Revelation 16:14

“I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen” . . . Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan. . . . It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land.” (Eze. Eze. 38:4, Eze. 38:10, Eze. 38:16)

gather them to the battle of that great day of God
The place where they are gathered is “Armageddon.” The great day of God is none other than The Day of the Lord. See commentary on Revelation 6:17. While the kings are being gathered by unclean spirits (“unclean and hated birds,” Rev. Rev. 18:2+), an angel gathers wild birds in readiness for their feast on the kings (Rev. Rev. 19:17+). Battle is πόλεμον [polemon] , which more correctly denotes an extended engagement rather than a single battle. “The difference between polemos and machē is the same as that between the English words war and battle: ho polemos Pelopannēsiakos is ‘the Peloponnesian War’; hē en Marathōni machē is ‘the battle of Marathon.’ ”⁴ See Campaign of Armageddon.

Almighty
Παντοκράτορος [Pantokratoros] , see commentary on Revelation 1:8.

Notes

¹ The spirit provided a rumor, an untruth. Hence we can conclude that it was not the spirit of an elect angel. Moreover, elect angels are not portrayed as disembodied spirits.

² Concerning demons as unclean spirits: Mtt. Mat. 8:16; Mat. 10:1; Mat. 12:43; Mark Mark 1:23, Mark 1:26, Mark 1:27; Mark 5:2, Mark 5:8, Mark 5:13; Mark 6:7. Mark 7:25. Mark 9:25; Luke Luke 4:33, Luke 4:36; Luke 6:18; Luke 8:29; Luke 9:42; Luke 11:24; Acts Acts 5:16; Acts 8:7; Rev. Rev. 16:13+; Rev. 18:2+.

³ Frederick William Danker and Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 561.

⁴ Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 337.