“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle … and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”īush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac: The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy: In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated. In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush’s Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light.
Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means? The revelation this month in GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question.