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1) What Does Armageddon mean?
Armageddon is one of those magic words that of itself, in the English language, have no actual meaning. It has been given, thanks to the dollar driven movie moguls and a few sensationalizing authors, a meaning which is partly correct and yet so seriously flawed, that very few people have any idea what it is actually about, other than some form of warfare or catastrophe. Some believe that it is about an asteroid that destroys life on the earth. Some believe that it is about a war with an anti-Christ ruling in Jerusalem. Because of this total confusion, people write it off as too difficult. This attitude leads to the live now, pay later, grab for yourself, materialistic, self-gratifying life we live today.
In relation to Armageddon, we need to ask four questions.
What is going to happen?
Where will it happen?
When will it happen?
Why will it happen?
When we know the answers to these questions, we can decide what our options for survival are.
Let us project to reality and something that we can relate to: the World Trade Centre in New York, the 11 September, 2001. The impossible had occurred. It was absolutely incredible. The news looked like a movie, a bad movie, a high stress movie. If you had been an office worker in the Trade Centre and somebody had told you that the two towers would be destroyed by Muslims crashing 747 jumbo jet liners into them on purpose, would you have heeded the warning? What would you have thought? Would you have said “no way, it is not possible.” There are many questions that would come to mind. The Muslims are religious people and would not be expected to do things like that. How could they fly an American jet and get through security? Surely no one would dare to do this in an American city. The point is, that the whole thing seemed so impossible, that many might not have heeded the warning. Not only that, the person giving the warning might be accused of stirring up religious hatred.
If you had heard the warning, what would you have done?
Ignored the warning,
Not gone to work,
Run when you heard a plane coming,
Or wait till the plane comes in the window?
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