Like the Grinch who stole Christmas (who thought by stealing Christmas decorations and gifts he would destroy the spirit of Christmas) the true meaning and importance of the Biblical words of the Apocalypse and Armageddon have been stolen to change their meaning. The effort is to steal the joyful and glorious hope of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to Earth to rule the nations for a thousand years. An online dictionary calls Armageddon the place where the last battle between good and evil is to be fought. The Apocalypse is described as if it is the complete final destruction of the world as described in the biblical book of Revelation. Both of these are false and stolen meaning of the words designed by those who steal to create irrational fear of the future or a mocking of the Bible as prophetic truth. It is all a lie in a conspiracy to deceive and rob not only the world but the church of the true meaning of the Apocalypse and the glorious hope that is to rise as the signs of its coming becomes clearer. It is playing the spiritual game of opposite where words are used to describe the opposite of their meaning.

The word apocalypse is the title of the Biblical book of Revelation. In Greek it means to unveil, to reveal. It pictures something that is real but hidden and then revealed. The Apocalypse is the unveiling of what has been hidden in this world everywhere but in the promises of the Bible. What has been hidden is the glory of the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ as Lord of lords and King of kings coming to earth to rule on earth for a thousand years. What is described in Revelation are the events that will lead up to the revelation of the Lord Jesus, a brief description of His thousand year reign, and the final judgment and creation of a new heaven and earth. What is ahead is the glorious seventh day of man’s creation.

The Bible use numbers to describe spiritual truth. The number of man is 6, and the number of God is 7. The number of the triune God is 777, the number of perfect completeness. The number of man is 6 and even taken to the ultimate of 666, man still falls hopelessly and eternally short. Creation is a temporary period of time created by God. The first heaven and earth were damaged in the spiritual battle when Satan led a rebellion of about a third of the angels (Genesis 1:2, Revelation 12:4, Ezekiel 28:11-19, Isaiah 14:12-23). The remaking of Earth is for a time period of 7 days. A day is described in 2 Peter 3:8 as a thousand years. The first six days of man have been marked by a rebellion led and inspired by Satan. But through the six days God made a promise that He would bring one born of a woman who will crush Satan and bring salvation to those who turn to Him by faith. We are almost two days (2,000 years) from the time the Lord Jesus Christ atoned for man’s sins on the cross, destroyed the power of sin, Satan, and death to separate us from God, and rose on the third day in glorious victory. In the last two days of man God has purposed that He will bring salvation to people from every tongue, tribe, people, and nation (Matthew 24:14, Revelation 7:9-17). He will then in the final seven years of the 2,000 bring salvation to the Jewish people of Israel who will welcome Jesus to earth when He comes in His glory (Revelation 7:1-8, Revelation 12:13-17, Romans 11:25-29). The 7th day of creation is when the Lord Jesus Christ comes to earth with all His glory to establish His kingdom on earth from a new Jerusalem for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-6). Satan is bound, the rulers of the world’s rebellion are cast into hell and for a thousand years the Lord Jesus Christ rules on earth from the New Jerusalem that has descended from heaven.

The seventh day of a thousand years is prophesied throughout the Bible as the Day of the Lord. All of time has been building to the glorious Day of the Lord. It will be a glorious day as all the saints of the past and those from the Tribulation are resurrected and live with the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 20:4-5). They have been perfected in the likeness of Jesus and will never again face sin, sickness, death. All of the old has passed away and everything has become new (Revelation 21:3-4). The saints will rule with the Lord Jesus over the peoples and nations that have survived the Great Tribulation.

The Lord Jesus will take away the curse on creation. It is the day all creation has longed for, the Seventh Day when Jesus will bring healing to the earth and take away the curse from the animal world (Romans 8:18-22). Jesus who created the animals will transform meat eaters into grass eaters, and there will be harmony. Here is a description of it from Isaiah 11:6-8, “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.” How different this is from the big steal that describes the Apocalypse as the destruction of the world, when in fact it is Jesus saving the world.

