The Lord’s “other sheep” begin to be represented in the prophetic drama at this point, corroborative proof of which is found in other scriptures, showing that the “great multitude” must be gathered before the battle of Armageddon begins.
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Now as Armageddon nears, the Hierarchy, led by the head thereof, comes into the open and endorses Fascism, Nazism and dictators, and encourages them to destroy the liberties of other people.
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All those battles and defeats, without any question of doubt, pictured the battle and complete destruction at Armageddon that shall befall the totalitarian monstrosity and its religion or demon conspirators.
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Those forces that went ahead of Barak in the miniature fulfillment of the prophecy above stated were led by Jehovah’s executive officer; and likewise the forces of righteousness at Armageddon are led by the only begotten and beloved Son of God, him who is “the Bright and Morning Star”, and the great Executioner of God’s wrath against the enemy.
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In this part of the prophetic drama Barak, whose name means “lightning”, pictured Christ Jesus, Jehovah’s mighty Avenger, and the picture shows that he will employ lightning or other superhuman weapons against the enemy host when the battle of Armageddon is fought. Even now the Lord Jesus is using lightnings of truth, which he shoots out against the enemy, which confounds the enemy and blinds them as to what is their proper course.
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This immediately precedes the victorious assault by the Greater Barak, which shall result in the complete destruction of the enemy forces at Armageddon. All the physical facts now indicate the battle of Armageddon is quite near, when the real fighting takes place and the enemy will be destroyed.
Jehovah has given his word that he will fight for his people at Armageddon and that he will deliver his faithful servants.
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They see the evidence corroborating scriptures that Armageddon is very near, when God will avenge the wrongs of his people. The true and faithful ones have no doubt that the outrages recently perpetrated in many parts of the earth against Jehovah’s witnesses will have due attention from the Lord in the near future when he literally cuts the enemy to pieces at the battle of Armageddon.
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It therefore appears to be certain that Armageddon, that great battle of God Almighty, is near at hand.
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Thus he gave unmistakable proof that the battle was God’s, and not man’s, and thus he pictured that the battle of Armageddon will be God’s, and not man’s.
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Those who love righteousness and hate wickedness will take great courage from this because they know it foreshadows what will take place at Armageddon.
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Doubtless the Lord let him escape for a time, as shown by what came to pass shortly thereafter, and this for the purpose of completing the picture foreshadowing Armageddon.
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This picture shows that the invisible host actually in the battle of Armageddon literally complete the wrecking of that “abomination that maketh desolate”, namely, the religious-dictatorial crowd that is determined to rule the world in defiance of God and that stands in the place of God’s Theocratic government, even as Daniel in his prophecy quoted by the Lord Jesus shows. (Dan. 11:31; 12:11; Matt. 24:15)
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Further scriptures corroborative of the complete destruction of the enemy at Armageddon are the following: “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all; and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” (Jude 14, 15)
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True to the prophetic picture, Christ Jesus, the Greater Barak, with lightning speed, together with his heavenly army, will pursue the enemy at Armageddon; and, beginning with religion, and particularly the Papacy, which is now urging on the dictators to acts of supreme wickedness, the Lord Jesus Christ will literally and completely destroy the enemy.
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The sword is a symbol of the destructive weapon of the Lord, which he will use against the enemy at Armageddon: “The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
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“Lightning” (Barak) with his ten thousand acted the part of executioner for and in the name of Jehovah God. Thus “Lightning” foreshadowed Christ Jesus as the Executioner at Armageddon, and when Christ Jesus will be supported by all of his heavenly host.
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They heard the message from God’s Word, spoken by Jehovah’s witnesses, warning of the approaching destruction of the enemy at Armageddon and Jehovah’s victory through Christ Jesus at that battle.
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If, as it has been contended by some, both the sleeping faithful saints and the faithful ones on earth are changed in the same instant, then the resurrection of the dead could not precede the change of the living; but when we understand that the words “at the same time with them” really mean within “the day of Jehovah”, which began in 1914 and continues until the close of the battle of Armageddon, the matter is entirely clear and these texts are completely in harmony, as indeed they must be.
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When Jehovah’s witnesses proclaim amongst the people the Scriptures, which tell of God’s purpose to destroy all the wicked at Armageddon and all their works, and then point out the wickedness to which the Hierarchy have resorted and been guilty of, such see that they must resort to further lies.
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Jael must act quickly before the executioner would arrive, who pictures Christ Jesus, God’s Executioner at Armageddon.
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Such people of good-will flee to the Lord and put themselves under his capital organization until the end of Armageddon. Thereafter the “great multitude”, together with the faithful prophets named at Hebrews eleven, become the earthly part of the Lord’s organization.
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In August 1, 1932 issue of The Watchtower, and in the Vindication books published that year, Jehovah revealed to his people that King Jehu, who killed the Baal religionists in Israel, pictured Christ Jesus, Jehovah’s Executioner at Armageddon, and also that Jonadab the Rechabite, whose heart was with Jehu and against demon-worship or religion, there pictured the people of good-will who take their stand against demon or religious worship, and who will form the “great multitude”. Since the year 1936 the facts clearly show that great numbers of persons of good-will have forsaken religion and taken their stand on the side of God and Christ.
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At this point Barak pictured Christ Jesus as Jehovah’s Executioner at Armageddon. The Jael class the Lord, the Executioner, finds marked in their foreheads, and these he spares at Armageddon.
