The end of such bloodguilty, loose-living, bribe-loving men will be destruction at the battle of Armageddon!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1958 p. 14
The great miracle of deliverance will be performed at the battle of Armageddon, when Jehovah will destroy completely the wicked system of things and at the same time keep alive men of integrity, whom he will remember for their acts of loving-kindness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1958 p. 15
All the true servants of God want to continue in right worship and maintain integrity and be redeemed or delivered through the battle of Armageddon. They want to see the time come when there will be no more discord, wars, selfishness, corruption and when everyone will be praising Jehovah God and blessing him. That will be seen in completion after the battle of the great day of God the Almighty—Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1958 p. 15
In years gone by it was the opinion that all that was needed was to say a few words concerning the Kingdom, to tell people about the battle of Armageddon, and then they had the witness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1958 p. 16
This world and its moral swamp is due to be destroyed by God at the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1958 p. 36
In the Revelation the promises made to them are incorruptibility and freedom from the “second death,” a crown of rulership and authority over the nations to dash them to pieces at Armageddon, a position in the heavenly temple and in the New Jerusalem and a seat with Jesus Christ on his heavenly throne. (Rev. 2:7, 10, 11, 17, 26-28; 3:5, 6, 11, 12, 21)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1958 p. 49
He should not try to obstruct or permit any obstruction of our march successfully to our destination beyond the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1958 p. 55
He opened before them the opportunity and the responsibility to fulfill Matthew 24:14 concerning giving the Kingdom witness earth-wide to all nations before the world ends at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1958 p. 58
For the anointed ones to lose the Kingdom interests now before Armageddon means to lose the heavenly crown.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1958 p. 59
But the Bible shows that the only thing that will do this is God’s war of Armageddon. It will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1958 p. 75
In these last days, with the execution of Jehovah’s judgments staring us in the face, it is vital for us to cultivate and retain the right disposition, for no other kind will be allowed to survive Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1958 p. 79
Very shortly now Jehovah’s anger against all the proud of this system of things and all who are identified with it will be manifested in the destructive fury of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1958 p. 79
While persecutions have been permitted in these last days of this wicked system of things, Jehovah God will end such persecutions of his servants at the final war of this world, Armageddon. In that final war all cause of disunity among men will end forever.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 103
JEHOVAH God foresaw the deadly plague of ingratitude sweeping the earth in these critical last days before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 113
At Armageddon Jesus will act with appreciation for Jehovah’s sovereignty and speedily destroy the rebellious prince of ingrates.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 115
What is more, at Hebrews, chapter 11, Moses is included among the list of faithful, appreciative witnesses of Jehovah who will come back in the post-Armageddon resurrection.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 116
He looks past the coming war of Armageddon to an eternity of appreciative service to his God and Father.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 117
Will the house you are building stand up against the whirlwind of Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 118
Why ignore its power to sentence all rebellious nations and men to Armageddon’s sword?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 120
Consider your life “dirt cheap,” and dirt is what you will be returned to at Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 121
Put your heart into this doomed world’s “treasures” and your heart will sink with them at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 121
The privilege of publicly hailing God’s established kingdom and its royal King is a privilege held out to all who expect to survive Armageddon and live under that righteous kingdom rule. But the protection of that righteous government at Armageddon is only for those dedicated, responsible men, women and youths who publicly hail the King now, saying, in the words of Revelation 7:10: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” Waving the palm branches means you are a living witness to the reigning kingdom. While the time of Armageddon’s trouble is still held off, come out from this wicked system of things.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 122, 123
Where will this one be after Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 124
Doing so, Jehovah’s King will seek you and your welfare at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 124
This world will never recover from its smashing defeat at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 124
Your happiness will grow with the increasing joy of the New World society as your vision of the post-Armageddon new world widens.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 124
Questions From Readers
● On page 84 of the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World we read: “The worship of Jehovah was not made impossible by the destroying of earthly Jerusalem’s temple.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1958 p. 127
God’s new world will have no place for persons who refuse to live by his high moral standards. They will be swept out of existence at the coming battle of Armageddon, when Jehovah God will execute his adverse judgment upon this present wicked system of things.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1958 p. 132
Rather, it will mean a wiping out of the wicked system of things upon this earth by what is known as ‘the battle of Armageddon.’—2 Pet. 3:6, 7; Rev. 16:14, 16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1958 p. 135
That day of his anger is elsewhere described as “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon.—Zeph. 2:3, AS; Rev. 16:14, 16.
