Ezekiel 38:16

And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Ver. 16. And thou shalt come up against my people.] Oh happy they in such a privilege, maugre all thy malice! Deu 33:29

In the latter days.] Before the coming of the Messiah, first and second.

And I will bring thee.] But for thy bane.

Against my land.] "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof"; Psa 24:1 but that land where God is sincerely served is his peculiar portion. It was said of old, Anglia regnum Dei; England was the kingdom of God, a it is now so much more.

When I shall be sanctified in thee,] i.e., Glorified in thy just and utter destruction.

a Polyd. Virg.