Of course, this Biblical reference could not mean that all the armies of the world are gathered to the literal place called Megiddo, which anciently dominated a strategic passageway in the Middle East. All the armies would not fit into this location. Then what does the Scriptural term “Har–Magedon” or “Armageddon” mean?
Awake! November 8, 1974 p. 7, 8
Section heading: Armageddon on Their Minds
Awake! December 22, 1974 p. 29
“Increasingly, responsible and knowledgeable men in Europe are talking of what could be described as the coming Armageddon. Or better, the oil Armageddon,” reports a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post Service
Awake! December 22, 1974 p. 29
In his recent gloomy assessment of the world’s condition, outgoing chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee J. W. Fulbright asserted that the situation in the Middle East could explode into international acts, the “consequences therefrom ranging from another great depression to Armageddon itself.”
Awake! December 22, 1974 p. 29