That battle in heaven was fought and won; the next and final one, the battle of Armageddon, is still to be fought for complete vindication of Jehovah’s name and Word.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 7
The glorious kingdom of heaven will accomplish Jehovah’s purpose with Christ Jesus again taking the lead soon in the battle of Armageddon against the Devil, who still is the god of this world and its disunited nations. We read: “And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” (Dan. 2:44, AS)
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 8
Recognize it, get in it now and serve with it right through his battle at Armageddon, on into his righteous new world without end, where all will love Jehovah and love their surviving neighbors.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 23
Are you doing that, especially now that the Kingdom, Jehovah’s permanent government, is here? It is urgent to do so, because the years left before his final battle at Armageddon cannot be too many.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 24
Promptly and graciously leave if he has no ear to hear. There is no reason to scold and say, “You’re going to die at Armageddon!” and then abruptly walk away. Each has a right to choose whom he will serve. You brought peace, you brought a message of love, of kindness.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 25
Therefore, never neglect praising the name of the Most High God between now and the time of Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 26
The time had come for the Sovereign Ruler of the universe to bring forth a people who would maintain their integrity and travel on through the final battle of the great day of God Almighty, Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 42
Then, on the eighth and last day, came the big meeting and the discourse that was so widely advertised throughout New York city, “After Armageddon-God’s New World.”
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 45
Jehovah’s witnesses at this New World assembly, it appeared, were ready and anxious to go into the new world, but not so anxious that they did not want to finish the work that the Sovereign Ruler had given them to do before his battle at Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 47
The things looked forward to at the New World Society Assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be fully realized in the new world after the battle of Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 47
They are deeply grateful to Jehovah for his abundant blessings during the year and very appreciative of the favorable acts of ‘those in high station, that they may go on leading a calm and quiet life with full godly devotion and seriousness,’ seeking always to increase the ranks of the New World society, which will pass through the final war of Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 92, 93
Time and space do not permit mention of all the marvelous blessings we received, but we can say that we are truly filled with gratitude to Jehovah and to Christ Jesus for having arranged the New World Society Assembly and for enabling so many of us to be present. Happy foretaste of post-Armageddon life were those blessed eight days.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 121
The public talk “After Armageddon-God’s New World” saw no less than 55,240 persons coming out to this place of feasting.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 160
The New World Society Assembly, held in New York from July 19 to 26, was a joyful event for 35 delegates from Italy, most of whom were missionaries. However, all have returned to their assignment and are determined to press on in the work that is left before Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 185
She will continue obscenely exposing herself until she is surprised by Armageddon and suffers a relapse of doom.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. p. 201
If we do so, Jehovah will preserve us through Armageddon and into the new world. W 1/15 9a
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. January 3
It is the Dragon out of whose mouth the frog hops to gather the world rulers to Armageddon. It is the seven-headed Dragon itself that takes charge of the final attack and the ensuing war at Armageddon. W 10/1 7a
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. January 23
While drawn from all nations, we may not bring their trouble-breeding things into our society. ‘l’hey will not be carried over Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. February 11
Better that than to have to contend with such things among us after Armageddon. Let not Armageddon overtake you while in an angered mood against your brother.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. February 24
The attack would therefore be timed by Jehovah to fall at the close o the years of the “time of the end.” This would be when Armageddon would be scheduled to begin. Since the “time of the end” began at the birth of God’s Messianic kingdom in 1914, we can appreciate that we are well along in the “last days” of Gog’s world organization.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. February 26
Their disarmament conferences and resolutions are not for total disarmament but for mere limitation of armaments, and these have never led and will never this side of Armageddon lead the nations to forge swords into plowshares and spears into pruning knives and to lay down the sword and quite teaching war. When Armageddon strikes them, they will be fully armed with all the improved weapons of modern science, of many of which we have now no knowledge. But when Armageddon is finished, Jehovah’s King will have dashed all those anti-Kingdom nations to bits.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. March 3
The fact that at Armageddon Jehovah has Jesus Christ do the crushing would not call for Satan to mimic God and appoint a new, untried demon prince as his chief of staff at Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. March 27
Armageddon is his big fight, like that of a roaring lion cornered in his lair.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. March 27
We look to Jehovah’s hand to satisfy our spiritual need no mater how many years we have yet to live to Armageddon and no matter what world conditions may surround us then.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. March 31
However, other modern translators show that, instead of a subordinate prince, Gog is a chieftain, or sovereign prince, which strongly indicates that he is Satan, “the ruler of the demons,” and not a subordinate prince representing him at Armageddon, God, that is, Satan, does not stay back home in the rear in the land of Magog, to await bursting in of God’s fire upon him there.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. May 8
Because men in this old dying world think, speak and act wrong, because such unbelievers are vessels of wrath headed for destruction, and because they must be remolded into vessels of glory to Jehovah if they are to escape being shattered like a potter’s vessel by the King’s rod at Armageddon, the vital command is: “Quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over.”
