7 " Be prepared , and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 8 " After many days you will be summoned ; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword , whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste ; but its people were brought out from the nations , and they are living securely , all of them. 9 "You will go up, you will come like a storm ; you will be like a cloud covering the land , you and all your troops , and many peoples with you." 10 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "It will come about on that day , that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan , 11 and you will say , 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages . I will go against those who are at rest , that live securely , all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates , 12 to capture spoil and to seize plunder , to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited , and against the people who are gathered from the nations , who have acquired cattle and goods , who live at the center of the world .' 13 " Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil ? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder , to carry away silver and gold , to take away cattle and goods , to capture great spoil ?' "'
14 "Therefore prophesy , son of man , and say to Gog , 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "On that day when My people Israel are living securely , will you not know it? 15 " You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north , you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses , a great assembly and a mighty army ; 16 and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land . It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land , so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes , O Gog ." 17 'Thus says the Lord GOD , "Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel , who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? 18 "It will come about on that day , when Gog comes against the land of Israel ," declares the Lord GOD , "that My fury will mount up in My anger . 19 "In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely e be a great earthquake in the land of Israel . 20 " The fish of the sea , the birds of the heavens , the beasts of the field , all the creeping things that creep on the earth , and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence ; the mountains also will be thrown down , the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground . 21 "I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains ," declares the Lord GOD . " Every man's sword will be against his brother . 22 "With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops , and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain , with hailstones e , fire and brimstone . 23 "I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations ; and they will know that I am the Lord ."'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 38:7-23
Commentary on Ezekiel 38:1-13
(Read Ezekiel 38:1-13)
These events will be in the latter days. It is supposed these enemies will come together to invade the land of Judea, and God will defeat them. God not only sees who are now the enemies of his church, but he foresees who will be so, and lets them know by his word that he is against them; though they join together, the wicked shall not be unpunished.
Commentary on Ezekiel 38:14-23
(Read Ezekiel 38:14-23)
The enemy should make a formidable descent upon the land of Israel. When Israel dwell safely under the Divine protection, shalt not thou be made to know it by finding that endeavours to destroy them are made in vain? Promises of security are treasured up in the word of God, against the troubles and dangers the church may be brought into in the latter days. In the destruction of sinners, God makes it appear that he is a great and holy God. We should desire and pray daily. Father, glorify thine own name.