[§319] Rev 19:19-20: Victory in the Spiritual Battle of Armageddon

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John to describe the first stage or phase of Spiritual Armageddon, where all disembodied spirit sons of perdition are defeated in their battle with Jesus Christ and his heavenly host in Revelation 19:19-20, as follows: “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. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev 19:19-20) The beast is the symbolic name for Cain, the mortal son of Adam who killed his brother Abel, and then became perdition. In life he was called Master Mahan and when he died his disembodied spirit became the spiritual head and father to all other mortal sons of perdition who lived prior to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The False Prophet in verse 20 is the symbolic name for Judas Iscariot, who became a son of perdition when he betrayed the Savior. At his death, the disembodied spirit of Judas became the spiritual head and father to all apostates of the true church, including those who apostatize from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and become mortal sons of perdition since the time of the restoration of the gospel in 1830. The disembodied spirit sons of perdition who follow the beast and false prophet are called kings of the earth because they were leaders and kings in the earthly kingdom of Satan. Thay all have the mark of the beast (the “666” in Revelation 13:18) to indicate they were sons of perdition in mortality. All these disembodied spirit sons of perdition will be cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone (hell) because spirit bodies cannot die. When they are cast into the lake of fire, this is a permanent and final judgment for them because they will never be released from this place of eternal torment also known as outer darkness and the second death.