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.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 10
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.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 29
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, hurt- ing themselves and eventually vanishing permanently in the battle of Armageddon, now near.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 32, 33
Though he may spend the remaining years to Armageddon in ‘man’s prison,’ by continuing to study Jehovah’s Word he will remain free in mind and heart and be privileged to comfort and help others around him whom prison officials-but not so God-may class as beyond help.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 70
On Sunday 160 heard the public talk “After Armageddon-God’s New World.” The brothers thrilled to hear the truth-packed dis- courses and particularly those of Brother Henschel, which encouraged them to become expansion-minded.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 98
The brothers in St. Martin are willing to do so, as they see the New World society growing, and maybe there are still some other sheep to be found here before Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 167
As one congregation writes, the publishers would like to share in the public declaration of the good news also, although “we do not know if Jehovah will permit us to preach the good news from house to house in this land before the battle of Armageddon.”
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 224
“The mother is sixty-seven years old and says that she has entered into a period of happiness such as she has never known before. She says, ‘If I live four or five more years, they will be the happiest years of my life, because now I know the truth.’ Inwardly it is her hope to be one of the happy Armageddon survivors.”
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 236
In these last days before Armageddon these two classes walk together before Jehovah, praising him and not afraid of the evil tidings, because both of them together have their hearts fixed upon Jehovah, trusting in his Word, happy to do his will and willing to follow out his commandments.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 277
May it be their good pleasure, because of having their hearts fixed and trusting in Jehovah, to carry on in the work of aiding others in true worship, and carry on right through the battle of Armageddon into the new world of righteousness.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. p. 277
Members of that society, all ministers, constitute the visible nucleus of Jehovah’s “new earth” that will live through Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. January 2
Then there are some of the “great crowd” of sheeplike ones who have died faithful since Christ’s kingdom has been established, and may yet die faithful before Armageddon. It would reasonably follow that the faithful men of old and any of the present-day other sheep who die will receive a resurrection early in the new world, to join the Armageddon survivors in making earth a paradise.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. January 8
So, too, in modern times, the message delivered by Jehovah’s witnesses, although appreciated by all lovers of God, may be hot on the ears of the wicked; nevertheless, its heat is nothing to compare with the fire of God’s jealousy, which will consume this world at Armageddon. W 8/1 14a
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. February 6
Some, because Armageddon is so near, might lift their eyebrows in holy horror at other brothers and sisters’ getting married these days or at some married sister’s getting pregnant.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. March 25
One’s responsibility at the revelation of Christ at Armageddon therefore depends upon whether one accepts or rejects the good news of the Kingdom that Jesus said would be preached world-wide. W 6/15 3
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. April 1
The assignment we have from God is merely to warn all of the impending cataclysm of Armageddon, in order that all who will may now take advantage of Jehovah’s provision for safety.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. April 9
Armageddon will not miraculously change our disposition toward our brothers, suddenly making us amiable. We must change it now. True, Armageddon can blot out dispositions, but the dispositions it blots out will be of those it destroys. One thing is certain: True love will survive Armageddon and so will those who practice it. W 9/15 35
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. April 24
Today there are Christian battlers for Jehovah, and in a way they display greater courage than did the Israelite battlers for Jehovah, because these Christian witnesses of Jehovah do not use carnal death-dealing weapons such us the Israelite warriors did and they will not use such violent weapons or raise private military squads even at the battle of Armageddon. W 11/15 13
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. May 22
The glorious kingdom of heaven will accomplish Jehovah’s purpose with Christ Jesus taking the lead soon in the battle of Armageddon against the Devil.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. July 17
Enthroned in heaven as King in 1914, he has work to do from that year until Armageddon
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. July 22
If men do not strip off the old personality and don the new personality of godliness, they and their personalities will be annihilated at Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. August 17
Looking ahead we sec the final cleansing attack at Armageddon, when Jehovah will
force Satan to come forth and display himself and his opposition to Jehovah and Jehovah’s people.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. August 24
Do not mar the glory of Jehovah’s kingdom and his organization by doing something like what Ananias did. Jehovah’s New World society is part of his holy organization. Recognize it, get into it now and serve with it right through the battle at Armageddon, on into his righteous new world without end, where all will love Jehovah and love their surviving neighbors. W 1/1 7a
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. August 29
It is for this all-powerful reason that Jehovah has exempted ALL of them, the entire congregation, from taking part with carnal weapons in the battle of Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. September 8
It means that the results of his righteous nets will be permanent, not being wiped out at Armageddon, whereas the works of this wicked world will be burned up in that war and their effects be completely obliterated.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. September 17
As Christ’s followers we are consecrated priests not subject to militarization to take a violent part in the battle of Armageddon. But carrying on our priestly duties even into the midst of Armageddon, we shall be harmless bystanders, joyful spectators of how Jehovah and his angelic hosts under Christ will fight the victorious battle against the Devil’s organization, visible and invisible.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. September 22
They cannot and will not wield any carnal weapons at Armageddon. W 11/15 12, 13b
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. September 29
That battle in heaven was fought and won; the next and final one, Armageddon, is still to be fought for the vindication of Jehovah’s name and Word.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. October 6
Still another purpose served by our fight for freedom is to lead the enemy on to Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. October 12
By our continuing to give the Kingdom good news freely and generously to the poor and needy, that honor of increased membership in the New World society at God’s temple is bound to be added to until Jehovah exalts our horn as victors at Armageddon. W 12/15 10a
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. October 20
By rejoicing in the hope ahead we can already experience the thrill and joy of Jehovah’s victory at Armageddon. W 8/ 15 6-8a
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. October 31
The conflict reaches its intensity in this wicked day, because Satan knows he has but a short period of time until Armageddon. W 11/15 1, 2b
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 1
We are now forty-one years within “this generation,” the generation that witnessed the eventful year of 1914, the generation doomed to experience Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 15
When Jehovah stops Gog’s furious, malicious assault on the New World society at Armageddon, the wicked will still not see the desire of their eyes but will have one last look at a sight grievous to their eyes, the enduring prosperity of Jehovah’s witnesses and the triumph of the New World society on earth. Then the wicked will melt away in an inglorious end at the grand display of Jehovah’s battle power at Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 17
Already Satan has been tumbled from the heavenly heights and soon he will be checkmated at Armageddon when he is hurled into the abyss of deathlike inactivity.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 22
‘l’his priesthood may not sanction their engaging in violent combats among themselves or with outsiders at Armageddon. W 11/15 14, 15b
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 26
Why arc the great crowd so favored? Because Jehovah purposes to have a people on earth after Armageddon, settled in different parts of the earth to form the vanguard of the earthly subJects of the Kingdom, marching up on the way to righteousness du ring the 1,000 years. Too, he has a great work now for them to do before Armageddon, a work which the anointed remnant could not possibly perform alone and which .Jehovah long ago foretold.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. November 27
They act as a watchman to warn all mankind of the coming of Jehovah’s sword of execution at Armageddon.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. December 30
These words are a prohibition against our dropping our spiritual armor and taking up carnal weapons and relying upon their use at the battle of Armageddon. We must keep our sanctification for our sacred warfare down to the all-out attack upon us by Gog and the outbreak of Armageddon by Jehovah’s countermove against him in our defense.
1955 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1954. December 31