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Awake!  January 8, 1968 p. 32

Even though that happy day for the poor will not come until God removes the wicked at his war of Armageddon, still there is much that the poor can do to help themselves now by following the suggestions herein stated. 

Awake!  February 8, 1968 p. 12

For over fifty years Jehovah’s witnesses have been proclaiming to the world that the year 1914 marked a turning point in the history of mankind, ushering in a unique generation prophesied to terminate in a catastrophic manner, namely, in the war of Armageddon. 

Awake!  February 8, 1968 p. 30

I am to receive free the six timely booklets World Government On The Shoulder of the Prince of Peace, What Has God’s Kingdom Been Doing Since “Peace Among Men of Good Will” or Armageddon-Which?, “Look! I Am Making All Things New,” When God Is King over All the Earth, and When All Nations Unite Under God’s Kingdom.

Awake!  February 8, 1968 p. 32

One of the missionaries, when asked how she felt about her twenty-two years of service in Bolivia, declared that she was very happy and hoped to stay right on until the war of Armageddon or until her death.

Awake!  July 8, 1968 p. 26

What is this climax? God himself will take a direct hand in world affairs. He will use his overwhelming power to crush wickedness and wicked people. (Rev. 11:18) This act of God is called “Armageddon” in some Bible versions in some Bible versions.
Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 4

Armageddon

Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 5

*Editor note-Used to within artist rendering pertaining to 1914 and speeding train.

Those who submit to God’s requirements will be protected by him through the coming Armageddon destruction of this system of things.

Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 16

Armageddon survivors will begin to enjoy all the benefits of a righteous new order.

Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 16

All survivors of Armageddon will have already done this: “They will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.”-Isa. 2:4.

Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 17

You have no time to lose in making friends with God, because time is rapidly running out for this wicked system of things.  it is very close to plunging into the chasm of Armageddon. 

Awake!  October 8, 1968 p. 29

And, with Jehovah’s help, the determination we all have is to stay in our missionary assignments until Armageddon, yes, even after Armageddon, as long as Jehovah wants.”

Awake!  October 22, 1968 p. 27

Under instruction from their church, they have told Jehovah’s witnesses: “You preach a cruel and unreasonable God who is going to sweep most of his children away in a horrible battle of Armageddon. 

Awake!  November 8, 1968 p. 27

But if persons selfishly want to pursue their own interests and refuse to heed His messengers, God is certainly not unloving in destroying such ones from the earth in his war of Armageddon.-Rev. 16:14-16.

Awake!  November 8, 1968 p. 28

In that new system of things after Armageddon, “righteousness is to dwell.” (2 Pet. 3:13)

Awake!  November 8, 1968 p. 28

Another great assembly was the New World Society Assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses at Yankee Stadium, July 19 to 26, 1953. By this time the first volume of the New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures was ready and it was released to a vast throng of 132,829 in attendance. On Sunday the president of the Society, N. H. Knorr, delivered the talk “After Armageddon—God’s New World,” to 165,829 persons.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1968 p. 23

The history of Jehovah’s witnesses, particularly since 1919 and right down through 1967, has been that of faithfully doing the work that Christ Jesus prophesied would be done, namely, preaching the good news of God’s established kingdom first, before the destruction of this wicked system of things comes at Armageddon. Satan knows he has but a short time to remain the god of this world and to rule it in his wicked way.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1968 p. 28

● What is the river of water mentioned at Revelation 22:1, 2, and when does it begin to flow?

The symbolic river pictures the entire provision Jehovah makes for obedient mankind to have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. Its flowing begins after Armageddon and the abyssing of Satan.—P. 636.

● How can it be said at Psalm 68:11 that “the women telling the good news are a large army”?

In ancient times Israelite women declared the good news of military victory over God’s enemies with dance, song and instrumental music. A great many modern-day women are declaring the good news of Jehovah’s kingdom and his deeds in his victorious march to Armageddon.—Pp. 652, 653, 655.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1968 p. 31

● With whom in modern times can the Gibeonites be compared?

