The prophecies were written for the very purpose that the man of God might be fully furnished and prepared for the work that is now being done at the end of the world and which must be completed before Armageddon.
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Section Heading: Armageddon Foreshadowed
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Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will send a blast upon him; and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” (Isa. 37:6, 7) In this prophetic picture it is clearly seen that Jehovah will fight the battle of Armageddon and destroy the enemy and preserve alive those who faithfully stand with him.
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The World War was stopped by Jehovah in order that the peoples of earth might have an opportunity to hear Jehovah’s testimony, which he would deliver by and through his witnesses, before he executed Satan’s organization at Armageddon.
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This prophecy is also a statement of Jehovah’s judgment and determination to destroy all of Satan’s organization at Armageddon and is another positive and conclusive statement that the witness work to be done by Jehovah’s witnesses must be completed before Armageddon, which is great tribulation falling upon Satan’s organization. This is an urgent reason why Jehovah’s witnesses must be diligent in the performance of their commission now and continuously until Armageddon.
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The controversy is that all the demons are against The Theocracy, and this controversy will be settled finally at Armageddon.
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Armageddon will destroy the religionists and also the others that are against God, including the “man of sin”, the Judas class, and every part of “Christendom”, and all of Satan’s organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1942 p. 24
Particularly since 1918 the organizations of this world have been a real “Maroth”, that is, ever-increasing ’bitterness’, exactly as the Scriptures have foretold. (Rev. 12:12 ; 8:10,11) Jehovah will wind up and finish this organization with far greater bitterness at the battle of Armageddon. As the “seven last plagues” have been bitter to “Christendom”, even so with ever- increasing bitterness will come the world’s complete destruction.
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The woe that the Devil brings upon the people is that of general suffering, whereas the “evil” that the Lord brings upon the clergy is first to disgrace them by exposing them and then to completely destroy them at Armageddon.
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Carrying the eight persons over the flood pictured the survivors of Armageddon that God will carry over to the new world. W5/15/41
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This gathering together to the Lord’s side must take place before the final war of Armageddon, and hence those gathered must flee now from the enemy organization and to THE THEOCRACY.
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That time began with the incoming of the day of Jehovah in 1914, and the final end thereof will come at Armageddon.
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The “sheep” class are blessed and after Armageddon are ushered into everlasting life on earth under the Theocratic kingdom of blessings. (Matt. 25:31-46) Those blessings under the Kingdom include the joyful privilege of fulfilling the divine mandate to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth” with a righteous race. This they will do after Armageddon has cleared the earth of the nations that forget God; and thus will be fulfilled the mandate which God originally gave to Adam and Eve in Eden, but in which they failed.-Gen. 1:28.
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The doom of “Christendom” is sealed. Armageddon is very near. The destruction there will be tremendous, exceeding anything of past human history.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1942 p. 37
Jehovah’s witnesses today are not under the restriction such as the Lord put on Jeremiah, hut, in view of the serious conditions now with us and which bespeak more terrible things shortly to come. they do well to consider their course, whether it be well for them to follow the course of Jeremiah under like conditions in behalf of a full part in Jehovah’s “strange work” that is to end at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1942 p. 37
This clearly make sit to appear why it is better and wiser for those of the Lord’s “other sheep”, and who hope to become of the great multitude” that shall survive Armageddon and thereafter be given the divine mandate to “fill the earth” with a righteous offspring, to defer matters until after the tribulation and destruction of Armageddon are past; then the new and righteous invisible overlord of mankind will exercise dominion over the cleansed earth and the Lord God will restate the divine mandate to the Armageddon survivors.
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This is the only course of wisdom, leading to the Lord’s approval and to safety during the Armageddon tribulation.
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For more than sixty years now, and particularly since 1918, “Christendom” has been warned of the approach of Armageddon and been warned of the approach of Armageddon and been shown the way of escape which Jehovah God has provided.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1942 p. 38
Such refusal to mourn in advance is also a sign of what shall come to pass at Armageddon with its blotting out of all religionists and the principal of their flock.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1942 p. 38
Jehovah’s witnesses as pictured by Jeremiah, have a great and serious job to do, and the time in which to do it is limited by the approaching hour which God knows and has fixed for the beginning of Armageddon, “his strange act.”
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Hence the next words of Jehovah through his prophet Jeremiah could not apply to those destroyed covenant-breakers after Armageddon: “Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, The LORD liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.” (Jer. 16:14, 15)
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This clearly appears to mean that the nations where yet many of the Lord’s “other sheep” are scattered are determined to hinder and possibly prevent the gathering work and therefore these sheep are in hiding from the enemies in fear and restraint; but that Jehovah God bv Christ Jesus is determined that all the rest of his “other sheep” shall be gathered and that the gathering shall be brought to a completion, to wit, before Armageddon, which hastens on.
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Now, before Armageddon breaks, these must be sought out and stirred up to come forth and identify themselves as for the great THEOCRAT and his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT by Christ Jesus.
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With totalitarian rule overrunning the whole earth, and Armageddon swiftly approaching, the conditions now require that Jehovah’s commissioned people and their companions follow the example of the huntsman.
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The full recompense will come at Armageddon, now near. It therefore behooves Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions to lose no time, but to make every effort and use every opportunity to aid all persons of good-will to get out promptly lest these share “Christendom’s” destruction.
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At Armageddon Jehovah God will make manifest his mighty “right hand”, to wit, Christ Jesus, his Executive Officer, and by him Jehovah will demonstrate that Satan is a mimic god and that the demons under Satan and which the nations that have forgotten God now worship in the name of religion are no gods, but are false, deceiving and sentenced to everlasting destruction.
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Twelve-year-old Johnny produced a well-worn copy of Armageddon, marked and underlined.
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Another child told his parents they ought to do something about this work, or how else should they expect God to protect them in Armageddon’”
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It will help you to find out what to do, because if you would survive Armageddon you must not only love Jehovah’s witnesses, you yourself must become a witness and share in the work we are doing.’
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All these shall be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon by Jehovah’s “heir of all things”. Christ Jesus becomes “possessor” of the dominion, by conquest as well as by Jehovah’s appointment and authorization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1942 p. 51, 52
“Christendom’s” rulers and “mighty ones” (or gods), both demons and men, are her glory; but Jehovah’s Heir and King, who is “the glory of Israel”, shall at Armageddon advance against these enemies and “shall come unto Adullam”.
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The religious shepherds and the principal of their flock shall find no safe hiding or escape, but Jehovah’s people who have sought meekness and righteousness shall “be hid” in that (lay of the Lord’s anger and shall survive Armageddon.
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If “Christendom” believed Jehovah’s message sent through his faithful remnant and their companions, “Christendom” would mourn over what is coming to her and her supporters and hangers-on at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1942 p. 52
Furthermore, as part of this demon organization under Satan, “the god of this world,” they shall pass away at Armageddon.
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If these hold fast their integrity and abide faithful to THE THEOCRACY till Armageddon is ended, their everlasting heritage shall be life on the earth under that righteous government.
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This evil shall come upon them at Armageddon, when they have filled up the measure of the iniquity of their religious fathers.
