The Bible’s prophecies having been proved correct hundreds of times, we can also accept its answers to our questions as to what the future will bring. It tells of a thousand-year reign by the Prince of Peace, following Armageddon which “this generation” will experience.
Awake! January 22, 1956 p. 7
It warns of the great chasm of Armageddon looming straight ahead.
Awake! January 22, 1956 p. 32
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Awake! January 22, 1956 p. 32
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Awake! January 22, 1956 p. 32
This means that we trust his final decision to destroy the wicked at Armageddon and pray for its accomplishment.
Awake! February 8, 1956 p. 26
After God clears out this wicked old system of things, which the Bible shows he will do at Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty, .then he will begin calling forth from the graves “all those in the memorial tombs,” beginning with the faithful men of old.
Awake! February 22, 1956 p. 8
Catholic (not Peter’s) “keys” may outwit automation, but there is one day they will not switch, namely, the great day of God Almighty at the battle of Armageddon.
Awake! February 22, 1956 p. 26
The significant factor behind the news since 1914 is that a kingdom government was born in the heavens, that the great. adversary of God was thrust out of heaven and confined to the vicinity of our earth, that humanity has entered upon a judgment period, which soon now will culminate in the destruction of all wickedness in “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”-Armageddon.-Luke 21:24; Revelation 12:12; 16:13-16, New World Trans.
Awake! March 8, 1956 p. 6
Jesus, wit prophetic foresight, indicated that this would not come about until after a great lapse of time-“until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled”-after which nation would rise against nation in world war; there would be food shortages, anguish of nations, earthquakes in one place after another; that “all these things are a beginning of pangs of distress” on the earth, and that the generation that witnessed all these things would also live to see the consummation of the wicked system of things at Armageddon, followed by the will of God being done on earth as it is done in heaven.
Awake! March 8, 1956 p. 6
Had World War I led into the battle of Armageddon, no flesh would have been save. All humankind would have perished off the earth. So that some flesh might be saved through Armageddon’s battle, it was not dated to follow World War I.
Awake! March 8, 1956 p. 7
The Bible, like a powerful microscope, has revealed their hidden meaning, showing them to be a part of the one grand composite sign marking the end of the Gentile times, and to be evidence of the setting up of the kingdom of God and the nearness of Armageddon, and to be a positive indication of the incoming new world, where righteousness is to dwell-Matthew 24:3, 7.
Awake! March 8, 1956 p. 8
Notwithstanding the irresistible composite sign before them, what worldly men fall to see with their natural eye is the rapid approach of Armageddon. But Peter tells us that “according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice.” Jesus said: “Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” The pit ahead is the battle of Armageddon, which is no fight between nations of this world, but is Jehovah’s battle, fought against Satan and his demonic organization, visible and invisible.
Awake! March 8, 1956 p. 9
Wrong use of the tongue is leading Christendom to her doom at Armageddon; right use will still save a great crowd from her impending disaster.-Matthew 23:27; Revelation 18:2; Matthew 15:14, New World Trans.
Awake! March 22, 1956 p. 6
Secular publication: And there is no evidence that this will take place this side of Armageddon. -New York Times, May 16, 1955.
Awake! March 22, 1956 p. 8
Jehovah’s witnesses in France will see to it that as many Frenchmen as possible have an opportunity to take their stand for God and his kingdom and thus survive Armageddon and enter Jehovah’s new world, where they will find the peace they so ardently seek.-Ezekiel 9: 4-6, Am. Stan. Ver.; Revelation 19:11-15; 2 Peter 3:13, New World Trans.
Awake! April 8, 1956 p. 12
What a surprise awaits boasting man when Jehovah God, at the impending war of Armageddon, topples man from his pedestal and exalts himself as the new-world Builder and as the Destroyer of war’.-Psalm 46:8-11, Am. Stan. Ver.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 3
Georgia’s Governor Marvin Griffin, in protesting a Georgia Tech football game with a team that had a Negro player, said: “The South stands at Armageddon. The battle is joined. We cannot make the slightest concession to the enemy in this dark and lamentable hour of struggle.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 13
Others seem to think that the apostle’s words apply to the blessings enjoyed beyond Armageddon in the new earth.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 25
What, then, are the things that Jehovah God has prepared for those who love Him? Plainly they are: (1) a clear vision of his purpose for the vindication of his name, that Satan’s ungodly, faithless world is to be destroyed and that a new world of righteousness is to fill the earth; and (2) a clear vision of the blessed privilege in which all who see and hear these things can take part by being witnesses for the Most High God Jehovah and co-operating with his beloved Son Jesus Christ in the strange work that precedes Armageddon.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 26
That the times of the nations ended A.D. 1914; that Jehovah is now in his holy temple and that, with his messenger of the covenant Christ Jesus, he now is not only ruling as King, but conducting a great witness work of warning the nations before he strikes at Armageddon; that all who desire can take part in this grand witness work; that now the great name of Jehovah is exalted as it has never been before, because he has cast Satan and his demons out of heaven; that he has redeemed his people out of antitypical Babylon and empowered them with his spirit; that soon now Jehovah will fight the war of Armageddon to his vindication and the ultimate deliverance of all lovers of righteousness.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 26
Plan now for a permanent place Jn the reconstruction period after Armageddon. When the final war is over and the building program is under way it will be too late.
Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 32
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Awake! April 22, 1956 p. 32
There are a few of the Araucano Indians adjusting their lives to New World living. And no doubt there will be some of them among the great crowd mentioned with approval in God’s Word that will pass through Armageddon and live in the new world.
Awake! May 8, 1956 p. 11
Cover page: THE ARMAGEDDON MEN ARE OVERLOOKING
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 1
Table of contents: The Armageddon Men are Overlooking 5
Why Armageddon Must Be Fought 6
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 2
Soon now God’s war of Armageddon will litter the earth with over two billion “slain of Jehovah” because the popular way was not to “make sure of all things,” not to “hold fast to what is right,” not to search for “accurate knowledge.” (Jeremiah 25:33, Am. Stan. Ver.)
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 4
Page heading: The Armageddon Men are Overlooking
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
While leading statesmen, newspapers and magazine, keep warning of an Armageddon, they are overlooking the real Armageddon. What is it?
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
“A SECT Anticipates Armageddon.” Thus Life, November 22, 1954, introduced a picture story about a group of Seventh-Day Adventists who made a flight to the woods as a defense test.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
And says nuclear physicist Dr. L. Gable: “I must warn you that we are at the doorstep of the battle of Armageddon if we do not succumb to a spiritual awakening,” World War I was termed Armageddon, then World War II, and now their dreaded successor is also feared as an Armageddon.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
But not one of these is the Armageddon. As the Encyclopedia Americana shows, the term “has come to be used for any great slaughter or conflict.” Worried about an atomic-war Armageddon, men are overlooking the real Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
The real Armageddon is near, and in overlooking it men are without excuse, as warning regarding it is being sounded far and wide.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 5
Section heading: Why Armageddon Must Be Fought
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
There are three main reasons why God will bring Armageddon to pass.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
Armageddon will square all accounts, end all oppression and avenge all blood unrighteously shed, whether of man or of beast.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
Secondly, Armageddon will be fought to deliver the righteous, even as the destruction of Pharaoh and his hosts in the Red Sea brought deliverance to the nation of Israel.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
And, most important of all, Armageddon will be fought to prove that Jehovah is the Supreme Sovereign, that he is the God almighty in power and perfect in justice, love and wisdom.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
At Armageddon Jehovah will hurl his answer in their face by destroying them, thus answering the psalmist’s prayer of some three thousand years ago, that he would make them to “know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.”-Psalm 83:18, Am. Stan. Ver.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 6
That Armageddon is at the door the fulfillment of Bible prophecy clearly indicates.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
And where will Armageddon be fought? Throughout the whole earth and its immediate vicinity.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
This prophecy and its context, telling of the nations’ being angry and Satan’s knowing he has but a short time left, also locates Armageddon in our day. In the prophecy of Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, Satan and his hosts are identified as Gog and his forces, and their location-in the immediate vicinity of the earth after their having been cast out of heaven-as the land of Magog.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
There being no question as to the outcome of Armageddon, what next concerns us is the nature of the conflict.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
Armageddon will come upon God’s enemies as a shocking surprise, as a thief in the night, as travail upon a woman, and they will not. be able to escape.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
All those who are responsible for wars between nations or who engage in them will also be destroyed, for Armageddon will be the final war; by means of it God “maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth,” and will destroy all war equipment. (Psalm 46:9) And since Armageddon is primarily for the purpose of making all to know who Jehovah is, those who now willingly refuse to know Jehovah will be made to know him at Armageddon. However, then it will be to their everlasting destruction, while to learn to know him now means everlasting life. Therefore all who support the present wicked system of things, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, will fall at Armageddon, even as Jesus emphasized when he said: “He that is not on my side is against me.”-Matthew 12:30, New World Trans.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7
That comparatively few of earth’s inhabitants, though it may be millions, will survive Armageddon the Scriptures clearly indicate.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 7, 8
God’s Word also shows that worldly religion, especially that which claims to be Christian, will go down first at Armageddon, perishing at the bands of the anti-Jehovah political elements such as communism.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 8
And what will follow Armageddon?
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 8
- Whether supernatural forces will participate in the true war of Armageddon? p. 5, ¶4
- What drastic effect Armageddon will have on earth’s peoples? p. 7 ¶3.
Awake! May 22, 1956 p. 28
The answer to those cries is soon to come when all the nations guilty of such things will have the lifeblood stamped out of them at Armageddon, the war of the great day of God Almighty.-Genesis 4:10; Revelation 6:9, 10, New World Trans.
