Whenever we displace God’s Fatherly Counsel for our lives with anything else, it boils down to a leadership issue of whose we are or what leadership are we revering in place of Almighty God....when humans rebel against the leadership of God’s Heart for us, we turn do another leadership of some kind that is not seeking and following Almighty God. This is a battle for our hearts/minds/souls/lives! Revelation Chapter 16:13-16  talks about how all types of leadership are gathering to “battle on the great day of God Almighty”. All types of leadership around the world set up to battle Almighty God. This has been going on since the very 1st generation of humankind when Adam & Eve decide to listen to the false wisdom of the devil instead of remaining steadfast in God’s Word/God’s Leadership. Then onto the 2nd generation when Cain killed his brother Abel, & continues to this day as we see kingdoms & countries, all sorts of leadership-including; political leadership; business leadership; religious leadership (even in many of our Christian Churches), setting themselves up against God and His Word. Rev16:13-16;”And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. ‘Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!’ And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” Satan’s leadership strategy is to use all sorts of deception & signs to lure humankind away from the One True God and into following all kinds other gods/leadership! This comes in the from of everything from UNholy/misguided aspirations & motives in our personal lives, to what political leadership we choose to support & follow. When these verses in Revelation mention “kings of the whole world”, these include community, religious, military and political leadership. Anyway, all of these things will set themselves up to battle Almighty God at a place called Armageddon. This place refers to where King Josiah was killed in a battle that God did not want him to fight (2Chronicles35:20-24), at a place called Megiddo, which is a plain below a hill. That hill of Megiddo would be translated Armageddon, which is where the enemies gathered for the battle that God told Josiah he was not to fight. Josiah was to be prepared and have his people prepared, but God was not going to have anything to do with the battle that those enemies wanted to fight. God wanted His people to address that battle in another way! But Josiah nor his people were prepared to Trust God’s Word. God wanted His people to prepare themselves to trust in HIS Sovereignty & His Word! God told Josiah that the battle of Megiddo is being waged by those that follow other gods...and that God’s Sovereign Omnipotence/Omniscience/Omnipresence was ALL that Josiah and his people needed to TRUST&FOLLOW! But Josiah was lured away from trusting God’s Word by what some of the other nations may think of him..and that he might create a problem with future political alliances if he truly/faithfully listened to and trusted/followed GOD. SO Josiah turned from listening & following GOD’S WORD and it cost him his life, & eventually led to yet another historic period where God’s chosen people were influenced by the kings/leadership around them that had little to no reverence for Almighty God...& they rejected HIM & rebelled against HIM. It is interesting that battle all the foreign influences of the world are assembling for in Rev16:13-16 never really happens! They all assemble for a concerted effort against ALMIGHTY GOD, but nobody nor anything can actually “do battle with Almighty God”! They can set themselves up against THE LORD GOD and those that are God’s adopted children through The Gospel of Christ! And we are suppose to be prepared to fight the way that Josiah was suppose to fight -> by trusting God’s Word->2Corinthians10:3-6”For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God (God’s Word!), and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete”. So,in Rev16:15 Jesus says to us,”.....Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!” We must “stay awake”(keep our minds and hearts sharpened & prepared with knowledge of what GOD says in His Word),keeping our garments on(always ready with the full armor of God and praying at all times as Ephesians6:10-18 tells us!).Interesting how the world misleads us to believe that there is actually going to be a Battle of Armageddon, when God’s Word says nothing about a battle in the valley of Armageddon! Rev 16:16 says that there will be a gathering of everything evil can muster against THE LORD in the valley of Armageddon. BUT there is no battle! This just another way that the deceptive influences of the world want to make Almighty God out to be smaller than HE IS! Nobody nor Anything can actually leverage any accumulation of strength-force-power that can stand in the PRESENCE OF GOD’S FULL GLORY! NOTHING! HE IS infinitely HUGE, infinitely All Knowing; and infinitely Present across All Time and All Space; INFINITELY POWERFUL; INFINITELY GLORIOUS; INFINITELY RIGHTEOUS! Nothing is capable of effectively doing battle with Almighty God when HE REVEALS HIS FULL GLORY! By introducing the thought that there is a battle of Armageddon, or any other MISconception about GOD or HIS WORD, is an attempt of all that is evil to make GOD out to be anything less than INFINITE in ALL of HIS CHARACTERISTICS! Especially the infinite MERCY & GRACE HE showers those with that decide to TRUST IN CHRIST! So, The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ warns about all the influences go after HIS CREATION to lure us away from  a True Reverence for God and His Word, that HE Alone has proven that HE Alone deserves! And that HE Alone is absolutely worthy of our seeking and following! In fact, we MUST seek and follow HIM if we are to be prepared to battle with what the world will bring up against us. Dear Lord Jesus..I praise You for being so concerned about me that You have given me Your Word to be my guide and my protection as I live through my days in this world. I pray that You prepare and shape every part of me to contend with arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of YOU! And may I always remember that Your Love and Your Mercy and Your Grace for me is to always be the common thread in everything I think and do...so that Your Love is reflected through me to those around me.