Clearly now Jehovah God through Christ Jesus is gathering together all who are of good will and who love righteousness. (Zeph. 2:1-3) This he is doing before his battle at Armageddon
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No one else can take any one of us into the new world by holding our hand and dragging us through the battle of Armageddon.
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But by their staying wholly on Jehovah’s side and in his organization and close to the congregation of his people they will continually observe their adversaries falling and stumbling, and eventually vanishing permanently in the battle of Armageddon, now near.
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A year and a half ago I asked the minister, who had placed the above advertisement in the paper, to explain Armageddon to me and also parts of Revelation.
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Why, the Bible even says that if the tribulation of Armageddon had come then, no flesh would have been saved!
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He knows his time is getting shorter all the while, but he tries to keep mankind in ignorance of this, for he schemes for their destruction to occur at the same time that he himself is crushed in the universal war of Armageddon.
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Jehovah God will not permit the earth to be laid waste without a human inhabitant during the universal war of Armageddon.
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Viewed from the right standpoint, the passing away of this world or system of things at Armageddon in the greatest time of trouble of all history is an expression of God’s love, no matter how terrible the trouble he will bring by which to destroy it.
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The selfish lovers of the old world he will destroy at Armageddon.
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27. Why does love bring the greatest trouble of all at Armageddon, and what will it do for the unselfish lovers of the new world there?
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The providing for the righteous new world and the establishing of it after the universal war of Armageddon are an expression of God’s love.
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But an increasing number of people today are finding it out now before the violent outbreak of Armageddon signals that it is too late, and they are learning to develop and exercise the required love.
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And this loveless, murderous old world, by abiding in death until Armageddon, will be forever destroyed there.—1 John 3:14, NW.
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The great mass of humanity will refuse to do so and will abide under divine condemnation without a true, God-given hope of life and will simply perish at Armageddon.
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So, preferring to remain in death to the fatal hour, they determine their own destiny or end at Armageddon.
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33. How does our effort to gain life in the new world become one not purely selfish, and hence why will the great mass of humanity perish at Armageddon?
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They have hope of being shielded by God’s power through Christ against the destructive forces of Armageddon and being preserved alive through the terrible end of this old world into the gloriously opening new world.
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So they remain unsatisfied in the highest sense and will perish in their dissatisfaction at Armageddon.
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36. What can God’s now-opened hand do to us living creatures, but why will some perish in their dissatisfaction at Armageddon?
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● Jesus said that the night comes wherein no man can work. Was he referring to the battle of Armageddon?—S. S., United States.
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He made these remarks when he restored sight to a man born blind. He was not talking about Armageddon.
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In Jesus’ case the nighttime void of works certainly could not refer to Armageddon, for he will be performing his mightiest work at that time, destroying wicked creatures on earth and binding into inactivity Satan and his demons, and completely vindicating Jehovah’s name.
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Publication title: Through the years five other powerfully written bound volumes of the series called “Studies in the Scriptures” were produced by C. T. Russell, each playing its part in gathering more of the anointed Christians into association with the Watch Tower Society. Volume 2, The Time is at Hand, was released in 1889; Volume 3, Thy Kingdom Come, in 1891; Volume 4, The Battle of Armageddon (originally called “The Day of Vengeance”), in 1897; Volume 5, At-one-ment Between God and Man, in 1899; and finally Volume 6, The New Creation, in 1904. A seventh volume the author had promised but did not survive to write it.
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True Christians will wake up their minds to see that the end of this age of fear and thought control is near. The great war of Armageddon impends.
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Other scriptures refer to this “revelation” as Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—2 Thess. 1:7, 8; Rev. 16:14, 16, NW
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Following the destruction of all the visible enemies of righteousness and the abyssing of Satan and his demons at Armageddon, the thousand-year reign of Christ will begin.
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Those who are wise will take advantage of his present manifestation of favor before his revelation in fiery destruction upon his enemies at Armageddon
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God’s Word declares that the Devil, through his organization of demons and men, would deceive the nations, thus leading them to destruction at Armageddon: “I saw three unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
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Is it strange that the public press and the clerical luminaries have not warned the people of God’s war of Armageddon, the real peril? No, because so thorough has been the Devil’s deception that the mass of mankind will be caught off guard, just as they were in Noah’s time.
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Thus, the masses will “take no note” of the real peril until Armageddon comes and sweeps them all away into destruction.
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Jesus did not mean that the masses would become alarmed about Armageddon and worry over it. But rather he meant that the war peril and others would cause men’s hearts to quake with fear. Such perils should never eclipse the import of them: to indicate or signify the nearness of Armageddon.—2 Tim. 3:1; Luke 21:26, NW.
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Do not be deceived. The atomic peril is not the vital issue. It is only a minor peril compared with Armageddon.
