The Valley Of Prophecy (Armageddon) — Keith Malcomson

I want you here this morning to turn with me to a particular book in the Bible. And I've got a very specific message. We're almost coming down to the end of this series on the God of the valleys. The God is the God of the valleys.

And I hope you realize by now, God is just as much, if not more so, the God of the valleys as he is of the mountaintop. It's vital you understand that. And here this morning, we're coming down to the end.

And so my subject also nearly comes down to the end. Last week, we dealt with the valley of blessing, a place of great rejoicing. This valley is almost a contradiction of that. It can't be further away from last week.

And yet they have a strange connection. And when I tell you what this is, you're gonna say, how can this have a connection with last week? And yet I can prove it to you, and I will before the end of the message.

They are so interlocked, I don't even know what to make of it. It's strange. And yet they're radically not the same. The valley I'm gonna preach to you on this morning, I don't want you to go there. I don't want you to be there.

I certainly don't intend to go there. I don't ever intend to be there unless it's in a certain way. I intend to be a late comer to this valley. In fact, a very late comer. I hope to be the last amongst a multitude to get towards this valley.

I don't wanna be there first. I don't wanna be lead in the way. I wanna be very slow to get there. Now, you're really wondering what this valley is. I want you to turn with me to Revelation and chapter 16.

Revelation and chapter 16. And my message this morning, I've called the valley of prophecy. The valley of prophecy. And the actual name in the Bible of this valley is called the valley of Jezreel. Or let me give it another classic name.

The Valley of Armageddon in Revelation 16

And I'm gonna explain this. The valley of Armageddon. So I hope you understand immediately where we're going here this morning. But let's read from Revelation chapter 16 and verse one. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

And the first went. Then jump with me down to verse 12. Verse 12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. And the water there was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth onto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great day of God almighty.

And please notice this next verse. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame. And he gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Let's pray. Father, I do pray that you'd show us, oh God, this valley here this morning, this immense valley, this great valley, this notable valley, this infamous valley, this valley like no other valley in the entire Bible.

Lord God, I pray that we as a church might even possess this valley, a knowledge about it and an awareness of the sovereignty of God, of the kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the authority of our God over the nations of the world and over the armies of all nations.

My God, I pray that we might inherit, Lord God, this valley as our valley. Lord God, knowing that you are gonna finally triumph over the nations of the world, that we are gonna return with you again. We are gonna come with you again as the redeemed of the Lord to that great marriage feast of the Lamb.

Lord God, thank you, oh God, that you're gonna put everything right, that you're gonna put down all power and principality, that you're gonna break the power of nations and of men and of kingdoms. And oh God, that you're gonna establish and set up an everlasting kingdom that shall never come to an end.

And Lord God, we pray even as we meditate on these few verses, open this valley before our eyes, anoint our eyes that we might see, and oh God, inspire us, oh God, to trust you, to live for you. Lord God, to walk with you, to be clothed right this morning, to not be ashamed, to not be asleep in this gathering this morning, but oh God, to be alive unto God by your grace and mercy in Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen.

My message, the valley of prophecy, or as I said, the valley of Jezreel, which it's called. In the Bible, in 2 Chronicles 35 and verse 22, we read about King Josiah going to a certain place and fighting a war.

Listen to what it calls it, the Valley of Megiddo, the Valley of Megiddo. Or over in Zechariah 12 and 11, there's another prophecy about a place called the Plain of Megiddo. Again, in Joshua chapter 17, we read about the Valley of Jezreel.

Or if we read in Judges about Gideon, we read about the Valley of Jezreel. The Valley of Jezreel is the Valley of Megiddo. So Megiddo is called a valley, but it's also called the Valley of Jezreel. And this is a remarkable and a unique place on the face of the earth.

There is nowhere else like it in the entire world. In fact, Jezreel is a city or a town in the middle of this entire valley. And so Jezreel is a city, but it's called a plain or a valley as well. That entire valley was called Jezreel at times.

But then to the west of that valley is a city or a town called Megiddo. Megiddo is a town. And yet we're actually told that a valley is called after that Megiddo as well. So whether city of Jezreel or the city of Megiddo, when they controlled or had power, they gave their name to that immense general area or that city.

