Gog & Co

Royal arcade Melbourne Gog and Magog.

Gog and Magog appear as a pair of statues in the Royal Arcade which runs from Little Collins Street to Bourke Street, between Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street in Melbourne, Australia. The two seven-foot figures are carved from pine and stand alongside a clock and bells. They represent the mythological figures who were conscripted by the Trojans to fight against the ancient Britons (according to the information under the clock). They are well over 100 years old and strike the time on the hour and each quarter-hour.

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With the Russian invasion of Georgia the Christian apocalyptics, especially the dispensationalists, are all lathered up again in joyful anticipation of the suppossed end-time battle of Armageddon when Russia will suppossedly lead a confederation of armies, including the Arab nations, in a war to the death against Israel.

The war of "Gog and Magog" is mentioned in the New Testament Book of Revelation, which draws on the depiction of them in the older prophetic works.

They appear in verses 20:7-8:

7. 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: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
8. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (KJV)

H/T: J Tex