Research Paper On Armageddon

Future Event Number Eleven:

Armageddon Will Take Place

Armageddon, in end-time terms, is about the most misunderstood event that will take place at the end of our age. Everyone who has commented on this critical event seems to have his own peculiar spin, and few people seem to have a rational, unbiased interpretation on Armageddon. Armageddon is, at the end of the day, an event revealed by God to his prophets, so that believers can be ready should this event take place during their lifetime.

There is quite a lot of confusion and obfuscation surrounding Armageddon. You have to be very careful not to allow people with axes to grind, or who just do not understand prophecy, to mislead you. Some even deride the Scriptures, seek at every turn to

Armageddon is when Muslims overrun Israel and take over her nuclear weapons and start World War Three.

5. Armageddon has already happened and any reference to a future Armageddon is an attempt to frighten the world.

6. Armageddon is a myth derived from Norse mythology in which the final battle is fought between good and evil.

7. Some say Armageddon is a word that was misinterpreted because it sounds like another word and means something entirely different; known as a homophone.

Were you to put the words “myths about the biblical Armageddon” in the Google search engine as I did, you would get over 27,000 references, and that would give you an idea of the state of play as regards this future

Notice it is not a battle, but a place, and Bible scholars are in agreement that Armageddon means “hill of Megiddo,” which referred to the location of an ancient town called Megiddo, that was strongly fortified and located strategically in northern Palestine.

Megiddo is on a small, elevated plateau—there are several others in the area—and it is adjacent to a coastal plain large enough to accommodate army encampments, and some think it is set up for an ideal battlefield. Megiddo was very important because of its strategic location right at the junction of military and commercial trade routes linking Mesopotamia, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine (now Israel), and Egypt, and history records that many battles were fought at this location over the