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So who is Gog of Magog?  To answer that question, we need to search the Bible to find out who attacks God's people.  The Bible mentions the attack by 'Gog of Magog,' the attack by "the king of the north," and the attack by "the kings of the earth."  (Ezekiel 38:2, 10-13; Daniel 11:40, 44,  45; Revelation 17:14; 19:19) Are these different attacks?  That is not likely. It seems that the Bible is using different names to describe the same attack.  Why do we say that? Because the  Bible tells us that all the nations of the earth will be part of this final attack that starts the war of Armageddon.  -Revelation 16:14, 16.  

When we compare all these Bible references about the final attack on God's people, it is clear that the name Gog of Magog does not refer to Satan. Instead,  Gog of Magog refers to a group  of nations.  Will "the king of the north" lead this group?  We cannot say for sure. But this explanation seems to be in harmony with what Jehovah says about Gog:  "You will come from your place, from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses,  a great assembly, a vast army." -Ezekiel 38:6, 15. 

Similarly, the prophet Daniel, who lived at the same time as Ezekiel, says about the king of the north:  "Reports  out of the east and out of the north will disturb him, and he will go out in a great rage to annihilate and to devote  many to destruction.  And he will plant his royal tents between the gran sea and the holy mountain of Decoration; and he will come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him."  (Daniel 11:44, 45) This is similar to what the book of Ezekiel says that Gog will do. -Ezekiel 38:8-12, 16. 

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