in Chapter 14, where it describes how God's people (Israel) will rejoice over the destruction of the "King" of their most dangerous enemy, Iran, whose real leader has been spewing threats of death to all Israeli citizens for years. This may well be God's way of receiving the glory, and revealing to His people that He does exist, and that He is still protecting them from their enemies.
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