The Bible says in Ezekiel 38 and 39, that God would use Magog in the end time to come against Israel. Ezekiel 39:1 says: “Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:” And in chapter 38 verse 2, He says, “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him.” The Bible doesn’t give the names of Magog’s sons, but it is his descendants that call Japhetic people groups against Israel. Magog, and his descendants were known as Scythians. Scythia is known as Russia today.
The Bible says that Magog is the chief prince of Meshech; Meshech is none other than Moscow, and Tubal is the state of Tobolsk. Earlier place names of Meshech and Tubal also appear in Turkey as Mus and Mutki (Meshech), and in Southern Russia or Chechnya as Tbilisi (Tubal). Gog was known in history as Gyges of Lydia (Turkey), ruler of Muski and Tabal (Meshech and Tubal). God is using him as a type of the beast that will cause the nations to come against Israel after the 1000-year reign of Messiah. The 1000 years is symbolic for an extended period of time. It is important to note that the reign of Christ had already started in the days of the Apostles, and that Apollyon was released in the 20th century.
Revelation 20:7-8 says “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.”
If the millennium is of a literal understanding, and many believe Christ is supposed to come before Revelation 20 takes place, how are we looking at Ezekiel 38 and 39 happening now, if it’s supposed to happen 1000 years from now? Unless Christ has been ruling in the heavenly Jerusalem over the earth and the dead saints are ruling with him. The living saints are seated in heavenly places in Christ, while at the same time through the Spirit he rules in us on the earth. This would also mean the resurrection happens when Christ returns, which it does.
But what about the first resurrection one might ask? The first resurrection is our born again experience. The second death has no power
John 5:24 says “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 
-Anthony Booker
The GATHERING Place 