Even if one of Jehovah’s witnesses becomes so wrapped up in the affairs of this world, his secular work, his possessions or the gathering together of them, eventually he could be sucked out of the New World society into that wicked organization doomed to destruction at Armageddon. Why? Because he tried to save his life in his own way.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1957 p. 17, 18
The year 1956 is gone but by no means forgotten. In the short remaining time before the climax of this world’s affairs at Armageddon each year leaves its indelible record of service activity performed to Jehovah’s praise.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1957 p. 32
Jesus’ promise does not mean that by a single act of hospitality anyone can get through Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1957 p. 51
Why do they teach that the universal war called Armageddon will take place within this present generation and will utterly wipe out this world’s present systems of religion, commercialism and politics, and that millions of people will survive that global catastrophe and live on forever on earth under ideal conditions? It is because they have faith that it will be so.
Would you like to be among those Armageddon survivors and never die off the earth?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 73
It is just that distinction that makes all the difference between one’s surviving Armageddon and one’s perishing along with the old world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 74
No one will survive its destruction in Armageddon except those who have faith.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 74
My heart filled with appreciation as I realized Jehovah was having his kingdom proclaimed world-wide as a witness to gather men of all nations into his theocratic organization to form the nucleus of the New World society that would survive Armageddon to live on forever under the Kingdom rule.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 78
In the ages to come, long after Armageddon is past, I shall be glad to have had some part in the lifesaving work of gathering the “other sheep” into the theocratic kingdom fold in the “time of the end” of this old world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 79
But this wicked system refuses the change of heart it needs for survival of Jehovah’s war of Armageddon, though many individuals are abandoning it in order to get the heart change required for preservation, namely, the erasing of wrong precepts from the figurative heart and getting Jehovah’s law written there in their place.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 84
As with Ezekiel, so with us, our very lives depend upon our warning the wicked concerning Armageddon.—1 Cor. 9:16, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 93
On page 64 You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World says: “Jehovah will hide and save them, not only through the first part of the universal conflict, Christendom’s destruction, but clear through it into his new world.” What marks the start of Armageddon?—W. T., United States.
Such pictures of Armageddon as the destruction of unfaithful Jerusalem in 607 B.C. and also A.D. 70 indicate that unfaithful Christendom, which was pictured by unfaithful Jerusalem, along with all other devil religion, will be the first element of Satan’s system to go down at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 95
We also have the picture of Gog’s attack on the New World society and how this calls forth Jehovah’s decisive counterattack against Gog or Satan the Devil, which is also involved in the beginning of the battle of Armageddon. Harmonizing these, it appears that along with Gog’s attack on the true religion will go attacks by elements of his worldly system on religion in general, including false brands, and at such time Jehovah’s anger at the assault on his true people will precipitate the battle of Armageddon. Jehovah’s organization of true religion will not, of course, fall to its destruction under these attacks but unfaithful religions of Christendom and heathendom will, and so the fall of unfaithful Christendom and other false religions can properly be spoken of as the opening feature of Armageddon, or as the first victims of that war.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 95
Then you should read the outstanding Bible study aid You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World. Turn to page 367 and note the forty-two points of proof that some persons will escape this world’s end
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 96
✔ What will mark Armageddon’s start? P. 95, ¶5.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1957 p. 96
Later there will be children of the survivors of Armageddon as well as those who come forth from the dead in a “resurrection of judgment.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 111
They formed the nucleus of the new earthly society that will survive Armageddon and be first on the scene of action after that war. In 1919 the founding of the “new earth” or new earthly society took place.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 111, 112
Soon the war of Armageddon will finish off the wicked old world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 112
Publishers who have a proper view of the ministry arrange to share regularly in ministerial activity regardless of their circumstances or the demands this devilish old world might impose upon them, continually keeping in mind the fact that the ministry is an integral part of acceptable worship and that now, yes, now, is the opportune time to praise Jehovah and have a part in gathering the other sheep into the New World society for survival at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 115
While it is not an easy service, it is the most enjoyable and heart-satisfying service to be in on this side of Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 115
26. Who only will survive Armageddon, and what must they now do?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 118
That will never be done, for clearly it is stated at Matthew 24:38, 39 (NW) the most of this world’s inhabitants, as in Noah’s day, will be destroyed at the approaching battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 118, 119
All who hope to survive the great war of Armageddon, which rapidly draws near, must listen and respond to Jehovah’s invitation: ‘Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.”—Zeph. 2:3, AS.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 119
It is the most important work on earth between now and Armageddon, a matter of life or death for us and those whom we preach to.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 119
