More context about what I’m thinking about:
How’s everyone feeling these days? Is it upon us?
I am filled with complete joy, but I am at a point in my faith and life that most people would never see. For me personally, there can be nothing greater than the end or whatever brings His rule. I long to be released from this cruel, lonely world and be with Him. Let not your heart be troubled. Also, did you ever notice not one arrow flew in that account?
I’m not frightened and I’m not preparing for the worse even though I believe this year (or next month) will be very telling. I agree with Inmate that there is an air of expectation and excitement in the air. That excitement is for Christians only. I’m a firm believer in a pre trib rapture; that the rapture of the church will take place before the seals begin. I have no desire to debate/argue that belief. People are free to believe what they want. Its not a salvation issue, but it does bring peace.
No it is not here yet. Babylon the great must fall, that triggers the great tribulation ending in Armageddon.
I can see how so many feel like it is, though.
Of course, if I’m being fair…I have “seen the signs” my entire life. I can remember lying awake at night as a middle-schooler, terrified that the rapture was happening right that second and I’d be left alone (after having read the Left Behind book series 
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In a sense Armageddon has been going on for thousands of years. There has been continual conflict, and we can see how the world grows colder and colder, violence begets violence; and the whole of human machinery is geared toward evil and animosity toward God.
In the end, every kingdom, every prince, every general will be made subject to Christ, for “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord” and “He will make a footstool of His enemies”. But we know that the real battle is not flesh and blood, it is not the battle between soldiers, it is not the battle between country and country. It is the spiritual battle, of the present world laboring under the pain and slavery of death, of a world crying out in pain, because there are spiritual forces at work. So in the end, the victory of God is not about winning a battle against a general, it is about the victory God has already won through Christ who has defeated death and the devil by His cross and resurrection; and the certainty that in the end God will make all things new.
The day is coming, Christ will return, the dead will be raised, and God will make all things new.
The devil will throw a tantrum because he knows his end is coming. As he has been doing this whole time. But God wins.
The whole system and pattern of war is antithetical to the things of God, and so it too will end. God will wipe away every tear from our eye. Every grieving mother who lost a son to battle will have her joy restored. Every son who grew up not knowing his father who was taken from him because of war will have his joy restored. Every injustice will be righted. Every wrong shall be made right.
Armageddon isn’t a spectacle–it’s the reality of a hostile world that is at enmity with God–it is the full power of the human war machine, every act of violence, every sword forged to be coated in the blood of other humans. And the whole of it will be done away with, not by prolonged battle. Not by spectacle. Not by swords and shields and spears. But by the One whose robe is dipped in blood and whose word is stronger than any sword–the King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ the Lamb of God who has defeated hell and death and the devil and who lives and reigns forever.
Jesus doesn’t need soldiers to carry swords.
Jesus calls sinners to repent, and take up their cross.