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1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Persons who are desirous of engaging in the political, commercial or religious affairs of the world, supporting them even as they support one another in opposition to the supremacy of the Almighty God, will have to go down with that old world organization when it is destroyed at the battle of Armageddon. The decision must be made now in these last days of the old world. It pays to serve Jehovah. He alone can give you life, while the wages sin pays is death.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. p. 31

But now to hear from a new pioneer: “Having just completed six months in the pioneer service under the new arrangement, I would like to express my appreciation of this wonderful provision of the Lord. Many have been my joyful experiences, and I hope, by the Lord’s grace, to be able to continue in full-time work until the witness work ceases at Armageddon.” Still another writes: “I wish to give thanks to Jehovah and his organization for this new provision made for pioneers. Indeed it is wonderful to see the way Jehovah works through his ‘servant’ on earth in pushing the advance of true worship.”

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. p. 72

Though we declare that the nations will be destroyed by the “iron rod’ of Jehovah’s King at Armageddon, we arc not nihilists and anarchists.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. February 19

As to the battle of Armageddon and its effect upon those who accumulate houses and lands but do not trust in God and in his Messiah, Isaiah 5:8, 9, 25 says: “Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.” If necessary, the Lord could have the survivors of Armageddon and the faithful ancients whom he raises from the dead occupy such vacated houses and factories of which he dispossesses the wicked users at Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. February 21

Hence the battle of Armageddon will prove her to be built upon the sands of Babylon and of Rome, and not upon the unshakable rock of salvation. Christendom’s kingdom, or her predominant position on this earth, is short-lived now, ceasing at Armageddon. Because she gives no heed to Jehovah’s law, all her prayers for peace and prosperity fall upon deaf cars with God, and he will not change from his purpose to destroy her at Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. February 22

He has no reason to do so, for Jehovah God allows the governments to remain until he shows forth his power, at Armageddon. W 1/1

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. March 13

Together, the remnant and these “other sheep” rejoice that God’s kingdom is now here and that shortly his King Jesus Christ will finish his rule amidst his enemies by wiping them out at Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. March 24

If he spares their lives through the battle of Armageddon they must continue to do his will to the end of Christ’s 1000-year rule, the same as the others of mankind who will be raised from the graves.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. March 30

He has saved them for the further witness he wants given on earth before Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. March 31

We do not need to go into real estate deals now in order to provide houses and lands for the use of ourselves and of others in the new world that lies beyond the battle of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. April 3

The sheep know that the true Christ will destroy both of those composite “kings” at the battle of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. April 25

Many of this class will be made “princes in all the earth” as visible representatives of Christ during his 1000-year reign after Armageddon. By being resurrected due to the virtue of his ransom sacrifice they will become his earthly children. (Ps. 45:16)

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. May 5

God holds back the destructive forces that are reserved for Armageddon until after this multitude gets the benefit of the Kingdom gospel proclaimed by the remnant.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. May 7

Before not very long this special time of privileged service in God’s sight will be over, once the final war of Armageddon is past.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. May 11

The opportunity will close with the battle of Armageddon now drawing near, when this gospel of the Kingdom will have been preached adequately and the final end of this world will have come according to God’s due time. Then Jehovah will arise to give his own testimony by winning the fight at Armageddon. W 10/15

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. May 21

This proves that the 1000-year reign of Christ begins, not at the close of the Gentile times A.D. 1914, but after Armageddon is fought and all his foes are destroyed and are thus unable to interfere with his righteous rule of peace.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. June 10

If we now hope to see the final end of this corrupt world of Satan in the approaching battle of Armageddon we must endure down to its end in order to prove worthy to be carried alive through the battle into the righteous new world that follows. W 4/1

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. August 6

It is to help others become God’s ministers now, that they may by God’s mercy live through this “time of the end”, survive the destruction of this world at Armageddon and keep on ministering to God forever in the righteous new world to follow, without a break in their ministry. The Scriptures show the organization of Jehovah’s witnesses is a society of ministers that teaches others to be His ministers of the gospel. Only his ministers have any hope of surviving Armageddon. Remember Noah and the flood. W 10/15

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. August 12

This they will continue to do right on down to the final war, the long-predicted Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. August 21

This is pictured at Revelation 12:5 as the catching up of the newborn man-child “up unto God, and to his throne”, where he must rule all nations, the eastern and western blocs thereof, with a “rod of iron”, to dash them all to pieces at the final war of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. September 3