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The real peril is near. Make no mistake about it. We are advised by the Master: “Keep praying that your flight may not occur in wintertime nor on the sabbath day; for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” Absolutely unprecedented will be Armageddon!
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Then again, by means of the Christian ministry the wicked are given warning of “the day of vengeance of our God,” Armageddon.
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Prophecies yet to be fulfilled show this world’s destruction at Armageddon, and through the eyes of these prophecies Jehovah’s servants farsightedly peer into the future and see it reduced to a carcass and expectantly anticipate that time, just as carrion-eating birds of prey can sense when an animal is near death and await the feast, and with their divinely provided telescopic vision these birds can spot from afar a carcass and swiftly fly to the feast.
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Complete fulfillment occurs when Jehovah through Christ Jesus reduces Satan’s visible system of things to a dead carcass at Armageddon, and when Satan and his demons are bound in a state of deathlike inactivity.
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Many also inaccurately thought that the world war which began in 1914 would merge into the “battle of the great day of God Almighty,” Armageddon, and thus cleanse the earth of all opposition to righteousness.
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Glorious days of still greater witnessing lay ahead in accordance with Jehovah’s further purposes to prepare a great crowd of “other sheep” to survive the real Armageddon when it finally would come upon the earth.
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His thousand-year reign begins after the universal war of Armageddon, a war destined to come upon this generation, a war in which Almighty God destroys this present system of things on the earth. It is the symbolic earth of Satan’s world, then, that undergoes destruction at Armageddon, not the literal earth. The symbolic heavens, Satan and his organization of demons, is also dissolved at Armageddon; for Jehovah uses his Son to abyss the Devil: “And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
And he hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead the nations any more until the thousand years were ended.”—2 Pet. 3:8; Rev. 20:2, 3, NW.
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Though this whole present wicked system of things will feel the full fury of Jehovah’s “decree of destruction,” a great number of people, those who love righteousness and who have dedicated themselves to the true God, will survive Armageddon and be in line for the benefits of the thousand-year judgment day
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“The accomplished end” means the culmination of this judgment period, the war of Armageddon.
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So those who die at Armageddon will pay the same penalty as the people of Sodom did; that is, they will not have a “resurrection of judgment” during the 1,000-year judgment day, but they will stay dead forever.—2 Thess. 1:7-9, NW.
To survive Armageddon and to enter the 1,000-year judgment day, during which mankind will be brought back to perfection, will be an incomparable blessing.
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This, together with the urgent warning of Armageddon, the masses think farfetched, just a joke.—Luke 17:26, 28, 30; 2 Pet. 3:3, NW.
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So earnestly serious are they that to sound the warning of Armageddon’s nearness, they spent, in 1954, a monumental 80,814,996 hours. Avail yourself of the opportunity to hear this most urgent of all messages thoroughly. Carefully investigate it by using your Bible. Your destiny is at stake.
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Now, before Armageddon breaks and it is too late to flee, these must be sought out and stirred up by the hunters to come forth and identify themselves as for Jehovah God and his kingdom.
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The battle of Armageddon will take place within this generation.
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With Armageddon rapidly approaching, it is important that Jehovah’s witnesses tell people about Jehovah’s loving provisions for deliverance.
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That, according to Jesus’ great prophecy recorded at Matthew 24, will be within this generation, at “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon.
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The battle of Armageddon which will destroy the wicked and remove them will change nothing with the New World society, because it has gotten willingly into its proper place and is not deserving of destruction.
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Find your place and stay in it. Work with the New World society now and it may be that you will be able to work with the New World society after Armageddon.
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19. What society is it proper to associate with, and how will Armageddon affect it? Why?
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By means of this singular channel of reliable spiritual guidance all sincere, honest persons who love righteousness are being directed toward the “perfect day” in the post-Armageddon new world.
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Through technological advancement it pretends to be in the interest of mankind, when in reality it is one of mankind’s most deadly foes, because under no circumstances will materialism preserve this desperate civilization through the battle of Armageddon on into the new world of God’s making.
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He explained, too, the basic reason for the existence of Jehovah’s witnesses today: that 1914 marked the beginning of Christ’s second presence in Kingdom power and that a great work must be done to announce this fact to mankind before the war of Armageddon soon destroys the old, satanic system of things.
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Nevertheless, 1925 turned out to be a marked year in that a flood of new spiritual truths came to Jehovah’s people. It was in this year that The Watch Tower brought them the sublime revelations that the name of Jehovah must have its proper place; that the birth of the man-child Kingdom organization occurred in 1914; that Satan had been cast out of heaven and now must confine his operations to the earth; that Jehovah purposes to make a great and lasting name for himself at the battle of Armageddon; that such battle is not a fight between capital and labor, conservatives and radicals, or by any human parties and nations, but is God’s fight against the entire Devil’s organization, invisible and visible; and finally, that Jehovah’s servant class on earth have no part in that fight, but must only warn of its coming.
