Publication Title: The Battle of Armageddon, published in 1897, page 183.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 13

 

Publication Title: The Battle of Armageddon, page 182, ¶¶ 4, 5. 

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 15

 

10. So of what should the rainbow remind mankind, and what will be one of the reasons for the slaughter at Armageddon?

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 80

 

One of the reasons for the universal war of Armageddon with which the present world will end in the near future is mankind’s failure to observe this rainbow covenant which requires respect for the blood of living creatures. For grossly ignoring it and for befouling the earth with creature blood unrighteously spilled the covenant-keeping Jehovah will exact the blood of mankind at that universal war of Armageddon. That will be one of the things that false religion does for mankind.-Revelation 16:4-7; 6:9, 10; Numbers 35:33, 34.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 81

 

Today the stubborn practice of false religion is bringing ruin upon this world and will cause it to be destroyed at the coming universal war of Armageddon.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 119

 

Often the Hindus ask us, when seeing the Romish worship, ‘What is the difference between Christianity and Hinduism?’ In India we have not only to contend with the hydra-headed monster of Idolatry, but also the octopus of Romanism.”-The Battle of Armageddon, page 263.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 211

 

Today by their undetected influence they are lining up all earthly kings and their hosts to the field ominously called “Armageddon” for the universal war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 302

 

In the short period of time remaining till the battle of Armageddon he must turn all mankind into destruction by lining them up against Jehovah’s rule of the earth by Christ Jesus his King.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 314

 

This he is trying to do especially now when he has but a short time till the battle of Armageddon, not alone by means of so-called “godless Communism” but also by means of his hypocritical religious seed, who palm themselves off as guides to the true God.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 323

 

When God, by his Melchizedekian King, comes against them at the battle of Armageddon, what a painful, inglorious end will be theirs! “Because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.” (Amos 4:12) The prophecies indicate that the universal conflict of Armageddon will strike the religious leaders first, and even their hitherto allies will turn on them in wrath.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 326

 

5. At what group will the battle of Armageddon strike first, and how does Ezekiel, chapter 9, show this?
6. Why will the visible religious organization suffer first at Armageddon, and how is it pictured at Revelation 17:3-6?

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 326

 

The entire visible religious organization, both pagan and apostate Christian, will suffer first at Armageddon as being most reprehensible for earth’s corrupt condition.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 326, 327

 

After that he crushes the Serpent’s head and all his demon brood under his feet by hurling them into the abyss for the thousand years of his reign after the battle of Armageddon. (Revelation 20:1-3)

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 331

 

They will see come true God’s promise of a righteous new world after Armageddon.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 332

 

2. Will difference of language and national extraction break up the unity of Armageddon survivors, and on what is the answer based?

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 333

 

This unity in the “pure language” and in worshiping Jehovah God with one consent they will carry with them through the great tribulation of Armageddon and across the threshold of God’s new world, consisting of “new heavens and a new earth”.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 337

Hence after they have finished their temporary post-Armageddon work on earth, they must finish their earthly course and lay down their human lives as Christ Jesus has demonstrated for them.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 338

 

Many of these will be men out of the great crowd of Armageddon survivors, who have proved faithful during this “time of the end” in preaching the Kingdom gospel and in caring for the welfare of Jehovah’s people.

What Has Religion Done For Mankind?  1951.  p. 339

 

***Did not include SUBJECT INDEX***

Another year of opportunity opens before us to declare Jehovah’s kingship.  This good news must be heralded in all the inhabited earth before Armageddon’s destruction. 

Informant.  January 1951 p. 1

Just as Jehovah sent his Son to bear him witness, so now he sends forth his witnesses to carry this life-giving knowledge to everyone, that they might exercise faith in him and not perish at Armageddon.

Informant.  August 1951 p. 1

Don’t be content to just “get along” in the ministry. Rather, seek to excel, “Press on to maturity,” Advance from the elementary doctrines of the truth, such as, repentance, where the dead are, baptism, Armageddon, etc., to more meaty things.

Informant.  August 1951 p. 2

Christ Jesus is the Good Shepherd of this great organization which he gathers together in its completion just before the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which is Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 7

When Jesus was asked what the sign of the end of this world would be, he gave his apostles many things that they could watch for, and these we see in fulfillment today. It will not be a long time, therefore, until Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 9

THE big question that comes up in the mind of many people is, Just how long will it be until the battle of Armageddon? and when will the accomplished end come? How long must I keep on working? The Lord Jesus answers the question in the 24th chapter of Matthew, wherein he says, “And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations, and then the accomplished end will come.” (Matt. 24:14, NW)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 12

By Jehovah’s undeserved kindness a far greater crowd will sing these praises before Armageddon, and Jehovah’s witnesses will share in gathering them. Would it not be well, then, for every one of Jehovah’s witnesses today to try to help at least one person to gain sufficient knowledge of the truth during the coming year so as to aid him to become a regular publisher? The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 14

Can we expect such things to happen as we draw nearer to the battle of Armageddon? There is no reason why we should not, if all the good-will people are to be gathered into God’s organization
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 15

This is not the time to become lax and indifferent and to think that the battle of Armageddon is far away. “The time left is reduced.” (1 Cor. 7:29, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 18

When these thousands, yes, maybe millions, someday come into Jehovah’s unwalled city before Armageddon, he will protect them no matter where they may be on the face of the earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 19

War that was to last down to the final battle of Armageddon, when Christ the seed of God’s woman would bind the satanic serpent in the abyss.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 20

Now the reigning Seed of God’s woman has the angry Serpent cornered, down at the footstool earth, for the crushing of its head at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 21

The closing years of the sixty-century enmity between the seed of the Serpent and the Seed of God’s woman are upon us. Every consecrated servant of God will feel that enmity more and more as the final hurdles are taken before the victory at Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 24

There is no time now to lose. This world is weighed in the balances and is found wanting. Her days are numbered. The final day and hour for Armageddon draws near.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 29

So that “day” for Jehovah’s strange act, his battle of Armageddon, is still future. We pray for it. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1951 p. 31

