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Is the Gog-Magog War Armageddon?
The list of 70 names in Genesis 10 is often called the Table of Nations because each man named was the original ancestor of an ethnic group that later became a nation. These post-diluvian men are the sons and descendants of Noah’s three sons. Japeth was Noah’s eldest son. His descendants are mentioned in Genesis 10:2-5. Japeth had seven sons. “The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras” (Genesis 10:2). Three of these names appear in the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39.
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Temple gold in a Jerusalem church basement? The explosive story the church doesn’t want you to ask about
Somewhere beneath a 12th-century Crusader church in the heart of Jerusalem, a church flying the French flag and administered by the French consulate, a professor of numismatics once stood in a dark cellar staring at golden vessels he immediately recognized as the sacred utensils of the Holy Temple. He pinched himself. He rubbed his eyes. Then a monk’s thunderous voice shattered the silence: “It is forbidden for you to be here!” The professor was escorted out. The subject was never officially discussed again.