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Without doubt, among them will be some who will survive the battle of Armageddon to enjoy Jehovah’s blessings in the new world of righteousness.
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In the new world of righteousness the work of restoring men of faithfulness to physical health, as performed on a limited scale by Jesus and his apostles during his earthly ministry, will be fully accomplished following Armageddon.
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We are now approaching the great hour of testing at Armageddon.
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At Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” it is destined to go off to destruction.
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Since the destiny of all who comprise the antichrist is destruction at Armageddon, it follows that all who would escape that end must separate themselves from antichrist.
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Nothing can stop the victorious march of the New World society toward the new life the other side of Armageddon.”
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“During the preaching from house to house, one of Jehovah’s witnesses told about the hope of the new world after Armageddon to a married couple known to ‘invoke and worship demons.’ Moved by the powerful and happy message, the couple asked the witness to return and tell them more about it.
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Armageddon will not miraculously change unloving dispositions, but will wipe them out.
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Section heading: THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON
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That tribulation is a war, a war from heaven, and the field where it is waged is “called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Matt. 24:16, 21, NW; Rev. 16:16) Is the war at Armageddon a man-made war?
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5, 6. How do men of the world view Armageddon?
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As modern warfare has become more and more horrible men have become more and more prone to refer to their wars or prospective ones as Armageddon.
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In calling for a showdown with Russia on control of atomic weapons the New York Daily Mirror said editorially: “Or shall we wait and let the world drift to Armageddon?” A Los Angeles newspaper remarked concerning the next war: “It will be the most titanic in history. It will be Armageddon.” Tempo magazine referred to an approaching “nuclear Armageddon.” Addressing a joint session of Congress General MacArthur repeated a warning he had previously sounded: “Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.” Senator Flanders declared: “In very truth the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon.” Lastly, in the wake of the hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific a staff writer of the New York World-Telegram and Sun said: “In blunt words, American, free-world and Soviet leaders are frightened. The past eight or ten weeks have made them all aware that they are face to face with Armageddon. . . . Today fear is a blanket that hangs over both capitals, Washington and Moscow.”
Actually, for men to call one of their wars Armageddon is robbery. It robs a word of its true meaning. It throws men off guard as to what Armageddon really is. It is not a war by men, and to envision it as the possible atomic holocaust of World War III is to be blind to the real meaning of Armageddon.
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Jehovah’s fury descends upon men and nations and their armies because they have sinned against him, and no bribes can avert Armageddon: “The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.
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7. What is Armageddon, and who fight it?
8, 9. How do Zephaniah and Isaiah and Jeremiah describe Armageddon?
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Jehovah’s power unleashed at Armageddon will be earth-shaking, the widespread slaughter left in its wake will be appalling: “Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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The battle of Armageddon is righteous and in harmony with Jehovah’s attributes of justice,
power, wisdom and love.
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Armageddon is an evidence of Jehovah’s wisdom, for only by sweeping the troublemakers and peace-disturbers from the earth can permanent peace be established.
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10. How does Armageddon’s destruction differ from men’s wars, yet how do men pervert
matters?
11. How is Armageddon in harmony with Jehovah’s attributes?
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Section heading: PREPARING FOR ARMAGEDDON
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Also it is out of Jehovah’s love that he causes a warning of Armageddon’s approach to be sounded.
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Perhaps we see the world hurrying to Armageddon from which no nation may hope to survive.”—New York Times, May 29, 1952.
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Jehovah is the Creator of the elements, can control them, and can use them to fulfill his word relative to Armageddon: “Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word.” With all their bombs, how weak these men that think themselves so strong!—Ps. 148:8.
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14. How will Jehovah reply when worldly men cry to him for help at Armageddon?
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At Armageddon Jehovah God will grant their wish and let them “die with their boots on.”
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Our preparation for Armageddon is to put on now this theocratic footgear by learning of the good news of Christ’s established kingdom and walking forth to preach it from door to door, in the homes, on the streets, at public assemblies—anywhere and everywhere that appropriate opportunity arises. Thus we seek meekness and righteousness, obey Jehovah’s commands, and put ourselves in position to receive his favor and protection at Armageddon.
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And what about Jehovah God? Does he prepare for Armageddon? Well, would you prepare to kill a fly? Would you prepare to squash a bug?
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For the same reason it is wholly unnecessary for Jehovah to prepare for Armageddon. Men are as grasshoppers in his sight.
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He can fight and win Armageddon without an instant’s notice.—Isa. 40:15, 22.
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16. Does Jehovah need to prepare for Armageddon, and why your answer? 17. Despite the warning, why does Armageddon overtake men like a thief?
