These people, Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions, represent the free nation and will go through the greatest catastrophe ever to befall man, the battle of Armageddon, into the New World to come, a world without end.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 7
The “faithful and wise servant” today has full trust in Jehovah God that He will cut off all the enemies in His own due time. This cutting off will take place in completion at the battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 14
There was opposition during the year, and we may expect that it will continue in the postwar era right up until the time of Armageddon, when the great Warrior, Christ Jesus, will clean out all opposers to the Kingdom. A brief report is given here concerning the opposition and some of the legal battles that were fought and won, by the Lord’s grace.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 68
Here at the gate in America, by Jehovah through his unconquerable King, the Warrior Christ Jesus, the Greater Jephthah, the battle was turned back against and on the enemy legions, who now flee but who will continue to fight until the King’s final triumph at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 72
The Lord arranged this convention for his free nation. He planned it through his organization. He poured out his blessing on his people, and he has given them strength and confidence to press on in the years to come, to magnify his name and to finish the work that they started to do. By his grace, and with his help, the educational campaign for the people of good-will will be accomplished and done be- fore the final battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 86
However, the Lord in his own due time will free these good people and maybe before Armageddon will give them further opportunity of hearing and reading the truth so that they can take their stand.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 180
“We declare our conviction that Jehovah, the great Theocrat, has already set his King upon his holy hill of Zion (Ps. 2:6) and that Jehovah is now bringing the nations of the earth to his judgments (Joel 3: 2; Zech. 14:2); also that by his witnesses he is giving the nations warning of the crisis of Armageddon, near at hand, and, by the same means, is giving the people of good-will toward God and righteousness the opportunity of salvation, and the blessings of life in happiness and peace in that kingdom, soon to have full sway on earth; that people of good-will proving their faithfulness to God will have the privilege of carrying out the divine mandate to fill the earth with a righteous race of people to the glory of Jehovah.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 182, 183
The Scriptures indicate that a great host is yet to come out from the peoples of all nations, kindreds and tongues, even as the prophet Isaiah, in the 60th chapter and 8th verse, stated: “Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?” This prophecy denotes that there will be a great ingathering of active witnesses for the Kingdom who will, for a short time before Armageddon, but sufficiently long to prove their integrity, come into the Lord’s organization and work there in the interests of the Kingdom; and a witness will be given far and wide, by the Lord’s grace, such as never has been given heretofore. The campaign of free education, which the Lord’s people by Jehovah’s grace are carrying on, will reach unto the ends of the earth. The work that is to be done will not be carried on without opposition; but, in the post-war era, we may expect great persecution and many difficulties in the furtherance of the Kingdom activity.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 189
Having the command from the Most High that this work must be done and accomplished before Armageddon, they will go forward and do it, even as Christ Jesus and the apostles did it in their day.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 190
When the “other sheep” are located it is necessary to teach and educate each one of such people so that they may continue in good will toward Jehovah and be led in the way of life everlasting and receive salvation from Jehovah at Armageddon, the cataclysm now impending on the world.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. p. 195
This world will not survive the zenith of the crisis at the universal war of Armageddon; but Jehovah’s Word, the Bible, which fanatical religionists incited by papal Rome have repeatedly consigned to the flames, will survive and be completely fulfilled.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. January 3
To escape the great deluge of destruction at the battle of Armageddon it is now necessary to be baptized unto the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. January 6
The peace of that post-Armageddon “new world” will never have an end. W 8/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. January 14
At the battle of Armageddon he will complete his conquests for the vindication of his Father’s name.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. January 29
That day is the “day of Jehovah of hosts” beginning with the birth of his Theocracy by Christ and ending with the vindication of His name at the battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. February 7
The prophecies of his Word are realities today, as a comparison of them with world conditions and events proves beyond honest denial. The prophecies of God, who is true, will go on fulfilling until, shortly, the old world will have disappeared at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. February 9
When Christ Jesus spoke of losing one’s own soul to gain the present world of religion, politics and commercial business he meant losing everlasting life in the new world that follows the fight at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. February 11
Jehovah has no pleasure in the death of the “other sheep” at Armageddon. Hence he purposed that his Good Shepherd should gather them into the fold of safety and preservation now before that destructive final tribulation.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. February 26
He will permit the remnant to survive the Armageddon fight with his “other sheep” and to see the New Earth, wherein “there shall be no more death”.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. March 12
In view of the Kingdom’s establishment, and the imminence of the battle of Armageddon, and the glorious incoming of the new world, war years and the postwar era should witness the expansion of education in the most vital field of human interest as never before. W 9/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. April 17
It does not require the thousand years of Christ’s reign after Armageddon to swallow up this “veil that is upon all the peoples, and the web that is woven over all the nations”. (Roth.)
