STUDY ARTICLE 36
Armageddon Is Good News!
Barry McGuinnes writes:
"Armageddon is a ruin located in modern-day Israel. The word itself is a Greek transliteration of she Hebrew har məgīddō, meaning ‘Megiddo mountain’. But there is no mountain at Megiddo, only a small hill. It was the site of an ancient hilltop fort.
The reference to Armageddon in the book of Revelation simply states that it is the place where kings will gather to plan a forthcoming war. Why would kings meet on a hill that is no mountain?
Anyway, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that ‘Armageddon’ — the gathering of kings — symbolically refers to things like the United Nations, whereby world leaders are conspiring (as part of Satan’s evil plan) to destroy God’s chosen people — you know, the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
But luckily for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, God will swiftly respond by committing global genocide against all non-JWs, perhaps with a nuclear holocaust, leaving what’s left of the Earth to be populated by those nice JW folk.
That’s why they can’t wait for WWIII to get underway.