Armageddon. Excuse me if — for just today — I bypass tinsel, gifts, Santa, elves, chimneys, feasts, joy, carols.

My head is filled with fears: an American college, an Australian beach, California murders, Israel, Ukraine, Gaza, Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela.

Of Armageddon the Holy Scriptures say in Rev. 16:16: “And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” Ensuing passages tell of voices, thunders and earthquakes “such as was not since men were upon the earth.” The chapter stops at “the plague thereof was exceeding great.”

Elsewhere, in a compilation on Easter services, was: “The hour is come. The great battle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil are leagued together in secret conspiracy.”

Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary says: “The scene of the final conflict of........

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