Beyond the Sunset

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Beyond the Sunset

• What about Armageddon?

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What about the Armageddon?
There's a mighty battle coming and it's well now
on its way.It'll be fought at Armageddon, it
shall be a sad, sad day. Hank Williams as
Luke the Drifter
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Agenda

• What is Armageddon?
• Views on Armageddon
• Three assurances

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What is Armageddon?

• Is it a place?
• Is it an event?
• Is it the end of the world as we know it?
• Who will it involve?

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What is Armageddon?

• Revelations 1612-21
• Har Megiddo
• Referenced in the Bible multiple times
• Judges 519 Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera
• 1 Kings 915 Solomon built the wall
• 2 Kings 927 2329 Ahaziahm and Josiah, Kings of
  Judah, died there
• DISCUSSION Was Armageddon a generic Hebrew
  reference to a battle site?

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Pictures of Megiddo
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Views on Armageddon

• Literal - already happened in AD 70

Josephus records for us an event so visually
and effectually similar that what he records must
be the fulfillment of the Revelational prophecy.
Dr. Kenneth Gentry
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Views on Armageddon

• Literal will happen prior to the Rapture

This powerful group of allies will lead an
attack on restored Israel. The attack upon the
Russian confederacy and the resulting conflict
will escalate into the last war of the world,
involving all nations. Hal Lindsey
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Views on Armageddon

• Symbolic - moral and spiritual battle
• 2 Corinthians 103-6
• Ephesians 610-12

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Three assurances

• Regardless of a literal or symbolic battle
• God promises victory (Revelations 19)
• Satan will be defeated (Revelations 2010)
• If we are faithful to death, we will receive the
  crown of life (Revelations 210)