After Armageddon wipes this earth clean of its violence and wickedness, even as did the flood of Noah’s day, there will begin a new system of things, ‘a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness is to dwell.’
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1958 p. 138, 139
In the meantime they would have the responsibility of organizing the earth-wide preaching of the good news of God’s kingdom and overseeing the work of warning earth’s inhabitants of the coming war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1958 p. 156
Many reading the publications of Jehovah’s witnesses see considerable in the message pointing to the troubles in the earth, to the nearness of the great battle of Armageddon and to the terrible wickedness now rampant. Whether anything were published about it or not, the trouble is here.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1958 p. 165
Rejoice in your deliverance from the old world into the New World society, and be happy for all the things Jehovah God has done for you and is now performing in your behalf, and for those wonderful things he has in store for you as the new world itself is ushered in following Armageddon’s battle.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1958 p. 189
This is a rebellious course, and is causing those who practice this to be fit only for destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1958 p. 218
Any doubter has merely to read Matthew, chapters 24 and 25, Mark, chapter 13, Luke, chapter 21, and Revelation, chapter 6, to inform himself that those evidences put in their appearance in the year 1914, to start this old world on its way to cataclysmic destruction at the foretold ‘battle of Armageddon.’ (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 238
The great Serpent and his demonic seed are furiously angry because they know that the time is now very short before the victorious Seed of God’s woman must bruise the Serpent in the head in the universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 239
When those finally lined up on the side of God’s kingdom at the battlefield of Armageddon make themselves fully manifest, we shall know more definitely.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 240
Consequently such faithful earthly survivors of the universal war of Armageddon will never die off the earth, but will forever inhabit the new paradise on earth under God’s kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 241
The present system of things has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. Soon it will be completely destroyed at Armageddon. (Rev. 16:12-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 243
The delegates will therefore want to show the same willingness to serve the interests of the New World society today as they expect to show after the coming battle of Armageddon, when God’s people will be the only human inhabitants on earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 246
This big assembly will be a foretaste of the wholesome companionship and peaceful relations they will enjoy indefinitely after the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 247
We lived in an atmosphere that tingled with the imminence of Armageddon. We saw the old system rapidly passing away and our personal construction was that it would not survive World War I.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 248
So the Most High God has promised to take action “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” He will do this soon at the universal war of Armageddon, called “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” This righteous war will settle the great issue, that of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty. Satan, who knows his remaining time is short, will not escape. He, together with his demons, will be isolated bound in a prison abyss. Thus Armageddon will accomplish what no human war has ever done—get to the root cause of wickedness. Executed also will be all human doers of wickedness, since Jehovah’s forces at Armageddon come “to execute judgment against all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds.”—Rev. 11:18; 16:14; 20:1-3; Jude 15.
Before Armageddon makes the way for God’s new world, a warning must be delivered.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1958 p. 255
The day of Jehovah will come with the battle of Armageddon when the things foretold in these prophecies will be fulfilled. That will bring Satan’s rule to an end.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 260
No matter whether the East or the West strikes the first blow, it will be Jehovah God who shall strike the deciding blow. His blow at Armageddon will sweep both the East and the West out of existence.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 260
They know that only those who willingly receive the mark in the seat of their intelligence because they have heard the message and accepted and acted on it in faith will survive the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 284
Does this mean that the abyssing of the fallen angels at the coming battle of Armageddon may be referred to as killing?
