is armageddon the same as apocalypse?

Answer 1

armageddon = end
appocalypse = beginning to the end

Answer 2

Apocalypse: a revelation, disclosure, usually a vision. Sometimes used as the title for the book of Revelation. The end times in general.
Armageddon:the place of the final great struggle between the forces of good and evil (Rev:16:16)
Armageddon will take place during the Apocalypse, hope that helped. :-)

Answer 3

Armageddon refers to the battle to end all battles... it's supposed to be an actual place; whereas 'apocalypse' is pretty much the sum of all the events that take place in the "end times." We talking famine, pestilence, drought, lots and lots of suffering, and a good time is had by all.
So, are you a "Book-of-Revelation-phile?" Keep in mind that "John the Beloved" was probably stoned on the local ganja whilst on the island of Patmos. That book should be viewed as the cheap, tawdry, romance novel of the apostolic books... in fact, it should have been part of the Apocrapha! I don't personally believe that it was meant to state unequivocally what WILL happen in the end... only that it could very well happen unless the hearts, heads, & hands of humanity undergoes drastic changes. The only people who should delve into this "book of warnings" should be devoted Biblical scholars and theologians. Novices can read too much into this "dime-store halucination." Sorry, but I have real problems with that book because of some of the lunatic fringe that feel it is their mission to help bring the apocalyse about, when God doesn't need their help! He/She will 'return' when The Great Spirit decides the time is right. My advice is that you leave it alone... get right with God - "prepare" or get ready to meet Your Maker, and that should be enough. Focus more on helping humanity rather than living in anticipation of the "end times." You'll lead a happier and more fullfiling life.

Answer 4

It appears that Armageddon is predicted by the Apocalypse (using their dictionary definitions)...

Armageddon: Christian concept originating in the Bible (Revelations 16:16) and which refers to the final battle between the forces of good (lead by Jesus) and the forces of Evil (lead by Satan).

Apocalypse: Book containing only the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, detailing the final days of creation, the second coming of Christ, and the Last Judgement

Answer 5

No, different stuff... Both make reference to the end of it all...
But Armageddon is just a one time event.
Apocalypse is the end...

Armageddon refers generally to end times or giant, apocalyptic catastrophes in various religions and cultures. It may also refer to any great loss of life in battle or use of weapons of mass destruction.

Apocalypse (Greek: αποκαλυψις, disclosure), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the mass of humankind. The Greek root corresponds in the Septuagint to the Hebrew galah, to reveal. The last book of the New Testament bears in Greek the title Αποκαλυψις Ιωαννου, and is frequently referred to as the Apocalypse of John, but in the English Bible it appears as the Revelation of St John the Divine, or the Book of Revelation (of Jesus Christ, the Messiah). Earlier among the hellenistic Jews, the term was used of a number of writings which depicted in a prophetic and parabolic way, the end or future state of the world (e.g. Apocalypse of Baruch), the whole class is now commonly known as 'Apocalyptic literature'. However, the Apocalypse technically refers to the unveiling of God, in his guise as the Messiah, and not to all of the destruction of the world which will accompany God's Revelation of Himself to Humankind.

Answer 6

No.

Ar·ma·ged·don Pronunciation (ärm-gdn) n.
1. Bible The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world.
2. A decisive or catastrophic conflict.



a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation.
b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century b.c. to the second century a.d. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

Answer 7

I dont think so. Although either word could refer to the Christians final battle between good and evil, apocalypse could refer to any devistation (maybe a meteor) even while Armageddon refers to conflict or war related devistation. I actually checked the literal definitions on this.

For the argument in favor of them being the same they are listed as direct synonyms in the thesaurus (actually as the first entry listed in one definition)

Answer 8

no these people are morons

the apocalypse is the unralving of the end sort of like the beginging. we could be in the apoclypse and not even know it. the apocalypse starts to show the signs of the end of the world like the water turning to blood and all that good stuff

armageddon is the final battle between good and evl. after the antichrist (the spawn of satan born during the apocalypse) attacks the last remaining christians of jerusilam. making the final war of the earth.

Answer 9

Armegeddon potential Mount of Megiddo. that is a 70 mile mound contained in the middle east. Apocalypse is the "previous" word for Revelation. The previous English Catholic Bibles calls the awesome e book in it Apocalypse extremely of Revelation. It potential an "unveiling" or "revealing" as in showing the flaws which will ensue contained in the destiny. Rev. a million:a million. Debbie

Answer 10

If the Apocalypse/Armageddon is Death, Famine, Pestilence and War then its all ready here. A slow painful collapse of our way of life.

Answer 11

Armageddon is more general. It simply mean the end of the world as we know it.
The Apocalypse is more mythical, and involves the four horsemen. Death, Famine, Pestilence and War.