First it says all flesh so if literal it’s all flesh
If you're going to ignore my arguments, then we're not having an honest exchange.
I'll try once more: All flesh
at Armageddon will be eaten. Scripture is speaking specifically of that one place, where all fowls of the earth are called together to eat at.
Scripture does not say all flesh of all the earth is there, much less all eaten.
It is not Gog and Magog surrounding the beloved camp of the saints on earth, and instantly scorched with fire.
It can't be, because the saints are plainly with the Lord at His return in the air.
The armies at Armageddon cannot possibly be Gog and Magog around the beloved city of God on earth.
Second your mistake is that you think the battle in chapter 16 is the same as the battle in chapter 19
If they are not, then you need to show why not, but Scripture does tie Rev 16,17, and 19 together.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
That great day of the Lord's return, is welcomed by His enemies gathered at Armageddon.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
They are ten kings allied with the beast to make war with the Lamb at His return. And with Him are His resurrected saints. They will have on hour with the beast at Armageddon, before being slaughtered without mercy.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
The returned Lord is now coming down with His resurrected armies of saints to do battle with them, and He will overcome them, because He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
These are them gathered together at Armageddon in one place on earth, with 10 kings allied with the beast, to make war with the Lamb and His resurrected saints with Him, and in one hour they will be overcome, and all of their flesh will be eaten by all the fowls of the earth without quarter.
To say this, is simply by reasoning the Scriptures together, for a full revelation of that battle. To not say it, is more of a refusal, than a reason.
So to stay true to scripture Rev 16 is the battle at Armageddon which is the kings and the beast destroying Babylon the great which is confirmed at the end of chapter 17
And now we see how opposing teachings can read any Scripture differently:
They will destroy
their own Babylon on earth, by seeking to destroy the Lord Himself and His armies.
It's the same thing Pharaoh did to the power of Egypt, by first resisting the Lord, and then actually driving down to the dry ground of the Red Sea.
Both efforts are foolishly insane,
and suicidal.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
God is a merciful God, and will always allow any man to worship Him, or at least not to attack Him, so that when they do, they sin against their own soul and destroy themselves, though it is not His will that any should perish.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
History shows the evil rulers end up destroying their own power, and even their own people. They end of showing they hate their own people and places to death, rather than be defeated alone.
Nero set fire to Rome, and Hitler ended up hating His on Reich and people to death.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Snakes eat their own.
Babylon is plainly their own power and city. When they gather together at Armageddon to actually try and fight with the returning Lord of Lords coming down from the air, with all His resurrected armies of saints, they are loving death and hating their own lives, power, and people, with suicidal destruction.
And that does not include all flesh on the earth, but only them at Armageddon.
Rev 19 is a Jesus defeating and the beast and the false prophet
True. At Armageddon with the 10 gathered kings of the great whore, and their armies of captains, foot soldiers, and slavish retinue. Which is the composition of all armies of man in history.
This will be the greatest one from all over the world.
Two different battles with different combatants different outcomes and Armageddon isn’t mentioned in chapter 19 thus they are not the same events
Disagree of course, for reasons given.
I appreciate your honest efforts, and if you want to respond to my own words, then I'd be glad to see any convincing corrections of them.
Otherwise, I'll just have to keep them as is.
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