These resurrected ones will not be brought back to live in a wicked system of things as we have today. The wicked will have been removed from the earth by the hand of God at his battle of Armageddon.
Awake! January 22, 1959 p. 7
Publication title: I am to receive free the booklets God’s Kingdom Rules-is the World’s End Near? Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and After Armageddon-God’s New World.
Awake! January 22, 1959 p. 31
The great tribulation that brings this evil world to its end, making way for a righteous new world, is called elsewhere in the Bible “the war of the great day of God the Almighty” and the battle of “Har-Magedon” or Armageddon.
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 7, 8
How would people respond to the warning of Armageddon?
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 8
Section heading: reliable Basis for Armageddon Warning
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 8
Despite the warning given this world, Armageddon comes “exactly as a thief in the night.”
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 8
Benefit by the warning now being sounded world-wide by Jehovah’s witnesses. They invite people everywhere to turn to the Bible, to prove for themselves that the warning of Armageddon is no joke.
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 8
Jehovah’s witnesses cannot take people by the hand and force them to safety. so they can survive Armageddon into God’s
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 8
. . . With arms full of books and heads full of knowledge and hearts overflowing with love for God and his ‘other sheep’ weary Witnesses started wending their way to their homes, more determined than ever to carry out the Divine Will until Armageddon.
Awake! February 8, 1959 p. 24
Publication title: I am to receive free the six booklets God’s Way is Love, After Armageddon-God’s New World, “This Good News of the Kingdom,” World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom, Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’s Kingdom Rules-is the World’s End Near?
Awake! February 22, 1959 p. 32
God’s coming destruction of this old world means Armageddon.
Awake! March 8, 1959 p. 4
So let Red China and other Communist nations oppose “the God of gods”; let them honor the “god of the fortresses” by building up mammoth military machines. Yet their end is certain, for God’s sure Word of prophecy will be fulfilled soon now at Armageddon, “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire, as he brings due punishment upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will pay the penalty of everlasting destruction.”-2 Thess. 1:7-9
Awake! March 8, 1959 p. 13
The 1,156,000 and more that did not partake, of the emblems at the Lard’s supper have the opportunity of being a part of the New World society today, and after God ends this wicked system of things at Armageddon, the battIe of the great day of God the Almighty, those who have proved faithful win have the privilege of transforming this earth into a Paradise and there enjoying endless life in health and happiness.
Awake! March 22, 1959 p. 28
Publication title: With the subscription I am to receive free the three Bible booklets God’s Way is Love, After Armageddon-God’s New World and “This Good News of the Kingdom.”
Awake! March 22, 1959 p. 32
Publication title: I am to receive free the six booklets God’s Way is Love, After Armageddon-God’s New World, “This Good News of the Kingdom,” World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom, Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’s Kingdom Rules-is the World’s End Near?
Awake! April 22, 1959 p. 32
No more should the head be held low in despondency; no more should the true Christian be dispirited in hopeless dejection, for now is the time of all times for lifting up one’s head in joyful expectation of impending deliverance at God’s war of Armageddon. “Rejoice in the hope ahead.”-Rom. 12:12.
Awake! May 22, 1959 p. 8
After Armageddon, during the reign of Christ the King, those dead in the memorial tombs will be raised to life again.
Awake! May 22, 1959 p. 8
Their “Armageddon climax,” says the new book “Your Will Be Done on Earth.”
Awake! May 22, 1959 p. 32
This course is valuable to you because it brings happiness and contentment now. It provides against the forces of delinquency. It will be a safeguard through the impending time of trouble, Armageddon.
Awake! July 8, 1959 p. 7
If we now hope to see the complete end of this corrupt world of Satan in the approaching battle of Armageddon we must endure down to its end, in order to prove worthy to be carried alive through the battle into the righteous new world that follows.-Ps. 3:8; Heb. 5:9, 10; Mark 13:13; 1 Pet. 1:9.
Awake! July 8, 1959 p. 28
True restoration of the earth, no matter how it be ruined by mankind, will be accomplished in the true sense during the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ following Armageddon now near.
