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1937 The Golden Age

The Devil knows that there is only a short time now until the great battle of Armageddon will be fought, in which his power will be completely destroyed, and he is now endeavoring to bring all woe possible upon the people to turn them away from God and into destruction.

The Golden Age.  January 27, 1937 p. 272

 

The workers have to aid themselves, mean- time remembering that God is their sure Friend, and will bring them a great deliverance in Armageddon, soon.

The Golden Age.  January 27, 1937 p. 276

 

Do not concern yourself about who will and who will not die at Armageddon, but concern yourself about your own duty to deliver the message as God commands. The Lord will take care of the result.

The Golden Age.  March 10, 1937 p. 383

 

Even before the battle of Armageddon actually terminates the operations of Satan and his world, men may gain the promise of life and have Jehovah’s protection.

The Golden Age.  March 24, 1937 p. 413

 

Then, even if they do die before or during Armageddon, they are the Lord’s and need have no fear: they shall have life in any event.-John 11:25, 26, A.R.V.

The Golden Age.  March 24, 1937 p. 413

 

The Inquisition will die with them all at Armageddon, along with their crosses, beads, scapulars and images.

The Golden Age.  April 7, 1937 p. 427

 

The Roman organization is a brotherhood of murderers, torturers and defamers of God’s holy name. It will be destroyed for ever at Armageddon by the act of Almighty God.

The Golden Age.  April 7, 1937 p. 427

 

Lightning struck the pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and did several hundred dollars’ damage.  But that is not the real thing, not yet.  Wait until Armageddon comes.

The Golden Age.  April 7, 1937 p. 435

 

Three of Jehovah’s witnesses, with “sandwich signs” of the “Armageddon” lecture on them, were in a street car in Newark, N. J., that got tangled up in a Holy Name parade. Other vehicles got tangled, too, and the Jw’s saw seven- teen buses also bearing “Armageddon” signs waiting for the parade to pass. Along came one of the “holy fathers” sporting a silk hat and a cane, and bowing left and right to his admiring flock, but when he got up to the stalled vehicles and saw “Armageddon” to the right and to the left he straightened up so quickly that he nearly lost his silk hat. The Jw’s laughed aloud, and they all lived happy ever after. 

The Golden Age.  April 21, 1937 p. 464

 

Publication Title: Armageddon Who Will Survive?

The Golden Age.  April 21, 1937 p. 480

 

IT IS IN VAIN NOW for the pope of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to pray God or to warn the nations of “Christendom” that Armageddon may be averted.

The Golden Age.  April 21, 1937 p. 480

 

Also those who hear the Kingdom message now, and fail to obey it, will they die at Armageddon and remain dead for ever, or will they have an awakening out of death?  How may you survive?

In this booklet, ARMAGEDDON-WHO WILL SURVIVE just off the press, Judge Rutherford presents the inspired prophetic scriptures side by side with the well-known historical facts in proof of the answers therein given.

The Golden Age.  April 21, 1937 p. 480

 

Publication title: Enclosed find a contribution of …….. so that you may print more

copies of the booklet Armageddon. Please send me …….. Armageddon (5c a copy).

The Golden Age.  April 21, 1937 p. 480

 

The “church” he is thinking of will get the baptism of fire he is not thinking of, in Armageddon; and when that baptism comes it will burn it up, root and branch, and be the best thing that ever happened to the glory of God and the good of mankind. 

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 491

 

Can you imagine any man, appointed to a job by another man, and then evil enough, foolish enough, conceited enough, to say in the presence of others that he is confident that the man who appointed him will die, an object of God’s wrath at Armageddon, and he, the great, the wise, the prudent, the capable, will take his place and do what Rutherford tried to do and couldn’t?   

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 502

 

Yet this man, in an organization where men must be students, must be speakers, must be intelligent and eager readers, had the hardihood to state to others that the Lord would kill Judge Rutherford at Armageddon because he had usurped the Society, and that then a great work would be done.