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His only preparatory work for Armageddon is to have a warning given for the benefit of men. Those of good will toward God can flee to the mountains, the new system of things under Christ, and those preferring this old failing system under Satan can prepare for a losing battle. Armageddon comes as no sneak attack, yet it comes upon worldly men as a thief in the night: “Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night.” (1 Thess 5:2, NW)
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According to their own wish they remain blind and deaf and undiscerning relative to the preaching of the good news and the warning of Armageddon.—2 Pet. 3:3-5, NW.
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By now seeing and hearing and discerning Jehovah’s purposes concerning Armageddon and heeding his warning and fleeing to the mountains in obedience to his command, such persons will survive the war from heaven to enjoy the peace it brings to earth.
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They will retain these senses and perceptive powers through the destructive cataclysm of Armageddon to use them in response to the invitation given to the survivors: “Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
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18. Who are not in darkness, and what do they behold after Armageddon?
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Armageddon will not ruin it, but instead will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”—Eccl. 1:4; Isa. 45:18; Rev. 11:18, NW.
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Just as the starry heavens and this planet survived the Noachian flood, so they will endure through Armageddon’s fiery destruction, continuing on and abiding forever.
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Satan and his demons still exist, though not in the same arrangement as prior to the flood, and they are the heavens that will be downed at Armageddon. Peoples organized into nations opposed to Jehovah constitute the earth that will be consumed by Armageddon’s fiery judgments.—Isa. 1:2; 1 Ki. 10:24; Ps. 96:1, AS; Gen. 6:1, 2; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:12; Rev. 12:9, 12; 20:1, 2.
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4. What were the heavens and earth ended by the flood, and what heavens and earth will Armageddon end?
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Section heading: PEACEFUL WORLD AFTER ARMAGEDDON
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6. Why is it that Armageddon will not need to be fought again, later on?
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He must rescue it from depraved men, rising up at Armageddon to ruin those ruiners of the earth.
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Remaining on earth will be those who now, prior to Armageddon, seek meekness and righteousness, who study and obediently follow Jehovah’s Word. To them after Armageddon verses three and four of Revelation chapter twenty-one will apply: “And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any more. The former things have passed away.”
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9. How will obedient men treat the earth after Armageddon?
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12, 13. What prophecy directly applies to earthly conditions after Armageddon, and what picture does it paint?
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Some think Jehovah is slow in fighting Armageddon and establishing the new world.
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He has woven a tissue of lies and imposed it on the minds of men and spread it like a veil over the eyes of the nations, and blindly they are led to the slaughter of Armageddon.
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Preach the truth to them, tell them about Christ’s sacrifice, point out that his kingdom is here, show the evidence that we are in the last days of this old world, warn them of the approach of Armageddon and explain how they can escape perishing in it; and what is their evaluation of it all?
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The title Son of man is appropriate because it reminds that he is the great Kinsman of man and is the Avenger of blood at Armageddon.—Num. 35:1-29.
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- ✔Why it is robbery for men to call their wars Armageddon? P. 435, ¶7.
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While volcanoes through their quaking can shake the very ground under man’s feet, still Jehovah God at the battle of Armageddon will shake all the nations and at the same time preserve alive all members of the New World society for his new earth.
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Their quest for material wealth now harms them spiritually, and at Armageddon will do them no good physically.
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21. Of what value will material wealth be at Armageddon?
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At Armageddon Jehovah breaks forth against them in a destruction.
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But now, in these last days, we do not have even this droplet of time, for Armageddon comes on apace.
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Christ Jesus himself will go forth to fight Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon, at the head of heavenly armies.
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It is at the culmination of this transition period that the war of Armageddon will occur.
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Most people, then, fear the wrong things. They fear their neighbors or they fear nations. Rather, they should fear Armageddon.
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So now is the time to face the facts fearlessly, especially since it is this generation that is face to face with Armageddon. Warned Jesus: “Truly I say to you, This generation will by no means pass away until all things occur [including Armageddon].”—Luke 21:32, NW.
Really, you need not even fear Armageddon if you obtain knowledge and act upon that knowledge.
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It answers the rousing call for fearless information, not because we have entered the atomic age, but because the world is fast asleep near the brink of that universal war Scripturally called “Armageddon.”
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No, not even at Armageddon will we do so.
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Section heading: YOU MAY SURVIVE ARMAGEDDON INTO GOD’S NEW WORLD
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1955 p. 576
Security with peace of mind is a priceless possession. It is possible! It can be yours! Where and how it is to be found is the engrossing subject of the new 384-page book entitled “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1955 p. 576
Pointing to the unmistakable evidence of the guilt of all creatures before Jehovah God, this book then opens the door to God’s own inspired Word and leads to the Bible’s promise of refuge from the storm of Armageddon’s war. It presents assurance for the future in a new system of things now being provided by the Maker of the new world, Jehovah God. Send for your copy on a contribution of 50c and learn how You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1955 p. 576
Moreover, Satan and his demons constitute the symbolic heavens of this world, the heavens that have dominated earthly human society and that are to be destroyed as by fire at the battle of Armageddon. (2 Pet. 3:10-12)
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They will inherit the earthly paradise that Christ’s kingdom will restore to this globe after the battle of Armageddon. Since A.D. 1914 we have been in the “time of the end” of this wicked world, and already a “great crowd” of these earthly believers have been gathered out from the nations and brought into the New World society together with the last members on earth of the “bride, the Lamb’s wife.”—Rev. 21:9.