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Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword [Armageddon] upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.”
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However, when Armageddon begins, the ruling factors, and particularly the religious part thereof, shall say, as foretold in the parable: “We be utterly spoiled.” These being now so entrenched in power, only Jehovah God by Christ Jesus could do such spoiling; and He will. “A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.” (Jer. 25:36)
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At Armageddon he will give her cause to complain and lament that God has changed her self-assumed portion and removed from her all things she arrogantly pretended were her rightful and God-given portion.
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Unto Christ Jesus, whom”organized religion” crucified as a rebellious apostate, Jehovah has given the nations for his inheritance and possession, and at Armageddon he shall dash them in pieces.
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At Armageddon destruction awaits her.
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This is a warning to all persons yet found in “Christendom” to flee out before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1942 p. 57
During the forty years prior to A.D. 1918, when Christ Jesus, the Messenger of Jehovah, was ‘preparing the way before Him’ that he might come to the temple for judgment (Mal. 3:1-3), Jehovah’s consecrated people on earth were telling of the establishment of his Kingdom and of the end of Satan’s world and of the battle of Armageddon and were warning the people to flee from the wrath to come there; but since the Lord’s coming to the temple in 1918 they have given an even greater witness and warning to “Christendom” and all nations.
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To remain in “Christendom” would mean to perish at Armageddon; for “Christendom” is polluted and leads to destruction at Armageddon, where she also shall be destroyed.
These are the “last days”, and Jesus warned that then false prophets would arise. (Matt. 24 : 24) Such prophets are not filled with the spirit of the Lord, but have filled their belly with the east wind. (Job 15:2) They sow not the Word of God, but sow the wind and shall reap the whirlwind of Armageddon.
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Hence they choose religion, and shall not drink joy, but only sorrow and death at Armageddon.
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There are several indications that the Lord still has a great work to do before the final battle of Armageddon.
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Those represented by Bozrah have taken part in scattering Jehovah’s sheep, and they continue in this malicious effort to this day, and for this they shall be slaughtered at Armageddon.
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The gathering particularly of the Lord’s “other sheep” is yet going on, and will soon reach a climax before Armageddon breaks.
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The effect of these assemblies, particularly those in 1941, is to spur the Lord’s servants on to greater effort and diligence in connection with the Lord’s work of hunting” and ingathering of the remainder of his “other sheep” before the universal war of Armageddon begins. They “put on more steam”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1942 p. 69
Only the Lord God can destroy the mighty, entrenched religious organization throughout the earth; and He will do so at the beginning of Armageddon.
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The day will soon come when the political lawmakers will realize that their present allies, the religious clergy, maneuvered them into fighting against God, “whose name alone is Jehovah,” thus marking themselves for slaughter at God’s hands at Armageddon. (Rev. 17: 16, 17)
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“Then,” that is, when”the breaker” begins to dash the nations to pieces like a potter’s vessel at Armageddon and their cries to their demon gods prove unavailing, they raise their deathbed cries to Jehovah God.
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The Lord must let justice have its righteous cause at Armageddon. The demon-controlled religionists and their allies have behaved themselves as “goats” against the least of Christ’s brethren who proclaim THE THEOCRACY, and they are gathered to his left side of disfavor.
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Then they teach the people the wisdom of this world and the traditions of demonized men which make void God’s Word of life. Thereby they cause the people to err from the path of light and life and to go in the way that leads to opposition to Jehovah’s THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT and to destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1942 p. 74
The advocates of all such do not take into account the “end of the world” at Armageddon, now near.
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Therefore they and their religious organization shall be destroyed at Armageddon.
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“The work is progressing, the number of pioneers increasing, and some, at least, realize that Armageddon is at hand and are arousing themselves to greater activity in helping the multitude” to gather into groups.
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His purpose is to prove his challenge to Jehovah and to cause the destruction of all men at Armageddon.
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This shows up the practice of the religionists and exposes their false and demoniacal divinations, and this threatens their money-making. Their money shall perish with them at Armageddon.
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This is clearly a religious “shot” at Jehovah’s witnesses, to make out that they are liars and false prophets in declaring the day of God’s vengeance and that the battle of Armageddon is very near and there “Christendom” will be completely blotted out.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 86
Regardless of the ridicule of the religionists, Jehovah’s witnesses must continue to sound this warning of the Lord and to bid the people of good-will to hasten their flight out of the doomed organization, lest they be overtaken in its destruction at Armageddon.Religion’s “refuge of lies” and “hiding place of falsehood” are now being exposed by the hail and overflowing waters of truth.
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Their “new world order” of federated nations trying to keep the peace is put forth to mimic God’s “world to come”, “wherein dwelleth righteousness”; it shall perish like all religious hypocrites at Armageddon.
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At Armageddon it shall be blasted first, and the superstructure thereon with its religious ranks and honors and official positions and high-sounding titles and pagan rituals and ceremonies and false doctrines and traditions shall be razed.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 87
Let such consider this: Since God does not regard the things that are dear to and cherished by the religionists, but will destroy the same at Armageddon, then Jehovah’s servants are committing nothing illegitimate or indecent in warning mankind that God will soon destroy such religious things, and showing the people why and wherefore. That is the greatest service to the public. It is of the greatest necessity and interest to them, and, with Armageddon so near, the time was never more convenient and fitting.
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Let the religionists and the rulers be warned: by their mistreatment and attempted destruction of Jehovah’s witnesses they procure the evil of Armageddon against their souls and at the hands of Him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna.-Matt. 10:28.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 88
Religion and ruler will allow no place for Jehovah’s message nor for his Theocracy. Such vain imaginations and wicked devices shall not stand. Their FINAL END shall be at God’s appointed time, at Armageddon. They are now in their last days, and Jehovah establishes his capital organization in power and glory, and it stands for ever.
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At Armageddon he and all his hosts, demonic and human, shall be crushed out of existence under Christ’s heel.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 88
This the Devil, by his demonized rulers of “Christendom”, has viciously tried to prevent and to turn the flow of such peoples back, into the broad road leading to the “Dead sea” of destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 89
Jehovah foretold this by his prophet, and warned that for such attempted interference with his “strange work” the demonized religious-totalitarian combine of “Christendom” shall meet a violent end at Armageddon: “And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas [and] the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”(Dan.11:45, Young’s)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 90
Standing immovably on that side and there holding fast their integrity toward Jehovah God, they shall survive Armageddon and form the “great multitude” that He will use thereafter to fill the earth with a righteous offspring in joyous obedience to the divine mandate.-Gen. 1:28; 9:1, 7.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 90
Only by following this course dare they hope to escape destruction and to survive Armageddon and thereafter form part of the “great multitude” that live and become children of The King, to forever serve and glorify Jehovah God on earth in company with the visible representatives of The Theocracy, the resurrected faithful men of old who shall be made “princes in all the earth”. (Ps. 45:16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 91
Thus Jehovah “hath built up Zion”, and he appears in his glory, by the revelation of his Kingdom truth now, but by the visible exhibition of his glorious power in his “strange act” at Armageddon. (Ps. 102:16, Am. Rev. Ver.)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 92
They shall miserably perish at the kindled wrath of the King at Armageddon. Jehovah’s faithful covenant people obey his law, even when demonized men mischievously frame laws to punish their obedience to God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 92
They ignore God’s Word concerning his kingdom and all evidence of the setting up of the same. Imbued with their imperialistic idea, they go on to carry out Satan’s purpose in preparing for his final stand to rule the earth, at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1942 p. 93
They put themselves under it for protection and to be hid from Jehovah’s Executioner at the battle of Armageddon. (Zeph. 2:3)
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Jehovah agrees to accommodate them with a fight at Armageddon, and he bids the m to muster all their strength and to come on, to the field of battle: “beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.” (Joel 3:10)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 100
Jehovah must rebuke them with something stronger and more forceful than his message by his witnesses and their companions. That He will do, by his great Executioner at Armageddon, and the tongue thus administering the rebuke is like a sword.
