Eric Cline

It came out after that.

So as a result, I couldn't retire.

I'm still working, but so it goes.

But what I figured is by the time

that John would have had his revelation.

There were already something like at least a dozen, if not more, battles that had already been fought

including a number of ones that are mentioned in the Bible.

For instance, when Deborah fights Barak, it is by the river right by Megiddo.

Saul and Jonathan are killed on Mount Gilboa, which is just down the valley from Megiddo.

we've also got one of the earliest night battles is fought there.

So by the time of John in the early centuries AD, they would have already known this to be a place with a huge history for battles.

And when you're looking around, where do you put the final couple of battles?

Well,

Jerusalem is saved for the final battle.

And I think next to that, that Megiddo would have been the bloodiest place on earth that they knew of.

And so I think they very deliberately picked it because of its history.

But then, of course, after that, you continue to have battles, you know,

Saladin comes there and fights the Crusaders.

The Mamelukes and the Mongols fight there.

Napoleon fights at Mount Tabor just down the road.