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Inside it the members of his “bride” class and the “great crowd” of his future sons and daughters may survive the great execution of Jehovah’s judgment at the coming battle of Armageddon. Inside this ark of the new system of things they must be baptized into the Greater Noah as their Savior, Leader and Example in order to avoid being baptized with the world in the fiery flood of destruction at Armageddon.—1 Pet. 3:21, NW.
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As symbolically pictured in the twelfth chapter of Revelation, God brought his kingdom to birth, to rule in the midst of these worldly nations and finally to dash them to pieces at the coming battle of Armageddon. Immediately after the Kingdom’s birth Jehovah’s Chief Angel or Archangel, his enthroned King known in heaven as Michael, “battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled.” Satan the Dragon and his demon angels were defeated and hurled down from the heavens to the vicinity of our earth to be restrained here until the approaching battle of Armageddon. (Rev. 12:7-9, NW)
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After Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Chief Angel or Archangel, hurled Satan out of heaven, down to earth he did not at once proceed to fight the battle of Armageddon and put Satan completely out of action. He has allowed Satan a “short period of time” before again joining battle with him at Armageddon.
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At the coming battle of Armageddon Jehovah will rebuke Satan and his spirit demons by executing judgment upon them.
Thus the ‘preaching to the spirits in prison’ by the resurrected Jesus Christ continues till the battle of Armageddon.
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Shortly, when Jehovah deals out his rebuke to Satan at Armageddon, Jehovah by his Chief Angel will bind Satan and his demons and hurl them into the abyss and seal it up over them for a thousand years while Jesus Christ reigns with his glorified royal priesthood. (Rev. 16:14-16; 20:1-6)
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Likewise, in the abyss Satan and his demon spirits will be in a deathlike state, completely out of action, unable to have contact with men, unable to pretend to be the immortal spirits of dead human creatures. Spiritualism or spiritism with its mediums will thus be destroyed at Armageddon, and those who practice it will be destroyed with it, in the “second death,” which symbolizes total destruction, annihilation.
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Those destroyed at Armageddon will have no “survival after death.” Those humans, however, who keep free from spiritism and all false religion and who worship Jehovah as God and follow
in Christ’s footsteps will survive the battle of Armageddon and enter, without dying, into God’s righteous new world. (2 Pet. 3:10-15) Then those survivors will not try to communicate with those destroyed at Armageddon.
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Instead of seeking to do the impossible, to communicate with the dead, the Armageddon survivors will rather await the resurrection and joyfully get ready for the dead to return.
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In fact, all the people of all nations, under the leadership of their rulers, whether in the White House or in the royal palace or in the Communist Kremlin, would be led to their destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
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None of such demon-led ones will survive Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1955 p. 602
No, Christendom, as led and dominated by the Roman Catholic religious system, has failed as a protection against demonism in this crucial “time of the end,” when Satan and his demons have been hurled down from heaven to the earth and are filled with wrath and are leading Christendom and heathendom with them to total destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
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Where, then, is our protection against the schemes of the demons to cause God to execute all mankind at Armageddon for lack of integrity toward Him and his kingdom?
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Now that utter destruction at Armageddon is impending over both Christendom and heathendom and the unseen demons are slyly leading worldly rulers and their peoples to this destruction there, we are indeed living in a wicked day.
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With your feet shod with the equipment of the good news of peace, you will avoid responsibility for any of the turmoil of this world and you will not be gathered by the unseen demons to the side of the rulers of this entire inhabited earth at Armageddon for a suicidal war against God Almighty and his reigning King Jesus Christ.
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Thus praying and thus fighting in God-given armor we shall not be found at Armageddon with the demon-controlled opposers of Jehovah God and his kingdom by Christ.
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Then, whether by survival of the battle of Armageddon or by a resurrection after it, you will be rewarded with life in God’s new world rather than be deceived into destruction by the false hope of “survival after death.”
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That fire will be Armageddon.—Ezek. 15:1-8, AS; Rev. 16:14, 16.
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In its issue of July 1, 1920, the magazine The Watch Tower published the article “Gospel of the Kingdom.” It was not till then that Jehovah’s witnesses throughout the earth saw that the “good news” or gospel was about the now established kingdom and that the good news of this kingdom must begin to be preached now, after the “beginning of pangs of distress” experienced during the period of World War I; and that the preaching must continue until the battle of Armageddon, the “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” (Matt. 24:7, 8, 21, NW)
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That “iron rod” in the hands of God’s kingdom is for dashing the nations of this world to pieces like frail potters’ vessels at Armageddon, as foretold at Psalm 2:7-9.
