These words of James show that riches acquired by injustice and oppression are not availing or helpful in the last days which end up in the battle of Armageddon.
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By such interruption of battle action, God had ‘shortened the days of tribulation for his elect’s sake in order that some flesh might be saved’ at Armageddon when God executes his vengeance against all of Satan’s organization visible and invisible.
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It is by this work that the King Christ Jesus at the temple judges such nations and separates out from them his “other sheep”, leaving the rebellious “goats” to a fate of destruction with their national governments at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 26
In behalf of such strangers the message “Millions Now Living Will never Die began to be proclaimed in America in February, 1918; but its proclamation was quickly interfered with by the Devil and his dupes. Toward the end of 1919 this message, showing that persons of good-will on earth will survive the battle of Armageddon, was republished, and multitudes of them in many nations were caused to hear and read this message and related Kingdom truths.
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It is because their joy is in the vindication of Jehovah’s name and of his universal sovereignty, and they know the Kingdom will bring this vindication at Armageddon.
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Just as surely as God makes what he sows in the earth spring forth in glorious verdure and beautiful flower, just so the same invincible God Almighty will, before Armageddon, cause his righteousness, his vindication and his praise to spring forth before all nations. They are forced to see it, because of the reconstruction work done among them by his King and his faithful remnant and his “other sheep”. And his glorious victory at Armageddon will climax their righteous witness work, and will establish his righteousness and his praise for ever universally, throughout earth and heaven.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 28
The destructive work of the flood pictured the coming Armageddon battle and the great destruction it will bring about the earth as well as upon the earth; and the part played by Noah in offering clean animals in sacrifice after coming out of the ark foreshadowed Christ Jesus and his reign of blessedness after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 30
They are the “other sheep” of the Lord, to wit, the Jonadabs, who will form the “great multitude” after Armageddon. (Rev. 7:9-15; John 10:16; 2 Ki. 10:15) Christ Jesus, the antitype of Noah, is “the everlasting Father” who ministers life to the obedient ones of the human race, and he does so as the active representative of Jehovah. Noah’s sons were born a short time before the flood. Like- wise the Greater Noah,Christ Jesus, a short time prior to Armageddon, brings forth the “other sheep”, or the Jonadabs, that form the “great multitude”. Noah’s sons were born near the end of the “world that then was”; and now the Jonadabs appear in this end of this “evil world” and these are to be given everlasting life after proving their integrity, that is, after the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 30
Armageddon will clear the earth of unrighteousness, and thereafter those who live must be on the side of God and Christ his King. The Scriptures show that those who survive Armageddon on earth will be those who”seek righteousness, seek meekness”, namely, the remnant of Christ’s anointed body-members and also their companions, the “other sheep”, or Jonadabs.
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The entire number will be but a small number compared with the mass of humanity now on earth. But there is no need to be appalled by the great world-wide destruction of Armageddon.
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But the fact that, as compared with the remnant, a “great multitude” of “other sheep” do keep integrity toward God and are carried alive through Armageddon conclusively disproves and nullifies Satan’s wicked challenge of being able to wreck everyone’s integrity, and it will be a vindication of Jehovah’s name and word.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 30
If a “great multitude” of Jonadabs survive Armageddon and are wholly devoted to Jehovah and his King, Christ Jesus, what may these do under the righteous direction of Christ Jesus toward ’filling the earth’ within a few short warless centuries? The sons and daughters-in-law of Noah pictured the Jonadabs, these survivors of Armageddon who will receive life everlasting on earth from Jehovah as a gracious gift ministered to them by Christ Jesus, the Greater than Noah. Seeing that God’s mandate was and is given only to righteous men and that the survivors of Armageddon are the ones who have obeyed God in seeking righteousness and meekness, is it not both reasonable and Scriptural that Jehovah will use that righteous “great multitude” under the righteous overlord to carry out and perform His mandate to ‘be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth’?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 30, 31
The “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, therefore, carry out God’s mandate to fill the earth with righteous persons, and this before the general resurrection of humankind in the graves.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 31
Leet them do this in order that they may be found worthy to have a part in carrying out the divine mandate to be reissued after the battle of Armageddon, and thus have a part in the vindicating of God’s holy name and faithful word.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1945 p. 31
When Satan’s viperous brood is exterminated at Armageddon these proud and haughty blasphemers will be numbered with them, and all those who cast their lot with these pious pretenders will descend into death.
