Jehovah has given Christ Jesus power over all human creation, and Jesus said: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17: 3) Primarily these words applied to the disciples of Jesus. Later they applied to all who become the followers of Christ Jesus; and now they apply to those who shall be carried through the great battle of Armageddon and be the first recipients of restitution blessings.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. January 1, 1932 p. 6
The great day of God Almighty is here, and the battle of Armageddon is soon to be fought.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. January 15, 1932 p. 22
“Sixth: That because Satan will not surrender his wicked rule over the nations and peoples of the earth, Jehovah of hosts with his anointed executive officer Christ Jesus will press the conflict against Satan and all of his forces of evil, and henceforth our battle-cry shall be, THE SWORD OF JEHOVAH AND OF HIS ANOINTED; that the great battle of Armageddon soon to begin will result in the full restraint of Satan and the complete overthrow of his evil organization, and that Jehovah will establish righteousness in the earth by and through Christ, the new Ruler, and will emancipate mankind from evil and bring everlasting blessing to all the nations of the earth;
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. January 15, 1932 p. 27, 28
Even now this zeal is attracting millions of people of “good will” to the aide of the Lord, anxious to see its victorious consummation in Armageddon, (2 Ki. 10:15-28) We are grateful to learn further, by your help, that the “remnant” will still have further privileges of service after Armageddon in teaching the millions then living that they are the ones whom Jehovah had in mind when he promised Abraham that ALL the families of the earth should be blessed through him.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. March 1, 1932 p. 78
Armageddon Foreshadowed
In many places in the Bible Jehovah indicates what shall come to pass at Armageddon or the battle of the great day of God Almighty, and the following text is one of such proofs : “O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness [desert, Roth.] ; the earth trembled [quaked, Roth.], the heavens also dropped [dripped, Roth.] at the presence of God; even yon Sinai trembled [quaked] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.”-Ps. 68: 7,8, R.V.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. March 15, 1932 p. 88
Isaiah has prophesied concerning the coming battle of Armageddon, or great battle of the day of God Almighty, and says : ” For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.”
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. March 15, 1932 p. 89
This latter rendering of the text by Rotherham makes it plain that he who made Mount Sinai tremble and quake at the giving of the law thought Moses is the same God who fights the battle for his people and brings them to victory, and is the same God who comes to his temple, selects and bring his remnant into the secret place of the Most High, the place of safety, and the same God who will destroy the enemy and his organization at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. March 15, 1932 p. 89
By whom will Armageddon be fought7 Describe the prophetic picture, to show how appropriate is the language of Isaiah 28:21 as suggesting the nature of Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. March 15, 1932 p. 90
The twelfth verse of the Psalm above quoted, therefore, would seem more particularly to refer to the near future, when the great battle of Armageddon will be in progress.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 1, 1932 p. 102, 103
At the time the spoil shall be divided, thereby increasing the kingdom interests on earth for a space of time after Armageddon is fought.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 1, 1932 p. 103
The remnant is likened unto a home-keeping woman of ancient times, in that such do not engage in an active part of the battle of Armageddon with carnal weapons.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 1, 1932 p. 103
Referring to the Lord at Armageddon it is written: “Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.” (Ps. 104:3)
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 118
These tests and others prove that the fight at Armageddon will not be merely a symbolic affair, because Jehovah announces his purpose to clean Satan’s organization off the earth.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 118
This shows that the great battle of Armageddon precedes the inauguration of the new covenant ;therefore Jehovah marches to war with his “thousands upon thousands” of chariots of war.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 118
This he will do in the great victory that he will gain at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 119
The prophecy, therefore, shows Christ Jesus, Jehovah’s great executive officer, taking captive Satan and his cohorts at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 119
Those captured or taken prisoners at Armageddon will not be preserved as such, alive in a prison house, but will be put to death and thus held captive in death until the end of the thousand-year rein of Christ. Doubtless the colors of Satan, and Satan himself before death at Armageddon, will come to a full realization that they are “all done up” and that the fight must put an end to the operations of Satan and his organization, who for centuries has been unhindered and unrestrained in his defiance of Jehovah God.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 119
6. Show whether it is reasonable to construe as symbolic the tests regarding the slaying to take place in the earth in the battle of Armageddon.
