ABSTRACT
The identification of Gog and Magog with ‘the North’ caused many premillenialists to contend, in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that Russia was the fulfilment of this long-awaited foe. In the twentieth century, though, British-Israelists made claims about the identity of Russia – or more accurately the Soviet Union – in drama of the apocalypse. In this chapter, the prophet predicts the coming of a ‘King from the North,’ who would wage war against his neighbours. Russia and Britain had competed periodically during the period of the late nineteenth century as part of the ‘Great Game,’ before ultimately forming an alliance which would last for the majority of the First World War. British statesmen were being ‘pressed to combine with Soviet Russia for restraint of aggression.’ When the author considers all that has happened to Russia within the last twenty-five years, and he sees Russia’s inexplicable and phenomenal rise, the author only calls it one of the great phenomena in history.
