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The Greek koine dialect has a character that resembles an apostrophe denoting an "H" sound which may have been omitted in the later forms of the word, thus Har-Magidon or ar-Magedon may have worn down to Armageddon . The town Megiddo is approximately 25 miles west of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee (or Lake Tiberias to the Romans) in the Kishon River valley.

This action on the part of the kings of the Earth is provoked by expressions and signs inspired by demons, The Watchtower 12/1/05 p. 4 ArmageddonA Happy Beginning Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and is followed by the establishment of God's kingdom over earth for a thousand years.

A further significant difference in Seventh-day Adventist theology is the teaching that the events of Armageddon will leave the earth desolate for the duration of the millennium. "Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology" 2000 Review and Herald Publishing Association and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists They teach that the righteous will be taken to heaven while the rest of humanity will be destroyed, leaving Satan with no one to tempt and effectively "bound." The final re-creation of a "new heaven and a new earth." then follows the millennium.

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