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The nations that adopted religion or demonism and made war upon God and his witnesses shall there at Armageddon for ever disappear from existence.-Zeph. 3:8.
By this “strange act” at Armageddon Jehovah God of hosts will effect the complete disarmament of the nations. Men could not do it, and the demons under Satan will not let men do it. As described at Revelation 16:13-16, the demons go forth to cause all the governing factors of the earth to arm and march forth to the battle of Armageddon, which battle the demon forces shall lose.
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They have not heeded that, but have listened to the leaders of religion. Gazing out over the earth after the Armageddon storm the prophet says: “Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
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The prophecy makes it certain, therefore, that equipment used in violation of God’s “everlasting covenant” (Gen. 9: 6, 11) and to war against Jehovah’s universal domination shall be wrecked at Armageddon and thereafter be collected and converted into upbuilding things of usefulness and productiveness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 102
The demons will never permit the disarmament of the “present evil world”, but are lining up the nations for the deciding battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 102
Then, after Armageddon, peace shall settle down over the earth, as when the rainbow spanned the heavens after the great Flood of Noah’s day had subsided and the survivors came forth form the ark and, unitedly and without interference form the demon agents, they all joined in worship of Jehovah God, their Preserver and Deliverer. Then to those Flood survivors God issued anew the divine mandate to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth”. (Gen. 8:18-22; 9:1-16) Likewise when those preserved during Armageddon come forth thereafter from their hiding place, Jehovah by the King-Father, Christ Jesus, will restate to that “great multitude” the divine mandate to reproduce their kind in righteousness and to fill the depopulated earth with a righteous offspring.
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“They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord [due to the victory at Armageddon], as the waters cover the sea.”-Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 103
Neither the religious Hierarchy nor the totalitarian “abomination of desolation” nor the demons shall prevent this, but the invincible hosts of Jehovah shall clear them out of the earth at Armageddon and enforce peace throughout the universe.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 103
David fought and extended the typical Theocracy to the full limits on earth which Jehovah had foreordained for it, thereby picturing that the THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT of the Greater David fights from 1914 on and down to the Devil’s last stand at Armageddon and establishes the UNIVERSAL DOMINATION of the great THEOCRAT, Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 107
God could have prevented the enemy from so doing, but, at Exodus 9:16, he expressed his purpose to permit the enemy to demonstrate his full and complete depravity and thereby test the integrity of faithful men, by which men God’s name shall be declared throughout all the earth before he demonstrates his supreme power against the enemy at the final battle of Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 108
The issue will then be finally determined against Satan in favor of Jehovah. He will have a witness given in the earth of his purpose and will to magnify his name, and this witness must be given now, before Armageddon begins. The small remnant of the faithful members of Christ’s body yet on earth are granted the privilege of bearing witness to that great fact.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 109
All the prophetic evidences, viewed in the light of the physical facts from A.D. 1914 on, prove that the world, that is, Satan’s till then uninterrupted rule of the earth, has ended, which means that Satan’s organization visible and invisible has reached its fullness: that God has set his beloved Son upon the throne, which means that Christ Jesus has assumed his great authority and begun his reign in the midst of his enemies (Pss. 2:6; 110:1,2), that Satan has now been expelled from heaven and that all the forces are now gathering for Armageddon, which is the great battle of God Almighty by Christ Jesus against Satan and his organization. To the faithful Christians the Lord gives commandment to proclaim the great message of God’s truth to the nations of earth as a witness before the end, and then Armageddon shall quickly follow, and that shall be the final trouble upon earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 109
The witness to his name must be done before Armageddon, because it is God’s announced purpose that it shall be done. There would seem to be no reasonable cause for giving such testimony after Armageddon The conclusion is therefore irresistible that now is the time for the temple class and their companions to prove their integrity toward God and to magnify the name of Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 109
Satan’s organization must fail, and then, at Armageddon, all will be brought to know that the name of the Most High and Almighty God is Jehovah and the reproachers of that name shall be destroyed. It is the blessed privilege of Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions to now exalt Jehovah’s name in the earth before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 110
All the visible governing “princes” in the new earth, the resurrected faithful men of old, and all the great multitude of Armageddon survivors will praise his holy name.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 110
The Bible, God’s Word, has predicted these evil persecutions, but we trust in Jehovah; for what he has promised he will also carry out in Armageddon, and he will destroy all those who persecute so maliciously God’s faithful servants in their work for the glorification of his name. (Isaiah 65:11-14; Obadiah 11-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1942 p. 112
First then would such “remnant” be acknowledged of God and approved as his representatives on earth and sent forth to bear witness to the birth of the new Government and also witness to the FINAL END of Satan’s government of the world at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1942 p. 117
His name was upon them and was now due to be declared throughout all the earth before Jehovah’s exhibition of power over Satan and his organization
at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1942 p. 117
God is gathering together by Christ Jesus all things in heaven and earth into one, and the remnant on earth have been gathered to the place or condition of assembly of God’s troops, which place is signified by tile name “Armageddon”. The demons, making great noise like bullfrogs by their propaganda agencies upon the earth, particularly religion, are now engaged in influencing and maneuvering “the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty”. The demons gather such armies round about and against the place of the assembly of God’s troops, including the remnant. So the fight is called “the battle of Armageddon”.-Rev. 16 :13-16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1942 p. 118
The enemies have been made the footstool of Christ Jesus, and he shall pound the Devil’s organization good and heavy and thoroughly under foot at Armageddon.
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From the time Jehovah’s King was enthroned on Zion down to the casting of Satan the Devil into the bottomless pit at Armageddon is a period of war, both in heaven and in earth. In 1918 Jehovah stopped the World War on earth, and thereby ‘shortened the days of tribulation’. It was for his elect’s sake, that they might proclaim the message of salvation by Jehovah’s THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT and that ‘some flesh might be saved’ through the battle of Armageddon, which brings the FINAL END on Satan’s organization.
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He uses his demon hosts under his chief prince, Gog, to marshal both the rulers of the earth and their regimented peoples against the place of assembly of Jehovah’s troops, called “Armageddon.”
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After Armageddon, the enemies being then cleared out, “he shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.”-Ps. 72:8.