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 502

 

February 28, 1936, to a man who does not believe the Lord is present: “I am fully persuaded that there must be a very great revision of much that we have been taught to believe was the truth in recent years. I am prone to believe that when Armageddon breaks it will so completely break up our present organization that it will make the experiences of 1917 and 1918 appear as nothing.  After that our great and mighty work.”

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 504


Relative to his “crackpot” theory on our Lord’s return and the resurrection of the saints, and Armageddon:  These are not worthy of receiving any consideration. 

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 506

 

But the colossal audacity of the man is manifest in expecting you to set aside the columns of The Watchtower, which the Lord is using to bring forth such vital truth as contained in the “Joseph” articles, “Malachi,” “Song of the Harlot,” and devote its pages to the discussion of his theories on Armageddon and the Lord’s return.

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 507

 

Publication title: Armageddon Who Will Survive?

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 512

 

WILL THOSE WHO ARE KILLED IN ARMAGEDDON EVER HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LIFE?

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 512

 

Armageddon is the greatest battle of all time.

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 512

 

Publication title: Enclosed find a contribution of …….. so that you may print more

copies of the booklet Armageddon. Please send me …….. Armageddon (5c a copy).

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 512

 

It may be admitted for them that as liars and humbugs they are indeed authorities, and grand past masters of the gentle art of bluffing and bulldozing, but that is as far as it goes; and it won’t go even that far but a little while longer. Armageddon will settle the bill, with interest.

The Golden Age.  May 5, 1937 p. 530

 

Doubtless God permitted the temporary hiding of His name, purposing in His own time and way to reveal it anew and to fully vindicate that name. This He will do at Armageddon, and announcement of that fact is now being made by Jehovah’s witnesses.

The Golden Age.  May 19, 1937 p. 540

 

By sending in the coupon below you will be able to obtain this special offer of two bound books, RICHES and PRESERVATION, and the latest booklets, ARMAGEDDON, UNCOVERED, PROTECTION, and CHOOSING, all by Judge Rutherford. This coupon must be sent in before June 13, 1937.

The Golden Age.  May 19, 1937 p. 544

 

I would like to take advantage of the Watch Tower’s special offer of two bound books, Riches and Preservation, and four booklets, Armageddon, Uncovered, Protection and Choosing, all by Judge Rutherford, on a contribution of 50c per combination.

The Golden Age.  May 19, 1937 p. 544

 

Let them take their stand and all go down with the Devil at Armageddon, as is their present purpose and intent. The Seventh-day Adventists long ago rejected the God of the Bible.  Mrs. White suits them better.

The Golden Age.  June 2, 1937 p. 563

 

Reply: “The account will be settled during the battle of Armageddon.

The Golden Age.  June 2, 1937 p. 568

 

Now Is the Time to take your stand on the side of Jehovah and His kingdom. When the battle of Armageddon breaks it will be too late.

The Golden Age.  June 2, 1937 p. 576

 

Publication Title: During that time a special offer will be made of two bound books, RICHES and PRESERVATION and, four booklets, ARMAGEDDON, UNCOVERED, PROTECTION and CHOOSING, all on a contribution of 50c.

The Golden Age.  June 2, 1937 p. 576

 

The testing fire for the living souls will be “the supremacy of the pope”, that is to say, between ambitious wickedness and true worship of Almighty God in spirit and in truth.  Convinced that the battle of Armageddon is near, persecution will fail to dampen our spirit.

The Golden Age.  June 16, 1937 p. 586

 

Picture caption: The Hierarchy’s ride to Armageddon

The Golden Age.  June 16, 1937 p. 586

 

The man’s external deliverance, which would have begun anyway at Armageddon, is merely begun ahead of time.  The dispatch describes the wife as a Nazi wife. 