This is a remarkable thing that we're dealing with. Let me give you a brief description of this valley for a moment. Listen to this valley. It is bordered on the north by highlands of the lower Galilean region, to the south by the Sumerian highlands, to the west and to the southeast by the Mount Carmel range and to the east by the Jordan Valley with Mount Gilboa marking the southern content.

What you have in this entire plain, it is an open valley. It is a remarkable valley. It is a wide flat plain. And what you have surrounding it on every single side is mountainous regions encompassing it.

It is a remarkable thing. Literally this valley or this open plain called Megiddo or Jezreel, it is always been the hub of international trades and routes. There are four main accesses into the valley and out of the valley.

And yet on every single side, there are hundreds of separate unique little routes in and out of that valley. Little routes that pass through mountains that are very famous. I could actually name many of those mountains to you here and you'd know them immediately.

There's Mount Gilboa, there's Mount Carmel, there's Mount Tobar. There are hundreds of mountains that I could stand. And if we are standing in that valley this morning, I could point to Mount Carmel and told you what happened there.

I could point to Gilboa and tell you this valley is surrounded by many prominent historic spots. Also what happened here in this open plain, you'd be shocked how many biblical things have happened here, as well as historic things throughout secular history.

Now this isn't an immense valley. It's about 20 miles long and seven miles at its widest point. At its narrowest point, it's only three miles wide. And yet this valley is one of the most best known spots in our entire world.

You see every sinner out there knows the name of Armageddon or Megiddo, every single sinner. Just like 666, every sinner knows about it. They may not know the gospel. They may not read the Bible. They may not know about the cross, but they know about 666.

So every sinner knows about Armageddon. Armageddon is more than a valley. Armageddon is more than a battle. Armageddon is more than a place or a city. Armageddon is within the psyche of our entire world, the political world, the social world, the military world.

Worldwide history has noted Armageddon. And now all our world leaders talk about the third world war or Armageddon coming. Do you realize how much Armageddon is a vital part of our world psyche? It is everywhere.

Now, when you come to Revelation chapter 16 and the word Armageddon, it is actually the correct name of this place is Hormageddon, Hormageddon. In other words, that means the hill or the mount of Megiddo.

You see, Megiddo as a city is called a hill or a mountain. If you go there today, you'll see that it's lifted up. It's raised up in the middle of this plain. But can I tell you, it's not a mountain and it's not a hill.

It's actually been a city for some 5 ,000 years of history. Going all the way back 5 ,000 years ago, it is one of the old ancient cities of world history. Do you know why there's a mountain there? Because it has been destroyed as a city so many times.

There are at least 20 levels of ruin of previous cities. And so it keeps getting built up until it's a mound. It's a hill. It's known as Armageddon or the Mount of Megiddo. You have a history, a remarkable history of that very spot from the year 3 ,000 BC through to 300 BC.

It was continually occupied. And do you know what? In the ancient world, whoever controlled Megiddo, the city, controlled the valley. Whoever controlled the valley controlled trade in the Middle East.

And that was one of the most fought over cities in the world, the most prominent battlefields in the entire world. And no wonder that our entire world, secular history, as well as religious, know about Armageddon.

If I could take you, and I wish I could carry you here this morning, if I could lift you and carry you, you'd be shocked. Then it's actually a valley. Jezreel means the planting of the Lord or a place that is beautiful in its surroundings.

If I could take you there, it is one of the most fruitful spots in Israel. It is beautiful. It is fruitful. It is beautiful. It is unexcavated. Although they'd been excavating there for 120 years, archeologists, one of them, I listened to him on this.

He said, it's a gold mine for archeologists. It is so untapped. Everywhere you walk in that valley, you are walking over thousands of millennia of history and nobody's tapped into it. It is one of the richest archeologist sites in all of Israel, all of the Middle East, and all of the world, because all the world's armies have crossed through there at some point in the past.

Now, as I said at the beginning, we will not gather there. Now you understand why I said that, why I don't wanna gather there, where I will not be the first to get there, but I'll get there eventually.

I wanna tell you along this route, because there is coming a fight there. It's not for me to pass through this valley, and yet this valley, the knowledge of it is to be your inheritance. I want you to know what happens at that valley.

I want you to understand God's mind, because it's that that we inherit. I'm not going there. I'm not staying there, but I must know about the valley of prophecy that we are dealing with this morning. I wanna knowledge of it.

