Jehovah God will show mercy to these merciful ones and will not let them go down into everlasting destruction at Armageddon, because they have the right heart condition. These Christ is gathering now as his other sheep and a great many will survive Armageddon. They are pure in heart, happy and peaceable.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 21
There is going to be a great war; and that will be in the great day of God the Almighty, the battle of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 38
Even Liberia will become a part of God’s universal organization and all the Armageddon survivors there will have the opportunity for everlasting life.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 84
A pioneer brother writes that when calling at a remote riverside home he was confronted with a preacher, saying: “We had a conference last month in N. A. and discussed you people”; and to prove it he showed me the agenda listing Jehovah’s witnesses, Armageddon, Watchtower and personalities and added: “We were told not to allow you in our homes.” Skillful use of tact and scripture opened his eyes with results: a change of mind, books placed and maybe another prisoner loosed.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 114
Here, indeed, is virgin territory, where doubtless the Lord Jesus has many of his other sheep, and these he will have gathered out and trained in his sacred service before the wintertime of Armageddon sets in.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 164
‘No,’ she said, ‘you are not to leave; do you alone want to be saved at Armageddon?
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 176
We often hear the expression, ‘I wish Armageddon would come!’ But that is not in harmony with the true spirit of Jehovah’s witnesses. While all want to see Armageddon come, they do not want to see it come until the work is finished, that is, the work of preaching the good news of the Kingdom in all the inhabited earth for a witness.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 266
The branch servant from Southern Rhodesia says they appreciate very much Jehovah’s mercy in allowing them to work during these years before Armageddon because they want to get the Kingdom message preached to as many persons as they can in Southern Rhodesia.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. p. 266, 267
Even Satan the Devil will be forced to recognize this great fact in his utter defeat at Armageddon. W 1/1 19a
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. January 16
This also means little children at Armageddon whose parents belong to Jehovah and who try to rear them according to God’s Word.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. January 23
Parents are commanded to instruct their children in God’s ways, and if in these last days parents fail to heed the divine instructions they may bring destruction not only upon themselves but also upon their small children at Armageddon. And if these small children become grown and responsible on their own before Armageddon strikes, the parental training may determine whether they choose.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. January 23
To all nations, throughout the inhabited earth, the witness given will be sufficient to meet Jehovah’s purpose, and it will be completed before Armageddon comes.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. January 30
In view of this God will even carry an unnumbered “great crowd” of them safely through Armageddon, in order that humanity may continue on earth with an unbroken existence from the start and forever. To enjoy any possibility of surviving Armageddon into the endless new world, it is necessary that each one take the initial step of dedicating himself to God through Christ. W 5/15 32
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. February 12
It is also His will for his established kingdom to proceed to break in pieces all the kingdoms of this old world in the battle of Armageddon just ahead.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. February 14
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?
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. March 2
By this procedure God’s visible organization will remain clean through the coming battle of Armageddon, on into the new world.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. March 5
Those who are disturbed by the view that the destruction at Armageddon is final should remember several points. First, if Jehovah destroyed everyone at Armageddon there would be no injustice involved, since none have any inherent right to life.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. March 6
It is not the unfinished division now existing that counts, but the finished one that obtains at Armageddon’s start. Though we are in a judgment period, we need not view as finally destroyed all who die from various causes prior to the execution of judgment at Armageddon. Some of Jehovah’s people may even die during Armageddon because unable to endure the ordeal; but the vast majority will be “the slain of the LORD” who will remain dead forever. W 6/1 24a
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. March 6
Now the time has come for those of sheeplike disposition to heed the voice of God as spoken in his Word before his voice will speak from the heavens at Armageddon. W 12/15 14, 15
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. April 11
Our present day is also a time of judgment, and by the time Armageddon strikes all persons then living will have fixed their destiny. W 6/1 5
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. April 15
Jehovah knows that the clergy of Christendom are serving this old system of things, which he himself is going to destroy at the battle of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. April 25
Think of the spiritual prosperity into which Almighty God has brought us-us who were once prisoners inside this Babylonish world! Our prayers for the last thirty years for him to save us and send us prosperity have been answered beyond our expectations this side of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. June 18
Once marked by the enemy for death by their persecutions, we know that God revived us from our deathly state and that our foes are the ones who will die at Armageddon but we are now marked by God’s power for life in the new world, even by surviving Armageddon’s destructive warfare. W 12/1 12, 13
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. June 18
Jehovah’s voice is heard in thunder, and at the battle of Armageddon they will know who is striking against the nations of the earth; even as when Jehovah struck against Pharaoh in Egypt, Jehovah’s voice was heard and felt in his expression of wrath upon man and beast. When the battle of Armageddon strikes, the nations of the earth will not hearken to the voice of Jehovah.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. June 28
By conforming ourselves to the present Christian organizational procedures we will be that much better trained to become new world administrators after Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 2
The nations in the wars sow death on the basis of community responsibility. Will it not be just for them to reap it on the same basis at Armageddon?
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 8
The work before the war of Armageddon is not yet done.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 11
Not only will specialized training in the arts and crafts enable youths of our day to be self-supporting and to make a success of the pioneer service later, but such will enable them to make a practical contribution toward the building of Paradise after Armageddon. It staggers the imagination when one contemplates the post-Armageddon needs for skills.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 21
To be marked in the way that God approves means life. It opens up the way for us to survive Armageddon and enter into his new world.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 24
If those slain by Jehovah at Sodom have no resurrection, then those slain by him at Armageddon will have none, for the former pictures the latter. W 6/1 8,9
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 28
So study God’s Word, act in accord with it, build on rock foundation, and your faith will stand the assaults of men now and the storm of Armageddon later.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. July 31
He was absolute Ruler; he was King. So will it be in the battle of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. August 2
What this means to us today is that those now living in this time of judgment and who fail for one reason or another to take a stand for Jehovah, and are therefore slain by him at the battle of Armageddon, will not be retained in his memory for a resurrection.-Jer. 25:33. W 6/1 21a
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. August 5
This is a poetic expression and describes the lightning darting from the clouds. Surely, too, there will be great earthquakes during the battle of Armageddon, even as there are today, only much worse.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. October 4
The preaching work yet to be done, the increases yet to come the persecutions yet to be endured will effect a further, sharper division before Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. October 14
When Armageddon strikes all minor children who are not under such “family merit” arrangement will meet annihilation with no hope of a resurrection. W 1/15 22
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. October 21
He is going to show forth his power again in the battle of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. October 25
At Armageddon Jehovah will baptize this world with destructive fire.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. November 16
But can we rely upon the predictions concerning Armageddon and the new world of righteousness that will follow?
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. November 27
When the battle of Armageddon strikes men will certainly appear small and puny, even though some may be likened to the great cedars of Lebanon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. November 30
The only ones to come under the protection of Jehovah at the storm of Armageddon will be those who have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. December 10
And while all this storm is going on, this voice of Jehovah speaking to the nations in the battle of Armageddon, he says, “in his temple everything saith, Glory.”
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. December 10
Having the divine assurance of being spared during Armageddon, the mark really becomes one of security for them. Surviving Armageddon with the mark, they will enter the new world fully dedicated to God and ready and willing to do his revealed will on earth from that glorious time forward. W 5/15 10a
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. December 26
Their worship is pleasing to the Most High. They know Jehovah has a great work to be done before he strikes in the battle of Armageddon.
1953 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1952. December 31