SPEAKING on “Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News” at the Theocracy’s Increase Assembly in New York city, July 31, 1950, counsel for the Watchtower Society strongly emphasized preparedness for the world-wide persecution certain to come before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1951 p. 43

They are not dying Christ’s death, but if any die before the battle of Armageddon, they die like the faithful men and women who were Jehovah’s witnesses before Christ. They do not sacrifice the flesh or earthly hopes for the new world, but they are marching forward to life in the paradise earth in the new world. Many will pass through Armageddon and enter that world without dying. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1951 p. 55

With the remnant they are marching out of this world, and they can look forward to complete deliverance from it at Armageddon, where the world will be engulfed as when Pharaoh’s hosts were destroyed at the Red sea.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1951 p. 61

Were Jehovah’s witnesses today to be pacifists, then, to be consistent, they would have to oppose Jehovah’s war against the Devil’s entire world at the battle front of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 71

Now the humiliated Satan is using his demons to drive all the nations to Armageddon for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty”. (Rev. 16:14-16, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 72

Let all the militarized nations know that they will all meet lasting defeat in that universal war of Armageddon and the armaments race will be at last halted for all time.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 72, 73

After Armageddon those who have survived on the winner’s side, Jehovah’s side, will enjoy a perfectly guaranteed peace.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 73

They know that God’s kingdom, which the sermon on the mount teaches them to pray for and which they preach, will take full charge of all the earth after Armageddon.—2 Tim. 4:2, NW.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 78

They have not fought for the unreconciled systems which God will destroy at Armageddon. Hence their conscientious objection!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 79

That means the tribulation of Armageddon will surpass the Flood in destructiveness, and will be a completely new experience for “this present evil world”. (Gal. 1:4) Jehovah will fight Armageddon by miraculous means, as in days of old when he fought for Israel by casting huge chunks of ice on the enemy, when his death angel smote 185,000 in one night, when he caused the Red sea to swallow Egypt’s armies. (Josh. 10:11; Isa. 37:36; Ex. 14:27, 28) Armageddon will dwarf such ancient displays of divine wrath.

But when attention is called to the approach and destructiveness of Armageddon, the majority of men scoff and ridicule and say it is impossible, just because they have never seen such miraculous works before. Like the scoffers in Noah’s day, these moderns insist upon being taught about Armageddon by experience. However, a minority of persons of good will toward God wisely heed the divine warning concerning Armageddon, just as Noah and his family learned about the flood from God and acted upon His instructions. By choosing Jehovah instead of experience as their Teacher, they will pass the course of instruction Armageddon gives as to God’s almighty power and supremacy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 91

At Armageddon that “best teacher” will be the world’s worst experience, her last experience, for then she will graduate from this school of hard knocks a dead thing that will never be resurrected.—2 Pet. 3:7.
However, persons of good will toward God do not believe they need to deliberately experience sin to appreciate morality, or suffer death to learn the value of life, or feel Jehovah’s power against them at Armageddon to be convinced that he possesses it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 92

Concerning the eating of animal flesh after Armageddon, would not that be determined by the everlasting covenant Jehovah made with Noah after the Flood, rather than by the edict given to Adam in Eden?—C. N., Texas.
If man does eat flesh after Armageddon, the terms of the Noachian covenant will apply.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 95

Just how soon after Armageddon any elimination of meat from man’s diet might take place we cannot say.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1951 p. 95

The results were disastrous to them both. Neither of them will have a resurrection in the new world. Eve’s bearing of children will not save her; no more than will childbearing save the wicked women that perished in the Flood or those who will die at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1951 p. 127

How foolish! Oh, how worthless that wealth, influence and power will be when Jehovah God brings his terrible wrath against the Devil’s wicked organization at Armageddon!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 136

They reorganized in 1919 and became alive and increasingly active in preaching “this good news of the Kingdom” to all nations for a witness before the end of this world arrives at Armageddon The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 146

Likewise the “evil slave” class seek only their own heavenly salvation and leave the “other sheep” to shift for themselves until the Millennium. They offer no assistance now to such sheep to escape the world tribulation of Armageddon and to survive into the Millennium. (Matt. 24:48- 51)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 150

But now in this short period of God’s patience before the world destruction at Armageddon the “other sheep” class hear the Right Shepherd’s voice sounding the divine call to come out of worldly Babylon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 152

But we do unequivocally maintain that the purpose of marriage before God is the production of children, and hence if any married couples want children now, before Armageddon, that is perfectly proper and no one should criticize them for so doing, thereby meddling in their business.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 159

Under similar conditions his counsel applies today. If children come in the natural way according to which God instituted human marriage, then they are to be welcomed, even now, before the divine mandate is reissued to Armageddon survivors.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1951 p. 159

Time spent in study to gain such wisdom is better than time used to make money, for while wealth may offer limited security now, the right knowledge can safeguard one’s very life at Armageddon: “Wisdom like wealth is a defence, but knowledge does more good than money, it safeguards a man’s life.”—Prov. 8:10, 11; Eccl. 7:12, Mo.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 163

Will their money defend them from divine wrath at Armageddon? Never, for “neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 163

Just before the destruction that was typical of Armageddon came upon Jerusalem Jehovah’s prophet said: “Their silver shall they fling into the streets, and their gold shall become to them as an unclean thing; for their silver and their gold shall not be able to save them on the day of the LORD’S wrath.” (Zeph. 1:18; Ezek. 7:19, AT)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 163

But will television deliver them at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 164

This figure, therefore, denotes yet a great ingathering of active witnesses for the Kingdom, who shall in the short time remaining before Armageddon fly with the speed of doves to the entrance that Jehovah has provided to the refuge of safety.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 166

And let all the world take note of this fact: every man-made organization that will not turn to serving Jehovah and submit to his reigning king Christ Jesus will shortly be destroyed at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 166

The great crowd supporting his reign is rapidly growing greater. Hence the shout of praise already sounding in thunderous volume is constantly increasing as we draw nearer the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 167

How many more will come out and join in this song of praise to Jehovah before Armageddon we do not know—hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 167

