Revelation 16:16
And he
gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon.
Will Armageddon be an actual Hebrew name, used and
understood by people in Israel at the time of the return of
Jesus? Up to now, isn't mostly Christians who use that name,
and have attempted to identify its location, and perhaps tour
guides. But the scriptures makes a point of only mentioning
what's called in Hebrew.
Were not John's books after the destruction of the temple
by the Romans? So in John's gospel, after 70 AD, three places
are mentioned, but then also their Hebrew name is pointed out,
at a time when those Hebrew names may have no longer been the
common name for those places after 70 AD, describing events
which had already occurred:
John 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the
sheep market a pool, which is called in
the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
John
19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he
brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment
seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the
Hebrew, Gabbatha.
17 And he bearing his cross: went
forth into a place called the
place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew
Golgotha:
But was Armageddon known and called such
by Hebrew speaking Jews before 70 AD? Since 70 AD, its
Hebrew name has been mostly academic amongst Christian
preachers and teachers. Revelation 16:16 is not in the past,
but is still yet future. So will that location become known
by those in Israel, and called by them in Hebrew, and not
known by its Arabic or English name?