What is the difference between armageddon and the apocalypse in the bible?

Answer 1

armageddon is a place...apocalypse is an event.

Answer 2

Apocalypse—What Is It?
Is not Revelation also called Apocalypse? That is so, “revelation” being the English translation of a·po·ka´ly·psis in the Greek text. Many people equate Apocalypse with world destruction by nuclear warfare. In a Texas, U.S.A., city where great numbers of nuclear warheads are made, religiously inclined people have been saying, “We’ll be the first to go.” Clergymen in that area are reported to have “become convinced that Armageddon is not only inevitable but also close at hand, and that the final battle between the forces of good and bad, of God and Satan, will take place as a nuclear holocaust.”

But what really is an apocalypse? Though dictionaries define it by using terms such as “an imminent cosmic cataclysm,” the Greek a·po·ka´ly·psis basically means “unveiling” or “uncovering.” Thus, the last book of the Bible is properly entitled “A Revelation.” Here we find, not a mere fatalistic message of world doom, but an uncovering of divine truths that should build in our hearts a radiant hope and an immovable faith.

True, Armageddon is described in the last book of the Bible as “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Revelation 16:14, 16) But it will be far different from a nuclear holocaust! Such a holocaust would likely mean the annihilation of all life on earth. On the contrary, God’s Word gives the happy assurance that only wicked opposers of God will be destroyed—by forces under God’s control. (Psalm 37:9, 10; 145:20) A great crowd of humans, out of all nations, will survive the climax of divine judgment at Armageddon. Christ Jesus will then shepherd and guide these to life everlasting in a paradise earth. Do you not want to be one of them? Happily, Revelation shows that you may be!—Revelation 7:9, 14, 17.

Answer 3

Apocalypse is actually the Greek Name for the word translated "Revelation" in the Bible. It is the name of the last book of the Bible. It earned its name because of its overal description of the world-changing events that occur during the timeline of this book.

Armageddon, is both a place and now referred to as an event. It is the largest battlefield on earth, where a future battle is foretold between the armies of the earth and the returning King of Glory Jesus Christ. It is said that the blood of these armies will run as deep as the reins of horses in some places, and that the fuel supplies will heat the homes of the Palestinians for 7 years. Also, the birds of the whole earth will gather to eat to their full on the flesh of the dead soldiers.

Answer 4

Armageddon is the final big fight between good and evil (of course good wins).

Apocalypse is when all "good" people leave this earth to be with God (cars will crash because their drivers disappear) and all "evil" and the earth is destroyed. ( not sure if this is in the Bible, but is a belief of one of the Christian denominations)
Just answered your question....I'm not the one that makes this stuff up.

Answer 5

One just says it will be the end of time, and then Jesus will return and the just will be rewarded and the unjust punished, and so on. The other says the world will be destroyed and everything and everyone in it. When men try and use their toys to make such a prophecy be fulfilled (such as Ahminejhad and his lot), I would bet it's more likely to be the latter.

Answer 6

the apocalypse is the event, armageddon is the place...

Answer 7

The Apoclypse is the whole end of the world while Aemageddon is an actual place in Israel where the last battle will be fought and many battles have already been faught.