Be it capitalist, socialist or communist government, not one can bring order peace, prosperity or life out of the present chaos and decay of this corrupt and evil world system; and the combined prayers of all the religionists cannot hinder the accomplishment of its prophetically declared doom at Armageddon. 

Awake! January 8, 1950 p. 8

 

In the battle of Armageddon He will spoil those who have unrighteously spoiled the peoples of earth and persecuted His witnesses, whereas He will raise up His down-trodden and de-spoiled servants and beautify them with a blessed place in the righteous “world without end”.

Awake! January 8, 1950 p. 26

 

Indeed, Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty, is near, when by the destruction of Satan’s world all oppression will cease and when the people of good-will will forever enjoy living in full freedom on the earth under the glorious kingdom of Christ, the Prince of Peace.

Awake! January 22, 1950 p. 9

 

The imagined blue skies which men promise independent of God’s purpose will be darkened by Armageddons storm. 

Awake! January 22, 1950 p. 32

 

So, for Christians in this postwar world and with the battle of Armageddon in the offing, it is a choice of taking a good course by getting married to a like consecrated servant of Jehovah God or doing better by staying single, by not getting married but keeping his virgin state with all its vital strength. 

Awake! February 22, 1950 p. 26

 

At Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” men who have scoffed at God’s power will feel it even more mightily than in a mere volcanic eruption.

Awake! April 22, 1950 p. 12

 

Especially so, in view of the Bible’s repeated warnings that Armageddon, the most terrible battle of God Almighty, will surpass anything this earth has experienced.

Awake! May 8, 1950 p. 28

 

They have learned of the great battle of Armageddon, which will destroy all injustices and usher in the glorious reign of Christ, who will right all wrongs and fill every worthy heart with joy.

Awake! May 22, 1950 p. 16

 

Back in 1947 the secretary general of the U. K. buoyantly predicted: “When we in the United Nations apply ourselves to the improvement of education, of health, of the general living standard, or of communications or housing in the most remote and backyard country-we are removing the germs which mw day would lead the world to its final Armageddon.”

Awake! June 8, 1950 p. 13

 

Not the positive ideology of God’s Kingdom Government under Christ Jesus as exercising irresistible power in the earth now, that is drawing sincere-hearted persons together from across the barriers of religion and race, from beyond the iron curtains of political ideologies, into a real unity of mind and confidence, preparatory to entering a new world of endless life and happiness as soon, now, as God’s Armageddon destroys “the destroyers of the earth”.

Awake! June 8, 1950 p. 14

 

And now, as Armageddon the battle of the Great God Almighty draws near, the time is not far distant when Jehovah’s unlimited power will be displayed in all its terrible fury against the Devil and those on his side.

Awake! June 8, 1950 p. 26

 

There are yet many others of good-will toward God whom the Greater Joseph will gather and preserve through the threatening battle of Armageddon. 

Awake! June 22, 1950 p. 26

 

Much work is yet to be done, however, and indications are that many more will yet take their stand on Jehovah’s side in the years yet remaining before Armageddon. 

Awake! July 22, 1950 p. 20

 

Is it seditious to print leaflets and books calling attention to the day of God’s vengeance and vindication, citing therein passages from the Bible to prove that the “imminent war and cataclysm” of Armageddon, the battle of God Almighty, is just ahead?

Awake! August 22, 1950 p. 12

 

Thus those surviving Armageddon and entering into the new earth will fulfill the divine mandate first given to Adam and Eve, ‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion over the animals.’ (Genesis 1:28)

Awake! September 8, 1950 p. 25

 

Satan and his demons, who had been abyssed at the battle of Armageddon, will be loosed for a short season to test the integrity of all those dwelling on earth. 

Awake! September 8, 1950 p. 25

 

When the organization which always has inspired and fomented them is herself put to the sword by his Executioner at Armageddon, all person of good will toward God will greatly rejoice, for they well know that words written thousands of years before have convicted her: “In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.” -Jeremiah 2:34

Awake! October 8, 1950 p. 8

 

With logic and Scriptural clarity, he showed how survivors of the end of wickedness at Armageddon could qualify for such responsibilities.

Awake! October 8, 1950 p. 19

 

And is God’s expression of mercy to us helping us to show mercy and tenderness to others by telling them of God’s mercy and warning them of the approaching “flood”, the battle of Armageddon?

Awake! October 22, 1950 p. 26

 

And today God is showing mercy by holding back the storm of Armageddon so that lovers of righteousness may have opportunity to find a place of safety.-Romans 5:12-15; Matthew 24:15-22; Zephaniah 2:1-3.

Awake! November 8, 1950 p. 25

 

When Armageddon’s destructive fury strikes will you survive?

Awake! November 22, 1950 p. 32

There is no material wealth that will save governments or men from the destruction that will be meted out to them, because of their evil doings, at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1950 p. 5

 

And neither will “this present evil world” escape the destructive violence of Armageddon that she is being warned of right now!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950 p. 22

 

Christ Jesus has been present since 1914 and witness has been given of the signs that prove it, but the veil will not lift from the sightless “eyes of understanding” of humanity’s majority till his power is revealed in Armageddon’s fury.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950 p. 22

 

Who share in giving the final witness concerning Jehovah’s kingdom and this world’s doom at Armageddon? Not the highly esteemed ones of this world, for they are an abomination in the sight of God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950 p. 23

 

Moreover, they are the only ones preaching the good news of the established kingdom of Christ and warning of Armageddon’s visit upon this generation. By hundreds of millions of books and booklets, in some eighty-eight languages, plus more millions of magazines and tracts and thousands of public lectures weekly, Jehovah’s witnesses have given witness that the wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, strifes and persecutions, unrest and fears, increased world delinquencies and immoralities, failures in national rules and world governments—all are but physical facts fitting the signs Jesus foretold to accompany his second presence and on the heels of which comes Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950 p. 23

 