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They are looking forward solely to life on this earth under the Kingdom, and are eager by God’s grace to survive the battle of Armageddon and, continuing obedient thereafter, never to die off the earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 43
It must picture their consecration to the Most High God through God, to be dead and buried to their own natural will and to live in the future unto the doing of God’s will, following after Christ Jesus with the remnant of his “little flock” of body members and doing the work now authorized to be done before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 43
Water baptism, then, being understood to symbolize the believer’s unreserved consecration of himself to God, who is there to say that water baptism may not be practiced after the battle of Armageddon under the thousand-year reign of Christ Jesus and his body-members?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 44
Likewise, the children born after Armageddon to the “great multitude” of the Lord’s “other sheep” who survive that battle and who thereafter carry out the divine mandate to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” will be obliged to make a personal consecration to God through the King Christ Jesus.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 44
But whether or not during the 1000-year reign of Christ, baptism in water of those consecrating to God by his King Christ Jesus is valid and according to the will of God unto this day, and until the antitypical flood of the battle of Armageddon.-See The Watchtower, October 1, 1916, page 294.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 44
22 Seeing that water baptism means what it does, then how about such a practice after Armageddon during Christ’s reign?
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23. How about the children born to the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 44
I compared Noah’s time with Armageddon, explained the Kingdom condition, and told her our responsibility to get into that kingdom: ‘Shall we obey God or men?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1945 p. 48
Terrible destruction came upon the Jewish nation because of failure to keep Jehovah’s sabbaths and related laws, which destruction was symbolic of the final war of Armageddon. Hence this is a question of instant of Armageddon is impending over “Christendom”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 56
Such 1,000-year reign of Christ Jesus, as foretold at Revelation 20:1-6, begins after the binding of Satan the Devil; in other words, after the battle of Armageddon, which battle, everything indicates, will begin inside this generation.-Rev. 16:14-16.
That will be a glorious sabbath-day for humankind, both for “men of good-will” today living, whom God will favor with preservation through the battle of Armageddon, and also for the billions of dead ones in the graves who will hear the voice of the reigning Son of God and will come forth to a resurrection of judgment. (John 5:28, 29, A.S.V.)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 59
Yet the fact that Jehovah God used her to make this prophetic picture shows that one of low reputation may seek the Lord God and find him, and gain a place of safety and protection during the world-shattering tribulation of Armageddon, which is near at hand.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 60
Before beginning the march to the Jordan Joshua sent two trusted men to spy out Jericho, which city pictured the religious organizations that the Lord God has declared it his purpose to destroy at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 60
Today the religionists, and particularly the leaders of the Roman Catholic system, the Hierarchy, deliberately at- tempt to besmirch the name and reputation of true Christians. They do this in utter disregard of the message of the King Christ Jesus and his kingdom and the warning that that message sounds to them concerning Armageddon.
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Only God’s provision can save these at Armageddon.
