Christian conduct, company problems and remedies, the progress made by Jehovah’s people over past years, and the need for fearlessly sticking with the work left for us before Armageddon, were among the points discussed.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 59
After her baptism the next day, she stated her desire to maybe even pioneer a little before Armageddon, the Lord willing. By her steadfastness and love for Jehovah she has shamed some, inspired all.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 103
The rulers of the people on this island are in for a great awakening at Armageddon. The religionists have failed in their work in Malta.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 116
How to expand the ministry ls our big question. With 1 publisher for every 20,000 persons in this long and narrow land, you can see that our first question is not, How near is Armageddon? Rather it is, How are we going to get the testimony to all the nations before the end comes? It is certain that Jehovah through his King Christ Jesus will make it possible. He has given the command and he will see that it is fulfilled. It is to these Higher Powers that we give thanks for our being able to report a new peak of 261 publishers as a climax for our 1949 service year.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 127
(1) Q. Why do you want to be immersed? A. I want to live in God’s new world and I must first be immersed as Jesus was. Another answer: I want to be saved during the battle of Armageddon and live in the new world. (2) Q. What do you say when you go from door to door? A. In reply the young publisher speaks about the preaching work, dividing of the people, Armageddon and the new world.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 164
As each service year terminates it means Armageddon is that much nearer. To all of Jehovah’s witnesses everywhere it means one year less of treasured opportunities for preaching the Word and redeeming the time for field service.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 174
I was much concerned about these people at first, wondering how they were going to receive the Kingdom message before Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 203
It is our joy, and we are pleased to serve Jehovah in this part of the vineyard, working shoulder to shoulder with one another and looking forward to the climax at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 218
They have increased their peak number of publishers from 10,385 to 14,510 in one year’s time. Our brethren in Poland feel that “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord”, and they are trying to give all the people in Poland the opportunity of hearing the message before the final battle of Armageddon. The Branch servant gives us a report on their difficulties in accomplishing this work.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. p. 228
‘l’he Son of man’s dealing with the sheep and goats takes place before the wicked heavens and earth of this world flee into destruction, at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. January 11
It takes place in this the long-foretold “day of Jehovah”, which began at the end of the “times of the Gentiles” in 1914 and closes at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. January 11
So they feast upon this carcass by rejoicing in his victory over it at Armageddon, because it means his vindication of Jehovah.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. January 13
By keeping their integrity through a faithful part in this witness work, they are given the satisfying privilege of seeing Christ the King gain victory at Armageddon and render the mighty enemy organization like a carcass unburied and left to be devoured by carrion birds.-Rev. 19:16-18 W 8/1
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. January 11
The work of separating the people of all the nations occupies the greater part of the period from 1914 to Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 2
This is when the battle of Armageddon is due to start and each one must take the consequences of his stand.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 2
Many will be left to their self-chosen destiny of destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 9
The prophet Daniel tells us of the setting up of the Kingdom in the hands of God’s Son and how it smashes the entire Devil’s organization at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 12
Just so, after Armageddon God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus will extend its realm over all the earth.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 12
With this in view he has given us special revelations of truth since 1918. This enables us to preach to others, to enlighten them on what this woeful period of world history means and how amid it all divine goodness is being specially shown to mankind before the devastating battle of Armageddon blots out all of Satan’s organization.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 13
But Armageddon will lay him low by the blows of Jehovah’s battle-ax, Christ Jesus the Greater Cyrus.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 14
He will literally reduce them to an empty waste at the battle of Armageddon. W 2/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. February 24
His weapons to execute his indignation and wrath in the battle of Armageddon are his angelic hosts under his Greater Cyrus, Jesus Christ.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 3
But Jesus’ faithful remnant of anointed followers who survive on earth down to the battle of Armageddon will have no part in any violent opposition to the political nations or in any destruction of these.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 3
