Revelation 16:16

16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

A. All these evil forces gather together. They think they are ready, but they are not.

B. The Hebrew transliteration is “Har Mageddon.”

C. Any time one mentions “Armageddon”, most will recognize the term and have some (usually mistaken) notion of what it means. Even movies have been made with this title.

D. In Ezekiel 12:11 this location is referred to as a valley of great mourning. This place is the “Mountain of Sorrows.” Thus, the symbolic meaning of this term is a place of great sorrow.

E. The enemies of God will be gathered together in the place of great sorrows. The amount of sorrow they experience will be like a mountain. They will suffer immense grief. They will endure immeasurable amounts of pain.

F. I share with you some statements from Paul Rogers work.

“What does Armageddon mean to us? It still represents the conflict between good and evil and we need not expect a literal battle to usher in the coming of Christ. There is a sense in which every man has his personal Armageddon, which is fought daily, on the plains of conscience. It will be fought ever day and every hour until time is no more. However, we can take courage, as did the early disciples in the fact that God will ultimately triumph. Like them, we are surrounded by error and evil, with false religions very much in the predominance. And yet we know “our labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58). When the struggle is over, God will place his flag upon the highest hill, and the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever (Revelation 11:15).” (3, 68-69)