By faithfully fulfilling his assignment he knows it will be his good pleasure to declare abroad the excellencies of Jehovah between now and Armageddon and to serve and assist his brothers through the battle of Armageddon right on into the new world, where for a thousand years he will be further privileged to share in the development of God’s new world. Having this crystal-clear view, no wonder an appointed servant serves his brothers so well and is diligent to fulfill his assignment “whole-souled as to Jehovah.”—Col. 3:22-24, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 124
7. (a) How does a servant value his appointment? (b) If he is faithful, will his assignment end at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1957 p. 124
We got together for our farewell; thinking, of course, we would never, probably, see one another again until after Armageddon. Sad we were to separate, but rejoicing in the promises of Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 142
For, strange as it is, this—the fastest-moving generation of all—slumbers as the climax of Armageddon comes ever closer.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 145
11. Besides waiting patiently until Jehovah acts at Armageddon, what must Christians also do?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 147
While patiently awaiting the little time left before Jehovah strikes down Satan at Armageddon keep “close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah.”—2 Pet. 3:12, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 148
Gog of the land of Magog is disclosed as leading an attack with a great mixed host (representing Satan’s forces, invisible and visible) against Jehovah’s people, the faithful remnant and many other sheep who hope to survive Armageddon. Is it not these especially who must keep awake and alert, standing their ground until Jehovah takes action?—Ezekiel chapters 38, 39; Rev. 16:15.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 148
It is the great difference between the New World society and the old. Satan’s world will never destroy this love from the midst of God’s organization, but it will live through Armageddon and exist as the firm foundation for serving Jehovah in blessedness for eternity.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 156
At the present time God is interested in or concerned with the following interests: the completion of a bride for his Son, consisting of 144,000 humans of proved integrity; the gathering of a great crowd of “other sheep,” lovers of righteousness who may survive Armageddon to form the nucleus of a new earth in which righteousness will dwell; the preaching of this good news of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness, and the declaring of the day of vengeance, warning the wicked.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1957 p. 157
It is the worst of times for Satan’s world but the best of times for Christians who wake up to this truth: God has promised to bring in a new world of righteousness and to destroy this evil system of things at Armageddon. For those who learn the full facts of this truth the outlook for the future is thrilling. It is inspiring.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 164
So what if optimism is dead for the world? This world will soon die anyway at Armageddon. But there is no reason for you to die with it. Nor need you be without optimism.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 164
Many of the things that have been viewed as vital and necessary to God’s modern-day ministers may well be on the verge of joining this selfish old system in its Armageddon doom. “The complete end of all things has drawn close” is a warning that now reaches us with greatly magnified force.—Mal. 3:1-3; Ezek. 38:1-9; Luke 21:25, 26, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 174
Rather, we must nurture and safeguard it continually until Armageddon is past.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 175
Yet this “righteous man” now and on through to the finish of the test of integrity at Armageddon is “being saved with difficulty.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 176
They will disappear into oblivion in the climax of judgment at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1957 p. 176
Timothy did not live in the time when Armageddon was to be fought and yet it was urgently necessary for him to preach the Word.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1957 p. 207
Questions From Readers
● Deuteronomy 30:13 is referred to on page 117, paragraph 14, of the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World. What is the full application of that scripture to the paragraph?—P. S., United States.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1957 p. 223
Moreover, Bible prophecy shows that when God’s war of Armageddon breaks out Christendom will be destroyed: “For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; . . . I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1957 p. 244
Where is this spiritual banquet? You are partaking of a small part of it by reading this issue of The Watchtower. But there is much more. To partake of it, associate with the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses, through whom this magazine has been brought to you. Learn the nourishing truths of God’s kingdom. Learn how you may survive Armageddon into God’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1957 p. 244
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The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1957 p. 288
This world, with its wicked heavens and its wicked visible ruling powers on earth, together with its supporters, will come to an end at Armageddon: “But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.”—2 Pet. 3:7, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1957 p. 294, 295\
And since they, like Pharaoh of old, are determined to ignore Jehovah, they will be forced to know Jehovah in a way they will not like, by his destroying them at “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” known as Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1957 p. 324
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The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1957 p. 328
Everyone knows there is still work to be done. The question is, Can we do it before Armageddon and how much does Jehovah want us to do?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1957 p. 335, 336
If they do so, it may be their happy lot to continue in positions of princely service right through Armageddon and into God’s new world.—Isa. 32:1.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1957 p. 377
We see that final day, the day for Armageddon, drawing ever closer, and we feel the powerful attraction of wrong desire trying to pull us from the course leading to our cherished goal
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 407
