Why should lovers of righteousness stay in the old world and go down with it at Armageddon and die for an eternity, when they have the opportunity of pulling away from this system of things and of enjoying life in a new world of righteousness?
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. p. 30
The home servant concludes his report, saying, “We could go on and on telling experiences that we have enjoyed here as each new day brings with it a new experience. To us, Ethiopia, the land of Bible mention, is the most wonderful assignment on the earth. May our assignment continue here after Armageddon.”
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. p. 66, 67
Having thus raised our voices contributing to the earth-wide thundering sound of “Praise Jah” for 1951, and with the battle of Armageddon another year closer, we feel assured that there are many, many more who will yet call upon the name of Jehovah during the coming service year and be saved.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. p. 201
That which struck him most was the urgency of the work due to the nearness of Armageddon, When vacation came he asked me if I thought he would be wasting time if he spent two weeks with his friends in another town.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. p. 214
As we get closer to the battIe of Armageddon, we do not know what cataclysmic forces will be operated by Jehovah God to overwhelm this world and blot it out.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. January 18
That will be the beginning of Armageddon, but at the grand climax Jehovah’s heavenly hosts under his King Jesus Christ will execute his righteous judgments against all the ungodly elements, religious, political, social and commercial.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. January 24
This holy seed will remain like a stock in the earth and will sprout again after Armageddon’s devastations. (Job 14:7-9)
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. February 7
Jehovah’s pure worship will thus sprout again under most favorable conditions after Armageddon and will spread to the ends of the earth.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. February 7
If it pleases God, he can strengthen even the weakest of his faithful people in an abnormal way at Armageddon to undergo all the hardships of that time of unparalleled trouble and survive.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. February 29
When we see this composite sign, it is time to heed Jesus’ warning to flee to God’s organization for safety during Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. March 7
If we are to do the necessary working and fleeing in preparation for surviving Armageddon, we must discern the sign now, appreciate it now, find out Jehovah’s requirements for us now, and take the essential precautions now by obeying right now his counsel of how we can weather Armageddon’s storm. W 6/1.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. March 7
Only those who strive to measure up to them will he carry through the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” which he fights against this unclean world and they will live into the clean post-Armageddon world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. March 17
As the flood of Noah’s day wiped out the immoral standards and practices of the antediluvian world, so the great tide of Armageddon will wash away this world’s moral corruption. W 4/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. March 17
But the decisive sanctification of his name be- fore all the universe will come at the battle of Armageddon. W 8/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. April 19
When the thousands, yes, maybe mil- lions, someday come into Jehovah’s unwalled city before Armageddon, he will protect them no matter where they are on earth.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. April 20
But after Armageddon there will come the erasing of all human imperfection and sin from among the inhabitants of the new world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. April 25
Who among men will be the ones to survive the world’s end at Armageddon and pass into the new world of lasting peace and security?
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. May 4
When the great forest of the armed hosts of the Greater Assyrian, Satan the Devil, is laid low by Jehovah’s mighty, hard-hitting hail, and when the great city of the Assyrian’s organization is razed to the ground and made level with the plain at Armageddon, then our eyes will see the theocratic organization of the new world society stay standing, all ready for the purpose of the righteous King during his thousand-year reign. W12/11
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. May 7
But this Kingdom rock must still come against the idolatrous image of Satan’s world organization and hit its visible part, knock the image from its base and destroy it at Armageddon. W 8/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. May 8
But that is the way it is going on, says Jehovah, even ‘command on command’. How long will his patience last? Till Armageddon. W 10/1
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. May 28
If proving faithful now in this time of test, they may have a continuance of their special service under their King, the “Everlasting Father”, and they may have a part after Armageddon in the realization of the above-quoted prophecy.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. May 31
Daniel, Jeremiah, Moses, Noah and others of God’s witnesses were carried right through times of destruction; and this illustrates how Jehovah will carry some of the anointed “remnant” class through the battle of Armageddon into the new world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. June 7
Then, if God favors us with survival of the battle of Armageddon and we enter the new world without dying, although we shall not have new bodies instantaneously we shall have new minds wholly in tune with the righteous new world. W 10/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. June 13
Those who oppose us Jehovah has promised to oppose. That means he is on our side and backs us up. At the battle of Armageddon he will confuse our oppressors and opposers.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. June 14
But he turns his attention toward earth, to cause warning to be given prior to Armageddon, the battle of God Almighty, wherein the wicked will be wiped from the face of the earth as thoroughly as they were in Noah’s day. Armageddon is no fight between nations, but is Jehovah’s battle, fought through Christ and his angels, against Satan and his demons and their visible representatives on earth.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. June 18
The final conflict of Armageddon draws near.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. June 29
They have not fought for the unreconciled systems which God will destroy at Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. July 6
They, too, must come to Zion and submit to the theocratic organization so us to escape destruction at Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. July 10
So God commanded that his healed remnant should themselves go forth on a healing mission in these ominous days preceding Armageddon. For it is only the spiritually healed one who will get through Armageddon and emerge into the hale new world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. July 24
How wonderful it will be when Armageddon strikes for the execution of divine judgment, to be found doing God’s will and with our souls fully commended to our faithful Creator! Only in that way may we expect to survive Armageddon. W 9/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. July 25