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In 1914 the promised kingdom was born of God and it will yet conquer the world. It conquered Satan and his demons by casting them out of heaven and down to our earth, and now it goes on conquering in the Kingdom witness work on earth, and it will complete its conquest over Satan’s present world at Armageddon. (Rev. 6:1, 2, NW)
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At the battle of Armageddon God’s conquest of them will be completed. Jehovah God will not preserve them alive as captives to be led in a triumphal procession after Armageddon before the eyes of the Armageddon survivors, but he will wipe them out and bring no enemy captives out alive on earth from that universal battle.
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These defeated governments and authorities have been cast down to this earth to be detained here for a “short period of time” until they are abyssed and put out of the way at the climax of the battle of Armageddon. Now Jehovah’s triumphal procession is marching along to superb victory at Armageddon.
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It breathes of life to them, and it shows them the way to happy life in God’s world of new heavens and a new earth, with now the opportunity of even surviving the battle of Armageddon.
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Hence they will be squashed flatter than a pancake by that great Stone at Armageddon.
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Till now they have had to smell Jehovah’s witnesses, and they will have to keep on smelling us, until their own noses are mashed in at the coming day of the ‘war of God the Almighty’ at Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16, NW; Matt. 21:42-44)
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It will continue to triumph under his protection and guidance of us until Armageddon, when his own triumphant act of vindication will cause all the earth’s atmosphere to be permeated with the sweet, life-giving odor of the knowledge of God for every praiser of Jehovah that then breathes.—Hab. 2:14, AS.
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The publication of this additional volume of the New World Translation Bible represents a further triumph of Jehovah’s Kingdom message. Till now the translation committee has been accused of all kinds of base motives and contemptible practices and poor scholarship by religious enemies, by peddlers of the Word of God; but the New World Bible Translation Committee has kept in mind its promise. It has trusted in the great Author of the Bible and has gone ahead undaunted by all the adverse criticism, ridicule and condemnation of this world, and has produced the present volume. It purposes not to stop with this volume but to push ahead as the time and opportunity allow according to the divine time schedule between now and Armageddon, until the last volume is published.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1955 p. 636
The destructive floodwaters of the war of Armageddon will wash out of existence those devilish heavens and earth and their bloodstained record but never wash out the contents of this living letter written by all of Jehovah’s witnesses with his spirit. All the survivors of Armageddon will be our letter of recommendation before all the universe! That letter of recommendation will even be read by the dead when they are resurrected after Armageddon. The contents of this letter will yet grow longer as more human hearts are written upon until Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1955 p. 671
The amount of time remaining to Armageddon is continually being reduced. We do not know the exact amount of time still remaining before Armageddon strikes and terminates the evil old world dominated by Satan, but we positively know it will be within this generation.
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At Armageddon the execution of the Lord Jehovah’s judgment from his true spiritual temple will bring that to light.
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To all the inhabited earth they have endeavored to extend this preaching for a witness to all the nations before Satan’s kingdom ends completely at Armageddon. Within thirty years’ time since 1918 the Angel Refiner at the temple has fierily refined the preaching organization to make it theocratic in its structure and way of operation.
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From his coming to his temple until Armageddon only a “short period of time” is allowed and hence, to save his spiritual Israel or spiritual “sons of Jacob” from being consumed in that universal war, Jehovah has had to be a swift witness in exposing wrongdoing and in purifying the repentant wrongdoers. In being a swift witness against the sorcerers he has in 1920, in 1934 and in 1955 given us three powerful booklets exposing spiritism.
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With the execution of fiery judgment at the appalling battle of Armageddon rapidly approaching, Jehovah the Great Shepherd feels for these sheeplike ones. Just because they are not spiritual Israelites is no reason for letting them perish.
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They must mark these depressed sheeplike ones in their foreheads that these might be spared by Jehovah’s executioners at Armageddon.
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Today it is the hope of these other sheeplike ones to survive Armageddon into God’s new world. In this short remaining time till Armageddon it is the due right of the non-Israelite sheep from all nations to come up to the exalted “house of the God of Jacob” to worship Jehovah there and gain salvation.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1955 p. 700
Hence at Armageddon Jehovah in his holy temple will not be a swift witness against us with an execution of fiery judgment but will approve of us and spare us to carry on his joyful worship through Armageddon and on into his own new world.