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. April 25
Shortly, also, at Armageddon Jehovah will rise up to give his own witness.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. April 25
Man must learn God’s will and do it now, before Armageddon’s war, and have the consciousness and assurance within him- self that he is doing the right thing according to God’s Word.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. May 4
He sees to it that the feast is spread “in faithfulness and truth” and that his invited guests get to it. This feast is spread and enjoyed before Armageddon’s fight.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. May 25
Religion and state, which throw Jehovah’s witnesses into the fire to destroy their integrity and worthiness of life eternal, will suffer the consequences of their ungodly course. They will be destroyed in the fire of the battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. May 28
God’s Word shows the right answer. Soon, his preservation of the faithful remnant and their companions clear through the tribulation of Armageddon, and the utter destruction of the persecutors and opposers there, will pro- vide a final and climactic answer. W 4/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. May 28
Any common-sense view, as well as enlightenment from God’s Word, shows that it is urgent now, before the final end at Armageddon, to be “redeeming the time [that is, buying it out at cost of non-essential things], because the days are evil”.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. June 16
Those who do not ‘redeem the time’ but continue to “live the rest of [their] time in the flesh to the lusts of men” are not living for the New World and will not have divine protection to survive the battle of Armageddon and see the “world to come”.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. June 16
The idea of applying themselves wholly to God’s service out of a mere love of righteousness and leaving the unlimited enjoyment of earthly good things till after Armageddon and its destruction of Satan’s unrighteous world, such an idea did not appeal to the “younger son” class.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. June 26
Because of faithfully carrying out their covenant of obedience and preserving their integrity, the Lord’s “other sheep” will be preserved through Armageddon and remain on earth forever in peace and prosperity. Down to the end of Armageddon they hold fast their integrity under the stress and persecution from the adversary, who strives to turn all humankind away from God. After beholding the majesty, power and glory of Jehovah manifested at Armageddon, and after having survived that greatest catastrophe of all time, they will keep on demonstrating their integrity under most blessed conditions, being faithful at all times after Armageddon even as they always were before it.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. June 27
It supports the Devil’s challenge, and ends up in everlasting destruction of the covenant-breaker, at the latest at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. July 5
Armageddon’s war is ordained for the wicked, with destruction of all their works. W 10/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. July 6
All nations under demon rule are but as a drop in the bucket or the fine dust on the scale pan in comparison with Jehovah, who will puff the opposing nations away at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. July 25
That God caused so much to be written in the Bible respecting the “other sheep” and causes such to be fulfilled now before Armageddon, rather than after, is no sign of favoritism to the “prodigal” nor of neglect to those who have hitherto served Him many years.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. August 12
The “last trump” announcing the Kingdom’s establishment and Armageddon’s approach is sounding; and blessed are those who now die of the remnant, for they do not sleep behind the “gates of hell” to await the King’s coming to call them forth.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. August 24
The Lord’s “other sheep” now being gathered will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. August 27
So he proved worthy to exercise the powers of the New World government and vindicate Jehovah’s name at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. September 15
The opposition governments on earth under Satan still operate. The “iron rod” of the King must still come against them at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. September 16
It will speedily come at Armageddon and will thereafter become the “great mountain” that fills the whole earth without any place left for any postwar government. W 12/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. September 16
The Life-giver, Jehovah God, divided the “living” by shortening the days of the “great tribulation” that began upon Satan’s organization in 1914 and that will be completed in the battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 1
And to the “younger son” class He divided a period of time for the use of their earthly privileges according to their will, to expend their human lives selfishly before Armageddon broke, if they chose. W 11/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 1
“That through death he might bring to nought him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil.” (Am. Rev. Ver., margin) Jesus’ faithful death was only the first triumphant step toward the ultimate bruising of the Serpent’s head at the battle of Armageddon. W 4/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 3