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However, the Scriptures strongly indicate that toward the beginning of Armageddon Christ Jesus, the King-Father, will resurrect from their long sleep of centuries the faithful men of old and will give them life as his children, as perfect men, and these he will “make princes in all the earth”. (Ps. 45:16 ; Heb. 11:35)
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Such future “princes” died standing up against the demon rule in the times before Christ. They will be delighted to again face the demon forces at Armageddon and see such wiped out.
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Which way does the tide of battle flow? and shall the remnant survive and have work to do on earth after the battle of Armageddon?
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That sword is the destructive forces of the battle of Armageddon, ’the war of the great day of God the Almighty.’-Rev. 16:14.
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Since the great “Assyrian” shall fail in his destructive program and since the “remnant” of Jehovah’s kingdom heirs are the principal target of the “Assyrian”, it appears reasonable, and the prophecy indicates strongly, that Jehovah by his Good Shepherd will preserve the remnant of his “little flock” through the battle of Armageddon and they shall see the terrific destruction of the “Assyrian” forces down to the last creature thereof.
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Their stay on earth after Armageddon is merely for a brief time, serving as a vindication of Jehovah’s promise and his almighty power to preserve the faithful in their direst extremity.
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There will be a great multitude of Armageddon survivors besides the remnant, as pictured by Noah’s family which survived the destruction of the “old world”, “the world of the ungodly.” These shall be out of the former ‘nations, kindreds, people, and tongues’.-Rev. 7:9-17
Armageddon, symbolically represented as the destruction of Satan’s world by fire, will be a scorching time. (2 Pet. 3:7-12)
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Now just before Armageddon the wicked spring as the grass (Ps. 92:7); but after their destruction in that battle, and doubtless in the presence of the remnant as well as the “princes”, Jehovah by Christ Jesus will issue to the “great multitude” the divine mandate to “fill the earth”. (Gen. 9:1,7)
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Already he has turned to the remnant a “pure language” or “pure lip”, with which even now before the fire of Armageddon they are commanded by the Lord to refresh the people of good-will who become the Lord’s “other sheep”. (Zeph. 3:8, 9)
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It is now in this day of judgment, and down until the destruction of the wicked opposers at Armageddon, that the remnant must be bold as the lion, “which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any.” (Prov. 30: 30)
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At Armageddon Jehovah will let him loose upon the prey and he will go through them and tear to pieces all those branded with ‘the mark of the beast and his image’, and all the demon herders will not be able to deliver pope, dictators or their regimented subjects.-Isa. 31:4; Rev. 14:9, 10; 1:16.
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That day leads up to Armageddon. In the face of that battle for the vindication of God’s name what does Jehovah require of his remnant and his “other sheep”? Carnal weapons, as symbolized by horses and chariots? No!
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He has revealed to them that Armageddon is not a fight between “the king of the north” and “the king of the south” nor other divided human interests.
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Such action must take place prior to Armageddon and preparatory to a cleansed earth. Jehovah establishing that clean condition among those who are to survive Armageddon, then surely that holy condition to devotion to God and his Kingdom will continue on earth after Armageddon. Those privileged to pass through at Armageddon into the new condition on earth must now walk with Jehovah God as Noah before the Flood.-Gen 6: 8, 9
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For more than sixty years and by the greatest publicity campaign in Christian history Jehovah’s witnesses have warned the nations of God’s vengeance coming at Armageddon. So there is no excuse for not having heard. Concerning this Jehovah by his prophet foretold: “Behold ye among the heather [the nations], and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work [at Armageddon] in your days, which ye will not believe, thought it be told you [beforehand].” (Hab. 1:5; Acts 13:40, 41) Armageddon will be so furious it will leave all the nations as though they had not been. (Obad. 16)
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The demons are gathering all the nations of the world to Armageddon, and the life of each individual of the peoples is involved.
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He declares that all who conform to and abide under Satan’s organization shall be destroyed with it at Armageddon by Jehovah’s Executioner. Jehovah through his Word reveals that the only place of safety and preservation unto life throughout the great deluge of Armageddon is the Ark of his organization.
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“Christendom” is out to justify her yielding to religion or demonism. Jehovah bids her “contend”, or, “maintain thy controversy” (Roth.), with him as to whether the Kingdom requirements are excessive or unreasonable, and why destruction should not come upon “Christendom” as well as heathendom at Armageddon.
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The really serious question is, not which one shall get on top with world domination, lint, Shall Jehovah’s THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT exercise UNIVERSAL DOMINATION? Of what avail is it if one “king” of “Christendom” temporarily gets on top, if shortly thereafter all “Christendom”, together with heathendom, shall be wiped out at Armageddon for not meeting God’s requirements?
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All persons of good-will and who want life must be interested in this controversy, to determine whether to side with “Christendom” or to forsake her. You must know how to avoid the death-dealing snares into which the demons have lured her. Thereby you can steer clear of her short- comings and covenant-breaking, and so escape sharing her terrible fate at Armageddon.
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Now, with Armageddon immediately before us, it is a matter of life or destruction. Those who would be of the Lord’s “other sheep” that shall compose the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors and live joyfully on earth forever must find the answer to a very personal question, and very important.
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Sound the Lord’s merciful warning to those about to die at Armageddon if unaided. Make return-visits upon those slow to understand but willing. Warn the honest and sincere against religion. Aid the refugees to find the Lord’s “city of refuge” for protection against God’s Executioner at Armageddon and to abide there and keep the rules, within the city bounds, in integrity.
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The world emergency with Armageddon at the door is the very time to the most anxiously keep God’s law and obey him rather than obey desperate men. Only those who thus walk obediently with Jehovah God as Noah walked with God down to the Flood will have any chance to survive Armageddon and serve him beyond.
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By this destruction at the battle of Armageddon God shall completely clear or vindicate his name and settle the outstanding issue of UNIVERSAL DOMINATION to the everlasting glory of his holy name.
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Thus such favored ones get the wisdom, understanding, counsel, comfort and support which is “essential” to meet the Lord’s requirements and hold fast their integrity toward him, and this also shall be with safety to them at the battle of Armageddon.
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Inasmuch as Jehovah has appointed “the rod”, he will surely use it for his purpose. Chastisement cannot be escaped by the covenant-breakers even though “Christendom”, particularly her Roman Catholic Hierarchy, thinks and claims she has a “covenant with death” and is at “agreement with hell” and can escape correction. (Isa. 28: 14-18) She will not survive her drubbing at Armageddon.
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Such calamities and great suffering Satan and his demons cause to make he people bitter and hopeless and to make them curse God and deny the Only One who can deliver them from destruction at Armageddon.-Rev. 12:12, 13, 17.
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The purpose of the demons in this is to cause the desolating of the earth of her entire population at Armageddon and so prevent any from surviving and going over to the “new world” under God’s established kingdom. “Christendom” must herself be desolated at Armageddon.
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It is a sure evidence of the nearness of Armageddon, and Jesus warns those wanting to escape to immediately flee the “mountains”, to wit, Jehovah God and Christ his king, for safety.
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Religion is a hobble to the feet, an easily-besetting sin, and it will hinder anyone in taking his flight to safety to make it in time before Armageddon.