We know there is a limit to his patience, and that he has appointed a definite time for the battle of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. September 16

Then the faithful remnant, who also expect to survive the battle of Armageddon, will have the privilege of telling these princes of the “new earth” about the arm and strength of Jehovah God at this end of the world.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. October 8

Our greatest privilege in these pre-Armageddon days is to avail ourselves of the opportunity and to enter into it with heart and soul.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. October 13

To this the people must gather for security and deliverance from the divine wrath in this “day of Jehovah” which comes to its decisive final hour at the battle of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. October 23

Now, by all the signs predicted in God’s Word and by world events that fulfill those predictions, the time has at last come for God to vindicate his sovereignty by fighting the universal war of Armageddon and ridding our earth and all the universe of the Devil’s mighty organization.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. October 26

The wise person looks ahead. Be desires to escape from destruction at Armageddon and to enjoy eternal life in the righteous new world.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. November 8

For loyal attachment to the King’s interests this class will be spared through the fight at Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. November 20

We therefore avoid presuming upon God’s seeming slowness, but act promptly and efficiently in view of the shortness of the time that we know remains before Armageddon breaks out. W 12/1

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. November 25

These now accept the Kingdom gospel and forsake the beast and the false prophet and all this doomed world, and they follow the Good Shepherd, God’s Lamb, who can shield and spare them and bring them alive through the battle of Armageddon.

1949 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1948. December 12

1948 Awake!

Jehovah God will not forget righteously disposed men in every walk of life, and to the merciful will He show mercy at Armageddon.

Awake! February 8, 1948 p. 16

When ”Father” Gannon, the president of the Jesuit university of Fordham, declared that ”a nearly desperate world stares with fascination toward Armageddon” he referred to an atomic war between nations. In truth and in fact the world is face to face with the Armageddon spoken of in the last book of the Bible, The Revelation. But because the people are blind and because the ‘blind are leading the blind’ (Matthew 15:14) they fail to see this real danger ahead the ditch of Armageddon, which is ”the battle of that great day of God Almighty”. (Revelation 16:14, 16)

Awake! February 22, 1948 p. 10

Most manifestly Easter is of the Devil from its beginning, though in recent centuries it parades before the people as a ”Christian” festival. It is not Christian, not even in name, and its celebration is a reproach upon Jehovah God and His Christ. Consequently, as the Easter parade marches on to its final destruction at Armageddon, true and sincere Christians will remain on the sidelines, clean and separate from these pagan abominations.

Awake! March 22, 1948 p. 20

What a sad outlook, were it not for the knowledge that shortly this bad criminal account ,will be fully settled, when the Greek Orthodox Church pays for all her crimes at the battle of Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”-Revelation 16:14, 16.
Awake! April 8, 1948 p. 7

It is the New World government through which the people that live will be governed after the battle of Armageddon.

Awake! April 8, 1948 p. 22

That will be in the new world of righteousness after the universal war of Armageddon has been fought and won for the everlasting vindication of the Most High God, Jehovah.

Awake! April 8, 1948 p. 22

Exploitation of the people’s food supply, mainly for the “enrichment” of greedy commercialists, may be reaping its rich harvest now. But the long train of nutritional deficiency diseases following in the wake of such exploitation will reap its just recompense shortly in the time of reckoning at Armageddon.

Awake! May 8, 1948 p. 19

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Awake! June 8, 1948 p. 8

Actually, they herd the nations toward a clash with God on the battlefield of Armageddon.

Awake! June 8, 1948 p. 8

Jehovah’s thunderous answer in the affirmative to these questions will shortly fall on Christendom at Armageddon, as the “six men with slaughter weapons” fell upon the necks of those sun worshipers at Jerusalem!-Ezekiel 9:1-6

Awake! June 22, 1948 p. 19

It is an understanding of the prophecies of the Bible that gives them vision to see the corning destruction of Armageddon. They call out the warning, and urge others to join them in the safety heights. They do it in obedience to God’s command; they do it out of love for their neighbors. They serve others with the spiritual food from God’s Word to strengthen them for the hard climb up the narrow trail to safety and salvation from Armageddon’s flood of destruction.

