Well, then, we are not wrong when we also apply Jesus’ prophecy from the year 1914 C.E. onward to the coming war at Armageddon, are we? No! For we do have with us till now the symbolic, antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem, namely, Christendom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 50
From then on God has been proceeding to make the Gentile nations the footstool of his Messianic King Jesus, to destroy them finally at the coming war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 51
It pictures the time period from the end of the Gentile Times in 1914 C.E. down to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon, where the political lovers and associates of antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem, Christendom, will be destroyed. (Rev. 16:14-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 51
But after more than four years of World War I, the “end” was “not yet.” It did not lead into the war of God’s great day at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 51
From then on God was allowing an interval for the activity of his anointed remnant of elect Christians before he let the final part of the “great tribulation” resume at the battle of Armageddon and come to its termination. This would allow for sheeplike persons to be saved.— Matt. 25:31-46.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 52
But even World War II did not merge into the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon, as some had expected it to do. (Rev. 16:14-16) Here we are, twenty-four years after World War II closed in 1945 and a portion of the anointed remnant of elect ones are still here and the war at Armageddon is still ahead, although getting very close now. Back in 1925 the Bible timetable as set out in the book “The Time Is at Hand,” published in the year 1889, was still thought to be correct. Hence it was not calculated that six thousand years of man’s life on earth were yet to end during the 1970’s.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 52
A number of these should survive still longer to see and go through the war of Armageddon, in harmony with Jesus’ words, at Matthew 24:33-35:
“When you see all these things, know that he is near at the doors. Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away [unfulfilled].”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 52
Then the time interval between the opening part of the “great tribulation” and the closing Armageddon part thereof will prove to be around five times as long as the length of the “great tribulation” itself.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 53
The “great tribulation” such as will not occur again is yet ahead, for it means the destruction of the world empire of false religion (including Christendom) followed by the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon against the political allies of Babylonish false religion.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 53
No matter how destructive the “great tribulation” will be, no matter how intense the destructiveness of it may become because the “great tribulation” is concentrated within a cut- short time period, this unnumbered “great crowd” will be saved alive in their “flesh” and will enter God’s new system of things after his war at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 56
In God’s earthly system after Armageddon these sheeplike ones will gratefully strive to prove themselves worthy of salvation to all eternity to God’s praise.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p. 56
5. (a) Why are we not wrong in applying Jesus’ prophecy to from 1914 onward down to Armageddon? (b) The trampling on which “Jerusalem” was terminated in 1914, and how?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p.50
25. (a) Despite the destructiveness of the “tribulation,” what will this “great crowd” experience? (b) Of what will they strive to prove worthy after Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1970 p 56
Yet, devaluation is the order of the day, and in the near future at the war of Armageddon what Ezekiel 7:19 says will come true: “Into the streets they will throw their very silver, and an abhorrent thing their own gold will become.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1970 p. 90
Conventioners, one and all, regardless of race or color, now have a stronger conviction that Jehovah is directing the ministry of his witnesses in all the earth and girding them now for joyous privileges in the short time now remaining before Jehovah’s earth-wide judgments against Babylon the Great and at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1970 p. 127
You can prove to Jehovah that you will be an obedient subject of his Kingdom rule after Armageddon by showing obedience to parental rule now, before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1970 p. 157
And only then will he be able to weather the storms of personal difficulties that arise in the life of each individual and ultimately weather the storm of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1970 p. 159
Since mankind is entering a most crucial period of history, qualities for survival are most urgently needed. We are fifty-five years into the Biblically foretold “time of the end” for this
system of things, and the world stands at the very threshold of a “great tribulation” culminating in Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11-21) Endurance will be needed to survive this system of things and the war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1970 p. 208
Also, their ministry is succeeding because it warns the wicked regarding Armageddon. The seriousness of this obligation is seen by Ezekiel’s commission. Jehovah made him a watchman. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1970 p. 223
He will do so, and that shortly, in what Bible prophecy calls “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” This will mean an Armageddon disaster and destruction for world rulers who show themselves to be the earthly “seed” of the Great Serpent. (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11-21)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1970 p. 238
