Eric Cline

You send me your daughters and I send you whatever I want.

So Egypt is in charge.

In honor of today's topic, today is an Egyptian-themed tie because we will, I presume, at one point be talking about the Egyptian battle fought at Megiddo.

So I thought an Egyptian tie might be appropriate for today.

It is an actual place.

Most people do not realize it.

But yes, it is Megiddo, the site of Megiddo.

In fact, that's where the name comes from.

Armageddon is Har-Megiddo.

In Hebrew, that's the mound or mountain of Megiddo.

And Armageddon originally had an H. It was Harmageddon originally, but in Greek, the way you do an H, it's a rough breathing, and it looks like an apostrophe.

So at some point when the various manuscripts were being copied, some monk

left the apostrophe off and Armageddon became Armageddon.

And that's what we have today.

It's only mentioned one place in the Bible.

It's in the book of Revelation 16, 16.

But so when people say to me, you know, where are you excavating from 1994 to 2014?

I'm like, I was digging in Armageddon.

They're like,

That's not a real place.