At an international convention in New York city in 1953 more than 165,000 people heard the president of the Watch Tower Society speak on “After Armageddon-God’s New World.”
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The unrighteous “goats” will be everlastingly cut off from all life in the battle of Armageddon with which this old world will end. The righteous “sheep” will be protected during that battle to live through into God’s new world.
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It is the demons that lead all nations to Har-Magedon, or Armageddon. What is Armageddon? The word means “mountain of Megiddo.” Megiddo was a battlefield in ancient times.
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So the Bible aptly calls the battlefield where God will fight and win his war by the name “Armageddon.”
Armageddon, then, is not the name of a literal battlefield; it is the name of a symbolic one. The literal field of Megiddo in Palestine would be too small to hold all the kings of the earth and their armies. God’s war will be fought world-wide. So Armageddon refers to God’s war by which he destroys this evil world at the “accomplished end.”
Who will fight on God’s side? Jehovah’s witnesses on earth will not need to take part in Armageddon at all. To his witnesses Jehovah says: “The battle is not yours but God’s.”-2 Chronicles 20:15.
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The Bible gives us a symbolic picture of Christ on a white horse leading heaven’s armies to battle at Armageddon: “The heaven opened, and, look! a white horse.
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The angels that follow Christ to battle are all clothed in white, meaning that there is not a chance of any unrighteousness taking place at Armageddon.
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6. What is Armageddon?
7. Will Jehovah’s witnesses fight at Armageddon’?
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When will Armageddon be fought? Jehovah the great Timekeeper has scheduled Armageddon to come at the close of the “time of the end.” That time is near.
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We know Armageddon is near for another reason. Jesus said that the generation of people living when the “time of the end” began would not pass away before Armageddon breaks out. When did Jesus say this?
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Many are the people alive since 1914 who will still be living when it is time for Armageddon to begin.
How will Armageddon come? It comes after the earth-wide warning now being sounded by Jehovah’s witnesses. But most people laugh at the warning of Armageddon.
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11. What is the rod of iron for? 12. When will Armageddon begin? 13. How do we know Armageddon is near? 14. How do we know that many people alive since 1914 will still be living when Armageddon begins? 15. How does Armageddon come upon this world?
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So Armageddon overtakes the people of this world just as a thief surprises a household at night.
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Those of the New World society are awake. They will know when Armageddon is to begin. Why? Because just before God’s war begins the Devil will attack the New World society. When the Devil’s attack begins, the New World society will know that Armageddon is due to begin.
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Says Jehovah: “I will rain upon him [Gog the Devil], and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.” (Ezekiel 38: 22, AS) Great will be the terror at Armageddon.
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With shocking surprise Armageddon will catch all those persons outside the New World society. Telling us of the terror of the people at Armageddon, the Bible says: “The day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Who will live through Armageddon?
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After Armageddon the surviving sheep of the New World society will go forth to look upon “the slain of Jehovah.”
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28. How do we know that money will not buy protection at Armageddon? 29. What does the Bible say about dead bodies? 30. Who will live through Armageddon? 31. What sight will the survivors of Armageddon see?
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So for seven prophetic months the Armageddon survivors will gather up the bones and bury them.
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With Christ’s abyssing of the Devil, Armageddon comes to an end.
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Armageddon is over. Gone now are the invisible troublemakers! Gone are all the nations! Gone are all the goatlike people! Gone is the old world-gone forever! A new world begins.
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AT THE end of God ‘s war of Armageddon all that is bad will have been destroyed.
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Their hope is to live through the battle of Armageddon and into the cleansed earth and to stay there.
Many remaining members of the “little flock” will also live through Armageddon. But sometime after Armageddon the last member of the little flock will finish his earthly service and die and be taken to heaven to reign with Christ.
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After the battle of Armageddon Jesus will be in his kingdom without any opposer in heaven or on earth.
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He will teach the great crowd of people who will have lived through Armageddon how to take care of the earth.
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The first thing that the people who live through Armageddon will hove to do is to tear down the ruins that will be left upon the earth.
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Everyone who lives through Armageddon will have a part in this good work.
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The people who want to do bad things will have gone down in the battle of Armageddon.
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Only the people who are meek and teachable, who listen to God’s Word, who believe it and who do what it says will live through Armageddon into this cleansed earth.
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There is something else that will bring great happiness to the people who live through Armageddon into the new world.
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So we may expect this command to be fruitful and fill the earth to be give n to those “other sheep” who live through the battle of Armageddon. Happy children will be born into the “new earth.” They will not be brought forth with death in view. But they will be born into on earth from which Satan’s rulership will have been completely removed. So if one lives through Armageddon and into the cleansed earth, one may have a part in fulfilling in righteousness this command 1 that Noah’s sons followed after the flood.
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After Armageddon Jehovah will bless the obedience of married couples who carry out the divine command to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.”-Genesis 9:1.
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There will be (1) the people who will have lived through Armageddon,
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So even if such people have died now before Armageddon, they will be brought back in the “resurrection of life” to get the same blessings that the people who live through Armageddon will receive.
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Their hope, if they happen to die before the battle of Armageddon, is in a resurrection to life on the paradise earth. Theirs is an earthly resurrection.
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(3) the people of good will who today take their stand on God’s side but who through sickness, old age or some other cause happen to die before Armageddon is fought.
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Also, those of God’s “other sheep” who die now before Armageddon probably will come back soon after that battle to receive the earthly blessings that they have hoped for.
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In God’s battle of Armageddon they will forever be cut off from life.
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Everyone who is alive on earth will receive great blessings during that time, but some of the people who are resurrected for judgment, or some who are born as children to the people who live through Armageddon, still may refuse to serve God.
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Also, there will be the men and women who were born as children of the people who lived through Armageddon.
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Not only these people but everyone who is alive anywhere on earth will have to face this last test, even the princes of the “new earth” and the sheeplike people who lived through Armageddon. Everyone on earth will be judged according to how he meets this test.
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The final test will come when Satan and his demons, who were bound and imprisoned in the abyss at Armageddon, will be let out for a little while. Revelation tells how Satan the Devil is to be bound and abyssed at Armageddon and how he will be released a thousand years later.
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Now what have we learned about judgment? We have learned that a person could fall away and be judged unfavorably either now or at Armageddon, or during the thousand years of Christ’s reign, or at the end of the final test.
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In harmony with that, God will not allow any man to live through Armageddon to see paradise restored to this earth if that man has more than one wife.
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Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” is getting ever closer, and Jehovah God has a great work to do before he begins that war for the destruction of all the wicked.
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Giving this witness concerning God’s kingdom to all the nations before the world’s end comes at Armageddon is part of our being witnesses of Jehovah.
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And when, after your dedication, you are brought into the one flock under the one Shepherd, then you must join in helping to bring in still more of the “other sheep” before the battle of Armageddon comes along and destroys all the goats.
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Publication title: You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.
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