Let it sneer and mock and say to us, as the Jerusalemites said to Jeremiah: ‘God is not interested in the earth. He has forsaken it. He will not do good or evil. And even if Armageddon comes someday, it will not come in our day, not in this generation.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950 p. 26

 

They not only listen but give heed, see the signs proving Christ’s second presence, believe the warning of Armageddon’s approach, and take to heart the admonition to flee from old-world entanglements.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950   p. 27

 

Because of the love we have for God and his King and the Kingdom work the time separating us from Armageddon will seem as a fast stream of pleasant days.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950   p. 27 

 

Gone will be the time for proving him a liar and sharing in the final witness when the great clock of God strikes and booms out the fateful hour of Armageddon! Share in the final witness now or never!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950   p. 27, 28

 

Having now comforted her, he could be called to duty at Armageddon by his heavenly Father and Commander in Chief, even if this meant to turn aside from his marital arrangement with his bride class. Thus it would not be necessary for him first to glorify the remnant of his bride class and take them from the earth to heaven to be with him up there before he began the battle of Armageddon. Hence there is nothing in this picture that militates against the thought that the remnant of Christ’s bride will pass through Armageddon with the “other sheep” and will be here after Armageddon until Jehovah’s purposes for them on earth have been fully served. Revelation 2:26, 27 indicates that those of the bride class already glorified with the Bridegroom Christ will take part with him in the heavenly operations at the war of Armageddon.

Faithfully yours in Theocratic service,

WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1950   p. 32

 

Envisioning the many blessings of the Kingdom, they would hasten its coming and look for the early breaking of Armageddon’s fury.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1950 p. 43

 

It is God who sets the time for all things, and being unduly concerned about when Armageddon will come does not hasten it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1950 p. 43

 

The knowledge of the Scriptures shows us that just ahead of us is that terrible and dark time of the battle of Armageddon, when the evil forces of the Devil’s world will go down into destruction. The nearness of that world-shaking event impresses upon our minds the import of the words of Jesus at John 9:4, according to An American Translation: “We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1950 p. 54

 

We are advised not to put all of our energies into the worldly enterprises because those things are doomed to destruction at the near battle of Armageddon. If we give all of our time to such things it will be lost because such things are doomed to destruction with this world at the now near battle of Armageddon. If we give all of our time to such things it will be time lost because such things are going to be lost. Worse than that, we may be smashed up with them at Armageddon because of not sticking to God’s work and keeping that first in our lives.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1950 p. 58

 

Imagine the ‘great multitude’ of Armageddon survivors, under the righteous rule of the visible ‘princes in all the earth’, with cigarettes in their lips and trying to carry out the divine mandate to fill the earth with a healthy-blooded righteous race!” (Pages 205, 206)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1950 p. 60

 

The rapidly approaching battle of Armageddon makes the matter of praising God increasingly urgent for survival.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1950 p. 67

 

What was true in the days of the apostles is more true at this time as we see the day of Armageddon’s trouble fast approaching.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1950 p. 73

 

The figures you cite on the enormous use of blood in the U.S.A. in medical practice just goes to show the tremendous blood bill that God has to settle with mankind at the battle of Armageddon for their violation of his everlasting covenant regarding the sacredness of creature blood.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1950 p. 80

 

It may be some will scoff, ridicule and bring various kinds of opposition to bear, or perhaps our secular occupation is in question, and then, if there are Scriptural family responsibilities on us, what will happen? Who will look after them? Former friends may be lost and disesteem be manifested. Also suppose these prophecies are not going to work out as expected? What will then be done? It may be Armageddon will not come as soon as expected!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1950 p. 87

 

What he does learn are truths concerning Christ’s kingdom, the blessings it will bring in a new earth, the signs now visible proving that we are living in the last days, the evidences that Christ’s kingdom is established in the heavens and is scheduled to soon move explosively against this wicked world in the battle known as Armageddon, and many other vital instructions that will enable the learner to survive these troublous days and ultimately live in Jehovah God’s new world without end. (Matt. 24:3-39; 2 Tim. 3:1-5)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 100, 101

 

After the storm of Armageddon has passed there will not be enough living to bury the dead. (Jer. 25:33) Carrion-eating birds of prey and wild beasts of the field and forest will be summoned to a feast of human flesh. (Jer. 34:20)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 103

 

Only by a knowledge of God’s kingdom and with complete reliance upon it can man stop his headlong rush down to the Dead Sea of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 103

 

Today the Watch Tower Society shows the same concern for this generation now facing world destruction at Armageddon. Two great opposing organizations are set for a showdown fight then to settle once and for all the issue of supremacy. Satan’s strategy is to keep the people in ignorance and let them stumble blindly into the pit of Armageddon’s slaughter.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 104

 

16 Today a like deliverance is taking place for thousands, yes, and for probably millions before the final count at Armageddon. This great multitude are those delivered from bondage to the present evil world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 106

 

At Armageddon’s slaughter old and young alike will not be spared. After the marking work had been done according to Jehovah’s instructions, the command to his executioners then was: “Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark.” (Ezek. 9:6) Therefore no guarantee is given that a child will pass through Armageddon by reason of the field-service record of a parent that is careless toward his own children.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 106

 

Pioneers are cultivated by God for his work of advertising his Kingdom and warning of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 108

 

The day of Jehovah is far spent and the night of Armageddon is very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 108

 

Better that they howl now, for shortly, when this work is completed, Armageddon’s slaughter of Christendom’s false shepherds will silence them forever! Hence all you faithful servants, feed now the flock!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1950 p. 120

 

WHEREAS the universal war of Armageddon is near, Jehovah God having established His King and Chief Field Marshal on the throne A.D. 1914 and since that time He has been ruling in the midst of His enemies;

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1950 p. 128

 

THAT, by God’s grace, we will resist all the satanic efforts of world conspiracy and will not yield to his subtle schemes to regiment all the world into his service but will continue to “preach the word” until Satan and satanic supporters lie crushed and Jehovah has carried His people victoriously through the final war of Armageddon into the new world “wherein dwelleth righteousness”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1950 p. 128

 

Even if he is a Jonadab, it is questionable that he would be able to preserve it through Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1950 p. 135 

 

In their mental darkness concerning the words of God’s Bible they are going on to early destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1950 p. 138

 

We are urged not to be like them, especially in these days when catastrophic Armageddon is so near and when what little time remains counts so much for our salvation and for that of people to whom we preach the message of salvation.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1950 p. 138

 

“AWAKE!”

