They must proclaim the message of the Kingdom to all nations, as foretold and commanded at Matthew 24:14, and that message must be of the Kingdom as having been established in A. D. 1914. This must be done before the final end comes on the world at Armageddon.-See The Watchtower July 1, 1920.
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Now, however, beginning in 1923, the Teacher at the temple began to reveal that there is an earthly class who become the Lord’s “sheep” and whom he gathers now before Armageddon’s war to the right side of His throne. From then on, step by step, the heavenly Teacher opened the understanding of the spiritual remnant to see that such “other sheep” must be witnessed to and served with the Kingdom message and thereby enabled to take their stand for God’s kingdom. So doing, these may pass alive through Armageddon into the NewWorld.
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It was a sublime revelation when the perfect Educator opened the Textbook, the Bible, and in 1925 revealed that the name of Jehovah must have its proper place; that his Kingdom was born in 1914 and Jehovah’s purpose by it is to ‘make a great and lasting name for himself’ at the battle of Armageddon; and that such battle is not a fight between capital and labor, conservatives and radicals, or any human parties and nations, but is GOD’s FIGHT against the entire Devil’s organization invisible and visible; and that his servant class on earth have no part in that fight, but must only warn of its coming.-2 Sam. 7:23; Isa. 63: 14.
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The “strange” work” which precedes God’s “strange act” at Armageddon is not yet done. So many of the “other sheep” are yet scattered and in danger of perishing, and need to be fed. We stand at the threshold of 1944. It is certain to be a crucial year.
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That will bring its own tests of the faith and faithful endurance of Jehovah’s servant class and their companions, because Satan and his demons will be relentlessly marching all nations to the climax at Armageddon.
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He did so, because it was his purpose to have his name declared throughout all the earth before he shows his power over all enemies at Armageddon.
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Therefore in the final vindication of his name at Armageddon he will vindicate his servant class by the called-for destruction of all enemies that afflict them. (Luke 18: 7, 8)
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Armageddon, will witness acts of Jehovah on a far grander scale, which will convince, at the cost of their lives, those that scoff at Jehovah’s power to work miracles.
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All of the foregoing Bible record concerning Joshua is prophetic of these last days, and particularly of the Armageddon Conflict. In the battles of Canaan, Joshua as executioner pictures Jehovah’s great Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon, when He will annihilate all devil-worshipers. The battle of Gibeon, in particular, foreshadowed Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon, wherein miracles so wondrous will occur that the halting of the sun at Gibeon will fade into in insignificance by comparison. (Isa. 28:21)
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Rahab’s activity in gathering her family associates to the only place of safety pictures the zeal of the “other sheep” in declaring the Kingdom message to others, and pointing them to the only safe refuge from Armageddon’s storm.
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The faithful and wise son, that rejoices the heart of his father and makes glad his mother, will so deport himself before men and angels that he will not bring any shame upon the organization and its name. (Prov. 23:22, 24, 25; 19:26) By such a course he is sure to abide as a beloved member of God’s organization universal, and to have a part with God’s “woman”and her chief Son, Christ Jesus, in vindicating the honorable name of Jehovah God the Father. Also, now, his “other sheep” will honor God’s “woman”, joyfully serving under her direction at present, looking forward to the blessed hope of being adopted after the battle of Armageddon as her beloved earthly children through Christ Jesus.
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In the final end Satan’s totalitarian organization will itself be crushed and ground to powder and puffed into eternal death at Armageddon, and Satan can’t help it!
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If the Christian relaxes his vigilance on any pretext he may find himself in the “goat” camp at Armageddon.
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The Greater Ehud in heaven will sound the assembly call and the armies in heaven will follow him to the Armageddon fight.
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So it will be in the antitype; and since the days of the Greater Ehud are endless, the rest and peace following Armageddon’s story will never end.-Ps. 72; Nah. 1:9; Isa. 9:6, 7.
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Such plagues are messages of judgment from Jehovah God and are revealed through his Bible. They are expressed against all things of this world of religion, or demonism, and the politics and commerce. Such judgment messages expose this world as Satan’s and body declare what shall soon come upon it in the battle of Armageddon, now near.
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The march out of modern Egypt is under way, Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions are marching in freedom to the Red sea of Armageddon.
