Armageddon and Holy War

Early Christianity and the teachings of Yeshua were born out of the prophetic tradition of visionary seeing and the ascent mysticism of Jewish apocalypticism. These early Jewish traditions remain strange and often unavailable to us. The typical way of interpreting them is to literalize the images and statements of Yeshua about them, putting them in a literal or historical context that we can then reify into a theological system. Fundamentalist Christianity has done this over and over again, and made, therefore, the average non-fundamentalist student of Scripture wary of the apocalyptic texts.

It is perhaps time, at this moment in history, to reexamine these texts and this tradition and reposition them in relationship to the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven beyond space and time to which Yeshua always referred. For example, rather than making Armageddon a future event in one of the valleys of Northern Israel, we might begin to see this as a symbol of a much more intense “holy war” taking place at this very moment within the spiritual body of humanity. Although the battle of Armageddon may be spoken of as an external event in the Book of Revelation, its true position, may be the great conflict that is currently being experienced internally and spiritually within individuals and within the collective body of spiritual humanity, which only becomes externalized when it is not inwardly resolved. What we are entering in history, therefore, may be in fact an acceleration of this form of consciousness that will naturally result in greater external conflicts than we have ever known before.