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The Lord Jesus begins the battle of Armageddon, and there religion meets its final end. He looks to see if the people of good-will are counted worthy to survive Armageddon; and if they have fled from religion and killed it, so far as they are concerned, and have taken their from stand on the side of Jehovah and his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT, they may receive complete protection.
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Likewise at the battle of Armageddon no follower of Christ Jesus on the earth will use physical force against any earthly government or organization and no Christian will have claim to or receive any honor and glory for the destruction of wicked rule.
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This shows that after the visible part of Satan’s organization is destroyed at Armageddon there will still be a work which the Lord will do in destroying the host of wicked demons, the commander of which is Gog, and then will follow the annihilation of the Devil himself.
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Armageddon, the final settlement of accounts between God and the Devil, is about to take place.
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Then followed the “war in heaven” and the World War on earth, which the Lord had foretold. (Rev. 12:7-9; Matt. 24:7) The day of Jehovah began there and continues until Armageddon, when”the battle of that great day of God Almighty” will be fought, with full and complete victory to Jehovah and his King, the Greater Barak.
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This shows that in the fulfillment the song of victory is begun even before Armageddon clears out all parts of the Devil’s organization.
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The name and kingdom of Jehovah must be and is proclaimed throughout the earth, and that work must continue until Armageddon
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The Lord sends his witnesses to the modern-day Edomites with a message, and the religionists and allies show the wicked “goat” spirit toward the witnesses of the Lord, and hence Christ Jesus, the great Judge and King, puts those goats on his left hand and marks them for destruction at Armageddon. (Matt. 25:31-46) At Armageddon Jehovah visits them and, by his King, sends all the “goats” into everlasting destruction. (See also Obadiah 1-21; Ezek. 35:1-15; Jer. 49:7-22.)
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The prophetic song describes what shall be the result upon modern-day Edom and Mount Seir when the Lord shall have executed the “vengeance of our God” at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1941 p. 71
The description given in the song of Deborah and Barak foretells the destruction that shall be upon the world and all the organizations of Satan at Armageddon, and is further supported by other prophecies relating to the same thing, to wit: “The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; thine arrows also went abroad.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1941 p. 71
That would be far worse than lava from an active volcano. Such must be the effect upon religion and like organizations when Jehovah performs his “strange act” at Armageddon.
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The prayer of Isaiah pictures God’s people just preceding Armageddon, to wit: “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest comedown, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.
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When at Armageddon the Almighty God threshes and cuts to pieces the modern-day Mount Seir, with her religious organizations, together with all other organizations allied thereto, such as the totalitarian, iniquitous and wicked earthly rulers, then the heat of divine judgment there expressed by and through Christ Jesus will completely melt down all such oppressive systems and destroy them for ever.
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A literal example of what shall come to pass at Armageddon was given by the Lord at Mount Sinai, concerning which it is written : “Even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.”
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Thus he indicates how his vengeance will be expressed at Armageddon, when he showed that he is the Almighty God: “And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.”-Ex. 19:18.
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Those looking for the early appearance of “the sign” for Armageddon to begin will not slack the hand in this final month of the campaign, but rather intensify their efforts, and unquestionably more Theocratic publishers wall enter the field. Never have such had a finer offer to make to humankind in danger of Armageddon, to wit, a year’s subscription for The Watchtower, together with the book Religion and the two new booklets Theocracy and God and the State, all on a contribution of $1.00.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1941 p. 82
The Victory Song has begun in the fulfillment of prophecy, and that song must continue to swell with increasing volume and until all who survive Armageddon shall know that THE THEOCRACY is now exercising its authority and power and that everlasting peace and blessings have come to stay forever.
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The ten plagues upon Egypt were immediately followed by the destruction of Pharaoh’s army, which foreshadows that immediately following the present-day fulfillment of the antitypical plagues there must come the destruction of Satan’s organization at Armageddon.
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The prophetic song therefore foretold the “strange work” of Jehovah now in progress and which takes place just preceding the battle of Armageddon, and that battle is now quickly to follow.
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God’s servants, seeing their privilege, are grateful in their hearts, and they express their gratitude by unselfish devotion. As further proof that the fulfillment of the prophecy takes place shortly preceding Armageddon, note the inspired words of the apostle addressed to Jehovah’s witnesses.
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Before the beginning of the battle of Armageddon the organization of the Lord on the earth, pictured by Deborah, must first awake and act under the commandment of the Greater Barak, Christ Jesus, and vigorously and zealously and unhesitatingly proclaim the name of Jehovah throughout the earth.
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At Armageddon the Greater Barak will spare alive none of the devils.
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This symbolic description of Armageddon fore- tells the destruction of Satan’s forces by the Greater Barak and, as shown in the context, is immediately followed by a great feast of rejoicing on the part of those who have remained firm, true and steadfast in support of THE THEOCRACY and its King.
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So the Lord made the enemy do some walking. That foretells that they will be on the run at Armageddon, on foot or any other way they can go.
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As Captain Sisera was surprised and overwhelmed, so those people whom Sisera pictured shall be surprised and overwhelmed at Armageddon.
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All these plagues, antitypically, have to do with the proclamation of God’s message of truth; and this proclamation of truth, or this work of Jehovah’s witnesses, will not be completed on earth until these have proclaimed all of Jehovah’s warning messages of his vengeance against all iniquity and of the vindication of his holy name.This Jehovah’s witnesses must do before Armageddon.
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Therefore Jehovah is causing his witnesses on earth to bear his message of truth throughout the world to modern Egypt, calling attention to his own supreme power and that this power will be made manifest at the battle of Armageddon.
