VI: The Prophets' Visions

Armageddon (Har-Moed) Counterfeit court

the rebel's claim to the assembly answered

Root
Isa 14:13 · har mo'ed (H2022, H4150)
Old Testament chain
  1. Judg 5:19
  2. 2 Chr 35:22
  3. Ps 2:1-6
  4. Isa 14:13-15
  5. Ezek 38-39
  6. Joel 3:2, 12
  7. Zech 12:11
  8. Zech 14:2-3
  9. Rev 16:16
New Testament
Rev 13:7; Rev 16:13-16; Rev 17:13-14; Rev 19:19; Rev 20:8-9

The rebel boasts, "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation" (Isa 14:13), har mo'ed, the mount of appointed assembly. Psalm 2 shows the kings taking counsel against Yahuah and His anointed while He sets His king on Zion, and Joel gathers the nations to the valley of Jehoshaphat, "for there will I sit to judge" (Joel 3:12). The Greek Harmagedon also sounds Megiddo, where kings fell (Judg 5:19; 2 Chr 35:22; Zech 12:11); the book hears the mount of assembly in it, and both point to a verdict, not a map. Armageddon is not a future tank battle in northern Israel but who governs the assembly: one war seen in chapters 16, 19 and 20.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 188, 191, 247–251, 263, 284, 328–329