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That part of the picture shows that the Jonadabs, or “men of good will”, must be active in taking the message of the Kingdom to others, that such others may find the place of safety and refuge, namely, in Jehovah’s organization, before the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 61
All such refugees must remain under the protection of the Lord God and his organization prior to and continuously up to and through the final tribulation upon the world at Armageddon. If Rahab and those of her household obeyed and were faithful to the requirements put upon her, their salvation was guaranteed when the city of Jericho fell. This part of the picture marks the way for those who will survive Armageddon, showing that they must flee to the Lord’s organization and put themselves under it and then continually seek righteousness and meekness and faithfully participate with the witnesses of Jehovah, giving testimony to the name and kingdom of Almighty God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 61
Jericho’s miraculous destruction was a small-scale picture of the approaching battle of Armageddon; hence the timeliness of noting how Rahab’s faith moved her to action and works down till Jericho’s end. This prophetic drama was made many centuries ago and the record was preserved for present usefulness. The meaning thereof is now made known for the purpose of aiding and benefiting those on earth who love and serve God and his King Christ Jesus, and particularly now for the guidance of all “men of good will”, who will inherit “peace on earth” after Armageddon to endless eternity.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1945 p. 62
The nations of “christendom” are unchangeably committed to their ways, and are too far gone to take this truthful fact to heart and amend their course. Their destruction at Armageddon is clearly in sight.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1945 p. 68
Considering now the modern counterpart of this: When Christ Jesus the King came to the temple in 1918, he saw the immediate need of a great reconstruction work. He saw it must be done before the battle of Armageddon if any flesh on earth, primarily his devoted followers, were to be saved.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1945 p. 71
Jehovah God has commanded that the testimony work must be done before the slaughter work of Armageddon begins; and the remnant are now zealous to do it, fully determined that, by the grace of God, nothing shall prevent them from doing it faithfully.
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What, however, is the case for the religious opposers? This: the same fate awaits them at the coming battle of Armageddon as befell those of the kingdom of Israel who refused.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1945 p. 88
Once, after a funeral passed by playing “Ave Maria” and then but a few minutes later Brother
Knorr showed that this so-called “queen of heaven” would be unavoidable to save the city of Rome from destruction at Armageddon, the dm of hand-clapping was followed by excited chattering of votes everywhere throughout the Hall, with many gesticulations; and Brother Knorr had to wait for it to subside.
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If they now undertook to share in any responsibilities for the governments of this world and to contaminate themselves with this doomed world, it would also doom them to destruction with such governments at the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1945 p. 93
That is the truth which Vatican City and the other states of postwar “Christendom” will be forced to learn and to admit at the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1945 p. 100
They look forward calmly and confidently to the fast-approaching battle of Armageddon, knowing that the same unconquerable God shall fight that battle for them too, because the battle is not theirs, but God’s. Note now how the Bible record gives basis for such confidence.
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Yes, at the coming battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will preserve his heavenly King and kingdom. In token of that fact he will carry. His faithful remnant and their companions of good-will through the final universal war.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1945 p. 108
This again reminds Jehovah’s witnesses that the battle is not theirs, but is Jehovah’s, at Armageddon.
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What admonition, comfort and hope for us lie~ in that strange fact of history? This: At the time when Satan’s visible postwar organization will have made its loudest boasts and direst threats against Jehovah’s servants on earth of his Theocratic Government, then the night of Armageddon will settle down upon this world.
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He will perform his “strange act” at Armageddon, as he did thousands of years ago in the land of Judah, ‘for his own sake and for the sake of his beloved King.’
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But the remnant of Zion’s children and all those of good-will who will have come out from all the nations and taken their stand on the side of Zion, will survive victoriously with Zion. Being spared alive through Armageddon, they will know for ever that Jehovah is God alone.
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To bring present-day meaning into this ancient drama in which Jonadab acted, let this be understood: Jonadab represented or foreshadowed that class of people now on the earth when Christ Jesus, the King greater than Jehu, is carrying on his work amidst his enemies; and which Jonadab class take their stand on the side of righteousness and are the ones whom, if continuing obedient and faithful, the Lord Jesus Christ will preserve during the time of Armageddon, take them through that trouble, and give them everlasting life on earth.
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The question now arises, Are natural Jews of today debarred from joining that unnumbered multitude of persons of good-will, just because of what the national organization of Israel did nineteen centuries ago? Are individual Jews excluded from this opportunity of taking their stand for the heavenly kingdom and living through the battle of Armageddon and entering into life eternal on earth in the NewWorld of righteousness?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1945 p. 116
The demons are herding the peoples unto Armageddon for a united stand against Jehovah and His right to rule. (Rev. 16:13-16) Satan’s use of the total-state monstrosity toward this end was pre-figured long ago.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1945 p. 124
Satan the Devil is now mustering all his anti-God forces to the battle of Armageddon, and as a part of his preparation he is desperately trying to unify his visible world organizations and peoples into a solid front against Jehovah’s rightful rulership.
