During this last attack upon Jerusalem, all of the earth, even including the apostates of Israel, shall be arrayed together against the Lord and His people.
We gather from the prophet Ezekiel that the last great battle for Jerusalem shall not be simply Gog and his cohorts from the North coming down to attack Israel, a nation brought back, all twelve tribes, dwelling peacefully as depicted by the prophet Balaam, “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters” (Num. 24:5,6), but it shall be the greatest confederacy ever gathered together upon the face of the earth, joined for the purpose of cutting off Israel from being a nation. This attack could not be until the end, as all twelve tribes will not be back until shortly before the 1335 days of Daniel 12, which shall be the time of the closing of the indignation upon Israel, the removing of their yoke and the founding of Zion.
Thus the Assyrian, “Gog,” seeing the Western Confederacy destroyed and the leaders taken, shall attack Jerusalem. His itinerary is found in Isaiah 10. It will be communism (atheism) assembled in absolute power for a brief moment to fight against Jehovah Himself, for they did not know that “the Lord was there.”
Seemingly having no opposition, yet because of recent mysterious events in which the Western Confederacy has come to such a sudden end, Gog will take no chances, so he will gather the nations from the north quarters as well as the confederacy already under his grasp with Ethiopia and Libya, descending as a “cloud to cover the land.”
The last or second attack upon Jerusalem shall begin with a siege. Though the Land will be surrounded, the threshing-floor will be at Edom. Edom will be responsible for the invasion, although at the last the great treacherous Gog shall deceive Edom and take the lead. This will be the hand stretched out upon all nations, the day of the Lord upon all of the heathen. Ham, Shem, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, all will be found in this conflict. Even after the Western Confederacy, composed mostly of Japheth, shall be destroyed, all three will still be seen confederate with Edom. The Chaldean, Ethiopian, and Medo-Persian of the families of Japheth, Ham, and Shem will be with the kingdoms from the east in the prophetic picture; the northern or Russian part is clearly Japheth. All three were involved in the great image of Daniel 2, but the gold will fall last. Although Gog will be the leader, his land was never involved as a part of the image, while others of the confederacy were. Gog, the last and greatest form which the Assyrian takes, will lead in the final attack upon Jerusalem. This is after the Lord has taken possession of Jerusalem and has set up His kingdom.
All nations of the prophetic earth with many from the far north, including the apostates of Israel, shall be confederate with Gog in the time of the end, gathered as sheaves to the floor, or as Matthew tells us, “wheresoever the carcass is (apostates of Israel), there will the eagles be gathered together.” The colossal apostate world system, built by Satan in all of its varied changing forms, developed since Genesis 10:11, is seen by the prophet Daniel as coming to an apex of POWER and GLORY in the last days. He also interprets for us the handwriting on the wall, and Belshazzar typifies its sudden fall.