Are We Nearing Armageddon?

 "Then there will be great tribulation such as not occurred since the world's beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. - MATTHEW 24:21. 

THE word "Armageddon" rings ominously in the ears of many people. Some understand it to be the "end of the world" when all human life will be destroyed and the earth made uninhabitable, perhaps by means of a nuclear war between nations. True, the English word "Armageddon" does denote a cataclysmic event, a war. But the Bible says that is the "war of the great day of God the Almighty," which is fought at a place called "Har-Mageddon." - REVELATION 16;14, 16. 

Could God's war of Armageddon possibly mean the end of all mankind, or the end of this planet? No, not at all. God's own Word assures us: "This is what Jehovah has said, "The Creator of the heavens, He the true God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited." - ISAIAH 45:18. 

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