Jehovah's Witnesses: Is the battle of Armageddon a global event, or a specific location?

When Armageddon happens it will be globally, everyone will get to see it's results. The Bible states that the birds of the heavens will have their fill of the dead bodies. There will be many people who will die at Armageddon. (Sorry, I don't have that scripture on me right now)

Armageddon is a global event. Jehovah God knows who is righteous and who is unrighteous or wicked on this earth. Jehovah God is still giving more time to those who want to be closer to him and have a chance to know about the truth.

When Jehovah God decides when Armageddon will happen, he will be coming as a thief.

Here is a verse that explains that...

Revelation - Chapter 16:

15 “Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments, that he may not walk naked and people look upon his shamefulness.”

To answer your question better I have researched what Revelation 16:16 is talking about...

THE word “Armageddon” has its origin in the Hebrew expression “Har–Magedon,” or “Mountain of Megiddo.” It is found at Revelation 16:16, which states: “They gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.” Who are assembled to Armageddon, and why? Just two verses earlier, at Revelation 16:14, we read: “The kings of the entire inhabited earth” are gathered together “to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” Naturally, those statements raise additional intriguing questions. Where do these “kings” fight? Over what issue do they battle, and with whom? Will they, as many believe, use weapons of mass destruction? Will there be survivors of Armageddon? Let the Bible provide the answers.

Does the reference to the “Mountain of Megiddo” mean that Armageddon will be fought at a certain mountain in the Middle East? No. For one thing, no such mountain really exists—at the site of ancient Megiddo, there is only a mound rising about 70 feet [20 m] above the adjacent valley plain. In addition, the area around Megiddo could not begin to hold all “the kings of the earth and their armies.” (Revelation 19:19) However, Megiddo was the site of some of the fiercest and most decisive battles in Middle Eastern history. Thus, the name Armageddon stands as a symbol of a decisive conflict, with only one clear victor.

GP,

It looks like that you've already got some good answers. I'll just add in a Scripture to support the position that it will be a global event.

Prov 2:21,22(NASB)

21 For the upright will live in the land

And the blameless will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land

And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

I guess nobody will deny the fact that wicked ones exist everywhere on this planet as Satan is the god and ruler of this system (2 Cor 4:4, 1John 5:19)

Throughout jw history they have speculated on the how, where, who, as regards the events relating to Armageddon.

Russell was a Zionist. His predictions regarding the restoration of a state of Israel were the most accurate of any prediction ever made by the Watchtower Society. Here is one of his predictions, views regarding the jews:

"There are now in the world more than ten million Jews, about three-quarters of whom are in Russia, Poland, the Balkan States, and Turkey. If the movement toward Palestine should get the impulse that the Hirsch committee is able to give it, an imaginative person can conceive of the country's doubling or trebling its Jewish population before the close of our century, and of its having a larger Jewish population fifty years hence than it had in ancient times, when its census ran up to three millions. Should the restoration be accomplished, all hail to the New Jerusalem!" Watchtower 1892 November 1 p.329

In 1948 the Jews did exactly as Russell predicted. Wow the most pinpointed accurate prophecy ever written by jw's. Rutherford later rejected the whole concept of Zionism. Of course Rutherford died before Russell's insights proved true.

What does this have to do with Armageddon? JW originally taught that this battle was a more regional affair based on Russell's view ofZionismm.

Again JW assume andsurmisee what the bible is saying. They broaden the words toencompasss the entire world. The bible says no such thing. Why would the bible writer give a location if he meant the globe? Pure interpretation again.

The battle of Armageddon will not be fought on any one specific battlefield. Instead, the entire earth will be the battleground. Why? Because the two opposing sides are so large that they cannot be contained at any one site.

Armageddon, or Har–Magedon, is also known as “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” Jehovah God will use his Son, Christ Jesus, to muster an angelic army to war against the combined forces of all the wicked rulers of the earth.—Revelation 16:14; 19:11-16.

The nations are somehow lured by satanic forces to join the battle. The Bible speaks of “expressions inspired by demons” as going forth “to the kings [rulers] of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the . . . place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.”—Revelation 16:14-16.

Like no other Bible book, Revelation has fired the imagination of countless Bible readers. Many literal-minded readers have pinpointed the exact spot where they believe that the battle will begin, and they have kept a nervous eye on events surrounding that region. The notion that Armageddon refers to a precise locale can be found in the earliest extant Greek commentary on Revelation, written in the sixth century C.E. by Oecumenius.

Echoing a popular viewpoint among the Fundamentalist clergy, John F. Walvoord, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary, says that Armageddon is “the final suicidal battle of a desperate world struggle centered in the Middle East.” Walvoord identifies as the focal point of this great future conflict “‘the Mount of Megiddo,’ a small mountain located in northern Palestine at the end of a broad valley.”

However, the book of Revelation is not a road map to a literal place called Armageddon. Its opening words state that the account is presented “in signs.” (Revelation 1:1) Jehovah’s Witnesses long ago stated in their publication Studies in the Scriptures, Volume IV: “We are not to expect any gathering of the people literally to the Hill of Megiddo.”

Historical Megiddo suggests a cornered condition, or situation, with no escape for the enemies of God. Thus, at Armageddon, God will make certain that all corruption and wickedness, no matter where it may be found on this globe, is crushed out of existence.—Revelation 21:8.

Lovers of Jehovah God and his Son, Jesus Christ, need not fear Armageddon. God’s battle is directed solely against those humans whom God judges to be incorrigibly wicked. His war will be selective in its destruction. “Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly devotion,” says the Bible. (2 Peter 2:9) A heartwarming promise at Psalm 37:34 says: “Hope in Jehovah and keep his way, and he will exalt you to take possession of the earth. When the wicked ones are cut off, you will see it.”

Global. Revelation is a book of symbolic language, so the reference to Megiddo isn't literal. As Jen pointed out, that location isn't even big enough to entertain all the armies of the earth. Numerous Bible prophecies point to that great day of Jehovah. For example, Jeremiah 14:14 foretells that "those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth." This is not a local event.

The place of the battle spoken of in v.14 is Armageddon, a Hebrew word literally meaning ''Mount of Megiddo.''

Armageddon

Definition: The Greek Har Ma‧ge‧don′, taken from Hebrew and rendered “Armageddon” by many translators, means “Mountain of Megiddo,” or “Mountain of Assembly of Troops.” The Bible associates the name, not with a nuclear holocaust, but with the coming universal “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14, 16) This name is applied specifically to “the place [Greek, to′pon; that is, condition or situation]” to which earth’s political rulers are being gathered in opposition to Jehovah and his Kingdom by Jesus Christ. Such opposition will be shown by global action against Jehovah’s servants on earth, the visible representatives of God’s Kingdom.

Dan. 2:44: “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom . . . It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite.”

Luke 18:7, 8: “Shall not God cause justice to be done for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, even though he is long-suffering toward them? I tell you, He will cause justice to be done to them speedily.”

It is a SITUATION that will involve all the nations of the earth. You're proof is in the scripture you cited. Actually the verse before I think. It speaks of them being gathered TOGETHER to a place called Armageddon. Is it likely ALL the nations of the earth could be gathered together in one localized spot?

A global event. It's a war between the Christ, his angels and the wicked upon the earth. (1 Thessalonians 1:6-8)