Gog and Magog

Gog and Ma·gog (g

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pl.n.

In Judeo-Christian tradition, the satanic powers who wage war against God and the righteous at the end of the world.

Gog and Magog [gɒg ˈmeɪgɒg]

1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Old Testament a hostile prince and the land from which he comes to attack Israel (Ezekiel 38)

2. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) New Testament two kings, who are to attack the Church in a climactic battle, but are then to be destroyed by God (Revelation 20:8-10)

3. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) Brit Folklore two giants, the only survivors of a race of giants destroyed by Brutus, the legendary founder of Britain

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Gog and Magog - biblical names of the enemies of God's people who wage war against God at the end of the world; "in the Book of Ezekiel Gog is a ruler from the land of Magog but in the Book of Revelation Gog and Magog are nations under the rule of Satan"

mythical being - an imaginary being of myth or fable

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mythical being

Recently, former French President Jacques Chirac revealed how in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, Bush called him up to warn that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Holy Land and why they must be defeated by the "Coalition of the Willing".

Defending the indefensible by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Aa Recently, former French president Jacques Chirac revealed how in the run up to the Iraq invasion Bush called him up to warn that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog (Yajuj and Majuj in the Quran, I think

One Nation under God by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

What Kozintsev skyscapes then is Lear's Corbusian warping of his country into the "empty geometry" (174) of his psyche--a nebulous terrain that Rothwell evocatively charts as "the imaginary realm of Gog and Magog, which, if nothing can be about something, is pretty much what King Lear's about" ("In Search" 145).

"Darkness rumbling": Kozintsev's Karol Lier and the visual acoustics ... by Catania, Saviour / Literature-Film Quarterly