With the “great crowd” who are full of faith that the Greater Joshua, Jesus Christ, can protect them through Armageddon.—P. 628.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1968 p. 31

Yes, all the signs today point to the closeness of God’s great war against all the kingdoms of the whole inhabited earth, the war of Armageddon, that must clear the way for a New Order of peace and righteousness. (Rev. 16:14, 16; Dan. 2:44)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1968 p. 41

Soon, God himself will fight the last war that this system of things will ever see. At this war, called Armageddon in the Bible (Rev. 16:14, 16), God will use his almighty power to bring to nothing the military and political elements that have brought such havoc to the earth. God invites “all the birds that fly in midheaven” to this occasion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1968 p. 70

By all the evidences this system of things is hastening to its final confrontation with the God of justice at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1968 p. 83

But Christian parents have the joy of knowing that they did what was humanly possible, and, with Jehovah’s help, ensured for their children “a long time on the earth”—yes, so long a time that it may well reach into the New Order beyond Armageddon.—Eph. 6:2, 3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1968 p. 86

In climax, and as a high point of the eight-day assembly held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., July 30-August 6, 1928, twelve thousand persons enthusiastically adopted a “Declaration Against Satan and for Jehovah.” This made known 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.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1968 p. 152

Write now and receive free the booklets When God Is King over All the Earth, “Peace Among Men of Good Will” or Armageddon—Which?, World Government on the Shoulder of the Prince of Peace, What Has God’s Kingdom Been Doing Since 1914?, When All Nations Unite Under God’s Kingdom and “This Good News of the Kingdom.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1968 p. 160

In like fashion, the Communist propagandists have written books, including one of 159 pages entitled “Going by the Name of Jehovah God,” have published denunciations in Pravda and Trud and illustrated magazine articles, such as one in Krokodil on “The Spiders,” and have distributed derogatory films, two of these being entitled “Armageddon” and “Apostles Unmasked”—in an all-out effort to reproach Jehovah’s name and berate the preaching activities of His witnesses.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1968 p. 177

And at Armageddon, all of this world’s financial systems will dissolve. (Zeph. 1:18) In Jehovah’s new system, the use of earth’s resources will be directed by God’s heavenly kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1968 p. 184

This millennium will take place after the present wicked system of things is destroyed in “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” commonly called Armageddon, and the binding and abyssing of Satan the Devil. (Matt. 24:3; Rev. 16:14-16; 20:1-6) Then the dead will be brought forth in a cleansed earth, restored to paradisaic conditions by God’s power.—Luke 23:43.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1968 p. 200

Today it is especially vital to conform to God’s righteous principles, because note what the Bible says will happen when Jesus Christ is revealed as executioner at God’s war of Armageddon: “He brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will undergo . . . everlasting destruction.”—2 Thess. 1:7- 9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1968 p. 200

Whether men choose to recognize the fact or not, this system soon faces a similar destruction. It will occur at what the Bible calls “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” or Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 228

The future, therefore, is clear-cut. Faced with Armageddon, people today are going in either one of two directions. They are either supporting this system of things and stubbornly refusing to lean about Jehovah God or they are showing that they truly love Him by taking up His service in imitation of Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 228

But swift action can open up for you many happy privileges in the service of God’s earthly organization, as well as hope of survival through the Armageddon crisis that now confronts the whole human race.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 232

No less so, according to the prophetic Psalm 110, Jehovah God will be at the right hand of his High Priest and King, Jesus Christ, in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 245

Thus it is Biblically established that, after the war of Armageddon and the binding of Satan the Devil and his demons, Jesus Christ, the Greater Melchizedek, will rule as heavenly King and serve as God’s High Priest for a thousand years in behalf of the people on earth.—Luke 22:28- 30; 2 Tim. 2:11, 12.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 246

“But is there not something missing?” you may ask, and then add: “All of that is unspeakably grand and beautiful for all men of goodwill who will survive the war of the great day of God the Almighty at Armageddon, but—but what about the thousands on thousands of millions who have

died and returned to the dust of the earth ever since sin and its penalty death entered the earth about six thousand years ago?”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 247

Jesus Christ, the Greater Melchizedek, laid down his perfect human life in sacrifice, not only for the redemption of the survivors of the battle of Armageddon and the binding of Satan and his demons, but also for all who have died before then because of inheriting imperfection and sin from their original earthly parents, who sinned in the garden of Eden.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1968 p. 247

Soon now, at the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” commonly called Armageddon, “the wicked . . . will be cut off from the very earth.” (Rev. 16:14, 16; Prov. 2:22)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 261

These Armageddon survivors who do the will of God have a glorious future before them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 261