The obedient “other sheep”, who maintain their integrity down to the final end of Armageddon, God will exalt in triumph over the wicked oppressors by bearing them safely through that battle and giving them the assignment to clean up the earth and bring forth righteous offspring under their invisible overlord, Christ Jesus. W 6/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 4
Doubtless when, shortly, God resurrects from the dead the faithful prophets and witnesses of old and makes such the visible princely representatives of the Kingdom, the “evil servant” class will weep and grind their teeth. After seeing this, they go down at Armageddon. W 7/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 6
They join with his faithful remnant in glorifying God by show- ing forth his praise and declaring his name and kingdom throughout all the earth. Such “sheep” Jehovah by his King visits with protection and preservation during the tribulation of Armageddon. W 2/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 8
Since the feast is unto all peoples of good-will, and which peoples shall live on the cleansed earth under the rule of the heavenly Zion, it means or includes the truths that apply directly to the Lord’s “other sheep”, such as their surviving the battle of Armageddon and entering into the New World and fulfilling the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth. W 10/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 12
By reason thereof the Lord’s “other sheep” are now being gathered away from such religionists and become the companions of Jehovah’s witnesses. They will have their lives preserved clear through the battle of Armageddon and will enter the New World never to see death themselves.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 19
Permitting the cares of this world and the deceit- fulness of riches to choke up their lives and divert them from God’s purposed work for this period of grace before Armageddon’s fight, they have prodigally wasted time, opportunity, means. W 11/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 21
They will then arise and go to the Father in consecration before the great spiritual famine of ”Christendom” ends up with her destruction at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 27
Like the famished Egyptians of old, they turn their all over to Jehovah’s King, Christ Jesus, and ask him to buy them with his sacrifice of redemption that they may get into the way of everlasting life, now, before Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. October 28
People of good-will are feeding on the hope of being “hid in the day of the Lord’s anger”. The faithful class thus favored will have divine protection. They will be spared death at Armageddon, and will enter as survivors into the conditions on earth in the righteous New World.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 11
And Scriptural grounds exist to think this will take place on this day of Jehovah before Armageddon’s war is done. W 10/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 11
Sanctify him in the vital part of you, in the heart, as being Jehovah’s Executioner with all power to destroy at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 12
Those assembled to the Lord Jehovah rejoice at his present judgments and at the prospect of coming judgments at Armageddon by his judicial Vindicator, the Greater David, Christ Jesus.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 16
An international police force, no matter of what strength and striking power, cannot guarantee a durable peace with freedom and security, nor will it be able to stand the terrible shaking of all man-made things at Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 26
Jehovah’s remnant of witnesses, and also their companions as foreshadowed by Noah’s sons and their wives, have faith in God’s Word which tells of the approaching universal tribulation, the battle of Armageddon.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. November 30
The Gentile powers, forming a postwar association of nations in opposition to the Theocratic rule of the earth, face annihilation in the battle of Armageddon. Since 1918 they have made assault after assault upon the visible representatives of The Theocracy, Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions; but these have closed their ranks with the worship of Jehovah God as the binding tie. The line holds!
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 23
Till Armageddon’s fight they may continue to trouble Jehovah’s people. When they do decease at Armageddon’s war of execution, they shall literally go into extinction, without hope of rising. W 10/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 25
Those who endure to the end of the “strange work” will have their faith rewarded. Shortly they will give the shout of triumph, and God’s wonder-working power will bring down the protection behind which the unbelieving religionists hide themselves, and the God whom they reproached will execute them in the battle of Armageddon. W 8/1
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 26
When Jehovah preserves his remnant and their faithful companions at the battle of Armageddon and the enemy hosts are killed, this will completely and for ever remove all reproach from God’s people. W 10/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 29
As we look forward to the vindication of Jehovah’s name by his King at Armageddon, we continue to pray for Kings, saying: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” W 12/15
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 30
Shortly, at the battle of Armageddon, Jehovah by his Associate Judge and Executioner will vindicate that Word.
1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1943. December 31