This magazine stepped into the field of public service at the Glad Nations Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah’s witnesses in August of 1946, and is published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc. It answers the rousing call for fearless information, not because we have entered the atomic age, but because the world is fast asleep near the brink of that universal war Scripturally called “Armageddon” and lovers of life in security need to be awakened to the real sense of the news and the pressing issues upon which to decide.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 146

 

After all these millenniums of time he still has his witnesses on the earth, and these will be eyewitnesses of the smashing victory he will gain over the enemy world at the coming battle of the universe, Armageddon!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 147

 

True to the admonition of Ecclesiastes 12:1, the young ministers of Jehovah God remember their Creator in the days of their youth. In order to escape the destruction which is the destiny of the unfaithful religionists at Armageddon, they offer acceptable sacrifices of praise now.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 151

 

When violence is rampant in the earth prior to Armageddon, where we now are, they stand firm against the assaults of the Devil and his agents, invisible and visible.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 153

 

The assurance that they will not be driven over the precipice to which that broad road leads, into the abyss of death at Armageddon, causes them to rejoice

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 154

 

Let each Christian minister be on guard, therefore, remembering that Satan is out to debauch the human race so as to cause all to be destroyed at Armageddon, that to sow to the flesh is to reap destruction, and that “[we] have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation”. (1 Pet. 4:3, An Amer. Trans.)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 157

 

When I reached the house she told me that she understood I had now joined the ‘Armageddon’ company and that other ‘Armageddon’ people had been calling on her, but she could not agree with them as she had a powerful juju.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1950 p. 160

 

Periodically the world leaders in religion or politics plead for more of what plagues them, cry out that what is needed is more of their religion. When their sore tribulation descends upon them at Armageddon, let them call to their chosen gods of heathen origin for deliverance, and not to Jehovah God.—Judg. 10:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 167

 

Dear Brother:

Answering your recent letter regarding birth of children to the “other sheep” class surviving Armageddon:

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 175

 

To speak of the “other sheep” that survive Armageddon who marry and bring forth children by intermarriage as being like the “sons of God” that married the daughters of men in Noah’s day is wrong.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

To say that marriage after Armageddon and then producing children is turning from the spiritual to the carnal is the same as saying for the anointed Christians to intermarry and produce children is turning from the spiritual to the carnal.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

Why, then, should it be different when Armageddon survivors of the “other sheep” marry, both being consecrated and divinely approved with survival, and then bring forth children? Their children will certainly not correspond to the gibborim or men of renown whom the “sons of God” and the daughters of men brought forth in Noah’s day.—Genesis 6:1-4.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

Evidently you have forgotten that the booklet ‘The Meek Inherit the Earth’ says, on page 28: “The marriage of these faithful and meek survivors of Armageddon will cause homes and family circles to spring up throughout the earth

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

The Battle of Armageddon will be likewise a physical catastrophe to this present evil world, and not something just spiritual.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

When God reissued this mandate to marry and reproduce to Noah after the flood (Genesis 9:1, 7) the mandate was fulfilled in a typical way by a token fulfillment, 70 (10 X 7) generations being listed in Genesis, chapter 10, as springing from Noah and his sons. In the same way the fulfillment of the divine mandate reissued after Armageddon will be, not by crowding it with inhabitants to the saturation point, but by a token fulfillment that will allow for the resurrection of the dead with plenty of room for these resurrected ones.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1950 p. 176

 

This feast well pictures the final ingathering of the Lord’s “other sheep”, showing that they will be gathered in support of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty before the wintertime of Armageddon begins. When Armageddon begins, it will be too late to do any gathering. Then some will say: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” (Jer. 8:20) At Armageddon Satan will witness the destruction of his organization visible and invisible.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 198

 

17. Can it be proved from the Scriptures that the feast of tabernacles pictured things to be done before Armageddon? If so, how?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950

 

Early in the year 1942 certain circumstances caused some to conclude that the witness work was about finished and that Armageddon was at hand.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 198

 

They do not devote their time and energies accumulating worldly riches. These will all be swept away at Armageddon as completely as material things of the first world were destroyed in the flood of Noah’s day.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 199

 

This is a strange work to the religionists. It is the “ingathering work” of Jehovah, and will soon be completed; then the “strange act” of destruction will begin, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 199

 

We have now reached the time of the end, that is, the consummation of this old system of things, and there is much work to be done before the storm of Armageddon breaks to destroy Satan’s wicked organization that has so long reproached the name of Jehovah and persecuted all that took their stand on his side of the great controversy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 203

 

27. What assurance is given that Armageddon will not begin until all the multitude have been found and fed?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 203

 

From and after Armageddon the kingdom of God will exercise full control over the affairs of earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 204

 

In the Bible are the indisputable facts that prove that death is the result of sin, which comes upon all men by inheritance; that to Jehovah God belongs salvation; that the greatest crisis of all time is at hand, when the wicked will be destroyed at Armageddon and when those who seek righteousness and meekness may be spared in that great disaster; that salvation from death, and life forever in happiness, are open to the obedient ones; and that therefore a great emergency now confronts those who shall form the “great multitude”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 204

 

As shown by the typical city of refuge, such persons must flee to Christ, the head of God’s organization, and there find refuge until the crisis of Armageddon is passed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 204

 

He seeks protection at the hand of Christ Jesus and calls upon the Lord God for protection and salvation: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom. 10:13) Being received by the Lord and under his protection, such person is in line to be saved from the devastation of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 204

 

