Ezekiel 38:17
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
The coming attacker against Israel is the one God had spoken of in former time through His servants the prophets of Israel. Those prophets had prophesied in those days through many years that He would bring that power against His people. The prophecy belongs to a chapter that also foretells the gathering of Israel's people and an invasion against them in the latter years. That whole prophetic outline is bound up with the work now being carried forward in foreign countries.