Awake! July 22, 1959 p. 12
For example, Revelation 16:16 refers to Har-Magedon or Armageddon.
Awake! July 22, 1959 p. 15
The Scriptures show that the organization of Jehovah’s witnesses is a society of ministers that teaches others to be His ministers of the gospel. Only his ministers, may have any hope of surviving God’s war of Armageddon.-Heb. 5:l2; Rev. 16:16.
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 6
It is to help others become God’s ministers now, that they may by God’s undeserved kindness live through this “time of the end,” survive the destruction of this world at Armageddon and keep on ministering to God forever in the righteous new world to follow, without a break in their ministry.-2 Tim. 2:2.
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 7
The fruit of the lips making public declaration about God’s new world and how it will come in this generation after the war of Armageddon is what will help honest-hearted people to take their stand on God’s side and gain for themselves the greatest of all gifts, namely, everlasting life in Jehovah’s new world.-Heb. 13:15, 16.
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 28
Publication title: After Armageddon-God’s New World
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 31
Soon, at the battle of Armageddon, it will destroy the old world, with its wickedness, poverty and distress, and bring in a new world, where there will be no pain, crying or death!
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 31
I am enclosing 8d for the three booklets “This Good News of the Kingdom,” After Armageddon-God’s New World and God’s Way Is Love.
Awake! August 8, 1959 p. 31
Yet that eruption is nothing in power to compare with that which the Maker of the atom will release at Armageddon when He shakes terribly this whole earth.
Awake! August 22, 1959 p. 6
God’s prophecy speaks of men in this time who, left to themselves, would destroy the earth, but this they will never do, because the Creator will frustrate their plans by destroying those who would ruin the earth, in the battle of Armageddon.
Awake! August 22, 1959 p. 28
The King Jesus Christ is the one who as Executioner at the fast-approaching battle of Armageddon will “destroy the one having the means to death, that is, the Devil.” (Heb. 2:14)
Awake! October 22, 1959 p. 4
They need to know about God’s kingdom and how this wicked world will soon be destroyed at God’s war of Armageddon and how this will make way for a new world of righteousness.
Awake! October 22, 1959 p. 8
Secular publication: An editorial in Theology Today for 1958, says: “Too much of our religious and Church life is strictly ‘out of this world’ . . . . So much of our Sunday worship, our pastoral prayers, our hymns and anthems, our pulpit homilies, our sacramental ceremonies, our vested choirs and divided chancels, our processing and recessing-so much of this and more is simply unrelated to reality. . . . Were it not so soporific and hypnotic, it would not be tolerated by people who otherwise are very much in the world . . . .We should not be surprised, therefore, that the Jehovah’s Witnesses with their prediction of Armageddon just around the corner is one of the fastest growing religious groups in the world today.”
Awake! October 22, 1959 p. 24
As an example, take the prophecies of the Bible. Many moderns glibly parrot the word ”’Unbelievable!” when they are told of the global tragedy of Armageddon that is about to befall mankind.
Awake! November 22, 1959 p. 7
It tells that we stand at the threshold of the complete elimination of all the wicked from the earth, in Jehovah’s war of Armageddon.
Awake! November 22, 1959 p. 7
As for Armageddon as being “horrible”-it will be, but not needlessly or unjustly so.
Awake! November 22, 1959 p. 28
So also will Armageddon be, as it were, a horrible surgical operation.
Awake! November 22, 1959 p. 28
So regardless of what a Canadian Jesuit priest may say, reason and the Scriptures unite to show that Armageddon’s destruction of the wicked is consistent with Jehovah’s attributes of wisdom, justice and love.
Awake! November 22, 1959 p. 28
They maintain that in our generation’s time that Kingdom government will move with power against all wickedness and eradicate it off the face of the earth in the battle of Armageddon.
Awake! December 8, 1959 p. 27
The electrifying news that Armageddon is to be fought in our time fills them with a sense of urgency and responsibility.
Awake! December 8, 1959 p. 27