Awake! July 22, 1948 p. 12

The warning of Jesus is not to delay until it is the most disadvantageous time to flee to safety. The tribulation, begun A.D. 1914, will not end until the universal war of Armageddon is fought between Jehovah’s heavenly forces under Christ ·and the Devil’s forces. The fact that now we, with eyes enlightened by the Holy Scriptures of prophecy, see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place in defiance of Jehovah God is a certain sign that the battle of Armageddon is not far off and that now in the present advantageous period of God’s long-suffering and mercy is the time to flee to the mountains, that is, to flee out of Christendom and to God’s place of protection symbolized by the mountains of His creation. Do not wait until the zero hour for Armageddon to begin strikes under conditions pictured by the winter and the sabbath.

Awake! August 8, 1948 p. 25

Any who think to escape the terrors and destruction of Armageddon by taking a neutral place and remaining inactive in God’s service are greatly deceiving themselves. Those who do find protection and safety under Jehovah’s Theocratic organization cannot wait until Armageddon begins and then seek such protection under the insurmountable difficulties then prevailing.

Awake! August 8, 1948 p. 26

The divisive fences, linguistic ones included are up to stay until Armageddon’s storm blows them to bits, sweeping away all barriers to world unity.

Awake! August 22, 1948 p. 20

They zealously do what they believe is their divine commission, to wit: To preach the good news of God’s kingdom to all nations before the destruction of wicked rule and wicked creatures at the universal battle of Armageddon, which will take place within this generation.

Awake! September 8, 1942 p. 21

Those in proper heart relationship with God long for the installation of that thousand-year reign of His Son, the anointed King, even though they know that this will be preceded by the overthrow of the present Satanic world in the coming catastrophe of the battle of Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14-16)

Awake! September 22, 1942 p. 24

At the battle of Armageddon, to which all nations, including China, are fast approaching, Almighty God will annihilate the warmongers and corrupt governments and greedy religious missionaries, and thus clear the way for the peaceful rule of His Theocracy.-Awake! correspondent in China.

Awake! October 8, 1948 p. 8

Man’s debt to God, which must be paid at Armageddon, when all accounts of the wicked must be settled, is continually increasing because of his abuse of flesh-and-blood creatures.

Awake! October 8, 1942 p. 19

This old world thinks sex, sees sex, hears sex, eats sex, drinks sex, dreams sex, lives sex and will die in sex. It was long ago foretold as a sign of these “last days” that this world would succumb to the snare of sex and have its life choked from its corpse at Armageddon.-2 Timothy 3:1-5, 13.

Awake! December 8, 1948 p. 6

1948 The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom

Then the following notice was issued to all the superior officers throughout Germany: “The teaching of the Bible Researchers [Jehovah’s witnesses] represents a disguised form of Communism. The destruction of the nations of the world in the battle of Armageddon, the lifting of all national distinctions, the inauguration of Jewish legislation and Jewish dictatorship, the lifting of all racial distinctions: these are the objectives of Jewish world Bolshevism, and have absolutely nothing to do with religion! Setting up the Jewish world rule under the cloak of religious activity, that is the way the goal of the International Bible Students may best be described.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1948 p. 5

They have no reason to do so, for Jehovah God allows the governments to remain until he shows forth his power; and this he will do at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1948 p. 6

This they will continue to do right on down to the final war, the long-predicted Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1948 p. 9

It is sincerely hoped that all these persons will be regular Kingdom publishers in 1948, so that the command of Jesus, “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations,” maybe accomplished on an ever-greater scale in the years ahead before the final battle of Armageddon.-Matt. 28:19, Am. Stan. Ver.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1948 p. 9

At this end of the world on the battlefield of the universal war of Armageddon, the man-made political states of all kinds will descend into hell, the Bible hell, to remain; and then the Vatican, which insists on union of church and state and which unites herself with political states by concordats and other means, will descend into that hell with her political paramours, never again to rise up.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1948 p. 13

We want the Signal of salvation to be beheld by all, in order that all those desiring eternal salvation and deliverance may gather to it now before the outbreak of Armageddon’s fight.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1948 p. 26

To this the people must gather for security and deliverance from the divine wrath in this “day of Jehovah” which comes to its decisive final hour at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1948 p. 27

The Society’s secretary-treasurer, Grant Suiter, spoke on “Endurance to the End”, and he used Jehovah’s endurance of the wicked for yet a little season as an argument for our determining to endure likewise with Him until Jehovah destroys all the wicked at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1948 p. 31