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All proposed reforms and reorganization of the world by men trying to carry over some of the present world organization to a “new world order” “founded on moral principles” will fail to save “Christendom” from the Lord’s sword at Armageddon.
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The political and commercial elements will carry religion safely through this present conflict and enable her thereafter to cry “Peace and safety!” They shall never carry her alive through Armageddon, but will turn upon her and destroy her when God exposes her to them at Armageddon.
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Such, however, will be of no real protection when Jehovah begins Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1942 p. 153
As to their vain and boisterous schemes, “they have sown the wind. and they shall reap the whirlwind” of destruction at Armageddon.
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The Lord God therefore uses his Executioner, the Greater Jehu, who at Armageddon shall kill all those who do the works of Ahab’s house, demon worship, devilism.
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“Christendom’s” desolation at Armageddon will involve religion, and hence such is an astonishment to all wearing the vestments of religion or Baalism and branded with the “mark of the beast”.
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It is not strange that under increased demon-influence the religionists commit worse things now immediately preceding Armageddon. (Luke 23:31; 2 Tim. 3:12, 13)
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NowGod’s visitation of destruction upon her at Armageddon draws near, and the nations are in the greatest distress, and that with increasing perplexity. (Luke 21:25)
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The day of God’s wrath, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” and known as Armageddon, is at hand. ”
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Throughout the universe Jehovah God, the Supreme One, holds the domination, which domination Satan the Devil has challenged, but which domination shall be established beyond dispute in the settlement of this primary issue at Armageddon.
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They are in line for God’s promise that, by seeking Jehovah and righteousness and meekness, they may be hid in the days of his anger at Armageddon. (See Zephaniah 2:3)
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Such watchmen, being not of God’s appointment, have failed to see the sword of judgement about to fall at Armageddon and have not warned the people.
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Jehovah’s refusal on that account to answer their prayers for peace and plenty and, besides that, the increasing bold proclamation by his witnesses of his vengeance to he executed at Armageddon fill the religionists with perplexity and dismay at this “evident token of perdition” for them. (Isa. 8:14, 15; Rom. 9:32,33; Phil. 1:28)
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They must continue to do so at present and until Armageddon clears out alI traitors and false friends of the world.
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By thus cutting the time of tribulation in the middle, which tribulation began on Satan’s organization in 1914 and which must and will be renewed by the Lord at Armageddon, Jehovah God shortened “those days” of tribulation.
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In this present interim before Armageddon the faithful remnant, joined now by a multitude of joyful companions, offer themselves as “willing volunteers” for the work which must be fully carried out to its completion before that battle. -Ps. 110:3.
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Then, suddenly, the wicked enemy shall themselves fall into the “mischief” that the Lord prepares for them, his “strange act” at Armageddon.
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The Lord’s “indignation” here mentioned is not his indignation at Armageddon, which is against all the nations that helped forward the affliction upon his covenant people and still do. (Isa. 34:1-5; Zeph. 3:8)
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Jehovah will plead against such violators at Armageddon with violent destruction upon them.
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This act Jehovah will do at Armageddon.
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Armageddon will a still greater demonstration of power and deliverance.
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Great is their shame now because of God’s declared message which shows forth the two opposing organizations and which exposes the Devil’s organization and its religious and political and commercial elements. At Armageddon, however, shame shall smother them.
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Such has been to the end that the enemy might be warned that at Armageddon it will be Jehovah that smites them in proof of his supremacy as the Almighty God.
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Both remnant and “other sheep” shall be hid from the expression of Jehovah’s fierce and consuming anger at Armageddon.
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In the lands yet open for the work there is the final ingathering to be done of hose who must turn to the Lord to be sheltered from the great whirlwind of Armageddon.
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That great tribulation is the battle of Armageddon, which conflict is also called “the battle of that great day of God Almighty”. (Rev. 16:14-16
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Armageddon having ended with victory for JEHOVAH and his THEOCRACY, the righteous rule shall prevail everywhere in the universe, including our earth.
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Gradually the earth will be filled with righteous people by means of the survivors of Armageddon who now see the emergency ahead and who flee from the religious-totalitarian organization of the world and take refuge under God’s kingdom or THEOCRACY and trust in him for salvation. Such “great multitude of Armageddon survivors shall be favored with the privilege of carrying out the divine mandate to “multiply and fill the earth” with their offspring, born in righteousness and unto life under a perfect, righteous government.
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He sent them forth as his witnesses before the tribulation breaks again at Armageddon and the FINAL END of the nations comes.
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“Christendom” is desolate, without fruit unto God now. The Kingdom interests have been taken away from her, and at Armageddon she shall be completely desolated, destroyed.
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It will strike them at the battle of Armageddon.
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By his revealed prophecies they see by faith his marvellous “strange act’” at Armageddon to the eternal glory and vindication of his name.
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The ears of the modern Haman class and their allies have already been deafened by the success of Jehovah’s “strange work”, but His “strange act” against them is just ahead, at Armageddon.
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At Armageddon, and at the signal from the great Commander-in-Chief Jehovah, he will renew the battle and bring the FINAL END of the tribulation upon all the enemy crowd visible and invisible.
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What if Jehovah had retained his anger and displeasure against his consecrated ones who yielded to the enemy organization in 1918 to the neglect of the work God assigned them? Had he retained his anger till Armageddon those consecrated ones in the flesh would not have been saved, but destroyed.
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His mercy, truth and faithfulness are upheld and shall shortly at Armageddon be completely vindicated.
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Their rejoicing shall never end. It shall reach its height of jubilation at the smashing grand climax of the “battle of that great day of God Almighty’, Armageddon.
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One of his titles is “The Word of God” (Rev. 19:13) He is the Sword of Jehovah and is the Arm that Jehovah bares to make war with the enemy (Jer. 47:6) When the due time arrives for God to go forth to the battle he whets his Sword and sends his great Priest forth to lead the fight at Armageddon.
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The truth an light that God sheds upon his Word today is strong supporting evidence that we are in “that day” when the forces are gathering for Armageddon.
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Now the enlightened and reformed are on the alert, watching for the sign for the beginning of Armageddon and putting their confidence wholly in the Lord. That “sign” is certain to be made manifest soon, and the sign clearly will be: “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them” (1 Thess. 5:3) When this sign for tile beginning of Armageddon clearly appears.
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Manifestly this “little moment” is art most the “short time” that the Devil knows that he has left to prepare for and to fight the battle of Armageddon, as stated at Revelation 12:12, but the “moment” may particularly apply to the short and suddenly ended time from and after the appearance of the “sigh” of “Peace and safety!” until Armageddon begins and is fought and the Lord does a short work therefore in righteousness.
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Thus God expresses his determination to reveal himself to the peoples of earth at Armageddon, and to do so he comes out of his place (Zion) and manifests his power in the sight of all.
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Since A.D. 1914 is the day of battle and war, beginning with the first “war in heaven” and culminating shortly in the universal war that involves heaven and earth and is commonly called “the battle of Armageddon”.
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To quit preaching and being a witness, because of persecution or for any other selfish reason, this side of Armageddon’s fight means to be unfaithful to one’s ordination or commission and is a breaking of one’s covenant to do God’s will.