Coming under the protection of the Theocratic organization of Christ Jesus, they now find shelter, and if they continue there to seek righteousness and meekness, rendering themselves in obedience unto the Lord, they have the promise of deliverance from the wrath of God at Armageddon. That baptism “with fire” will be to the destruction of all Satan’s organization, but will be to the protection of all those who find refuge in or under Jehovah’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 206

 

The modern-day Egypt, Satan’s world, is full of vessels on whom divine wrath rests. (Rev. 11:8) They are destined to an early destruction at the oncoming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 212

 

Such worldly elements are opposing the divine purpose and are vessels of divine wrath fitted for destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 213

 

Just prior to this The Watchtower published a series of two articles on “Blessed Are the Fearless”, showing from Bible prophecy that a bold work, the greatest of their career, must be performed by God’s devoted people among all nations before the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 5 p. 217

 

However, early in 1918 the Lord God had revealed that a great earthly flock, whose number was estimated to run into the millions, would survive Armageddon into the New World, and these must be given the witness and gathered to the Good Shepherd’s fold. The command to preach “this gospel of the kingdom” in all the world for a witness to all nations applied now during all the postwar period down till Armageddon clears the earth for the New World. No time must be lost in organizing for the work.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 p. 217

 

Would the global war merge into the world catastrophe of Armageddon? Was the end of the Kingdom witness-work here, and had the peak in the expansion of Jehovah’s visible organization this side of Armageddon been reached?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1950 5 p. 218, 219

 

The warning to the wicked is being given and the end of this world proclaimed. The marking of those to be spared at Armageddon goes on.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1950 p. 231

 

After the coming battle of Armageddon never again shall Satan and his wicked rule be in vogue.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1950 p. 236

 

2) No; “that world” or “world without end” does not begin after the 1000-year restoration of Paradise and uplifting of humankind to perfection, but begins after Armageddon is over.

(3) Hence “that world” or “world without end” does include the 1000-year reign of Christ for mankind’s perfecting. However, for a person to survive Armageddon into that world or for a person to come up in the resurrection to life on the earth during the 1000 years does not mean he has “attained” to that world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1950 p. 240

 

In the midst of this world situation stand Jehovah’s witnesses, pointing neither east nor west, but heavenward, heralding His kingdom by Christ as the divinely authorized government, the only government with adequate ability to introduce a righteous, peaceful, healthful new world, the only government with power to save the people from annihilation in the world catastrophe of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 249

 

Almighty God has promised to vindicate his faithful witnesses, and he will do so at the battle of Armageddon, in which he will totally destroy godless communism and all other elements of the old world. In Daniel’s prophecy concerning the Devil’s world organization at this crucial time where it tries to hold the worldly elements together like clay mixed with iron, it is written: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people [neither to Communist people nor to any other political group], but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 255

 

Jehovah’s Theocratic government under his Christ will survive the battle of Armageddon as winner and will bring faithful people of good will through as survivors and will thereafter dominate all the earth without any rival powers.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 255-256

 

We will fulfill our obligation to warn all nations of the coming “act of God” against this world at Armageddon. This course alone can have his approval and assure us of survival at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 256

 

In Theocratic obedience and faithfulness we will march on toward the New World, rejoicing in all further expansion of his kingdom, for there will be no end to its increase even this side of Armageddon. If we keep on sowing his Kingdom message, we shall reap returns for eternity, for God will give his promised increase. Let Christendom go on sowing to the wind by pursuing the futile course of this old world; she will reap the whirlwind at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 257

 

It heralds the news of Jehovah’s kingdom established by Christ’s enthronement in heaven, warns that we live in the last days of this old world, cries out that Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon comes on apace, feeds the kingdom joint-heirs with spiritual food, cheers men of good will with glorious prospects of eternal life in a paradise earth, and comforts us with the resurrection promise for the dead.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1950 p. 263

 

The propaganda inspired by the demons is hurrying all her rulers blindly, madly, on to the warfront of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 286

 

But Christendom will shortly be baptized with fire, the fire of destruction at Armageddon. (Matt. 3:11, 12) We do not await destruction at the battle of Armageddon, but confidently expect to survive through that fiery time into the new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 287

 

We may not know now the day or the hour when the battle of Armageddon will break out and the wicked heavens and earth of the Devil’s world will be dissolved to make way for the new heavens and earth of the precious new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 287

 

17. What do we expect for ourselves at Armageddon? So what must we do now respecting knowledge?

18. Do we know the time for Armageddon? How, then, must we live?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 287

 

And why will the Armageddon survivors and the resurrected ones that prove faithful not eventually die again? Because the sin and degeneration inherited from Adam will be erased by the ransom, and because the Devil that possesses the power of death will be destroyed. (Heb. 2:14; Rev. 20:10) At Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon it is Satan that will be laid low, and he will not be revived for a thousand years, and then only a little season elapses till he has the tables turned on him forever, being destroyed by Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 291

 

“Several among this group, however, heard for the first time about the Bible, about a loving God and his Kingdom, about the coming battle of Armageddon, and the imperative need for them to take their stand now at the right hand of Christ the King.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 294

 

It plays a very important part in awakening the people to the nearness of the expression of God’s wrath at Armageddon. You will want your friends and neighbors to have the timely information it presents, and you can aid them by offering a year’s subscription for Awake! at the regular rate of one dollar.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1950 p. 304

 

In the very nick of time he mercifully turns the pure language to the peoples. With it all people seeking life in a new world may sound forth his name and may unite in serving him before ever this earthly international organization is consumed by the fiery expression of his wrath at the battle of Armageddon. In none of Christendom’s wars, from the days of Roman Emperor Constantine onward, has Jehovah God ever fought or aided either of the warring sides. But in the battle of Armageddon, which he has foretold, he will fight, outclassing all the fission and fusion bombs of Christendom, and he will win! Happily for those persons who have taken up his language and called upon his name and united in worshiping him, Jehovah will protect them during the heat of that world disaster.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 308

 

His is the only way they will be shielded during the outburst of the fire of his wrath and indignation at Armageddon and be spared for joyous living in the endless new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 320

