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Is "Vatican" the meant by "Armageddon" ?
Many Bible studies try to literally correlate between place of historical "Megiddo" located in Israel as mentioned in Chronicles 2:
"22 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." (2 CH 35)
And Between futuristic "Armageddon" as mentioned in Revelation book :
"16 And he gathered them together into a place called in Hebrew tongue Armageddon"
(Re 16:16)
The objection to this approach arises due to topographical difference between the historical "Megiddo" which is a plain valley in contrary to the futuristic "Armageddon" which is Mountainous.
Because of this conflict, another thinking approach could be considered which deals with "Armageddon" as Descriptive rather than literal place.
By adopting this analysis approach then we can describe futuristic "Armageddon" place as being understood from its meaning as a Hebrew word.
The Hebrew meaning of "Armageddon"
The root word is Gad ("troop"); Gen. 30:11; 49; 19. Megiddo is "gathering of troops," and the final "n" means "the place of.." Hence Megiddon is not a name but a generic term for a battelfield, "the place of the gathering of troops".
Arm is transliterated from "har" (mountain) thus the complete meaning of word is :
"battlefield's mountain"
Back again to our question: Could the vatican mountain be the place meant by Hebrew word "Armageddon" ?
To answer this question we have to put these historical facts into consideration :
2- The known name of "Vatican" was not determined yet at that early time of Apostles.
3- During Apostles time the place of "Vatican" was holding "Fighting Arena" used by gladiators to perform their shows in front of Roman Caesar and crowd.
4- The Roman were the first who invented such kind of fighting places, so there were no linguistic terms defined yet in other languages to describe such places.
5- Saint Peter was executed also in this place during "Nero" Emperor rule.
"Armageddon" is linguistically describing mountain of "Fighting Arena" that was located above "Vatican Mountain" during Apostles period.
Reason1
1- From Revelation Book we read that final war will be against the "Lamb" who is our savior "Jesus Christ" the KING OF KINGS, and LORD OF LORDS sitting on white horse as being described in the next paragraphs:
"11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean".
(Rev 19:11)
And
"19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army"
(Rev 19:19)
And
"14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."
(Rev 17:14)
Reason2
2- Such a war against Rome is also mentioned in Islam (Religion of Anti Christ) prophecies about end times as in followings places :
Book 041, Number 6927 and
Book 041, Number 6930 from next Islamic english links :
2- Kingdom of the Beast "Anti Christ/Islamic MAHDI" in Iraq/Middle East
3- Kingdom of False Prophet "JEWISH Messiah/Islamic Jesus" in Israel
4- The witnesses (Re 11:3) "Islamic Dajjal (One of them)" and 144,000 Jewish followers
in Jerusalem (Re 7:4) and (Re 14:3)
5- The movement of the troops (200 million) (Re 9:16) is taking place over dried
Euphrates river
Notes :
- Such path represents the only shortest way from south east to the Vatican in north
- The Euphrates river dryness is prophesied in both of revelation book (Re 16:12)
and in Islamic hadith as you can read from the following links :
"Beast and False Prophet" Coalition (Re 19:19)
(This link was added on 12Jan2007 same day I read about it as this historical prophecy was completely hidden to me before that date and I was absolutely unaware of it.)