I wanna possess it. I wanna walk into the full fruit of it, and I'm going to one day, I assure you, it's gonna affect our entire world, every nation, every army in our entire world. To possess this means you possess the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I've got four things I wanna preach here from Revelation chapter 16. Just let me expound these scriptures very simply. You know, I'm desperate to teach and expound the whole book of Revelation. I am desperate to do a whole teaching.

I've sat on this for 30 years. One of these days, I'm gonna teach, but all I'm doing is dipping in here. I'll have to control myself lest I preach the whole book this morning, but we're dealing with a valley in our valley series, and I want you to see when we deal with Armageddon, Megiddo, Jezreel, do you know why I'm preaching this?

I want you to see that our God is the God of the valleys. My God is the God of the plain, Megiddo, Armageddon, and when you realize that your God is the God of Armageddon, I'm not scared of nuclear warfare.

I'm not scared of bombs and bullets. I'm not scared of the armies of this world. I'm not scared of the great generals or politicians. When you see Armageddon, do you know what you see? Our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the God of the valley of Armageddon.

Can you say amen this morning? I'm telling you, when you begin to possess this, you see that our God is not only the God of the mountaintops, but he is the God of the valleys. Let me give you these four points.

The Pathway Prepared to Armageddon

Number one, the pathway prepared. The pathway prepared. The pathway prepared to Armageddon. Look with me again at Revelation 16 and 12, and it says here, and the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up on the way of the kings of the east, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

This is the sixth vial, and I want you to notice this very carefully. When you come to the book of Revelation, you have seven seals. Then you have seven trumpets. Then you have seven vials or bowls of judgment.

Let me put it in its order. We go through systematically the seven seals. You get to the seventh seal, and what is the seventh seal? You systematically work through them in Revelation. You come to the seventh seal.

The seventh seal has the seven trumpets in it of the wrath of God. The wrath of God is in the seventh seal, not the sixth, the fifth, or the fourth. It's in the seventh. That's where the seven trumpets are.

That is the wrath of God. Then after the seven trumpets, you have the seven bowls of the wrath of God. I'm not gonna prove it this morning, but I'm just telling you what I believe. I believe the seven trumpets and the seven vials are parallel.

They all systematically join together. The first trumpet is the same as the first vial, and here we are dealing with Armageddon. I believe when you come to this sixth vial, you have Armageddon. You have the Euphrates.

You have these armies. When you go back to the sixth trumpet, guess what? You get the Euphrates. You get Armageddon. You get the armies of the east. You get the exact same thing in the sixth trumpet and in the sixth vial, and so my first point here is the pathway prepared.

What is the pathway prepared to Armageddon? What is the route that leads to Armageddon? You see, God initiates this because he is leading men to Armageddon. This is not men having their way. It's not demons having their way.

It's not Antichrist having his way. This is at the end of the great tribulation, and what do you have? You have a pathway prepared to lead all nations back to that point and that time. It's a remarkable time.

Let me tell you what it says in Revelation 9 and verse 13, speaking about the sixth angel that sounds. Verse 14, saying to the sixth angel, which had the trumpet, listen carefully, lose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

When that sixth trumpet begins to blow, you know what God is saying? Do you know what the angel is saying? There are four angels bound right now, right now in the river Euphrates, not under the river, in the river.

In that river, there are four angels presently bound. Can I tell you elect angels, good angels are not bound. They're not bound. That shows these are evil angels. These are fallen angels. These are punished angels, and they are trapped.

They are imprisoned. They are hindered. They are held back. These are four fallen demonic angels. These are four that fell with Lucifer. And you know what? Something they'd done in the past made God to bind them, to put them in a prison house that is the river Euphrates.

They're spiritual beings. It's a physical river, and yet they are bound there. They are held as prisoners. They are restricted. They can't function. They cannot work. And you know what the Bible tells us here in Revelation 16, concerning this vial or this cup of wrath that's poured out on the river.

Do you know what happens when this vial is poured out? It says the water thereof is dried up. Now I want you to know the pathway to Armageddon is when the Euphrates begins to dry up. Everyone's been talking about, I think for the past two years, the Euphrates is beginning to dry up.

Then that's not it just yet. But I'm telling you, that's a warning of how close we are. For the first time in history, suddenly areas, not the entire river, certain areas are drying up right at this very present time.