They will not be able to offer protection to the nations, or even escape execution themselves, at the “war of the great day of God the Almighty”, at Armageddon, where their world ends.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 176

What a God he is! Before him all the false gods must shortly bow in defeat at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 177

The final conflict of Armageddon draws near. So let us not forget that Jehovah God does not change any more than his Word changes. (Mal. 3:6, AS)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 179

As we get closer to the battle of Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” we do not know what cataclysmic forces will be operated by Jehovah God to overwhelm this world and blot it out.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 180, 181

It is no wonder, then, that Jehovah’s witnesses on earth who represent his kingdom are also glad. They may be spread all over the earth for the purpose of giving a pre-Armageddon witness before the world ends, but they are bound together in unbreakable unity by a theocratic organization under the King Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 182

But his complete deliverance of them at the height of the battle of Armageddon will usher in a new day for them.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 186

14. How will it be “early” for them at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 186

They are being speeded by unseen demon influences to take their battle positions at Armageddon to preserve their own way of life, not God’s way.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 187

It takes the viewpoint of a survivor after the world calamity of Armageddon: “Come view the doings of Jehovah, who hath set desolations in the earth: causing wars to cease unto the end of the earth, the bow he breaketh and cutteth asunder the spear, waggons he burneth with fire.” (Ps. 46:8, 9, Ro. Pss.) This invitation, uttered by those within the visible organization of Jehovah God, positively assures us there will be survivors on earth after Armageddon will have swept away this old world with the broom of destruction and cleansed the earth for the righteous new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 188

Who among men will be the ones to survive the world’s end at Armageddon and pass into the new world of lasting peace and security?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 188

Will there be a period of time between the ending of Armageddon and the beginning of the 1000- year reign of Christ?—R. S., Pennsylvania.
There is no Scriptural basis for arguing that there will be any period of time between Armageddon’s ending and Millennium’s beginning.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 191

The casting of Satan into the abyss will mean the end of Armageddon, the finish of opposition to Christ’s kingdom reign. Then will begin Christ’s unhindered reign with his joint heirs for a thousand years. Note the facts given in the scriptures quoted that rule out the possibility of there being any period of time separating Armageddon’s end and the beginning of the millennium.

Satan is bound in the death state for a thousand years, then is loosed for a little season. Christ and his church reign for a thousand years, after which the Devil is loosed to mislead for a time before his complete and final destruction in Gehenna. If there were a period of a few years separating the end of Armageddon marked by Satan’s casting into the abyss and the beginning of the thousand-year reign, then Satan would have to remain bound longer than a thousand years in order for his final appearance to come after the end of the millennium.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 191

This work is publishing the Kingdom message, “a pure language,” to all nations before the world’s destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1951 p. 192

In this troubled, old, selfish world things are not going to get easier, but more difficult, because we are getting nearer and nearer to that final day of judgment, the battle of Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 198

Yet, that eruption is nothing in power to compare with that which the Maker of the atom will release at Armageddon when He shakes terribly this whole earth.—Ps. 46; Isa. 2:19; Nah. 1:3-6; Hab. 3:6.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 204

It takes place after Jehovah began to reign in 1914 by enthroning his Son Jesus Christ as King with an iron rod to dash the nations of this world to pieces at the coming battle of Armageddon. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 206

That will be the beginning of the battle of Armageddon, but at the grand climax Jehovah’s heavenly hosts under his King Jesus Christ will execute his righteous judgments against all the ungodly elements, religious, political, social and commercial.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 218

After she falls at Armageddon, we must do like Ezekiel, preach the Kingdom and the divine vengeance upon all systems outside of Christendom, till the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” destroys them and his universal sovereignty stands vindicated forever.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 218

Just as an oak or a turpentine tree which is felled leaves a stump that will sprout again at the scent of water, so this holy seed will remain like a stock in the earth and will sprout again after the devastations of Armageddon. (Job 14:7-9)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 219

Thus Jehovah’s pure worship will sprout again under most favorable conditions after Armageddon and will spread to the ends of the earth. Then ‘the whole earth will be full of Jehovah’s glory’, just as the seraphs at the temple foretold.
18 In view of our divine commission from the temple there is no stopping for us as his witnesses until Armageddon strikes Christendom and the opportunity for her adherents to repent is up.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 219

Hundreds and thousands have already responded. How many thousands more will yet seize hold of this grand privilege before Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 220

Never let his praise be lessened or silenced because of laziness, fear or treachery on your part. Until we reap the full share in the vindication of Jehovah’s name at his victory on Armageddon’s battlefield, “droop not your hands,” but raise them ever higher in praise to him and his reigning King!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1951 p. 220

It does not matter whether we are in the “time of the end” or that it is yet ahead of the battle of Armageddon, marriage can be honorably indulged in by those who want or feel the need to get married.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1951 p. 238

Only those who strive to measure up to them will he carry through the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” which he fights against this unclean world, and they will live into the clean post-Armageddon world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1951 p. 240

As the flood of Noah’s day wiped out the immoral standards and practices of the antediluvian world, so the great tide of Armageddon will wash away the moral corruption of this world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1951 p. 240

But the Roman Catholic Hierarchy wants to be a part of the old world and, of course, will go down with it in the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1951 p. 244

“Evil” as here used does not mean moral evil, of which God could never be guilty, but it refers to a calamity or disaster or destruction, such as he brings upon his unrepentant foes, and that particularly at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1951 p. 255

What glorious opportunities lie ahead for Armageddon survivors! So you folks who are now married and who have prospects and hopes of living in that new world—the sooner you line up with the theocratic rules of life, the sooner you will begin enjoying the blessings of a successful marriage.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 279

When should these conditions of true worship begin? Upon this point the Watchtower magazine has said, “Let all begin speaking and living as now under his kingdom.” Is this saying that now, before Armageddon, those who love Jehovah should begin living in a manner similar to the way they will live on earth after Armageddon? That is it exactly. The fact of the matter is, those who will be carried through Armageddon’s war and ushered into the new earth following that decisive time and be privileged to worship Jehovah God then are those only who, in this day before Armageddon breaks, worship and serve him.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 283