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The Greater David, Christ Jesus, has killed that monstrosity so far as its influence over His followers is concerned, and it will be destroyed for ever at Armageddon.
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In that warfare between God’s organization and the enemy Satan’s organization, which warfare culminates in the battle of Armageddon now approaching, Christ Jesus must win. He must violently seize the wicked organization and utterly destroy it; the enemy gates can not hold him off from doing so. Thereby Christ Jesus will vindicate Jehovah’s name at Armageddon.
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It is that kingdom which brings “glory to God in the highest” by vindicating his name at the battle of Armageddon.
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This proclamation of the Kingdom as having come and been established must therefore be fearlessly and vigorously conducted in all nations down to the violent end of this world organization at the battle of Armageddon.
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All these, realizing they have received and continue to receive of the tender mercies of God, extend mercy cheerfully to others by making known to all alike, whether foe or friend, the way of escape from the Armageddon of God’s wrath. All this they will persist in doing by faith in God and with undying faithfulness to Him through Christ. And thus all operates Theocratically, and hence unitedly under God and Christ, for the greatest Kingdom witness of history before Armageddon.
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That time of destruction of the Devil’s world is the battle of Armageddon not so far ahead now, and there Jehovah will vindicate his name and place as the Supreme One.
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At the oncoming battle of Armageddon Christ Jesus the Son will fight to victory over Satan’s world, for the vindication of Jehovah’s name.
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They have been pouring down the river-bed that the Devil has carved out for them toward the sea of death and destruction at the battle of Armageddon. As the children of Israel under Captain Joshua long ago marched between the Jordan river waters and across its open river-bed into the Promised Land, so have Jehovah’s witnesses of this twentieth century been passing, for years since 1918, through the vast waters of hundreds of millions of people.
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But there will be the final ransom toll to pay for further persecuting and pursuing after Jehovah’s remnant and their companions to drag them back into enforced service of this world. That final toll will be destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
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Since such men and peoples persist in their oppressions upon the remnant and their companions, they must die at Armageddon. They will not be let stand in the way of the establishment of Jehovah’s new world.
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The “new thing” that proves Jehovah’s God-ship and universal sovereignty will take on its most convincing testimonial form in the near future, at Armageddon’s universal battle.
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All who put their trust in those religious, political, commercial and social enemies of Jehovah’s King in Zion are sure to be disappointed and suffer crushing defeat and execution by the Stone at the battle of Armageddon.
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They know that the national, commercial and religious organizations will be destroyed in the world’s end at Armageddon, but that individuals who now seek unto Jehovah and his kingdom may be hidden and saved from that destruction of worldly organizations.
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The end of their proposed postwar world bill come from his hand at Armageddon. They have refused to learn the knowledge of Jehovah God which his witnesses have promoted and spread among the people.
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This they must do in order to escape destruction with the old world at Armageddon an in order to enter into the New World of abundance of life.
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It means being a witness for Jehovah and faithfully fulfilling that position of service until He vindicates his name at the battle of Armageddon and thus brings the great period of witnessing to a close.
Let those “other sheep” that are already catered in follow the lead of their Good Shepherd and fulfill their commission from him to preach, in order for other meek ones to hear, that such may believe on Jehovah God and call on his name, openly confessing him before Armageddon.
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God Almighty will not all that, when Armageddon falls with destruction upon this world, it should be said that his Kingdom message of salvation was not proclaimed far enough nor given a sufficient hearing.
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He is under an unrevokable sentence of death, but for His own all-wise reason Jehovah God has suspended the execution of that sentence until the battle of Armageddon, now not far distant.
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Once the issue has been decisively settled at the approaching battle of Armageddon, Jehovah God will cause the Devil to be bound in death.
