Ezekiel 38, 39 says, correctly, that Egypt and Jordan would not participate in this attack.
Interestingly, these two nations have signed recent peace treaties with Israel. Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
See:
-Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt (american-israeli cooperative enterprise)
-Egypt, U.S. Agree On Bright Star (menl)
-Jordan's King Abdullah Warns Israel to Start Preparing Further Pullbacks (arutz 7)
Terrorist groups in Sudan
Sudan provide military training and support to Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Algeria's
Armed Islamic Group, and regional Islamic and non-Islamic opposition and groups in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda and Tunisia.
In addition, hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guards are sent to terrorist training camps in Sudan to train in the subversion
of moderate Arab regimes.
8 After many days (after the Armageddon of 1918 AD), you will be called
to arms.
2 "Son of man, (Jesus), set your (Christians) face (in the body of your church) against Gog, (Islam),
of the land of (the former ex-USSR), Magog, (i.e.; the south eastern Muslim republics of the former USSR.),
the chief prince of Meshech, (once the Islamic Ottoman Empire, centered in Turkey) and (Muslim) Tubal,
(especially Uzbekistan, the oil rich area in Tobolsk, once part of the USSR); prophesy against him.
3 and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Gog,' (Islam), chief prince, (Hebrew:
nasi; means king, chief, or sheik), of Meshech, (i.e.; Turkey, the center of Islam in the Ottoman Empire), and Tubal,
(especially Uzbekistan, the oil rich area in Tobolsk, once a muslim State inside the USSR).
4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army your horses, your horsemen fully
armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords, (against Kurdish terrorists).
5 Persia, [Iran]), Cush, [Al Queda's base in the Sudan] and Put, [Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia now influenced
by ISIS] will be with them, all with shields and helmets,
6 also Gomer, (all the Muslms), with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah (the five ex-Soviet Central Asian republics
of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) from the far north (Xinjiang; or Eastern Turkestan,
a province in northwestern China), with all its troops the many nations with you.
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The Amplified Theistic Evolution Bible Interpretation:
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Ezekiel 38
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A Prophecy Against Gog, (i.e.; Prince of Islam. Muslims are commanded to fight and slay
non-believers in Jihad, i.e.; holy war, unless they convert to Islam [Surahs 9:5 and 47:4; vol. 1, b. 2, Hadith 24 and 35]),
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1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, (The Allied Forces), set your (military) face (as the Triple Alliance of Russia, Britain, and France) against Gog,
(i.e.; Islam, centered in the Ottoman Empire), of the land of (the former ex-USSR), Magog, (what is now south eastern Muslim republics of the former USSR, the Caucases, Chechnya, and Dagestan),
the chief prince of Meshech, (Turkey, Caliphate of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, 1299-1919 AD)
and (Muslim) Tubal, (especially Uzbekistan, the oil rich area
in Tobolsk, once part of the now defunct USSR); prophesy against him, (Islam).
3 And say: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'I am against you, O Gog,' (i.e.; Islam), 'chief prince [Hebrew: nasi; means king, chief, or sheik], of Meshech,
(Islam, once centered in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey) and Tubal, (especially Uzbekistan,
the oil rich area in Tobolsk, once a muslim State of the USSR).
4 I will turn you, (Turkey, the remnant of the Ottoman Empire), around
(after losing WWI and aligning yourself thereafter with Europe), put hooks in your jaws (from
ISIS and the Kurds), and bring you out (again) with your whole army your
horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords,
(as they will have here, in World War I).
5 Persia, [Iran], Cush, [Sudan] and Put,
[Libya]) will be with them, all with shields and helmets,
6 Also Gomer, (the unfaithful Muslims who are against the Christ), with all
its troops, and Beth Togarmah (the five ex-Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) from the far north (Xinjiang; or Eastern Turkestan, a province
in northwestern China), with all its troops the many nations with you.
7 Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them,
(World War I is about to destroy the Ottoman Muslim Empire).
