Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which would usher in the age of the Messiah. The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the " end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world. By the time of the New Testament's Revelation 20:8, Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog". In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. MAY-gog Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Yajuj and Majuj ( Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūj u wa-Maʾjūj u) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Quran, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands.
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