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The three days of darkness coming upon Egypt symbolically means that the present-day darkness upon the world will continue and persist until Armageddon, when the whole of the Devil system will go down into the abyss of everlasting darkness.
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While darkness covers the world, Jehovah continues to turn his light upon his faithful ones, giving them a more wonderful vision of his Word than they ever expected to have while on the earth. This strongly suggests that the battle of Armageddon is near.
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The proof is furnished that when the full membership of the anointed “servant” class is made up Jehovah God preserves his “elect” servant, and even though some of that “servant” class on earth must go into death before the battle of Armageddon those remaining and faithful unto the end of their service on earth are guaranteed a resurrection to life in the spirit with Christ Jesus the King (1 Thess. 4: 13-16)
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Jehovah inspired his prophet to tell of a vision of Armageddon which he had, and which prophetic utterance is about due for fulfillment.
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Among such prophetic and dramatic pictures is that recorded concerning Barak and Deborah, the meaning of which is now revealed to God’s faithful people, manifestly for the reason that Armageddon is about to be fought.
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Jehovah was with Barak and his little army, and Jehovah is irresistible. The odds appeared to be overwhelming against Barak. Jehovah was with Barak and his little army, and Jehovah is irresistible. So shall it be at Armageddon.
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Note the prophecy then relating to the present time: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”-Rev. 16:13, 14, 16.
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The prophetic song sung by Barak and Deborah gives an account of the battle at Megiddo, and which foretells the coming battle of Armageddon, and this is quite clear from the prophecies supporting the song as well as the physical facts. Armageddon means “mountain of Megiddo”, that is to say, “the mount of the assembly of troops.”
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In keeping with this commandment the combined army of the enemy prepares for Armageddon and Jehovah’s mighty ones come down from heaven, and the fighting forces are made ready for the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”. From the physical facts now well known it is clearly seen that the time for the great and final conflict at Armageddon is very near. The hour and the day no man on earth knows, but, to be sure, the Lord knows, because he has fixed the time definitely, and that battle will be- gin at the time appointed.
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Even so Jehovah has said concerning the battle of Armageddon: “The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.”-Isa. 24:3.
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In like manner God will make Satan’s entire organization a spoil at Armageddon.
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The battle of Armageddon, and the spoil, is also foretold in the prophecy of 2 Chronicles 20:25. There will be a cleanup of the enemy at Armageddon. The religious, the political (including the Vatican, the official head of the religionists on earth), and the dictators now claim the right to rule the earth and are determined to take it by force. At Armageddon Jehovah will take away from them everything, and never again shall they have anything to do with the earth or with anything else. Even the Devil himself shall consume away in due time, and, “never shalt thou be any more,”- Ezek. 28:19.
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Likewise, as the Scriptures now inform God’s faithful people concerning the result at Armageddon, now it appears to the Hierarchy and allies that it will be an easy matter for them, when the due time arrives, to completely destroy God’s people.
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It was indeed a “strange act”, and likewise at Armageddon the forces there will be indeed a “strange act” to all, and particularly to those who have no faith in God.
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This part of the prophecy shows that at ArmageddonChrist and his heavenly army will tread down under foot the strong and mighty that have spoiled the earth.
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The faithful remnant on earth and their companions, who survive Armageddon, shall see the work of the Lord and will tread upon what at one time was the strength of the enemy: “And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.”-Mal. 4:3.
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Jehovah has given his word that at Armageddon he will empty the earth of everything and every creature that is in opposition to THE THEOCRACY.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 120
Doubtless that angel of the Lord who pronounced the curse on that occasion was the Lord Jesus in his prehuman existence, that is, ‘Michael, the great Prince which stands for the children of the people’ and who is in charge of the forces of Jehovah, and will be at the battle of Armageddon. (Dan 12:1)
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It will not do to wait until the foes have been stripped of their power at Armageddon.
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When the actual battle of Armageddon begins there will be no need for volunteers or for faithful work in declaring Jehovah’s name.
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TODAY darkness as to understanding the purpose of the Supreme Ruler covers the rulers of this visible organization on earth, and gross darkness is upon the people subject to that organization. The darkness will persist until the battle of Armageddon.
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There is still some witness work to be done amongst the people, and preparation is now being made for the final plague to be visited upon Satan’s organization at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 122
Jehovah told Moses that the death of the firstborn would take place at midnight, this to mean, in the modern-day fulfillment, at a time of the world’s blackness or darkest period. The blackness of darkness is now upon the world, and must continue until Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 123
In the fulfillment of this prophetic drama in our time the final plague upon the world will be at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 123
As in the typical events in Egypt, even so the death of “Christ our passover” and the partaking of the merit of his sacrifice by his spirit-begotten followers precede the slaughter of Satan’s first- born at Armageddon. As Israel’s firstborn were passed over and preserved on that fateful night, even so the faithful remnant of anointed witnesses, who are of Jehovah’s “first-born”, will be passed over and preserved at the battle of the great day of God Almighty. They will survive Armageddon by virtue of Jehovah’s protection.