 

These children of God are awake, on the elevated watchtower, sounding the warning of Armageddon’s approaching storm. All Christendom recognizes these favored people are Jehovah’s witnesses, for they take their Father’s name, and as his ambassadors publish and declare his purposes throughout the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 327

 

Since few are heeding this message, it follows that God will smite the earth with the curse of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 331

 

Can it be said that Armageddon started in 1914 with the casting of Satan out of heaven and down to earth?—Connecticut reader.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 335

 

That will be Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty, and it will rid the universe of Satan and his demons and his visible agents on earth.—Matt. 24:14; Rev. 12:7-12; 16:14-16; 19:11-20:3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1950 p. 335

 

Taking advantage of that war of 1914-1918 he subjected God’s witnesses to oppressive measures. Yet from 1919 forward Jehovah delivered, revived and regathered his consecrated people that they might publish the Kingdom message to all nations before the world’s destruction at Armageddon. In this way he has turned to the peoples of all nations the new message of hope.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 349-350

 

The kingdom of God, prayed for so many centuries, has at last been established; and in convincing demonstration of that fact Jehovah God has seated his anointed Son Jesus Christ on the royal throne to rule now and until the battle of Armageddon in the midst of his enemies.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 352

 

The field of action to which we go forth, and the future stretching ahead of us till Armageddon, are not the place and time for us to slack our hands, either through laziness or through fear. Know for certain: the time is short! Lift up your hands and put them to work with a will.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 356

 

With hundreds of thousands this has already occurred. Who knows how many other hundreds of thousands are yet to have this occur with them before the battle of Armageddon? So never let the name of Jehovah suffer reproach because of anything vile that you personally do.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 356

 

Till 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 always in praise to him and his King.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 356

 

As they told of the great expansion in the number of prospective Armageddon survivors in their respective territories, it was plainly to be seen that this is indeed a true Theocratic organization with its world-wide work directed by Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 364

 

The due time had arrived for the Lord to reveal that some of the “children” whom he will “make princes in all the earth” after Armageddon are of the “other sheep”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 365

 

WHAT is this that is so near? Why, if you have not heard, it is the day of Jehovah’s vindication. The day when mankind’s enemies and oppressors will be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 366

 

Neither is it a time to postpone Armageddon in one’s mind. (1 Thess. 5:2-4)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1950 p. 366

 

The ark served as a place of protection for Noah, his family and the animals he took therein. What did it picture? God’s provision for protecting his people at the present time from the catastrophe, the battle of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:16) And what is that provision? It is God’s organization, and it will serve as the place of protection from the expression of God’s wrath against his enemies, even as did the ark for Noah and his family.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 382

 

In contrast to the sons of Noah, the great multitude who survive Armageddon will be able to carry out that divine mandate in actuality because they will receive the benefits of the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus. (Matt. 20:28; Rom. 5:18, 19)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 382

 

The conclusion is therefore inevitable that the time for the fulfillment of the divine mandate is after Armageddon.

Since the carrying out of the command to “be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth” waits until after Armageddon, does that mean that those who now marry and rear children are violating God’s laws? No, for the Scriptures show that “marriage is honourable in all”.—Heb. 13:4.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 383

 

The question then presents itself: What about those who now marry or who were married at the time they heeded the call of warning to flee into the antitypical ark by associating themselves with God’s organization? Will they have the same mates after Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 383

 

The fulfilling of the command “be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth” by the great multitude surviving Armageddon and the complete filling of the earth by the resurrected millions will be in vindication of Jehovah’s supremacy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 383

 

The facts show that he has been and is able to do so, for, even as he had faithful men and women on the earth before the flood whom he preserved during that catastrophe, so he has men and women on the earth now whom he is justified in preserving through the expression of his wrath against all unrighteousness at Armageddon, because of their faith and obedience.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1950 p. 383

 

Neither can we say that the new covenant system of things ends with the coming battle of Armageddon in which this world will be destroyed. Since God’s spiritual children in the new covenant will have a remnant that will overlive Armageddon into the new world, then this new covenant system must last till after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 412

 

His wicked system will be obliterated by the coming “war of the great day of God the Almighty”, Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16, NW)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 413

 

The “new earth” which the Kingdom will bring into existence will be begun with the survivors of Armageddon who have an earthly hope and destiny.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 414

 

So these “other sheep” of today are indeed proving themselves sterling witnesses of the Most High God, like their faithful predecessors of pre-Christian times; but they have yet to prove their full devotion to the finish during the time that yet remains till Armageddon and the glorious birth of the new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 416, 417

 

It can no more prevent us from surviving the battle of Armageddon into the new world than it can block or destroy the new heavens and earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 418

 

Hid by Jehovah’s powerful hand in the days of his anger against the doomed old world, this nucleus will go through Armageddon, just as Noah and his household went though the Flood, hid in the ark. You survivors of Armageddon will be the first on the field of action in the “new earth”.

17 But what we want is that when, after Armageddon, we do emerge from the ark of hiding we will emerge organized. The enemy may yet take us into his power and scatter us physically or drive us underground. But when he is destroyed at Armageddon and we come forth from his smashed places of detaining us, we shall march forth organized theocratically, knowing organization procedures.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 418

 

16. Why are remnant and “other sheep” certain to survive Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 418

 

The thirty-six intervening years since 1914, instead of postponing Armageddon, have only made it nearer than most people think.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 419

 

When this world-wide witness work is completed and Armageddon has struck, God’s faithful preaching witnesses will gain endless life.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1950 p. 419

 

But until the universal war of Armageddon removes “Caesar” and all his henchmen and his commercial and religious allies, “Caesar” has to be taken into account even by persons who are no part of this world but who are nevertheless living in it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 435

 

God uses Christ as his executioner of vengeance against Jerusalem’s modern counterpart, Christendom, and God also gives him the domination over all the nations of this world before destroying them at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 444

 

His fiery judgment will be executed upon them in their utter destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 449