The consecrated persons of good-will today, the Lord’s “other sheep”, many of whom will pass through the world-destrucion at Armageddon without dying, are part of that redeemed humankind that will prove worthy of justification to life eternal on earth through Christ’s sacrifice.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1948 p. 44

Looking at the matter wisely from the viewpoint of “children of light”, we see this: We do not need to go into real estate deals now in order to provide houses and lands for the use of ourselves and of others in the new world that lies beyond the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1948 p. 58

Regarding the battle of Armageddon and its effect upon those who accumulate houses and lands but do not trust in God and in his Messiah, the prophet Isaiah says: “Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they maybe placed alone in the midst of the earth!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1948 p. 58

If necessary, the Lord God could have the survivors of Armageddon and the faithful ancients whom he raises from the dead occupy such vacated houses and factories of which he dispossesses the wicked users at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1948 p. 58

36. Why not provide houses and farms to live through Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1948 p. 58

This is pictured at Revelation 12:5 as the catching up of tile newborn man-child “up unto God, and to his throne”, where he must rule all nations, the eastern and western blocs thereof, with a “rod of iron”, to dash them all to pieces at the final war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1948 p. 68, 69

Before not very long this special time of such privileged service in God’s sight will be over, once the final war of Armageddon is past.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1948 p. 90

But, since we are near the final end of this special “day of salvation”, Armageddon being so close, let us seek to avoid giving offense.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1948 p. 91

Now, by all the signs predicted in God’s Word and by world events that fulfill those predictions, the time has at last come for God to vindicate his sovereignty by fighting the universal war of Armageddon against the Devil’s long-entrenched power and thus ridding our earth and all the universe of that wicked one’s mighty organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1948 p. 99

In view of God’s gospel purpose and in the face of the Armageddon of world-wide destruction just ahead, the big question that confronts each of us is, AmI saved?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1948 p. 99

Certainly if we now hope to see the final end of this corrupt world of Satan in the approaching battle of Armageddon we must endure down to its end in order to prove worthy to be carried alive through the battle into tile righteous new world that follows.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1948 p. 105

At the same time, in obedience to God’s commandments, these witnesses give warning, too, of the impending disaster that shall fall upon this world at the battle of Armageddon. Therefore this is the time of great emergency, because Armageddon is very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1948 p. 109

At the approaching battle of Armageddon the end of the “goats” will be destruction with Satan’s organization, whereas the “sheep” of good-will are due to receive from the King protection through the battle and eternal salvation in the world to come.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1948 p. 109

By virtue of consecrating themselves to God and proclaiming the kingdom of the Seed of his “woman” they are pictured as having a favorable standing before God’s throne and as serving him day and night in his temple, in unity with the spiritual remnant. Many of the “great multitude”, by continuing faithful till the final war of Armageddon, will be preserved and will survive this end of the world to enter into the early blessings of the righteous new world without dying.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1948 p. 122

They know the spiritual remnant will all of them soon pass into the realization of their heavenly hope, but thatJesus Christ the Seed will bruise the Serpent’s head at Armageddon and usher the faithful great multitude into the delightful privileges of the cleansed earth in the righteous world without end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1948 p. 123

Of course, the test really began with the first children of Adam and it will continue and be completed at the battle of Armageddon, in which Satan the Devil and his demons will die.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1948 p. 125

The Lord had Uzziah’s unfaithful act recorded in his Word as a picture of the unfaithfulness of Christendom. Just as Uzziah became haughty and so impressed with his own importance that he considered himself above God’s law governing the temple and committed the willful sin that brought on him incurable leprosy, so likewise Christendom refuses to heed God’s Word and is willfully disobedient to Jehovah, and she will never be cured of her unclean sinful condition symbolized by leprosy, but will be destroyed by Jehovah God at Armageddon.-2 Chron. 26:16; Prov. 16:18; Deut. 17:12; Num. 15:30.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1948 p. 128

The sheep know that the true Christ will destroy both of those composite “kings” at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 135

But they choose to hearken to the religious clergy instead, and they will accordingly perish at Armageddon. (Ps. 2:8-12; Jer. 27:14-17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 135