Think about the desire to survive Armageddon and the desire to live forever in God’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 407
A person may look for him there, but he will not be found, and if he cannot be found in the New World society before Armageddon, how can he be found there afterward?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 409
Feel the joy of being among the survivors of Armageddon and able to look at such ruins of the old world instead of being a part of them.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 409
Be frank in your self-appraisal. It may mean the difference between surviving the battle of Armageddon or not surviving it. Consider what efforts you are making to cultivate right desires
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 410
The peace of the new world that is to follow the war of Armageddon will be guaranteed by him as the reigning Prince of Peace. It is now the time to get into God’s organization of peaceable ones in order to survive the end of this world of warring nations soon at Armageddon and enter the new world of peace.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 413
It is only true worshipers of Jehovah today, those who learn of God’s gracious provision for safety and act on it, who will receive his protection at the war of Armageddon. To be under that protection means life; to be outside it means death. Choose life; obtain and read the inspiring bound book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World. Send only 50c.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1957 p. 416
May Jehovah’s spirit remain with you and strengthen you for his continued service right on through the battle of Armageddon into his new world of righteousness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1957 p. 427
Satan’s present worldwide propaganda campaign against Jehovah’s kingdom is pictured as “three unclean inspired expressions,” or “unclean spirits,” resembling frogs, that are gathering all nations to Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13, 14, 16, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1957 p. 430
Not money, but God’s favor to the righteous ones will deliver them at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1957 p. 443
They heard how the entrance of a lasting peace for men of good will was a sure thing in our generation, not to be introduced, however, by the United Nations organization, of whose General Assembly Thailand’s Prince Wan Waithayakon was then the president, nor by any other means that worldly men may yet use, but to come by the Almighty God named Jehovah after his war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1957 p. 445, 446
Questions From Readers
● The book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, on page 359, discusses the earthly rebels at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ that Revelation 20:8 says “the number of whom is as the sand of the sea,” and makes this statement: “They are as indefinite in number as the ‘sand of the sea,’ though they might not be over 144,000.” Why is the number 144,000 brought in here?—E. C., Australia.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1957 p. 446
This destruction in vindication of Jehovah’s name will come in God’s battle called Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 455
In this way they do not come under the world responsibility for all its wickedness, and they will thereby escape destruction with it at Jehovah’s war of Armageddon. Just as the land vomited out the Canaanites and the backsliding Israelites because they polluted it, at Armageddon evildoers will be disgorged from the land of the living, for that is Jehovah’s time “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”—John 12:31; 2 Cor. 4:4; 1 John 5:19; 2:15; Jas. 4:4; Rev. 11:18, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 467
However, your study and changed way of thinking and acting will deliver you from Jehovah’s destructive judgments at Armageddon.—Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:22-24; 1 Pet. 4:2-5, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 468
The name of the wicked rots from God’s memory, but the good name of the obedient God remembers, either to preserve them through Armageddon if they are living then or to resurrect them to life if they have died before then.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 471
But when we finish life with a good name that has been built up by godly works our future in the new world is secure. If we die with a good name God will resurrect us; if we come to Armageddon with one he will preserve us.—Eccl. 7:1; John 3:36, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 471
It will help us make a good name so that the day of our death, or the day of Armageddon, will be better for us than the day of our birth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 471
No sooner was this talk finished than branch servant Charles stepped forward and read a resolution voicing recognition of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society as the instrument used by Jehovah to direct his people now on earth before Armageddon and pledging continued loyalty and support to it.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1957 p. 476
More full-time harvesters are needed to accomplish this tremendous ingathering work before Armageddon. This harvest period is a time of great joy, a happy time. It is a time
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1957 p. 504
Only a short time yet remains in which this preaching work can be accomplished. We are living in an interim period of Jehovah’s undeserved kindness between the war in heaven and the final culmination of the tribulation at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1957 p. 504
They listened attentively to his explanation of their relationship to the Watch Tower Society and why loyalty to it was now appropriate for getting Jehovah’s world-wide work done before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1957 p. 507, 508
She will continue to prefer the United Nations organization to God’s kingdom of the heavens, until she finds herself with all the rest of the unhealed world at Armageddon, the field of final battle with Jehovah, the God Almighty. There, at war with him instead of at peace with him, she will be dealt her Armageddon blow by his hand, and from this there will never be any recovery for her.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 567
It has been ruling since 1914, when Jehovah God enthroned and crowned his Son Jesus Christ at his right hand and commanded him to rule in the midst of his enemies and dash them to pieces at the coming battle of Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 568
At the close of that global war in 1918 this persecuted and oppressed remnant needed healing, that they might gain strength and rise up to do the work that God had for them to do in the postwar period until the universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 568
