Plunder and Spoil

Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder? - Ezekiel 38:13b

I read with great amusement the stories of escatologists who think that the Battle of Gog and Magog will be happening in the next year or so. It is possible, but there is always so much criteria in the prophecy of the battle that people conviently overlook. Most of the excitement is always bred out of the simple truth that the Battle of Gog and Magog is believed to be the last recorded event before the Rapture. Some even think that the Rapture will happen before this battle and if you can the battle getting ready to happen, people will go out to stand on the hilltops waiting to be caught up.

There are still a large number of events that have to happen before we reach this point. I still believe that we are only in a slight lull before the Amos War starts up again. Many news reports that I've read certainly give credence to the idea that Hezbollah, Syria, and the Palestinians are thinking about taking up another large scale offensive, perhaps as soon as March or April.

However, I did notice this little article in my perusings of various news articles. Gog and her allies are coming for plunder and spoil. An Israel that is completely self sufficient in oil and natural gas reserves will stick very heavily in the craw of Arab states and their allies. If the Arab and Russian oil reserves ever start to look like they might be grinding down or taxed to the limit, I would not be surprised at all to see a mad dash to seize any Israeli reserves, no matter how small.

The pieces are moving into place.