1960 Awake! - JW Changes

Shortly, at Armageddon, Jehovah’s righteous Judge and King will put an end to all capitalistic and communistic oppressors. delivering men of good will who willingly submit to the ruler.ship of God’s kingdom. -Ps. 72:4.

Awake! February 8, 1960 p. 16

Publication title: You will receive the two books “Let God Be True” and “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.” They are hard bound and contain a total of over 700 pages of basic Bible information. Send today.

Awake! February 8, 1960 p. 31

Publication title: I am enclosing 7/- (for Australia. 8/-) for the two books “Let God Be True” and You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.

Awake! February 8, 1960 p. 31

I am enclosing 14/- (for Australia. 16/-) for one full year’s subscription for both The Watchtower and Awake! and am to receive free the following 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’sKingdom Rules-Is the World’s End Near?

Awake! February 8, 1960 p. 32

What a joy and pleasure it will be to use these gifts after Armageddon, in the New World! Awake! February 22, 1960 p. 26

While the peace of the growing New World society is evidence of God’s advanced preparations for a world that is free from fear, the big change that will make freedom from fear for all mankind a reality will come at the battle of Armageddon.

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 4

Thus the battle of Armageddon will sweep away mankind’s many governments, leaving the earth to be ruled by one government, not a human government but a heavenly one.-Ps. 2:9

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 4

Happy are its members, for soon now when the world is destroyed at Armageddon, integrity-keepers will be rewarded with a righteous new world for having persevered.-Prov. 20:7.

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 8

that God will destroy this present wicked system of things at the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:14, 16; Zephaniah 3:8; Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 34:2); that Armageddon will come within this present generation (Matthew 24:34);

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 24

Publication title: I am enclosing 7/- (for Australia. 8/-) for one full year’s subscription for both The Watchtower. For mailing the coupon and am to receive free the three booklets After Armageddon-God’s New World, Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’s Way is Love.

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 32

And far from letting the present generation muddle through somehow, the Bible shows that God has doomed it to be destroyed at Armageddon.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 4

Therefore this generation will not pass away until it has seen the end of this wicked old world at what the Scriptures term Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 8

When the smoke of Armageddon’s battle has cleared, and the Japanese survivors unite with their surviving brothers from other nations in restoring the paradise earth, it will be interesting to see which of their former ways and customs will be blended into the new-world way of life.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 24

I run enclosing 7/- (for Australia, 8/-) for The Watchtower for one year. For malling the coupon I am to receive free the three booklets ”This Good News of the Kingdom,” After Armageddon-God’s New World and God’s Way Is Love.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 31

Destruction of the unrighteous is the only way to insure a peaceful and secure future for the human race. God did it once in the days of Noah, and he can do it again. It will be impossible for anyone adversely judged by him to escape destruction at the coming battle of Armageddon.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 7

Will your future be the same as that of the space-age nations that will pass out of existence at the coming battle of, Armageddon?

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 8

What that mark symbolized and why it was placed on the forehead should be of interest to all persons today desiring to be spared alive at Armageddon when God’s executional forces will march through antitypical Jerusalem, that is, Christendom, and destroy the wicked.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 27

So, too, at Armageddon Jehovah will make a distinction between the innocent and the guilty, between the hardened sinner and the one calling on him for salvation.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 27

The prophecy shows that the “man in linen” class, the anointed remnant, will complete the witness work faithfully before Armageddon. The mark upon the “great crowd shows that have obeyed God. (Rev. 7:9, 10) They, together with the remnant, will survive Christendom’s destruction in Armageddon and live to enjoy life in God’s new world of righteousness.-2 Pet. 3:13

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 28

That is because the battle of Armageddon is fast approaching and only those who have fed on spiritual food in advance will have strength to stand firm.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 32

Publication title: I am to receive free the six booklets After Armageddon–God’s New World, God’s Kingdom Rules-Is the World’s End Near? World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom, “This Good News of the Kingdom,” Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’s Way Is Love.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 32

This God will do at Armageddon, the war that he will fight to remove wickedness from the earth.-Ex. 9:16; Rev. 16:16

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 11

The issue of sovereignty is to be settled in our day. Armageddon is at hand.

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 11

if you are interested in happy, clean moral living; if you want to survive the destruction of this system of things in God’s war of Armageddon and be carried over alive to live in God’s righteous new world, then, by all means, lean more about the New World society, for it is God’s answer to persons of good will in this hour of crisis.

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 26

To such men life is hopeless. God’s Word and prophecies hold no true meaning. Armageddon is visionary. Catastrophe is unlikely.
Awake! May 8, 1960 p. 5

Even though wicked men refuse to see in the happenings since A.D. 1914 any evidence that God’s kingdom has come and that Christ is now ruling preparatory to breaking all the nations to pieces in Armageddon, this does not alter matters with Christians. They realize that the reason why Jehovah cut short the days of the great tribulation in 1918 was so that the chosen ones, Christ’s anointed heirs, would be saved.

Awake! May 8, 1960 p. 8

It should move them with zeal to make known Jehovah’s salvation to as many as possible before He brings on Armageddon.

Awake! May 8, 1960 p. 8

As a farmer during a lull in a storm hurries to haul all his crop into the storehouse and considers such a break a blessing, so Christians must view their responsibility during this lull before the storm of Armageddon and must rush to gather in as many of the Lord’s other sheep as possible to the side of Jehovah.

Awake! May 8, 1960 p. 8

Then with reference to God’s war of Armageddon and the warning Jehovah’s witnesses sound concerning it, the Communist newspaper says that the “criminal ravings” of the Witnesses “are crowned with persistent predictions about the approach of a war of annihilation and the end of the world …. Who could have loaned the money to an underground organization of apostles of a divine powder keg?

