Prophecy
The great dragon will collect all his forces, to make one desperate struggle before all be lost. God warns of this great trial, to engage his people to prepare for it.
(Rev 16:16 KJV) And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
By their internal nature, spirits of devils; by their works, doing miracles; by the errand they are sent, and go upon, to gather the kings of the earth to the battle of God Almighty, which they succeed in;
(Rev 16:16 KJV) And he gathered them together,....
Or rather "they gathered them together", as the Syriac version renders it; for though the verb is singular, a noun plural goes before it,
(Rev 16:14 KJV) For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
and the same spirits that are there said to go forth, to gather the kings; these will gather them together; will persuade the Papal, Pagan, and Mahometan powers, the remains of them in the several parts of the world, to join together, and make one effort for the reviving of their declining, and almost ruined interests: for which purpose they will be brought together to the field of battle - a place called Armageddon;
(Rev 16:16 KJV) into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon;
which may be the same with Har-megiddo, the mountain of Megiddo; for the Hebrew word הר is read "Ar" by the Greeks; so the city Argarize is interpreted the mountain of the most High: and in the valley of Megiddo Josiah was slain. and this refers either to the slaying of Josiah, which occasioned such mourning, that it became proverbial for any great sorrow;
(2Ch 35:22 KJV) Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
where it is called the valley of Megiddon; or rather to the slaughter of Sisera's army at the waters of Megiddo, by Barak, and all the kings in alliance with him,
(Jdg 5:19 KJV) The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
suggesting that the same would be the fate of these united powers. Some derive the word from גדהון and חרמא, which signify "the destruction of their troops", or "armies
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