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With scriptures, prove that the fight at Armageddon will not be merely a symbolic affair.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. April 15, 1932 p. 121
Later the people of God, when more severely persecuted, may well say that ‘God himself is for us; unto him belongs the escape in view of death’, and that escape Jehovah foretold by the destruction of Haman; and the escape of his people will come with the destruction of the class pictured by Haman, and particularly will this escape be made available at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 1, 1932 p. 132
Not only will Satan suffer defeat in the battle of Armageddon, but his head, and the head of all of God’s enemies that go to make up the wicked organization, shall be cracked wide open.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 1, 1932 p. 133
The last members of the Christ body on earth are the remnant, and arc undoubtedly represented here by “thy foot”; and this seems to be another indication that the faithful remnant, or at least some of them, will be on the earth during the great battle of Armageddon and witness the blood that shall flow by reason of Christ Jesus’ executing the enemy.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 1, 1932 p. 134
Instead of the blood-shedding at Armageddon being merely symbolic, as those who now live at ease say and would have it, great will be the actual flow of blood, as shown by this and other scriptures: “And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.” (Zeph. 1:17)
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 1, 1932 p. 134
They must be told that after Armageddon the common people need no longer fear the bulls, because then there will be no bulls to do the horning and pushing.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 148
The Lord caused the Prophet Isiah to write concerning this class of people who will be subject to the rulers in Satan’s organization but who after Armageddon will be seeking to come unto Jehovah and join themselves to his organization; these the prophet wrote: “And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptian shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 149
It now seems certain that the fulfillment of this prophecy will be after the battle at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 149
When Armageddon has completely wrecked Satan’s wicked organization, and the bulls and those who delight in war lie dead upon the ground, the common people will know that the hand of Jehovah God has done this mighty work; and then, according to the prophecy uttered by the psalmist the “high messengers” shall come out of Egypt, and which people will then be seeking the way to Zion.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 150
He is riding in his ‘throne chariot straight onward to meet he assault of Satan’s organization, which is mobilizing for Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 150
This voice of warning he sounds just preceding the great battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 150
Jehovah will be present at Armageddon, particularly represented by Christ Jesus, his Chief Executive Officer. Necessarily Armageddon must and will be such an open demonstration of Jehovah’s power that all creation may see and know that it is Jehovah God that is performing this wonderful and strange act.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 151
That strange act will take place, as the Scriptures show, at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 151
It is reasonable, therefore to conclude that at the battle of Armageddon there will be such a demonstration in the skies of Jehovah’s power that terror will lay hold upon all.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 151
Jehovah God has now come to his holy place, his sanctuary or temple on Zion, and this text proves that he will reveal himself therefrom or out therefrom in terrifying acts at the battle of Armageddon, when such acts can ‘make the hair of the flesh stand up’, as it did on one of Job’s tormentors. (Job 4:14, 15)
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 152
The prophet gives a description of Armageddon, which slows that the people will look upon it with indescribable terror. (IIab. 3 : l-14)
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 152
It will be even so with he remnant of Mount Zion at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 152
“The coming of the Lord Jesus” to the battle of Armageddon, therefore, will be in clouds, and every eye shall gaze with terror on what they shall behold.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 152
Our part in this great work is ‘to preach this gospel of the kingdom as a witness to all the nations’, and when this work is done Armageddon will be upon the enemy and shall sweep him and his organization.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. May 15, 1932 p. 152
At the present time Satan’s organization has reached its very zenith in wickedness; and we know from the Scriptures that within a short time God will kill Satan and destroy his organization, and this he will do at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 1, 1932 p. 168
Revelation shows that Satan and put in the pit or grave, and then at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ these wicked ones will be awakened out of death and gathered again in force.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 179
The fulfilment of this prophecy has its beginning at Armageddon, and at the end of the Millennial reign these ‘‘high ones” are visited by the Lord and awakened, together with Satan, and are given the opportunity to again show their depravity which leads to their everlasting annihilation.