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While such bloody practice may not be carried on by the religionists of “Christendom” today, yet “Christendom” stands exposed as a deliberate violator of Jehovah’s “everlasting covenant”, and for such reason she may expect Jehovah’s vengeance to be executed upon her by his Executioner at the battle of Armageddon. (Isa. 24:5, 6)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1945 p. 198
Christ Jesus is Jehovah’s Executioner or Avenger of blood at the battle of Armageddon, against all violators of the everlasting covenant governing the sanctity of life and its blood-stream.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1945 p. 201
Satan the Devil knows well he has but a very limited time till the battle of Armageddon is fought, and he has been employing every device to force all men to his side of the great issue and prevent them from turning to Jehovah God for refuge. Besides the woes which Satan has multiplied upon the peoples, the worshipers of other gods than Jehovah will have their sorrows multiplied at the battle of Armageddon, by a time of tribulation such as never will have been, when Christ Jesus executes Jehovah’s vengeance against all such.
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As for their present loving companions, Christ’s “other sheep”, these also may know that, when any of them die faithful before Armageddon clears out al the Lord’s enemies, their immovableness for Jehovah’s worship will win his favor for them.
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At the impending battle of Armageddon Jehovah will justify himself or vindicate himself and his universal domination by destroying all those who do not hold to it.
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He will vindicate his name completely at the battle of Armageddon, beyond denial by anyone in all creation.
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Devoted men and women of good-will today, who entertain the hope of surviving Armageddon and gaining life on earth in the NewWorld, should also understand this subject, to ascertain if they too are now “justified by faith” or what their justification will mean to them.
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The zero hour of Armageddon’s battle undelayably comes on.
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In the previous issue of The Watchtower we suggested that our readers of good-will today ought to understand this subject. They entertain the hope of surviving Armageddon and gaining life on earth in the NewWorld, and they ought to make certain if they are now”justified by faith” or what their justification will mean to them, however it comes to them.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1945 p. 230
It is these that the apostle speaks of as being justified by faith now during this “present evil world” and hence before the battle of Armageddon.
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Suppose that, because of their faith and obedience now before Armageddon, they had justification by faith through the imputation of righteousness. Then that would mean they could not die before Armageddon, as some are now doing through old age or otherwise. It would also mean that, surviving Armageddon, they would lose such justification in the new world and would gain instead justification actually in the flesh.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1945 p. 252
All the world today is blood-guilty; and to escape the guilt of the world and the penalty therefor at Armageddon, the “stranger” class must flee to the antitypical city of refuge, God’s Theocratic organization under the High Priest Christ Jesus.
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Nevertheless, that does not bring about their justification before the battle of Armageddon.
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Likewise, the “other sheep” class, in the Theocratic “city of refuge”, may take part in the activities of the visible organization and may associate with the remnant of the antitypical Levites. And they have the High Priest Christ Jesus as a covering for them from the execution of Jehovah’s righteous wrath against the world at Armageddon.
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Thus their justification must come after Armageddon, and it must be by the perfecting of them in the flesh to be the children of Jehovah God, the same as the perfect Adam was in Eden.
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But these faithful ones will become such during his thousand-year reign after Armageddon; and now, by virtue of the prospect of eventually becoming Jehovah’s perfect sons, they address him prospectively as “Our Father”.
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This is absolute proof from Sacred Writ that the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning Joseph and his brethren is now taking place, and the understating of this is now made clear for the benefit of “men of good will” who will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1945 p. 254
Can we not see in this that only those of good-will toward Jehovah, and who give a hearing ear to the message of the Kingdom and hence recognize and accept Christ Jesus as the Savior of the world and turn to him, will be saved, and that all others will go down in the cataclysm of Armageddon?
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Similarly, Jehovah called to “Christendom” by His witnesses, who bid the people to accept Jehovah’s Theocratic Government and to flee from his day of his vengeance at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1945 p. 262
At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will further vindicate his almighty power by draping those demonic heavens with the mourning and sackcloth of death and destruction.
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That they yet have a ways to go before they are vindicated at the battle of Armageddon by Jehovah’s victory there, does not make them faint or slack the hand in his service.