By carrying out the prophecy that Jesus said must and would be fulfilled before the end of this divided old world is accomplished at Armageddon, namely: “You will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 569
Seeing the danger of being destroyed with this incurable old world at Armageddon, they too want spiritual healing in order to gain life in the new world, on a paradise earth under God’s heavenly kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 569
Come to oneness, to friendly relationship with him, that you may not be destroyed as his enemy at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 570
Leave this unhealable old world to its agonizing death at Armageddon and give your loyal devotion to God’s kingdom by Christ and be relieved of the oppression of Satan the Devil, “the god of this world.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1957 p. 570
But there is a great crowd of people today who will never die at all, for their hope is to survive the coming war of Armageddon into God’s new world. That hope can be yours.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 582, 583
At Armageddon Christ Jesus leads heaven’s armies in a righteous war.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 583
No question about it, this grand society is marching forward and will continue to do so right through Armageddon and on into the new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 584
They are looking for God’s kingdom of the heavens to take full control of this earth, and He will do so at the oncoming universal war of Armageddon without his witnesses on earth having to raise even their little finger against any of the governments of this old world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 591
Hence Jehovah’s witnesses warn the people now to seek righteousness and peace and to take their stand now for God’s incoming kingdom, that they may not be destroyed with those who fight against Him in the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 591
1. Which judge does Christendom refuse to recognize and what relationship will not decide whether one should be spared at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 592
Will there be a remnant of survivors in our own day? Noah, Daniel and Job have not yet been resurrected from the dead to be here during the world destruction at Armageddon, to be the only survivors of that destruction of Christendom and of all the rest of the world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 593
We too want Jehovah God to be very tender in affection and compassionate toward us and not destroy us during the execution of his judgments in the war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 593
They have tried to take various measures against their witnessing from house to house in ‘preaching this good news of God’s established kingdom in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations before the end of this world comes at Armageddon.’—Acts 20:20; Matt. 24:14.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 602
The tribulation will resume at the battle of Armageddon and will destroy Satan’s visible organization and put out of operation his invisible organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 604
As foreshadowed by the perfect number ten, these “other sheep” have become already a “great crowd,” but they still continue to be gathered during this short period before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 605
The remnant must still endure till Armageddon. All the gathered “other sheep” must likewise maintain their integrity toward God and must endure along with the remnant until Satan’s world of persecutors and opposers is desolated at Armageddon. How happy we all are for having endured with integrity till now! How unspeakably happy we shall be for enduring till Jehovah vindicates his universal sovereignty at Armageddon and delivers us into his righteous new world!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1957 p. 605
There will be no wars after Jehovah’s righteous war of Armageddon—no wars, not even wars with stone clubs.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 612
The foretold conditions prior to Armageddon have come to pass.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 624
As the worldly nations worry along in their distress and uncertainty, and as they march on to their destruction in the universal war of Armageddon, we can be happy.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 635, 636
The beatitude in the Second Psalm is one that not only world rulers but all of us under the shadow of Armageddon ought to heed: “Serve Jehovah with fear and be joyful with trembling.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 636
The beatitude in the Second Psalm is one that not only world rulers but all of us under the shadow of Armageddon ought to heed: “Serve Jehovah with fear and be joyful with trembling. Kiss the son, that He may not become incensed and you may not perish [from] the way, for his anger flares up easily. Happy are all those taking refuge in him.”—Ps. 2:11, 12.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 636
Those who enjoy the happiness of giving will be preserved through Armageddon: “Happy is anyone acting with consideration toward the lowly one; in the day of calamity Jehovah will provide escape for him.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 636
From our meetings we are commanded to go forth and bear witness and sound warning to all the nations for the last time, because their complete end is clocked for Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 637
Taking a look forward to Jehovah’s victory at Armageddon, as the psalmist did, we can join with him in saying: “The sinners will be finished off from the earth, and as for the wicked, they will be no longer. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jah, you people!” (Ps. 104:35)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1957 p. 638
The end of the present system of things that was once far off in the stream of time has now drawn near. We are now in its last days. This generation will see its destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 644
Says the Catholic Confraternity translation of Apocalypse 21:1, 3, 4 concerning the conditions among men after Armageddon: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold the dwelling of God with men, and he will dwell with them. And they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.’”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 648
So while pursuing my purpose in life, to Jehovah I pray that I may be able to continue in my assignment with the New World society, to see all his enemies smashed at Armageddon, and then to live endlessly in his new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 655
