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After the rotting of those who did "military service"^l against "Jerusalem" has run its course, brought about spiritually by God, then those who have remained faithful to God will begin their continual employment of passing through spiritual "Israel" to identify men of uncleanness and "build" beside their remains a marker of identification (their "works" having already been put to death). Their teachings of uncleanness still on the "surface of the earth"^▲ are to be searched out and identified; awaiting those men who will do (teach) the burying out of sight of their earthly work of spiritual uncleanness in "Israel".

These men, who prior to their death made "spoil" of their "brothers", are those referred to as gog's crowd. They created and were the members of the "house" of intense lovers of them, and are great in number "like clouds to cover the land". (Ezek 38:16). Everything about them from their early 'cloud-like' beginnings over spiritual "Israel" must be shown up by the light of God's Word and proven to be unclean. The true teachings of the Holy Scriptures that they twisted in all their veiled and subtle ways to change "times and law" of God, will bury them. Knowledge of them will be used, from the symbolic "bowls" before the altar, to cleanse others; who will be required to take from these "bowls" of past profanations "before" the "altar". This means that one will not be able to have communication with God, or dedicate oneself to Him, if one has not taken from these "bowls" (of Zech Ch.14) and been made clean before going to His "altar" to offer up personal spiritual sacrifices.

Gog's crowd are referred to as mighty persons and warriors whom God will sacrifice for those whom they previously had plundered, namely those of the house of "Israel", and their works carried out on the mountains of "Israel" within their "land". Gog's crowd can only be those who exalted themselves over others to a place of spirit "darkness", rebelling against God's anointed sons on earth in their satanically foolish desire for places within "Israel", in their self-glorifying desire for positions of authority in the holy place – to try to destroy it.

Finally: "Is it to do much plundering that you have congregated your congregation, in order to carry off silver and gold, to take wealth and property, to get a very big spoil? …In the final part of the days it will occur". (From Ezek 38:13,16). They can only answer that it was not for "silver and gold". Their sole purpose was the stopping-up of the way to God for "those passing through" "Israel" to Him. This they did within the spiritual "land". But read Jehovah's words to them in Ezekiel 39:11-16, Zechariah 14:12,13, Daniel 12:1,2 and Matthew 25:41-46.

"And this is what will prove to be the scourge with which Jehovah will scourge all the peoples that will actually do military service^l against Jerusalem: Their will be a rotting away of one's flesh, while one is standing upon one's feet; and one's very eyes will rot away in their sockets, and one's very tongue will rot away in one's mouth." (Zech 14:12 NWT).

"And there will be men for continual [employment] whom they will divide off, passing along through the land, burying, with those passing through, those left remaining on the surface of the earth^▲, in order to cleanse it. To the end of seven months they will keep making search." (Ezek 39:14 NWT).