The wise person looks ahead. He desires to escape from destruction at the battle of Armageddon and to enjoy eternal life in the righteous new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 135

For this reason the battle of Armageddon will prove her to be built upon the sands of Babylon and of Rome, and not even her RomanCatholic religious system with its pope will be found to be built upon the unshakable rock of salvation.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 136

Christendom’s kingdom, or her predominant position on this earth, is shortlived now, ceasing at Armageddon. Because she gives no heed to Jehovah’s law, all her prayers for peace and prosperity fall upon deaf ears with God, and he will not change from his purpose to destroy her at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 136

At Revelation 7:4-8 and 14:1, 3 the Bible makes it plain that there will be only 144,000 consecrated, spirit-begotten Christians that will be exalted with Christ Jesus and that others of good-will who are to be spared during the coming battle of Armageddon will be few compared with the great population now on the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 141

At the coming battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will perform “his strange act”, and by this act of strangeness the so-called “organized religion of Christendom will be totally destroyed.

These are perilous times, as the Scriptures point out and as the facts support. The condition of Christendom now preceding Armageddon is stated at 2 Timothy 3:1-5, namely: “In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers oI God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1948 p. 141, 142

Just now God’s prophecy speaks of men”which destroy the earth”, and tells of His purpose to destroy them very shortly, at the battle of Armageddon. -Rev. 11:18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1948 p. 159

JEHOVAH God foresaw thousands of years in advance the final crisis that is now upon this world. The people have reached the fork of the road, and for their warning he foretold the going forth of spirits of falsehood that would turn the careless people down the branch that leads to destruction with this world in the terrible catastrophe of Armageddon. With accurate sign-language he portrayed for us the fast-moving world situation in these words in the Revelation, the last book of his Holy Scriptures : “The sixth [angel] emptied his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its waters dried up to make the way ready for the kings from the east. Then I saw three foul spirits like frogs emerge from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the
animal and from the mouth of the false prophet. They are demon spirits that perform wonders, and they go out to the -kings all over the world to muster them for battle on the great Day of GodAlmighty… So they mustered the kings at the place called in Hebrew Armageddon.”-Rev. 16:12-16, An Amer. Trans.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1948 p. 163

Wonderfully, the kings and rulers all over the world listen to their croaking and then regiment the total population and drive them down the road that leads to Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1948 p. 163

The human race under its misled kings and rulers does not have the shadow of a chance of winning in that fight, for it is a battle against God Almighty, whose time to set up his own Government of a new world of righteousness has come. Except for the small minority of men and women who try the spirits and who prove that these are unclean demon-spirits and who resumes to follow such, the mass of humanity are now being marched in double-quick time by their rulers to the Armageddon of sudden destruction at Almighty God’s hand.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1948 p. 163

1. How did God warn us of spirits that led men to Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1948 p. 163

It is that the sincere people in the Roman Catholic organization may see and appreciate the perilous position in which they have been put by their clergymen or leaders in these days when the Holy Scriptures show demon spirits are going forth to the kings or rulers of the whole earth to gather them and their subjects to the universal war of Armageddon. (Apocalypse 16:14-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1948 p. 173

His vengeance is at hand, for the day of the Lord God is here and the final battle of Armageddon is now unavoidable.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1948 p. 183

They may mock at the suggestion, but, just the same, they stand faced with sudden destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1948 p. 211

Together, the remnant and these “other sheep” rejoice that God’s kingdom long prayed for is nowhere and that shortly Jehovah’s King Jesus Christ will finish his rule amidst his enemies by wiping them out in the universal war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1948 p. 213

Being blind to the Kingdom truth, they lead their blinded parishioners and congregations down into the ditch of destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1948 p. 221

The collaboration of the rulers in Christendom is therefore a working together of politics with demon religion and has God’s disapproval. It shall be broken up and destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1948 p. 221

Following this, in short order, will also come the destruction of the “beast” and earthly rulers, all defeated by Jehovah’s King of kings at the battle of Armageddon. (Rev. 19:11-19)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1948 p. 231

When we become ministers of the Almighty God we do need all the assistance and instruction we can get from him through his organization to share in the great work of preaching the gospel to all the world for a witness before the end comes at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 244