The Scriptures clearly prove that Ezekiel pictured or foreshadowed God’s remnant people on earth serving as his witnesses just prior to Armageddon, which people Jehovah uses to give the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 179
The Scriptures show that Satan and all of his princes go into death at Armageddon and are awakened out of death at the end of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah, and the Revelation specifically mentions Gog and Magog in connection therewith, which would mean the prince Gog and all the wicked ones that have operated in his division.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 180
It is certain from the Scriptures that Gog represents wicked forces which are anti-God and anti-kingdom in assaulting and moving against God’s kingdom organization, including the remnant on earth, and which forces reach a climax at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 180
Jehovah God is supreme and he has anointed Christ Jesus as his Chief Officer, who will lead the fight of his forces at Armageddon. Since Satan has attempted to mimic God in everything else, and since Satan claims to be the supreme one or equal to God, it is reasonable to conclude that Satan has appointed a special officer to his side to lead the fight at Armageddon; and since Gog is called “the chief prince” of Rosh, it is reasonable that Gog is the one that leads the fight at Armageddon, while Satan as the general sits in the rear and directs it, even as Jehovah directs Christ Jesus.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 181
It is stated that the evil spirits like frogs shall gather the forces to Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 182
This same conspiracy and the carrying of it out is pictured by the following scriptures : “And he [they, Sinaitic MS.] gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Rev. 16: 16)
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 183
The enemy has had knowledge of these examples foreshadowing Armageddon but has taken no heed thereto.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 185
Seeing that the battle of Armageddon completes the victory of Jehovah, and the preservation of those who love him, will cause the people of God to more fully appreciate him than ever. The non-followers of Christ, the heathen, have been repeatedly told the truth but have given no heed to it. Armageddon will cause all of them to know that Jehovah is the Most High.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. June 15, 1932 p. 185
Jehu was executing Jehovah’s decree; and the Greater-than-Jehu, Christ Jesus, will execute Jehovah’s decree at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. July 15, 1932 p. 214
Likewise Christ Jesus, the chief one whom Jehu foreshadowed, fought with Satan the Devil and his officers and cast them out of heaven. Also, the course that Jehu took foreshadows that Christ Jesus now permits Satan to assemble his forces and to get ready for the decisive battle at Armageddon which is certain to follow.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. July 15, 1932 p. 215
This course they must take if they would receive the protection of the antitypical Jehu, Christ Jesus, the great Executioner who will execute Jehovah’s judgments at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. July 15, 1932 p. 216
My, how wonderful the table of the Lord is filled with food convenient, and that just before Armageddon!
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. July 15, 1932 p. 223
Surely you are wrong in declaring a message against the rulers of “Christendom” and saying that God’s anointed King will destroy “Christendom” at Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. August 1, 1932 p. 228
Jehonadab represented or foreshadowed that class of people now on the earth during the time that the Jehu work is in progress who are of good will, are out of harmony with Satan’s organization, who take their stand on the side of righteousness, and are the ones whom the Lord will preserve during the time of Armageddon, take them through that trouble, and give them everlasting life on the earth.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. August 1, 1932 p. 231
The Jehonadab class are meek, that is to say, they are teachable and they seek to do right and are anxious for the kingdom to be established, and it is this class that Jehovah’s Word shows he will take through the Armageddon trouble.
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This supports the conclusion that these will be taken through Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. August 1, 1932 p. 232
It is a great comfort to Jehovah’s witnesses to now know that they are permitted to carry the waters of life to a class of people that may be taken through Armageddon and given everlasting life on the earth by reason of the bounteous goodness of Jehovah-Rom. 15:4
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. August 1, 1932 p. 232
Elisha survived Jehu, which seems to say that the Elisha work of giving testimony will continue after Armageddon.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. August 1, 1932 p. 235
“The fulness of times,” therefore, clearly appears to have no application to the restitution period period of the reign of Christ Jesus, but does apply to that brief space of time that elapses from the coming of Christ Jesus, and the taking of his power to reign, until the vindication of Jehovah’s name in the great battle of Armageddon. It is Jehovah that is administering the affairs in this day, which immediately lead up to and include Armageddon; and for this reason that great conflict is designated as “the battle of that great day of God Almighty”.
The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. December 15, 1932 p. 376