doings of the nations in the limited zone of the prophetic earth precede and

anticipate the wider activities and judgments that follow' (The Berean

Expositor vol. 37, p. 19).

We make no pretence to being 'prophets' and can only be guided by

what is written, realizing that much is still 'sealed'; nevertheless in 1952

-3 we wrote:

'Two items of peculiar interest are Oil and The Suez Canal, the

oilfields of Iran and Irak (Persia and Mesopotamia, so including Babylon) and

the canal which passes through Egypt.  It may well be that a "corner" in oil

and a command of the Suez Canal will make the rest of the world say of the

last dictator: "Who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. 13:4)'. (The Berean

Expositor, vol. 37, p. 20).

The following is an extract from a booklet entitled The Gagging of Gog

by Dr. Zevi Ben Avraham of the Jewish Evangelical Witness, whose personal

testimony we cull from a letter sent to us by an American reader:

'I am not a "professing Christian".  But I will assure you that I am a

possessing believer in the Person and Atoning Work of Him Who was with

God and was God and Who became very Man as our Jewish Messiah and Who

bore in His own body our sins on the tree; Who was buried and Who rose

again bodily from the dead, and Who is coming again personally, bodily,

visibly and gloriously.  I guess this disqualifies me from mere

"profession" but it does, I think, indicate something better.  Of

course I do not make mention of "Jesus Christ our Lord".  If I uttered

those words over the radio to my extensive Jewish audience, they would

switch me off instantly and I would have lost the golden opportunity of

bringing Him to their knowledge by the "more excellent way" beginning

at Moses and the Prophets.  But for your comfort, I do not have to use

literally the words "Jesus Christ our Lord", for they know full well

about Whom I speak'.

For this alone, our readers will give heartfelt thanks.  The leaflet

from which we quote deals with the prophecy of Ezekiel and chapters 13 to 48

are subdivided thus:

The Messianic Kingdom imminent (ch. 13 to 39).

The Messianic Kingdom incorporated (ch. 40 to 48).

He speaks of the

Peaceful Nation

A fool's paradise

Predatory Nations

Parleying Nations

Peremptory Nemesis

38:18 -23).

Present Nomenclature

38:1 -6).

We extract here, the comments made by Dr. Ben Avraham on the identity

of the nations named in Ezekiel 38.