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At the settlement of the bitter controversy by the final battle at Armageddon Jehovah will fight and prove that fact.
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They shall lie down in a sorrowful death at the battle of Armageddon; for then this world shall end.
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It is the outbreak of the universal war of Armageddon, between God’s organization and the Devil’s organization, with all the nations on the earth on the Devil’s side and against God’s Kingdom.
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The world catastrophe of Armageddon is whiter the nations are now marching, even under banners and slogans of peace.
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Only knowledge from God’s Word, the Bible, is a defense against being swept along with the politicians, financiers, and religious clergy in their willful march to destruction at Armageddon.
The people of today have a right to know that the condition of religious “Christendom” is the modern counterpart of that of ancient Israel, and that Israel’s fate is due upon “Christendom” at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1945 p. 277
Religiously inclined people are deceiving themselves when they think that their sacrificial offering of money to priests and preachers, and the “sacrifice of the mass”, and the religious ritual and ceremonies which the clergymen carry on, actually count with God and will screen them from Armageddon.
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Certainly the people who seek true security and protection cannot look to such clergy and their political allies for defense against Armageddon.
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What is their protection against going along with the captivating religious “strange woman”and falling into the deep pit into which she is leading the nations at Armageddon? Take defense!
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Anyone anxious to escape being abhorred by the Lord God and falling into destruction at Armageddon will forsake religion, and will seek knowledge and be guided by it.
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“Christendom” has no such knowledge and understanding, and she rebels against the reproofs which God sends against her through the message of His witnesses. For her willful ignorance she will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon. Those who want to avoid her fate will not resist the information and the reproofs which she refuses. Without first knowing what is the will of God, they would be hastening down the same path of sin in which she hurries toward Armageddon, and would show themselves foolish.
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If we desire to do what is righteous, we will recognize the people’s absolute lack of defense against what is impending over the world at Armageddon, and we will be diligent to give such endangered ones what is due them, by informing them of the danger and pointing out the way of escape.
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At Armageddon they will throw their silver and gold and material wealth into the streets, but neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s anger and to buy a way for their lives to be spared. (Ezek. 7:19; Zeph. 1:18) Whereas money may be a temporary defense now, our knowing Jehovah and his purpose is a permanent defense against disaster at Armageddon.
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32. For what will “Christendom”, therefore, be destroyed at Armageddon? and why is it not good now to be without knowledge?
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Those who are destined to perish think that the savor of our message is death-dealing. Shall we be influenced by their.opinion? No; but, knowing that
the knowledge of God is a defense against death by execution in the day of his wrath at Armageddon, let us cast up this defense more strongly.
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As humble King David subdued in battle all God’s enemies in the typical Theocracy, so at Armageddon’s fight the Greater David, Christ Jesus, will clear out all anti-Theocratic forces and will extend and cause to be recognized throughout the universe, including this earthly ball, Jehovah’s dominion.
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Money is only a temporary defense to be east aside as worthless in a time of crisis, while the knowledge of Jehovah is the only permanent defense against the wrath of Armageddon.
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They sing of how the anointed King at once went into action as Jehovah’s royal Consort and Executive; how he immediately began “war in heaven”; how he fought successfully against that old Serpent Satan and all his demon seed and cast them out of heaven and down to the earth, to be reserved here a “short time” before the head of tile Serpent is crushed at the battle of Armageddon. They sing forth that God’s kingdom is here, at the doors, according to all the visible signs in evidence on earth since 1914; and that such kingdom by Christ Jesus will come against all of Satan’s abased organization and will wipe it from the face of the universe for ever, at Armageddon. What a new song!
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They rejoice that he will make a name for himself by his victory at the battle of Armageddon.
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That of the human courts is quickly to pass away, at the battle of Armageddon; that of Jehovah’s holy courts is never-fading.
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At Armageddon, however, when the leaders of this “earth” are saying,
“Peace and security !” will come the climax of death-dealing pain: “then suddenly upon them cometh destruction, just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, and in nowise shall they escape.” -1 Thess. 5:3, Roth.
