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Armageddon, Place or Event?

 Jesse Acuff, M.A. Rel.

Is there a literal place called Armageddon? 

If there is, where is it? If Armageddon is not a literal place, then what is it? First, let’s look at what it is or is not.

Pentecost (p. 340) and others, especially the pretribbers, call it a campaign. “It has been held commonly that the battle of Armageddon is an isolated event transpiring just prior to the Second Advent of Christ to the earth. The extent of this great movement in which God deals with ‘the kings of the earth and the whole world’ (Rev. 16: 14) will not be seen unless it is realized that the ‘battle . . . is not an isolated battle, but rather a campaign that extends over the last half of the tribulation period.’”

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The Assyrian in Messianic Prophecy

Anthony Buzzard 

Isaiah had a vision about Judah and Jerusalem in which the Assyrian came against the land to destroy it. However, historically, Assyria never defeated either one. The golden age which he spoke of has never yet followed the defeat of Assyria. From the Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, p. 315, we read this: “The prophet Isaiah is convinced that the Assyrians, the instruments of God’s punishment, will overthrow not only Samaria but Jerusalem. As a state Judah will be destroyed.” In an article titled “II Thessalonians,” the dictionary declares, “The very earliest messianic prophesies of the OT represent the golden age [the millennium, the first stage of the worldwide Kingdom of God] as preceded by a time of conflict—the conflict which will destroy the particular oppression of Israel at the time, and wipe out the ungodly in Israel itself. The power to be overcome is in each case an actually existing empire—Assyria, Babylon, and Persia—whose downfall will immediately usher in the glorious reign of peace” (p. 372).