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We have nothing to fear of the Red sea of Armageddon. Through his Greater Moses, Jehovah commands us: ’The Lord will fight for you. Bid the people go forward!’ (Ex. 14:14, 15) And the faithful do so. Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions will go through the blood-red battle of Armageddon and come out on the other side in the free New World of righteousness.
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40. Are we near the sea of Armageddon what does Jehovah command through Christ? and what will be the final event respectively to the perusing enemy and to Jehovah’s faithful people?
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The pursuing demon-led Egyptian hosts, rashly pushing on to the final assault against the witnesses of the Most High God, will enter into the Red sea of Armageddon, but will never come out alive.
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World regeneration is not yet complete, and will not be until the new earth has been created and all creatures that have constituted the “heavens and the earth which are now” have been destroyed in the battle of Armageddon, toward which all nations of earth are now blindly marching.
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Hence the twelve tribes of Israel while rejoicing in the peace, plenty and security during the reign of wise King Solomon pictured the obedient ones of human- kind who gather to the King greater than Solomon and who are delivered from all oppressors at the battle of Armageddon.As visible representatives of God’s kingdom among such “twelve tribes” after Armageddon, and as God’s appointed “princes in all the earth”, will be the faithful men of old, from Abel to John the baptist.
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Such ones are promised protection by the Higher Powers and will be carried alive through the battle of Armageddon into the regenerated world of righteousness.
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Organized religion, forming a part of the Devil’s visible organization, must, together with the other component parts thereof, be wiped out by God’s power at Armageddon.
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Plainly they seem to be: (1) a clear vision that the time as come to vindicate God’s name, overthrow Satan’s organization, and introduce a new world of righteousness; and (2) a clear vision of the blessed privilege that the remnant now have of being witnesses for Jehovah God and of cooperating with his beloved Son and King in the “strange work” which now has to be done before Armageddon.-1 Cor. 1:9.
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All those consecrated to God must now learn and take heed to the fact that, to understand and appreciate the unfolding of the truth of God’s Word, we must walk in meekness and humility before God; we must recognize that the truth is the Lord’s, and not man’s, and that the Lord is directing his own work; that God is not pleased with those who attempt to exalt themselves or to give glory to the name of men; that long centuries ago God prepared some precious things to be revealed “in that day”, “the day which the Lord hath made,” and therefore we can recognize that day as having begun in A.D. 1914 and can rejoice in it; that Christ Jesus, as God’s appointed Judge, is at the temple and judgment is now upon the house of God; that those who love God and who prove it by their works will now rejoice in the great privilege of co-operating in the “strange work” of witness that the Lord is doing; that now the name of Jehovah is exalted in heaven because Satan has been expelled from heaven with all his demons and Jehovah’s name is now also exalted among the remnant of His “little flock” and also the multitude o his “other sheep”; and that God has commanded that at this time immediately before Armageddon’s war his consecrated people must be his witnesses and sing forth his praises and tell the peoples of earth concerning Jehovah’s doings in order that the peoples may know that Jehovah is God and that deliverance is at hand by his kingdom under Christ.
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The position of God’s consecrated people as being indeed ’~Jehovah’s witnesses” has been ridiculed and disputed by all religionists. But the president, taking up the controversy, demonstrated from the Scriptures that Jehovah’s witnesses have letters of recommendation attesting their commission from the Lord more strongly than any ordination that the religious clergy could bestow upon them, just as surely as there has been built up today a great multitude of persons of good-will who shall go through the battle of Armageddon without dying.
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BE IT RESOLVED THAT, by God’s grace, under the leadership and command of the greatest Educator of the Universe, Jehovah, we will faithfully do our part in carrying on this campaign of Free Education for men of good-will until the victory is complete at the battle of Armageddon.
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Other scriptures show these latter words must apply at the “time of the end” before the battle of Armageddon which destroys the entire Devil’s organization
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By preserving their integrity toward God the same as do the remnant, not only will the “other sheep” gain eternal life on a Paradise earth, but members of this class maybe hid in the day of God’s anger at Armageddon and maybe borne alive through that battle into the post- Armageddon New World and never descend into the grave; in a word, never die.
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In this inspiring prophetic drama of vengeance and deliverance Barak pictured mainly Christ Jesus, sometimes as the Leader of the anointed remnant of God’s witnesses yet on earth, and sometimes as the Commander of the heavenly hosts who will march forth at Armageddon.