There is no end of work before Armageddon is fought. Jesus said this gospel shall be preached to all the nations for a witness, not for world conversion, and then the end will come. While we could never accomplish world conversion, we can try with our comparatively few workers to give a big witness to all nations by preaching as energetically as we can, by all means of publicity, until Jehovah shuts down the international work by signaling to Christ Jesus to begin the fight of Armageddon and wipe out the enemy nations.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 250

The results will be, probably not astonishing, but at least gratifying as the weeks, months and years hasten along toward Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 250

As we expand our ministry we find our love for our neighbors deepening, for more of them; yes, not merely for the brother or the sister whom we know and with whom we work in the local company organization or in the pioneer group, or missionary home, or Branch office, but for all the other strayed and lost “sheep” that Christ Jesus the Good Shepherd says he will gather and bring safely into the fold before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 251

Our greatest privilege in these pre-Armageddon days is to avail ourselves of the opportunity and to enter into it with heart and soul.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 251

We must bear in mind that for about sixty centuries the human race has been traveling the broad road of unrighteousness that has led it to its present degradation and now to the brink of destruction the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1948 p. 251

Armageddon’s overthrow of Satan’s world organization and the restraining of Satan and all his demons and human servants will not relieve humankind from their miserable downfallen condition.

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His ousting from power in the earth will be completely effected by the battle of Armageddon now near in which the new world’s King, Christ Jesus, will vanquish all the organization of wickedness, demonic and human. Multitudes of persons of good-will today living upon earth are now taking their stand for God’s kingdom and will see this destruction of Satan’s organization at Armageddon and will sing the praises of God and his triumphant King after the battle is over and peace has come to this earth to stay.

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These good-will survivors of the battle of Armageddon are included in the words of the apostle Paul to Timothy telling him to preach this good news to mankind, saying:
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick [that is, the living] and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word.” (2 Tim. 4:1, 2)

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Therefore the King and Judge at the temple judges them to be worthy to be preserved from destruction with the nations at Armageddon and to be carried alive, “quick,” into the glorious new world after that battle.

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When will the general awakening of the dead begin after the battle of Armageddon? The Scriptures do not disclose the day, but indicate it .will be after the new organization in the earth has been built by the resurrection of the faithful men of old to be “princes in all the earth” and after the surviving multitude of persons of good-will have had an opportunity to do their part with these princes in spreading righteousness throughout all the earth and cultivating and caring for the earth according to the will of God, toward its beautification to a paradise condition.

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Jehovah’s destruction of the Assyrians prefigured Jehovah’s destruction of all his enemies at the impending battle of Armageddon and his preservation of his heavenly King and kingdom, that all may know that Jehovah is God alone.

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It is the only way to gain God’s protection amid the battle of Armageddon and to be carried through alive into the righteous new world to come.

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God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus was established in the heavens A.D. 1914 to rule among his enemies and to clear the earth of them completely at the battle of Armageddon.

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The battle of Armageddon at this end of the world will wipe out of existence all of Satan’s organization, demonic and human, invisible and visible, and thus rid mankind of these enemies and opposers of all reformation and progress in truth and righteousness.

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If God spares their lives through the coming battle of Armageddon they must continue to do his will on earth to the end of Christ’s thousand-year reign, the same as the others of mankind who will be resurrected from the graves.

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These are but samples of how organized religion is meddling with wordy affairs throughout the earth, and at the battle of Armageddon she will be chopped down like a tree and burned to ashes in the fire.

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This “day of Jehovah” extends from A.D. 1914, when he took his power to reign, and runs to the end of the coming battle of Armageddon when Satan the Devil will be bound in a real way and sealed up in the abyss.

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All those lined up with beast and false prophet, namely, all the kings of the whole world and their armies, never survive the universal war of Armageddon.

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But now, as the final feature of Armageddon, Satan the Devil is helplessly bound and his head crushed by being put into the abyss of the death state.

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This proves that the thousand-year reign of Christ begins, not at the close of the Gentile times A.D. 1914, but after Armageddon is fought and all his foes are destroyed and are thus unable to interfere with his righteous rule of peace.

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These now accept the Kingdom gospel and forsake the “beast” and the “false prophet” and all this doomed world, and they follow the Good Shepherd, God’s Lamb, who can shield and spare them and bring them alive through the battle of Armageddon.

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7. What next proves the millennium begins after Armageddon?

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The “great multitude” of good-will surviving Armageddon will be the first to enter into the earthly, physical blessings of the righteous new world.