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. May 9
There are no out-of-the-way places to God’s executioners; and the hiding of oneself from the armies of the “disgusting thing” will not hide anyone from execution by God’s Armageddon forces under his King Jesus Christ. For Christians and for people outside of Christianity who want to flee and be hidden at Armageddon’s very outbreak, the mountains outside of condemned Judea pictured today the protected New World theocratic system of things that Jehovah has created in this time of the end.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. May 25
It is just like someone’s saying today that God cannot protect his people at the battle of Armageddon and take them through into the new world; that it is too great a task.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. May 30
As then Pharaoh and his hosts, under demon influence, flouted Jehovah and were led to the catastrophe at the Red Sea, so now earth’s rulers defy Jehovah and his announced purpose and warning, and under demonic influence are led on to Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. June 1
Two generations will survive Armageddon. The anointed remnant are a spiritual generation.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. June 6
Those of the spiritual remnant who survive Armageddon will finally pass off the earthly stage, never to return, and they will leave behind them this totally earthly New World society.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. June 6
He begrudges them their flourishing paradisaic condition in which their theocratic society dwells and worships Jehovah, and particularly so when he beholds the distress of nations in his own world and realizes that its display of pomp, power and artificial prosperity can last now for only a “short period of time,” until Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. June 11
When Armageddon breaks in all its fury, the acceptable season for taking up the worship of Jehovah will be ended. The decision must be made before the especially acceptable season concludes.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. July 14
When Armageddon strikes, Jehovah’s enemies will turn every man against his brother.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. July 15
That means, till the battle of Armageddon begins and proceeds toward the total desolation of Satan’s world.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. July 23
So Jehovah foreknows that the majority of mankind today will perish with Satan at Armageddon, and that only a minority will side with him and live. W 6/1 13a
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. August 3
The nations thus displayed their own rage against God’s established kingdom and against any interference of his King in their affairs. This declaring of Armageddon’s approach was shaking news to all the nations.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. August 20
Truly, preliminary to Armageddon and its violent removal of all nations, there has been a great unsettlement, commotion and shaking of all parts of Satan’s world. W 10/15 20, 21
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. August 20
The “new earth” will consist of righteous men demonstrating themselves before and after Armageddon to be other sheep of the Lord Jesus, “the Right Shepherd.” (John 10:16; Heb. 2:5, 6, NW) It will also include the offspring of many such other sheep in the post-Armageddon world.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. August 23
l’his psalm is a remarkable confirmation of the fact that right now, before Armageddon, is the time to sing and rejoice and publicly “declare the works of Jehovah” on account of salvation already accomplished on our behalf. W 3/15 17,18
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 15
Knowing who will survive the battle of Armageddon, we must decide in which class we propose to be then.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 17
Those lovers of his who may die now before Armageddon Jehovah will preserve, because their worthiness of life in the new world continues on and will be rewarded in the right way or at his due time, whether by a spiritual resurrection to reign with Christ in the Kingdom or by an early resurrection to life in the earthly paradise.-John 5:28, 29; Rev. 2:10. W 12/15 42
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 17
Some, who have been with God’s organization for only a short time, complain, ‘Nothing is happening. I thought Armageddon was just a little way off.’