It's not happened before. You know why? Because men are playing around with it. And so the Euphrates is beginning to dry up. It shows man can shut off that entire river, any moment, any time. But I promise you, God is gonna be behind it.

And so we see this vial being outpoured upon it. And what's it say? When that river dries up, why would God bring a judgment or say this is his wrath? Why would you dry up the river? Why would you dry up the Euphrates?

What is it that this Euphrates is holding back? And what is it that these four demonic fallen angels are gonna be released to do? We're told that when they get released, these four angels says, the water thereof dried up and the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Now notice that, that's what the judgment is. That river has to be dried up. It's going to be dried up. It's gonna come to nothing. And it is God's vial and timing within it. You know why? Because all the kings of the east have to cross this river to go to Armageddon.

They've got to come there. And you know what? God is behind this. This is the pathway to Armageddon. This is where it all begins. But listen to what it says back in chapter nine with the trumpet. It says these four angels are held captive in the Euphrates and the four angels were loosed.

Notice what happens when they're loosed, which were prepared. Do you see that word prepared? So in Revelation 16 with the vial, they're prepared. In Revelation nine with the trumpet, they're prepared.

Both places it has this word. There is a preparation under God's hand going on. And listen to what it says, which were prepared for an hour, a day, a time, and a year to slay a third of men. Or in Revelation six, verse 12, what does it say?

It says these kings are being released. Why are they being released? Why are these four demonic angels being released? Why is it they're crossing the Euphrates? Why is it drawn up? You know why? They're going to Armageddon.

And the Bible says that one third of all men are gonna die as a result of this. They are being released. A massive army is gonna cross the Euphrates and it's gonna advance on Armageddon. Now this river Euphrates is one of the oldest rivers in the entire Bible.

We read about Euphrates first in Genesis chapter two. It was one of four rivers that flowed out of the Garden of Eden, the four original rivers. Now the river after Noah's day is not the same, but it carries the same name.

This is the most historic river in our world. In both places it calls it the great river Euphrates. In other words, this river is great. It is magnificent. It's about 1800 miles long. That makes it great.

But more than that, it's history being the oldest river. And one of the last rivers mentioned in our Bible apart from the river in the new heaven and the new earth, this river is the oldest. It'll be the last.

It's the most notorious river. So no wonder it is called that great river. It has its source in Armenia where the Ark came to rest on Ararat. Now listen to what it says. We are actually told the number of those that get released out across.

It says in the number of the army of the horsemen, this is chapter 19 verse 16, says the number of the army of the horsemen were 200 ,000, thousand. So when these kings of the East come, who are the kings of the East?

That's kings, leaders, generals to the East of Euphrates. You know what it includes? It includes China. It includes India and all of those Asian countries. You're talking about masses of military power that are gonna be released in this hour and this time.

Do you know how many this is? Soldiers, 200 million Asian soldiers from the East are gonna come flooding over this. You know at the present time in China, China has a population of 1 .4 billion, 1 .4 billion.

India now has 1 .4 billion. And now shortly they're saying India's population is going to explode way beyond China. And India become the most populous country in the entire world. Look at these two countries, and this is only two.

So they have almost 3 billion people out of 8 billion people in our world from two countries East of the Euphrates. This is a massive, massive population. You know, I believe that this is not just spiritual.

You cannot spiritualize all that is happening here. It is a literal war. It's gonna happen. You're talking about an actual river drying up. You can't spiritualize that. It's gonna actually happen. If we actually took the numbers here, this army, 200 million of an army, and that's not considering those all come from the West or those in the Middle East.

It's only saying about the Kings of the East, 200 million. You know what that would be today? If this happened today, it would be one out of every 40 people in our world's population is gonna march across the Euphrates.

It would mean that 2 billion people are gonna die as a result of this. This is utterly remarkable. When you go into history, you can actually read that the biggest army that ever gathered in world history was Xerxes' army of 2 .5 million that gathered against the Greeks that marched against Greece.

You know, world historians say it's impossible. They must have made a mistake. They can't fathom that an army over a million would gather and march in the ancient world. But I wanna tell you, 200 million soldiers are gonna come across.

And you know what? It doesn't say they're gonna come and fit. It begins to describe how they travel. It says, and I saw horses in the vision. Notice what the horses are like. A name that sat on them, having breastplates of fire.

I believe there's a ton about our contemporary military powers. A breastplate of fire. How could you have a breastplate of fire? It says, and of chasinth and brimstone. And the heads of the horses were the heads of lions.

