The Battle of
Armageddon
Jesus Christ –
glorious in battle,
triumphant over
every enemy, riding
a mighty white
stallion – will
split the eastern
sky to come back to
earth as the King of
Kings.
This is truly
the colossal event
and even more
spectacular than Gog
and Magog.
The breath
(Spirit) of His
mouth is a two-edged
sword.
He has sat –
at times stood – at
His Father’s Right
Hand for two
thousand years.
Now, he
returns to reign
over the world for a
millennium.
As He returns to
this earth, He will
face an army from
every kingdom ruled
by the Antichrist.
Demons will
have been dispatched
to gather this army
and they will be
chosen to be part of
the most vicious
army ever assembled.
Each soldier
will be chosen by
the highest possible
standard of both
military and New Age
religions.
“And I saw three
unclean spirits like
frogs come out of
the mouth of the
dragon, and out of
the mouth of the
beast, and out of
the mouth of the
false prophet.
For they are
the spirits of
devils, working
miracles, which go
forth unto the kings
of the earth and of
the whole world, to
gather them to the
battle of that great
day of God Almighty”
(Revelation
16:13-14).
Every chosen
warrior will have
taken the Mark of
the Beast will be
possessed by unclean
spirits and will be
ready to die for
this masquerade of
their “christ.”
The Son of God will
not return from His
Father’s presence
alone.
The
triumphant Church of
the blood-washed and
glorified saints
will be riding with
Him on their white
horses.
Every one of
these Saints will be
overcomers from
their generation and
each of them will be
a match for Satan
himself.
They will
have already proven
that Satan could not
stop their faith or
compromise their
purity.
They will
surely gleam
brightly in their
garments of
righteousness,
“And the armies
which were in heaven
followed him upon
white horses,
clothed in fine
linen, white and
clean”
(Revelation 19:14).
Even before this
great drama is
portrayed in
Revelation Chapter
nineteen, the Spirit
declared that a host
of angels would join
the ranks for this
grand moment,
“When the Son of man
shall come in his
glory, and all the
holy angels with
him, then shall he
sit upon the throne
of his glory: And
before him shall be
gathered all
nations: and he
shall separate them
one from another, as
a shepherd divideth
his sheep from the
goats” (Matthew
25:31-32).
To even
attempt to number
this multitude will
be impossible.
Every angel
will be an
experienced warrior
that have fought and
won numerous
conflicts with their
evil counterparts
that rebelled with
their champion,
Lucifer or Satan.
This great multitude
will stretch from
one end of the
heavens to the
opposite end.
The day of
invisible angels
will be finished and
this awesome company
will startle the
earthly inhabitants
that are still
alive.
The saints
on their spectacular
white horses will
number “ten thousand
times ten thousand,
and thousands of
thousands” but the
angels will be
innumerable.
At the head
of this great and
awesome multitude
and brighter than
the noon day sun,
will be the
triumphant King of
Kings and Lord of
Lords.
The Son of God is
called the Lamb or
the Lamb of God from
Revelation 4:1 to
this victorious
moment.
His total
purpose during that
period is the
redemption of this
universe.
At this point
the earth will be
redeemed, sin will
be judged, injustice
will be set
straight, and the
righteous King of
Kings can now mount
the Throne of David
in Jerusalem.
Satan has
been the god of this
earth for better
than six thousand
years, but he knows
if he loses the
“Battle of
Armageddon”, he is
finished.
To picture the
ground and air
forces gathered in
Megiddo will be to
witness in one
location the
military hardware of
every great army on
earth.
As the
Antichrist armies
gather, the forward
direction will be
Jerusalem.
It is clear
in Scripture that
the Antichrist’s
capitol city of
Babylon will already
be in ruins, the
Vatican city of Rome
will have been
burned, and, now,
Jerusalem’s must be
conquered.
The
destruction of
Babylon was an act
of God but Rome’s
destruction was the
fury of the
Antichrist.
When the
great minds of these
world leaders are
fully prepared and
the march to
Jerusalem is
announced, the
heavens will
suddenly explode
with action.
Jesus Christ in all
of His excellent
glory will return to
personally direct
this battle.
We serve a
patient God; but
when His wrath is
kindled, there is no
defense.
Zechariah
spoke by the Spirit,
“For I will gather
all nations against
Jerusalem to
battle”…
Then shall the LORD
go forth…And this
shall be the plague
wherewith the LORD
will smite all the
people that have
fought against
Jerusalem; Their
flesh shall consume
away while they
stand upon their
feet, and their eyes
shall consume away
in their holes, and
their tongue shall
consume away in
their mouth”
(Zechariah 14:2a,3a
&12).
The slaughter
of this angry mob
will be
unprecedented.
The Son of God will
actually fight with
His army of the
redeemed and His
angels.
The
Antichrist will flee
in fear and defeat
to the ruined
entrance of His once
proud capitol.
Micah
reported his end at
Babylon,
“And they shall
waste the land of
Assyria with the
sword, and the land
of Nimrod in the
entrances thereof:
thus shall he
deliver us from the
Assyrian, when he
cometh into our
land, and when he
treadeth within our
borders” (Micah
5:6).
Our victorious King
will arrive in
Jerusalem with grace
in His heart for the
convicted nation of
His own kin.
“And one shall say
unto him, What are
these wounds in
thine hands? Then he
shall answer, those
with which I was
wounded in the house
of my friends”
(Zechariah 13:6).
“And I will pour
upon the house of
David, and upon the
inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and
of supplications:
and they shall look
upon me whom they
have pierced, and
they shall mourn for
him, as one mourneth
for his only son,
and shall be in
bitterness for him,
as one that is in
bitterness for his
firstborn”
(Zechariah 12:10).
The very word
“Armageddon” has
always been a word
that suggests the
end of human
conflicts or the end
of time.
It has been
used as freely by
the unbelieving and
the wild
spiritualists as it
has by the Bible
believers.
That suggests
that it is God’s
designed word – all
fixed in the human
thought processes –
raising both great
fear but also final
victory.
Only we that
know the
infallibility of
Scripture can speak
this word
“Armageddon” with
great joy in our
hearts.
It’s closer than you can possibly imagine!
Joseph R. Chambers