THE BIBLE describes three feasts around the time of the final battle of the age.

Two of these feasts are gruesome. The first takes place at the end of Revelation 17 when the Beast and the ten kings who serve him—supernatural entities, not human political leaders—turn on the great prostitute, Mystery Babylon, “and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.” (Rev. 17:16)

The next takes place as believers rejoice in heaven at the fall of Babylon. This is the marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:6–10).

Finally, there is “the great supper of God,” a sacrificial feast for the “birds that fly directly overhead” (i.e., vultures and carrion birds) to “eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” (Rev. 19:17–18). For centuries, Bible commentators have noted the parallels between this feast and the one at the end of the war of Gog and Magog (Ezek. 39:17–18). It’s not a coincidence; John described the same event as Ezekiel. In other words, the war of Gog and Magog ends at Armageddon.

What’s more, Jews of the Second Temple period understood that “the mighty” in Ezekiel 39:18 and 20 were “the Travelers” of verse 11—that is, the Rephaim, spirits of the giants (Nephilim) who died in the Flood.

This shouldn’t surprise you. After all, this battle is the culmination of a long, supernatural war that began in the Garden of Eden.