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 19
If Jehovah today wants to give more people the opportunity of hearing the truth so that they may learn the way to life before Armageddon strikes, then we should not complain.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 19
Because we are approaching the climax, the battle of Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 26
When Armageddon comes, it will be soon enough for men who selfishly postpone taking the divine advice and acting.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. September 27
Countless others are threatened with destruction at Armageddon, which will begin with destruction of old-world religion.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. October 23
It is a sign that the worldly religious system that has taken the name of God’s Son but has blasphemed it and heaped reproach upon Jehovah’s name is near its devastation and hence near the start of Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. October 23
It means we must get free from the lies of false religion, which blaspheme God’s name and distort his purpose and way of salvation, and which lead mankind into destruction at Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. October 29
Now, in these “latter days” before Armageddon, God has vindicated what he then called himself by now producing a name-people for himself just as he did in the days of the apostles.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. October 30
Yes, Jehovah has shaken all nations by the preaching of the good news of the Kingdom and the desirable things of the nations have come in already, and an untold number of them will yet come in before Jehovah consummates the great shaking in fighting the battle of Armageddon and totally removing the quaking heavens and earth of the Devil’s world organization. W 10/15 31, 32
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 4
During the years that will yet pass before Armageddon begins we may expect much opposition to the carrying on of pure worship.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 5
What glory, what impressive weight this gives to Jehovah’s house, a glory ever increasing until Armageddon!
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 18
Together with those who live through Armageddon, these will enter the new world of real joy, righteousness and everlasting life.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 22
Today, since our deliverance from modern Babylon in 1919 and before our entering the new world after Armageddon, we arc having Jehovah’s theocratic law and requirements restated to us as never before in Christian history.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 23
We are being drilled in the requirements of the New World society, that we may know how to choose life and keep living in God’s favor and blessing now; it may be we shall even be preserved through Armageddon into the new world at its start.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 23
To Jehovah their lives are precious and he will protect them from his executional forces at Armageddon and will confer upon them life and its sweet privileges in the new world.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. November 25
They gladly expend themselves financially and otherwise in order to carry on world-wide Kingdom- preaching until the world’s end comes at Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 1
After Armageddon obliterates this old world the New World society will continue on, for it will be approved and authorized by the only government then in power, God’s.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 2
She has been friendlily carrying on loose conduct with the worldly United Nations. So now at Armageddon she deserves the punishment of a spiritual harlot according to God’s law.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 4
He has provided his Son for the redemption of men of faith and will shortly complete the carrying out of his purposes with regard to the earth by wiping out the old system of things at Armageddon, to make way for the new heavens and new earth wherein dwells righteousness. W 12/1 37,38
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 15
He has been enthroned to rule now in the midst of his enemies in heaven and earth and to dash the nations to pieces at Armageddon and take over the literal control of the whole earth.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 16
He is a swift punisher of what is untheocratic. So watch out for him at Armageddon. We dare not act independently of him in religious matters.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 16
As long as this slave class remains on earth, be that also after Armageddon, Jehovah will not discharge them, not even when he raises the faithful witnesses of ancient times from the dead, but will always give this slave class something to serve as seasonable food. W 12/15 33, 34
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 17
Christ Jesus docs not speak peace to the nations of this world. He wields the iron scepter to smash all the nations to pieces like mere potter’s vessels at Armageddon.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 18
If we avoid organization and its obligations, where could we go after Armageddon? For anyone to forsake the organized congregation of those who are destined to survive Armageddon means for that one never to get past Armageddon into the New World and its theocratic system.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 22
In loving devotion these proclaimers, Jehovah’s witnesses, talk of its power that is to be fully manifested at Armageddon for Jehovah’s vindication.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 23
If we keep trusting in Jehovah and proving our trust by holding loyal to his theocratic government and to the proclaiming of the good news of his kingdom, we have no need to fear, neither from Gog’s mob nor from Armageddon, for Jehovah is with us!
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 26
Shortly now we are to be made eyewitnesses to the most magnificent spectacle when Jehovah reveals his glory at Armageddon in vindication of his creation-wide sovereignty.
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 26
Amid the destructions during Armageddon our various physical properties, homes, Kingdom Halls, etc., may be destroyed, but under heavenly protection from Jehovah’s executional hosts we shall survive with what we need, chief of all of which will be his approval for holding fast our integrity to him and his kingdom. W 9/15 17a
1954 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1953. December 26