To survive Armageddon and to enjoy these blessings, it is vital that you now learn what God’s will is and do it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 262

In fact, it is of the utmost urgency that Christians do so, for Armageddon is drawing on apace, and only those who put faith in Christ’s blood can hope to be spared from destruction at that time.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 263

Some of the generation that discerned the beginning of the time of the end in 1914 will still be alive on earth to witness the end of this present wicked system of things at the battle of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 272

Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon? No one can say with certainty what any particular year will bring. Jesus said: “Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows.” (Mark 13:32)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 272, 273

8. Can anyone say with certainty when the battle of Armageddon will come?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 272

1927 5952 “The Watchtower” (Dec. 15) declares bloodshed a reason for God’s vengeance at Armageddon
—Gen. 9:3, 4

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 272

● What is “the resurrection on the last day” of which Martha spoke at John 11:24, and when does it take place?

It is the general resurrection in which thousands of millions will be brought from their tombs to earthly life. It takes place after the battle of Armageddon.—P. 200.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1968 p. 286

But to see the change in their lives, when their eyes of spiritual understanding are opened, is worth all the inconveniences and troubles one may have to encounter. I used to think I would live here until Armageddon. But now it seems the most natural thing in the world to live here forever and ever.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1968 p. 362

From the year 1935 evidences have piled up showing that benefits are now being made available for an unnumbered crowd of nonpriestly worshipers of the true God. And after Armageddon has brought to its end the present wicked system of things and after Satan has been bound and abyssed, the flow of unhampered blessings for repentant humans will constitute strong evidence that the royal priesthood under Christ is ministering effectually.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 405

But now, since 1935 C.E., some benefits begin to flow to a great crowd of persons out of all nations. Such persons are brought into closer communication with Jehovah by having instruction on how to conform their lives to his will. They receive information on how to merit divine approval and protection during the oncoming war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 405

Greater evidences of God’s approval and use of the priesthood under Christ Jesus, now almost all installed, await the new order of things upon earth after Armageddon. At that time the new Jerusalem, the holy city of heavenly priests, with its perfected members ruling in power with their High Priest, will extend its influence to men on the earth to an unprecedented degree. Armageddon survivors and those who later are raised from the dead will still be in need of the protective shield of a holy priesthood, for they will still be imperfect and in need of much help so as to be prepared to meet successfully the final test of their integrity when Satan is “let loose out of his prison” for a short time at the end of the thousand years of Christ’s reign.—Rev. 20:7, 8.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 407

19. What post-Armageddon evidences may we expect of Jehovah’s use of this installed priesthood?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 407

Our associating with and accepting the lead from them in matters of true worship will be laying for ourselves a fine foundation for post-Armageddon works looking to Jehovah’s final approval.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 408

24. (a) What future service will be faithfully cared for by the heavenly priesthood, bringing great joy to survivors of Armageddon? (b) How is this indicated at Revelation 21:3, 4?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1968 p. 408

All Edom-like oppressors, including Satan the Devil, his demons and his entire organization, will feel the fire of Jehovah’s zeal at Armageddon. “Distress will not rise up a second time.”—Nah. 1:9; Ps. 72:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 456

This awareness of Armageddon’s nearness serves as a warning to those of Christian zeal not only to preach Christ but to live lives that bespeak the times in which we are living. Such exemplary lives stir up the brothers.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 468

This time before the destruction of Babylon the Great and the war of Armageddon calls for zealous participation, on our part, in the finest work that can now be done, namely, to point people of honest heart to the kingdom of God as the only hope for mankind.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 469

● In view of what is recorded at Matthew 5:44, is it wrong to pray for Armageddon to come?—

B. S., U.S.A.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 479

In harmony with this avoidance of a vengeful attitude, Christians do not pray or hope that Armageddon will come soon to wipe out a certain individual who may be persecuting Christians at the moment or who has acted inhospitably toward the Kingdom good news.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 479

Does all of this mean that it is wrong to pray for Armageddon to come? Well, is it wrong to pray for God’s kingdom to come? No, and Matthew 5:44 does not contradict what Jesus taught his disciples to pray: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.” (Matt. 6:10)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1968 p. 479

Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man’s existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ. If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1968 p. 499

The missionary service in particular is a privilege, which, if engaged in zealously between now and Armageddon, will ensure immeasurable happiness in the ages to come.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1968 p. 511

