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Will God Destroy Russia?
by Tim LaHaye – Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

The unbelievable upheaval in the Soviet Union that has already toppled that government has caused many to ask, "Will God still destroy Russia on the mountains of Israel the Way the prophet Ezekiel described in Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39.
Since that prophecy has never been fulfilled, you can be sure that as long as there is a God in heaven who always keeps His Word, it will come to Pass some day. The fact that the Arab "hordes," even after the war in the Persian Gulf of 1991, are still allies of Russia indicates it may be sooner than most people think.

If, as biblical prophecy predicts, Russia is going to lead an attack on Israel and be destroyed by God in the process, that nation had better get with it or they will no longer be a world power. At the rate they are collapsing internally, Russia will be a fifth-rate nation by the twenty- first century.

To help you put all these events in perspective, read Ezekiel 38 and 39 before proceeding with this chapter.

Why Single Out Russia?

Next to His Son, human beings are dearest to the heart of God. He seems to love them even more than He does the angels, for He sent His only begotten Son to die for human beings. Only mankind can sin against God yet be forgiven and granted eternal life through belief in His Son.

In two chapters of the Book of Ezekiel, however, God establishes that He is against the nation of Russia. That is most unusual because history shows that God is for mankind. There must be some compelling reason why God, who loves us so much that He gave His Son for us, would turn so aggressively against an entire nation.

The key, I believe, is the satanic presence that indwelt many of the Russian leaders for so many years. In several Old Testament prophecies, God's proclamation of judgment went far beyond the immediate kingdom to the spirit of Satan that controlled the rulers.

The power of government to oppress billions of people was never lost on Satan. Early in human history he learned to give special attention to world leaders - as he will to the Antichrist world dictator during the Tribulation period. For if Satan controls the dictator, king, or leader of a country, he can ultimately tyrannize that country.



In Daniels day the supreme example was Nebuchadnezzar. Satan exercised dominion over both king and country; thus God opposed both the nation of Babylon, because of its unrighteous ways, and the spirit of Satan, which indwelt the king

So it has been with Russia since 1917. God not only abhors the philosophy of the former Soviet system but the source of power behind it, Satan himself. Consider these prophecies from a loving God who declares He is against Russia, her leader, her capital city, and one of her major provinces.

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, 0 Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal (Ezek. 38:1-3).

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, 0 Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand (Ezek. 39:1-3).

God not only opposes Russia but vividly describes her coming destruction, vowing, "I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals" (Ezek. 39:4;NIV). This is similar to our Lord's prediction concerning the armies of the Antichrist. (See Matt. 24:28 and Rev. 19:17-21.) Such graphic prophecies are reserved not just for Stalin-like dictators who brutalize their subjects but the satanic spirit that indwells them. This judgment is really aimed at the satanic power within "Gog," the chief ruler of the Russians.

God Against Gog

Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution, Satan has ostensibly made his anti-human headquarters the city of Moscow and his personal dwelling such leaders as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, and for six and one-half years, Gorbachev, who was more subtle than all of them. Under satanic influence, they incited communism's anti-human governmental systems to enslave upward of 1.5 billion people and thus incurred the wrath of God for three reasons:

1. They propagated an atheistic religion.

The most heinous sin in God's eyes is to deceive people by teaching a religion other than the gospel of Christ.

Our Lord revealed the attitude of God in every deed. He always had time for repentant sinners and showered mercy upon them. He reserved His severest strictures not for adulterers, tax collectors, or other sinners but for the religious leaders of His day. Why? They had deceived people about God.

The doctrine of atheism is such an integral part of communism that wherever the philosophy has gone - either in a totalitarian takeover of a country or in the infiltration of the universities of the free world - its teachers have always taught materialism and atheism, the fundamental doctrines of Karl Marx and his disciples. They have appealed to the masses with their philosophy of economic socialism because it attracts votes.

An irony of history is that the precepts of communism have never worked successfully. Never has communism raised the standard of living in any country. In addition, every country that has voted Communists into power in a free election has always voted them out of power at the first opportunity. Witness the dissolution of the USSR.

Since its inception, communism has consistently fostered a rejection of God, supplanting Him with a belief in "man's potential, not God's.'' It is safe to say that no other philosophy of life has created more skeptics, agnostics, and unbelievers, and it would never have had the worldwide impact it has had without the power of the former Soviet Union behind it.

Communism has been effective in polluting the minds of young people in the Western world because it is so close to secular humanism. This philosophy of life, to one degree or another, is held by most of those who occupy chairs of philosophy, law, or education in the major universities and other educational institutions of the West. As I have explained in my four books on secular humanism, not all secular humanists are Communists, but all Communists are secular humanists.' Therefore, it would be easy for Communists to infiltrate educational institutions in any country, even in the free world.

Posing as secular humanists, these Marxist professors teach their anti- God, anti-morality, anti-free enterprise, and anti-Christianity philosophy. Many Communists have used this subterfuge to earn their living at taxpayers' expense in our educational institutions, spending their entire lifetimes polluting the faith of as many of the thirteen million college students in America as they can. Despite recent events, they continue to pursue the same ends throughout the rest of the Western world.

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