The material blessings which are included in the Kingdom benefits following Armageddon have not come to the people, Jehovah’s people or others; but the more important things are here.
The opportunity to worship Jehovah, the opportunity to conform to his righteous requirements, to be guided by his law as now expressed to us in his Word the Bible, to be a follower of Christ Jesus, to stand against the old world of Satan’s organization and for the Theocracy under Christ Jesus, to preach the message of good news of the Kingdom, to prove to all who will observe that we are living under the Kingdom rule and we worship Jehovah now—those things are with us, available to us, and we must cling to them now if we will exercise them in the days to come beyond Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 283, 284

If our hopes are that we will be found in that great crowd which will be carried through the battle of the great day of God Almighty, we must be found in the great crowd of praisers of Jehovah now before Armageddon engaging in his worship.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 284

So with you we wish to join in our mutual prayers to the Most High for his direction and blessing upon the use of these things, and, above all, upon the personal devotion of ourselves at this time to the righteous requirements of his worship, that we may be found in that great crowd of praisers of Jehovah now and following Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 285

Without being dogmatic, it stated that it seemed Scriptural to believe that children executed in Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon would not be resurrected. Here we consider questions raised. ● How does this affect the statement in the Armageddon booklet, on page 55, that not all those executed at Armageddon will remain dead forever?—B. E., Maryland.

What has been published in the November 15 issue of The Watchtower represents our present understanding of the matter, and replaces the thought expressed in the 14-year-old booklet Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 286

Why should young children suffer eternal destruction at Armageddon because of having wicked parents?—E. N., Minnesota.
Adam and Eve in Eden were on judgment with respect to the tree of knowledge and the course they took fixed their destiny, it being a time of judgment.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 286

● Can we Scripturally say that those slain by Jehovah at the climax of such judgment periods as at the Flood and at Sodom and Gomorrah and at Armageddon go into eternal destruction?—I. F., Washington.
Please open your Bible and read Luke 17:24-37. It speaks of “that day when the Son of man is to be revealed” (NW), and the surrounding verses show that to be in the time of the end, climaxed by Armageddon. It states that at Armageddon it will be “just as it occurred in the days of Noah” when “the flood arrived and destroyed them all”, and it will be “just as it occurred in the days of Lot” when he fled Sodom and “it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all”. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 286, 287

The parable of the sheep and goats, now in course of fulfillment, shows that at Armageddon the goats “depart into everlasting cutting-off”, thereby indicating the fate of those destroyed in all three cases.—Matt. 25:31-46, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 287

So today this time of judgment of the nations is not a mere dress rehearsal for a further and decisive second judgment to come, thereby making the destruction of individuals at Armageddon not count for eternity.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 287

• Some maintain that at Armageddon there will be three classes: sheep that survive, goats that are eternally destroyed, and uninformed or unresponsible ones who will die but will be resurrected, and that in this latter class will be young children. Is this correct?-L. P., Montana. We know of no Scriptural backing for such a view.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 287

And in this latter class note that little children were included, to be slain without pity. This is a prophetic picture of the destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 288

“Jehovah knows those who belong to him,” and that also means little children at Armageddon whose parents belong to Jehovah and who try to rear them according to God’s Word. (Deut. 6:6, 7; Eph. 6:4; 2 Tim. 2:19, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1951 p. 288

When the oncoming battle of Armageddon strikes in its fury and with its desolations, many devoted Christians will be in their old age or in an infirm condition.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 299

Some, because of physical condition, age, or other circumstances, may prove no more able to endure the hardships of Armageddon than others.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 299

They will give way to death in their faithfulness, in vindication of God, and their death will not mean their extinction forever, but it will allow for a resurrection in the new world that follows Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 299

Yet this physical well-being would never spare her from the woes and destruction of the impending war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 305

With two world wars already to their account and a third one menacing Christendom and, worst of all, Armageddon unavoidably threatening her, the clergy have matched Jeremiah’s description of the religious leaders who failed to avert Jerusalem’s destruction: “From the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 305

Hence God’s Word cries out woe to them, and their woe will come upon them in full at Armageddon to their destruction.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 305

The book “The Truth Shall Make You Free”, pages 362-364, states that it is reasonable that “other sheep” dying before Armageddon will have an early resurrection and share in the divine mandate, adding that such will not be contrary to Matthew 22:30. Which is correct?—R. K., New York.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 319

We do not expect multitudes of the “other sheep” class to die prior to or during Armageddon, but expect them as a class to survive Armageddon and comprise a “great multitude” or “great crowd”. (Rev. 7:9, 10, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 319

However, when “The Truth Shall Make You Free” spoke of resurrected ones reasonably sharing in the divine mandate it did have in mind those of the “other sheep” class that might die before or during Armageddon, and it quoted John 5:27-29 (AS) to show that these who had “done good” would have an early “resurrection of life” like the faithful witnesses and prophets of ancient time, and would not have to await mankind’s later “resurrection of judgment”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 319

So there has been no change in our position on this matter. “The Truth Shall Make You Free” raises the question concerning those of the Lord’s “other sheep” who die before Armageddon: The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 319

We can still entertain this suggestion, but keeping in mind that it is just a kindly suggestion. We may be sure that what God has in store for those other sheep finishing their course faithfully in this world before Armageddon will not disappoint them, but will be perfectly satisfying to them and in full accord with his righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1951 p. 319

At Armageddon, God will in a very practical way sweep into oblivion all who oppose him, and will make all who remain of like mind with him.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 331

AT THE mention of Armageddon and the fact that we are living in the last days of this present system of things, many will rise up to scoff and say that that is the most impractical part of the entire Bible, to believe that God is going to fight a battle of Armageddon to destroy the wicked and usher in a perfect kingdom that will transform earth into a global paradise.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 332

His kingdom is in heaven. He is enthroned there. But he turns his attention toward earth, to cause warning to be given prior to Armageddon, the battle of God Almighty, wherein the wicked will be wiped from the face of the earth as thoroughly as they were in Noah’s day. Armageddon is no fight between nations, but is Jehovah’s battle, fought through Christ and his angels, against Satan and his demons and their visible representatives on earth. (Rev. 16:14-16; 19:11-21; 20:1-3) Warning is given in advance so that honest persons who love righteousness, who are willing to use their minds, who are not blinded by the tinsel and glitter of this present civilization, may discern the approach of Armageddon and take the necessary steps for survival.