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This “great multitude” of “other sheep” will be passed over at Armageddon because they abandon Satan’s worldly organization before Armageddon and associate themselves with the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses and with them take part in serving notice on Satan’s organization and in preaching the good news of The Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus. (John 10:16; Rev. 7:9-17)
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The Theocracy, but are subject to the Theocratic “Higher Powers”; and that they are on the trek and about to leave the antitypical Egypt, seeing that that wicked organization will shortly be destroyed at Armageddon. (Ex. 12:11)
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Further, that sprinkled blood on the doorposts and the lintels signifies that the day of judgment or of the vengeance of God is here, which vengeance will shortly be expressed and exercised in the destruction of Satan’s firstborn at Armageddon. Therefore the blood was both a public declaration and a testimony of the approaching destruction upon Jehovah’s enemies.
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Now the celebration of the Memorial means much more than it did prior to the coming of the Lord to the temple in 1918 to judge his followers and to divide the nations as sheep and goats prior to Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 124
The plagues are now in operation, advancing to the great climax of destruction of Satan’s firstborn at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 124
Then follows the antitypical fulfillment of the plagues upon Egypt., which plagues are completed at Armageddon in the destruction of Satan’s firstborn. The Scriptures seem clearly to show that the firstborn of Egypt represent the visible part of Satan’s organization, which will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon, and that the invisible part of his organization, the wicked demons, including Satan himself, will shortly thereafter be destroyed, when Satan shall be cast into the pit of destruction. (Compare Revelation 19:19-21 and 20:1-3.)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 125
It is the remnant of those who are in Christ as members of “his body”, and also their “companions”, the “great multitude”, who are the ones passed over at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 125
When this declaration is completed, then will follow the execution of the tenth and final plague at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1941 p. 125
Seemingly they are totally blind to the fact that they are marching on to Armageddon and destruction.
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They now misrepresent God’s Word and claim that the “wild beast” will make lasting peace, whereas the Scriptures show that there can be no peace until the “wild beast” is completely destroyed, at Armageddon by Jehovah God.
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All the people that dwell upon the earth and that do not trust in the sacrificial blood of Christ Jesus and in Jehovah’s Theocratic Government by Christ will be lined up on the side of Satan and his organization before the final end at Armageddon.
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In A.D. 70 that “beast” caused the Jews to fall by the sword, and in 1918 by the sword of the World War it killed the witness work of Jehovah’s people Hence that beast “must be killed with the sword” at Armageddon.
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This separation precedes the great and final conflict at Armageddon, which takes place when the separating work is completed.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1941 p. 131
Continuing thus faithful until the end of Armageddon and ever thereafter, they shall fully enter into righteousness and life; but if any of the remnant or of the Jonadabs become unfaithful to Jehovah and his King, such put themselves in the class of the wicked and their end is destruction.
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Then, sometime later, God revealed to his people that his “other sheep”, that will form the “great multitude” (Rev. 7:9-17), are an earthly class that shall live forever on the earth and carry out the divine mandate to fill the earth with a righteous people; that such were pictured by Jonadab and by other prophetic pictures recorded in the Scriptures; that in order for these “other sheep” to ultimately become members of the “great multitude” they must be wholly devoted to THE THEOCRACY and must remain within the bounds of the “city of refuge”, that is to say, God’s organization under Christ, and there faithfully perform their assigned duties until the end of Armageddon.
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She was given favorable mention in God’s Word, and also in making the picture concerning the “other sheep: of the Lord, that shall form the “great multitude” and that shall survive Armageddon and fill the earth according to the divine mandate.
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The “great multitude”, whom Jael pictured, are greatly favored of Jehovah by being permitted to bear children after Armageddon and to thereby “fill the earth” with a righteous race.
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Does not that appear to say that Satan’s religious organization will never comeback out of the battle of Armageddon ? That gang is going down to stay down forever, and even their memory shall perish, as stated in the Lord’s Word.-Prov. 10:7.
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When Armageddon begins and the Lord Jesus Christ sends his forces against the Devil’s organization, the religious leaders will be the first to go down, and then the other elements or sections of Satan’s organization will behold the smoke of religion’s destruction, and, like Sisera’s mother and her princesses, they will wail and howl because of the loss of their religious ally.
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As in the typical battle of Megiddo, so shall it be in the antitypical ’~battle of that great day of God Almighty”, called “Armageddon”. This word “so” in the prophecy shows that the battle of Megiddo is a type or prophecy of what shall come to pass upon the enemies of God at the battle of Armageddon.
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A symbolic picture is given of the glorious Lord leading that fight to Armageddon, to wit: “And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”-Rev. 1:16.
At Armageddon Christ Jesus goes forth in his strength, leading the heavenly host.
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Armageddon will be the complete end of Satan’s organization; ‘never shall the wicked arise again.’ (Nah. 1:9) What shall be the lot of Jehovah’s covenant people following Armageddon was also foretold in the prophetic song of Barak and Deborah.
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Jehovah’s faithful people now on the earth with joy sing because they know that the day of deliverance is near; and following Armageddon that song will resound throughout the whole universe and everything that breathes will continue to sing the praises of the Most High.
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At Armageddon the Lord God will cause all nations and peoples to know that He is Jehovah, and all the ends of the earth shall then see the salvation of God in behalf of His anointed witnesses and the “great multitude” of their faithful companions on earth.
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The saving and carrying over the flood of the eight persons pictured the survivors of Armageddon that the Lord will carry over to the new and righteous world.
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Thus they pictured a class of people who find grace in the eyes of the Lord in this day and who are saved from the deluge of fire at Armageddon.
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It is true that the peoples of the earth today ‘eat, drink, marry’ and seek personal selfish gratification, and show indifference to the message of the Kingdom, and will continue to do so until Armageddon sweeps them away. To the warning they give no heed. They are blind to Jehovah’s purpose, and they continue in that way until the wrath of God is expressed at Armageddon.
