"God’s people are still prone to think with carnal minds. When they read in the prophecies of the Bible about the gathering of kings unto battle, and the fighting of great wars, immediately their attention is focused on world events rather than on the things of God. This fallacy-ridden practice has given rise to what has been rightly termed “newspaper eschatology” — studying current events in the arena of “this present evil world” rather than searching the mind of the Spirit for the wisdom and understanding God gives of the true thing He is doing in the earth by His Spirit! The work of God is not currently outside of us, not out there in the world of darkness with all of its plans and efforts and shamefully fleshly activities and wicked schemes. The work of God is within His people! “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). Sons of God do not derive their theology from the newspapers nor the television news casts. What you read and hear there is not what God is doing! Nor is it what God is talking about! That is not where God’s work is seen! Nor is that what God is concerned with! The Holy Spirit of God has not come within us to show us what the world system is up to — He has come to “take the things of Christ and show them unto us!”
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"But is Armageddon really a superpower confrontation? Is it a war between the United States and Russia, or between Russia, Europe, and Israel? Or some other such scenario? Statesmen, scientists, and generals have long warned of a “nuclear Armageddon” that could annihilate mankind from the face of the earth. Many believed that World War I — and later World War II — would end with Armageddon. Some today believe that Armageddon will be the last battle between the democratic nations and the communist block. But did you know that nowhere in the Bible — from Genesis to Revelation — is there any mention of a “battle of Armageddon”? After all, it’s only mentioned one time in the entire Bible! “And he gathered them together into a place called… Armageddon.” We see here that Armageddon is described as a place, not an event. It is the place of gathering in preparation for battle. But that is not the name of the battle! It is not the battle “of” Armageddon, but “the battle OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY!” Oh, yes! It is GOD’S BATTLE — THE BATTLE OF GOD’S GREAT DAY! And that is how we can know that this is a SPIRITUAL BATTLE!"