3 In the Scriptures this battle of Armageddon is pictured as a time of winter.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 332

2. What is “Armageddon”, and why warn of its coming?
3. To what time is Armageddon likened, and what scriptures show the appropriateness of so doing?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 332

These wintry elements will be used by Jehovah at Armageddon to fulfill his will in bringing destruction upon a wicked world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 333

By that same intelligence he should be able to note the approach of the winter of Armageddon. (Matt. 16:1-4)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 334

Despite the opposition these faithful ones would endure to the end, preaching the good news of the established kingdom to all the inhabited earth for a witness before the end at Armageddon would come.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 334

Christ also declared that the preaching of the Kingdom gospel would separate the peoples of earth, dividing them as a shepherd does the sheep and goats, the sheeplike ones taking a stand for the Kingdom and gaining eternal life, the goatish ones that balk being herded into destruction at Armageddon. (Matt. 25:31-46) Other prophecies show other parts of the sign of Armageddon’s nearness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 334

James foretold that there would be the ultrarich who would pile up their wealth for the last days, that they would greedily hold back the hire of laborers, but that none of this would avail them in the days of his wrath at Armageddon. (Jas. 5:1-6)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 335

The Bible prophecies show that during this time of unprecedented woe and the preaching work and the dividing of the people Christ would be reigning in the midst of his enemies, and at the climax of this time period Armageddon would strike. (Ps. 110:1, 2; Rev. 11:15-18, NW)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 335

Moreover, these things started happening on time, for just as our calendar tells when winter is due so Bible chronology told us that these events were due to start A.D. 1914. The Watchtower has repeatedly published this date with proof of its Scripturalness, the first time being in 1880, thirty-four years in advance. Hence our generation is the generation that will see the start and finish of these things, including Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 335

When we see this composite sign, it is time to heed Jesus’ warning to flee to God’s organization for safety during Armageddon. Delay would be fatal for us, and hence Jesus said with the wintertime of Armageddon in mind: “Keep praying that your flight may not occur in wintertime nor on the sabbath day; for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” (Matt. 24:20, 21, NW) Too cold to flee in that wintertime and too late to work out salvation on that sabbath period. On that occasion it is Jehovah who will work through Christ at Armageddon, to vindicate His name. If we are to do the necessary working and fleeing in preparation for surviving Armageddon, we must discern the sign now, appreciate it now, find out Jehovah’s requirements for us now, and take the essential precautions now by obeying right now his counsel on how we can weather Armageddon’s storm. 14 How practical would it be for the birds to refuse to fly south at winter’s approach? Just as practical as it would be for us to ignore the sign of the nearness of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 336

For us to now ignore the composite sign of Armageddon’s approach would be just as fatal for us as it would be for the swallow to refuse to fly south, or the woodchuck to hibernate, or the honeybee to store food for winter.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 336

Now is the favorable season of harvest and summertime wherein we study God’s Word, preach the gospel, warn others, bring forth fruits of righteousness, and store up treasures in heaven that will assure us God’s protection during Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 337

So it will be for persons who wait for Armageddon’s start to begin flight.
MOST PRACTICAL NOW, BEFORE ARMAGEDDON
16 With Armageddon scheduled for this generation, we can appreciate why the Bible is specially practical for our day. Not only does it withstand the reckless charges hurled at it by scientist and atheist; not only does it prove God true and men liars who would make it ridiculous and void; not only would the application of its righteous principles eliminate the majority of the woes that plague the social and economic and political and military spheres of this world; not only would its precepts applied to everyday human relations erase nervous tension and put pleasant companionship in its stead; not only for all these overwhelming reasons is the Bible so practical for us now, but primarily is it so because it will chart our course through the perilous storm of

Armageddon’s winter and guide us through the portals of a new world more refreshing and lasting than any literal springtime could ever be.—Isa. 2:2-4; 11:6-9; Rev. 21:1, 4.
If we accept and follow the Bible as our practical guide now, after Armageddon we will look over the destruction wrought by the unleashed wrath of Jehovah God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 337

15. Why would it be fatal to delay flight to God’s organization until Armageddon started?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 337

17. What scene will Armageddon’s survivors view? What blindness will we avoid?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 337

Also, the unmistakable sign of the last days and the approach of Armageddon’s destructive wintertime may now be discerned.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 338

Also, the unmistakable sign of the last days and the approach of Armageddon’s destructive wintertime may now be discerned.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 338

It is now in this period of time just prior to the battle of Armageddon that this prophecy is in the course of fulfillment, for the preceding verse describes other things taking place today: nations of this old world being gathered in order that Jehovah may pour upon them all his fierce anger and consume them with devouring fire.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 339

Thus, by diligent study you too can be rescued from impending destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 339

● In the April 1, 1951, Watchtower, page 218, it states concerning Christendom: “After she falls at Armageddon, we must do like Ezekiel, preach the Kingdom and the divine vengeance upon all systems outside of Christendom, till the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty’ destroys them and his universal sovereignty stands vindicated forever.” Does this mean that after Armageddon starts and organized religion falls the witness work will continue and further ingathering of ‘other sheep’, especially from heathendom, will take place?—F. B., New York. None got into Noah’s ark after the flood started. None escaped from Sodom and Gomorrah who delayed flight till the fire and sulphur began to fall. Jesus showed how impossible successful flight would be for those who delayed till Armageddon’s beginning, by use of the symbolisms of winter and sabbath day. (Gen. 7:1-24; 19:12-29; Matt. 24:20-22)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 351

We are now in this specially provided period for the salvation of Jehovah’s “sheep”, when the tribulation launched against Satan’s organization in 1914 has let up but will soon resume to its climax and finish in Armageddon. Now is the time to flee, as prefigured by the temporary lifting of the Babylonians’ siege of Jerusalem, and

