What is really the Armageddon?

Question

I am really confused with it. Every time I see someone mentioning i the movie Armageddon comes into my mind. Where I am from, we don't really call it Armageddon , and we use other words like Rapture.

Is the Armageddon and Rapture the same thing? Correct me if I am wrong.

No, what REALLY happens in Armageddon?

Answer 1

GOD IS NOT GOING TO DESTROY THE EARTH, THE EARTH SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE WILL BECOME A GARDEN OF EDEN OR PARADISE WHERE PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN PEACE & SECURITY.

ARMAGEDDON IS SIMPLY HIS WAR TO CLEAN THE EARTH OF WICKED PEOPLE & ALL BAD THINGS THAT EXIST, & PEOPLE WHOSE WORSHIP IS UNACCEPTABLE TO HIM.

Why, though, would God wage a global war? Armageddon is closely related to one of his cardinal qualities, justice. The Bible declares: “God is a lover of justice.” (Psalm 37:28) He has seen all the acts of injustice perpetrated during man’s history. This naturally provokes his righteous displeasure. Thus, he has appointed his Son to wage a just war in order to do away with this entire wicked system.

Only God is capable of waging a truly just and truly selective war during which righthearted individuals, wherever they may be on earth, will be preserved. And only he has the right to impose his sovereignty over all the earth, for it is his creation. Revelation 4:11.

What about survivors? Indeed, no one needs to perish at Armageddon. The apostle Peter observed: “God . . . does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9) And the apostle Paul stated that God’s “will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth.” 1 Timothy 2:4.

Consider the good Har–Magedon promises to achieve, godly humanity’s peaceful future on this planet, no more pollution, no more war, no more poverty, no more disease or even death. God promises: “Look! I am making all things new.” Revelation 21:3-5.

Answer 2

Armageddon is actually the Hill of Megiddo, which is located along the Jezreel Valley in Israel. The area was called a natural battlefield by Napoleon.

In Revelation 16:16, there the kings of the earth will gather to make war against Jesus and the saints who come with Him. (Revelation 19:11ff)

The rapture is a second issue altogether. The word "rapture" comes from the Latin word "rapere" (also "rapiemur.") This word is the Latin equivalent for the original Greek word "harpazo," both of which refer to a violent "snatching away." The term is often translated "caught up" in many English translations. This is found in I Thessalonians 4:17.

Many evangelicals believe in a pre-tribulation rapture (although there are supporters for a mid- or post-tribulation rapture as well).

The idea of the armies of heaven coming back with Jesus to Armageddon is alluded to in Jude 1:14, and many believe that it is the raptured saints who, along with those who came to Christ before and died, who return with Him.

Answer 3

People use the word to mean "the end of the world."

Armageddon means "the hill of Megiddo." This was a site of many ancient battles, and would have the same emotional impact on people of that time as Waterloo or Valley Forge.

Revelation 16:16 refers to the massing of a great army there; but even in the highly-symbolic book of Revelation, the great battle at the end of the world never happens.

Answer 4

There is no rapture only an xhristian believes that!

Armageddon is the palace better:
HAR-MAGEDON

A place in the middle east where all the armies under the Anti-Christ assumable for the final battle.

Notice it is not a place of war but to prepare for war.

Answer 5

The Harmageddon.
The last great war fought in the valley of migeddo, North east of Jerusalem.
The word is used incorrectly.
In the study of eschatology ( the study of last things ) The great war is one of the last things.
This will be the gathering of the world forces against Israel.
God will intervene and there will be a blood bath such as the world has never seen.

If you believe in pre millinialism The Church, will have been taken out of the world way before the final war.

The church age is dealing with the gentiles, you and me.
When the church, the bride of Christ is removed.
God now turns his attention back to the Jews. His promise to them to keep. He made a covenant with the Jewish people and He will never break it.

Answer 6

Grace unto you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

"Armageddon", used only in Revelation 16:16, is the english version of a Hebrew word Har-Magedon, meaning the hill of the city of Megiddo, or a place of great(law) slaughter(sacrifice).
http://www.godshew.org/Revelation.htm

The 1998 movie Armageddon is just another movie (like Tornado, Earthquake, etc) that uses the biblical word Armageddon for it's title to attrack the curiosity of many law law people. It's about a ficticious asteroid about to destroy earth, not about anything related to Armageddon mentioned in the bible.

