The Bible mentions Armageddon only once, in Revelation 16:16: "And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon." The Greek word Armageddon comes from two Hebrew words: Har Megiddo, meaning "the hill of Megiddo."

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.

Armageddon–or more likely the large broad Valley of Jezreel, or Esdraelon, which Megiddo overlooks–will 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 Jehoshaphat–commonly reckoned to be the Kidron Valley, immediately adjacent to Jerusalem (see Joel 3:2,9-16).

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Sidebar to World Peace: The Impossible Dream?
Table of Contents that includes "What Does the Bible Say About Armageddon?"

Armageddon:

• _Global War Will Strike Again
• _Waiting for the "End of the World"?
• _Visions of Judgment: The Red Horse of War
• _A Place Called Megiddo: The World's Battleground
• _A Place Called Megiddo, Part 2
• _Armageddon: Countdown to Global Peace
• _War and Peace in the Middle East
• _Does It Really Matter What You Believe?
• _Armageddon: The End of the World?
• _Waiting for the End of the World
• _Armageddon and Divine Intervention
• _A War of Two Worlds
• _A Place Called Megiddo

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