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The common (but misleading) notion is that Armageddon will be the last, climactic battle to be fought on earth between the powers of good and evil. However, this is not quite right in several crucial respects.
Armageddonor more likely the large broad Valley of Jezreel, or Esdraelon, which Megiddo overlookswill in fact be the staging area for the final great battle of this age, but not the site of the battle itself. That is set not at Meggido but in the Valley of Jehoshaphatcommonly reckoned to be the Kidron Valley, immediately adjacent to Jerusalem (see Joel 3:2,9-16).
Notwithstanding
the popular concept of the Battle of Armageddon, the Bible makes no specific
prediction for a war fought at Armageddon between two human armies precisely
at Christs return. However, the Bible does say that the armies
of the East and West will be drawn to the infamous valley by lying demons
(Revelation 16:14). From there they will march to Jerusalem. There they
will fight the returning Jesus Christ (Revelation 14:14-20; 16:14; 19:11-21;
Joel 3:12-14).
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