Armageddons and Armageddon
Will Christ Jesus come and appear in our world again?
The Bible says that he will come back in the middle of war between believers and evil men.
Rev 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.If this Book of the Bible is not holy or genuine, the whole church system of Christianity should collapse.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Rev 22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
The sentence "Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star" is very critical. If Jesus had not said so but they wrote this part, it would be the greatest blasphemy.
But what this prophecy means is clear. Despite great activities of believers, there would still many bad guys who would never repent and believe. No one would be able to correct them. But believers should keep faith to have righteous lives. And then Christ Jesus will come back to save the believers and punish the bad.
Of course, people live and die while this prophecy is not fulfilled. So, you may wonder what effect of this prophecy has. However, a situation each individual lives cannot be easily judged by others. A believer who died before this era must have caught a glimpse of a similar situation to what was written in Revelation. And in a wider scope of the 2000 year history, the following description seems to come to fit more and more to this era we now live in: "Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
List of wars by death toll
This is a very incomplete list of wars (an estimated 3,023 wars have taken place in recorded human history...).
60,669,200-84,589,300 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206-1324)[2][3][4][5]
27,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)[6]
25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty (1616–1662)[7]
20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)[8]
16,563,868-30,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)
16,000,000 – White Lotus Rebellion (1794-1804)[citation needed]
13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)[9]
10,000,000 – Era of Warring States (475 BCE–221 BCE)
10,000,000 - Red Eyebrows Rebellion (9-24)
8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (1862 –1877)
7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)[10]
7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[11][12]
7,000,000 - Reconquista (711-1492)
5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[13]
5,000,000 - Conquests of Aurangzeb (1681-1707)
5,000,000 - Gothic War (535-554)
5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[14][15]
4,000,000 - Three Kingdoms War in Ancient China (189-280)
3,500,000–6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
3,000,000–11,500,000 – Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[16]
3,000,000–7,000,000 – Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205)
3,000,000 - Second Northern War (1655-1660)
3,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
3,000,000 - Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
2,500,000–5,400,000 – Second Congo War/Great War of Africa (1998–2003)
2,500,000–4,000,000 – Conquests of the Hunnic Empire (408–469)
2,500,000 – Russian–Circassian War (1763–1864)
2,000,000–4,000,000 – Huguenot Wars (1562-1598)[21]
2,000,000 - French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
2,000,000 - Crusades (1096-1272)
2,000,000 – Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)[22]
2,000,000 - Fang La Rebellion (1120-1122)
1,500,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
1,200,000[23] – Korean War (1950–1953)
791,000-1,141,000[24] – Vietnam War/Second Indochina War (1955-1975)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Indeed, the 20th century is called a century of wars. The most significantly six million Judaists were killed in Europe under strong influences of the Vatican during WWII. This greatest tragedy of mankind in these 2000 years must have been really foretelling the coming of Armageddon.
Nonetheless Christ Jesus first appeared before the great war between Islaelites and Romans in the first century. Hence we may be allowed to assume that Christ Jesus will surely come after the great Holocaust for his second emergence. It is because the age of Revelation must start with a decisive tragedy for Israelites and end with another decisive tragic affair for them. Truly the God must have chosen Judaists for this critical role.
Now I think very personally that it is time that people come to hear rumors about the second advent of Christ Jesus. He might appear in a subway car of New York or in a street of Shanghai if not in Jerusalem.
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Luk 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.