With Armageddon scheduled for this generation, the Bible is specially practical for our day. Primarily so because it charts our course through the perilous storm of Armageddon’s winter and guides us through the portals of a new world more refreshing and lasting than any literal springtime could ever be. If we accept and follow the Bible as our practical guide now, after Armageddon we will look over the destruction wrought by the unleashed wrath of Jehovah God.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. July 27
The complete expression of its coming will be when it survives this tribulation which has been interrupted 1918 and wipes out Satan’s organization at Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 3
The prophecy is strengthening to our faith, because it discloses that he will preserve his faithful witnesses as a body right through the battle of Armageddon and into the new world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 5
Now is the favorable season of and summertime in which we study God’s Word, preach the gospel, warn others, bring forth fruits of righteousness, and store up treasures in heaven that will assure us God’s protection during Armageddon. We may have to change our eating habits now, shifting to good spiritual food for our upbuilding and strengthening in Christian work. Now, before Armageddon starts, is the time for it.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 18
So it will be for persons who wait for Armageddon’s start to begin flight. W 6/1
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 18
Remember that those who are merciful now will receive God’s mercy during the destructions of Armageddon and will survive into the new world. Our work now of preaching the good news of God’s kingdom is a work of rescuing lives from destruction at Armageddon. The merciful rescue-worker’s will be rescued and preserved during Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 19
At Armageddon they will be cast still lower than the earth, into the great abyss to be held in solitary confinement there for a thousand years.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 26
This proves that this prophecy of the release of the bound ones must be fulfilled now before the battle of Armageddon while there arc nontheocratic nations, peoples, kings and queens.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. August 29
During this “time of the end” of this world he gives this rest and refreshment to all the sheep, both the remnant of his “little flock” of heavenly joint heirs and also the great crowd of “other sheep”. But after the battle of Armageddon baptizes this old world with fire, he will comfort mankind with the great sabbath of rest for the thousand years of his reign. W 11/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. September 7
Satan’s world will never destroy this love from among God’s organization, but love will live through Armageddon and on into the new world.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. September 9
in ancient times Jehovah kept his visible servants witnessing faithfully to the end, preserving them through the destruction of organizations foreshadowing the destruction of the present evil system of things at Armageddon. Therefore in these last days Jehovah, whose prophecies never fail, will likewise preserve his own fearless, visible servant body and their companions through Armageddon as a testimony to his supremacy.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. September 17
His intent is that, when God does gain the victory at Armageddon’s battle, he will have none on earth over whom to exercise his universal sovereignty.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. September 25
Now the humiliated Satan is using his demons to drive all the nations to Armageddon for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty”. (Rev. 16:14-16, NW)
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 4
But we have faith to believe we have encamped about us invisibly Jehovah’s angel who defeated the Dragon and his demons in the war in heaven and who now holds them underfoot here at the earth before he crushes them at Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 5
So at Armageddon she will be the first to be destroyed, like an adulterous organization that has apostatized from God. W 11/1
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 8
The modern counterpart of the flood is the battle of Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 11
Though some may die in the remaining time before Armageddon, they never sacrifice their prospect of perfect life in the earthly paradise.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 20
Do not ignore the sign of Armageddon’s approach, no more than do the animals ignore winter’s coming.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. October 21
This suffering must precede the glory of living in the new world, after Christ fully reveals himself at Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 7
Let us all get along peaceably, lovingly, with one another, that we may go through Armageddon together as one indivisible flock. W 9/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 9
After destroying Satan’s wicked heavens and earth at Armageddon, God will build up a new human society the members of which will love to do God’s will. Since his will to have a new heavens and a new earth will be done, and since his will is to preserve this earthly globe through Armageddon, his will can and will be done here also as it is done up in heaven. W 8/15
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 25
At Armageddon he will in a very practical way sweep into oblivion all who oppose him. W 6/1
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 26
Like Noah and his family, Jehovah’s witnesses of today are interested in perpetuating the human family beyond the cataclysm of Armageddon. In harmony with this they are now imitating Noah’s example of faith and are bringing in droves of God’s “other sheep” under his theocratic organization in the face of the approaching world’s end. Jehovah God has given us the spirit of soundness of mind. So we declare his promise that the earth will survive Armageddon and that God’s will is to be done here in converting the entire globe into a paradise. Armageddon survivors and those resurrected fro the graves may prove themselves worthy to inhabit it forever.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 28
False religion, the worship of false gods, leads to death and to destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 30
In the decisive contest of the gods at Armageddon. all the false gods of this world, visible and invisible, will topple from their pedestals in defeat and be destroyed, and their unclean false worship and religion will perish with them.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. November 30
What about people of good will who survive the battIe of Armageddon because of having had spiritual healing now?
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. December 9
They wiII no more be perfected in an instant after Armageddon than the faithful witnesses of ancient time, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, etc., will be resurrected as perfect men by God’s power through Christ the King. For all who survive Armageddon and for those who will be raised from the memorial tombs the physical healing will be gradual until human perfection is reached, at the latest by the end of the thousand- year sabbath.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. December 9
There must be a visible organization to receive all on earth who want to worship God in freedom, before the battle of Armageddon. So from and after 1910 he used his great Servant to restore the remnant of spiritual Israel and he reorganized to act as his witnesses in this momentous postwar period.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. December 20
This joyful prophecy extends now to the Right Shepherd’s “other sheep” who must be rescued from Babylon before Armageddon.
1952 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1951. December 26