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Question: After Armageddon will heaven come to earth?

1. Armageddon appears only once in the Bible.  At the pouring out
of sixth bowl of wrath, Rev.16:16 reads, "And they gathered them
together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har-Mageddon."

2. The Bible, as well as secular history, records several battles,
some of them crucial, which were fought in the hills of Megiddo.
Here Israel, under command of Barak, gained a great victory over
the Canaanites (Jud.5,6). In the same valley God scattered the host
of Midian by the hand of Gideon with only three hundred men (Jud.
7). 

3. Armageddon stands for conflict between good and evil, truth and
error, light and darkness, God and Satan. It is a spiritual
struggle, not some earthly war. In Christ we are assured of victory
(Rom.8:37).

4. The Bible knows nothing of the sensational visions of
premillennialists and dispensationlists, who forecast the imminent
marshaling of all armies of the world into the Valley of Megiddo
for the world's last great war, which they call Armageddon.

5. Heaven will not come to earth. Earth will be burned up (2
Pet.3). Saved will go to heaven (Jno.14).

(See Mike Willis: The Battle of Armageddon, GOT)



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