Yes, that is evidently what the book means by that statement. Satan the Devil is the prince or ruler of all the spirit demons. His being abyssed with them will take place at the climax of the battle of Armageddon in fulfillment of the prophecy at Revelation 20:1-3, which reads: “I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he seized the dragon the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead the nations any more until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 286
This abyssing of Satan and his legions of demons at Armageddon is evidently the bruising that Jehovah God referred to in the garden of Eden, when he said to the serpent: “I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He [that is, her seed] will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.” (Gen. 3:15)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 286
Publication title: Turn to the Bible with the aid of the two Bible-study helps “Let God Be True” and You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1958 p. 288
How many times the Bible refers to the great work of destruction that God’s kingdom will do at the war of Armageddon, called “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1958 p. 295
God’s war of Armageddon, by wiping out this old world and putting Satan the Devil and his demons out of the way, will make way for a new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1958 p. 295
And a sermon should do still more. It should answer that question: What shall I do? It should show clearly man’s moral obligations, how he must live according to the high moral principles of the Bible if he is to gain life in the new world, either through a resurrection of the dead or by surviving Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1958 p. 295
Before the accomplished end of this world at Armageddon, a witness must be given concerning God’s established kingdom and what it will soon do to this wicked world. Popular sermons are not giving this witness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1958 p. 296
Do we see a Christian society that is witnessing to the good news of God’s kingdom already established in the heavens and that is sounding the warning of Armageddon’s imminence? Do we see a society of Christians whose sermons are helping people live by the Bible’s moral principles, whose sermons are warning people with the hope of everlasting life on earth in God’s new world, and whose sermons are pointing out the only way to survive Armageddon into God’s new world?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1958 p. 296
And now we have knowledge of the battle of Armageddon just ahead, and if we are wise we are taking proper steps for our defense.
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People of good will in this generation must also gain accurate knowledge of Jehovah to survive Armageddon into God’s new world.
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While this knowledge and their faith will help them through the battle of Armageddon, that will not be the end of taking in knowledge.
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This evildoer is in God’s memory, in the memorial tomb, awaiting the time when a paradise earth is established after Armageddon during the thousand-year reign of Christ the King.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1958 p. 327
The time for this earthly resurrection of “those who did good things” and “those who practiced vile things” is during Christ’s thousand-year rule, due to follow God’s war of Armageddon. Since Armageddon is scheduled to come upon this generation in these “last days,” now is the time for those who long to see dead loved ones raised to life again to do good things. How?
Learn more of Jehovah’s purposes. Learn what you must do to survive Armageddon into God’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1958 p. 328
We are living in the days comparable to those in which Noah lived and time is running out! If we procrastinate we may not survive the foretold cataclysmic end of this old world at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1958 p. 330
In October, 1947, I remember asking myself, “Am I prepared for anything the Society requests of me? Is my faith strong enough?” After meditating on those questions awhile I thought I had the answer. I was ready.
Pursuing the life or a pioneer calls for great faith, and in that very month my faith was put to the test. I received an assignment to go all the way to Australia. What a long distance from home that was! Would I ever get back to Canada to see my parents and friends again before Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1958 p. 335
I was prepared to stay in Australia until Armageddon, yet only a little more than two years in this land and an opportunity was provided for me to return to New York, to make a trip completely around the world.
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Does he see Armageddon bringing this wicked system of things to an end and then the righteous new world that will clothe the earth with peace afterward?