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Then the man will be awakened out of death in the general resurrection after the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors have filled this earth with a righteous race, and he will be given a knowledge of the truth and an opportunity for life through Christ.
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The times short now till the universal war of Armageddon, and the privileges are great beyond the description of human words. The issue is clearly drawn; the fight is on to the finish, the campaign grows with intensity.
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The Lord Jesus declares that this expressed indignation of Jehovah at the battle of Armageddon will be such as man has never before known, but it will be the last. (Matt. 24 : 21, 22) “Be patient therefore, brethren.”-Jas. 5:7.
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His purpose is that his name shall be proclaimed throughout the nations before Armageddon and such proclamation must be made by those whomGod has selected.
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This testimony to the name of Jehovah and to his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT must be given by his ordained ministers immediately preceding the time of great tribulation, which is Armageddon. (Matt. 24:21)
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The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” (Isa. 24:1, 4, 5) That state of affairs will be fully realized at Armageddon.
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Every member of the remnant will faithfully perform his duty and hence will continue to bear the fruits of the Kingdom before the peoples of the nations that those of goodwill may see the “highway” and be benefited and enter upon it before the battle of Armageddon and may know that Jehovah is God.-See also Isaiah 62:11, 12.
The next in order to enter “the highway” after the remnant are those persons of good-will, who shall form the “great multitude” that survives the battle of Armageddon. They must be cleaned up, however, before they can enter upon the “highway”. They wash their robes and make them clean by faithfully devoting themselves to God and to Christ his King now before Armageddon, and this they must do before they enter upon the highway. (See Revelation 7:9-17.)
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Today the remnant are declaring the Kingdom message to millions of people on earth, and many of good-will are forsaking religion and Satan’s organization and are seeking the way that leads unto God. Now, before Armageddon, which is near, they have the opportunity of wholly devoting themselves to the Lord and entering upon the “highway”, and, continuing faithful, may”be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger” at Armageddon and thus be of the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
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Note the prophetic words recorded at Revelation 16:12-16, concerning Satan’s organization, which was symbolized by the ancient city of Babylon on the Euphrates river: “And the sixth [angel] poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings [Jehovah and Christ Jesus] that come from the sunrising. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon [symbolizing Satan’s devouring organization and represented on earth chiefly by the religious element], and out of the mouth of the beast [the political state], and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs [loud-mouthed croakers] ; for they are SPIRITS OF DEMON[that is, visible representatives of demons], working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty …. And they [the demon hosts] gathered them [the earthly representatives of the demons] together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon [Armageddon].“-A.R.V.
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Revelation 20:1-3 shows that Satan and all his demon princes will be bound at Armageddon.
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Jehovah God is supreme, and he has anointed Christ Jesus as his Chief Officer, who will lead the fight of His forces at Armageddon. Since Satan has attempted to mimic Godin everything else, and since Satan claims to be the supreme one or one equal to God, it is reasonable to conclude that Satan has appointed a special officer on his side to lead the fight at Armageddon since Gog is called”the chief prince”, or “prince of Rosh”, or “prince of the chief”, it is reasonable that Gog is the one that leads the fight at Armageddon, while Satan as the general sits in the rear and directs it, even as Jehovah directs Christ Jesus.-See Ezekiel 38:2 in the marginal reading and also the American Revised Version and Leeser’s.
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The evil spirits, like “frogs“, gather the forces to Armageddon.
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The prophecy from Jehovah gives assurance that at Armageddon the enemy will be completely removed by destruction.
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The enemy is turning the mass of earth’s population against Jehovah and his King, and this is done in preparation for the final showdown at Armageddon. The result at Armageddon will be such that the “stink” of the slain enemy shall be the greatest ever known:”And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel [thus memorializing the vindication of Jehovah’s name], the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea; and it shall stop the noses of the passengers; and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude; and they shall call it, The valley of Hamon-gog [meaning, Multitude of Gog].
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Therefore the nations and their religious, political leaders are made ‘vessels fit for destruction’ at Armageddon, as the Lord declares.-Rom. 9:22.
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Those who believe God and his Word should now see and understand that God is not a respecter of persons or nations, and that all who have learned of Jehovah and his kingdom and have then forgotten God and turned away to the “beggarly elements” of the world, and also all who fail and refuse to hear and obey God and his King, shall go down at Armageddon, which is near.
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The fact that in all the nations Jehovah’s witnesses are now hated and persecuted is strong circumstantial evidence that the witness work is about completed and that Armageddon is very near.
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Those who are of good-will toward God and who desire life must now flee: “For the day of the Lord [Armageddon] is near upon all the heathen [the nations that are against THE THEOCRACY]; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
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This text and others prove that the fight at the universal war of Armageddon will not be merely a symbolic affair, because Jehovah God announces his purpose to clean Satan’s organization off the earth.
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Now also a multitude of persons of good-will, who shall form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, become companions of the remnant in the Lord’s witness work, and thus become associated with God’s organization.
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The day of Armageddon is near, and at that time all who remain on Satan’s side shall suffer destruction.
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Thus continuing faithful, the “other sheep” of the Lord shah be brought through Armageddon and find everlasting life on the earth.
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The final trouble, the universal war of Armageddon, must be the one referred to by the great prophet, Christ Jesus, at Matthew 24:21, 22.