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The “god of this world” and his wicked angels were forced down to the earth and there kept in custody, pending the final fight between Christ and all of Satan’s organized forces at Armageddon.
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After defeat and debasement, Satan was insanely mad and proceeded to organize, prepare and train “all rule, and all authority and power” under him for the final war, the battle of Armageddon.
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35. Due to what conduct of the nations has the battle of Armageddon become unavoidable?
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The battle of Armageddon,”the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” becomes unavoidable, to remove all such opponents, who refuse to bow willingly.
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Nevertheless, with the destruction of such powers at Armageddon not all of man’s enemies will have been wiped out.
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A great number of these “other sheep” of the Lord will never go down into the tomb, for Almighty God will preserve a great multitude of this class through the destruction of the old world at Armageddon.
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IN this fight Barak pictured Christ Jesus, Deborah foreshadowed God’s organization, particularly the holy angels that follow Christ Jesus in Armageddon’s fight, and the ten thousand Israelites prefigured the complete number of the remnant of witnesses on earth.
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It is proof also that the King’s word is near at hand to be fulfilled upon the earthly survivors of Armageddon: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”-John 11:26.
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Even for a person of good-will to die now before Armageddon does not mean his labors in Jehovah’s witness work have been thrown away.
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In like manner Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon will catch religion’s tools unawares, at the moment when it seems they will certainly quash his witnesses; and at that moment their own destruction will come. As it was at the river Kishon, so at Armageddon both inanimate forces and angelic hosts will bring salvation to God’s people and vindication to His name.-Judg. 5:20; Rev: 22:16; Ps. 148:3, 8; Ezek. 38:21-23
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Its further expansion is certain to occur, before God himself climaxes this witness work by his own convincing testimonial through an over- whelming demonstration of divine power at the battle of Armageddon.
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Despite the protests of his enemies, the King rules amid them and goes forth “conquering, and to conquer”, riding gloriously along to the final victory, at Armageddon.
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All the steam-roller regimentation of the postwar world down till Armageddon will fail to break God’s earthen vessels and to rob them of their treasure.
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Like the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses, these “other sheep” appreciate that the only treasure that will survive the fiery battle of Armageddon and continue unsinged and unconsumed into the New World is “this treasure” of the blessed ministry, the service unto Jehovah God and his glorious King Christ Jesus.
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During the past 1900 years many persons have professed to be Christians, but only a very small proportion have proved faithful under the test. Now the time has come when Christ Jesus, the King, is enthroned and is present conducting in the earth God’s strange work, which consists of proclamation being made before the nations and the -people that religion is of the Devil and is a fraud and a snare and a racket, and that Christians are those who are wholly devoted to God and Christ and who must obey him; that it is God’s purpose to soon destroy Satan’s entire organization, and that this will be done at the battle of the great day of God Almighty called “Armageddon”’ and that the only place of safety and salvation is in God’s organization.
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The day of Armageddon is very near, when God will express his wrath and exhibit his great power against Satan and all his forces.
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At the same time, in obedience to the Lord’s commandments, these witnesses give warning of th impending disaster that shall fall upon the wold world at Armageddon. Therefore this is the time of great emergency, because the battle of Armageddon is very near.
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At the battle of Armageddon the end of the “goats” will be destruction, whereas this class of “other sheep” will receive from the Lord protection and salvation to life in the everlasting New World.
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Jael foreshadows the Lord’s “other sheep” scattered throughout “Christendom”, and who will eventually makeup the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
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This they publicly confess before the Armageddon visit of the Greater Barak, Christ Jesus. Then religion’s forces will literally perish.
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They would suffer destruction if Armageddon found them allied with religion.
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He and it disagree thoroughly, and that is why he will destroy it at the battle of Armageddon, to which all nations are marching with quickening pace.
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That statement of Ecclesiastes 1:4 holds good at the battle of Armageddon. Why should the Creator destroy his creation, our planet earth? It is not wicked.
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After this has been done in the final end of the old world at the battle of Armageddon, this globe will be transformed every- where into a paradise for the pleasurable home of those proving worthy to live in the new world, a “world without end”.
