By [[Chuck Missler]] <iframe width="1080" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zs2rw1ScHrI?si=Ppu4U8cwm_PFcln2&t=1843" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> https://youtu.be/Zs2rw1ScHrI?si=QhDMjrZY_TJeH_p8&t=1687 **Chuck Missler's illustration highlighting his discovery concerning Gog and how it relates to Amos 7:1 and Revelation 9.** I remember I had a very vivid experience. I was in a routine back in those days where I operated out of Big Bear, and I would go down the hill about an hour and a half drive down to Torrance to do a Tuesday night study at Hal Lindsay's Church in Torrance. And after I did the service, I'd go and stay at his home up in the Palos Verdes, and he had a guest room there, and I'd show up about 11 o'clock, whatever it was, and we'd wrap until 2 or 3 in the morning to study about various things. The following morning, at a local Marie Callender's, I did a men's Bible study, and then I went back up home to Big Bear. So I'd come down Tuesday, do the Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, and go, that was my cycle every week for a period of time. And I can remember one time, because I was wrestling with Ezekiel 38 in my studies, and I discovered something that startled me, because everybody wonders who [[Gog]] is. Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38, because it's very unlike the Holy Spirit, where He introduced a “major person of some kind without some background, and there's no background. But I discovered in Amos Chapter 7 verse 1, not in the Masoretic text, and thus the English, but out of the Septuagint, it happens to read very differently than the Masoretic. A small subtlety in Hebrew causes the difference. The way it's translated in the English Bible makes no sense at all, frankly. And neither does the Masoretic. But the Septuagint reads just subtlety different. It speaks of some locus. It says that locus were coming, and the young, devastating locus was **Gog their king**. And I thought, wow, that's because I... When you study Revelation 9, you know the locus are demon locus, because they have a king, Abaddon and Destor... You know, he has these names. And you know from Proverbs 30:27 that the real locus have no king. So the fact that the locus in Revelation 9 have a king is a tip-off that these aren't natural locus. They're... it's an idiom for demons. You follow me? Well, anyone who's been through that study, when you discover Gog is the king of the locus, you realize he's a demon king. And what startled me about that was I didn't find that in any of the commentaries. I just happened to stumble in it by another man. So that had happened when I went down the hill to... did my Tuesday night thing at Tellus Church. I did my usual thing. When I got to Hal's home with him that night, sat in the study, says, "Hal, have you..." And I was blown away because I said, first of all, am I wrong? So he reached up and got his copies down and we checked it out. No, it's absolutely right. It's not only... Are you correct? It's not even a variant reading that is the correct in the Septuagint. Well, he took it all in stride. I was stunned. Because here I'm just a layman. I came across something I couldn't find in the commentaries. He wasn't surprised at all. I was stunned because all of us have traveled in Ezekiel 38 and 39 for decades. It's familiar ground. And here to discover something, it blew me away. And I was excited, especially when he confirmed it, because he's quite a scholar and a 35-year Greek scholar. But anyway he wasn't surprised at all. He said, "Chuck, that's Daniel 12:4." What? What's that? The knowledge will be increased. He also pointed out, the knowledge, the knowledge of the Scripture will be increased. It should not surprise us that discoveries will be made, not necessarily by experts, just by the Holy Spirit, whatever, but that things are opening up. We understand things today that we never did before. The intelligent arrows of Jeremiah 15, you all have our little lists of little nuggets here and there, but the point is, we should not be surprised that our understanding of the scripture is increased, especially as we raise our standards of interpretation. The more literally you take it, the more it unravels. It's when you start compromising with it and allegorizing it, you get down in these bramble bushes, so be careful about that. But anyway, that's so much for verse 4.” From Daily Radio Program for Chuck Missler: Episode for Thursday January 30th Daniel Chapter 11:36 - Chapter 12, Jan 29, 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-radio-program-for-chuck-missler/id1523400352?i=1000686923110&r=1204 This material may be protected by copyright.