[World War I ends with the fall of the Ottoman Empire]
8 After many days (after the Armageddon of 1918 AD), you will be called
to arms.
In future years you will invade a land, (Israel), that has recovered from war
(which was their Holocaust), whose people were gathered (in 1948) from
many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate: (Isaiah 11:11-12; Ezekiel 37:21-22;
38:8).
They had been brought out from the nations, and, now, all of them live in safety (in the State
of Israel: [Zech 8:4-7]).
9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be
like a cloud covering the land.
10 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day, (in your terrorism of the 21st century)
thoughts (of Islamic demogoguery) will come into your mind and you will devise
an evil scheme (to monopolize all the Energy Resources of the world).
11 You will say, I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people
(those in the oil rich nations of Suadi Arabia, Yeman, Kuwait, and other OPEC Nations) all of them living
without walls and without gates and bars.
12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins (of Israel) and the people (of the Diaspora), gathered from the (Western European)
nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the (Holy) land."
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13 Sheba, (Yemen), and Dedan, ([alt. 1 Chron. 1:7 'Rodanim,' the
island of Rhodes], west of modern Turkey between Cyprus and the mainland of Greece) and the merchants
of Tarshish, (Greeks or gentiles), and all her villages will say to you, "Have you come to plunder?
Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?"
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14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, (Islam: [Dan 7:8]): 'This
is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, (1948 AD), when my people Israel are living in
safety (in their own promised lands), will you not take notice of it? (It is the
sign of the end, i.e.; the Fig Tree is re-established: [Zech 8:3]).
15 You will come from your place in the far north, you, (Turkey), and many
nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.
16 You will advance against my people, Israel, like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog,
(Islam: [Dan 7:8]), I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself
holy, through you, before their eyes.
17 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Are you not the one,' (Islam: [Dan 7:8, Rev 6:1-8]), 'I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel,' (Dan 12:11-13, Matt 24:15)? 'At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you,' (you builders of the Dome of the Rock
which sits where it ought not), 'against them.'
18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog, (the head of Islam, Dan 7:8), attacks
the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD.
19 In my zeal and fiery wrath, (Zech 8:1-2), I declare that at that time,
(2025 AD [Dan 12:13]) there shall be a great "earthquake" in the land of Israel,, (as Jews realize
that Christ was The Elijah, returned as had been promised: [Matt 3:16-17]).
20 The fish of the sea, (mankind: [Habakkul 1:14]), the birds of the air,
(Jews: [Israel is the bird migration capital of the world.]), the beasts of the (religious)
field, every creature (of every nation) that moves along the ground,
(Habukkuk 1:14], and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence, (As
Reality is recognized as my real name). The mountains (of great Institutions, in Christianity
and Islam, in particular), will be overturned, (theologically), the cliffs
(of great doctrines) will crumble and every wall (of religion) will fall
to the ground.
21 I will summon a sword against Gog, (Islam: [the eleventh horn on the seven headed beast]),
on all my mountains, (The two books, Old Testament and the New Testament, which compare Elijah's
works with those of The Christ), declares the Sovereign LORD, (i.e.; the ever unfolding Reality,
itself). Every man's sword will be against his brother, (as all religions and atheists, both,
debate this trinity between Truth, on the one side, and the image it represents of Reality, on the other side: Zech 14:13)
22 I will execute judgment upon him, (Islam: [Dan 7:8]), with plague and
bloodshed, (as Shiite vs Sunni); I will pour down torrents of rain, (ammunition),
hailstones (of great bombings), and burning sulfur (from cannons)
on him, (Islam: [Dan 7:8]), and on his troops and on the many nations with
him, (Russia, Iran, France)
23 "And so I will show my greatness, (I am Reality), and my holiness,
(Truth), and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations, (Christian and Muslim).
Then they will know that I, (almighty Reality), am the LORD"
(link to Ezekiel 39)
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