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The “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors will not include any of those who now “destroy the earth” or who corrupt it.
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10. For whom will God cleanse this earth? and what will the Armageddon survivors do, and who will compose the “new earth” to make it one new world?
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The words of Jesus in the sermon on the mount show that riches thus acquired are not availing or helpful in time of world distress or of great need such as now immediately before the world’s destruction in the battle of Armageddon.
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So the Greater Gideon, Christ Jesus, declares from the temple the judgments that bring low the Devil’s system in the minds of His followers, and he will grind the blaspheming thing, along with its lord, into the dust under His heel when the execution of these judgments occurs at Armageddon.
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The actual slaughter and finishing off of the Midianites prefigures Armageddon’s destructive work.
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They take no part in maintaining or furthering this world, but let it go its way to destruction at the forthcoming battle of Armageddon.
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The gospel is not meant to transform or convert this world and its organizations and to save them from destruction at Armageddon.
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To the direct contrary, “every corporate center of power”of this world will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.
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Is anything more practical and wise than preaching now the gospel? No. Instead, what is more foolish than to pursue things of this world and frantically to strive to spare them from destruction at Armageddon.
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At the battle of Armageddon, not far distant, Jehovah God will destroy all ‘the wisdom of the wise’ which they will have demonstrated in the postwar “new order”.
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Jehovah’s preachers know the value of their work, and they will keep on preaching the gospel, without stopping, until the final end of this world and of its wisdom comes at the battle of Armageddon. (Matt. 24:14)
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(b) Why will the wisdom and understanding of the worldly-wise fail to save them at Armageddon?
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Those who will escape the terrible tribulation and destruction of Armageddon and who thereafter have the blessings from the Lord on the earth, will constitute the “great multitude” described at Revelation 7:9-17, and they constitute the Lord’s “other sheep”.
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Their regimented “one world” will never hold together when Jehovah’s Kingdom rule exerts its power at Armageddon.
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As for the modern Abimelechs, their God-defying misrule will be brought up short at The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. Armageddon.
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At the battle of Armageddon”,the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” Jehovah will deal out death to all worldly rulers opposing the rule of his Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus.
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In the time of the resurrection under Christ’s rule, God will not send forth his spirit or life-force to restore to life any such as wickedly fight against his King during the battle of Armageddon.
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11. At Armageddon what will God do in terribleness to worldly kings and princes, and what will be their future prospects thereafter?
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At Zechariah 6:5 the prophet refers to the hosts of superhuman spirit creatures which God has at his command and which he now uses in performing his “strange work” on the earth clear up to the battle of Armageddon.
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As Noah gave warning at the command of God, so also Jehovah God commands his faithful witnesses now on the earth, at the second coming of Christ Jesus, to give full warning by preaching ’this gospel of the kingdom’ as a witness to the world, and to do this just preceding the time of the complete destruction of the world at Armageddon. (Matt. 24:14, 21)
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Satan and all his demons are the hidden factors behind all this violence and human woe that now fills the earth and that will be brought to an end by their destruction in the battle of Armageddon which now draws near.-Rev. 12:12, 13, 17.
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They have been blessed with many victories; there are still future triumphs for freedom-lovers, all to be climaxed by Armageddon’s destruction of “this present evil world” gone totalitarian.
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But as the royal One who fights against all opposers of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty and whips them at the battle of Armageddon, he was prefigured by that priest upon a royal throne, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. Melchizedek, the king of Salem.
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At Armageddon he rides in righteous warfare as upon a white battle-worthy horse: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
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“Tile words elect and chosen translate the same Greek word and are used interchangeably. The spirit-begotten Christians who share the victory with Christ Jesus at Armageddon are not only called, but also chosen or elect.
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Christ Jesus, who overcomes the united nations of the world at Armageddon, said: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
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They must, however, be conformed to the image of the Chief One of the called and chosen and faithful company, Christ Jesus, by keeping faithful to God unto the end, even clear through the big fight at Armageddon. (Rom. 8:28-39; 1 Tim. 3:16, Heb. 12:23) This entails much suffering upon them, that causes them to cry to God day and night; but God will speedily avenge them at Armageddon. (Luke 18:7, 8)
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I told him how the perfect pair lost their right to life in Eden and how the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth would be carried out after Armageddon by finding protection at this time under the ‘city of refuge’, Zion, God’s organization.
