Christ Jesus is the Good Shepherd of this great organization which he gathers together in its completion just before the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which is Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 10
When Jesus was asked what the sign of the end of this world would be, he gave his apostles many things that they could watch for, and these we see in fulfillment today. It will not be a long time, therefore, until Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 14
The big question that comes up in the mind of many people is, Just how long will it be until the battle of Armageddon?
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 19
By Jehovah’s undeserved kindness a far greater crowd will sing these praises before Armageddon, and Jehovah’s witnesses will share in gathering them.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 23
Can we expect such things to happen as we draw nearer to the battle of Armageddon? There is no reason why we should not, if all the good-will people are to be gathered into God’s organization.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 28
This is not the time to become lax and indifferent and to think that the battle of Armageddon is far away.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 31
When these thousands, yes, maybe millions, some- day come into Jehovah’s unwalled city before Armageddon, he will protect them no matter where they may be on the face of the earth.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 32
There is still much to be done. There are many lands throughout the world which are not open to missionaries, but by the Lord’s grace the Society will continue trying to send missionaries to such territories so that all people, whether held under the bondage of pagan religions or any false religion, can be given the opportunity to hear the message of the Kingdom before the final end breaks at the time of the battle of Armageddon. Since we are living in the last days, the Society is very anxious to spread this good news and will continue to establish branch offices in any parts of the world where these seem necessary.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 60, 61
Words are inadequate to describe that thrilling event. It has made a deep and lasting impression on our minds. We are better equipped to meet the problems that now immediately precede Armageddon. We appreciate God’s goodness and we want to swell louder the song of praise to Him.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 238
The work will continue until the battle of Armageddon, because, when God is with us, it makes no difference how many are against us.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 247
Our interest in life is in seeing God’s work done as it pertains to the announcing of the Kingdom and the gathering of the “other sheep”. Time is moving rapidly. Every day we get closer to the battle of Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. p. 274
Who will share in giving the final witness concerning Jehovah’s kingdom and this world’s doom at Armageddon?
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. January 4
He has not changed from then till now and will not change in future days till Armageddon in requiring that praise be given to him.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. January 6
These will be eyewitnesses of the smashing victory he will gain over the enemy world at the coming battle of
the universe, Armageddon!
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. January 11
But till the war of Armageddon removes Caesar and all his henchmen and his commercial and religious allies, Caesar has to be taken into account even by persons who are no part of this world but nevertheless living in it.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. February 3
Their last human king was taken away in divine wrath when Babylon’s armies destroyed Jerusalem in 607 B.C. Like him, the last kings and princely rulers of Christendom will be taken away in God’s wrath at Armageddon amid great tribulation. W 12/15
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. February 24
The “new earth” which the Kingdom will bring into existence will be begun with the survivors of Armageddon who have an earthly hope and destiny.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. March 20
We will fulfill our obligation to warn all nations of the coming “act of God” against this world at Armageddon. This course alone can have his approval and assure us of survival at the battle of Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. May 3
When Armageddon breaks over the earth it will be useless for men to start first then doing these God-honoring acts, because the judgment of all living men will have been completed and the executioners will have been given the go-ahead signal. No Armageddon deathbed repentance will be acceptable.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. May 11
Ve are advised not to put all our energies into worldly enterprises, as these things are doomed to destruction at the near battle of Armageddon, and if we give all our time to such things it will be lost.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. June 11
going to be lost. Worse than that, we may be smashed up with them at Armageddon be- cause of not sticking to God’s work and keeping that first in our lives.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. June 11
Doing that will mean the end of all the kingdoms and human rulerships of this world at the universal conflict of Armageddon. In this interim of years between Satan’s ousting from heaven and the battle of Armageddon, there has been no stabilizing of conditions by man or United Nations nor any restoring of “normalcy”, and there will be none.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. July 7
Till we reap the full share in the vindication of his name at his victory on Armageddon’s battlefield, “droop not your hands” but raise them al- ways in praise to him. W 10/1
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. July 12
Today the Watch Tower Society shows the same concern for this generation now facing world destruction at Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. July 26
It is for gaining this life that we receivers of his World must be fruitful now before Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. August 18
