Was the Armageddon described in the Bible due to happen much sooner when those words were written, but due to divine intervention has been delayed until the current day?

Yes, and we were anticipating this question in our prior comments. There was an earlier decision to terminate the human manipulation with a final termination and extermination. This was forestalled and has worked up until now, but the issue has been raised again and plans put forth that have been agreed to, and the intention is still bent on this endgame to finalize things once and for all and wash their hands, so to speak, of the whole mess.