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At Armageddon Jehovah’s executioners will not slay such marked ones.
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This is a marvelous fact now amidst the hottest intensity of global war; and what will it be in the postwar period, during which period the work will be successfully finished before the final end of this world at Armageddon?
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By such fearless testimony faithfully sustained in the spirit of the Lord down till the victorious fight at Armageddon, they faithfully render their part to the vindication of His name.
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The work assigned to this earthly division is to sing forth the praises of Jehovah’s name now before the fight at Armageddon and also while the fight is in progress.
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The vision discloses God’s purpose to destroy “Christendom” with his army of destruction, which is in readiness for Armageddon.
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It is the “servant” class that must bear to them the precious truths of the Kingdom, that they may see the way to go and what to do now before the battle of Armageddon
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Properly Ezekiel prostrated himself before Jehovah and submitted a question, not to indicate that the “servant” class cries out in horror at the Armageddon slaughter and begs for mercy upon the wicked; but rather to indicate that the “servant” speaks to the Lord God to call forth from him a statement to show that the slaughter is entirely justified. “And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?” The reply given to Ezekiel proves that the battle of Armageddon will witness the complete downfall of “Christendom”, and that without any quarter or pity from the Lord God.
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God will not spare at Armageddon, but will fully return upon their own heads the wickedness of those who reject and oppose his kingdom. He will make a clean-up of the entire religious organization, in order that all marked persons who survive may know that Jehovah is the only true God. That the slaughter at Armageddon will be wide-spread the prophet Jeremiah gives testimony.-Jer. 25:33-37.
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According to this unchangeable rule, the proud and haughty religious clergy of “Christendom”, who exalt themselves and then use their self-assumed authority and power to keep the blinded people in ignorance and away from Jehovah’s Theocratic Government, are due for a fall into destruction at the battle of Armageddon with which this “time of the end” shall close.
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The wise prefer to keep company with the lowly, those low in their own eyes, because they recognize Jehovah God and Christ Jesus as “The Higher Powers”. Only thus do the wise gain the favor or grace of the Lord God; for He resists the proud. In the battle of Armageddon he will spoil those who have unrighteously spoiled the peoples of earth and persecuted His witnesses, whereas he will raise up his downtrodden and despoiled servants and beautify them with a blessed place in the righteous “world without end”.
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In this “day of temptation”, with the battle of Armageddon as the final end for this pride-ruled world, it is imperative that all who strive for life in the New World beyond Armageddon take heed to their spirit.
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With Satan the Devil and his demons facing destruction shortly at Armageddon and bent on dragging as many of humankind as possible down into the destruction with them, it is now a time of great temptation.
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This also dooms the world of which Satan the Devil is the invisible prince and god, and it must come to an end at the execution of God’s judgment against it at the battle of Armageddon.
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Lot and is family foreshadowed those persons today who are of good-will and who hear the warning concerning the great destruction that will come upon the world at Armageddon, which warning is now being sounded everywhere by Jehovah’s witnesses.
The destruction of Sodom pictured the battle of Armageddon, particularly its fiery and destructive work against wicked “Christendom”.
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Speaking of the conditions that would prevail upon the earth at the time of his second coming, Jesus likens them unto Sodom’s, thus further proving that the destruction of Sodom was a type or foreshadowing of what will befall “Christendom” at Armageddon.
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The facts now conclusively prove that in all “Christendom” the men who operate the religious systems do so for selfish reason. By these religious systems they carry on a racket and are entirely oblivious to the warning God is causing to be sounded in their presence as to the approaching battle of Armageddon.
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Jesus described the conditions to prevail on earth at the time of the Armageddon fight and said: “In that day, he which shall be upon the house top, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife.”-Luke17:31, 32.
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Likewise those who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors now receive the warning to flee, and they must flee to the Lord’s kingdom before the fight at Armageddon, and they must abide under Jehovah’s protection until the fire of Armageddon has completely burned out.
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This was made known to the Israelites by Moses just before they crossed Jordan into Canaan, and this clearly shows that the fulfillment of the picture relates particularly to Christ’s second coming and his kingdom, and what occurs shortly before Armageddon.
