There will only be two real military powers left at that timethe king of the north and the Russia-China axis. It says that the nations will gather for battle at a place called the valley of Jehoshaphat. I watched as he opened the sixth seal. **[4]** See Gary DeMar, Zechariah 12 and the Esther Connection (Powder Springs, GA: American Vision, 2004). Or achris akh'-rece; akin to akron; until or up to. The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress in a stream about 180 mileslong and as high as a horse's bridle. Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. Our challenge is to settle in our minds if this event is real or not, and if it is an actual event, when is it destined to happen? All rights reserved worldwide. If we didn't know better, we might say that the 20th century was straight out of the book of Revelation, with blood up to the horses' bridles. Plural of uncertain affinity; a thousand. I think this explains the behavior of people (as describedin the sixth seal) when it says that they will hide in caves, calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand? (Rev 6:16-17). it is the empire of hell. There never has been such an army and apparently never will be one. . As Carrington says, . 2 Satan Receives God's Wrath Revelation 14:19-20 This is a vision of the wrath of God represented as a great wine press. (Rev. 20And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles. . 18: And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. Many are saying that the battle is near at hand, and that it will be a terrifying day for the world, perhaps a nuclear holocaust and much else. the blood) can enter the city of the saints (cf. Other names include Valley of Jezreel, a term used only three times in Scripture (Joshua 17:16; Judges 6:33; Hosea 1:5). Armageddon will be one of the most momentous events that the world will ever see. - New American Standard Version (1995) And the winepress are trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and . This is the ultimate purpose of the battle of Armageddon. However, they will all be in for a jolt. 11:1-7From the Revelation, we learn that the Two Witnesses are two prophets who will preach in Jerusalem and call down plagues as a warning to the Inhabitants of the Earth. The bible states that there will be a "Battle of Armageddon", (Revelation 16:16) which again is commonly misunderstood as being a literal battle with large armies clashing. They will meet and prepare to clash in the plain of Megiddo, located today in northern Judah (or the nation called Israel), where there is a huge air base and a gigantic area to assemble armies. 24:15-21In the above warning, the people are told that when they see the desecration of the Temple, (the abomination that causes desolation) they were to flee to the mountains in order to avoid being killed in the attack. You may share this website by attaching the following link. Ver. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.) 16And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. The result of these battles will be that the armies of the Beast and False Prophet will be crushed, and Satan and his demons will be captured and locked in the Abyss. High reputation commentaries and various churches regularly associate this event with the great battle of the Day of the Lord. That being, the defeat of the Beast Powers armies at or near Jerusalem at Christs return. Immediately following their ascension, a new series of plagues (the first five bowl events)beganto strike the earth. When will it take place? Josephus records that more than a million Jews were killed during the war. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: . Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. It would flow out to the sea and to all of the surrounding land. To envision this scene as being a battle, with armies coming to war against the returned Christ, we must draw upon other cross-referenced passages, as the language for a battle just isnt found in this particular place. Gods wrath against the earth is expressed figuratively by saying the wine press was trodden with blood coming out from the wine press, up to the horses bridles. Now to Revelation 16. John tells how these armies shall be quickly annihilated, with their bodies given as food for birds. And blood came out of the wine press, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs; The, the definite article. 3So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood. After all, the scale of the carnage is mind boggling! The mere mention of the word Armageddon evokes ominous images of apocalyptic slaughter, nuclear holocaust and blood flowing to the horse bridles. Bozrah: {Heb}The capital of Edom; Petra . 11:15, 19. The outcome of the battle reveals the following: We also see a reference tothis battle in chapter 14, which is part of the Introduction to the Bowls, with this summary of the Armageddon battle: Rev 14:19-20 19So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God. The Battle of Armageddon is the same as the harvest spoken of in the Bible which describes the wicked men of the earth as a great vine that is cut down and crushed. That apocalyptic image hangs . This verse emphasizes that the war will be waged by Antichrist (the beast and eighth king mentioned in verse 11) and the ten other kings who, as described in verses 12-13, will be united in alliance with Antichrist. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Heb 4:13 says no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.. 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 1. Dr. John Hoole - June 16, 2013 . Rev. calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand? But he laid his right hand on me, saying, Fear not. But, believe it or not, there is a bright side, a very bright side. Many see this as a world-wide conflagration because of the use of whole world. But its not. The blood from this battle will reach to the horses bridle, which is 4-5 feet high. You have to go back to chapters 8 (712) and 9 (15 and 18) for the context of this topic. The valley is about 12 miles long and 2.5 miles wide, and its depth is unknown. About The Show Transcript BETA Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. The Battle of Armageddon - Part 1 Turning Point / David Jeremiah On-Demand Podcasts NEW! God protected these two witnesses such that all efforts to stop them had failed for nearly 1260 days until Antichrist finally killed them (Rev 11:5, 7). It's not a confined space. But to have an event where an actual river of blood flows out from a wide valley for a considerable distance, suggests an event on a scale well beyond anything mankind has ever experienced or even imagined! While the wine press is figurative, the added phrase for a distance of two hundred miles, is probably not figurative because this specific distance would have no apparent figurative meaning. John Walvoord, a thorough-going dispensationalist, sees the stars as symbols of political powers. 16:1316) after a third of the earths population has been wiped out. . Every drop of blood will be squeezed out of the bodies of the unsaved. Chinas horse population is less than 7.5 million. 13:8), the million mentioned by Josephus. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. Rev. Joel 3:2When the nations are brought down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, they will be judged by God, and trampled down like grapes in a winepress, and their blood will flow like a river. This will be the shortest and most one-sided major battle of all time. The valley of Armageddon is a long and deep valley located in the northern part of Israel. Then the flesh eaten by birds of prey. Rev. The preferred meaning allows that the person could become awake even during the sixth bowl. To the people on earth, the coming of the Lord will appear as dark clouds, thunderstorms, and lightning that will suddenly fill the sky and that will cause all the peoples on earth to mourn.Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. John writes that the kings of the whole world will gather together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty (16:14). That battle is often referred to as the Battle of Armageddon. Interestingly, this was also a battleground in 1918 during World War I. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,and bound him for a thousand years. As far as, up to, until, during. The name of the war, itself, comes from the place where the kings will be gathered for battle.The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. The outcome of the battle is described at the end of the seventh bowl event, in chapter 19. International Standard Version The wine press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press as high as a horse's bridle for about 1,600 stadia. 19:19. My articles "Considering Laodicea" and "The Place of Final Training Revisited" each deal more specifically with aspects of these teachings. I believe that when Christ returns, all those who wereChristians before the bowls began will have an aerial view of the battle. The Bible says there will be blood up to the horses' bridles (Revelation 14:20). The latest such plague shall be darkness over all the earth (the fifth bowl event). With that in mind, it is somewhat logical to associate this event described in the 20th verse of Revelation 14 as being that very event. Hal Lindsey made this interpretation popular in his 1970 best seller The Late Great Planet Earth: We believe that China is the beginning of the formation of this great power called the kings of the east by the apostle John. Rev 14:19-20. How then does he come to be the legitimateking of kings (Rev 17:14, 19:16), reigning over all the earth? RevelationStudyGuide@gmail.com, A complete study guide to the Book of the Revelation Copyright RevelationStudyGuide.org 2023, Hades, Paradise, the Abyss, Hell, Heaven, and the New Heaven and Earth. A legion was from 5,000 to 6,000 men, and all this in but one man! Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses' bridles for about 180 miles. It will be a spectacular and glorious event witnessed by all the world as the heavens will be ablaze with the glory of God. We know these things from what the Bible actually says. Wine-vat. 20: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. (200 miles!). It's an historically unprecedented situation to see a huge stream of blood flowing out from a battle location. The Rise of the BeastIn order to understand what will take place at the Battle of Armageddon, we have to look at the events that will precede this war, beginning with the Rise of the Beast (the antichrist) who will attack Jerusalem and kill the Two Witnesses. Bible Gateway. After that, he must be set free for a short time. Rev. However, ifChrist comes to assume his role as king on earth by virtue of inheriting the throne of David, then he should, according to the laws of men, become the king of Israel, just as David was (Matt 2:2, John 1:49, John 12:13, Acts 1:6). The Battle of Armageddon is described in the Scriptures as a war between the Remnant of Israel and the armies of the nations who will be destroyed in this battle by a Great Earthquake and Severe Hailstorm. Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. The Euphrates River will be dried up, making it faster and easier for the armies of the "kings from the east" to assemble. The Punishment of the Dragon, the Beast, and the False ProphetAt the conclusion of the Battle of Armageddon, the Beast and the False Prophet will be thrown alive into the Fiery Lake of Burning Sulfur, and the dead bodies of their armies will become food for the birds of the air.But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. Together, these three will send out demons who will perform signs in order to gather the kings of the whole world to Armageddon. And the winepress was trampled outside the City. Gog and Magog no world peace . 29, where also He sendeth the sickle) The Son sends His sickle-bearing angel[2] to reap the righteous. Rev. Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular. These new plagues were similar to the trumpet events, except that they were much more severe. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. Matt 24:30Likewise, when the Beast and the kings of the earth are referred to as waging war against the rider on the horse, it is a description of how the Beast will attack the Remnant of Israel and not Christ Himself. Rather, it seems to describe the harvest of a fully ripened vintage of humanity. It is not the battle of Armageddon, but it is connected. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land. And the wine press was trampled outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses bridles, for a distance of 1,600 stadia. . Now, we go ask a European high school student what the formula is for the volume of a cylinder, and we find out that it is pi * the radius squared * the height. It doesnt make any sense. Eventually the total number killed will come to two-thirds of the population (Zech. A more pertinent cross-reference would be that in Matthew 25:31-46, where the righteous are set apart and awarded Life before the confirmed wicked are then sentenced to a just and everlasting punishment. Away, in various senses. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. A city, the inhabitants of a city. Topographically, Megiddo does not fit the place of Armageddon. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. Our question is, Is this a real prophetic event, or is it merely exaggerated figurative language? Who are these righteous who are harvested at this event? And hopefully you will see that the historical sequence and the historical details are an absolutely perfect fit. Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 16:16, 19:17-21) Revelation 14:20 says the blood of those slain would come up the horse's bridles. That means trading caravans and conquering armies were familiar with this valley either travelling to Egypt or Mesopotamia. As discussed above, its not that hard to see why the unredeemed world would come to do battle against Israel. 14:1-5Anyone who is familiar with the Old Testament will recognize the similarities between the above description of the flight of the Remnant from Jerusalem, and the exodus of Israel from Egypt. The "blood," of which the juice of the grape is a type, depicts the punishment inflicted. 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