Gog and Magog

Meanings

proper noun

Gog, a prince who attacks Israel in the book of Ezekiel, and the nation he leads, Magog.
Kings or nations prophesied in the book of Revelations to battle the Christian Church.
When we’re talking about “Gog and Magog” we’re talking about a leader in the land of Russia. Note that 500 years from now, if Christ delays, “Gog and Magog” from the North (Russia) will have another name that fits another time.
2022 February 28, Roger Barrier, “Who are Gog and Magog today?”, in Crosswalk
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And when the M. yere are expiered / Satan ſhalbe lowſed out off hys pꝛeſon / and ſhall goo oute to deceave the people which are in the foure quarters off the erth gog and Magog / to gadder them to gedder to battayle whoſe nombꝛe is as the ſonde off the ſee: […]
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Revelation xx:[7–8], folio cccxl, verso

From the book of Ezekiel and the book of Revelation; see quotation below. Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹג (gôḡ) and מָגוֹג (māḡôḡ).

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