moved from the Crimea along the Danube and populated Gomerland, identical

with modern Germany.  Togarmah appears to have been an area in modern

Armenia, later swallowed up by Russia and Turkey.  Here, then, are the

predatory nations in their suggested nomenclature.  Russia and satellite

Germany with a Pan -Islamic Mohammedan Arabic Confederacy which will embrace,

probably, Turkey, constitutes a formidable menace to the peaceful nation of

Israel dwelling in wealth and false security.

'There remain to us the nations who parley either in protest or profit.

Sheba and Dedan are named as the sons of Raamah, grandsons of Cush, the son

of Ham.  The descendants of Ham are likely to be those who settled in the

countries south of Edom near the Red Sea.  There were two others who bore

these names as descendants of Abraham by Keturah, but modern Syria will most

likely discover these peoples.  The question of the identification of

Tarshish is a study in itself.  Tarshish is of Japhetic origin, not Shemitic,

and in Scripture bears the character of a maritime, merchant, mineral, market

and manifold people.  If we are provided with a Tarshish garment made of

ancient Scripture description and measurements and seek today for national

entities fitting to the garment, I imagine the British Commonwealth of

Nations and the United States of America could best wear the Tarshish garment

without tailoring.  Incidentally, if Tarshish be United States of America and

Britain, the axe is laid to the very roots of the Anti -Semitic "British -

Israel" speculation, inasmuch as Tarshish, as I mentioned before, is of

Japhetic origin.  The twelve tribes of Israel, the Jews, are all of Shemitic

'If my interpretation of the pertinent Ezekiel Scriptures

coincides with the revelation of those Scriptures, and I think it does; and

if my speculations regarding the identification of the nations and peoples

mentioned therein is correct, and I think they might substantially be so;

then we have moved into a strip of time more potent than anything conjured to

the mind by the atomic age.  Russia created the Anti -God Movement which had

its origin in Moscow.  Zinovieff is reported to have said -- "We will grapple

with the Lord God in due season: we shall vanquish Him in His highest heaven

and wherever He seeks refuge, and we will subdue Him for ever"'.

Another writes, 'It will be recalled that Stalin signed the official

decrees in 1932 ordering the Almighty to pack His few remaining belongings

and get out of the Soviet Empire.  The sign of the Soviet is the clenched

fist.  The sign of the Godhead is the pierced palm.  If God's calling is

spurned, Gog's challenge is accepted and this can be translated into a

principle which has individual, as well as national application.  Our

consideration of this wonderful prophecy of Ezekiel, admittedly brief, is yet

adequate to give us a deeper sense of reality as we obey the Divine wish to

"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem" for it is abundantly true that "they shall

prosper that love thee"'.

R.B. Girdlestone, M.A., in his opening chapter, says:

'An ideal Biblical prophecy may be expected to have the following

It plainly foretells things to come, and is not clothed in the

ambiguities which we observe in heathen oracles and