FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
that Satanic inspiration will be used to marshal the coming military
forces into a cohesive unit that will be arrayed against Christ himself.
This place this will happen at is identified: “And he gathered them
together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”
Armageddon is a combination of the two Hebrew words ‘har’ and
‘magedon,’ which roughly translated, means the ‘mount of Megiddo.’ It
is located on a 300 square mile area on the south side of the valley of
Megiddo, or the Plain of Esdraelon (Jezreel), southeast of Mt. Carmel,
which extends to the Jordan Valley. Megiddo, which stood at the
entrance of a pass across the Carmel mountain range, was the capital
of the area of Canaan when it was attacked by Joshua. The port city of
Haifa is located at the Valley’s western entrance, and no doubt will be
utilized as the drop-off point for troops who are transported by naval
vessels. While this area is identified as the area where the armies of
the world gather, Joel 3:2, 12, 14, pinpoints the battle area as the valley
of Jehoshaphat, which was known as the “valley of decision” and
according to tradition is believed to be located near Jerusalem, in the
Kidron valley.It seems obvious that the military might of the Antichrist will use any
means at their disposal to do battle against an invincible adversary,
and the extent of our present weapons technology is our nuclear
capability.On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
Japan. The heat from this blast was 127,200,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or
three times hotter than the center of the sun. Although the 20 kiloton
explosion affected only a four square mile area, its intensity killed
50,000 people, and wounded another 55,000, On August 9, 1945, the
second bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki, and people ten miles away
were paralyzed, and even those with only slight wounds, eventually
died. President Harry Truman said: “The force from which the sun
draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the
Far East.” In 1953, a movie was produced which recorded the results
of “Operation Ivy,” a military test of a hydrogen bomb detonation in the
Pacific which took place in November, 1952. The blast caused an entire
island to disappear, turning it into deadly vapor and radioactive ash.The concentration of the use of nuclear weapons in such a small area
could possibly throw the Earth off of its axis– producing disastrous