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 351

Both of these sieges and falls of Jerusalem, with their interims of relieved pressure allowing for escape, pictured the final tribulation upon Satan and his organization beginning A.D. 1914 and ending at Armageddon, but shortened by the present in-between period allowing opportunity for the saving of persons devoted to Jehovah God. Hence the foregoing shows there is no opportunity for last-minute flight or deathbed repentance after Armageddon begins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 351, 352

We will let whatever men and organizations that remain after the fall of Christendom’s religions know that Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon has started and that his vengeance will reach out to consume all of Satan’s world, climaxing in the abyssing of Satan himself.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 352

Hence the article in the April 1 Watchtower, which was discussing Isaiah chapter 6, was telling us that even after Armageddon has started we will preach “until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land”.—Isa. 6:11, 12, AS.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1951 p. 352

Another defendant warned: “You have sentenced me to twelve years but Jehovah will sentence you to life!” Under enthusiastic applause by the courtroom audience another witness pointed to the title of one of the public talks given by the witnesses, and said: “The kingdom of God is established and the just vengeance of Armageddon is near—Mrs. State Attorney, it is nearer than you think!”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1951 p. 358

Infuriated at his abasement and knowing that the short time left to him till the battle of Armageddon forces him into the abyss for a thousand years is continually dwindling, Satan the Devil is bent on destroying those who give their allegiance to God and the kingdom of his Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1951 p. 368

But we have faith to believe we have encamped about us invisibly the angel of Jehovah who defeated the dragon and his demons in the war in heaven and who now holds them underfoot here at the earth before he crushes them at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1951 p. 369

A time certain was decreed in which to bring about the complete end of the great nations now ruling on earth, and this time began A.D. 1914 and will terminate with the mighty battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1951 p. 400

Now we are in the time of gathering, the harvesting of God’s royal children, before the winter storms of Armageddon’s battle come on for the destruction of this system of things.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1951 p. 405

At the great battle of Armageddon everything belonging to this old world, including its plans and promises, will topple and fall.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 419

The entire earth was not desolated in the miniature fulfillment in 607 B.C. to 537 B.C., neither will it be when these scriptures have the greater fulfillment at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 421

Jesus likened this world’s end to the time of the Flood. (Matt. 24:37-39) The Flood cleansed the earth even as Armageddon will in the near future.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 422

To the survivors of the Flood God gave the mandate to multiply originally given to Adam and Eve and he will again restate it to the ones surviving Armageddon. But whereas Satan soon corrupted the human race after the Flood, he will be bound after Armageddon so that he will not be able to do so then.—Gen. 1:28; 9:1; 10:8; 11:1-9; Zeph. 2:1-3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 422

In summing up: According to the Scriptures Christ Jesus will destroy all the wicked, seen and unseen, at the battle of Armageddon, which Bible prophecy shows is not far away, and at which time Satan and his demons will be bound in the abyss of the death state or unconsciousness for a thousand years.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 423

However, after Armageddon his name will be remembered forever.

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But, additionally, the faithful men of old and any of the great crowd of other sheep who may die before Armageddon may be viewed as having done good things and being counted righteous. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 446

What this means to us today is that those now living in this time of judgment and who fail for one reason or another to take a stand for Jehovah, and are therefore slain by him at the battle of Armageddon, will not be retained in his memory for a resurrection.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1951 p. 446

This it will do at the universal war of Armageddon, the final battle toward which all the nations are now being marched under the influence of Satan and his demons.—Rev. 16:14-16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1951 p. 463

Here, then, we have another powerful visible proof that the Kingdom for mankind’s emancipation is in power, ruling now in the midst of its enemies before it destroys them at Armageddon.—Matt. 24:3-14, NW; Mark 13:4-9; Luke 21:7-28.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1951 p. 463

So now in this short period before Armageddon listen to the Jubilee proclamation, learn the truth, and then act upon it without further delay, that you may gain your freedom. Then, as free men and women, join your forces world-wide to “proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof”. By that course you may live through Armageddon and never die!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1951 p. 463, 464

The righteous war of God at Armageddon will free mankind of Satan’s domination.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1951 p. 464

But the decisive sanctification of his name before all the universe will come at the battle of Armageddon, which now draws closer and closer.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 492

Hence when a child of the heavenly Father prays for His kingdom to come he is praying for God’s kingdom in Christ’s hands to break to pieces and obliterate all the political systems of this world at the battle of Armageddon. If patriots do not like this thought, let them quit praying this prayer.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 493

But this Kingdom rock must still come against the idolatrous image of Satan’s world organization and hit its feet or visible part and knock the image from its base and completely destroy it in the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 494

Likewise Christ Jesus the Son of David, who is now ruling in the midst of his enemies, must yet come like a thief at an unexpected day and hour against these enemies lined up at Armageddon and must break up their organized power and grind them to powder.—Dan. 2:31-35, 44, 45; Rev. 16:13-16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 494

The complete expression of its coming will be when it revives this tribulation which has been interrupted since 1918 and wipes out Satan’s organization at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 494

Now since he has been hurled down here, the earth is the center of rebellion, an island of rebellion in all the universe; and God is localizing the war of Armageddon to just this earth and vicinity.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 494

Because his will is to preserve this earthly globe through the battle of Armageddon, his will can and will be done here also as it is done up in heaven.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 496

Likewise, through this troublous period upon Christendom and clear through the war of Armageddon Jehovah will make sure we get our bread and water to meet our need in our faithful service of him.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 497

Remember, too, that those who are merciful now will receive God’s mercy during the destructions of Armageddon and will survive into the new world. Our work now of preaching the good news of God’s kingdom is a work of rescuing lives from destruction at Armageddon. The merciful rescue-workers will be rescued and preserved during Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 499

Thus here on the earth to which Satan and his demons have now been restrained God’s will is to be done, and after those wicked spirits are abyssed at Armageddon they will not molest anyone on earth during the thousand years of Christ’s kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1951 p. 504, 505

Consequently, have a share with Jehovah’s witnesses in giving this final testimony to the people of all nations before the final war of Armageddon breaks.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 520