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The clergy offer mankind no light upon this subject, to show them the way to escape from the final battle of Armageddon with which this “time of trouble, such as never was”, ends up.

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But in the spring of the follow- ing year (1919) Christ Jesus used his “key of David” and opened the door of opportunity before Jehovah’s witnesses. He bade them to be fearless and enter as his followers into the great postwar opportunity for giving the witness to God’s established kingdom before this world comes to its final end at the battle of ArmageddonI.n the July 1, 1920, issue of The Watch Tower he showed them that now, since A.D. 1914, is the time when “this gospel of the kingdom” must be preached to a wide-open world as he had foretold at Matthew 24:14. He called especial attention to the opened door of ministerial opportunity in 1922, when the electrifying slogan was introduced at the biggest international assembly till then of Jehovah’s witnesses, “Advertise the King and his kingdom!”

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The opportunity will close with the battle of Armageddon, now drawing near, when this gospel of the Kingdom will have been preached adequately and the final end of this world will have come according to God’s due time. Then Jehovah will arise to give his own testimony before all the universe by winning the fight at Armageddon.

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That knowledge means the present-day facts about God’s kingdom now established, and the approaching day of His vengeance at the universal war of Armageddon, and the thousand-year reign of Christ that is to follow for the blessing of all persons of good-will.

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It is to help others become God’s ministers now, that they may by God’s mercy live through this “time of the end”, survive the destruction of this world at Armageddon and keep on ministering to God forever in the righteous new world to follow, without a break in their ministry. The Scriptures show that the organization of Jehovah’s witnesses is a society of ministers that teaches others to be His ministers of the gospel. Only his ministers may have any hope of surviving Armageddon. Remember Noah and the flood.

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At the coming universal war of Armageddon Christ Jesus the Seed will conquer the strongholds of all his enemies and will destroy them. And his beloved bride will share the victory with him.-Rev. 17:14, Am. Stan. Ver.

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It is therefore the time running from A.D. 1914, when Jehovah God enthroned Christ Jesus to rule amidst his enemies, down to the battle of Armageddon, where Christ Jesus destroys all those enemies.

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For their loyal attachment to the King’s interests this virgin-companion class will be spared through the fight at Armageddon.

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Many of this class will be made”princes in all the earth” as visible representatives of Christ Jesus among mankind during his thousand-year reign after Armageddon.

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What are these approved acts and deeds? They now consist of the remnant’s privilege of acting as ambassadors for Christ the King and preaching “this gospel of the kingdom in all the world for a witness unto all nations” before the end of this world comes at Armageddon.

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Every reader of The Watchtower can actively associate himself with this marking work which leads to our being spared by God’s executioners during the oncoming battle of Armageddon.

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During the years since then lovers of peace, truth and righteousness have yearned for God’s kingdom to fight the final battle of Armageddon and break the Gentile nations to pieces, thus clearing our globe for the blessed reign of a thousand years by Christ Jesus.

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Indeed, some Christians have grown weary at God’s seeming slowness in bringing on the battle of Armageddon and destroying all the enemies and bringing in the millennium of peace and righteousness.

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They refuse to see in the happenings since A.D. 1914 any evidence that God’s kingdom has come and that Christ Jesus has been enthroned in the heavens and is now ruling amidst his enemies, preparatory to breaking all the nations to pieces with the iron rod of Armageddon. Because thirty-four years have now passed since 1914 they thing the meaning of world events as explained by Jehovah’s witnesses is proved untrue. Fo them Armageddon is yet a long way off; it will not come in their day. They do not reason that we are that many years nearer Armageddon and that all those years of God’s extended patience with men were a merciful opportunity for them to lay hold on his salvation and that that much less time now remains.

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Jehovah God has the power and right to destroy all nations at Armageddon by his King, Christ Jesus, with the “iron rod”, and this fact he illustrated through his prophet Jeremiah shortly before Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B.C.

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Although we declare that the worldly nations will all be destroyed by the “iron rod” of Jehovah’s King at Armageddon, we are not nihilists and anarchists.