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Evil shall come upon all immoral nations at Armageddon, and Christendom shall not escape.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1958 p. 383
And more thousands, when they courageously choose in this ever-shortening “favorable season” before Armageddon, also can prove them true, to Jehovah’s delight and praise.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1958 p. 399
Especially in these momentous pre-Armageddon days, since Jehovah has come to his temple, accompanied by his “messenger of the covenant,” he has turned his attention to the affairs of his people in a marked degree.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1958 p. 406
This King-Priest is now reigning in the heavens as “King of kings and Lord of lords,” and as Jehovah’s great Vindicator he is riding at the head of all the armies of heaven, riding to the battle of Armageddon, where he will crush the very life out of Satan’s wicked organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1958 p. 435
It is not less important either, as the following article shows, that, having found one’s place in the constellation of the New World society, one should faithfully remain in it if one hopes to survive Armageddon and live forever in eternal peace and happiness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1958 p. 439
As Noah warned of the Flood, so the Bible warns of a greater evil, the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1958 p. 452
There destruction awaits both them and the whole of unfaithful Christendom when the great King, in the approaching battle of Armageddon, will send his heavenly armies under Christ Jesus to destroy the whole “city,” the modern counterpart of Jerusalem.—Matt. 24:48-51.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1958 p. 464
In this day of Jehovah’s power, if one refuses to dedicate himself to serve Jehovah his life will permanently end at Armageddon (if not before) as a condemned sinner.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1958 p. 469
In this doomed and dying old world, these dedicated servants of God are the happiest people living. In fact, such people expect to survive God’s universal war at Armageddon and confidently expect to live forever in an earthwide paradise of perfection.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1958 p. 471
That due time will be Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—Rev. 16:14, 16; Ex. 9:16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 486
The purpose of Jehovah God therefore calls for a channel of communication now that will serve notice upon all his enemies that Armageddon is impending; otherwise when it strikes they will not know the reason why.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 486
The facts show that Jehovah God is using the Watch Tower Society to make known the facts about the vindication of his name, regarding Armageddon and concerning his established kingdom for which all Christians have been praying.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 487
It is an expression of love on the part of a mature Christian to try to assist that one to see the seriousness of his position and to help him make progress toward maturity. Failing to do this may end in loss of life for both in the judgment of Armageddon; the one for failing to do his duty as one of Jehovah’s ‘watchmen,’ and the other for not having “sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.” (Ezek. 33:7; Zeph. 1:6, AS)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 489, 490
We have plenty of warning from the Scriptures that the greatest of all storms, the most frightening of all whirlwinds, is soon to sweep every vestige of this old world’s systems into destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 490
We are, as it were, ship captains, sailing from this old world or system of things to the post-Armageddon new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 497
Having received into good hearts the good news about Jehovah and his kingdom and the warning of the impending destruction at Armageddon, we find that we have a real need to tell these truths out to others.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1958 p. 499
This sacred service they will carry on right into and through the battle of Armageddon, as was indicated by the answer given to Isaiah when he inquired of Jehovah how long he was to continue telling the message to the people: “Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and homes without man, and the land become utterly waste.” (Isa. 6:8-12, AS)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 522
Three months passed. Then a dedication was made to serve these Higher Powers of the new world. One month later (April, 1941) I symbolized this dedication by water immersion performed in a private pool at the Society’s British branch, London, and I well recall the then branch servant’s admonition, “Keep faithful, brother!” Being filled with the urgency of the times, and also giving heed to my former instructor’s unsound prediction (that ‘Armageddon will be inside of five years at the latest’), I wanted to get right ‘into the Ark’—the new system of things—before 1946; yes, before the “deluge” of Armageddon broke loose! But, behold, instead of Armageddon arriving in April of 1946, there arrived for me an invitation to attend the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, to be trained for foreign missionary service.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 525
Came 1946, also an invitation to attend Gilead School; and so to start out on the journey, not yet through Armageddon into a cleansed earth, no, but to missionary fields.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 526, 527
I firmly believe that by accepting the Scriptural counsel at 1 Timothy 4:16, of staying with or sticking to one’s assignment, I am laying a “right foundation for the future,” yes, for post-Armageddon assignments of service in Jehovah’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 528
IMPROPER education will cost this world its life at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 535
The international immorality is a warning sign of this world’s complete collapse at Armageddon.—Isa. 59:14; 1:3-6, AS.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1958 p. 543
Only those who keep on taking in the right kind of knowledge and make a change in their lives can hope to be spared from the expression of God’s wrath at Armageddon, which fulfillment of Bible prophecy is very near at hand.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1958 p. 548
Yes, the spirit creature now the Devil himself started out well, but pride led to his downfall; a humiliating crash awaits him at Armageddon: “Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”—1 Tim. 3:6; Ezek. 28:17, AS.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1958 p. 568
Materialism, opposed as it is to Jehovah God and all his righteous principles, will never survive the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1958 p. 581, 582
Knowing that materialism will perish with this world at the battle of Armageddon, gain the victory by intense love for Jehovah God and his organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1958 p. 601
The complete end of this old wicked system of things at Armageddon.
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What Will Armageddon Mean for You?
Journalists and scientists, clergymen and politicians alike express fear of a “nuclear Armageddon.” What does the Bible have to say about Armageddon, and what can you do about it?
