The Valley of Megiddo

In the Hebrew tongue: Armageddon

by R. Douglass Mahaffey

      The Valley of Megiddo, also called the Plain of Esdraelon, or the Plain of Jezreel in in Northern Israel between the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River. The battle of Armageddon, according to the prophesy of the Apostle John in Revelation, will be fought in this region. In fact, in the Hebrew language, Megiddo is translated as Armageddon.

      All of the world's armies will gather to attempt to overthrow the Antichrist, in which the Antichrist will turn the battle around and wipe the Jews from the face of the earth. From there, Jesus and His armies will appear in the East of the valley and bring judgment to the armies and the Antichrist.
      Revelation 16:16-21

¹⁶ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” ¹⁸ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹ The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. ²⁰ Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. ²¹ From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,^[a] fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
      As you have read from me in the past, God has a standard that will not be mocked, second guessed or assumed upon without judgment. At Armageddon (Megiddo), God will pour His wrath out on all man-kind for the last time before opening the abyss of Hell and condemning Satan and his demons for all time in the second death. In this same time, all of the people of the history of the world who have rejected God and Jesus, will be cast into the lake of fire after their judgment.
      Many say, "A loving God will not send the people He loves to hell."
      That is partially true to some extent, depending on one's point-of-view. God does not send a person to hell for no reason. Man is an intruder in hell. Hell was intended for Satan and his demons. However, on the last day at the Great White Judgment Throne of God when each non-believer is judged according to whether or not their name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, there will be people that we know and millions to billions more that will be cast into the lake of fire.
      God is holy. He can not be in the presence of sin. Once the church has been called away in the great disappearance (the rapture), their chances of receiving salvation are gone, despite what the movies say. A non-believer, who is dead in their trespasses, will have no other place to go but hell, as their rejection of God and Jesus, the Messiah has condemned them alone. To blame God for their condemnation is to say that He is to blame for the sin in their life.
      People, we have to start taking responsibility for the decisions that we make and the paths that we choose to take in life. There is way too much comfort in sin going on in today's society, and way too many people justifying their sin with the philosophy that today's society is different than the society in Jesus' time. Actually, things are really much the same. The quality of life, technology and lifestyles in general have advanced, but there was still a great deal of comfort, self-entitlement and self-centered justification in sin in the mass population back then as well. Granted, there were stiff criminal penalties for some of the lifestyles from that era, which contributes to the loosely held philosophy by many; but the comfort in sin was still present. They have had their time to turn to the will of God. If they failed to do so, they will have to answer to God for their lack of faith in Him.
      It is evident, however, that as long as there is breath in a person's lungs, a heart beating in their hearts and life left in their veins, they still have a chance to put their faith in the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Failure to do so, will unfortunately place many people at the Valley of Megiddo for the battle of Armageddon. This is one war that God does not want us as people to participate in, neither does He want us to be in the situation where He has to tell us, "Depart from me, you who work iniquity, I never knew you."  
      It is not God's will that anyone be lost and condemned to hell. The Bible says, "Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." That scripture applies to all of man-kind. There is none that is alive, will be alive, or ever was alive that was not intended to share in the love, acceptance, and salvation of the Lord as the bride of Christ. We, the church, have the greatest opportunity of all to secure the futures of millions and millions of people for Christ, as the great commission is to "Go into all the world and make disciples of nations."
      What is the ministry that God has called you to? What is it's mission for saving people from the lake of fire and empowering them with the word of God to stand against the wiles of the devil and avoid the battle that infinitely belongs to the Lord? Make it a meaningful one and send it to the world around you in such a way that you start out acting locally, thinking globally. It has to start somewhere. Where it goes from there, depends on where you stand in the will of God.

R. Douglass Mahaffey - Founder and Publisher of The Wise Conservative