The Final Battle!
"For they are spirits of demons, performing
signs,
which go out to the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that
great day of God Almighty.... And they gathered
them together to the place called in Hebrew,
Armageddon."
Revelation 16: 14, 16
Napoleon Bonaparte, French military general
and
political leader, stood in the Valley of Megiddo, south
west of the Sea of Galilee, and said, “All the armies
of the world could maneuver
their forces on this vast
plain.”
Plains of Megiddo were the site
of numerous military
conflicts in the Old Testament. Egyptian pharaohs and
Canaanite kings did battle on the plains, as well as
Jewish judges and kings.
And in the modern era, the British army defeated the
Ottoman Turks there in 1918. So it is no
surprise that
“the battle of that great day of God Almighty” will take
place there at a time in the future.
It is also no surprise that this final battle wraps up
the Tribulation judgments in Revelation 16 prior to
the Second Coming of
Christ.
Take heart and thank God that the world’s
rebellion will one day be quelled and a reign
of peace and justice will follow.
Let’s keep our chins up and our
knees down. We’re on the victory
side!
Alan Redpath