What a preview of history, as much as three thousand years in advance, John there had! The birth of the Kingdom, the war in heaven, the great conflict at Armageddon, and the final destruction of the Devil and his hosts! What a cast of characters! What action! What drama!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 523

Therefore the only way they will be convinced of the truth of Jehovah’s message will be at the battle of Armageddon, when Jehovah smites all his enemies, and he certainly will.—Jer. 25:32, 33; Rev. 16:16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 531

And it is strengthening to our faith, because the prophecy discloses that Jehovah will preserve His faithful witnesses as a body right through the battle of Armageddon and into the new world. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 536

Daniel, Jeremiah, Moses, Noah, and others of God’s witnesses were carried right through times of destruction, and this illustrates how Jehovah will carry some of the anointed “remnant” class through the battle of Armageddon into the new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 541

In ancient times Jehovah kept his visible servants witnessing faithfully to the end, preserving them through the destruction of organizations foreshadowing the destruction of the present evil system of things at Armageddon. Therefore in the last days of this old world Jehovah, whose prophecies never fail, will likewise preserve his own fearless, visible servant body and their companions through the battle of Armageddon as a testimony to his own supremacy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1951 p. 541, 542

His vicious intent is that, when Jehovah God does gain the victory at Armageddon’s battle, He will have none on earth over whom to exercise his universal sovereignty.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 548

How wonderful it will be, when Armageddon strikes for the execution of divine judgment, to be found doing God’s will and with our souls fully commended to our faithful Creator! Only in that way may we expect to survive Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 553

Already since 1914 they have been ejected from heaven because of the birth of God’s kingdom, but that was only a preliminary notice of what is further due at Armageddon. When ejected from heaven, they were abased only down to this earth and allowed to carry on here. But at Armageddon they will be cast still lower, into the great abyss to be held in solitary confinement there for a thousand years.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 556, 557

Like Noah and his family, Jehovah’s witnesses of today are interested in perpetuating the human family beyond the cataclysm of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 558

So we declare his promise that the earth will survive Armageddon and that God’s will is to be done here in converting the entire globe into a paradise. Armageddon survivors and those resurrected from the graves may prove themselves worthy to inhabit it forevermore.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 558

Satan’s world will never destroy this love from among God’s organization, but love will live through Armageddon and on into the new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 559

This suffering must precede the glory of living in the new world, after Christ fully reveals himself at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 560

Let us all get along peaceably, lovingly, with one another, that we may go through Armageddon together as one indivisible flock.—1 Pet. 5:1-6, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 561

In every way Israel has made herself a part of this old world and is therefore doomed to destruction shortly at Armageddon, even as the Jewish prophet Daniel long ago foretold.—Gal. 4:25, NW; Dan. 2:44.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1951 p. 566

Why all this talk of Armageddon and the end of the world?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1951 p. 602

But when it does come home as to what it means, then it will be too late to escape, for they will be engulfed by the commotion and alarm and destruction-dealing forces of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1951 p. 603

Section heading: Jehovah’s War of Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 613

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.” No “more equitable system” has been devised. The nations are having their “last chance”. Armageddon is at the door!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 613

Now let this fact be fully appreciated by all: Armageddon will be altogether different, separate and distinct from any prospective World War III, touched off and prosecuted by mere men. Armageddon will not be a war between Eastern and Western blocs of nations. It will not be communism against capitalism. It will not be a revolt of the laboring masses against the ruling classes. No, Armageddon will be the battle of God Almighty, the great and terrible war, when Jehovah completely destroys the nations and kingdoms that oppose and fight against his glorious theocratic rule.—Zeph. 3:8, AS.

Armageddon will not be any local war limited to the literal valley of Megiddo in Palestine. Har– Magedon, or Armageddon, means the “mountain of the assembly of troops”, and it refers in a symbolic way to the capital organization of Zion where Jehovah God has enthroned Christ Jesus as earth’s rightful ruler.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 613

Then will he speak unto them in his wrath [at Armageddon], and vex them in his sore displeasure: Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.”—Ps. 2:1-6, AS
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 613

And just as surely as we have seen the nations form these confederacies, just that surely will we see them dashed to pieces at Armageddon!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 614

As foretold in Bible prophecy, such propaganda is inspired by the demons, the purpose being to line up everyone on the Devil’s side for the universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 614

And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon [Armageddon].”—Rev. 16:13, 14, 16, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 614

Jehovah’s “D-day” of Armageddon may be strictly a military secret, but the suddenness and surprise of it will convince even the enemy that this is it. Armageddon will break as suddenly as the flood that deluged the earth in Noah’s day; as suddenly as the bolts of fire that came down from heaven and licked up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot’s day. (Luke 17:26-30)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 614

However, at Armageddon, Jehovah declares, he will shake terribly this whole earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 615

In addition to these direct prophecies, Jehovah says he will go forth and fight at Armageddon “as when he fought in the day of battle” long ago.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 616

A repeat performance on a global scale is due at Armageddon, “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”—Josh. 10:6-14; Judg. 5:20, 21; Ps. 83:9-18; Isa. 37:33-38.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 616

This too will be repeated at Armageddon: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.”—2 Chron. 20:1-24; Zech. 14:13, AS.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 616

The carnage and destruction of Armageddon will be so awesome that it will defy human description.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 616

Likewise, if anyone of good will is destined for life eternal on the paradise earth after the battle of Armageddon, he must have a mind made over from what it was and it must transform him from any likeness to this corrupt world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 629

Then, if God favors us with survival of the battle of Armageddon and we enter the new world without dying, although we shall not have new bodies instantaneously we shall have new minds wholly in tune with the righteous new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 630

Those remaining told the ones leaving, “We will see you in the new world after Armageddon.” The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 636

The Bible speaks of curses for disobedience, and these curses will be climaxed at Armageddon in a devouring of earth’s wicked dwellers, when Jehovah God through Christ will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth”. (Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 27:15-26; 28:15-68; Isa. 24:5, 6; Rev. 11:18, NW)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 639

In Jehovah’s due time and under the reign of Christ’s kingdom, Armageddon survivors and resurrected ones will be used to fulfill the mandate to subdue the literal earth and transform it into an earth-wide paradise filled with praise for Jehovah.—Ps. 150:1-6.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1951 p. 639