“SOMETIME between April 15 and 23, 1957, Armageddon will sweep the world! Millions of persons will perish in its flames and the land will be scorched.” So prophesied a certain California pastor, Mihran Ask, in January, 1957.1
Such false prophets tend to put the subject of Armageddon in disrepute. It would be a serious mistake, however, to dismiss Armageddon lightly on their account. Did not the religious leaders of Jesus’ day misunderstand and misapply God’s Word? But that did not justify anyone’s despising Jesus’ preaching of that Word, did it? So let none despise the subject of Armageddon merely because some misapply its prophecies. It is of the deepest concern to every living person, being one of the most important and timely teachings of the Scriptures. What it will mean for you will depend upon the course you take between now and Armageddon.
The term Armageddon is found but once in the Scriptures. “I saw three unclean . . . expressions inspired by demons. . . , and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon.”—Rev. 16:13, 14, 16, margin.
Check paragraph numbers in this oneThe Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 613
Armageddon literally means “Mountain of Megiddo,” or “mountain of the assembly of troops.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 613
The subject of Armageddon is much misunderstood and that not only by extremists.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 613
“Armageddon is a symbol of the ever-present and continuous battle between good and evil,” is the view held by others, among whom is Dr. Robert F. Boyd of the Presbyterian Training School, Richmond, Virginia.4 But John’s words clearly indicate that Armageddon is in the future, whereas the battle between good and evil had been in progress some four thousand years at the time John wrote.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 614
Then, again, still others, such as certain fundamentalist sects, teach that Armageddon will be a literal battle that will take place on the plains of Megiddo.5 To hold that, however, is to grossly misunderstand both the nature and scope of Armageddon, as we shall presently see.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 614
And to refer to political battles fought within nations as Armageddon, as did Theodore Roosevelt back in 1912 when fighting vested interests and political machines, makes even less sense
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Nor could anything be more ridiculous than to state, as did a certain governor of Georgia a few years ago, that the presence of a single Negro on a white football team was bringing the South of the United States face to face with Armageddon!7
Then will Armageddon be the next world war as fought with atomic weapons? Will it be a “nuclear Armageddon,” as journalists and others are wont to describe it?8 “There would seem to be no guarantee that some future Kremlin miscalculation may not plunge the world into Armageddon.”9 “Unresolved conflicts and incidents . . . are still capable of setting off Armageddon.”10 “We see immense armies massing . . . Perhaps we see the world hurrying to Armageddon from which no nation may hope to survive.”11
THE ARMAGEDDON FORCES
No, Armageddon will be greater than any nuclear war fought on a global or even on a “space” scale. The Bible shows that Armageddon will be a war between gods and universal in scope.
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At Armageddon Jehovah “will cause justice to be done” speedily to “his chosen ones who cry aloud to him” because of being persecuted.
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God’s Word likens Armageddon to the Flood, to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and to the battle at Gibeon, where God rained down great blocks of ice upon his enemies. Armageddon will be the worst thing ever to hit this earth in the history of man.
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At Armageddon he will take action, and then the psalmist’s prayer will be answered that God may cause his enemies to “perish, that people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”—Ps. 83:17, 18; Ezek. 24:24, AS.
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Fulfillment of Bible prophecy warns that Armageddon is near.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 615
What will precipitate Armageddon? The prophetic account regarding Gog of Magog reveals that God will maneuver his enemies to stage an all-out attack upon his apparently unprotected people on earth.
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What will Armageddon mean for you?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 616
Surviving Armageddon, you can look forward to everlasting life in Jehovah’s new world of righteousness, in which he “will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more.”
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Will Armageddon mean everlasting destruction or everlasting life in happiness for you? That will depend upon the course of action you take from now until Armageddon!
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5 Prophetic Footnotes, Armageddon, p. 2.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1958 p. 616
Within this generation, at the battle of Armageddon, Christ Jesus will fight victoriously and put the demons and their entire wicked organization out of existence.—Matthew, chapter 24; Rev. 12:7-12.
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1 2 Ki. 10:20-27; see You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, pp. 277-279.
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Not only has it failed to do away with death from merely natural causes, but it speeds up for all humankind a possible sudden, violent destruction by man’s own political, military governments, not to speak of an Armageddon of destruction by man’s Creator.
