Made at a time when Russia was entirely unknown to the outside world, and when nobody could imagine that it would attain such progress and domination, this prophecy is remarkably clear. It tells us that:
‘Meshech and Tubal (Moscow and Russia) will attain great power and glory until, aware of their strength, they would try to subjugate other countries and snatch away their wealth.’ We should note that according to the words of this prophesy, Persia would one day be reduced to submission by Moscow. (The foundations for which are being laid in the current Russian demand for oil concessions from Iran.)
...‘Carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil’ (This portion of the prophecy indicates that Russian imperialism would be even more dangerous for the other countries than the earlier forms of imperialism.) We are told that Russia would leap forward in wave after wave of unchecked conquests until it would begin to dream of holding sway over Jerusalem, lying defenceless in the path of its victorious hordes. Then God’s wrath would be kindled and a rain of fire and sulphur would descend upon it, and its jaws would be broken by heavy piercing blows which would bring such utter destruction that its dead would lie in heaps in the valleys and it would take months to cover them up with earth.
To people who do not believe in prophesies, I would like to say that if there was no God who gave His Apostles foreknowledge of mighty events, then who was it that told Ezekiel two thousand and five hundred years ago that Russia would embark upon a program of world conquest, aggression and aggrandisement, so that God’s wrath would be kindled against it and the punishment from heaven would leave its power in ruins. When we give due thought to this prophecy and the extraordinary manner in which it has come true in our own days, we are forced to conclude that God who conveys such tidings to His chosen servants really does exist. And if God does exist, and He gave to Ezekiel foreknowledge of these events, we must also bear in mind that God Almighty does not wish that the Communist system, which forms the basis of Russia’s political economy and social structure, should be permanently established in the world; and that its downfall is not very far away.