Editing Armageddon (section)

==Baháʼí Faith==
{{See also|Battle of Megiddo (1918)}}
From [[Baháʼí literature]], a number of interpretations of the expectations surrounding the Battle of Armageddon may be inferred, three of them being associated with events surrounding the World Wars.<ref name="Lambden">{{cite journal |last=Lambden |first=Stephen |title=Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium: some aspects of the Bábí-Bahá'í exegesis of apocalyptic symbolism |journal=Baháʼí Studies Review |volume=9 |url=http://bahai-library.com/lambden_catastrophe_millennium |access-date=2007-06-10 |archive-date=2018-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224184227/http://bahai-library.com/lambden_catastrophe_millennium%20 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first interpretation deals with a series of tablets written by [[Bahá'u'lláh]], founder of the [[Baháʼí Faith]], to be sent to various kings and rulers.<ref name="Lambden"/> The second, and best-known one, relates to events near the end of [[World War I]] involving [[Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|General Allenby]] and the [[Battle of Megiddo (1918)]] wherein World Powers are said to have drawn soldiers from many parts of the world to engage in battle at Megiddo. In winning this battle Allenby also prevented the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] from killing [['Abdu'l-Baha]], then head of the Baháʼí Faith, whom they had intended to [[Crucifixion|crucify]].<ref>{{cite book |year=1997 |title=The Servant, the General, and Armageddon |publisher=George Ronald |isbn=0-85398-424-7 |author=Roderic Maude and Derwent Maude}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Smith |first=Peter |title=A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith |author-link=Peter Smith (historian) |encyclopedia=A concise encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Faith |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location=Oxford |isbn=1-85168-184-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope0000smit/page/18 |year=2000 |page=18}}</ref> A third interpretation reviews the overall progress of the World Wars, and the situation in the world before and after.<ref name="Lambden"/>