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This includes witnessing to his supremacy in this time of world crisis, carrying on the work of proclaiming the good news of his kingdom and the approaching of the battle of Armageddon, that great day of God Almighty that will mean the destruction of the wicked.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1955 p. 704
Nearly four thousand years ago, in the days of Abraham, Jehovah revealed his unification strategy and order: “I shall surely bless you [Abraham] and I shall surely multiply your seed [spiritual Israel of 144,001 anointed ones—Gal. 3:29; 6:16, NW] like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore [left unnumerical until A.D. 96, when their number was revealed at Revelation 7:4 (NW)], and your seed [principally Christ Jesus, the head of the seed organization of 144,000] will take possession of the gate of his enemies [at Armageddon].
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Last in order after 1931 up to Armageddon comes the calling of the “other sheep” into God’s protective organization that they also may become witnesses of Jehovah with a destiny of earthly life that all may be unified as ‘one flock under one shepherd.’—John 10:16 and Eph. 1:10, 11.
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This world-wide ingathering of the “other sheep” hastens rapidly in these closing days before universal Armageddon.
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The field called Armageddon, where the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” will be fought, will be like a tremendous wine press for all mankind.
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The eight human survivors of the global flood stand as a prophetic sign and guarantee that there will be happy survivors when mankind is crushed in the wine press of God’s anger at Armageddon.—Gen. 9:4-6, 11-16, NW; Matt. 24:37-39.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1955 p. 713
Noah made wine after the flood, doubtless using a wine press. In the time of making wine to gladden man’s heart the blood, the juice, of the grapes flowed heavily under the crushing feet of the treaders or trampers in the wine trough. In the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon human blood will flow, human life will be poured out, on an unheard-of scale, and woe to those who are then in the war against God the Almighty!
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At Armageddon Christendom faces an experience like that of ancient Judah and Jerusalem, the prophetic type of unfaithful Christendom.
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4. Why will the tramping out of lifeblood be done in justice at Armageddon?
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In this we see a prophetic picture of how Jehovah God will preserve and deliver a faithful remnant of people to survive Armageddon.—Isa. 45:17-22; 66:8, 9; 2 Chron. 36:17-23.
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This illustrates what it will mean when Jehovah gives Christendom the wine-press treatment at Armageddon.
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There is no other place in this old world where one may seek refuge and escape from being crushed at Armageddon.
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10, 11. (a) Why is there no other place in this old world in which to escape being crushed at Armageddon? (b) Why is taking refuge in the “vine of the earth” something to avoid?
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In executing judgment at Armageddon the God of justice renders to all worldly religion her dues for her sickening bloodthirstiness and bloodguiltiness.
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The guilty will be made to drink their own lifeblood by their own deserved death at Armageddon.—Isa. 49:26.
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Where is there a place for us to escape from having any part in the world’s bloodguilt at Armageddon, that our own lives may not be required of us according to Jehovah’s covenant concerning the sacredness of blood?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1955 p. 716
Moreover, since then, and particularly down to 1931, thousands who were definitely tainted with bloodguilt heard the message of the Kingdom and of the coming Armageddon and they began to flee to the antitypical city of refuge. They repented and turned to God for mercy. With faith in his High Priest Jesus Christ they gave themselves in full dedication to God to do his will ever afterward and to remain strictly within his merciful provisions to be safeguarded against the executing of all the bloodguilty at Armageddon.
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Their eyes have been opened to see the bloodguiltiness of all the world and they want no share further in it nor in paying the penalty for it with this world at Armageddon.
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1. Why do we need a place of refuge at Armageddon, and how did God picture it prophetically for us?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1955
This shows, too, that Jehovah’s protection to the blood-tainted refugees today against execution during the avenging of innocent blood at Armageddon is granted through his High Priest Jesus Christ, who gave his own human life to rescue even repentant manslayers besides sinners of all other kinds.
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Outside of Jehovah’s merciful refuge he is certain to become subject to execution when all bloodguiltiness that is not covered is avenged at Armageddon. He will not survive.
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They hope to survive the battle of Armageddon into God’s new world, but even after that battle and its execution of the bloodguilty they will need the atoning merit of their heavenly High Priest.
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However, when they finish their earthly duties after Armageddon and die and are instantaneously resurrected to life as divine spirit creatures in the heavens, they will no more need the atoning services of Jehovah’s High Priest, for then they have forever left the flesh behind, sacrificed in vindication of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty.
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But clear through Armageddon and until their fleshly tabernacle, their earthly house or tent, is dissolved in death and they gain a “building from God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens,” they will have remained within the refuge city under the immortal High Priest.—2 Cor. 5:1, NW.
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They may not come out of the refuge city under Christ immediately after Armageddon, because they too, like the surviving remnant, will be in their imperfect flesh, infected with sin.
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6. How do the Armageddon survivors not of spiritual Israel stay in their refuge city until the antitypical death of the High Priest, and for what might they die after that?
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This makes the time within bounds fly by most happily before Armageddon in praise of Jehovah and it results in salvation both to the refugee and to others.