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May it not be truly said, then, that for the sake of “the elect” the Lord has held back the final trouble of Armageddon and ’shortened those days of tribulation’ not only that they themselves might be gathered, but that they might participate in the work of giving the witness in the name of the Lord in behalf of the unnumbered multitude of the Lord’s “other sheep”?
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These shall be of the “flesh” that shall survive the battle of Armageddon, just as Noah and his family in the ark survived the Flood.
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If we see, then, the oncoming storm of Armageddon and know that Jehovah wants the witness given beforehand, why should we not hasten on?
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At Armageddon, which is near, Christ Jesus, the great King now present, will destroy the wicked, clear them off the earth, and make the way for righteousness and righteous rule to ever thereafter follow. That is the hope of humankind.
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Today the wise will hear the Word of the Lord and give heed thereto and flee to the great THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT, and will there find safety during Armageddon, and after Armageddon enter into complete joy under the righteous rule of THE THEOCRACY.
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Was it that God might exhibit to his creatures his great power? Surely not; because already his power had been exhibited in another manner at the Flood, which was prophetic the battle of Armageddon now at hand.
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The Lord’s “other sheep”, who are carried over Armageddon and who receive the commission to form the “great multitude” and to carry out the divine mandate, will be servants under The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.
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Since the “other sheep” of the Lord, who form the “great multitude”, are subjected to the test of loyalty before Armageddon and are hated and opposed and persecuted by Satan and his agents, such “other sheep” appear clearly to be embraced within the prophetic drama.
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That his destruction is being deferred until his wicked works are destroyed at the battle of Armageddon is also sure. (1 John 3:8)
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So likewise the people that are carried over Armageddon and who form the “great multitude”, together with all others that live after Armageddon, shall be from the King-Father, Christ Jesus.
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The first work of the King is to cause his faithful servants to proclaim the name of JEHOVAH, the Supreme One, and to tell of his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT by Christ Jesus and, when that is done, then to oust the Satanic rule; and which will be accomplished at Armageddon.
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The prospective children of the King must, under that crucial test, remain firm and steadfast for the King and his kingdom, and, if they do so until the test is completed at Armageddon,”then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of myFather, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Matt. 25:34)
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Now the nations of the earth are in the throes of death, and soon Armageddon, the battle of that great day of God Almighty, will be fought, and in which Christ shall be completely victorious, pushing out and destroying every wicked thing. In that battle the wicked and all the oppressors and all the opposers of THEOCRACY shall perish. Then the survivors of Armageddon, the “great multitude”, the children of the King, shall carry out the divine man date, which God gave to Adam and which Adam lost because of his disobedience.
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The fulfillment of that divine mandate is one of the many blessings now set before the Jonadabs, as the obedient, prospective children of the King, and they shall carry it into execution to the glory of God and of the King when Armageddon is passed.
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Since Armageddon is near at hand it would seem wise for those who hope to be of the “great multitude”, and therefore to fulfill the divine mandate, to wait upon the Lord and seek his direction and ask him to guide them and make selection of a companion.
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Your present-day duty is that of great weight and responsibility. Christ Jesus, the King, is here, fully prepared and equipped for the battle of Armageddon, and there His enemies shall bite the dust.
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Those who do hear and obey will join in the everlasting praise of JEHOVAH now being sounded in the heavens; as is written in the prophecy of the Most High: “Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl; Kings of the earth [Christ and his bride], and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth [the visible representatives on earth of The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT]; both young men and maidens; old men [survivors of Armageddon] AND CHILDREN [born of the ’great multitude’ to fill the earth]: let them praise the name of the LORD [JEHOVAH]: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.” -Ps. 148:10-14
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We know from physical facts and Scripture that that kingdom is at hand and that the Devil’s time is short until he is destroyed at the battle of Armageddon and that he is striving to destroy the remnant of the Seed of God’s promise and their faithful earthly companions, and that our only safety from his wiles or demonism is to abide in or under Jehovah’s capital organization and keep His commandments. (Rev. 12:12, 17)
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Absolute holiness, within the meaning of the Scriptures, must be attained by the overcoming Christian on this side of Armageddon if he would be preserved by the Lord from destruction during that decisive battle between God’s organization and the Devil’s organization.
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A Christian can now, before Armageddon, refuse to sympathize with or support in any way the Devil’s organization which shall be completely destroyed at Armageddon.
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In that land the Photodrama of Creation was widely presented in the year 1914, in the early part of it proclaiming the fact that Armageddon was approaching; but that message was opposed by “the king of the north”.
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Then came words of hope concerning the Armageddon survivors, followed by a contrast between the wicked and the wise: “They that be wise will choose to serve the King of glory and receive the blessings of everlasting life.”
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Those surviving Armageddon were pictured by Noah’s sons surviving the Flood, and they may never die.
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Then Psalm 148:10-14 was finally quoted as a grand climax, bidding all that live, beasts and fowl, kings (Christ and his church), and princes and all judges of the earth, both young men and maidens, old men (Armageddon survivors), and CHILDREN (born of the great multitude), to praise the name of Jehovah.
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Receiving the gift, the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the Lord’s provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before Armageddon.
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The swift approach of the real lightning-war of Armageddon behooves all persons of good-will to join in this round-the-world educational campaign before it doses.
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The controversy is that all the demons are against THE THEOCRACY and which controversy will be settled finally at Armageddon.
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The purpose is to desolate Jehovah’s servants and to bring about the desolation or destruction of all the people at Armageddon, thus desolating all the earth.
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After the battle Armageddon never again shall Satan and his religious agents and their organization be in existence.
