“The Battle of Armageddon” represents Satan’s final assault upon the souls of men. This is the battle whereby he, through his New World Order, intends to enslave all mankind. Our mind, will, and emotions comprise our soul. Satan plans to bend our entire soul to his evil ways. This explains why we have seen centuries old laws which uphold Biblical morality overturned and declared illegal in last few years. It also explains why almost the entire Bible deals with the salvation of our souls (not our spirits). Jesus brought new birth to our spirits so that we could begin to obey him, thus saving our souls and denying Satan’s kingdom. But God says concerning Satan’s minions,  “Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 5:24)

The sixth seal, the sixth trumpet, and the sixth bowl of wrath depicted in the Book of Revelation all describe aspects of the Battle of Armageddon.

12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave[e] and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 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,17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” (Revelation 6:12-17 ESV)

13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire[c] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Rev. 9:13-21)

12 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. 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) 16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:12-16)

In keeping with the Biblical pattern of many assaults upon God’s people, God will deliver his people and bring Satan and his army to ruin at the very moment that Satan launches his Battle of Armageddon. God’s plan will fulfill the proverb, “he who digs a pit will fall into it.” Likewise it will prophetically fulfill the parable of Haman and Mordecai when Haman (Satan) was hanged on the very gallows he prepared for Mordecai (God’s people). We see the signs of his traps everywhere today. Even many unbelievers have awakened to the fact that world governments have turned against their own people and plan to enslave them. Many of these look to good “aliens” to save them from what appears to be certain disaster. But, they will be surprised when they find that, in fact, it is God’s good angels who actually deliver them!

When God’s judgment does fall the wicked will hide in the deep caves of the ground they have prepared for their safety, their “dumbs,” deep underground military bases. Until now they have relied upon the occult power of demons whom they serve. But when God arises to shake the earth they will realize that not even their power can now save them. And they will ask, “who can stand against this terrifying God who has arisen to judge the earth?” Isaiah asked and answered this question almost three thousand years ago. He said,

Ah, you destroyer,
    who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
    whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
    you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
    they will betray you. …

10 “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
    “now I will lift myself up;
    now I will be exalted.
11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
    your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
    like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”