“RESEARCHERS blow hot and cold over world Armageddon,” reported a scientific article on whether a nuclear war would bring on a freezing “nuclear winter” or a searing “nuclear summer.”
Perhaps you have seen such comments that link “Armageddon” and our critical times. What is “Armageddon”? You may want to know, since your life is involved.
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The apostle John used its name when he wrote of “the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon [Mountain of Megiddo],” or Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16)
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But Har–Magedon, or Armageddon, suitably represents the situation for that decisive war.—Revelation 16:14, 16; 19:11-21.
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So let politicians and newsmen mistakenly think of Armageddon as a nuclear war that would devastate our globe.
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You can appreciate that Armageddon is the situation into which the nations will soon be brought for the great war when God will wipe out the present wicked system, opening the way for a righteous new world.—2 Peter 3:11-13.
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While the audience was still applauding, there came the release of the new 320-page book Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand! What a cause for rejoicing! This publication surely will be an effective means of announcing that Babylon the Great is doomed, that the nations now face Armageddon, and that Jehovah is about to execute judgment.
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And the number is fast increasing as world conditions rapidly deteriorate and the present system of things approaches its complete end at the battle of Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16)
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□ How can we avoid the despair and hopelessness that the nations will experience at Armageddon?
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Little did we realize that the nearby Normandy beaches 13 years later, during World War II, would be ravaged by some of the bloodiest battles in history; nor did we realize that our full-time ministry would last so long. I jokingly said to John: “I think we can manage five years as pioneers. Armageddon can’t be too far away!”
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World War II was then raging at its height, and many thought it would escalate into Armageddon.
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God’s judgment acts will run swiftly on to completion as the “King of kings and Lord of lords,” Christ Jesus, treads “the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the Almighty” at Armageddon.
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The speaker told his listeners: “Use this new book well in your personal and congregational studies. Use it, too, in announcing to the world that Babylon the Great is doomed, that the nations now face Armageddon, and that the grand climax will be reached in Jehovah’s magnificent Kingdom rule by Christ and his bride.
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WE ARE RESOLVED to move forward fearlessly in making known Jehovah’s declared judgments on Babylon the Great and in warning of the imminence of God’s war of Armageddon.
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Thereafter, God’s just war of Armageddon will be upon us. All the evidence of world events since 1914 indicates that time is running out for Satan’s system of things.
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Soon, this same glorious God will defeat “the kings of the entire inhabited earth” at the global war called Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14, 16)
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This God-defying attack by the political rulers will result in the battle of Armageddon, which will bring a complete end to the antireligious nations.
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It will be no boring, humdrum system of things into which Jehovah will introduce his lovers after he vindicates his universal sovereignty beyond all peradventure of a doubt at the battlefield of Armageddon.
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Armageddon survivors may be able to adapt the materials of any remaining war relics of the nations to useful purposes.—Isaiah 2:2-4.
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The Armageddon survivors will have the challenging task of subduing an earth that has passed through “the great day of God the Almighty,” confronting whatever effects this will have left upon this planet.—Revelation 16:14.
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Relatively few in number, these survivors of the war of Armageddon ordinarily might be expected to be very intimidated when charged with the huge task of extending Paradise earth wide.
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□ After Armageddon, into what kind of system of things will Jehovah usher his lovers?
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19, 20. (a) After Armageddon, into what will Jehovah usher his lovers? (b) What will need to be done shortly after Armageddon?
21. Similar to the experience of the Flood survivors, what situation will confront Armageddon survivors, but with what major difference?
22. How will the Armageddon survivors react to the challenge of extending Paradise earth wide?
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23. What backing will the Armageddon survivors have as assurance that their work to restore Paradise will succeed?
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Though the Armageddon survivors will be relatively few in number, it will not be entirely by childbearing on their part that the earth will be fully populated.
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The Armageddon survivors will ever keep in mind the soul-stirring words of the Lord Jesus Christ on the occasion when he was moved to say: “Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out.” (John 5:28, 29)
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6. After Armageddon, how will the earth be populated?
7. What words of Jesus will the Armageddon survivors keep in mind?
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How delightful it will be for the Armageddon survivors when they see resurrected those of the “other sheep” who died during the generation before the “great tribulation”! (Matthew 24:21) With clear powers of identification, the Armageddon survivors recognize them, welcome them, and with them proceed to renew their united service to the Most High God!
By being one of the Armageddon survivors, you may witness the resurrection of the first one of your own earthly relatives.
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The King, Jesus Christ, will have countless more than his earthly forefathers to appoint as “princes”—qualified ones of the Armageddon survivors, of the resurrected “other sheep,” including the pre-Christian men of faith.
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8, 9. Who will likely be the first ones to be resurrected to renewed life on earth, bringing what delight to Armageddon survivors?
10. By surviving Armageddon, what may you witness?
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13, 14. What resurrected ones will the Armageddon survivors be privileged to see with their own eyes?
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15. What incomparable privilege awaits those who survive Armageddon?
16, 17. (a) When Jesus remembers the sympathetic evildoer, what privilege will the Armageddon survivors and others then alive have? (b) What hope is entertained regarding the resurrected evildoer?
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It will be the privilege of the survivors of Armageddon and the others then alive to welcome him back from the dead.
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□ When does the marriage of Jesus and “his wife” of 144,000 faithful anointed followers take place? (Revelation 19:7, 8)
This marriage will take place following the battle of Armageddon and the abyssing of Satan. Then Jehovah will have vindicated his sovereignty by removing from the earth those who challenge his rulership and by eliminating the wicked influence of Satan and his demons.—7/1, page 24.
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These experiences from Italy are but a sample of how “the desirable things” are abandoning this wicked, violent system and coming to Jehovah’s clean, peaceful organization before he finally rocks Satan’s political system into destruction at Armageddon.
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The Bible shows that this will occur soon at “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” which is generally called Armageddon.—Revelation 16:14, 16.
“God is not unjust when he vents his wrath,” so Armageddon will be a just war. (Romans 3:5)
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And remember, the shaking at the coming battle of Armageddon will cause the present wicked heaven and earth to vanish.
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