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That destruction by God’s kingdom means Armageddon for this old world.
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Since the close of World War I in 1918, the Gentile nations led by the god of this world, Satan the Devil, have been on the march to Armageddon for their final, showdown fight against God’s kingdom.
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This generation of humankind is nearing its normal end. Jesus prophesied that this generation, which saw the Gentile times end amid World War I and the beginning of world sorrows, would also see the end of those sorrows in the world’s destruction at Armageddon: “This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.” (Matt. 24:34, 35; Rev. 16:14, 16)
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Should we be sorry because a new world, God’s righteous new world of new heavens and a new earth, is to begin after this old world ends in Armageddon?
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Though at Armageddon there may be more fire than the lightnings at the flood of Noah’s day, yet men of good will are assured of surviving this wicked world’s end and beginning life on earth in God’s new world.—Matt. 24:37-39.
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Destruction of Adamic death will benefit not only the living survivors of Armageddon but also all those of mankind who sleep in death in the memorial tombs.
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Likewise today, Jehovah will not turn back from his destroying of Christendom in Armageddon. His witnesses, however, like Jeremiah and Ezekiel and other true worshipers of Jehovah, expect to survive Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1958 p. 652
THAT the only stable government in the universe is the established kingdom of God in the hands of his anointed Son, Jesus Christ; and that not a single government in Christendom has God’s backing, inasmuch as He is backing his own government, the Messianic kingdom, and Christendom’s governments are doomed to destruction by him at the universal war of Armageddon, in which his reigning King will fight them and all the rest of the Devil’s organization, human and demonic;
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THAT, since A.D. 1914, the evidences have continued to multiply in proof that God’s kingdom now reigns from the heavens; and not only do we have the prophecy of his Son Jesus Christ regarding these visible evidences on hand in the Holy Bible for consultation, but God has raised up his speaking witnesses to preach the good news of the reigning kingdom and to serve warning notice of the war of Armageddon by word of mouth, letting the people hear, that they may say: “It is the truth”;
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THAT, in their fear of ungodly communism and of more world war, the clergy have turned their backs on Jesus Christ the King and have endorsed the political organizations for perpetuating this old world, which is God’s enemy, namely, the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations; and they have led and encouraged the people in the idolizing of these human makeshifts for God’s kingdom; and in their worldly-wise schemes to safeguard the people from further devastating world war by means of these incapable organizations, the clergy have failed to help the people to find refuge and security against the far more destructive universal war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty” (Rev. 16:14, 16); so that, in times of international peace, the clergy hypocritically encourage the nations not to fight one another, not to fight against men, but, by backing up the political schemes of men, they encourage the nations to fight against God, both now and in the coming war of Armageddon;
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THAT the nations are now on judgment before Jehovah God the Supreme Judge, and the clergy of Christendom stand as the most reprehensible and delinquent class on earth before Him, and at Armageddon he will give his judicial attention first to them, and all the blind peoples who follow these blind religious guides will suffer execution with them at God’s hands;
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17. Why will Christendom’s clergy come in for first attention at Armageddon, and what will happen to their followers?
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THAT down to the end, as far as within us lies, God’s will shall be fulfilled in us as regards the preaching of his established kingdom and the gathering of all other sheep into the fold of his Right Shepherd, Jesus Christ, to enjoy salvation with us, so that we may be accounted worthy of being ushered into God’s everlasting new world after Armageddon, there to worship him unitedly as one family of his creatures without racial distinctions and national boundaries and divisions, under one government, His kingdom by Christ, and to do his will forever and ever.
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HUMANKIND is swiftly moving toward a new world. Soon the great troubles that have disturbed this world since the year 1914 will reach their Armageddon climax.
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And he will show himself to be the same toward us in the future, preserving us through Armageddon and on into his new world of righteousness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1958 p. 668
These children of God were expecting that World War I would worsen into world revolution and world revolution would turn into world anarchy that would spell Armageddon for all the nations of this world. But had that proved true, and had God Almighty unleashed the foretold battle of Armageddon at that time, these spiritual brothers of the Greater Isaiah under their spiritual bondage to the worldly nations might have been destroyed with the nations.
