It was made clear to me that my relying on “medicines” was spiritism and condemned by the Bible. God, I learned from the Bible, was opposed to all forms of divination and magic. The next words of the Witness startled me: ‘All who continue to practice such things will not survive “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” called Armageddon, nor will they live in the glorious new system of things!”—Rev. 16:14, 16.
Awake! March 8, 1972 p. 10
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Awake! March 8, 1972 p. 32
What is the position of Protestant religions toward the conflict now? Jesuit Robert Drinan in his recent book Vietnam and Armageddon points to “the almost unanimous sentiment among Protestant theologians that the Vietnam war is morally indefensible.”2
Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 5, 6
2. Vietnam and Armageddon, Robert Drinan, p. 3.
Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 29
13. Vietnam and Armageddon, pp. 192, 193.
Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 29
Persons of strong faith realize that it will require God’s new system to bring genuine security. As one of the survivors of Agnes’ fury said: “We are looking forward to the time after the great storm of Armageddon when the earth can be thoroughly cleaned up.
Awake! August 22, 1972 p. 16
Writers have called it “an event as close to Armageddon as this country has ever known.”
Awake! September 22, 1972 p. 11
Is it enough to withdraw from such doomed religious systems? No, for God’s prophetic word shows that the beastlike political systems will themselves thereafter come in for destruction in what is called God’s war of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11-21)
Awake! October 8, 1972 p. 22