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No power aside from Jehovah’s can now avert Armageddon, and He will not avert it.
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Then are they glad because they be quiet, so he bringeth them [the Armageddon survivors] unto their desired haven.”-Ps. 107:26-30.
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The great battle of Armageddon is approaching.
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The first part of that prophecy is to honor and glorify the name of Jehovah. That will be done in the great time of trouble at Armageddon, which is impending.
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Referring to this matter, the prophecy says it is carried on for “many days”, and those days are almost certain to continue with increased venom and violence, manifested by the religionists against Jehovah’s servants until the Lord takes a hand in that battle of the great day of God Almighty called “Armageddon”.
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The declaration of the day of his vengeance is one part of the commission he gives to his anointed witnesses; therefore these anointed ones, in order to be faithful, must perform that commission now before Armageddon.-Isa. 61:1, 2.
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Barak, whose name means “lightning”, picturing Christ Jesus in two relations: (1) As the captain of Jehovah’s faithful witnesses now upon the earth engaged in God’s “strange work” against religion; and (2) as the Field Marshal of Jehovah leading the invisible angelic hosts of God in the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” in the accomplishment of His “strange act” at Armageddon.
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Likewise, at Armageddon, the forces of righteousness are led by the only begotten and beloved Son of God, even him whois “the Bright and Morning Star” and the great Executioner of God’s wrath against the enemy.
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In this part of the prophetic drama Barak (“Lightning”) pictured Christ Jesus, Jehovah’s mighty Avenger, and the drama shows that he will employ lightning or other superhuman weapons against the enemy host when the battle of Armageddon is fought.
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Such is Jehovah’s “strange work”, which precedes his “strange act” at Armageddon.
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This “strange work” immediately precedes the victorious assault by the Greater Barak with his invisible heavenly hosts at Armageddon, and which assault shall result in the complete destruction of the enemy forces there, visible and invisible.
All the physical facts now indicate the battle of Armageddon is quite near, when the real fighting takes place and the enemy will be destroyed.
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Those persons of good-will who shall form part of the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors are now quickly coming forth ere the wintertime of Armageddon sets in on the world, and they will, in increasing numbers, take part with the remnant members in this united Testimony.
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That means until the “strange work” of the Lord is completed and his “strange act” is made manifest at Armageddon.
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While this test is in progress the remnant and their companions continue to declare the name of the great THEOCRAT and his Government to those people on earth who will hear; and such proclamation must continue until the beginning of Armageddon. Jehovah has definitely fixed the time for the beginning of Armageddon, at which time God will show to all his supreme power. While no man yet knows the day nor the hour that Armageddon will begin, “the signs of the times” show that Armageddon is very near; therefore Jehovah bids his faithful servants now on the earth to ‘redeem the time’ and to ’slack not the hand’ in his “strange work”, the witness work. The many thousands of witnesses assembled at St. Louis in August, 1941, returned to their respective places of activity in the field fully deter- mined to carry on to the end, and that without com- promise with any part of Satan’s organization. In the meantime, and from now till Armageddon, the Lord’s four angels hold back the four winds until the work of Jehovah’s “sealed” servants is finished.– Rev. 7:1-4.
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It is now by that combined element called “the new order”, for which “new order” the present pope of Rome did pray and did extol it in his speech on December 24, 1940, and which is by him called “the new League of Nations”, that that combine is completely bent on ruling the world contrary to JEHOVAH’S will; and that which is called “the new League of Nations”, or “new order”, is the ’desolating abomination’, which JEHOVAH will completely destroy at Armageddon.
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The entire movement of Satan’s crowd is carried on to the end that the Hierarchy and their allies may soon be able to say, “Peace
and safety”; then will follow Armageddon.
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Whose indignation? Jehovah’s indignation, which will be expressed at the battle of Armageddon. Manifestly Jehovah has withheld the expression of his indignation to give “the king of the north” full rope to mark himself for destruction. Beginning with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy element, Jehovah’s indignation will be violently expressed at Armageddon in the complete overthrow of “the king of the north”.
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“The king of the north” has had his day in which he had permission to “have indignation against the holy covenant” (Dan. 11:30); and at Armageddon it is his turn to experience the indignation from the side of the Holy Covenant, to wit, the Lord.
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is Jehovah’s “strange act”, the expression of his indignation at the battle of Armageddon, that is determined; and nothing can interfere with or prevent it.
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The crucial test, which must persist until Armageddon, is proof that now is the last time.
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In this day of God’s visitation before his expressed indignation at Armageddon many more will yet call to mind the honest and consistent course of Jehovah’s faithful witnesses and will praise Him that he had some faithful witnesses in the earth who gave them warning.
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Only those who will survive Armageddon and live who flee to THE THEOCRACY; because the Lord says: “This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.’-John 17:3.
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God’s visitation upon the nations will reach a climax in the great time of trouble, Armageddon, now near.
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Before the final overthrow of the systems, during the time of God’s vision at Armageddon, he will have a witness given in the earth concerning his purposes, and it still continues.
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Having in mind that the day of God’s visitation upon “Christendom” began shortly after 1918 and reaches its climax at the battle of Armageddon, thus continuing with increased severity until all the worldly systems are overthrown, who, then, shall glorify God in this day of his visitation? Not every one, of course.
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The final end is not yet made known to the creatures on earth, but it is revealed that the final end shall be marked by the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” called Armageddon.