Though the coming battle of Armageddon will wipe out and uproot every ungodly plant which our heavenly Father has not planted, it will not destroy the precious fruits of our righteousness in preaching his Word and advancing the interests of his kingdom by Christ. In the time yet remaining before Armageddon may he continue to cultivate us as his ministers and constantly renew our strength to endure and bring forth more fruit for his vindication and our own eternal life in his new world. W 12/1
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. August 18
So since 1914 is the time for the nations to be no longer on top but underfoot, to be trampled on by the heavenly Rulers till they are ground to powder at Armageddon. W 12/15
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. August 19
The marking of those to be spared at Armageddon goes on. The “other sheep” are being gathered into one fold.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. August 21
They do not devote their time and energies accumulating worldly riches. These will all be swept away completely at the battle of Armageddon. W 7/1
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. September 8
The field of action to which we go forth, and the future stretching ahead of us till Armageddon, are not the place and time for us to slack our hands, either through laziness or through fear.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. September 9
It can no more prevent us from surviving the battle of Armageddon into the new world than it can block or destroy the new heavens and earth.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. September 14
Hid by his powerful hand in the days of his anger against the doomed old world, this nucleus will go through Armageddon, just as Noah and his household went through the Flood, hid in the ark. You survivors of Armageddon will be the first on the field of action in the “new earth”. But what we want is that when, after Armageddon, we do emerge from the ark of hiding we will emerge organized.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. September 14
Today all of us who have heard the truth, by God’s mercy and loving-kindness, must be constantly aware of the fact that he is allowing this brief interval of time between the enthroning of his King and the violent outbreak of Armageddon so that “this good news of the kingdom” may be preached to all earth’s inhabitants.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. September 16
Action to bring this about began right after the kingdom of God was born in 1914. At the bat- tie of Armageddon, after the “short period of time” left to Satan, his world organization, modern BabyIon, will be destroyed.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. October 4
It well pictures the final ingathering of the Lord’s “other sheep”, showing they will be gathered in support of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty before the winter-time of Armageddon begins. When Armageddon begins, it will be too late to do any gathering. (Jer. 8:20)
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. October 12
At Armageddon’s slaughter old and young alike will not be spared. Therefore no guarantee is given that a child will pass through Armageddon by reason of the parent with a field-service record but who is careless toward his own children.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. October 16
Because of the love we have for God and HIs King and the Kingdom work the time separating us from Armageddon will seem as a fast stream of pleasant days.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. October 18
Gone will be the time for proving him a liar and sharing in the final witness when the great clock of God strikes and booms out the fateful hour of Armageddon!
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. October 18
In theocratic obedience and faithfulness we will march on toward the new world, rejoicing in all further expansion of his kingdom, for there will be no end to its in- crease even this side of Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 8
Neither Jehovah nor Christ Jesus nor the Christian witnesses of Jehovah court the favor of this world and its political, commercial and religious elements. Such worldly elements are opposing the divine purpose and are vessels of divine wrath fitted for destruction at Armageddon.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 11
We may not know now the day or the hour when the battle of Armageddon will break out and the wicked heavens and earth of the Devil’s world will be dissolved to make way for the new heavens and earth of the precious new world.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 14
When violence is rampant in the earth prior to Armageddon they stand firm against the assaults of the Devil and his agents, invisible and visible.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 22
When the enemy is destroyed at Armageddon and we come forth from the ark of hiding, we shall march forth organized theocratically, knowing organization procedures.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 24
Shortly the removal of the Devil’s old world will follow as a certain consequence at Armageddon’s war of vindication, and the new earth will be established on the foundations of everlasting righteousness.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. November 30
The rapidly approaching battle of Armageddon makes the matter of praising God increasingly urgent for survival
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. December 9
Many will pay a high price to learn that they wasted their remaining days when their lives are snuffed out by the righteous wrath of God at Armageddon. W 2/1
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. December 11
Jehovah’s theocratic government under Christ will survive the battle of Armageddon as winner and will bring faithful people of good will through as survivors and will thereafter dominate all the earth without any rival powers. We look to no government agencies to vindicate us of the false charges which the foes of God’s kingdom raise against us to blind the people to the facts and the Kingdom truths. Almighty God has promised to vindicate his faithful witnesses, and he will do so at Armageddon, in which he will totally destroy godless communism and all other elements of the old world.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. December 13
To escape the destruction which is the destiny of the unfaithful religionists at Armageddon, they offer acceptable sacrifice of praise now.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. December 19
At Armageddon he will not recognize the political powers of this world as the “superior authorities with absolute control over every soul.
. 1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1950. December 29