And out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. I believe this shows 200 ,000 soldiers amassing, crossing that with all the military technology. And it actually shows that their weapons are gonna inflict worldwide destruction with one third of men worldwide dying as a result of this great gathering.

But it's very important. Do you know China has never marched on the Middle East in world history? Do you know that? Do you know how important this is? When it was written, China was never known to march into the Middle East.

It didn't happen. It hasn't happened in all world history. Even now, China is careful. Oh yes, it has its own dominion, its own power. But it's not marching into other countries. It's a liar. It's sneaky.

It's very careful. It's covert. But this has never happened. It is gonna happen very soon. I'm gonna tell you. And so there's gonna be prepared and an entire major army. You know, I was in the first Gulf War and it was remarkable.

Millions gathered to do warfare. It says here, this is the pathway being prepared. This is a thorough preparation. It's absolute. To be prepared means to be adjusted, brought into the right place at the right time to do the right thing.

This is God adjusting everything. This is God's vial being outpoured. This is God saying, I'm gonna judge all the nations of the world. I'm gonna judge all the great armies. I'm gonna judge all their military power.

I am gonna bring destruction. I'm gonna pour my wrath out. There's no mercy at this point. There's no love anymore. There's no forgiveness anymore. There's no grace anymore. You know what? I will not be on the earth at this point.

This is the outpouring of God's wrath. You do not wanna be here when the wrath of God is outpoured. I'd rather have the wrath of Satan. I would rather have the wrath of man. But you do not wanna have the wrath of God.

And even when you experience the wrath of God here, you still have the wrath of eternity yet to come. It's terrible enough to get the wrath of God on earth, but there's more. My second point, the timing and the technique.

The Timing and the Technique of Demonic Deception

The timing and the technique, not only the pathway of preparation, but the timing and the technique. It says in chapter 16 and 13, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Do you see that? That there's three demonic spirits coming out of the mouth of the dragon. Who is the dragon? That's the devil. That is the devil, Lucifer. See at this actual point, we have the timing.

There's an actual hour set for this. The hour is set already. The day is set. The month is set. The year is set in God's calendar. God has set a time. The devil can't release a frog out of his mouth until God says.

But at the right time, the dragon out of his mouth come an unclean spirit like a frog. It's talking about a devil, a demon. It's talking about demonic power. It comes out of the mouth of the dragon. The beast, who's the beast?

That's a political leader. That's the antichrist. And thirdly, the false prophet. All three of these leaders, a trinity of evil, political power, religious power, and Lucifer himself are gonna release three spirits, unclean spirits.

Unclean spirits doesn't mean sexual immorality in the Bible. It doesn't mean that. It never meant that. You know, today people are demonology mad. They say, you've got a demon of nicotine. Where do you get that in your Bible?

There's no demon of nicotine. Say you've got an unclean spirit, you're immoral. Where do you get that in your Bible? You need to be very careful of contemporary teaching. Here what you have is the power that's been let loose on our world for three and a half years.

The dragon has ruled with power. But here come three lying, deceiving spirits out of these three beings, out of these three persons. And those spirits go forth, listen, working miracles. Do you see very shortly, miraculous power, demonic power is gonna be released in an unparalleled way.

You think the world's bad now. Do you know all of this immorality, all of this stuff being taught in our schools, the Irish schools are being flooded. Parents wake up to hear me this morning. If you're sitting casually at this time and you've got your kid in a school, you need to wake up this morning.

You need to get a grip of things. They are marching for your kids. We taught a series on this. They are marching. They are educating your kids. If you don't go and bang on the door of your teacher, you're negligent, you're handing your children over.

You're not looking after your children. Don't give me excuses. You need to defend your children, not just stand on your own and say, well, we're careful what they watch on television and we're not gonna let anything in here.

That is not sufficient. You need to pursue this. Saints of God, I know what I'm saying here. You're taught about all of this is the preparation for what's gonna come. Saints of God, this is why God's gonna hand this world over.

2 Thessalonians 2, He hands this world over very soon to a great delusion. See, I can handle deception from the devil. I can handle that. And you know what? If you tell me I can always discern, I always see through someone, I can discern what's of the devil, then that's not discernment.