Being higher than any and all of the kings of earth, none of these can resist him and he will trounce them with sore defeat at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 11
These are doubtless the angels, or include the angels, that fought for the Kingdom in the war in heaven immediately after the Kingdom was born in 1914. (Rev. 12:1-13) Come a third war or not, one thing is absolutely certain: the fight of the universe, Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” is ahead of this world.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 14
Being hid, they may survive the battle of Armageddon in which this world will end.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 25
But by the curative, reconstructive power of God’s kingdom these Armageddon survivors will be progressively relieved of the sinfulness, weakness and imperfections inherited from Adam and Eve.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 25
At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will destroy all those who are destroyers of the earth in their heartlessness toward their neighbors and mankind.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 26
Hence he will show us merciful ones his mercy and spare us from destruction at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. March 26
One of the ways all families and nations will be blessed by Abraham’s Seed will be by a Paradise restored on earth under the Kingdom, after Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. April 3
Jehovah’s King is the great Signal whom Be has put on Mount Zion and to whom all seekers of life, truth and righteousness must assemble for protection and preservation through Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. April 13
Then David with other resurrected faithful men of old will joyfully serve Jehovah’s King as one of his visible princes in all the earth. At Armageddon the great Son of David will fight for the peace of the new world.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. April 22
Do not be embarrassed because a modern Babylonian tell you you cannot see those heavenly hosts of Jehovah being mustered for Armageddon. God’s Word serves as your spiritual eyes.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. April 26
The religious system of lawlessness was not destroyed at the beginning of Christ’s manifestation in 1918 but has been permitted to stay till the battle of Armageddon. This is in order to test the integrity and faithfulness of the remnant and his “other sheep”. When Armageddon begins, his manifestation will turn into a revelation of violent power against the “man of sin” system and it will be destroyed together with all others who refuse to line up with the glorious gospel of God’s established kingdom.-2 Thess. 1:6-10. W 8/1
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. April 30
When the King orders such “goats” into the “everlasting fire” prepared for their kind, it is time for Armageddon to begin.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 9
The “goats” will never survive the fires of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 9
They think they have a league with death by this, so that death will not touch them, and think they have a covenant or agreement with hell so that hell will not open its gates for them and they go down into the grave. Jehovah shows they have figured wrong, because his battle of Armageddon will break up all arrangements for selfish, personal safety.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 10
The very fact that he must rule in the midst of his enemies proves he must be present, that his parousia must be in effect among such enemies from the time he began ruling in 1914 until he destroys them at the battle of Armageddon, as verses 5, 6 foretell.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 25
In the battle of Armageddon when the presence of the Sou of man is revealed in that way, it will be as when fire and sulphur rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah after Lot had gotten out.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 27
The coming battle which prophecy calls by the name of Armageddon will rage both in the visible earth and in the invisible heavens, for antitypical Babylon takes in an earthly part and a heavenly or spiritual part.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 30
His day is near for doing so. Those Satanic heavens are now atremble, awaiting destruction at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 30
If the end of the persecution were to decide the matter, then the ‘treading down of Jerusalem by the Gentiles’ has no end till the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. May 31
Their continuing to heed it and tell it out to others guarantees that they too will not come into condemnation now or at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 7
By violence, force and intimidation his great organization, modern Babylon, took them into captivity and exile during World War I, but in 1919 Jehovah God acted for his own name’s sake and delivered and restored them as His name-people. He will preserve them through the battle of Armageddon. W 8/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 9
The Kingdom preaching is the work commanded to be done now while Satan and his demons are hurrying all nations to their end at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 10
Make no mistake about it: divine mercy was extended to us between the “beginning of sorrows” and Armageddon that we might live to serve him in fulfillment of his prophecies.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 10
To show the scarcity of man upon earth after Armageddon wipes out old “Babylon”, Jehovah God warns : “The arrogance of proud men I will still, and lay the haughtiness of tyrants low, till man becomes more rare than finest gold, men scarcer than gold ore from Ophir.” (13:11, 12, Moffat; An Amer. Trans.)