 

We would then receive judgment to ourselves with them and would suffer annihilation with them at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 449

 

Hence the symbolic description of Christ as he rides to execute God’s vengeance at Armageddon tells us: “Out of his mouth there protrudes a sharp long sword, that he may smite the nations with it, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron.” (Rev. 19:15, NW) So upon the nations practicing evil he will act as the avenger to express the divine wrath. At Armageddon he will not recognize the political powers of this world as the “superior authorities” with absolute control over every human soul.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 451

 

The nations of this world, intent on keeping up their own domination of the earth, opposed this theocratic appointment of Christ, and they have since raged and imagined vain things in opposition. Jehovah’s witnesses continue to warn them that they have thus taken a stand against the invincible arrangement of God and will receive adverse judgment from him for it. His fiery judgment will be executed upon them in their utter destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 449

 

We would then receive judgment to ourselves with them and would suffer annihilation with them at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 449

 

Hence the symbolic description of Christ as he rides to execute God’s vengeance at Armageddon tells us: “Out of his mouth there protrudes a sharp long sword, that he may smite the nations with it, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron.” (Rev. 19:15, NW) So upon the nations practicing evil he will act as the avenger to express the divine wrath. At Armageddon he will not recognize the political powers of this world as the “superior authorities” with absolute control over every human soul.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 451

 

Consequently, Jehovah is against all such pious frauds that teach lies in His name and He will clean them out at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 462

 

Will children who have not reached the age of accountability and who die at Armageddon have a resurrection?—Ohio reader.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 463

 

However, if Jehovah God expresses an adverse judgment against certain individuals, and does this through his King Christ Jesus at Armageddon, there must be some sort of finality to God’s decision. If so, those destroyed by the judgment of God in the battle of Armageddon are really destroyed. Ezekiel chapter 9 appears to refer to Armageddon, and verse 6 states, “Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 463

 

It is only through the exercise of his love and mercy that anyone is preserved through Armageddon or is resurrected.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 463

 

Parents are commanded to instruct their children in God’s way, and if in these last days parents refuse to heed the divine instruction and warning they bring destruction upon themselves and their small children at Armageddon. (Deut. 6:6, 7; Eph. 6:4)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 463

 

Parents should remember that their wrong course unfavorably affects their children and may bring their offspring to destruction at Armageddon, just as a right course on the part of parents may put their small children in the way of preservation during Armageddon and opportunity for eternal life in the new world to follow.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1950 p. 463

 

Quitters will never gain eternal life; and that fact holds true also for those persons of good will who now entertain hopes of surviving the world catastrophe of Armageddon into the “new earth”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1950 p. 487

 

It is for gaining this life that we receivers of his Word must be fruitful now before Armageddon. But not only is our own new world life involved with our productivity. Through our fruit bearing Jehovah God is also pleased to confer life upon others upon whom he uses us to scatter the seed and who likewise become fruitful manyfold to God’s glory and vindication. Though the coming battle of Armageddon will wipe out and uproot every ungodly plant which our heavenly Father has not planted, it will not destroy the precious fruits of our righteousness in preaching his Word and advancing the interests of his kingdom by Christ. Oh, then, in the time yet remaining before Armageddon may He continue to cultivate us as his ministers and constantly renew our strength to endure and bring forth more fruit for his vindication and our own everlasting life in his new world! “Let him that has ears listen.”—Matt. 13:9, NW.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1950 p. 493

 

The evidence? Why, they get literature from America, distribute CARE packages from America, refuse to sign the Communist appeal to outlaw the atom bomb, and preach that the destructive war of Armageddon is inevitable. Communist propaganda argues that the Witnesses refuse to sign the appeal outlawing the atom bomb because through this bomb America will win the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 499

 

Human ruling isms will end at the latest in Jehovah God’s battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 501

 

How foolish it is for the rich to hoard up possessions for themselves. They cannot take it with them when they die, and it will be of no help or protection during Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 505

 

Like him, the last kings and princely rulers of Christendom will be taken away in God’s wrath at the battle of Armageddon amid a tribulation foreshadowed by the destruction of Jerusalem.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 512

 

So since 1914 is the time for the Gentile nations to be no longer on top but underfoot, to be trampled on by the heavenly Rulers till they are ground to powder and are blown away at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 513

 

At the battle of Armageddon, after this “short period of time”, modern Babylon or Satan’s world organization will be destroyed and the new world be completely brought in.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 514

 

Only Jehovah our God the Almighty could effect their deliverance by taking to himself his great power and again beginning to rule as universal King and destroying Babylon at the coming battle of Armageddon. The praise to him for beginning his reign by Christ in 1914 and for already effecting a deliverance of those who call on his name is already swelling from a multitude that grows with each passing year.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 516

 

Doing that will mean the end of all the kingdoms and human rulerships of this world at the universal conflict of Armageddon: “There is no peace to the wicked,” and there will be no peace between this world and God’s established kingdom. In this interim of years between Satan’s ousting from heaven and the coming battle of Armageddon, there has been no stabilizing of earthly conditions by man or by United Nations nor any restoring of “normalcy”, and there will be none.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 518

 

Now a life-giving change is under way. The settling of the age-old issue of universal sovereignty will shortly take place at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 520

 

Shortly the removal of the Devil’s old world will follow as a certain consequence at Armageddon’s war of vindication, and the new earth will be established on the foundations of everlasting righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1950 p. 521

Christian conduct, company problems and remedies, the progress made by Jehovah’s people over past years, and the need for fearlessly sticking with the work left for us before Armageddon, were among the points discussed.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 59

 

After her baptism the next day, she stated her desire to maybe even pioneer a little before Armageddon, the Lord willing. By her steadfastness and love for Jehovah she has shamed some, inspired all.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 103

 

The rulers of the people on this island are in for a great awakening at Armageddon. The religionists have failed in their work in Malta.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 116

 