Because you know what? Discernment, real discernment is supernatural. And you know what? Deception is such you don't see it coming. You need the grace of God. You need the spirit of God. And no one has that in their back pocket, I wanna tell you.

But you know, in this hour, it's one thing to deal with deception, but you know what's about to get released? It's God's delusion. God is going to, in 2 Thessalonians 2, He is gonna release the delusion upon those who do not believe the truth and those who have not received a love for truth.

Do you love truth here this morning? Do you believe the truth? Because if you don't, you're in a very vulnerable place. One of these days soon, God is gonna hand men over. And you know what that delusion is?

To follow Antichrist, to be deceived by what I'm telling you about. But here at the very end, these three creatures send forth these fallen spirits looking like frogs. You know why those are sent? To work miracles, supernatural miracles.

And you know what? It's gonna convince China. The leaders of China, they're going, we're not going to army getting a fight. Oh yes, you are. Miraculous power, supernatural power, demonic influences from the pit of hell.

Angels out of Euphrates being released to bring these armies over. Do you see what is operating here? Thank God for the grace of God. Thank God for salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. It says here, they go forth onto the kings of the East.

These spirits working miracles go forth. They have a target. You know what? Those kings of the East are very reluctant to cross out Euphrates and come to Armageddon. Send out these spirits. We've got to gather all armies to the Middle East.

Even those that are reluctant, the Irish are probably already there for three and a half years. They'll be at the forefront of this system, but China has to be dragged there and brought there. I told you, I was in the first Gulf War.

Saddam Hussein had the fifth largest army in the world, 950 ,000. This is gonna be an army of 200 ,000, only twice as big as Saddam's army. Don't tell me it's not possible. It is possible. In that first Gulf War in 1993, I think it was, lose track, the US sent a million soldiers into Saudi Arabia to fight that war.

So you're looking at an immense army, 1 million American soldiers, 1 million in Saddam's army. You've got 200 million already. It's remarkable. That's the size of this army. In that Gulf War, it was 38 nations joined together to fight Saddam.

And you know what? I was only 18 years old, right in the midst of it, crossed over that border into Iraq, seeing all that was going on and happening. Well, you know what? It's about to happen again in the days ahead.

God actually has set a time. He's got a technique. He has gathered those kings of these, listen, to gather them to the battle of that great day of Almighty. Do you know the Bible never talks about the battle of Armageddon?

Not once in the entire Bible. It's not a biblical statement. Do you know what the Bible does call it? God has a name for it. Men call it Armageddon, the third world war or some other name. What does God call it?

God calls it the battle of the great day of God Almighty. You see, he's gathered all these armies, all these nations for one last grand finale. It's not Armageddon. It's not about nuclear warfare. Do you know what this is about?

God is using demonic power, even the beast, the dragon, the false prophet, these frog demonic spirits, he's using it all. Draw them into the valley of Megiddo. You know why? I am gonna judge all nations.

Saints of God, this is a valley you need to understand about. You may be scared today. What's gonna happen with our world, our young people? What's happening to our nation, our laws, our politics? What's gonna happen to our freedom and liberties?

I wanna tell you about a valley where God is going to sit in judgment of all nations. This is gonna be the battle of all battle. It is gonna be a mega battle, a remarkable campaign. But let me tell you something about it.

Armageddon is not fought at Armageddon. I'm gonna shock you now. Let me dispel what you think about Armageddon. All, if not most of you, think Armageddon is fought in this valley. It's not fought in this valley.

The valley isn't even big enough. The Bible never says this war is gonna be fought in Armageddon. In fact, it's gonna be fought over a 200 mile region. And it's not gonna be fought in one place at one time.

It's fought over a period of time. Not in one place. It's not one battle. It's not one army. It's actually a whole region. But you know what the Bible says, this is gonna be the staging area. Let me come to my third point here.

Armageddon as a Staging Ground for the Nations

Armageddon, a raid, are set in place. Verse 16, I'm coming back to verse 15. I'll finish on that. Armageddon, a raid. And he gathered them, verse 16, and he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.

It's a gathering place. This valley is a gathering place, a staging place to gather all armies that are reluctant to come. You know, at this point, armies from around the world have been in Israel surrounding Jerusalem, besieging it for the past three and a half years.

Do you know the besiegement of Jerusalem begins with the abomination of desolation and it continues to this point for three and a half years. All nations, armies of the world are gonna surround Jerusalem.