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Those six cities, established for the convenience of the Israelites who were on both sides of the Jordan, symbolically pictured the protection which men of good-will receive by fleeing now from Satan’s organization to the High Priest Christ Jesus and his organization and remaining there until Armageddon has ended.
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The battle Armageddon is near, and God declares that all willful and deliberate Milers shall perish at Armageddon at the sword of his Executioner, Christ.
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They may flee to God’s capital organization under Christ and may find refuge and protection until Armageddon is past.
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The “revenger of blood” mentioned at Numbers 35:19 pictured the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Executioner, who carries out Jehovah’s orders and who will slay all God’s enemies at Armageddon. If those persons of good-will show their faith in God and in Christ Jesus and their obedience by fleeing to the Lord before Armageddon and then continuing to seek righteousness and meekness and to serve Him as commanded, such maybe spared in the great devastation to be wrought at Armageddon. Therefore the cities of refuge, and those who anciently found refuge in such, prophetically picture Jehovah’s place of refuge and the people of good-will who seek it and who for ever continue in faith and faithfulness under Jehovah’s deathless High Priest Christ Jesus, and who will consequently make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
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These are the ones who will survive Armageddon and inherit Kingdom blessings.
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Jesus declared that this short time was mercifully allotted by Almighty God in order that there should be some flesh saved at the battle of Armageddon. Do not say therefore, Well, if the kingdom of God has come, why does it not fight the battle of Armageddon at once and get it over with and relieve men of this distress of nations? In answer, the Bible replies: ‘If the established Kingdom had proceeded directly to the battle of Armageddon, then there would have been no earthly or human survivors of it, not even a remnant of God’s elect.’ The “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization began in 1914, as signalized by World War I. The final end and grand climax of that tribulation will come at the decisive fight between Jehovah’s hosts and all of Satan’s hosts at Armageddon.
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In that year, in fact, the oppressed consecrated people of Jehovah were expecting the battle of Armageddon to break loose.
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If the battle of Armageddon had then struck the earth, the remnant in the flesh would not have been saved to survive the fight. And if this remnant of consecrated ones was not found worthy unto salvation, who, then, of all the multitudes of human flesh would have been saved and ever gotten through the battle of Armageddon alive?
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At that time did Jehovah God give the signal for the battle of Armageddon to begin, the kings of this earth to be struck through in God’s great wrath, and their invisible head Satan to be bruised and bound and cast into the “bottomless pit” and sealed up there for a thousand years?
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After suffering great tribulation in heaven, Satan, now cast down to the earth, was not confronted at once with the battle of Armageddon and destroyed.
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And it is first at Revelation, chapter sixteen, after foretelling of vexatious plagues against Satan’s organization at the earth, that the gathering of world rulers under the demons unto the battle site at Armageddon is made known. It is therefore clear that at the coming battle of Armageddon, which is the “battle of that great day of God Almighty [Jehovah]”, the final part of the “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization, visible and invisible, commences.
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Now is the time for flight in order that ‘some flesh shall be saved’ at Armageddon.
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The worldly nations still keep up the encirclement of them and are conspiring on a world-wide scale to close in on them just prior to the battle of Armageddon to wipe them out utterly. Such antagonism and persecutions against Jehovah’s witnesses will not cease in the postwar period.
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It is by that kingdom that Jehovah God will yet go forth against the besieging nations of earth and destroy the mall in the grand fight at Armageddon, just as he fought by that same kingdom against Satan’s demon organization in the historic “war in heaven”, now past.
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From the birth of his Theocracy, in 1914, and down till his going forth and fighting and whipping the combined enemies at Armageddon is the famous “day of Jehovah”. This is the favorable day of flight to real security against execution at Armageddon.
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In all parts of the earth where his faithful people are, there they confess that he reigns by his anointed King Christ Jesus, and they acknowledge Jehovah God and his King as the true “Higher Powers”. They subject themselves to these “powers that be” and obey them rather than men. (Rom. 13:1; Acts 5:29) And before the day is over at Armageddon, Satan and all his demons will see all their agent-kings on earth cleared off by Jehovah’s “strange act” and only Jehovah continuing to hold the field as “King over all the earth”.
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His active witnesses make known these all-important truths, and they pray that He will duly make a demonstration of his power against all foes at Armageddon: “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”-Ps. 83:18.