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 15
They will be the people who now believe God’s warning-message and who dissociate themselves from any part in Babylon’s wickedness, and whom Jehovah will spare alive at the battle of Armageddon, because they now seek his righteousness.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. June 15
Persons who are desirous of engaging in the political, commercial or religious affairs of the world, supporting them even as they support one another in opposition to the supremacy of Almighty God, will have to go down with that old world organization when it is destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. July 10
So he has been allowed an interval of time between then and Armageddon. W 6/1
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. July 14
As he rides to the revelation of his presence in this capacity at the battle of Armageddon, he is bound to win the battle, vindicate Jehovah’s sovereignty and destroy all his enemies amor whom he has been ruling during his parousia. (Rev. 19:16 and 17:14)
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. July 16
It will lead to their preservation through the battle of Armageddon and to life eternal in the New World. W 8/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. August 4
They will be associated with this remnant also for as long after Armageddon as these continue on earth before joining the King in his throne above.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. August 18
This great flock of “other sheep” do not possess the heavenly kingdom, but, surviving the battle of Armageddon under his right hand of protection, they will enjoy the King’s favor from the very start of his reign of a thousand years.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. August 18
With the broom of Armageddon’s destruction He will sweep the universe clean of Greater Babylon, the Devil’s organization invisible and visible.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. August 25
Not even a remnant of her wicked seed will survive Armageddon into that world.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. August 25
That world and its political nations will have been destroyed at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. September 19
At Armageddon there will be an unnumbered great multitude who will not be touched by death or descend into hell, Sheol or the grave.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. September 21
To have safe hiding under God’s protection at Armageddon so as to survive.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. September 21
It had its beginning in 1914, with “war, in heaven”, and will have an ending, namely, at the battle of Armageddon, where this world, invisible and visible, will be obliterated.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. September 30
All political observers of today must agree that the wholesale destruction of the “kings of the earth” and their backers at the battle of Armageddon will mean the end of our present so-called “civilization”, the end of our present earthly organization and arrangement of things.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 6
The ignorance in which people will perish at Armageddon will be willful, because Christ Jesus, the Greater Noah, has raised up preachers of righteousness, and during all these years of his presence these have called attention to his parousia and the world’s end.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 12
When this Kingdom witness has been preached to all nations, Jew and Gentile, then the time comes for the King’s power to be revealed by the universal war of Armageddon, and it will be too late for conversion, either by individuals or by nations. W 8/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 14
In this time when the King’s presence is being manifested like the brilliance of a lightning flash which shines upon all from east to west, some rejoice in this light and are gathered to the King’s side, to preservation through Armageddon and to a feast of joy over his victory there. W 8/1
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 27
Crushing of the Serpent’s head carries with it as one of its results the transforming of the earth into a beautiful global park after the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 30
For their faith and righteous service these will be carried alive through the end of this “present evil world” at Armageddon and will have a part after that in making all the earth Eden’s garden, a park of perfect delight.-Rev. 7:9-17. W 6/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. October 30
Seeing that, by privilege, we are living in the time of his presence and that the full manifestation of it will take place shortly at Armageddon, to God’s eternal glory, let us watch that we conduct ourselves in this present evil world as those who have this blessed hope before us.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. November 12
The ancient instances of Theocratic warfare when Jehovah “fought in the day of battle” were prophetic patterns of how he will fight the universal war of Armageddon against all the nations of this earth at this end of the world.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 9
But those persons today who do know and trust in the name of the Most High God wait for him to fulfill the above prophecy concerning Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 9
Rich persons and wealthy organizations of this Babylonish world need not think they will be able to bribe Jehovah’s hosts and buy their escape from annihilation at Armageddon. That battle will not be fought for the material and financial enrichment of Jehovah’s hosts.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 11
Only by the destruction of the nations at Armageddon will the issue of who is God and de jure Sovereign over all be settled. W 2/15
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 19
So the prophecy will continue to undergo fulfillment down to the battle of Armageddon that “as the lightning, that eighteenth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day”.-Luke 17:24. W 7/15.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 28
The unsound teachings of today, the doctrines of demons, and the deceptions of seducers are all leading Christendom and heathendom on to early destruction at the war of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses. 1949. December 31