The professor then continued:
“Before he died, [former U.N. Secretary General U] Thant put it into modern phraseology and predicted: ‘Mankind has ten years left to solve the world’s greatest problems . . . and if they don’t chaos will follow quickly.’ Again, everybody knows it, nobody believes it: the thermo-nuclear Armageddon, the death of the oceans, pollution of the atmosphere, world-wide famine, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, the threat of self-destruction, the failure of traditional ethics. Such terror really belongs in nightmares—or are ancient prophecies gradually being proved true?”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1979 p. 13
Three months later, on August 22, 1943, we were baptized at a convention in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
At that time many of us believed that Armageddon was just around the corner. (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1979 p. 7
“In 1962 I concluded a study of Jehovah’s Witnesses with this observation: ‘That the New World Society will suddenly run out of steam is doubtful. Whether Armageddon lies around the corner or not, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people live each day in the belief that it does.’ Armageddon is still just around the corner, and there are well over twice as many Witnesses today as then. All signs indicate the Watchtower Society will probably double again in size during the next decade.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1979 p. 21
Revelation 19:11-21, termed by The New Bible Commentary “The messianic judgment of Armageddon,” opens with a view of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, on a white horse. With his heavenly armies he rides to execute God’s wrath against the nations. (Vss. 11-16) Anticipating the coming slaughter, an angel calls carrion birds to eat the fleshy parts of those who will be slain.—Vss. 17, 18.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1979 p. 31
Let no one deceive himself into thinking that the battle of Armageddon is a mere fight between men, or that it is only a picture. The Scriptures make it clear that it is real. It is the battle of God Almighty, in which he will clear the earth of the wicked system that Satan has used to blind the people for all these centuries.—Pages 282, 283; see also page 261, paragraph 2.
That “battle of Armageddon” will bring to a close the “great tribulation” in which the world empire of false religion, including Christendom, will be wiped out. (Rev. 16:13-16; 17:1-18, AV)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1979 p. 22
Still other persons have never had the opportunity to read this illustrated, large-print and easy-to-understand Bible narrative. It starts with the loss of paradise by Adam and Eve and climaxes in the regaining of paradise after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1979 p. 32
In reward for this such doers of good would be preserved through the coming battle of Armageddon, and the glorified “Son of man,” the heavenly King Jesus Christ, would usher them into the earthly realm of his kingdom of a thousand years. (Matt. 25:31-46)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1979 p. 26
To the large visible audience and to a vastly larger radio audience, the address gave early warning of the destruction impending over all the earthly governments of worldly men in God’s war at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1979 p. 28
Because of descent from Jonadab, they too prefigured the “great crowd” destined to survive Christendom’s downfall.—See You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, pages 64-67.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1979 p. 28