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Gog and Magog

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Gog and Magog
1. Old Testament a hostile prince and the land from which he comes to attack Israel (Ezekiel 38)
2. New Testament two kings, who are to attack the Church in a climactic battle, but are then to be destroyed by God (Revelation 20:8--10)
3. Brit folklore two giants, the only survivors of a race of giants destroyed by Brutus, the legendary founder of Britain

Gog and Magog
giant leaders in ultimate battle against God’s people. [N.T.: Revelation 20:8]


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Recently, former French President Jacques Chirac revealed how in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, Bush called him up to warn that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Holy Land and why they must be defeated by the "Coalition of the Willing".
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What Kozintsev skyscapes then is Lear's Corbusian warping of his country into the "empty geometry" (174) of his psyche--a nebulous terrain that Rothwell evocatively charts as "the imaginary realm of Gog and Magog, which, if nothing can be about something, is pretty much what King Lear's about" ("In Search" 145).
 
 
 
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