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At Armageddon He will twist his heel upon them all as upon a viper.
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Jehovah never disappoints the hope of those who sound forth His praises and leave the fighting and deliverance to him at Armageddon.
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The Nethinim or “other sheep” must flee to it and take refuge under it before the battle of Armageddon begins for the execution of all those who have not lined up on the side of Zion.
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The winter is the time of Jehovah’s “strange act” of the great fight of Armageddon, and it follows immediately after the swift running of Jehovah’s Word,”his strange work.” Concerning his “strange act” of the Armageddon”winter” Psalm 147:16, 17, A. R. V., says: “He giveth snow like wool; he scattered the hoar-frost like ashes.
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The antitypical downpour of frozen destruction is yet due at Armageddon.
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Also his King and the armies of heaven know how to fight in the cold of Armageddon’s battle as pictured in the exploit of King David’s fellow warrior: “And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.” (2 Sam. 23:20)
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It will be executed at that tribulation of Armageddon against the wicked who have shown no mercy to Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers on earth.
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Only those in and under God’sTheocratic organization during that battle shall weather the destructive cold of that terrible winter of Armageddon, and see the fair Kingdom weather that follows thereafter at Jehovah’s command. “He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind [invisible power] to blow, and the waters flow.” (Ps. 147:18)
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So too after the winter of Armageddon the remnant and their companions will come forth from their protected place under God’s hiding and enter into the glorious season of the Kingdom in its undisputed power over earth. (Job 37:22-24)
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The nations of “Christendom” know not His word and Theocratic regulations, and will continue to oppose and persecute in proud, stubborn resistance till Armageddon’s winter freezes them into everlasting inaction.
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Imagine the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, under the righteous rule of the visible “princes in all the earth”, with cigarettes in their lips and trying to carry out the divine mandate to fill the earth with a healthy-blooded, righteous race!
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Then shall they deliver you [witnesses of Jehovah] up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. . . . But he [the remnant] that shall endure unto the end [at Armageddon], the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [in spite of the persecution] in a ll the world for a witness unto all nations: and then shall come the end [the final end at Armageddon] come.”-Matt. 24:7-14.
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That “man child” Government must do more than this clearing out of the demons; it must dash all nations on earth to pieces as with a “rod of iron”, iron symbolizing the warfare of Armageddon.-Rev.12:5; 2:25-27.
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The blood spilled at Armageddon rests upon the heads of the opposers.
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The Scriptures give good promise that there are those of that number whom He will preserve alive and will deliver when he destroys “Christendom” at Armageddon.
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The only way that the people of the nation can escape God’s wrath and receive his protection from destruction at the battle of Armageddon is to turn toward The Theocracy and recognize Jehovah’s supremacy in the field of taw and obey Him rather than men.
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Let such not blind themselves to this fact: that, if the administrative and judicial officers of some cities thus follow the majority opinion, they will don the garments of identification with that majority and show themselves fit for annihilation by Jehovah’s great Executioner at Armageddon, which final battle is very near.
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By the political, military and religious maneuvers of the nations since then they now stand at the “place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon”, and all Bible prophecy and world events combine to prove that the great battle at that “place” is very soon to be joined. No mere international or capitalist-labor or Catholic-Protestant war will that be, but a war between worlds, with the kingdom of heaven of the new world fighting to victory on the right side against the demons and wicked men of “this present evil world” on the side of defeat and destruction.
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Sober-thinking men ought to tremble at the thought that he will wipe out all the worldly nations at the impending Armageddon fight and thereby at last, after a wait of six thousand years, vindicate his name and his almighty power for righteousness and truth.
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Christ Jesus is the propitiation for sins not only of those associated with him in the “new heavens”, but also of the “whole world”. This would include the “other sheep”. These the Lord is now gathering, and to them he extends the hope of surviving the battle of Armageddon and thereafter living upon the earth, forever enjoying righteousness and peace and prosperity under the “new heavens”. Since this is the period of the “covenant by sacrifice”, the “other sheep”, who shall remain forever on the earth, will not be justified until after Armageddon, to carry out the divine mandate to multiply and fill the cleansed earth with their righteous offspring.
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The impending battle of Armageddon brings destruction to those who refuse or are indifferent to God’s way and means of deliverance and who prefer to enjoy or yield to sin in this world.
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Leading up to their deliverance from the worldly organization of Egypt Jehovah God by Moses commanded the Israelites to sacrifice the passover lamb and to feast thereon. This foreshadowed that prior to the great deliverance at Armageddon by the destruction of Satan’s world God would provide the atonement by the real sacrifice, “the Lamb of God,” who takes away the sin of those who will live in the new world. (John 1:29, 36)
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From this standpoint, therefore, and viewed in relationship to the tribe of Levi, the remainder of the twelve tribes of Israel pictured all the people on earth whose sins are atoned for and who live on earth after Armageddon under The Theocratic Government.
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It may therefore be concluded that the battle of Armageddon, God’s “strange act”, is foreshadowed by Joshua’s experience at Gibeon.
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The “strange act”, foreshadowed by Jehovah’s act at Gibeon in both Joshua’s and David’s days, therefore has reference to the exhibition of divine power against Jehovah’s enemies at Armageddon.
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With the power of the enemy broken by that “strange act”, the shackles will fall away from the arms of all the survivors of the battle of Armageddon, including not only God’s anointed remnant but also a “great multitude’” of persons of good-will, his “other sheep”. Concerning all these it will then be true” “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him. and he will save us, this is the LORD, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”-Isa 25:9
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The joy of the Lord Jesus is the vindication of his Father’s name. Such has been the longing desire of Christ He has begun that work of vindication as his Father’s Chief Executive Officer. He will finish it gloriously and to the glory of his Father at Armageddon.
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For such fundamental reasons man’s postwar arrangement will not survive the battle of Armageddon. The “battle of that great day of God Almighty” will break out suddenly upon the postwar builders when they think they can cry out, “Peace and safety!” (1 Thess. 5:3)
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The merit of his sacrifice avails for and extends to the Lord’s “other sheep” now being gathered into the one fold of the Lord, and also to their offspring who shall be brought forth after Armageddon under the Kingdom in fulfillment of the divine mandate.
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Because of their prude and selfishness and se]f-exaltation they are cut down. They are tossed away, the prophet says, “’like a ball” into a wide place and are carried away by the winds of Armageddon.
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This transfer of office and opportunities took place before the great assault of totalitarian powers upon God’s organization as pictured by Sennacherib marching against Jerusalem. Thus it precedes the battle of Armageddon.
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Hence God has doomed “Christendom” to destruction at Armageddon, and all the pope’s prayers for peace and all his blessings upon the world, and all postwar attempts at religious revival, will not persuade God to repent and turn from his unchangeable decision and purpose.-1 Sam. 15:29.
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The victory of the New Government at its birth is a sure guarantee of its victory over Satan’s entire organization at Armageddon in vindication of Jehovah’s name.-Rev. 12:12.
