I've always been puzzled by the prophesy of Armageddon.
1. How could an army invade Israel with the US standing guard over Israel?
2. In 1983 when Syria bombed northern Israel, US carrier forces went so far as to load up tactical nuclear weapons for fear of a possible invasion. (Bet you didn't know that one did ya!? :-) )
3. The only way for the Muslims to invade Israel like they keep threatening to do, is for the US military to be rendered ineffective.
4. I always figured that the US would be nuked or something prior to Armageddon.
5. My mind has changed. We have liberals in our government that are gutting the US Military to the point that we can't project power or defend our allies.
6. Liberals that hate Jews and love Muslims. They love Muslims so much they even redirect NASA to do Muslim out reach.
7. When Obama finishes with his efforts, Israel will stand alone. Now I can see a clear path for the Muslims to invade Israel and Armageddon.
What prophecy of Armageddon? There is only one mention in all of scripture. Rev 16:16. It is listed
only as a gathering place of the three unclean spirits "to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty". However, no battle is clearly, immediately discussed. Instead the seventh vial is poured out afterward.
The unclean spirits, armageddon, and the drying of the Euphrates are all mentioned in the same context of the sixth seal. The drying up of the Euphrates was and is widely viewed by Historicist as referring to the drying up of the Turkish Muslim power, centered at the source of the Euphrates. In fact a seqence of maps showing the extent of the Ottoman Empire flipped through would look like a movie of the drying up of the Euphrates.
This drying up was completed in WWI. Note that the key battle which freed Jerusalem in WWI was actually fought at Armageddon. There was considerable public discussion at the time as to whether WWI was Armageddon. Much more to say but no time and space.
One of the most convincing arguments that it was, that I have ever seen, was actually a minister at the time arguing that it wasn't. He argued before the actual battle at Armageddon. Once that happened it killed most of his points against it being so.
There is a great battle discussed in Rev 19:19, but there is nothing clear at all to make the connection between that and Rev. 16:16s Armageddon.