“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.
God puts hooks in His enemy's jaws before the trouble even comes, so His people need not be frightened. He foresees those who will attack His church and declares Himself against them, yet turns even their wrath to His praise and the glory of His own name.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 38:1-13
After the Ottoman power has run its long course, God will visit the Turk with vengeance, not grace. When the Jews are restored to Judea from their diaspora, enraged at their return, the Turks will muster a vast army and march into the land to drive them out again.
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Irony. Prepare thee and all thine with all needful accoutrements for war--that ye may perish together. be . . . a guard unto them--that is, if thou canst.