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Being assembled on that side of favor and approval, the faithful “sheep” are the companions of the remnant and shall enjoy the King’s blessings and protection and preservation unto life everlasting on earth. The “goats” at the left and in opposition to ’’Mount Zion” meet utter destruction in the fire of Armageddon.-Matt. 25:31-46.
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That name must be declared throughout the earth by his witnesses before he shows his power over Satan’s entire organization in the battle of Armageddon.
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To continue in this disapproved condition would have meant their destruction at the hands of Jehovah’s Executioner at Armageddon.
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He called them by the “new name”, that is,”Jehovah’s witnesses,”and sent them forth as such to publish his name throughout all the earth before Armageddon.
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There will be no escaping complete destruction for those who reject God and obey men. (Acts 5:29) We have come to that “full assembly” of myriads of holy angels. These will act with Christ the King as executioners of the disobedient at Armageddon.
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That shake-down is only preparatory to the complete removal of those Satanic heavens in the climax of the shaking at the battle of Armageddon.
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They shall be shaken into their final all-out action against Jehovah God and his Kingdom, only to run into Armageddon’s shaking.
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Keeping confidence in it and standing immovably by it at Armageddon, we shall not be shaken and removed while the terrific shaking of the Devil’s wicked “heavens” and “earth” tears them to pieces.-Ps. 46:1-3.
To our enemies who hate THE THEOCRACY let our awe-inspiring God be a “consuming fire” at Armageddon.
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It is true that the great multitude of survivors of the battle of Armageddon will have a position superior to the lower animals and that these animals will be subject to the great multitude that lives forever on earth; yet such “men of good-will” will themselves be subject to the heavenly King, Christ Jesus, who is the real owner of all things.
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However, by his marvelous work through his witnesses, the remnant and their companions, Jehovah has now made his name known and is having it declared throughout all the earth before the battle of Armageddon, and that name is excellent among all persons of good-will coming to a knowledge thereof. (Ex. 9:16)
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The battle of Armageddon, which is near, will answer these throbbing question, right.
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The result of the proclamation of the Kingdom, or Theocracy, which result will be reached before the settlement of the issue at Armageddon, is positively foretold at Isaiah 59:19: “So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; when the adversary shall come in like a flood, the spirit of Jehovah will lift up a standard against him.” (Am. Rev. Ver., marginal reading) It is those of good-will toward Jehovah and his Righteous Government who learn to fear him before Armageddon, wherever the sun shines. The Kingdom is Jehovah’s capital organization under Christ Jesus, and it shall dominate all the universe, including our earth.
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The standard of Jehovah’s name and kingdom will never be lowered until the flood-like onrush of the adversaries has been halted for ever at the battle of Armageddon and all human standards have been destroyed, as false, deceptive, and anti- Kingdom. This is not the mere idle boast of men.
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Here, then, is the “Go ahead” signal from the Highest Authority to keep going on in his “strange work”of witness no matter what happens before Armageddon comes and desolates the earth of the “goat” class.
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To remain in the darkness means to abide under the wrath of God, and to abide there means death and destruction at Armageddon.
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This figure, therefore, denotes yet a great ingathering of active witnesses for the Kingdom, who shall in the short time remaining before Armageddon fly with the speed of doves to the entrance that Jehovah has provided to the refuge of safety.
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It is expected that Jehovah God, shortly before Armageddon breaks, will grant the faithful men of old from Abel to John the Baptist to be raised from the dead
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All organizations of men, whether national, religious, or commercial, that do not turn to Jehovah’s capital organization will be blotted out at Armageddon.
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But Jehovah God is gracious during this short period before Armageddon.
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Soon, therefore, the “rising sun” of Japan and the religious-political rule of all nations forgetting Jehovah will set at Armageddon; but the heavenly Theocracy, Jehovah God the great Theocrat and Christ Jesus his King, shall together flood all the universe with the glorious light of life and salvation and shall never set.-Ps. 84:11; Mal. 4:2; 2 Pet. 1:19.
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It took place before the destruction of the Egyptian persecutors, and which destruction foreshadowed the climax of the battle of Armageddon at the end of the world.
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Since 1914 the world has been in its “time of the end” and the great deluge of fire of the
world’s destruction at Armageddon is impending. Therefore the greater need appears for the persons who want to escape that baptism of fire to enter into the ark of God’s organization and be baptized unto the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus. He is Jehovah’s Savior for those who will be spared through Armageddon and inherit life in the new world.
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Such “strange work” is still going on, and the part which the men Elijah, Elisha, and John the Baptist had to play in foreshadowing that “strange work” and the preparatory work preceding it lays further emphasis on the importance of being baptized unto Jehovah’s Deliverer, Christ Jesus, now, before Armageddon.
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Satan is the prince of the world, from the time of Eden onward to Armageddon, and the entire world is under the power and influence of Satan, that wicked one. (John 12:31,1 John 5:19)
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The new world will consist of all people who survive Armageddon, and who love righteousness and hate wickedness, and such will live on the earth under the supervision and control of the invisible, righteous overlord, Christ the King.
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The fight of Armageddon comes after his judging of the nations is ended.
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The climax, the execution of the judgment or judicial decision rendered, is near and all nations now face annihilation at Armageddon.
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The mighty Fighter to push them back and maintain Jehovah’s worship clear through Armageddon into the New World was the Greater Jephthah, Christ Jesus.
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But only for “one hour” in the future this, and then the harlot is unseated and destroyed, and “the King of kings and Lord of Lords” destroys this “New Order” ‘peace beast’ with its seven heads and ten horns at the big fight at Armageddon. To the related question, WHo, then, will establish the lasting peace, and when? the answer, given without fear or apology, was, Jehovah God’s Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus, and after the utter destruction of the Devil’s demonic, religious, totalitarian organization in its entirety at Armageddon.
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It foreshadowed that in the “time of the end” beginning A. D. 1914, and shortly before the final end of Satan’s entire organization at the battle of Armageddon, the foes of Jehovah’s Theocratic Government of righteousness will go the limit of their hatred, persecution and hostility to his witnesses.
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It is THE organization which, once set up and submitted to, is to be held fast and conformed to ever after, beyond Armageddon. It will succeed.
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With God’s covenant people today it must be The Theocratic Government and its visible organization first, last, and all the time, both before Armageddon and forever after. As with Jephthah’s selection, so it has been with the WATCH TOWER SOCIETY. The Society did not select itself to be the visible part of Jehovah’s Theocratic organization on earth, but the Lord God, by Christ Jesus, did so.
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Section heading: HAS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON BEGUN?
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SCRIPTURALLY the answer is, No! According to the meaning of “Armageddon” the battle bearing that name has not begun.
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Hence the word “Armageddon” means the high mountain or organization where the troops of Jehovah are assembled or gathered together. These troops assembled at Armageddon are Jehovah’s troops, including the remnant of faithful Christians on earth but who are not of this world.
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A battle is often called by the name of the place where it is fought. Hence the battle is said to be that of Armageddon.
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According to Ezekiel, chapters thirty-eight and thirty-nine, over against Christ Jesus is Gog, the chief field marshal of Satan the Devil, and which spirit prince leads the enemy forces at the great battle of Armageddon.
