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EX (former) Jehovah's Witnesses: What is your understanding of the location of Armageddon before, and after...?

...you left the Watchtower?

The WT teaches that the battle of Armageddon is a global event in which all of Christendom will be destroyed. But Rev. 16:16 points to a specific place on the globe. By the time a river of blood 200 miles long is added, and the fouls of heaven are filled with their flesh: You may or may not now have a more literal interpretation; than the symbolic / figurative interpretation of the WT?

What is your take on Armageddon, before and after the lifting of the WT lens?

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    Sorry to intrude into the dark room... but you obviously omitted to take into account verse 14 which shows that Armageddon is a global event.

    Revelation 16:14

    "They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty."

    Notice "the entire inhabited earth"

    Nothing figurative about that

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When I was a Jehovah's Witness I understood that the battle of Armageddon would be a global event and everybody who wasn't a faithful and obedient Jehovah's Witness would perish. The rotting flesh would be devoured by carrion birds of prey, until only the bones remained. It was to be literal.

    My understanding of Armageddon has now changed. Revelation is symbolic, although I have no doubt that when Christ Jesus returns, in power and with all the angels, to judge the world, he will be seen by every human on earth. He will return in the same manner he left - with a physical body. Those who have refused to worship him will perish. However, I no longer dwell upon "end-time matters" knowing that whatever happens, if we are in the new covenant and Christ Jesus is our mediator, then our sins have been forgiven and we have nothing to fear. I am no longer afraid of Armageddon.

  • 1 decade ago

    Read Matthew 27:51- and ask yourself, after this event was worship still acceptable to God from this Place?

    When you leave the truth... the Veil appears over the eyes once more.

  • 1 decade ago

    Leaving the lens of JWs for the veil of apostasy?

    Interesting.

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