Lindsey's earlier predictions all assumed that the Cold War would continue indefinitely, and had eschatological significance; he explicitly identified Russia with the apocalyptic figure of Gog.
At the south end, the arcade features effigies of mythical figures Gog and Magog and a clock which chimes each hour.
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On its eastern side, neighboring Scythia, were the peoples Gog and Magog, whom Alexander the Great had walled in.
The names and deeds of these demon brothers are comparable to Gog and Magog in the Bible and ya'jooj wa ma'jooj (يأجوج و مأجوج) of Muslim tradition as they are mentioned in the Qur'an.
Andrew Colin Gow studied the original German language texts and concluded that the legend of the Red Jews was a conflation of three separate traditions: the Biblical prophetic references to Gog and Magog, the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and an episode from the Alexander Romance, in which Alexander the Great encloses a race of heathens behind a great wall in Caucasus.