16:16 What is the significance of Armageddon?
16:16 What is the significance of Armageddon?
The significance of Armageddon is that it will be the scene of the final battle between good and evil. It is here that the armies of Antichrist, which will be mobilised by the demon spirits in Rev 16:13-14 to fight Christ, will nearly all be killed (cp Re 16:13-14 with Re 19:11-21).
Only one sixth of Antichrist's forces will be spared (cp Eze 39:1-7 (KJV)). The battle of Armageddon will last only one day (cp Isa 30:26; Zech 14:6-7). Yet the blood that is shed in that day will flow for two hundred miles - approximately 320 kilometres - at a depth of 1.2 metres, "... up to the horses bridles" (cp Rev 14:19-20). Without the city in V20 (KJV) means outside the city. Armageddon, which means Mountain of Megiddo, is approximately sixty miles north of Jerusalem.
It will take seven years to burn the weapons of war from Armageddon, as firewood (cp Eze 39:8-10), and it will take the whole of Israel seven months to bury those killed in the battle, notwithstanding that the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field will also eat the dead bodies (cp Rev 19:17-18 with Eze 39:11-20).
See also comments on Mt 24:1-3; Jn 5:43; Rev 6:1-2, 13:1-7, 14:14-16, 19:11-21.