Armageddon: Will It Happen This Year?

From: Israel Faxx | Date: May 5, 1999 | Copyright information

Israel Faxx Staff Report

When it comes to the biblically predicted "battle to end all battles," modern doomsayers are often obsessed with the question of when it will take place. Some believe it could happen as soon as year's end. But University of Cincinnati adjunct assistant professor of classics Eric Cline is more preoccupied with where the Bible says that it will happen: Armageddon.

Cline is writing a book on this fated site in Israel's Jezreel Valley, w...

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