millennium they will be upon the outskirts of the earth at all points of the compass. We

are much concerned with their relation to Israel and the purpose of God.

Israel's first entry into the land of promise was accompanied by conflict with the

Canaanites. These nations were of such a nature that nothing less than utter extinction

was decreed against them. In Deut. 3: 1-13 we read of Og, king of Bashan. We read

that only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the giants, and his bedstead was

nine cubits long and four cubits broad. The threescore cities mentioned in verse 4 have

all been seen and counted in our own time. That the rendering "giants" is the true one,

any reader of Dr. Porter's Giant Cities of Bashan will agree. In Numb. 24: 7 Balaam

refers to Israel's ascendancy in the millennium:--

The Samaritan Text here reads "Agog" instead of Agag, and this appears to have been

the word before the translators of the LXX, for they give "Gog". These sidelights give a

somewhat different character to the nations that spring into open revolt at the end of the

thousand years. Is there not sufficient history recorded in the Word to show that certain

nations are to be reckoned peculiarly the Devil's own? Was Og, king of Bashan, not "of

his father the Devil"? Do we credit the Lord with the responsibility of the creation of the

Rephaim, the Nephilim, the giants and monsters of antiquity? Did not God give an

exhibition of His utter abhorrence of the result of the marriages of the sons of God with

the daughters of men, by sending the flood?  Does not the order for the utter

extermination of the Amorites, the Amalekites and the Canaanites generally point to the

same thing? Does not Goliath of Gath typify the same awful and Satanic enemy?

When Satan goes out to the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, he goes

out to his own. They rise as one man and compass the camp of the saints about and the

beloved city. Their destruction is immediate and without remedy:--

In chapter 19:, the armies led by the beast and the false prophet are slain by the

Lord, and their flesh is afterwards devoured by the fowls of the heavens. Here the fire

from God not only kills but devours, nothing is left for the birds of the air.

We do not believe Gog and Magog will stand before the great white throne. The fire

which falls from heaven is for them the second death. Of such Psa. 1: 5 speaks:--