How to expand the ministry ls our big question. With 1 publisher for every 20,000 persons in this long and narrow land, you can see that our first question is not, How near is Armageddon? Rather it is, How are we going to get the testimony to all the nations before the end comes? It is certain that Jehovah through his King Christ Jesus will make it possible. He has given the command and he will see that it is fulfilled. It is to these Higher Powers that we give thanks for our being able to report a new peak of 261 publishers as a climax for our 1949 service year.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 127

 

(1) Q. Why do you want to be immersed? A. I want to live in God’s new world and I must first be immersed as Jesus was. Another answer: I want to be saved during the battle of Armageddon and live in the new world. (2) Q. What do you say when you go from door to door? A. In reply the young publisher speaks about the preaching work, dividing of the people, Armageddon and the new world.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 164

 

As each service year terminates it means Armageddon is that much nearer. To all of Jehovah’s witnesses everywhere it means one year less of treasured opportunities for preaching the Word and redeeming the time for field service.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 174

 

I was much concerned about these people at first, wondering how they were going to receive the Kingdom message before Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 203

 

It is our joy, and we are pleased to serve Jehovah in this part of the vineyard, working shoulder to shoulder with one another and looking forward to the climax at Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 218

 

They have increased their peak number of publishers from 10,385 to 14,510 in one year’s time. Our brethren in Poland feel that “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord”, and they are trying to give all the people in Poland the opportunity of hearing the message before the final battle of Armageddon. The Branch servant gives us a report on their difficulties in accomplishing this work.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  p. 228

 

‘l’he Son of man’s dealing with the sheep and goats takes place before the wicked heavens and earth of this world flee into destruction, at the battle of Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  January 11

 

It takes place in this the long-foretold “day of Jehovah”, which began at the end of the “times of the Gentiles” in 1914 and closes at Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  January 11

 

So they feast upon this carcass by rejoicing in his victory over it at Armageddon, because it means his vindication of Jehovah.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  January 13

 

By keeping their integrity through a faithful part in this witness work, they are given the satisfying privilege of seeing Christ the King gain victory at Armageddon and render the mighty enemy organization like a carcass unburied and left to be devoured by carrion birds.-Rev. 19:16-18 W 8/1

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  January 11

 

The work of separating the people of all the nations occupies the greater part of the period from 1914 to Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 2

 

This is when the battle of Armageddon is due to start and each one must take the consequences of his stand.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 2

 

Many will be left to their self-chosen destiny of destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 9

 

The prophet Daniel tells us of the setting up of the Kingdom in the hands of God’s Son and how it smashes the entire Devil’s organization at the battle of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 12

 

Just so, after Armageddon God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus will extend its realm over all the earth.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 12

 

With this in view he has given us special revelations of truth since 1918.  This enables us to preach to others, to enlighten them on what this woeful period of world history means and how amid it all divine goodness is being specially shown to mankind before the devastating battle of Armageddon blots out all of Satan’s organization.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 13

 

But Armageddon will lay him low by the blows of Jehovah’s battle-ax, Christ Jesus the Greater Cyrus.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 14

 

He will literally reduce them to an empty waste at the battle of Armageddon. W 2/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  February 24

 

His weapons to execute his indignation and wrath in the battle of Armageddon are his angelic hosts under his Greater Cyrus, Jesus Christ.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 3

 

But Jesus’ faithful remnant of anointed followers who survive on earth down to the battle of Armageddon will have no part in any violent opposition to the political nations or in any destruction of these.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 3

 

Being higher than any and all of the kings of earth, none of these can resist him and he will trounce them with sore defeat at the battle of Armageddon. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 11

 

These are doubtless the angels, or include the angels, that fought for the Kingdom in the war in heaven immediately after the Kingdom was born in 1914. (Rev. 12:1-13) Come a third war or not, one thing is absolutely certain: the fight of the universe, Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” is ahead of this world.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 14

 

Being hid, they may survive the battle of Armageddon in which this world will end.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 25

 

But by the curative, reconstructive power of God’s kingdom these Armageddon survivors will be progressively relieved of the sinfulness, weakness and imperfections inherited from Adam and Eve. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 25

 

At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will destroy all those who are destroyers of the earth in their heartlessness toward their neighbors and mankind.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 26

 

Hence he will show us merciful ones his mercy and spare us from destruction at Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  March 26

 

One of the ways all families and nations will be blessed by Abraham’s Seed will be by a Paradise restored on earth under the Kingdom, after Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  April 3

 

Jehovah’s King is the great Signal whom Be has put on Mount Zion and to whom all seekers of life, truth and righteousness must assemble for protection and preservation through Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  April 13

 

Then David with other resurrected faithful men of old will joyfully serve Jehovah’s King as one of his visible princes in all the earth. At Armageddon the great Son of David will fight for the peace of the new world. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  April 22

 

Do not be embarrassed because a modern Babylonian tell you you cannot see those heavenly hosts of Jehovah being mustered for Armageddon.  God’s Word serves as your spiritual eyes. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  April 26

 

The religious system of lawlessness was not destroyed at the beginning of Christ’s manifestation in 1918 but has been permitted to stay till the battle of Armageddon. This is in order to test the integrity and faithfulness of the remnant and his “other sheep”. When Armageddon begins, his manifestation will turn into a revelation of violent power against the “man of sin” system and it will be destroyed together with all others who refuse to line up with the glorious gospel of God’s established kingdom.-2 Thess. 1:6-10. W 8/1

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  April 30

 

When the King orders such “goats” into the “everlasting fire” prepared for their kind, it is time for Armageddon to begin. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 9

 

The “goats” will never survive the fires of Armageddon. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 9

 

They think they have a league with death by this, so that death will not touch them, and think they have a covenant or agreement with hell so that hell will not open its gates for them and they go down into the grave.  Jehovah shows they have figured wrong, because his battle of Armageddon will break up all arrangements for selfish, personal safety. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 10

 

The very fact that he must rule in the midst of his enemies proves he must be present, that his parousia must be in effect among such enemies from the time he began ruling in 1914 until he destroys them at the battle of Armageddon, as verses 5, 6 foretell.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 25

