This Blessed Hope: Living for the Return of Jesus | Armageddon

Key Scripture: Titus 2:11-15 NIV

Quotes:

 “Sometimes I wonder, if we are destined to witness Armageddon.” Ronald Reagan 

“Armageddon. The very word chills the soul. There are probably very few adults who are not familiar with that word and what it implies. Why have our national leaders, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, begun to use that doomsday word in their speaking and writing? I believe it is because they can see how modern weaponry and international tensions are showing how quickly global equilibrium could get out of control, leading to a cataclysmic war such as the world has never seen before. This war, called Armageddon, makes all the wars fought to date look like minor skirmishes. This war will draw the final curtain on modern civilization.” David Jeremiah 

What is Armageddon?

The name of the valley where the final war between God and the kings of this world—led by the Beast—will take place.

Biblical Truths Concerning Armageddon

1. The Preparation

"The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child." Revelation 12:9,13 NIV 

"Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty." Revelation 16:13-14 NIV 

2. The Place 

"Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon." Revelation 16:16

Given the enormous attention this word receives, it may surprise you that Armageddon is mentioned only once in the Bible—right here in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The word originates from the Hebrew har megiddo meaning “the mount of Megiddo.” Har means “mount,” and megiddo means “slaughter”; so the meaning of Armageddon is “Mount of Slaughter.” David Jeremiah 

3. The Purpose

• To Finish His Judgment Upon Israel

• To Finalize His Judgment Upon Nations That Persecuted Israel 

"I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of     Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land." Joel 3:2

• To Formally Judge All Nations That Have Rejected Him

"Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. 'He will rule them with an iron scepter.' He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords." Revlation 19:15-16

"They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him." Revelation 16:9

Now What?

•  When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." Genesis 3:15

“Satan’s head was bruised fatally at the cross. We are no longer prisoners of war. We can stop cowering.” Charles Stanley