Armageddon – The Battle over Worship

The battle over worship will continue to grow and spread. Every person on Earth must make a decision to worship the Creator on His true Sabbath, as a sign of loyalty to Him, or else to simply shrug the duty aside as not relevant to today's needs. Many will decide that as long as you worship on a seventh-day sabbath, it is as good as the seventh-day Sabbath. To secure material security, they will accept a spurious sabbath.

Many, though, will choose to stand steadfast and loyal to their Creator, worshiping Him on the day which His calendar in the sky dictates. The controversy will escalate until it reaches the point warned about in Revelation 16:13, 14 & 16:

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of Yahuwah Almighty . . . And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

A great deal of speculation has arisen from the word "Armageddon" which is used only once in the entire Bible. Hollywood film writers have incorporated it into many apocalyptic, end-of-the-world scenarios. The word itself is curious because, while Revelation appears to have been written in Greek, "Armageddon" is actually a combination of two Hebrew words. The first is har (#2022) which simply means "mountain."

Scholars are divided as to the second word in the combination. Some believe it is #4023: Megiddo, which was a place in Palestine. The problem with this interpretation is that when one goes to where Megiddo was there is no mountain there! In fact, there is just a valley: "the Valley of Megiddo" (See 2 Chronicles 35:22.)

The other option is the most accurate. It is #4150: mo'ed: the worshipping assemblies of Yahuwah's people. What Rev. 16:16 is referring to is the Mountain of the Mo'edim. In the scriptures, mountains are symbols of governments. (See Daniel 2, specifically, verses 34-35 and 44.) This is the same mountain referred to in Isaiah 14 where Lucifer was telling his intention of sitting on the Mount of the Congregation: he was stating his purpose to assume control of the government of Heaven and the right to be worshipped.

The lengthy controversy between good and evil has been a conflict between two different governments: a Government of Love versus a Government of Evil; a Government which gives its citizens complete freedom of choice versus a government that enslaves the wills of its citizens. Your day of worship reveals to which government you are pledging allegiance.

The battle of Armageddon is the final confrontation in the war. It is a battle between two different governments and their differing times of worship. Armageddon is the deciding battle because Yahuwah will finally have a group of people willing to obey His law at any cost to themselves. This fight will be played out on the battlefield of the mo'edim, the battlefield of worship days.

Satan has spent the last 6,000 years constructing his mountain – his government, his system of counterfeit worship. The Creator, also, has a system of worship: true, holy worship. Each system has its own feast days. The sign of loyalty is the day on which you choose to worship because that is governed by either the true calendar established by Yahuwah at Creation, or a counterfeit calendar, divorced from the moon which was created for the very purpose of revealing the times for worship.

During creation week when the moon was created for calendation ("He appointed the moon for seasons [moe'dim]" Psalm 104:19), another role was assigned it: "And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years."

The word translated "signs" is #226:

Owth means "sign; mark." This word represents something by which a person or group is characteristically marked . . . [it is used] to represent a military banner . . . The word means "sign" as a reminder of one's duty . . . (The New Strong's Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, Thomas Nelson Publishers.)

The true Sabbath is all of this, and more. The Sabbath, as calculated by the moon, is a reminder of our duty, our privilege to worship our Creator on His mo'ed, His appointed day of worship. It is a mark that distinguishes those who worship their Maker by the luni-solar calendar. In the final battle between good and evil, the mo'ed you keep is the military banner which designates on which side you stand. The day on which you worship, in a very real sense, is your pledge of allegiance to the Master/master you serve. Just as school children pledge allegiance to their country's flag, worshippers are pledging allegiance when they choose the day on which they will worship. Furthermore, the calendar they use to count to that day also reveals which Deity/deity they are worshipping: the Creator Yahuwah who made the heavens and the earth; or Satan who has sought to steal that worship by leading the world to unite in using a pagan calendar.

A special group is described in Revelation14:4 - "These are they which follow the Lamb withersoever He goeth." To follow the Lamb anywhere He leads requires a complete surrender of the will. Only those who have first surrendered their will to the point of being willing to obey if it is true will recognize truth in an unpopular doctrine.

The Lamb is now inviting you to follow Him. Will you surrender your will and allow Him to lead you into all truth?