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Looking forward to punishing bloodguilt at Armageddon, Jehovah sings out: “I shall intoxicate my arrows with blood, while my sword will eat flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, with the heads of the leaders of the enemy. Be glad, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and he will pay back vengeance to his adversaries and will indeed make expiation for the ground of his people.”—Deut. 32:42, 43, NW.
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As Jehovah has allowed only a “short period of time” till the avenging of the innocent blood at Armageddon, and as that time since 1918 has been reduced so much by now, it has become most urgent for us to keep in excellent condition the way that has been prepared to the present-day city of refuge.
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He will overtake them all at the field of Armageddon.
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Rightly, then, Jesus is the one that treads the great wine press of God’s anger at Armageddon, for there the crushing of the life out of the bloodguilty world comes as an avenging of the innocent blood that it has already shed and will yet shed till the Avenger calls the world to account and forces payment.
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I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me [none of Jehovah’s witnesses having to engage in violent action to help him at Armageddon, and none of the wicked being able to stand up against Him]; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel. For the day of vengeance [against my enemies] was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed [people] had come.
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But in treading the wine press at Armageddon Jehovah uses the nearest Kinsman of all mankind, the Blood Avenger who is entitled to do the treading for his heavenly Father, namely, “the man Christ Jesus.” The apostle John had a forevision of him going into the loaded wine press at Armageddon and treading it with a troop of heavenly companions: “And I saw the heaven opened, and, look! a white horse.
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At this Armageddon wine press the flow of blood from the smitten nations will be a flood.
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15, 16. (a) Who, then, rightly is the one to tread the wine press at Armageddon? (b) However, in Isaiah’s prophecy, who is it that pictures himself as treading the wine press, and in what language?
17. Whom, though, does Jehovah use in treading the wine press at Armageddon, and how does John describe his forevision of this?
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At Armageddon now near harvesttime comes, then the time of the wine treaders.
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Picturing the tremendousness of the Armageddon slaughter, the Revelation says: “He called out with a loud voice to the one that had the sharp sickle, saying: ‘Put your sharp sickle in and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because its grapes have become ripe.’
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The great Armageddon wine press will be trodden “outside the city” and the horses under Christ and his heavenly troops will fairly wade, almost swim, through blood, so many will be those in opposition to Jehovah God and his King of kings.
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Then determinedly, wisely, gratefully stay inside it until Armageddon!
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20. At Armageddon by whom and how is the wine press trodden, and with the juice of the “vine of the earth” pressed out how deep?
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As the listeners were lifted to this elevated plane of thought, the president crowned his speech by holding aloft and announcing the new, bright-yellow book entitled “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.” With applause and gladness they received it to themselves, and the entire supply of 43,000 copies was quickly taken up by the conventioners.
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There is no excuse for idleness on the part of anyone in Jehovah’s service, and our remaining opportunities before Armageddon are great.
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Publication title: The book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, released last June, and the article “Jehovah Is in His Holy Temple,” published in the November 15 English issue of The Watchtower, prove that Jehovah came accompanied by his Angel of the covenant, Jesus Christ, to the spiritual temple in the spring of 1918.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1955 p. 748, 749
Publication titel: The old Bible textbooks, the seven volumes of Studies in the Scriptures (1886-1917), were replaced, for, beginning with The Harp of God of 1921, a new series of Bible study textbooks was published culminating in the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World in 1955. All these publications since 1919 have kept presenting Bible doctrines and expositions of Bible prophecy from the progressive standpoint and not according to tradition or the understanding of any dead man.
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Yes, the difference between faithless robbers of God and the remnant of tithe bringers already shows up before Armageddon’s war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14-16, NW)
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They know that Jehovah promises to spare the remnant in the day when he takes action and vindicates his universal sovereignty by fighting the war of Armageddon to victory. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1955 p. 758
14. So what difference already shows up before Armageddon as foretold?
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It will lead to your being spared with the remnant through the war of Armageddon to enjoy everlasting life in Jehovah’s new world with material as well as spiritual prosperity on earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1955 p. 759
Saturday afternoon an audience of 17,414, in cloud-dimmed sunshine, received the release of the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World with exclamations of Oh! and hearty applause.
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Questions From Readers
● What about a witness whose mate dies faithful before Armageddon and is then brought back in a resurrection soon after that battle’s end? Can that couple be reunited and share in the procreation mandate?—A. M., South Africa.
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We cannot say for sure just how Jehovah will arrange matters after Armageddon, but it does not seem unreasonable for two such persons to be reunited after Armageddon if that is the wish of both. They might entertain that hope. However, the one surviving is free to remarry, before Armageddon, and is under no obligation to wait for the resurrection of the deceased one. The marriage tie is completely broken by death. If the survivor remains single and the dead one is raised shortly after Armageddon, they might be made companions if Christ their Everlasting Father pleases, but whether to procreate, we have no definite scripture to favor this.
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