ablebodiedman
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Armageddon - 2006/08/05 09:23
Revelation 16
14 They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.
Most people believe these kings are national leaders however, I am convinced they are the anointed kings of the earth.
Notice in the next verse what the angel says to John:
Revelation 16
15 “Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments, that he may not walk naked and people look upon his shamefulness.”
In the verse above it is those same anointed kings who are being addressed.
The entire bible is written to help the Faithfull Slave understand about a very significant war occuring in the spiritual realm.
Armageddon is not a literal war amoung current day kings of the nations. It is a spiritual war where Satan is having great success misleading God's anointed into a spiritual battle.
Jehovah does not give much concern to the battles occuring on the earth amoungst the nations. His concern is the spiritual battle occuring amoungst the wicked spiritual forces and it's effect on his anointed.
Isaiah 40:15
15 Look! The nations are as a drop from a bucket; and as the film of dust on the scales they have been accounted.
If the Book of Revelation is the bucket then the only drop of concern I can find about the nations (and their kings) is here:
Revelation 11:18
18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
Armageddon won't be what everyone seems to be expecting.
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