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Evidently by A.D. 1918 christ Jesus had Satan and all his organization, visible and invisible, down at the earth, which is his footstool, but he did not keep on pressing the battle. He did not force the final war of Armageddon and make a complete end of the old world in that year, but let World War I give way to a shaky peace.
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During all the years since 1918 Jehovah’s witnesses have obeyed him. They have cried out to warn of impending destruction for the nations at Armageddon. But the nations of Christendom have heard the cry so repeatedly that they attach no value to it and credit it with no truthfulness. They say God is slow and will never do it in their generation.

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But where would they be in this day if Almighty God had ordered Christ Jesus into the final battle of Armageddon at 1918? Certainly the eternal salvation of all these would not have been possible in that case. Back in 1918 the remnant of anointed witnesses of Jehovah in all the earth numbered but a few thousand.

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20. How does Christendom treat our warning of Armageddon?

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Although God continues patient with the nations despite their hostility to his kingdom by Christ, the result is that the stubbornness of the world world rulers, political, commercial and religious, become more pronounced, portending their certain destruction at Armageddon.
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So, too, since A.D. 1918, by patience toward the greater Pharaoh, Satan, and all his nations, Jehovah has been able to raise up His witnesses on earth to publish his fame throughout all the earth and to make a fuller display of his power over Satan’s embattled hosts at the coming Armageddon.

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The “four winds” of the earth, not yet let loose by them to blow simultaneously, combining to produce a destructive whirlwind raging from one end of the earth to the other, picture the battle of Armageddon.

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On this account Christ Jesus commanded the angelic forces under him to halt from following up Satan’s ouster from heaven in 1918 by at once fighting the final phase of the warfare, Armageddon.

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God holds back the destructive forces that are reserved for Armageddon until after this great multitude has gotten the benefit of the Kingdom gospel proclaimed by the remnant.

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The holding back of the forces of Armageddon until after the sealed remnant get the work done of ‘marking the foreheads’ of the “great multitude” is pictured in a vision Ezekiel had just a few years before Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B. C. God’s executional forces appointed to destroy the nations at Armageddon are pictured as six men with slaughter weapons, while the elect remnant with sealed foreheads are pictured as a seventh man clothed in white linen with a writer’s inkhorn at his side.

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Seeing the loving, noble ends that God has in view in setting the time for the outbreak of Armageddon yet in the future, we ought not to fret because the organized forces of wickedness in the visible and invisible realms are still permitted to operate and bring untold woe upon the people.

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We will also continue to preach the day of his vengeance, warning rulers and subjects alike that Armageddon approaches, when God by Christ his King will dash the nations to shivers like a potter’s vessel smashed with an iron rod.

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We know there is a limit to his patience, and that he has appointed a definite time for the battle of Armageddon.

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We well know that Satan also knows that “he hath but a short time” before the battle of Armageddon bursts forth.-Rev. 12:12.

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In that year the Lord God called our attention to the startling fact that his purpose at the battle of Armageddon is to make a name for himself, for he himself will fight that battle for his people.

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With the same hope that the living and true God will beat back the enemy and uphold them in preaching his gospel, Jehovah’s witnesses have adopted as their yeartext for 1949 the psalmist’s words, and these appear on their 1949 calendar, namely: “I… will yet praise thee more and more.” This sums up their fearless determination for 1949 and all years to come until Armageddon: “I… will add more to all they praise.” (An Amer. Trans.; Douay)

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Jonadab and all the other worshipers of Jehovah were spared alive. Jonadab, as related in earlier issues of The Watchtower (August 1, 1932, onward), prefigured the consecrated people of good-will who give their all the Baal-worshipers or worshipers of false religions will be destroyed.

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Certainly, then, although the anointed remnant is in the old and gray-haired stage of the Christian organization, they will keep on praying that Jehovah God will not forsake them until they have declared His arm, that is, his strength and activities, to the next generation, the Jonadab class, for their salvation through Armageddon into the righteous new world.

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For continuing to resist God’s kingdom and seeking to harm his ambassadors they will go down to destruction in the greatest shame and disgrace at Armageddon. But the remnant, followed in due time by the rising generation of good-will, have come forth to a life of praise to Jehovah God and his King. They fearlessly shout his praises. They hold fast their resolve to make joyful confession of him with their mouth till the great act of righteousness occurs, the vindication of Jehovah’s sovereignty at Armageddon by his victorious King Christ Jesus.

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What was left I sent to Brother Russell to be used when God’s time would come to send his truth to West Africa. Never did I think then that the message would go there this side of Armageddon.

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