Armageddon sounds very much like a pouting child's rendition of what will happen to the kids who didn't let him be captain of the baseball team. According to the Genesis account, one angel is capable of passing through all of Egypt, touching the firstborn sons so that they died. It seems that they died in their sleep, without a fuss.
If it's time to remove evil from the earth, and evil means everybody who didn't paint the doorjambs of their hearts with the lamb's blood, then what's with the earthquakes, blood up to the horse's bridles, flesh rotting out while still alive, and so forth? Those people are going to be dead. They are not going to say, "Oops... I slighted you, God, and now I must pay." They are not going to turn to the gathered throngs of surviving JW humans and say, "Give glory to God, because we're rotting away while still alive, thus proving you were right about him... he really is love." They're just going hurt for a little bit, and then die. And once dead, they're dead, period. Gone, inactive, not with us.
So... what's the big deal? When you're scouring your kitchen stove, do you torment the greasy stains and dried food drips as you scrub them off? Do you laugh with glee that now they know: you are powerful, and so your word must be obeyed, and the cleansed new stove will be a place where only food drips that stay in the pot will exist?
No. You just wipe it clean, and you're done with it. Why not clean the earth the same way? Why have an earthquake? Why make the flesh rot away? What point does it make? To whom?
Isn't this entire Armageddon scenario nothing more than some child's self-pitying "Someday you'll pay" routine gone out of control? Bobby You Know as The Man Who Would Be Team Captain?
Bullshit. A god would just make them disappear, if he needed them out of the way. It's men who fantasize about suffering and torture. Immature, pouting, frustrated little men.
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