After such marking work is completed, the prophecy says, the execution forces of Almighty God will move swiftly at Armageddon and will utterly destroy every man, woman and child who is not properly marked, that is, all who do not sigh and cry because of the wickedness committed in the earth.—Ezek. 9:2-5, AS.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1951 p. 646

Hence Christendom will be the first to be destroyed at Armageddon with a fiery destruction befitting an immoral, adulterous organization that has apostatized from pure religion.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1951 p. 663

The “time of the end” of this world draws nearer to its close. The false religion, the worship of false gods, leads to death and to destruction at the battle of Armageddon now ahead. Our adopting and abiding in the clean, undefiled religion, the worship of the true God Jehovah through his High Priest Christ Jesus, leads to eternal life in the new world. In the decisive contest of the gods at Armageddon, all the false gods of this world, visible and invisible, will topple from their pedestals in defeat and be destroyed, and their unclean false worship and religion will perish with them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1951 p. 670

But after the battle of Armageddon baptizes this old world, including Christendom, with fire, he will comfort mankind with a great sabbath of rest for the thousand years of his reign.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 680

For the hypocritical worldly system will be baptized with fiery destruction at Armageddon, but God’s new system of things will survive and prove the salvation of those who shape their lives according to it. The end of this present wicked world means the end of the things of Satan’s construction, his heavens and earth. But the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus, is in the holy heavens at God’s right hand and he will come through the conflict of Armageddon victoriously.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 681

Further, when Jesus was comparing the days of his second presence before the battle of Armageddon with ancient days when great calamities and remarkable deliverances occurred, he drew not only Noah’s days into the comparison, but also those of Lot.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 684

All this pictures that, not only is a spiritual class, the remnant, carried safely through Armageddon, but also an earthly class of good will.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 685

They are not baptized into Christ’s death, for the great Baptizer Jehovah God does not will this concerning them. It is his will that, surviving the battle of Armageddon in the modern “ark” of salvation, they may be fruitful with children in the righteous new world and may have part in building up the paradise on the cleansed earth and inhabiting it as perfect humans in God’s image and likeness forevermore. Hence they are not like Christ’s remnant who are “buried with him through our baptism into his death” or “united with him in the likeness of his death”. Even though some “other sheep” may die in the remaining time before the battle of Armageddon, yet they never sacrifice their prospect of perfect life in the earthly paradise.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 685

Since A.D. 1914 we have been living in the ‘day of Jehovah’s preparation’, because from 1914 till the universal war of Armageddon is the “time of the end” of this world, “the consummation of the system of things.” (Nah. 2:3)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 686

The modern counterpart of the flood is the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 687

We will continue to preach after Armageddon has started, not that more will then repent and be saved but that all will know Jehovah’s purposes of vengeance are being carried out. (See the June 1, 1951, Watchtower, page 351, second question and answer.)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1951 p. 703

And so the verse, Isaiah 32:1, was applied to the thousand-year reign of Christ Jesus after the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 717

Hence, too, fulfillment of the prophecy need not be delayed till after the battle of Armageddon when the Devil’s organization and its rulers and princes have been destroyed from the earth; nor till the resurrection of the faithful witnesses of ancient times, like Abel, Abraham, Moses and David, takes place.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 717

4. Need fulfillment of Isaiah 32:1 be delayed till after Armageddon begins or earthly resurrection starts? Why your answer?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 717

Therefore now in this “time of the end” prior to Armageddon it is that we properly look for the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy (32:1, 2).
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 718

There is no need for us to look beyond the battle of Armageddon for this feature of the prophecy to go into fulfillment. It is in effect now.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 720

These “other sheep” in office expect to become children of the “Everlasting Father”, Christ Jesus, during the millennial kingdom after the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 728

If proving faithful now in this time of test, they may have a continuance of their special service under their King, the “Everlasting Father”, and they may have a part after Armageddon in the realization of the prophecy: “Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.” (Ps. 45:16) Faithful men of old, resurrected, will share with them. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 728

Knowing that “the poor shall never cease out of the land” until Armageddon destroys this system of things, Jehovah God made definite provisions for the care of the needy, not only of those who were Israelites but also the poor among strangers and sojourners in the land, including widows and orphans and those who were victims of old age and sickness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1951 p. 732

Beyond question, Jesus meets every requirement for leadership in the perfect sense. His invincible military prowess he will demonstrate in crushing the Devil to defeat at the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” or Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 739

Demons intercept the praise to God and continue to lead the nations to Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 740

Now is the time for him to act, for the hour draws closer for great Babylon to be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon, and all people who stay in bondage to her and share in her sins will be destroyed with her.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 748

There must be a visible organization to receive all on earth who want to worship Jehovah God in freedom, before the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 749

They used to think that only these saints were to be gathered or harvested before Armageddon, although it was timely for them since 1918 to herald the message, “Millions Now Living Will Never Die.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 749

They too must come to Zion and submit to the theocratic organization so as to escape destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 751

This joyful prophecy extends now to the Shepherd’s “other sheep” who must be rescued from Babylon before Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 751

They have; for one of the elderly persons identifies the crowd to John and says: “These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation [this locates their coming between 1919 and Armageddon], and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 752

Zion, represented on earth by the remnant of spiritual Israelites, is surprised. She cannot account for them, never having expected them this side of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 752

This proves that this prophecy of the release of the bound ones to the ends of the earth must be fulfilled now before the battle of Armageddon while there are nontheocratic nations, peoples, kings and queens.

Even while the demons of Satan’s invisible organization are hurrying the nations and their rulers to the battlefield of Armageddon, these earthly systems and rulers are unable to hold their own people of good will under them when they hear the liberation call of Jehovah’s great Servant, Come forth!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 753

Those who oppose us Jehovah God has promised to oppose. That means he is on our side and backs us up. At the battle of Armageddon he will confuse our oppressors and opposers.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 754, 755

4. To have an organization for receiving all on earth who would worship him before Armageddon, what did Jehovah do with his remnant?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1951 p. 749