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This association of Father and Son in this joint reign precedes the Armageddon of destruction for Satan’s hosts.
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At the same time the thousand-year kingdom of Christ Jesus is near, and it approaches nearer with all the speed of Armageddon’s approach!
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This gospel preaching must be done now during this day of Jehovah, during this time of His grace between the “war in heaven” and the final battle o f Armageddon, by the inserting of which break Jehovah God has shortened the days of the “great tribulation”.
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That most certainly applies to the postwar period. Therefore Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions may expect that the Satanic warfare under demon influence will be carried into that yet remaining period before the final end comes at the battle of Armageddon.
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The political forces behind it will exert pressure to have all men worship the Devil’s visible organization under this final form of man-rule. Those worshiping it will receive a mark of support and collaboration which will doom them to destruction at Armageddon.
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The anointed remnant fight on. What they leave of the antitypical temple of Dagon, “Christendom,” Jehovah through Christ will topple over at Armageddon.
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But the Devil and his demons, during the short time that yet remains till the Armageddon of destruction, continue to entertain humankind with the game of man-made politics under demon overlordship.
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The time to go after these heavenly treasures is now, for no other thing will endure the fire of the surely approaching battle of Armageddon.
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But in the distant tomorrow, or in the final cubit of my life-measure before the battle of Armageddon, ah, then I shall get in real earnest and give my full time, strength and means to the Lord’s service.’
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You may share the fate of those who in the nighttime of the battle of Armageddon will have their misused selfish lives demanded of them and never live to see the morning of the new world.
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Since the good news is of the Kingdom, he proceeded to show that it is Jehovah’s kingdom that has come and that He has given authority to Christ Jesus to reign as His consort since 1914, for the subduing of his enemies; and that the thousand-year reign of Christ with his church must follow the coming battle of Armageddon.
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And if the test of endurance seems to be applied to the virgin companions longer than they had thought, and if the time till the Armageddon fight and victory of Jehovah seems to be longer than once expected, let these virgin companions not faint or grow weary. Let them remember that the spirit-begotten remnant look forward to surviving Armageddon and are willing to go with the virgin companions all the way thither.
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Although they be many more than the 144,000 of the royal “bride” class, yet, after the full-length test of integrity has sifted out even many of the “virgins” class, those who endure to the King’s final vindication at Armageddon will compose a ‘great multitude whom no man can number’.
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JEHOVAH GOD is approaching the grand climax of his “strange work”, which work precedes the battle of Armageddon.
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Armageddon, to which all the nations are now gathered, will shortly mark his strangest of acts, of which his former acts at Gibeon were mere typical samples.
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Because the “strange act” bespeaks destruction at Armageddon to man’s global or earthly organization, the “strange work”that precedes it is so crucially important to the present generation of men.
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Ever since the warning concerning the near approach of the battle of Armageddon began to be given in our lifetime the religious-minded men of this world have scoffed at such a thing as too strange to occur, particularly to “Christendom”.
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Did not Christ Jesus make it unmistakably clear that this work would immediately precede the divine act that brings the calamitous end to this world at Armageddon?
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Not only is the world’s most ambitious attempt at human government just before us, but also Satan as “the god of this world” is about to deceive all mankind by his greatest scheme for blinding them to God’s kingdom and putting the misinformed ones in direct opposition to it. Satan the Devil knows that the battle of Armageddon is unavoidably ahead of his world.
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And since “this gospel of the kingdom” must be preached until the end of that organization, it is evident that the gospel preaching yet to be done, and which sets in with the postwar era, is the final work of witness, the final part of Jehovah’s “strange work”. After it, comes his “strange act” at Armageddon.
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The possibilities for evangelism that loom up before them, especially as such possibilities pertain to the scattered multitudes of persons of good-will in danger of sudden destruction at Armageddon unless reached, present a challenge to Jehovah’s covenant people.
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They were not included in God’s judgment concerning those who should be destroyed in the flood; for the reason that they, together with Satan, had previously been sentenced to death, but their execution was deferred to a later date, namely, at the battle of Armageddon.
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The Devil and his angels have been active from the time of the rebellion at Eden until now, and they will continue active until their destruction at Armageddon.
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After this “strange work” the King Christ Jesus must destroy all creatures and organizations that hate and oppose the Kingdom in the tightest war of all creation’s history, the battle of Armageddon.