 

In the battle of Armageddon when the presence of the Sou of man is revealed in that way, it will be as when fire and sulphur rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah after Lot had gotten out.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 27

 

The coming battle which prophecy calls by the name of Armageddon will rage both in the visible earth and in the invisible heavens, for antitypical Babylon takes in an earthly part and a heavenly or spiritual part.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 30

 

His day is near for doing so. Those Satanic heavens are now atremble, awaiting destruction at Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 30

 

If the end of the persecution were to decide the matter, then the ‘treading down of Jerusalem by the Gentiles’ has no end till the battle of Armageddon. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  May 31

 

Their continuing to heed it and tell it out to others guarantees that they too will not come into condemnation now or at the battle of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 7

 

By violence, force and intimidation his great organization, modern Babylon, took them into captivity and exile during World War I, but in 1919 Jehovah God acted for his own name’s sake and delivered and restored them as His name-people.  He will preserve them through the battle of Armageddon. W 8/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 9

 

The Kingdom preaching is the work commanded to be done now while Satan and his demons are hurrying all nations to their end at Armageddon.
1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 10

 

Make no mistake about it: divine mercy was extended to us between the “beginning of sorrows” and Armageddon that we might live to serve him in fulfillment of his prophecies. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 10

 

To show the scarcity of man upon earth after Armageddon wipes out old “Babylon”, Jehovah God warns : “The arrogance of proud men I will still, and lay the haughtiness of tyrants low, till man becomes more rare than finest gold, men scarcer than gold ore from Ophir.” (13:11, 12, Moffat; An Amer. Trans.)

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 15

 

They will be the people who now believe God’s warning-message and who dissociate themselves from any part in Babylon’s wickedness, and whom Jehovah will spare alive at the battle of Armageddon, because they now seek his righteousness. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  June 15

 

Persons who are desirous of engaging in the political, commercial or religious affairs of the world, supporting them even as they support one another in opposition to the supremacy of Almighty God, will have to go down with that old world organization when it is destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  July 10

 

So he has been allowed an interval of time between then and Armageddon. W 6/1

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  July 14

 

As he rides to the revelation of his presence in this capacity at the battle of Armageddon, he is bound to win the battle, vindicate Jehovah’s sovereignty and destroy all his enemies amor whom he has been ruling during his parousia. (Rev. 19:16 and 17:14)

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  July 16

 

It will lead to their preservation through the battle of Armageddon and to life eternal in the New World. W 8/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  August 4

 

They will be associated with this remnant also for as long after Armageddon as these continue on earth before joining the King in his throne above. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  August 18

 

This great flock of “other sheep” do not possess the heavenly kingdom, but, surviving the battle of Armageddon under his right hand of protection, they will enjoy the King’s favor from the very start of his reign of a thousand years. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  August 18

 

With the broom of Armageddon’s destruction He will sweep the universe clean of Greater Babylon, the Devil’s organization invisible and visible. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  August 25

 

Not even a remnant of her wicked seed will survive Armageddon into that world. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  August 25

 

That world and its political nations will have been destroyed at Armageddon. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  September 19

 

At Armageddon there will be an unnumbered great multitude who will not be touched by death or descend into hell, Sheol or the grave. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  September 21

 

To have safe hiding under God’s protection at Armageddon so as to survive. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  September 21

 

It had its beginning in 1914, with “war, in heaven”, and will have an ending, namely, at the battle of Armageddon, where this world, invisible and visible, will be obliterated.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  September 30

 

All political observers of today must agree that the wholesale destruction of the “kings of the earth” and their backers at the battle of Armageddon will mean the end of our present so-called “civilization”, the end of our present earthly organization and arrangement of things.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 6

 

The ignorance in which people will perish at Armageddon will be willful, because Christ Jesus, the Greater Noah, has raised up preachers of righteousness, and during all these years of his presence these have called attention  to his parousia and the world’s end. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 12

 

When this Kingdom witness has been preached to all nations, Jew and Gentile, then the time comes for the King’s power to be revealed by the universal war of Armageddon, and it will be too late for conversion, either by individuals or by nations. W 8/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 14

 

In this time when the King’s presence is being manifested like the brilliance of a lightning flash which shines upon all from east to west, some rejoice in this light and are gathered to the King’s side, to preservation through Armageddon and to a feast of joy over his victory there. W 8/1

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 27

 

Crushing of the Serpent’s head carries with it as one of its results the transforming of the earth into a beautiful global park after the battle of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 30

 

For their faith and righteous service these will be carried alive through the end of this “present evil world” at Armageddon and will have a part after that in making all the earth Eden’s garden, a park of perfect delight.-Rev. 7:9-17. W 6/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  October 30

 

Seeing that, by privilege, we are living in the time of his presence and that the full manifestation of it will take place shortly at Armageddon, to God’s eternal glory, let us watch that we conduct ourselves in this present evil world as those who have this blessed hope before us. 

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  November 12

 

The ancient instances of Theocratic warfare when Jehovah “fought in the day of battle” were prophetic patterns of how he will fight the universal war of Armageddon against all the nations of this earth at this end of the world.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 9

 

But those persons today who do know and trust in the name of the Most High God wait for him to fulfill the above prophecy concerning Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 9

 

Rich persons and wealthy organizations of this Babylonish world need not think they will be able to bribe Jehovah’s hosts and buy their escape from annihilation at Armageddon. That battle will not be fought for the material and financial enrichment of Jehovah’s hosts.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 11

 

Only by the destruction of the nations at Armageddon will the issue of who is God and de jure Sovereign over all be settled. W 2/15

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 19

 

So the prophecy will continue to undergo fulfillment down to the battle of Armageddon that “as the lightning, that eighteenth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day”.-Luke 17:24. W 7/15.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 28

 

The unsound teachings of today, the doctrines of demons, and the deceptions of seducers are all leading Christendom and heathendom on to early destruction at the war of Armageddon.

1950 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.  1949.  December 31