Even by Jehovah’s witnesses on earth Satan the Devil has been served with notice from the Bible that he faces abysmal defeat at the decisive conflict, the battle of Armageddon, in the near future. Thousands of lectures have been delivered and tons of literature has been distributed on that subject, world-wide.
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At Armageddon the nations and the demon powers invisibly behind them will meet up with the Invincibles, the “kings from the rising of the sun”, namely, Jehovah God and his Son Jesus Christ.
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In his description of the gathering for the war at Armageddon the divine speaker injects the warning to alertness on the part of those who walk in the garments of Christian identification: “Look! I am coming as a thief.”
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Since 1919 Jehovah has revived his witnesses and made them his watchmen to cry out the warning of the sword of Armageddon’s war.
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10. How has Jehovah given warning of Armageddon, what has been the response, and why will those overtaken by Armageddon not be able to charge unfairness?
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True, the Noachian flood was of literal water. But fire is a different element and the use of it as a symbol denotes that God will use a means different from a global inundation for the “destruction of ungodly men” at Armageddon’s battlefield.
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From their destruction only righteous Lot and his two daughters escaped under angelic guidance, making a fine prophetic picture of how the people of good will who are companions of the remnant of Abraham’s seed today will escape the fiery destruction of the world at Armageddon. (Luke 17:28-30; Gen. 19:1-29)
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Many persons may think that Jehovah of hosts is slow about beginning the battle of Armageddon; but He is thinking not just of the destruction of his enemies but also of the salvation of those who, like the Ninevites of Jonah’s day, could repent at the warning of coming destruction. Eventually, however, the day and hour, which Jehovah God has now doubtless disclosed to his Son, arrives, and the gathering of the rulers of their earth with their armies to the battle site pictured by Armageddon is completed under the influence of the spurring expressions inspired by the invisible demons.
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14. At what time and under what circumstances will Armageddon begin, and do Jehovah’s witnesses on earth take part in it?
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16. Who take part in Armageddon against God’s kingdom, and what does the promise to the birds of carrion indicate?
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18, 19. Destruction of the symbolic earth at Armageddon still leaves what to be attended to, and what will Jehovah’s angel do to it?
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21. What course does Peter lay out for those who want to be preserved through Armageddon into the new world?
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THERE will be a baptism of fire at the coming battle of Armageddon.
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But this will not ensure them against destruction in the baptism of fire at Armageddon.
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2. Why will millions who went through a water rite by priest or pastor not be ensured against fire baptism at Armageddon?
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To survive Armageddon they must stay in the New World society.
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18. On what condition will this baptism into the Greater Noah save them now and during Armageddon?
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That is why he can defeat them all at the battle of Armageddon. He is the best King, the best Lord, among them all. When the last of them have perished in Armageddon he remains alone, without successor, the best King, the best Lord, King among kings and Lord among lords.
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Since a number of this remnant will survive the battle of Armageddon just as Noah’s wife survived the flood together with her sons and daughters-in-law, they will be on earth for a while after the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ begins.
New Heavens and A New Earth. 1953. p. 321
He fought and cast Satan out of heaven without their help and he will fight and win the battle of Armageddon and bind Satan for a thousand years without their help, and so he can begin his millennial reign without their personal presence in heaven. During their temporary stay on earth after Armageddon they will visibly represent him and his bride, and thus are associated with the King in his reign from its start.
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Those who turn apostate and become the “evil slave” class leave their name for a curse and are cast out to have their part with the hypocrites who are executed finally at Armageddon.
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They are pursuing activities that are out of harmony with God’s established kingdom and that bring ruin and destruction upon themselves in the day of God’s wrath at Armageddon.
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But this final assault of the enemy will merely provoke the surprise outbreak of the battle of Armageddon.
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They know too that the final, all-out assault upon the New World society by the prophetic Gog of Magog and his polyglot, multinational army will immediately precede and provoke the battle of Armageddon.
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The New World society will be still here on earth after Armageddon has purged the earth, just as Noah’s ark grounded safely and then disembarked its full passenger list on one of Ararat’s mountains for refilling the earth with man and beast.
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Besides that, in a most literal sense after Armageddon and during the millennial rule of Christ there will be no infant of few days born to the survivors of the end of this old world.
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Likewise after Armageddon the survivors, who were baptized into the Greater Noah, may expect a mandate from God through Jesus Christ to reproduce their kind and thus give real force and effect to the Edenic mandate to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” (Gen. 1:28, NW)
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But then the opportunity to live forever lies before the “great crowd” of survivors and their post-Armageddon children, by faith and obedience to Jesus Christ the King.
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The faithful witnesses of old that are made princely representatives of the invisible, heavenly King, their Father, will loyally co- operate with those of the “great crowd” of today who will prove themselves worthy of princely office after Armageddon.
For as long as Jehovah God wills it after the battle of Armageddon, the remnant of the “little flock” will continue serving him on earth in behalf of the other sheep.
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After Armageddon he will create it entirely of the other sheep that have an everlasting earthly destiny.
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The restless sea of humankind roaring and lashing against the universal sovereignty of the Most High God Jehovah will be a thing of the horrible past, dried up by the fierylike battle of Armageddon. (Jer. 50:38; Rev. 17:15)
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Continuing in this course of virginity, this “great crowd” of companions will escort the remnant of the engaged virgin class through the cataclysm of Armageddon, yes, and on to the time for their passing from this earth to be really united with their heavenly Bridegroom in the abode of his Father’s house.
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Although spread all over the earth according to their pre-Armageddon location, they will promptly co- operate together as a new-world society in harmony with the theocratic organization already established among them.
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With unrestrainable eagerness, with courage and with a loving desire to vindicate God’s purpose further, the Armageddon survivors will tackle the reconstructive work of everywhere beautifying the earth, subduing it in fulfillment of God’s original mandate to Adam and Eve.
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But as God promised the Israelites in the Promised Land that their soil would have his fructifying blessing if they worshiped him and kept his commandments, so the whole earth will have the divine blessing as the Armageddon survivors proceed with subduing it with theocratic methods.
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Noah and his sons followed the Edenic standard by having each one wife before, during and after the flood, as a pattern for those who survive Armageddon. Nineteen centuries ago Jesus restored human marriage to its Edenic standard for his disciples. So Armageddon survivors entering paradise restored will follow that standard in the “new earth”.
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The children that will be born to the Armageddon survivors and to their offspring will be a blessing from God. He promised to bless the wombs of the Israelites in the Promised Land if they remained faithful to him, and for the Armageddon survivors it will likewise be true: “Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Ps. 127:3, AS)
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6. What will be the condition of the children born to Armageddon survivors, and how far will childbearing proceed?
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Eventually the childbearing will cease, for it is not the Kingdom’s purpose to fill the paradise earth with the offspring of the Armageddon survivors to the saturation point. Childbearing will proceed to the point where the demonstration has been made how it would have proceeded in Eden for filling the earth, and thus God’s original mandate will have a vindictive illustration in this respect.
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As for Satan the Devil, the original Serpent, and his demons, they also are cast into that lethal lake of fire where the old-world “wild beast” and the Anglo-American “false prophet” were plunged at the battle of Armageddon.
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27. What will happen to the carcasses of those who have transgressed against Jehovah at Armageddon, and how will the rebels at the end of Christ’s reign be correspondingly treated?
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28. How will the Armageddon survivors and obedient mankind worship Jehovah from new moon to new moon and from sabbath to sabbath?
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