When I told him that none of the present kingdoms were Christ’s kingdom, but were organized by Satan, he said: “Well, I must admit that everybody is trying selfishly to profit as best he can, even at the expense of his fellow men.” And when I went on to say that all the present kingdoms, therefore, shortly will go to pieces in Armageddon, he frankly admitted that “it most certainly looks like it”.
1933 Year Book. 1932. p. 111
We believe that much is left to be done ere Armageddon approaches, and are determined to do our part in announcing the approaching destruction and the blessing of the kingdom to follow.
1933 Year Book. 1932. p. 138
The Devil began the time of trouble and has carried it on in wickedness, but at Armageddon Jehovah will finish that trouble in righteousness by destroying the wicked organization.-Deut. 32:41; Rom. 9:28; Isa. 28:21.
1933 Year Book. 1932. p. 165
The time of trouble that began in 1914 in unrighteousness and which Jehovah will finish at Armageddon in righteousness.
1933 Year Book. 1932. p. 165, 166
The millions that are brought through the time of trouble at Armageddon will be the first to have the opportunity of wholly devoting themselves to the Lord and entering upon the “highway”, and after this those that are now dead will come forth from the grave and be taught how to enter upon the “highway”.
1933 Year Book. 1932. January 25
God’s remnant being the first upon the “highway”, and serving as examples to the people, will aid the people in turning to the “highway” after Armageddon. W 10/15/31
1933 Year Book. 1932. January 25
The greatest shame upon these, however, will come at Armageddon, when God’s great sword desolates the nations. V II, 259
1933 Year Book. 1932. February 12
Seeing that the battle of Armageddon completes the victory of Jehovah, and the preservation of those who love him, will cause the people of God to more fully appreciate him than ever. The non-followers of Christ, the heathen, have been repeatedly told the truth but have given no heed to it. Armageddon will cause all of them to know that Jehovah is the Most High. VII, 337
1933 Year Book. 1932. February 27
He who made Mount Sinai tremble and quake at the giving of the law through Moses is the same God who fights the battle for his people and brings to them victory, and is the same God who comes to his temple, selects and brings his remnant into the secret place of the Most High, and the same God who will destroy the enemy and his organization at Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. March 1
It would be expected that God would show the watchman what is his own organization and his purposes in his organization, and would also disclose to the watchman the enemy organization; furthermore, that God would reveal to the watchman the great issue that must now be settled, and why the battle of Armageddon will be fought.
1933 Year Book. 1932. March 6
All creation will have reason to know at Armageddon that the Almighty God is manifesting his power against the enemy.
1933 Year Book. 1932. March 21
The enemy has had knowledge of these examples foreshadowing Armageddon but has taken no heed thereto.
1933 Year Book. 1932. March 21
Jehu was executing Jehovah’s decree, and the Greater-than-Jehu, Christ Jesus, will execute Jehovah’s decree at Armageddon furiously. V III, 30, 52
1933 Year Book. 1932. March 25
Certainly Gog represents wicked forces which are anti-God and anti-kingdom in assaulting and moving against God’s kingdom organization, including the remnant on earth, and which forces reach a climax at Armageddon. VII, 316, 317
1933 Year Book. 1932. April 23
Those of the remnant who remain on earth during Armageddon will see the complete humiliation of Satan and the men of the earth who are the rulers under Satan’s direction.
1933 Year Book. 1932. May 13
After Armageddon there will be some faithful people of God yet on the earth. These will have something to do with the cleaning-up work.
1933 Year Book. 1932. May 17
The acts of Satan’s earthly representatives in identifying themselves must first take place before the final slaughter at Armageddon, and the opportunity is being furnished to them to so identify themselves.
1933 Year Book. 1932. May 24
The peoples of the nations that survive Armageddon will quickly learn of Jehovah; for his fame shall spread through all the earth. V II, 344
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 1
This he will do in the great victory that he will gain at the battle of Armageddon. W 4/15/32
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 3
Jehovah’s “strange act” mentioned by the prophet Isaiah will be remarkable and wonderful to behold. That strange act will take place at Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 8
The coming of the Lord Jesus to the battle of Armageddon, therefore, will be in clouds, and every eye shall gaze with terror on what they shall behold. W 5/15/32
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 8
At that time the spoil shall be divided, thereby increasing the kingdom interests on earth for a space of time after Armageddon is fought.
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 10
The remnant is likened unto a home-keeping woman of ancient times, in that such do not engage in an active part of Armageddon with carnal weapons.
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 10
The prosperity of God’s faithful people must therefore begin before the heathen nations are dashed to pieces at Armageddon, in order that these nations may know that the hand of Jehovah God is doing these things. Since the World War God has caused his King at his temple to revive his work and his people as to the interests of his kingdom.