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Satan sends forth his forces, demon and religious-totalitarian, under Gog and against the assembled troops of Jehovah at “Armageddon”.
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OnlyJehovah’s faithful servants, as foreshadowed by Noah and his family in the ark, will survive Armageddon.
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While pavement witnessing in B-, a Methodist minister in passing was attracted by the publisher’s placard ‘Escape from Death at Armageddon’. Said the minister: ’That’s what I want-Armageddon.’ Publisher: ‘So do we!’ Minister: ’I mean the booklet Armageddon.’ He also asked: ’Why is it that Jehovah’s witnesses are so persecuted ?’ Arrangements were made for a back-call on him, and also for the supplying of the booklet.”
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The Son of man has come into his Kingdom, beginning A.D. 1914, and in the big fight at Armageddon he will reward the planners and battlers for world domination with destruction of their souls as enemies of Jehovah’s new world.
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Only Jehovah’s “‘strange act’” against religion at the battle of Armageddon will dear the way for uninterrupted peace in the new world.
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Whatsoever Jehovah God has permitted the “god of this world” (“Chemosh”) to help his religious totalitarian element to take possession of, with such Jehovah’s witnesses do not interfere, knowing Almighty God u iI1 take care of it at Armageddon.
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These have fearlessly warned the political element and allies concerning the judgments that Jehovah God will execute against them in the battle of Armageddon.
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The true and pure Christianity now rejoices in and publishes world-wide the birth in A.D. 1914 of Jehovah God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus, which will vindicate Jehovah’s name at Armageddon, soon.
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However, in the final battle, Armageddon, following which the righteous new world comes, it will not be morale that will carry any people through, but the spirit of Jehovah God.
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2. Will it be what is called “morale” or some other power that will carry any people through Armageddon, and upon whom is it put?
3. (a) What were the developments leading up to Jephthah’s taking over the command of the armies of Israel, and what was then came upon Jephthah as he moved to the fight?
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The irresistible spirit of Almighty God will continue to move the remnant of his witnesses and their earthly companions until his “strange work” on earth is completed nd the time arrives for his “strange act”, the battle of Armageddon.
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Some professing to be consecrated to God have acted like the tribe of Ephraim and ignored the invitation to service and have not crossed ‘the waters of the Jordan river’ in between, the stream of peoples alienated from Jehovah and who are rushing down the broad road to destruction in the “Dead sea” at Armageddon.
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The present concern is not over the fight at Armageddon, but over finishing the work of testimony and the hunting out the Lord’s “other sheep” who must be gathered into the one fold under the Good Shepherd.
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The fight of the modern Jephthah corresponds with that of King David at Mount Perazim, because the battle of Perazim foreshadowed God’s “strange work” preliminary to the fight at Armageddon. (Isa. 28:21)
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(b) How was the actual destruction of the modern Ammonites at Armageddon foreshadowed at ancient Jerusalem?
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The actual destruction of the “Ammonites” at the battle of Armageddon that follows their cry was foreshadowed by what befell the Ammonites and allies before Jerusalem in the days of King Jehoshaphat.- 2 Chronicles 20.
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The anticlimax of the prophetic drama now begins, and it also finds its fulfillment since 1938 and before the battle of Armageddon, as will be proved by Scripture and fact.
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Aside from the “other sheep” and their “princes” there are no offspring at this end of the world is the only earthly class that shall survive the tribulation at Armageddon alongside the remnant.
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That the remnant of the Theocratic organization under Christ the Head saw this “daughter” class coming out first on the side of The Theocracy, before Armageddon, is manifest.
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Those who willingly persecute Jehovah’s witnesses and opposed God’s kingdom are now marking themselves for the slaughter that shall come upon all opposers at the battle of the great day of God Almighty, at Armageddon.
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This was the work that the apostle Paul had partnership in, and such is the work that other footstep followers must take part in that they may have partnership (fellowship) with Christ Jesus before the Kingdom witness is finished and the battle of Armageddon is fought to the unfading glory of Jehovah God.
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Therefore in the coming battle of Armageddon Jehovah’s royal Son will this time fight against the old world and with violence such as all creation has never yet witnessed. (Matt. 24:21, 22)
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Those followers of the new world’s King who finished their earthly course faithful unto death and who have been resurrected to life in the spirit to “reign with him” shall share in the Armageddon fight with the Warrior-King. (Rev. 19:11-16)
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Jehovah requires willing obedience, self-sacrificing devotion, and faithfulness with joyfulness on the part of all who will have his protection daring Armageddon and enter into life on earth under the, New World conditions.
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God’s mandate to the family of Noah after the Flood, that they should multiply and fill the cleansed earth, foreshadowed that this favored multitude will after Armageddon receive a like divine mandate.
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Why did he not put up any fighting resistance against being killed when on earth and what will be his course with respect to Armageddon?
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2. What part in the Armageddon fight will be had by Christ’s faithful footstep followers who have finished their earthly course and by the remnant yet on earth?
3. What does Jehovah require of those he perseveres during Armageddon, and what does the Flood picture of Noah’s day show as to any surviving Armageddon besides the remnant?
4. What does the prophetic Flood picture father show as to the destiny of that blessed multitude after Armageddon?
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There he also disclosed this, to wit, that those whom the ‘man clothed in linen and with inkhorn by his side’ marks in the forehead to be spared from execution at Armageddon by Jehovah’s Executioner are an earthly class and identical with the “other sheep”. (Ezek. 9:4) In 1932 still more!
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Later that same year (1938) of the revelation of the Theocratic organization, and on the occasion of the world-wide convention of 47 cities with Royal Albert Hall, London, England, as the key assembly place, the Greater Jephthah revealed that the divine mandate will be issued and go into force toward the “other sheep” of the “great multitude” AFTER the battle of Armageddon. hence marriage now was no part of fulfilling the divine mandate and was inadvisable according to the Scriptures. This was in effect saying that the Lord’s “other sheep” who call form the “great multitude” after Armageddon must now remain a “virgin” company in order that they might be wholly devoted, without earthly distraction, to the Lord’s business now in hand, which is to declare Jehovah’s name throughout all the earth before he fights and shows his power over Satan’s old world at Armageddon. (Ex. 9:16) The preaching of “this gospel of the kingdom”, as commanded, was the work for this “other sheep” class as well as for the remnant, and not the building up of any earthly house or organization at present. (Matt. 24: 14) The Lord will take care of that after Armageddon.
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Hence it must not be mistaken to picture that the “great multitude” after Armageddon will not have the divine mandate issued to them to be this time really carried out to a finality under the righteous overlord, The Theocracy. The requirement of virginity pictures that before Armageddon’s fight the Lord’s “other sheep” must serve Jehovah at his temple in singleness of devotion to him.
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What timely suggestion is there in this for these days before Armageddon?
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Salvation from God’s wrath to be expressed at the battle of Armageddon will not necessarily mean that all such rescued ones will be saved from death and live forever. Jehovah God has made certain and unchangeable rules which, if obeyed by man, will result in man’s salvation to everlasting life Those who escape the disaster of Armageddon will then be entering upon the way to everlasting life.
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