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Gog and Magog are two groups of Turks, descended from Yaafith (Japheth), the father of the Turks, one of the sons of Noah. At the time of Abraham (AS), there was a king called Dhoo'l-Qarnayn. He performed Tawaaf around the Ka'bah with Abraham (AS) when he first built it; he believed and followed him. Dhoo'l-Qarnayn was a good man and a great king; Allah gave him great power and he ruled the east and west. He held sway over all kings and countries, and travelled far and wide in both east and west. He travelled eastwards until he reached a pass between two mountains, through which people were coming out.
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There has been a lively debate down through the years as to the identity of "Gog" and "Magog." Gog is a name of a leader of a nation called "Magog" found in the prophecies of Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39. The debate took on a new life with the advent of popular Bible Prophecy author Hal Lindsey whose popular books on prophecy pronounced the identity of Gog as being The Soviet Union. In recent years, Hal and others holding his views have been forced to backpedal on the identity of Gog because the Soviet Union no longer exists. Instead, Russia is the more acceptable concept now presented by the Lindsey wing of conservative Bible prophecy interpretation.
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Gog has the power to give others abilities - such as Repo Man, a being who could become huge and had strength enough to battle Superboy and (a weakened) Superman. This appeared to be temporary. This was explained through scientifically synthesizing kryptonite and using it to alter Repo Man's DNA.
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When the project began, Gog worked with Mammon Hoole. In their labs on the planet Kiva they tinkered with the ability to control life and death. Hoole became alarmed when he realized their experiments were draining the life from Kiva. Despite this, Gog decided to continue the experiments. The experiments eventually wiped out all life on the planet, including the Kivans. The experiments on Kiva were deemed a failure, which Gog blamed on Hoole.
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The tradition of Gog and Magog begins in the Bible with the reference to Magog, son of Japheth, in the Book of Genesis and continues in cryptic prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel, which are echoed in the Book of Revelation. The ambiguity of this tradition cannot be overstated. Even the nature of these entities differs greatly between sources. They are variously presented as men, supernatural beings (giants or demons), national groups, or lands. Gog and Magog appear in the Qur'an and occur widely in mythology and folklore.
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Appearing both in Genesis and Revelation, Gog and Magog have long been associated with beginnings and endings. For many medieval writers, Gog and Magog functioned as typological metaphors, names that could be applied to whatever was alien, threatening, or actively hostile in a manner that paralleled Biblical usage. By the late classical period biblical commentators and romance writers identified Gog and Magog with a wide variety of races and linked them to the story of Alexander the Great. Josephus, identifies the peoples of Gog and Magog with the Scythians, and ... describes how Alexander built iron gates in the Caucuses to contain them. In a fifth- century Armenian version of Pseudo-Callisthenes' "Letter from Alexander to Olympias," Alexander encloses the races of Gog and Magog with God's help. In this account the races of Gog and Magog are described as cannibals who eat " the flesh of human beings and drink their blood like water and that of all animals that creep.
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