The Bible even has a name for the symbolic battle in which God Almighty puts an end, once and for all, to present-day nationalism, militarism and war. Its symbolic location is called “Armageddon” in the “King James Bible,” known as the Authorized Version.—Rev. 16:14, 16.
“Armageddon?” You may ask, “But are not Armageddon and World War III the same thing?” The answer is NO!
Newspaper pundits may use the word “Armageddon” out of its Biblical context to refer to World War III and nuclear destruction, but the Bible indicates a strikingly different meaning for this term.
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Armageddon is not the consequence of nuclear war. It is the solution to nuclear war, a solution imposed by the only One powerful enough to enforce his will on this violent, gun-toting system of things. Armageddon will not result in smoking craters of radioactive debris.
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What will happen to the arms race in this new earth? To Armageddon survivors, used to ever-growing munitions outlays, the change will be astonishing. God’s Word states:
“Come, you people, behold the activities of Jehovah, how he has set astonishing events on the earth. He is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth. The bow he breaks apart and does cut the spear in pieces; the wagons he burns in the fire.”—Ps. 46:8, 9.
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Are We Nearing Armageddon?
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My Book of Bible Stories
Dad, where’s My Book of Bible Stories?
Well, son, I had a question about Noah’s ark, and your sister had . . .
. . .a question about Solomon, and my friend had . . .
. . .a question about Armageddon, and. . .
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Take as an example the Bible word “Armageddon,” which Webster’s dictionary defines as “a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil.” (Rev. 16:16)
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Section heading: “Closer to Armageddon”?
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After Israeli warplanes attacked and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear plant near Baghdad, Newsweek magazine considered the problem of spreading atomic capabilities among smaller nations. “No matter how dangerous the nuclear game has become,” said Newsweek, “smaller powers, fearful and suspicious of their neighbors, still seem determined to play. The result . . . will be a world in which all nations live a little bit closer to Armageddon.”
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Geneticist Herman Muller quails before the biological armageddon mutations threaten us with, but still thinks they will evolve us to “undreamed-of heights.”
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That takes place at “the end of the world,” when “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”—Armageddon—is fought. (Isa. 34:2; Rev. 16:14-16)
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Who are these “meek ones” who are “hoping in Jehovah”? They make up the true brotherhood of mankind who will survive Armageddon and enjoy paradise when it is reestablished on this earth under God’s government, when His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.—Rev. 7:9-17.
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It was his strong hope that, should he die before Armageddon, God would rescue him from the power of the grave by a resurrection to life.
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How would this period of “woe” end? Not gradually, but suddenly as this foundering worldwide ‘ship of state’ is finished off in a dramatic confrontation between this world’s political forces and Christ’s angelic armies, a final showdown known as the battle of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16, Authorized Version; 19:11-21.
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