The Golden Age.  June 16, 1937 p. 590

 

He sent in $20, paying his Watchtower and Golden Age subscriptions ten years ahead.  He is sure, so he says, that Armageddon will be along before his subscription has expired, but he doesn’t care, anyway.  Well nobody will ever get his $1,000.  He is betting on a dead-sure thing. 

The Golden Age.  June 16, 1937 p. 592

 

The British Air Raid Precaution Department has issued Handbook No. 1, entitled Personal Protection Against Gas (H.M. Stationery Office, 6d. net).  It is divided into the subjects of ‘Nose Irritant Gases (Diphenylchloroarsine )’, ‘Lung Irritant Gases (Chlorine and Phosgene), ‘Tear Gases (Chloracetophenone, Ethyl Iodoacetate and Bromobenzyl Cyanide),’ and ‘Blister Gases (Mustard Gas and Lewisite)’; and if it woldnt’ make you pray for God’s kingdom to come in full power in Armageddon and destroy the whole devilish arrangement now calling itself civilization, nothing would. 

The Golden Age.  June 30, 1937 p. 621, 622

 

“The sons of God” who became disobedient in the days of Noah have been imprisoned for a long time.  Their punishment may end approximately at Armageddon.  Such of that company as turn to righteousness may be saved and recovered.

The Golden Age.  June 30, 1937 p. 634

 

Section title: One Less Candidate for Armageddon 718

The Golden Age.  August 11, 1937 p. 706

 

We hope the little hardships here will more fully prepare us to meet the hardships of Armageddon and that which must precede that great battle.  Praise to Jehovah!

The Golden Age.  August 11, 1937 p. 712

 

Section heading: One Less Candidate for Armageddon

The Golden Age.  August 11, 1937 p. 718

 

IN Hull, Quebec, there is one less candidate for Armageddon.  A leading evangelist, “Reverend” Omer Girard, was executed for the murder of two aged men the year previous. 

The Golden Age.  August 11, 1937 p. 718

 

Still, if it is the Lord’s will that it should be given here before Armageddon, He will open up the way, providing both workers and means to give it.

The Golden Age.  August 25, 1937 p. 755

 

God’s kingdom is here, and Armageddon, the end of the Devil’s whole arrangement, is at hand.

The Golden Age.  August 25, 1937 p. 758

 

The following from the Freeman’s Journal of Sydney, Australia, is an example. After admitting the truth as to what Armageddon will accomplish in the earth it makes haste to assert that nobody will ever know anything worth while about it, least of all Jehovah’s own witnesses in “the evil day” (parenthetical remarks are by the editor):

Armageddon is the symbol of the final struggle of good and evil, when evil forces will combine against the influence of Christ.

The issue will be the final triumph of good over evil. When this final phase of the age-long struggle between good and evil will occur is not known. Christ himself said it is not given to man to know the day and the hour. The predictions of people like the Russellites [How the preachers do love to call names!] or Witnesses of Jehovah, and their absurd literalism in their interpretation of the most mystical of all books, Revelation [a charge perfectly absurd to anybody who has read Light], cannot but be rejected by all sensible men. [“Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?”-John 7:48.]

The Golden Age.  September 8, 1937 p. 790

 

Today man lives in barbarism of the worst type; tomorrow, beyond Armageddon, he lives in Paradise, Eden restored.

The Golden Age.  September 22, 1937 p. 823

 

Publication title: These seven booklets, UNCOVERED, PROTECTION, ARMAGEDDON, INTOLERANCE, CHOOSING, WHAT IS TRUTH? and WHAT YOU NEED, each 64 pages, will be mailed anywhere on receipt of a contribution of 25c.

The Golden Age.  September 22, 1937 p. 832

 

Publication title: Please send the booklets Uncovered, Protection, Armageddon, Intolerance, Choosing, What Is Truth? and What You Need, all by Judge Rutherford, to the following address. 

The Golden Age.  September 22, 1937 p. 832

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