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When that work is completed, says the Lord, “then shall the end come”; meaning the final end, which Jehovah long ago appointed and which the Lord says shall be marked by the greatest of all tribulations, and which is called “the battle of Armageddon”.
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At Armageddon he will wipe out all of such as he did their prototype before ancient Jerusalem. Preliminary to Armageddon Jehovah sends his witnesses amongst he nations with the “cup” of his message of wrath to serve notice upon modern Edom and Moab and Ammon and to advise them of His purpose to make them drink of his wrath; and concerning such Jehovah says: “For thus saith the Load God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations to whomI send thee to drink it . . . Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.”-Jer. 25:15-21.
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Section heading: “GREAT MULTITUDE” SURVIVES ARMAGEDDON
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Those whom the Lord here calls his “other sheep” are the ones who shall compose the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors that has no limit as to number but is made up of all those who during the present judgment of the nations by Christ Jesus are placed on “his right hand”, or place of favor, and are designated “his sheep”, and who receive on earth the blessings of the Kingdom. (See Matthew 25:34.)
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The tribulation reaches the great climax at the time of the battle of Armageddon, the great day of God Almighty.
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To “come out of the great tribulation” not alone means to survive that trouble as ’flesh that shall be saved’ (Matt. 24:22), but primarily means that they come out from Satan’s organization and take their stand on the side of Jehovah during the period of time that elapses from the stopping of the World War in 1918 until the day of Armageddon, that is to say, during the time that Jesus said the “days should be shortened” and during which same time period “this gospel of the kingdom”is preached in all the world.
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Those who will compose the “great multitude” will also survive Armageddon, because God’s promise to those who seek meekness and righteousness is that they may be hid in that time. (See Zephaniah 2:3)
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The Lord’s “other sheep” who shall constitute the “great multitude” could therefore not come into existence until the Lord Jesus Christ appeared at the temple and began his judgement, and therefore they could not appear prior to 1918.
They must wash up before Armageddon comes. It would be too late to wash at the time of Armageddon. They “flee into the Mountains” on seeing the totalitarian “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place or stead of God’s kingdom, and this they do before the “winter” time, that is, the great climax of tribulation at Armageddon.
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Such “other sheep” must be led by Christ Jesus and fed by him BEFORE ARMAGEDDON, and must be under his protection and be taken thorough Armageddon.
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Thus by his act Jehovah foretold what will come to pass at the battle of Armageddon in behalf of his people.-See 2 Chronicles 20:1-29.
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All of these things God will not forget at Armageddon. He will permit none of that commercial element of Satan’s organization to find the way of escape from execution at the hands of God’s great Executioner, Christ Jesus, at that battle.
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Thus have many of Jehovah’s witnesses been imprisoned and killed in the dictatorial countries, not for wrongdoing, but because they persist in de- daring the good news of The Theocratic Government. Those enemies of God and his servants will find no hiding place at Armageddon.They will not be hid.
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Bent upon arbitrary rule or ruin, they go beyond all proper limits and insist that the law of the state is supreme and that the state must be obeyed under any and all circumstances. They magnify men and rulers and thus magnify and exalt themselves against God, blaspheming and reproaching his name. They shall find no way to escape the wrath of Almighty God at Armageddon.
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This is the judgment written against them, and that judgment will be executed at Armageddon
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As “that righteous man”, Lot, fled from Sodom and was saved from the destruction that came upon those cities, so the persons of good-will toward God and his Theocratic Government and who now flee to the place of safety he provides under The Theocracy may be saved at Armageddon.
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The religious-totalitarian rule and rulers, the commercial robbers and those who have defied Jehovah God and his Theocracy, shall perish for ever at the battle of Armageddon, as the prophecy declares.
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Those tidings constitute a warning from Jehovah that Armageddon is about to be fought. The Devil knows this, and his cohorts are made to know it.
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Satan knew then that his time is short, and prepared for the final showdown; and therefore he and his horde of demons, and demon-controlled representatives on earth, busy themselves to prepare for Armageddon; and concerning this it is written, in Revelation 16:13, 14, 16: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great (lay of God Almighty. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”
Since the coming of Christ Jesus to the temple his faithful servants have been sent forth by him to offer “an offering in righteousness”, and by this they have been used to sound out the message of warning of the approaching wrath of God, that is, the battle of Armageddon.
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It is that glorious holy mountain, or kingdom, which shall be exalted above all things of the earth. (Isa. 2:2, 3) That glorious mountain is THE THEOCRACY, including the remnant on the earth at the time of Armageddon.
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The great and final fight is the battle of Armageddon, in which Christ Jesus, the glorious King, makes war upon all the forces of Satan, both visible and invisible.
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That totalitarian, demon rule is the house of the wicked one, and at the battle of Armageddon shall suffer complete destruction, while THE THEOCRACY shall endure forever: “The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.” (Prov. 14:11) The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1941 p. 376
Therefore it appears that at the battle of Armageddon both “the king of the north” and “the king of the south” will be living, going concerns, and active and, while thus living, will be destroyed by THE KING OF THE THEOCRACY, as stated, to wit: “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:20) This is another picture marking the end of demonized rule.
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The Israelites were entirely unable to repel that attack alone, even as the representatives of THE THEOCRACY now on earth could not possibly repel the attack of the totalitarian powers. God, through his prophet, sent a message to the Israelites, to wit: ‘Be not afraid by reason of this great multitude; the battle is not yours, but God’s. A like situation obtains at Armageddon.
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Satan’s entire organization must be and will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.
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