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I'm going have to re-read about Gog and Magog..

How would God do His one world government different? What if we are already under that one world government and just don't realize it? wars in heaven just as much as on earth?  What is the new Jerusalem and what will it do? Will there be complete peace for all when it gets here? or will there still be wars and fights to get that established?   

One of the problems that keeps people in the dark is the notion that everything
in the bible is a metaphor and subject to interpretation.

There are those that teach that the millennium has already come and gone despite the fact that many prophesies in regard to the millennium have not been fulfilled. Ezekiel tells us that after Messiah comes and builds the temple, a river will flow out from the east of it and down to the dead sea. When the waters of the river touch the dead sea, the sea will be healed. Fish will be in abundance and there will be a fishing industry on the sea. Little things like these events are not metaphors. They are actually very real physical earthly happening events.

There is also a teaching that the trees of life spoken of in Revelation are not literally the tree of life but is instead a metaphor that refers to Christ. These trees of life are also mentioned in Ezekiel.

The belief that everything in the Bible is a metaphor shows a lack of faith. It is in fact calling the author a liar and by extension, calling God a liar.

We can learn lessons of life from the lives of those who are recorded in the Bible. We can even discern spiritual metaphors from those lives. However, that does not produce a general rule that everything is a metaphor.

Those things that are metaphors are metaphors. For example:
  Many of the parables that Jesus used are metaphors used for the purpose of teaching a truth.
  Many of the prophesies in the old testament such as Daniel talk of beasts, seas and other odd things. These are clearly metaphors referring to something in the natural. Many of the beasts in Daniel and Revelation for example, relate to the actual animal that a nation used or uses as it's emblem.

Unfortunately, some people think that just because metaphors are found in the Bible, everything that is written in it is a metaphor when the majority of the Bible is a historical record of God dealing with His fallen creation He called man.

Scott A. Tovey