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By having Satan and his demonic heavens cast down to the vicinity of this earth, Jehovah has made all enemies the footstool of his anointed King Christ Jesus; and Christ Jesus is commanded to wiled the scepter of his power in the midst of such enemies till he finally dashes them to pieces like a potter’s vessel at Armageddon.
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In the modern counterpart it is Christ Jesus, the Greater-than-Joseph, who causes the truth to be held forth and who is gathering unto the fold the “other sheep” who will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
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Because the great death-dealing spiritual famine is on in “Christendom”and will continue until the battle of Armageddon breaks over “Christendom”and all the rest of Satan’s organization and destroys all such.
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There are many others, like scattered sheep, that the Lord will yet gather into the fold before Armageddon.
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Like-wise now those of the “other sheep”, who are in the world, are obliged to come to Jehovah’s visible organization, the Theocratic organization of His witnesses under Christ Jesus, and then to learn the way to life by obtaining and feeding upon the life-stores which the Lord has prepared and stored up for such. This they must do before the battle of Armageddon climaxes the great famine.
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Hence Joseph’s transactions with the people do not mean the man can buy his life from God. It does mean that, in order for the great flock of “other sheep” to survive Armageddon and to get life from God through Christ Jesus, these must fully comply with God’s terms which terms are that men shall fully, unreservedly and completely consecrate themselves to God and his faithful service, and shall acknowledge and serve his King, Christ Jesus.
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The “other sheep” surviving Armageddon will likewise recognize the arrangement which the King Christ Jesus makes for them according to the will of God, and they will be glad therefor.
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Yes, he was present in the established Kingdom to rule in the midst of his enemies until he finally destroys them at the coming battle of Armageddon.-Matt. 24:1-22.
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Now all Jehovah’s enemies are bottled up at the earth, and the battle of Armageddon comes on apace.
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At the battle of Armageddon he will settle the issue and vindicate his right to universal sovereignty by wiping out all his united organized enemies, visible and invisible, as completely as if by destruction in fire.
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Refusing to conform itself to the light of God’s flashing truths, this symbolic “earth” continues to writhe and twist as if in birth-pangs, suffering from the sorrows which began in 1914 and which will reach their worst at her death at Armageddon.
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But all people will be forced to see the glory of Jehovah’s vindication at the fiery battle of Armageddon.
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Whereas the peoples on earth refuse to receive the testimony of the “heavens”, Armageddon’s stern realities will make them see Jehovah’s glory.
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At Armageddon they will fight under him to the utter destruction of Satan’s entire organization.
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Satan the Devil has come down, having great wrath because of being ousted from heaven and also because of knowing he has but a short time until the showdown fight at Armageddon; and so he brings great woes upon his earthly organization, to regiment everybody to his side of the controversy.
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It would be very ungrateful if his consecrated people did not love Jehovah, seeing how he has preserved their souls or lives down to this date and promises to do so clear through the catastrophe of Armageddon.
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Therefore, at Armageddon, the brilliant light of everlasting deliverance and gladness will crown all of Jehovah’s lovers.
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Do these words say that the “law” will not be abolished before the heaven and earth (Satan’s invisible and visible organization) pass away in destruction at the battle of Armageddon to be succeeded by the new heavens and new earth which God has promised? No!
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All the world of mankind are “dead in trespasses and sins” and traveling now a swift pace toward destruction at the battle of Armageddon
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It is so because the nations are bent on continuing their march through the postwar period to the battlefield of Armageddon, which name Armageddon refers to the “war of the great day of God, the Almighty”. (Rev. 16: 14, Am. Stan. Ver.) In that universal war of Armageddon a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of surviving alive into the new world.
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Hezekiah, prince of Judah, was another who be-thought himself of the Creator in his youthful days. Therefore his reign, which began when he was but twenty-five years of age, was a faithful and godly reign that foreshadowed the time of Christ’s reigning with his Father from A.D. 1914 down to the battle of Armageddon-2 Kings, chapters 18, 19; 2 Chronicles, chapters 29-32.