Awake! June 8, 1956 p. 7
Those who would survive the divine vengeance of Armageddon must flee this system of things now and come over to the Christian theocratic organization.
Awake! June 8, 1956 p. 8
- How to survive God’s vengeance at Armageddon? p. 8, ¶4.
Awake! June 8, 1956 p. 28
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Awake! June 8, 1956 p. 31
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Awake! June 8, 1956 p. 31
At the very latest, at Armageddon all such idols will crash, for then “the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted.” Avoid present disillusionment and destruction at Armageddon by exalting Jehovah now and giving him exclusive devotion.-Isaiah 2:17, Am. Stan. Ver.
Awake! July 8, 1956 p. 4
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Awake! July 8, 1956 p. 32
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Awake! July 8, 1956 p. 32
At the battle of Armageddon, so close at hand, they will be hurled into an abyss for a thousand years, chained in deathlike inactivity.
Awake! July 22, 1956 p. 8
It will continue until every form of this world’s wars and all those mixed up in them are destroyed by God’s war of Armageddon.-Revelation 16:14, 16.
Awake! July 22, 1956 p. 11
But the Bile shows that the only victory that is certain is God’s victory at the war of Armageddon; then all nations will go down in crushing defeat at the hands of Christ Jesus.-Revelation 19:15
Awake! July 22, 1956 p. 31
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Awake! August 8, 1956 p. 32
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Awake! August 22, 1956 p. 31
And grateful we are that this harm-free new world will come in soon now at God’s war of Armageddon, when God fulfills his promise “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”-Revelation 11:18, New World Trans.
Awake! September 8, 1956 p. 12
Just as God caused the first system of things to end by a flood, but the earth remained; just as he brought to a complete end the Jewish system of things by means of the Roman armies, but the earth remained, so he will also bring about the “end of the world,” the consummation of this present wicked system of things by his battle of Armageddon, but the earth will remain.
Awake! October 8, 1956 p. 26
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Awake! October 8, 1956 p. 31
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Awake! October 8, 1956 p. 31
Before a new world can be brought in this old world must be destroyed. God will do that at his war of Armageddon.
Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 6
Describing Christ Jesus leading God’s heavenly armies to battle at Armageddon, the Bible says: ”The armies that were in heaven were following him on white horses, and they were clothed in white, clean, fine linen.
Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 6
Concerning those who survive Armageddon into God’s new world, the Bible says: “They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for destruction; for they are a race of the LORD’s blessed ones, and their offspring shall remain with them”-Isaiah 65:23, An Amer. Trans.
Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 6
Nor will mothers ever need to worry that their children will fall into the hands of kidnapers or other evildoers. For Armageddon will have rooted out all the wicked from the earth.
Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 6
Knowing for a certainty that God’s war of Armageddon will, during this generation, make way for a world without worry, we can heed the Lord Jesus’ words: “Do not worry about tomorrow.”-Matthew 6:34, An Amer. Trans.
Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 8
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Awake! October 22, 1956 p. 8
Soon Jehovah God will crush the enemies of freedom not only in Italy but all ver the universe by destroying them at the coming final war of Armageddon.
Awake! November 8, 1956 p. 15
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Awake! November 8, 1956 p.32
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Table of Contents: Who Will Fight at Armageddon? 25
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 2
Section heading: Who Will Fight at Armageddon?
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 25
IT IS clear that the universal war of Armageddon is near. Universal in scope will be the Armageddon war, which the Lord God Almighty will fight.
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 25
The war of Armageddon will settle forever the leading issue before all the heavens and earth, that Jehovah is God and that it is his sovereign right to rule over heaven and earth. The war of Armageddon spells victory for Jehovah, defeat for his foes.
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 25
It is not to a fight among themselves that the demons under Gog lead them to Armageddon.
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 25
They go there to fight against the real kingdom of God under Christ. Against this everlasting kingdom the demons will lead the power~greedy nations at Armageddon.
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 25
Armageddon will be a “tribulation such as has not occurred from the beginning of the creation which God created until that time and will not occur again.”
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 26
Why Armageddon will be totally unlike man’s wars? P. 25, ¶2
Awake! November 22, 1956 p. 28
God wiped out one world without moral power in Noah’s day. He can do it again and will at the impending war of Armageddon.
Awake! December 8, 1956 p. 4
Today Jehovah’s witnesses are seeking for such men to aid them to turn from the world’s way before this world is destroyed in the battle of Armageddon. Stouthearted, honest, peace-loving, truth-telling men are the king God has promised to preserve through the war of Armageddon into his new world of righteousness.-Ephesians 6:11; John 4:23, New World Trans.
Awake! December 8, 1956 p. 5
This is a serious matter. For soon now God’s war of Armageddon will destroy this system of things together with all forms of false religion.
Awake! December 22, 1956 p. 7
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Awake! December 22, 1956 p. 30
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*Did not include subject index.