So while pursuing my purpose in life, to Jehovah I pray that I may be able to continue in my assignment with the New World society, to see all his enemies smashed at Armageddon, and then to live endlessly in his new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 655
They scoff at the warning that Armageddon is God’s war and thus show no fear of Jehovah, which is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 669
Fearlessly they have lifted up their voices and stretched out their hands with Kingdom literature, inviting the people to the spiritual feast and warning them to flee to the only place of refuge from the onrushing storm of universal war, Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 669
Particularly since the witnesses of Jehovah discerned in 1925 that the battle of Armageddon is not a period of international anarchy on earth but is Jehovah’s war against Satan’s entire organization, demonic and human, we have realized our great responsibility respecting mankind who are threatened with everlasting destruction in that universal war.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 669
In appreciation of our being made his watchmen, we must cry out from the watchtower or preach from the housetops, as it were, for we do not want the blood of those destroyed at Armageddon to be charged to our timid negligence and our selfish indifference. (Ezek. 33:1-7; Matt. 10:26, 27)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 670
They have taken notice of the “great crowd” of the Right Shepherd’s “other sheep” and have interested themselves in their being spared through Armageddon into God’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 670
Divine wisdom will survive the battle of Armageddon. Those who now get wisdom before Armageddon and are guided by it with understanding will likewise survive and be privileged to use wisdom in Jehovah’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 670
18. What will survive the battle of Armageddon, and so what is it advisable now to get, and why?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 670
Why be destroyed at Armageddon for lack of knowledge?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1957 p. 672
SINCE the close of World War I in the year 1918 the political rulers and armies of all the nations have been experiencing a gathering together, a congregating, to the “place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Rev. 16:14, 16; Ezek. 38:7, 13, AV)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 688
In this troublous period since the first world war they have seen more and more evidence that this world, or system of things, has no future, but will end with the universal conflict at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 688
They want to spend their lives henceforth in worthwhile works that give joy and satisfaction now and that accomplish a good that will not be wiped out by Armageddon but will carry on into a radiant new world. All doers of worthwhile works are being gathered together under a power different from that operating upon this world. The rulers and their armies are being gathered to Armageddon by the influence of demons under the control of Satan the Devil.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 688
We are in the time of judgment not only of the congregation of the holy ones, of whom the King Jesus Christ is the Head, but also of the nations of this world, who are being congregated to the battleground of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 690
19. What calamity regarding government does Solomon describe, and why will this result in calamity for the supporters of such government at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 694
But the rulers and leaders of the people continue to act foolishly toward Jehovah God, and their governments will be dashed to pieces at Armageddon by Jehovah’s Son Jesus Christ.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 695
They are the Divine Judges, whom no Iron Curtain or Bamboo Curtain can keep from watching and seeing, and their judgments will be executed against all oppressors at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 696
If we congregated ones are wise-hearted, we will know that the Kingdom preaching was well arranged by God for this “time of the end” before the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 700
Doing this, we shall not know the calamitous thing that now blocks and frustrates all men of this world and that will reach its catastrophic expression at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 700
May we not waste our strength in a calamitous occupation. The time to use our strength in Kingdom service now before Armageddon is too limited.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 701
According to God’s timing the calamity of the universal war of Armageddon will strike them down while yet in their youth and prime of life because they are not remembering their grand Creator, serving him with worthwhile works.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1957 p. 701
Because He cannot deny himself he will, in the near-at-hand battle of Armageddon, bring low proud man and have his name alone exalted.—Ex. 20:5.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1957 p. 712
Note that we are to tell this good news from day to day, continually. Why? Because the days to tell it are limited before Armageddon strikes, in fact, are getting fewer with each passing day.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1957 p. 719
Down till the battle of Armageddon destroys the materialism of this old world the espoused remnant of Christ the Shepherd must meet the test of unswerving love for him.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1957 p. 734
This may probably be the largest convention ever arranged for by the Watch Tower Society before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1957 p. 747
Today, so near the end of this old world, if we desire to be redeemed and to be shown God’s favor by being protected clear through the universal war of Armageddon and kept alive into his new world, we too must walk in integrity toward God, as David did.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1957 p. 750
As a result of this preaching of such everlasting good news in all the inhabited earth, all the nations are receiving a witness before the end of all these nations comes in the oncoming universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1957 p. 754
But as regards Jehovah’s command to His witnesses to preach his kingdom, they obey God as Ruler rather than the ban by men who are fighters against God and who will perish now no later than at the universal war of Armageddon. (Isa. 51:12)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1957 p. 762