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It matters not how few years or many years the battle of Armageddon may be off, now is the time to remember and serve the great Creator of the New World.
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Getting off in youth to a start in the commercial, political, and religious things of this world, in disregard of the will of Jehovah God the Creator and Promiser of the New World, leaves the man at old age as empty as this old world, which is near its Armageddon of destruction.
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Such cleansing or purging work continues till now. “Even to the time of the end.” That means until the Lord’s “strange work” is completed, after which his “strange act” will be made manifest at Armageddon-Isa 28:21; Dan. 11:35.
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Such proclamation must keep on until the beginning of the battle of Armageddon, at which time Jehovah God will show to all his supreme power. While no man yet knows the day nor the hour that Armageddon will begin, the “signs of the times” show that it is very near.
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This devoted son of God would vindicate Jehovah’s universal sovereignty not only by his unbreakable faithfulness to God on earth, but also by reigning at Jehovah’s right hand in heaven and destroying everything of Satan’s wicked world at the battle of Armageddon.
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IN THE November 15 issue of this journal (¶2) it was stated: “In that universal ware of Armageddon a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of surviving alive into the new world.
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Being marked in the divine eyes as a person of good-will is what counts for exemption from slaughter in that universal Armageddon.
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Ezekiel, chapter 9, in harmony with other prophecies, shows a separating work conducted by him shortly preceding the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, otherwise called “Armageddon”, and clearly identifies the people of good-will, or Jonadabs.
The mighty executive officer of Jehovah God is Christ Jesus, the one who leads Jehovah’s hosts of heaven at the battle of Armageddon and who executes Jehovah’s judgment upon the enemy organization of Satan the Devil.
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The heavenly, invisible part does the violent work of execution of the wicked; while the visible, earthly part does the work of publishing God’s message of truth, to the end that intelligent persons may choose which side they will take before the execution at Armageddon takes place.
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Organized religion of “Christendom”is, as a whole, symbolized under the term “city”, which city God will wipe out at Armageddon.
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This shows, and let all the youthful ones of today note it, that God’s Executioner at Armageddon slays all except those who bear the mark in the forehead, beginning with the “ancient men”, that is to say, with those high in authority and who exercise governing control over the organization and lead in religion. As the executioners go down the line, it is the mark that counts with them as to who may be spared. The slaughter of the “ancient men”means the beginning or first part of Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty: “And he said unto them, Defile the house [temple of religion], and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.”-Ezek. 9:7
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It is the Jonadab class that are spared and protected by the Lord God during Armageddon because they are marked in the forehead and obey Him.
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The witnesses to the Kingdom are very grateful to God for its establishment in their day, and they sing for joy because that Kingdom will act at the battle of Armageddon for the full vindication of Jehovah’s name by bringing Satan’s world organization to its end in destruction.
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Only by so doing will they escape destruction with the political nations at Armageddon and enter into life eternal on the cleansed earth in God’s righteous NewWorld.
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With the postwar epoch ahead of us and the demons hurrying all the political nations on to Armageddon, we are living in the very culmination of the fulfillment of the prophecy Paul quoted.
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The battle which Joshua later fought with the enemies of that treaty at Gibeon is, without a doubt, a picture of the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, otherwise called “Armageddon”. Armageddon’s likeness to the battle of Gibeon is shown at Isaiah 28:21, which reads : “For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.” The act, “his strange act,” here mentioned is the battle of Armageddon, where God’s enemies will be destroyed.
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This shows that those today who are disposed toward God cannot wait until Armageddon begins, to seek Jehovah God, but must act quickly upon hearing the truth as set forth in the Scriptures and as proclaimed by Jehovah’s witnesses.
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This is further evidence that the battle of Gibeon was a picture of the battle of Armageddon.
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The Gibeonites were delivered and saved from the destruction purposed upon them by the combined enemy, and this pictures that the persons of good-will who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors by first putting themselves under the command of the Greater Joshua, the Captain Christ Jesus, will be saved at the battle of Armageddon and will enter the new righteous world.
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