THE DAY OF THE LORD III: Armageddon

The Wedding Supper and Christ's Judgment Seat
Must wait, for urgent affairs lie at hand;
A huge army waited below, God's Host to meet;
Under the crescent flag, Satan's last stand!
Landing on the Mount from which He arose,
Christ entered Zion through the Eastern gate.
Where once rested the Holy of Holies,
The earth shook; thunder boomed; the sun grew dark;
Filled with fear, the lost turned on each other;
Deaths passed the thousands, then the millions' mark;
Violence Islam spawned became its smother!
Satan was captured to face future dire;
Live, his henchmen into the Lake of Fire!

We have already seen the tragic results of the slaughter of Armageddon in the two blogs on the Harvest of the Earth. It was not really a battle; Zechariah describes the results graphically.

"This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations which fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day, men will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. Each man will seize the hand of another, and they will attack each other." Zechariah 14:12-13

The army destroyed numbered 200,000,000 troops. When it is over, the world will be free of terror from Satan. The Church has been spiritualized with imperishable bodies and will be with Jesus Christ forever. What brought this gathering of armies to Israel is probably the great quantities of oil in the Middle East and the nations' desire to preserve and protect their resources. The economy of every nation is dependent upon an adequate supply of petroleum. The Arab nations control one-third of all the oil reserves on earth.

Satan controlled Islam, the Antichrist and the False Prophet. All nations were forced to send every soldier possible to the Plain of Megiddo at the first sight of the Lord's return to earth. (See Joel 3:16). The sword in the mouth of Jesus is symbolic of the roar He emitted from Jerusalem that instigated and won the Battle of Armageddo. (See Joel 3:16)