Most people are surprised to discover that there is no reference in the book of Revelation, or any other place in the Bible to the “Valley of Armageddon,” nor is there any reference to the “Battle of Armageddon” - but more about that later. In English the word was transliterated as Armageddon, and the term came to be applied to the Valley of Jezreel which lies in front of Har-Magedon, running diagonally across Israel from Haifa to the Jordan River.
This term literally means the Mount of Megiddo and refers to the ancient fortress of Megiddo that controlled the Valley of Jezreel. The concept comes from the book of Revelation where it says that armies will gather in the end times at a place “which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon” (Revelation 16:16). This question is prompted by the fact that most people are familiar with only one end time war - the one that has been popularized in movies and novels as the “Battle of Armageddon.” will be distinctly different from the War of the Five Kings.Every time a war breaks out in the Middle East, I receive a flurry of phone calls and email messages asking if it could be the War of Armageddon.
For example, the War of Jenkin’s Ear is technically part of the War of Austrian Succession, but in the former Britain and Spain were not fighting over the succession of Archduchess Maria Teresa and in the latter, no one was fighting because Spanish coast goards cut off the ear of a British smuggler.Īs to the War for the Dawn, I think it will be seen as a second conflict, as the cause, sides, conflict zones, etc. It’s not uncommon for names to be not quite accurate when it comes to complicated conflicts.The name speaks to the unusual nature of this Westerosi civil war, that rather than a fight between two factions over the succession as was the case in the Dance and the Blackfyre Rebellions, you have many sides, not all of whom are interested in the Iron Throne but all of whom ultimately claim royal status.It’s already in common use, so it’s a term that people will understand when historians use it, whereas they might not understand a new term which isn’t much used.It is in the nature of historians to be pedantic about periodization and labelling, but I would argue that we should stick with the name. Anonymous asked: Since war of 5 kings has become not accurate by twow, how would you name the years from 298? And the 2nd coming of the others ? Another war or a part of this great conflict ?
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