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 16
When Armageddon has completely wrecked Satan’s wicked organization, the common people will know that the hand of Jehovah God has done this mighty work; and then the “high messengers” will come out of Egypt, which people will then be seeking the way to Zion.
1933 Year Book. 1932. June 19
All those who have made a covenant with God and who remain in captivity until Armageddon will suffer much tribulation.
1933 Year Book. 1932. July 9
The worst rebuke to them, however, will be administered at Armageddon, when their rebuke will be lasting.
1933 Year Book. 1932. July 12
The prophecy shows Christ Jesus, Jehovah’s great executive officer, taking captive Satan and his cohorts at the battle of Armageddon. Those taken prisoners at Armageddon will not be preserved as such, alive in a prison house, but will be put to death and thus held captive in death until the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ. Doubtless Satan’s cohorts, and Satan himself before death at Armageddon, will come to a full realization that they are “all done up” and that the fight must put an end to the operations of Satan and his organization, who for centuries has been unhindered in his defiance of Jehovah God.
1933 Year Book. 1932. August 21
Jehovah God has now come to his holy place, his sanctuary or temple on Zion, and he will reveal himself out therefrom in terrifying acts at the battle of Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 8
Moses was terrified at what his eyes beheld at Sinai. It will be even so with the remnant of Mount Zion at Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 8
Jehovah is now marching the mighty host of his organization to Armageddon, where his name will be vindicated.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 17
As Jehovah is now marching his forces to Armageddon, and the remnant is the only part of his organization on the earth wholly devoted to him, it follows that the remnant must be at the front, lifting high the standard of the Lord that others of good will may find the way to salvation.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 17
This course they must take if they would receive the protection of the antitypical Jehu, Christ Jesus, who will execute Jehovah’s judgments at Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 21
This shows that the great battle of Armageddon precedes the inauguration of the new covenant; therefore Jehovah marches to war with his “thousands upon thousands” of chariots of war.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 28
Armageddon, which is near at hand, will mark the end of Satan’s organization; then the blindness will be removed from the eyes of the people and all will have an opportunity to gain a knowledge of God.
1933 Year Book. 1932. September 29
Later the people of God, when more severely persecuted, may well say that ‘God himself is for us; unto him belongs the escape in view of death’, and that escape Jehovah-foretold by the destruction of Haman; and the escape of his people will come with the destruction of the class pictured by Haman, and particularly will this escape be made available at Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. October 20
Armageddon will be required to cause the people to know that Jehovah is God and that his kingdom is their only hope. The complete downfall of Satan’s organization at Armageddon and the scattering of the people throughout the nations will awaken them to the real solution of the world’s troubles.
1933 Year Book. 1932. October 25
The last members of the Christ body on earth are the remnant, and are undoubtedly represented here by “thy foot”; and this seems to be another indication that the faithful remnant, or at least some of them, will be on earth during the great battle of Armageddon and witness the blood that shall flow by reason of Christ Jesus’ executing the enemy. The remnant, seeing the vengeance of God manifested upon the enemy, will have further reason to rejoice and praise his name. At Armageddon great will be the actual flow of blood.
1933 Year Book. 1932. November 5
Jehovah will be present at Armageddon, particularly represented by Christ Jesus, his Chief Executive Officer. Necessarily Armageddon must and will be such an open demonstration of Jehovah’s power that all creation may see and know that it is Jehovah God that is performing this wonderful and strange act.
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 1
He survived Jehu, which seems to say that the Elisha work of giving testimony will continue after Armageddon.
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 7
Even after Armageddon some of the remnant may be used for further fulfilment of this prophecy.
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 8
Jehovah rides upon all, because he is the Most High and because the Head of Christ is God. The voice of warning he sounds just preceding the great battle of Armageddon. Jehovah now uses his instruments whom he has anointed, and into whose mouths he has put his words, to speak or publish his words, and to that degree they utter Jehovah’s voice or message. W 5/15/32
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 10
This rejoicing shall follow the battle of Armageddon. V II, 248-251
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 18
The Jehonadab class are meek, that is, teachable, and they seek to do right and are anxious for the kingdom to be established, and it is this class that Jehovah’s Word shows he will take through Armageddon. It is the Jehonadab class that are marked in their foreheads, and these are to be spared. It is a great comfort to Jehovah’s witnesses to now know that they are permitted to carry the waters of life to a class of people that may be taken through Armageddon and given everlasting life on the earth by reason of the bounteous goodness of Jehovah, even as the name Jehonadab suggests. V III, 82-84
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 19
Likely in the midst of Armageddon God will make it very manifest that he is for his remnant upon whom his name is placed and who are his witnesses.
1933 Year Book. 1932. December 22