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Jehovah God did so. In 1918 he stopped the great tribulation that had begun upon the enemy organization of Satan the Devil. Along with it World War I ended on November 11 of that year. His time for Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” was still future.
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The judgment sentence will speedily be executed upon them in the approaching day of God’s vengeance at Armageddon by means of someone mightier than the ancient king of Assyria, namely, by means of Jehovah’s executional officer, Jesus Christ.
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They are fully organized and armed and lined up at the field of Armageddon for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14)
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Early in 1946 I was offered release if I would accept secular work. Having entered as a full-time minister, I believed I should return to the same occupation on release, and informed the authorities accordingly. Then I was told that I would “rot in prison till your Armageddon.”
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Six short years having passed, when I returned to my assignment spiritually uplifted and refreshed by the joys of the 1955 London, Paris and Nuremberg assemblies, I prayed to be further enriched by right works, pursuing my purpose in life to stay and complete the preaching of the Kingdom good news at this end of the earth while Armageddon draws on apace.
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Further, by means of the ministry the way of salvation is pointed out to men of good will so that they may flee the impending destruction of Armageddon.
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It is the one sure thing of the eternal future. In answer to Jesus’ model prayer (Matt. 6:9, 10), the heavenly Father’s kingdom will come to the battlefield of Armageddon and settle the burning government issue, and all the political rulerships of this old world must go down into Gehenna.
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It will increase till the Gentile kingdoms and rulerships end and till the millennial reign of Jesus Christ wins the glorious peace that follows Armageddon, when all devil-inspired human propagandas will have been silenced and the propaganda warfare between communism and its opponents and against God’s kingdom will have died out.
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However, who will continue ministering to God at his true spiritual temple? Those true Christians who take heed to Jesus’ warning sandwiched in between the prophetic description of how the kings of the entire inhabited earth are gathered to Armageddon by demonic propaganda and policies.
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The need for staying awake and watching against any infiltration of what is unclean and spiritually dangerous becomes all the greater as the time gets nearer for the kings of the entire inhabited earth under the leadership of the symbolic dragon, Gog of Magog, to make their do-or-die assault on Jehovah’s faithful Christian worshipers at Armageddon.—Ezek. 38:1 to 39:8.
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Falling asleep at one’s post as a minister of Jehovah puts the sleeper in danger of being caught by the Chief Temple Inspector, Jesus Christ, who comes as a thief at Armageddon and makes his final inspection of all the religious realm that professes to be Christian, and then executes finally the judgment.
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The day of the final inspection by the High Priest of Jehovah and the execution of judgment at the universal war of Armageddon is drawing closer and closer.
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The thieflikeness of the coming of the Chief Inspector to the execution of divine judgments at the approaching battle of Armageddon should bestir us to make every effort and arrangement to stay awake.
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The Inspector will not let us know of Armageddon’s day and hour in advance so that we can set some sort of alarm clock and wake up the shortest amount of time before he arrives and then put on an appearance of having been alert, awake and busy at one’s assigned post of service all the time. In reality, the divine alarm sounds now, not just before Armageddon.
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He will die with the unfaithful and the hypocrites during the execution of God’s judgments at Armageddon by Jesus Christ, the royal Inspector.
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The thieflike coming of the royal Inspector at Armageddon must not take us by surprise and find us idle, unoccupied, inactive in the Kingdom service.
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Our garments of official service at his temple are not taken away and burned, obliging us to “walk naked” and be disgraced before the universe, exposed as being a part of this world that is to be destroyed at Armageddon. At Armageddon the Inspector and Executioner spares our lives.
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What a privilege it will be thus to wear these garments of the ministry when “Jehovah’s day” comes “exactly as a thief in the night” and destroys Christendom’s hypocritical temple of God and overthrows the symbolic dragon and wild beast and false prophet and all the “kings of the entire inhabited earth” whom the demon-inspired propaganda and policies are now gathering to Armageddon for their destruction! (1 Thess. 5:2, 3; 2 Pet. 3:9, 10; Rev. 19:19 to 20:3)
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24. Why will the Chief inspector not let us know of Armageddon’s definite time in advance, and so what will be a great help to us to keep watching for him?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1958 p. 756