In the hands of Early Christian writers they became apocalyptic hordes. Romanized Jewish historian Josephus knew them as the nation descended from Magog the Japhetite, as in Genesis, and explained them to be the Scythians.
One view within Christianity is more starkly apocalyptic, making Gog and Magog, here indicating nations rather than individuals, allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as described in the Book of Revelation.Ī legend was attached to Gog and Magog by the time of the Roman period, that the Gates of Alexander were erected by Alexander the Great to repel the tribe. Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah. The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the " end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land in Genesis 10, Magog is a man and eponymous ancestor of a nation, but no Gog is mentioned by the time of Revelation 20:8 Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog". MAY-gog Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Yajuj and Majuj ( Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūj u wa-Maʾjūj u) appear in the Bible and the Quran as individuals, tribes, or lands.
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