The seven year period of time described in Revelation 4-19 as the last of man’s sin days is the final conspiracy of Satan to keep Jesus from bringing His kingdom to earth. It will be a world ruler and system that is clearly Antichrist. Jesus will be blasphemed, and the church raptured and safe in heaven with Jesus will also be cursed. Satan’s deception brought to Eve with Adam in the Garden was to be their own god without God. It is a promise of eternal life which in the last seven years will be combined with AI to create an apparent self perpetuating eternal person. It will seem to be freedom in the indulgence of all the appetites of the flesh, eyes, and ego. It will see the leader of an Antichrist church combine with a world ruler who will seem to be a man of peace, negotiating a seven year peace treaty with Israel and the surrounding nations.

It is true that God will judge the rebellion of man and about a third of mankind will die. But at key points in the judgment of God is a call for people to turn to Jesus. Remember as you factor these deaths that death will come to each of us. The tragedy of death is not the ending of a person’s physical life. It is to die in sin and to be forever separated from God. That is why the sole message of the church as we see this day coming so near is to come to Jesus. Here is the true church in the last days and her message as prophesied in Revelation 22:17, “The Spirit and the Bride say ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.” Those who describe the end times church to be in a political or cultural war neither know Jesus nor what the Holy Spirit is seeking to do through the church in the last days. The Spirt, the Holy Spirit, and the Bride, the church, have one purpose in the world, and that is the mission of the Gospel and calling people to Jesus.

Let’s see how the lies of how Armageddon and the Apocalypse are now described are the opposite of the glorious Good News of the glory of Jesus revealed and His thousand year reign of peace on earth. Armageddon is not God destroying people so that blood flows to the horses’ bridle, it is the collapse of the plan of the Antichrist to be a god who is worshipped. It is China that is the first to recognize the fraud and sends an army against the forces of the Antichrist. Russia and Iran seek to come and steal the wealth. Armies from the South come. It is the conflict of the kingdom or Satan and man self destructing that is the blood of Armageddon. Jesus comes at the end to end the wars.

The fear of the world being destroyed by nuclear war or by environmental collapse is the opposite. Jesus comes and heals the water and the land. He restores a canopy over the earth that protects from harmful rays and creates perfect moisture and temperature around the world. Harmony is brought to the animal world and meat eater become grass eaters. Many people survive the seven years, some calculating that as many as 3.5 billion people who are alive today will see the glory of the coming of the Lord. Lifespan changes as it says someone who dies at a hundred will seemed to have died as a baby. Righteousness rules the world and children are for the first time safe on earth.

In what would seem ironic in view of how it describes itself, the only nation totally destroyed never to be occupied by people again throughout the thousand years is the USA, The Bible describes the USA being destroyed by nuclear fire in one hour of nuclear attacks that come from the North. While some calling themselves Christian regard the USA as the exceptional nation that has had the favor of God, the truth is the opposite (see The Final Stage of a Flawed Revolution). Those who believe in a so called Christian nationalism and Donald Trump as an anointed Messiah are in a cult that is just another of Satan’s deceptive last days strategies. How those who were called to take the Gospel to the USA and the world, got caught up in an effort to make the last battle cultural and national is one of the tragic chapter in church history. Jesus prophesied it, but still it is tragic to see come to pass.

But the truth of Jesus is always personal. The truth of Jesus is all about you and the call for you to put your trust in Him for salvation, and repent and follow Jesus and His ways as your purpose in life. If you have or will put your trust in Jesus, we are in a glorious time of world history. We are finishing the mission to take the Gospel to all people groups. We are to be filled with glorious joy and hope, for Jesus will take His church home before the last seven years. Even in the years of the Tribulation we will see Israel as a nation come to faith in Jesus, as well as many in the world who will be saved. We are filled with glorious hope for earth, the animals, the air, the waters, the ground, for it will be gloriously healed and produce abundant life. We are filled with hope that there will be a thousand years when perfect justice and righteousness will be the values honored. There will be no rich or poor, for all will live in a world of abundance and peace. The nations will come annually to the New Jerusalem to honor Jesus and submit to His rule. Don’t let the world steal the meaning of the Apocalypse. It is the glorious revealing of Jesus and His glory on earth for a thousand years. Then the seven days of man’s history are done and Jesus will create a new Earth where those who are His will live forever with God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

The future is glorious! Don’t let that be stolen. Jesus is coming. The Apocalypse is not the destruction of the world. It is the glorious healing of Earth and the glory of Jesus and His thousand years of glory and peace on Earth.