Would you like to survive that Armageddon war of God the Almighty? Revelation 7:9-17 tells of a “great crowd” of people of every nation, tribe, people and language that will survive that “great tribulation.” Just as the patriarch Noah and his family survived the global deluge and had the privilege of cultivating the cleansed earth to make it a suitable living place, so with the “great crowd” of survivors of the “great tribulation” at Armageddon with which this wicked system of things on earth will end.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1970 p. 238, 239
12. Who will survive God’s war of Armageddon, and what assignment will they be given? 13. What blessings lie ahead for survivors of God’s war of Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1970 p. 238
As the earthly survivors of God’s war at Armageddon work away at cultivating and tending to their earthly home they will have the blessing of God’s kingdom by Christ, and will rejoice to see Paradise taking form and spreading everywhere.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1970 p. 240
Yet God’s war of Armageddon will not kill any innocent, righteous ones. The war that God will wage will be for the ultimate good of all righteous mankind. In that war only the wicked will perish. (Ps. 145:20)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1970 p. 247
Similarly now, although we are living in the midst of the old system of things under Satan’s control, still those of Christ’s “other sheep” who learn the truth come under the Christian system of things, which will serve as an ark of protection for them through the war of Armageddon. Then after Armageddon they will experience the benefits of the “coming systems of things.” (Eph. 2:7; Mark 10:30) The present Christian system will continue until the last member of Christ’s spiritual body completes his earthly course sometime after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1970 p. 275
So if we make a real effort to seek Jehovah and to follow his Word and serve him so as to deserve his mercy, then probably, by Jehovah’s undeserved kindness, we will be hid with those who live through the end of this system to enjoy all the blessings that men of faith will enjoy on the cleansed earth in the post-Armageddon system.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1970 p. 277
● In its modern application, what is the “great tribulation” mentioned at Matthew 24:21, 22, and
when is it to occur?
It is the destruction of the world empire of false religion (including Christendom) and the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon against the political allies of Babylonish religion. That “great tribulation” is yet ahead.—P. 53.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1970 p. 286
This proper Christian conduct goes into all phases of life, private and public, and so it is necessary that there be this review of the basic teachings of the Scriptures on the Kingdom, prayer, the Christian ministry of today, the congregation, the enemy of God and of Christians, Satan the Devil, the demons, Armageddon, the soul, sin, the resurrection, proper conduct, moral cleanliness, the sanctity of blood, theocratic conduct in the family circle and the relationship of the individual Christian to his fellow servants of God and to men in general.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1970 p. 306
So it is that by maintaining integrity and by the endurance of this tribulation, by their faithfully continuing to hail Jehovah God as Supreme Sovereign and ascribing their salvation to him and to his Lamb, those of the “great crowd” do finally receive salvation, even through the impending battle of Armageddon, surviving it.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1970 p. 307
Christians do not have long to wait thereafter for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon, when “the kings of the earth and the top-ranking ones and the military commanders and the rich and the strong ones” and others opposed to God’s kingdom will vainly seek refuge from the “one seated on the throne [Jehovah God] and from the wrath of the Lamb,” Jesus Christ.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1970 p. 339
I have seen the family of Jehovah’s worshipers grow bigger and bigger so that today there are hundreds of thousands who entertain the hope that they may be spared through this wicked world’s Armageddon and live forever in this beautiful earthly home.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1970 p. 348
In an article on the “Peace on Earth” Assembly of Jehovah’s witnesses held near Paris last
August, it stated:
“This afternoon . . . F. W. Franz will pronounce a closing discourse on the hope of a peace of a thousand years, a peace that will follow the battle of Armageddon and see billions of humans come back to life on a paradise earth. . . .
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1970 p. 455
Soon now the tremendous Egyptian disaster at the Red Sea will be dwarfed by the magnitude of the calamity that will engulf the Greater Pharaoh and all his supporters. That final execution comes at and immediately after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1970 p. 468
At Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Jesus Christ, acting as God’s executioner, will rid the earth of all God’s enemies and establish righteousness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1970 p. 590
Your order for Awake! for one year will entitle you to the three booklets God’s Way Is Love, Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon and When God Is King over All the Earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1970 p. 608
Nonetheless, Japan is my home now! I look forward to continuing on here through Armageddon and beyond, somehow busied in the worship and service of Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1970 p. 670
In the following issue of The Watch Tower, that of November 1, 1914, came the leading article “Making Ready for the Reign of Righteousness.” It featured subheadings such as “A Counterfeit of Christ’s Kingdom,” “The End of the Gentile Times,” “Evidences of Our Lord’s Parousia [Presence],” “Inauguration of Messiah’s Kingdom Gradual,” “The Battle of Armageddon,” and “Re the Deliverance of the Church.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1970 p. 686, 687