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.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 21
It is believed that the district, circuit and congregation servants, those who hold positions of responsibility, will examine this point very carefully during the year 1957, to see what they can do to help those who are weak and to make them strong and to gather the other sheep in as rapidly as possible before the final battle of Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 61
The nearer we get to the battle of Armageddon the greater are the trials we have to bear.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 173
He thought to himself: “My, where will all these people be when Armageddon comes?”
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 239
Their presence and continued activity are visible evidence of God’s established kingdom and will give hope and faith to many more before the battle of Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 250
During the year they had a wonderful Triumphant Kingdom assembly. They were enriched with the book Qualified to Be Ministers and for the field they now have the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. p. 257
Every person who survives Armageddon will have proved to his fellows, as well as to himself and to the true God, that he really wants to be obedient to Jehovah, giving him exclusive devotion and joyfully worshiping him in his new world of righteousness forever. W 1/1 13
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. January 29
Very soon now, at Armageddon, God will show his sovereign power and prove that all devotion is exclusively his.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. February 6
The contest with the wicked spirit forces in heavenly places does not end until Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. February 7
So we must train until the end of the season at Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. February 7
Survivors of Armageddon will be happy to have a share in preparing the earth for a global paradise of beauty and perfection under the reign of the King Jesus Christ.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. February 16
Religious liars like them today cannot escape a like judgment, but will meet a like end at Armageddon. W 2/1 45
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. February 17
And finally, in this generation it is God’s great will to prove his sovereignty by vindicating his name at Armageddon in destroying every vestige of Satan’s organization visible and invisible. W 7/15 9
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. March 1
We may confidently expect that Gog of Magog in his maddened desperation will in the future attempt to make even greater efforts to wipe us out completely. That final desperate attempt, however, will mark the beginning of Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. March 10
As God’s kingdom increases its influence on earth, more and more community interests will come to the New World society, until after Armageddon all such on earth will come into its hands. As in the days of Noah und of Moses, God is dealing with a congregational society of people.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. March 31
If there were now in force a procreation mandate, all married members of the New World society would choose to have children immediately, and not delay it till after Armageddon, if possible. Although under the original procreation mandate from God, Adam and Eve did not have any children while they were in the garden of Eden. It was not for their failing to conceive children at once that they were driven out. No married couple should be criticized for failing to have children now before Armageddon. This is in keeping with the principle Paul enunciated at 1 Corinthians 7:29. W 10/1 4
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. April 22
Those out of the many nations see today that God is with us and they hasten to get to know more about his ways and escape his coming wrath at Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. June 5
This witness to God’s established kingdom we must urgently give before this old system of things ends completely in an Armageddon fight. W 12/15 10
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. June 16
Doing this work until this world’s end we are sure to have Christ class us as ‘workers of lawfulness’ and tell us to come near to him as those approved by his Father and worthy of being spared through Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. August 9
After Armageddon the couples surviving will continue in their marital union.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. August 19
He will have redeemed his earthly children through Armageddon just as much as Jehovah redeemed the Israelites out of Egypt and through the Red Sea. As all those redeemed ones belonged to Jehovah, so all the Armageddon survivors will belong to their Redeemer Jesus Christ.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. August 19
After Armageddon all survivors will know Jehovah and give him their first love. 1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. September 1
If you deliberately refuse to dedicate yourself to Jehovah in this judgment day in which we now are living, your life will end at Armageddon if not before, and without even a hope of a resurrection.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. September 5
With Armageddon coming on apace, the favorable time for salvation is now, not later. Now, not later, God’s patience is waiting for all who want to live to seek him while he can yet be found.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. September 12
At Armageddon all those sho refuse to worship Jehovah thus in holy adornment will be in severe pangs because of him. W 12/15 10a
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. September 29
Armageddon is fast nearing.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. October 6
We are instructed not to miss a day in telling it. Why? Because the days to tell it are limited before Armageddon, in fact, are getting fewer with each passing day.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. October 6
The New World society has no such rule. It Scripturally allows freedom to marry before the battle of Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. October 16
We do not follow the demon-led kings of the entire earth to their battle lines at Armageddon. Rather we follow the Lamb as he goes to face all of Satan’s world at Armageddon. By our following him to that battle position we can triumph over the wicked spirit forces even now during this time of the end. At Armageddon we shall witness his own triumph over them. W 2/15 37-39, 42
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. October 26
A short period of time remains before Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. November 9
Those who refuse to know him now in friendship will be obliged to know his destructive power at Armageddon, which will fill out the knowledge of him that his witnesses on earth have been trying hard to give to the people during this generation.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. November 9
It is a continuous healing pro- gram that leads from one progressive spiritual position to another still higher on to spiritual perfection in the new world after Armageddon. Are you keeping up with this great spiritual healing program? W 3/1 2, 3
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. November 12
The most thrilling and final of all contests, Armageddon, is just ahead.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. November 14
As a blessed result of all this taking place before Armageddon, Jehovah God will become more widely known, more appreciated, believed in, accepted, worshiped, praised and served.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. November 22
Why be destroyed at Armageddon for lack of knowledge? (Hos. 4:6) The lifesaving knowledge is at hand for you in the New World society, which alone today offers the hope of living through Armageddon into God’s new world. 1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 3
At Armageddon God’s kingdom will triumph and will free the universe of Satan’s organization and save this great crowd of good will through Armageddon’s tribulation and into the new world, the righteous new system of things. 1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 6
Suddenly, however, final triumph will be ours, when Jehovah’s day comes as a thief in the night and this world is abandoned to its destruction at Armageddon, when all spiritism and the wicked spirit forms are put out of action and we are taken along with the triumphant King Jesus Christ into the demon-free new world under God’s universal sovereignty.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 11
For all those ruining the earth will themselves be ruined at Armageddon and once again, as in the garden of Eden, all nature will have full sweep to express itself to the glory and praise of its splendorous Creator.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 12
Already, more than forty years since the Kingdom’s establishment, the wicked spirit forces have shown their ability to exercise their cosmocratic power, without materializations, to spread spiritualism, to corrupt mankind, to cause the earth to be filled with violence and to lead the worldly rulers of all kinds of political systems to a showdown fight against the Almighty God and his Christ at Armageddon.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 16
The urgency of the times cannot be emphasized too strongly The time is short, much shorter than when the proclamation against Gog of Magog first began, and there is no time to lose. Armageddon draws on apace.
1957 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1956. December 22