SIXTH PLAGUE

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Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="1df93640.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <div> <B><U>SIXTH PLAGUE</U></B></div> <div> The sixth angel is commanded to pour out his bowl upon the Euphrates River. Keeping in mind the previous five plagues and the severity of their torments, one might wonder why God would do the seemingly insignificant task of drying up a single river.</div> <bR> <div> In days of old when one knight would challenge another to combat the first knight would slap the second knight across the face with a glove. This would tell everyone who observed the occurrence that a challenge had been given. When God dries up the Euphrates it will be a slap in the face of the Beast from the Sea, the False Prophet and Satan. God is in reality saying “Hit me with your best shot!”</div> <bR> <div> The Dragon (Satan), the Beast from the Sea and the False Prophet then send demonic emissaries to all the leaders of the world. These would be the ten horns of the Scarlet Beast mentioned in Revelation 17. These demons are ordered to perform false miracles and gather the biggest fighting force in the history of the world together in a place called Armageddon.</div> <bR> <div> The Easton's Bible dictionary gives the following definition for Armageddon.</div> <bR> <div>    “Occurs only in Rev. 16:16 (R.V., "Har-Magedon"), as symbolically designating the place where the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" (ver. 14) shall be fought. The word properly means the "mount of Megiddo." It is the scene of the final conflict between Christ and Antichrist. The idea of such a scene was suggested by the Old Testament great battle-field, the plain of Esdraelon (q.v.).”</div> <bR> <div> To further clarify the location of the battle which will occur on the day of the Lord, Megiddo has the following definition in the Easton's Bible dictionary.</div> <bR> <div> “Megiddo”</div> <bR> <div> “Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites till the time of Solomon (1 Kings 4:12; 9:15). </div> <bR> <div>    The valley or plain of Megiddo was part of the Plain of Esdraelon, the great battlefield of Palestine. It was here Barak gained a notable victory over Jabin, the king of Hazor, whose general, Sisera, led on the hostile army. Barak rallied the warriors of the northern tribes, and under the encouragement of Deborah (q.v.), the prophetess, attacked the Canaanites in the great plain. The army of Sisera was thrown into complete confusion, and was engulfed in the waters of the Kishon, which had risen and overflowed its banks (Judg. 4:5). </div> <bR> <div>    Many years after this (B.C. 610), Pharaohnecho II., on his march against the king of Assyria, passed through the plains of Philistia and Sharon; and King Josiah, attempting to bar his progress in the plain of Megiddo, was defeated by the Egyptians. He was wounded in battle, and died as they bore him away in his chariot towards Jerusalem (2 Kings 23:29; 2 Chr. 35:22-24), and all Israel mourned for him. So general and bitter was this mourning that it became a proverb, to which Zechariah (12:11, 12) alludes. Megiddo has been identified with the modern el-Lejjun, at the head of the Kishon, under the north-eastern brow of Carmel, on the south-western edge of the plain of Esdraelon, and 9 miles west of Jezreel. Others identify it with Mujedd'a, 4 miles southwest of Bethshean, but the question of its site is still undetermined.”</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>