All of Revelation (except the last verse: "the end") is allegorically a latter end "worse" case scenario to avoid (mark and avoid them which cause division; mind not high things, etc), not something meant to happen; For Revelation speaks of "seven spirits" as if being the "worse" thing that happens to man in Mt 12:45 (when delivered from the law, then sin[law] no more, lest a "worse" thing happen). Revelation is "prophecy" x 7, but notably "whether propheices, they shall fail"(1Cor 13).
http://www.godshew.org/LatterEnd.htm
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory3.htm
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread4.htm#psf

The word rapture does not occur in the Holy Bible. Rapture theories are just theories, made up stuff, of law law folk who fooishly law impute sin for the hell of it, not knowing law imputed sin makes sinners all, none righteous, no, not one; And God is one. Not to mention it's too late already (in 2006AD) for any pre/mid/post tribulation rapture theories; Since the last (not just past) millennium had two false/true ends (Y2K was the false end), and a countdown of 3 1/2 yrs (42 mos) from Grenwich beginning in June 1996. So the only option remaining for "we all are one", and it's now 2006AD->only goes one way, is to do the end "run" along "with patience", and make it to "the end" alive by dropping off the weight (law) that so easily besets (Heb 12); For we are exhorted to "endure unto the end" to be "saved"(only) by grace(only), rather than both saved & destroyed after by both grace & law, like those saved out of Egypt got destroyed after being saved (Jude 5), by adding law to "grace is sufficient".
http://www.godshew.org/RevelatorySermons8.htm

POINT: "Grace is sufficient" meaneth no law at all req'd.

The "grace"(only) of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

Pretty much, I think they believe the rapture comes before armageddon so only the sinners are left to experience it. More crazy propganda to keep people scared I think.

Answer 8

Armageddon is the end of the earth ( as we know it) it
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.

The word Armageddon is thought to be derived from the Hebrew words Har Megido (הר מגידו), meaning "Hill of Megiddo". The site referred to is a valley plain called Megiddo, which was the location of many decisive battles in ancient times (see Battle of Megiddo). One of these, which took place in 609 BCE and is described in 2 Kings 28-30 (see Books of Kings) and 2 Chronicles 20-25 (see Books of Chronicles), resulted in the death of Josiah, a young and charismatic ruler whose quick and untimely death precipitated the decline of the dynasty of David and may have inspired stories of the return of a Messiah from this lineage. The valley is marked by the presence of the archaeological mound or tell, representing the accumulated ruins of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements that flourished between 5,000 years ago and 650 BC. Some would argue that the word Armageddon is an early example of a mondegreen.

The only mention of the word Armageddon in the Bible appears in Revelation 16:16: "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon" (KJV).[1] The Bible includes many passages that refer to the concept of Armageddon, however. But this specific Bible prophecy reference is ambiguous whether any event actually takes place here, or whether the gathering of armies is only to be seen as a sign.

In fact, a gathering of the Roman army occurred at this place as a staging ground for one of their assaults on Jerusalem in AD 67. This is consistent with the preterist interpretation that the events of Revelation 16:17-21 refer to events culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. However, one indication that the book predicts a future event is the mention of an army from the east of two hundred million, a number that would not have been likely in any battle of that period.

Another interpretation is that the sudden death of Josiah, a religious reformer in his early 30s who showed great promise of renewing a theocratic Jewish state, resulted in myths of his triumphant return. Josiah is said to have died at the hands of the Egyptian pharoah Necho II just as the Davidic monarchy was in ascendancy after a period of disarray and corruption. His death precipitated the decline of a strongly monotheistic faction in Judea in the years prior to the Babylonian captivity. The idea that a Davidic king would return someday to fight and win at Megiddo is an example of the myth of eternal return.

Before the Second World War, the First World War was commonly referred to in newspapers and books as "Armageddon", in addition to "the Great War".

Answer 9

Its a song released in 1989 by Def Lepard on the Hysteria album.

Answer 10

a movie with Bruce Willis