A common symptom of loss of spirituality is a loss of zeal for the Christian ministry. The first zeal of ‘Christian youth,’ fired by the expectation of soon realizing the hope of life in happiness under God’s kingdom, may wear off. Time passes and Armageddon does not come as soon as anticipated.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1968 p. 531

Man’s rule will therefore have to give way under defeat and destruction brought upon it in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at what is called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1968 p. 628

Under God’s protection they will realize their hope of being preserved through the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon and of entering into God’s new order on earth. There they will wholeheartedly submit to God’s rule.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1968 p. 629

Man’s rule today, reinforced by stockpiles of nuclear bombs, threatens to annihilate the whole human race. God’s rule through his Messianic kingdom will do more than preserve the lives of those who survive the war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1968 p. 629

45. In addition to preserving a “great crowd” through Armageddon, what else will God’s rule through his Messianic kingdom do?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1968 p. 629

Strange and unusual indeed it will seem when Jehovah God the Almighty by means of his forces in heaven and on earth (the ten horns and the wild beast) brings about the speedy destruction of that world empire of false Babylonish religion, to be followed shortly by his destruction of all her political associates in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon. (Rev. 17:15 to 19:21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1968 p. 657, 658

All not having sound hearts will be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1968 p. 669

They preached that thereafter all the nations of this world would meet their Armageddon in the “battle of the great day of God the Almighty” and be utterly destroyed. Christ’s kingdom was therefore the only hope of mankind.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1968 p. 696

How happy they are, not alone to have this good news, but also to have the honor and privilege to fulfill Jesus’ prophecy and preach this good news of the Kingdom in all the earth for a witness before the end of this system of things comes at Armageddon! (Matt. 24:14; Mark 13:10)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1968 p. 698

This good news tells the people that God’s kingdom has been established in the heavens, that Satan has been cast out of heaven, that God’s war of Armageddon is near, that soon the blessings of God’s kingdom will make this earth into a paradise and that then even the dead in the memorial tombs will arise.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1968 p. 715

Furthermore, in the Revelation that he gave to his apostle John twenty-six years after Jerusalem’s destruction Jesus spoke of the “kings of the entire inhabited earth” as being gathered to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon and he thereafter described the enormous slaughter to be wrought in that war of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-16; 19:11-21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1968 p. 748, 749

This refers to his coming to destroy Babylon the Great, the world empire of false Babylonish religion, and then to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1968 p. 753

From a long train of foretold events we know that the kingdom of God is getting near to its act of destroying this system of things and its supporters at Armageddon and bringing about our glorious deliverance.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1968 p. 754

Only in this way shall we escape sharing in the anguish, fear and dreaded expectation of the

worldly nations and being ensnared in destruction with them at Armageddon. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1968 p. 755

On Sunday the president of the Society, N. H. Knorr, delivered the talk “After Armageddon God’s New World,” to 165,829 persons. Of course, not all these persons could be in attendance at the Yankee Stadium itself.

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 30

The history of Jehovah’s witnesses, particularly since 1919 and right down through 1967, has been that of faithfully doing the work that Christ Jesus prophesied would be done, namely, preaching the good news of God’s established kingdom first, before the destruction of this wicked system of things comes at Armageddon. Satan knows he has but a short time to remain the god of this world and to rule it in his wicked way.

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 34

The entire four days of the conventions were cli- maxed with the heartwarming public talk “Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon.”

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 48

It is very important for every individual to learn how to live according to God’s principles, and it is the responsibility of Jehovah’s witnesses to get this very fine message of God’s kingdom to all people possible so that the people can make their decision as to what they will do before Armageddon.

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 49

The missionary service in particular is a privilege, which, if engaged in zealously between now and Armageddon, will ensure immeasurable happiness in the ages to come.

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 59

One day a client came with a car that apparently looked the worse for wear, and the student said: “You will soon have to buy a new car.” The client replied: “I hope it will last until Armageddon!”

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 87

By this time one soldier had pulled open the van door, and, seeing a Watchtower magazine, demanded gruffly: “Who are you? From where? To where?” After we identified ourselves he asked: “Is this your ‘Armageddon’?” We assured him it was not, “though these events do fulfill prophecies in the same chapter of the Bible that foretells the war of Armageddon. Armageddon will be worse, is fast approaching, will guarantee peace.

1968 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1967.  p. 206, 207