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 9

Why are Soviet leaders bothered by Jehovah’s witnesses? Because they uphold Jehovah as the One to worship, not the State; because they seek peace and pursue it, even now beating their swords into plowshares; because they increase in number despite Communist attacks against them; because they preach the kingdom of God as man’s only hope; because they foretell the doom of worldly nations, including world communism, at God’s war of Armageddon.

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 11

Not strange, also, is the fact that the Communist press is familiarizing the people with the word “Armageddon”; indeed, in virtually every major attack on the Witnesses appearing in Pravda and other Soviet publications the word “Armageddon” appears at least once. Said Pravda of March 18, 1959: “Armageddon is a terrible slaughter.

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 11

“‘Armageddon’ is the horrendous and sanguinary encounter between Jehovah and the Satanic forces! . . . And, as you might expect, the ‘Satanic forces’ are the socialist countries, the Communist and the participants in the movement of national liberation.” Said the newspaper Sovetskaya kultura, the Soviet Ministry of Culture tri-weekly, of January 13, 1959: “Do you know what Armageddon is?

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 11

So that is what Armageddon means. Prepare yourselves, and tremble!”

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 12

But this final, all-pout assault by the Communist king eventuates in the Armageddon climax, with the Communist king coming to his end at God’s hands.

Awake! May 22, 1960 p. 12

The remedy for these ills is the coming in of a new world, made possible by the greatest change in human history, the universal war of Armageddon, where God himself will wipe away all forms of cheating from the earth.

Awake! June 8, 1960 p. 11

Now before he moves to eradicate all divisive factors from the earth in the battle of Armageddon, the King is having an announcement made of his kingdom in all the earth for a witness to all nations by means of his representatives.

Awake! June 22, 1960 p. 7

This means the end of Satan’s disunited world system in Jehovah’s righteous war of Armageddon. After Armageddon, with Satan and his wicked world system gone, a united world will blossom forth.

Awake! June 22, 1960 p. 7

Knowing now that no materialistic solution, no political formula, no economic policy, no worldly institution can save this divided world from destruction at Armageddon, because it is of the Devil, what, then, is the only reasonable course for us to follow?

Awake! June 22, 1960 p. 7

By taking our stand for God’s kingdom it may be that we shall be privileged to live forever under its rule after Armageddon in a united world without end.

Awake! June 22, 1960 p. 7

In these last days the spirit of God continues to reveal truths that the rulers of this world cannot see or hear, such truths as the Kingdom’s being established in the heavens A.D. 1914; that Satan has been cast out of heaven and is now gathering all nations to Armageddon where he will make his last stand against God; that in this generation that battle will be fought, resulting in the destruction of Satan and all of his wicked organization; that after Armageddon a new earth will emerge wherein mankind will live forever in righteousness to the glory of God.

Awake! July 8, 1960 p. 28

Publication title: For malling the coupon I am to receive free the two booklets God’s Way Is Love and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake! July 22, 1960 p. 32

If follows, therefore, that none who perish at Jehovah’s hands at the coming battle of the great day of God the Almighty, Armageddon, can hope to see life again.-Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake! August 8, 1960 p. 28

Publication title: I am to receive free the booklets “Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near” and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake! August 22, 1960 p. 32

So like-wise today, the human race will continue uninterrupted, surviving the Delugelike world-wide destruction of Armageddon because of the presence of the salt of the earth, true Christians.

Awake! September 8, 1960 p. 28

Table of Contents: What Will Happen to Children at Armageddon

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 2

Of even greater concern, however, is the fact that Armageddon, the war of the great day of God the Almighty, is to strike in this generation. Of it a United States congressman declared: “In very truth the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon.” Serious students of Bible prophecy have warned for some time that since 1914 numerous predicted events have come to pass with precision, clearly indicating that the terrible crisis of Armageddon stares us in the face.

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 6

Is such life preserving wisdom available to a generation facing Armageddon? Yes! God’s prophet Daniel foretold that in “the time of the end . . . the true knowledge will become abundant.” (Eccl. 7:12; Dan. 12:4)

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 6

Fear of nuclear war does not paralyze the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses. Jehovah God promises that he will preserve many of this generation alive into his peaceful new world, and of that post-Armageddon earth it is prophesied: “Behold the activities of Jehovah, how he has set astonishing events on the earth.

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 6

Fulfilling Micah’s prophecy of the pre-Armageddon era, the international family of witnesses now “beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears.

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 6

They know that beyond Armageddon lies the safety from sickness and death promised in Holy Scripture: “Look!” said the apostle John, “the tent of God is with humankind … And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 7

After the Armageddon crisis is safely past, there will be no overcrowded earth or global food shortage, for God has promised: ”The earth itself will certainly give its produce; God, our God, will bless us.” (Rev. 11:18; Ps. 67:6)

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 7

Yes, at Armageddon God’s kingdom under Christ will destroy Satan and his wicked spirit forces, who constitute the present wicked “heavens.” Armageddon will also mean an end to the visible organizations and governments opposing God’s rule, which visible parts of Satan’s world are the symbolic “earth.”
Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 8

BIBLE prophecies foretell that Jehovah God will rid this earth of all its wicked inhabitants at the rapidly approaching battle of Armageddon.

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 27

Not only will Armageddon rid the earth of all the wicked but it will destroy them beyond hope of a resurrection.

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 27

Since Jesus likened the present generation to that existing at the time Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, it follows that those who perish at Armageddon will suffer the same fate as did those of Sodom and Gomorrah.-Jude 7; Luke 17:28-30.

But what about children at Armageddon?

Awake! October 22, 1960 p. 27

So let not parents think that their children will receive such protection regardless of how they may rear their children. Not at all! Children to be spared at Armageddon will have to be bringing forth Christian fruits to the extent their years permit.