Armageddon and Divine Intervention

In an age of ever-increasing violence and horrifying acts of terrorism, bewildered people ask: Where is God? Why did the Almighty not intervene and prevent the outrages of Sept. 11 ?

Those events were so unexpected, so awful, as to cause some people to even doubt God’s existence.

For the believer in God, these humanly devised traumatic events are seen as forerunners to Armageddon, a biblical term applied to the Old Testament prophet Joel’s description of the end-time battle between God and evil men and the climactic conflict between good and evil related in the book of Revelation. This fearsome word refers to a future time of worldwide upheaval, as seen through the eyes of the biblical prophets, when man’s chaotic and conflicting experiments with self-rule will come to a swift and dramatic end.

The name itself, taken from Revelation 16:16, comes from two words, har (“mountain” or “hill” in Hebrew), and magedon or Megiddo, Hebrew for “to cut off”). Two kings of Judah, Ahaziah and Josiah, died by the sword at Megiddo (2Kings 9:27; 23:29).

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn38/twoworlds_armageddon.htm

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