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== Gog dan Magog dalam fikrah apokaliptis modern ==
Pada awal abad ke-19, sejumlah [[rabbi|rabi]] [[Yahudi Hasidut|Hasidi]] menyebut [[Invasi Prancis ke Rusia (1812)|invasi Prancis ke Rusia]] di bawah komando [[Napoleon]] sebagai "Perang Gog dan Magog".{{sfn|Wessels|2013|p=205}} Namun seiring berjalannya waktu, ekspektasi-ekspektasi apokaliptis lambat laun memudar, karena masyarakat Eropa mulai mengadopsi wawasan dunia yang kian lama kian sekuler.{{sfn|Kyle|2012|pp=34–35}} Perkembangan semacam ini tidak terjadi di Amerika Serikat, karena hasil angket tahun 2002 menunjukkan bahwa 59% warga Amerika Serikat percaya bahwa peristiwa-peristiwa yang diramalkan dalam Kitab Wahyu pasti akan terjadi.{{sfn|Filiu|2011|p=196}} Semasa [[Perang Dingin]], gagasan bahwa [[Republik Sosialis Federasi Soviet Rusia|Republik Soviet Rusia]] memainkan peran Gog menjadi populer, karena dalam Kitab Yehezkiel berbahasa Ibrani, Gog disebut ''Ros Mesyek'' (Rais Mesekh, diterjemahkan [[Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia|LAI]] menjadi "raja agung negeri Mesekh"), mirip-mirip bunyinya dengan Rusia-Moskwa.{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|1996|p=178}} Bahkan ada orang-orang Rusia yang menerima gagasan tersebut, agaknya tanpa mempedulikan implikasinya (yang penting punya leluhur tokoh Alkitab), demikian pula [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyer |first=Paul|title=When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern Culture |publisher=Belknap Press |year=1992 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FyTeW7vQ8K4C&pg=PR1|ref=harv|isbn=9780674028616 |page=162}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Marsh |first=Christopher |year=2011 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-xlLFUegIBQC&pg=PA254 |title=Religion and the State in Russia and China |publisher=A&C Black |ref=harv|isbn=9781441112477 |page=254}}</ref><!--
Some post-Cold War [[Millenarianism|millenarians]] still identify Gog with Russia, but they now tend to stress its allies among Islamic nations, especially [[Iran]].{{sfn|Kyle|2012|p=171}} For the most fervent, the countdown to [[Armageddon]] began with the [[Aliyah|return of the Jews to Israel]], followed quickly by further signs pointing to the nearness of the final battle—nuclear weapons, [[European integration]], Israel's reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967, and America's wars in [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]] and the [[Persian Gulf]].{{sfn|Kyle|2012|p=4}} A disputed story about US President [[George W. Bush]] claims that, in the prelude to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]], Bush told French President [[Jacques Chirac]], "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East." Bush is said to have continued, "This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase His people's enemies before a new age begins."{{r|jean-edward-smith}} Officials from the Bush Administration claim there is no record of this conversation and that making such references, "doesn't sound at all like Bush."{{r|inboden}}
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