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This they must do, down to the battle of Armageddon, when the Kingdom will destroy all the enemies of The Theocracy and then the millennial reign of Christ Jesus will begin.
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That which is Theocratic will survive and will attain the new world of righteousness. There, with all national governments gone from earth, the legal corporation will not be needed. The Theocracy will have other arrangements for the Armageddon survivors.
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Whereas their complete dedication of themselves to Jehovah as the one Universal Ruler does not make them a part of the “people for his name”, they do have a large part in now declaring and magnifying His name before it is vindicated in the final war of Armageddon.
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Since the friendship with this world is enmity with God, his people will be strangers to it until it is totally destroyed at the battle of Armageddon. (Jas. 4:4) Of course, while this world is let exist down till Armageddon, God’s people conduct themselves as law-abiding “strangers and pilgrims” amid the human governments of this world, but such governments do not properly appreciate that fact.
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Since Jesus used Noah as an illustration to picture the Christ, it follows that Noah’s sons and daughters-in-law, through whom the divine mandate was fulfilled in type, pictured the consecrated persons of good-wilt who now share the reproaches of Christ with the spiritual remnant of His body and who wilt fulfill the divine mandate on earth after the world-wide destructions of the battle of Armageddon. This means, of course, that such persons of good-will are to be hid under the “ark” of Jehovah’s Theocratic organization during Armageddon. They will thereby be preserved alive all through the end of this world, and into the new world.—Zeph. 2:1-3; Matt. 24:37-39; Gen. 9:1, 7.
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If so, they pictured the subjects of Christ Jesus, “the Prince of Peace,” and which subjects will inherit everlasting life upon earth after Armageddon. Such ones include the “stranger” class, the “men of good-will” of today who will survive Armageddon and who will, together with the remnant, carry the pure worship of Jehovah God through that battle and into the New World without end.
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As Jehovah’s free nation is now on the trek out of Egypt, with the persecuting Egyptians at its heels, the remnant look ahead to the Red sea of Armageddon to rid them for ever of these malicious persecutors. So the modern-day “mixed multitude” of strangers of good-will march along with and after them. They too expect to pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and to come out safe and sound on the other side, to join in singing Jehovah their Deliverer’s praise in the free NewWorld.-Ex. 14:21-31.
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Will they sink with Satan’s forces in the cataclysm of Armageddon, or will they ride out the storm of divine wrath in the antitypical ark of the Almighty God and enter into His new world of endless life?
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Zion’s counsel will guide safely through present perils and Armageddon’s storm.
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At the approaching world-conflict of Armageddon Jehovah God will perform “his strange act”, of which that at the valley of Gibeon was only a miniature sample.
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Thus this class will pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and will enter into the Theocratic New World under the Greater Joshua, Christ Jesus.-Isa. 28:21.
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At Armageddon Jehovah’s appointed Executioner, Christ Jesus, will regard and cherish their right and will spare them from execution in that great tribulation of Armageddon.-Zeph. 2:1-3.
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In view of the rapid approach of God’s vengeance at Armageddon, bringing the destruction of Jerusalem’s counterpart, modern-day “Christendom”, and of all organized religion, this promise is a great comfort to these “strangers” of good-will.
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In order for them to escape destruction at Armageddon with the blood-stained world-organization, they must forsake all and flee to Jehovah’s Theocratic organization under Christ Jesus the High Priest and must put themselves under it.
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At the latest, therefore, they must suffer destruction with the Devil’s world by the avenging sword of Jehovah’s mighty Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon.—Numbers 35; Joshua 20; Rom. 13:1-5; Lev. 24:21, 22.
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Since now the Theocratic Kingdom has been set up and Jehovah’s King is gathering to his temple of worship all his “other sheep” before the tribulation of Armageddon, it is incumbent upon such gathered “other sheep” to obey the “one ordinance”, namely, to ‘preach this gospel of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness’.-Matt. 24:14.
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The spiritual meat was the steady revealments of truth as to Jehovah’s King and kingdom, and the vindication of his name at the battle of Armageddon by means of the Kingdom.
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This means that the remnant must get the revealed Kingdom message out to many peoples, nations, languages, and their rulers before Armageddon.
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