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Finally, biblical prophetic texts need to be examined grammatically, which includes the
study of words and how those words are related to each other in a sentence. This will
prevent readers from inappropriately reading contemporary meanings of words back into
the Bible. Thus one will avoid reading “rosh” in Ezekiel 38:1-2 as “Russia”, since “rosh”
is a generic Hebrew term for “prince” not a proper name. Based on this grammatical fact,
one need not subscribe to the theory that Russia is the nation from the north who will
attack Israel in the last days.
But whatever one’s view of eschatology, God’s word of assurance rings forth from
biblical prophecy assuring Christians that they are on the winning side, the kingdom of
God!
C. Marvin Pate
August, 2009