Wedging his warning in between a description of the preparations for the universal war of Armageddon which follow Satan’s ousting from heaven, Jesus said: “They go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one that stays awake . . . And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har-Ma ged’on.” (Revelation 16:14-16, NW)
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This, too, adds to the proof that Christ’s second presence would be invisible in spirit. To join those ridiculers leads to sudden destruction at Armageddon. To examine the evidence and then live and act as in the second presence of Jesus Christ the reigning King leads to everlasting life.
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In a like prophecy describing the end of the world at Armageddon he also said: “I tell you, In that night two men will be in one bed; the one will be taken along, but the other will be abandoned.
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Occurring in the time of the consummation, this applies to the remnant. It illustrates their being caught away from this wicked world which is doomed to become a carcass at the oncoming battle of Armageddon.
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They rejoiced that the battle of Armageddon was approaching and that there the King with iron rod would reduce the Devil’s world organization to a carcass and so vindicate the universal sovereignty of the Most High God.
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Since the establishment of God’s kingdom A.D. 1914 and the beginning of the harvest of the remnant of Kingdom sheep, a great number of these “other sheep” have begun to answer the Right Shepherd’s call and to submit to his royal leadership. How many they will be before Armageddon’s tribulation destroys Satan’s organization we are not given to know.
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By being gathered now during the consummation of this system of things before the final conflict of Armageddon the “great crowd” of the Right Shepherd’s “other sheep” are brought into earthly association with the remnant of Christ’s spiritual brothers.
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The King extends this invitation to the “other sheep” at the time that the present judgment of the nations is finished, when the time for executing judgment is at hand at Armageddon.
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At the latest at the world’s destruction at Armageddon he orders them to remove from him into the “everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels”. This means that there they are destroyed forever. “For our God is also a consuming fire,” executing annihilation on the wicked.-Hebrews 12:29, NW.
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There is no eternal life destined for Satan and his angels, and there will be no eternal torment in literal fire and brimstone for goatish human souls with them. For them there is an everlasting cutting-off from all life and existence. They do not survive Armageddon.
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Our theme “rearing children in divine favor” does not refer to the rearing of the children of Armageddon survivors in that new world when all surrounding conditions and all forces in operation will be toward helping those who live to do righteousness. No; but it refers to rearing children who are born now before the battle of Armageddon.
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3. Why is proper rearing of children vital now before Armageddon?
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Not only is the life of all children endangered by the nearness of Armageddon, but their eternal destiny is involved. The prophetic foreview of the destruction of Christendom at Armageddon lays bare the alarming fact that the lives of ungodly children will not be spared by God’s executional forces just because of their tender years. (Ezekiel 9:5, 6, 10) The parents will therefore be in large part responsible for what befalls their young offspring at Armageddon.
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In your flight now to the secure refuge during Armageddon, take your children with you by rearing them in divine favor.
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Yes, God knows how to deliver people from the destruction of this wicked world at Armageddon. His promise stands that he will do so.
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The heaven and earth doomed to destruction at Armageddon are symbolic ones, the creation of Satan the Devil.
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In fact, the three sons and three daughters-in-law of Noah prefigured the “great crowd” of other sheep whom the Right Shepherd gathers before Armageddon.
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Sanguinary battles of ancient times at Armageddon in Palestine foreshadowed the universal war of Armageddon.
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With the wicked heaven and earth destroyed at Armageddon, the new world of righteousness begins under the Kingdom which will occupy the first thousand years in a special work for mankind.
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All the “other sheep” of mankind are their subjects, and these inhabit God’s footstool, the earth which he preserves all through the battle of Armageddon.
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When the “great crowd” of other sheep, who survive the end of this world with the remnant of Kingdom heirs, come forth from their hidden condition under God’s protection after Armageddon, what a hope they will have!
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10, 11. (a) What hope as to earth will the great crowd surviving Armageddon have?
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It means life to the eater of its fruit, but immortal heavenly life. When the surviving remnant finish their earthly course after their temporary service on earth after Armageddon and die, they will be rewarded as conquerors.
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However, they need to be relieved of all the disabilities which they inherited as Adam’s descendants. They will not be made instantaneously perfect immediately after Armageddon. But as they travel the way of obedience during the thousand years of the Kingdom they will be healed of every trace of sin and its deadly effects.
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Death, not the battle of Armageddon, dissolves the marriage tie. (Romans 7:1-3)
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As the “great crowd” of other sheep surviving Armageddon are destined for life in the paradise earth, Jesus’ statement that things during his presence would be like those of Noah’s day includes doubtless this postflood mandate to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
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6. Does Armageddon dissolve marriage ties and stop new marriages? What furnishes an illustration?
7. Will there be childbearing after Armageddon? Under what arrangement? For how long?
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Jehovah’s mandate to the deluge survivors gives the Armageddon survivors reason for the expectation that Jehovah by his King, the Greater Noah, will issue a like mandate to them.
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The King can adjust the carrying out of the marriage man-date of Armageddon survivors with the resurrection.
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The children born to such post-Armageddon parents will not be born perfect, for their parents will not be perfect, and hence they will feel the effects of their parents’ being descendants from Adam.
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IN DUE time, when the paradise conditions are developing and the Armageddon survivors and their lovely children are engaging in constructive activities over all the earth and the princes of the King are supervising and taking a right and exemplary lead in the new earth, the resurrection of the rest of the human dead will take place.
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The “great crowd” of Armageddon survivors and the children they bring forth do not need to return from Hades.
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Princes, Armageddon survivors and their children born during the thousand years, and all the remainder of humankind recovered from the graves and sea, will feel the test.
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6. Why is the battle of Armageddon now unavoidable? Where, then, should we flee now, and why?
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The march is on! Where? To the field of Armageddon for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty”! God will not hear the unscriptural prayers of all the religious clergy combined on “world prayer” days for the sparing of this old world from Armageddon.
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In the remaining days before the war at Armageddon do your utmost to take in such vital knowledge and to increase it. Prayerfully study your Bible at home with faithful Bible helps. Go to meetings where you can study it with others or hear it preached. Let the knowledge you gain be your guide, for it means your everlasting life.
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