At Armageddon God’s tolerance of wickedness will end. He will root out the wicked and preserve the righteous as he did in Noah’s day.
Awake! January 8, 1961 p. 6
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Awake! January 8, 1961 p. 32
Yes, at Armageddon Jehovah will call into service a vast number of these tiny, fragile crystals for a most glorious purpose-the vindication of his great and holy name.
Awake! January 22, 1961 p. 11
Beyond Armageddon in God’s new world, an eternity will unlock many more secrets that will move man to glorify God for making his home and life so beautiful.-Ps. 115:16.
Awake! January 22, 1961 p. 26
Revelation 16:16 calls it the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon.
Awake! February 22, 1961 p. 8
If you heed the Word of Jehovah that they bring to you, you may be one of the survivors of a much greater war than that of Vientiane, namely, the battle of Jehovah, the war of Armageddon, in which he will destroy all those who are against him and will give everlasting life to those who serve him.
Awake! February 22, 1961 p. 11
Fierce persecution in many quarters of the globe has not weakened their faith, divided their ranks or cause them to compromise their beliefs. They enjoy unity, peace and joy, looking forward to the time when, in this generation, God’s foretold battle of Armageddon rids this earth of trouble and divisions for all time, and transforms it into a paradise state where all men of good will may live as one united family.
Awake! February 22, 1961 p. 24
While God’s Word assures us that the resurrected glorious Jesus Christ, together with his heavenly armies, will conquer this world by destroying it at Armageddon, certain it is that neither Jesus Christ when on earth, nor his followers since, have conquered the world in the sense that these worldly rulers conquered it.-Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11, 19-21.
Awake! March 8, 1961 p. 27
Jesus in his revelation to John called it Armageddon, ”the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” and said the destruction would be comparable to the flood of Noah’s day.
Awake! April 8, 1961 p. 7
So now is the time for you to grasp your greatest opportunity of this modern age: ‘Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,’ and then he will remember you with preservation at the time of Armageddon’s calamity.-Rev. 16:14, 16; Matt 24:37, 39
Awake! April 8, 1961 p. 7
You must then preach this good news to others so that others also can avoid the calamitous end facing this world at Armageddon. The New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses is designed to help you take in this necessary knowledge of your Creator, and then to train you in using it in the ministry. Five weekly meetings are provided, including a ministry school where you can improve your speaking ability to your Creator’s praise.
Awake! April 8, 1961 p. 8
They will not ward off the calamity of eternity in gravedom or destruction at God’s approaching war of Armageddon.
Awake! April 8, 1961 p. 8
However, in loving consideration Jehovah God has swung open before youth the grandest opportunity ever enjoyed by young people, that of living through the calamitous end of this old world at Armageddon, never growing old, but, instead, growing to perfection in mind and body in that glorious new world of the Creator’s making.
Awake! April 8, 1961 p. 8
4. In the Bible, the final war is called [ ] Dooms- day [ ] Armageddon.
Awake! April 22, 1961 p. 5
Armageddon is a Scriptural name of that final war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
Awake! April 22, 1961 p. 12
At Armageddon Satan’s visible and invisible organization will be destroyed, but not the physical heavens or the literal earth.
Awake! April 22, 1961 p. 12
Yet it is possible to recognize the season of Armageddon’s approach, as indicated by Jesus’ illustration: “Note the fig tree and all the other trees: When they are already in the bud, by observing it you know for yourselves that now the summer is near.
Awake! April 22, 1961 p. 12
God and Christ will soon fight the promised war of Armageddon to end Satan’s system of things and “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Rev. 16:16; 11:18)
Awake! May 22, 1961 p. 7
The post-Armageddon resurrection will provide ample opportunity even for the dead whom God has retained in his memory to lay hold of everlasting life along with Armageddon survivors.
Awake! May 22, 1961 p. 8
For the living, survival of Armageddon is the immediate question.
Awake! May 22, 1961 p. 8
All over the earth men of good will are listening and finding hope and shelter from Armageddon.
Awake! May 22, 1961 p. 8
At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will again call upon the elements with which to wage war.
Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 6
Yes, antitypical Israel, that is, Christendom, and all the world will come to taste of weather warfare when Jehovah vindicates his name at Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”-Rev. 16:14, 16.
Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 7
After Armageddon in Jehovah’s new world, the God who controls the weather will in a literal way fulfill the promise: “I will cause the pouting rain to descend in its time.
Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 8
Not by weather scientists will these changes come, however, but by God, who in Armageddon will use it as a weapon of war to destroy the wicked and in the righteous new world as an instrument of peace for the blessing of humankind obedient to his will.
Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 8
He will be permitted to do this so that Jehovah God will have compelling reason to take action against Satan and all those with him, all those doing his bidding. This Jehovah God will do at Armageddon.-Ezek. 38:1-39:7; Rev. 16:14, 16.
Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 28
True Christians demonstrate not only soundness of mind in whatever they do, but courage in carrying out the greatest lifesaving project of all times-warning men everywhere of this world’s impending Armageddon disaster. By sounding the alarm of Armageddon and by preaching the good news of God’s kingdom earth-wide, Jehovah’s witnesses are aiding threatened mankind to flee to the place of safety.
Awake! June 22, 1961 p. 26
Not a threat of a third world war but the certainty of the war of the great day of God the Almighty-Armageddon.
Awake! June 22, 1961 p. 31
Publication title: You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World
Awake! June 22, 1961 p. 31
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Awake! June 22, 1961 p. 31
How long will this “acceptable season” last for these members of the body of Christ? Until the last one of the 144,000 has demonstrated his worthiness and there is no more opportunity for others to become members of the body of Christ. There is reason to believe that the oncoming battle of Armageddon will mark that time.
Awake! August 22, 1961 p. 28
For these it has proved to be the acceptable time to embrace Jehovah’s provision for salvation particularly since 1931, and this will continue until Armageddon.
Awake! August 22, 1961 p. 28
Section heading: ‘Spectre of Armageddon’
Awake! September 8, 1961 p. 29
He said that he could not “recall any time when the spectre of Armageddon darkened the thoughts of responsible men the way it appears to be clouding them in Washington today.”
Awake! September 8, 1961 p. 29
When the due time for Armageddon’s destruction arrives, he will allow it to come, not because he has pleasure in the death of the wicked, but because he loves righteousness.
Awake! September 22, 1961 p. 4
However, soon, at the fast-approaching war of Armageddon, Jehovah will forcibly disarm the nations by destroying them along with their weapons.
Awake! September 22, 1961 p. 23
Yes, Protestantism will reap the stormwind of God’s wrath, along with the rest of Christendom, at the fast-approaching “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” generally called by the name of the battlefield in the Bible, Armageddon-Rev. 16:14-16
Awake! October 8, 1961 p. 23
Since Protestantism stands disapproved by God, reserved for destruction at his war of Armageddon, all persons who desire to gain a favorable standing with him must flee from her.
Awake! October 8, 1961 p. 24
This is so not simply because they have entered the nuclear and space age, when changes tae place with great rapidity, but because this generation has come face to face with the greatest of all wars, Armageddon, the “wear of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14, 16) To survive that war youths need to be educated to higher levels of thinking, because a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of his surviving Armageddon into the righteous new world.
Awake! October 22, 1961 p. 27
So knowledge of God gathered in early youth will help boys and girls to pursue the wisest course in this day before Armageddon.
Awake! October 22, 1961 p. 27
Youths today who apply themselves are also rewarded with privileges of service in God’s organization. In addition, they have the protection that remembering God brings in this evil day. And to top that off, they have the hope of survival through Armageddon and the promise of life in Jehovah’s righteous new world.
Awake! October 22, 1961 p. 28
Section heading: “Thirty Minutes from Armageddon”
Awake! November 8, 1961 p. 29
On September 16 former president Dwight D. Eisenhower in a speech at a fundraising dinner in Chicago criticized the Kennedy Administration’s handling of recent events. He pointed to the ever-growing thread of nuclear destruction, which, he said, puts Chicago “but thirty minutes from Armageddon.”
Awake! November 8, 1961 p. 29
The facts of modern history confirm what the Bible foretold long ago. Peace must come by God’s kingdom, not by the conferences of men. Fulfilled Bible prophecies prove that our generation is on a collision course with Armageddon, the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
Awake! November 22, 1961 p. 15
Furthermore, there is no doubt that Armageddon is destined to strike all the inhabited earth.
Awake! November 22, 1961 p. 15
Who will survive that act of God and how? Its purpose answers both questions. Armageddon will remove wickedness from heaven and earth and pave the way for God’s new world of righteousness.
Awake! November 22, 1961 p. 15
Their deliverance at the coming battle of Armageddon will be another spectacular demonstration of Jehovah’s power.
Awake! December 22, 1961 p. 6
As the ark of Noah’s day was a place of safety for eight persons during the flood, so the arrangements that Jehovah has made for preserving obedient man- kind and giving them life make up a system of things that provides safety during the war of Armageddon.
Awake! December 22, 1961 p. 6, 7
Section heading: Armageddon Feared
Awake! December 22, 1961 p. 29
Secular reference: On October 20 Cardinal Spellman told some 125,000 worshipers assembled on the Washington Monument grounds that the “gruesome competition for nuclear superiority, if pursued, can only end in the total destruction of mankind.” He urged prayers to avert the world from a “thermonuclear Armageddon.”
Awake! December 22, 1961 p. 29
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Awake! December 22, 1961 p.