Satan’s time to rule has run out, and all those who prefer that rule to the New World of righteousness will be run out at Armageddon, after which the one Government, the ”kingdom of heaven”, will rule the one world in righteousness.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 18
Those that heed the message set forth in God’s Word will be protected and taken through the battle of Armageddon, even as Noah and his family were protected and taken through the flood.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 20
This, however, will not save the government.s of this world; for they too must go down in the battle of Armageddon, because they refuse to acknowledge the new King of the New World of righteousness.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 22
They are not doing harm to anyone; they are just tell- ing the people what is about to happen in the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 28
But those who refuse to hear the first time will be given a second and third and fourth opportunity between now and the battle of Armageddon, if Jehovah’s witnesses can get around that often.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 55
This only hope for the world was shown, and the necessity for the fleeing to God’s Kingdom by those who love righteousness was forcefully brought out; also that they must remain there until the battle of Armageddon is over.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 82, 83
Some day before the battle of Armageddon even the people may see the great need for relief from the oppression of this octopus-like organization and will throw off religion completely.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 91, 92
The Cubans can see the fruits of their labors, and they express gratitude to the Lord for the privilege of honoring his name at this time, prior to the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 128
It is hoped that soon the brethren, and all the people throughout the land, will have the liberty to hear the truth preached boldly again, so that the lovers of righteousness may take their stand for the Kingdom before the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. p. 175
Jehovah God is approaching the grand climax of his “strange work”, which work precedes the battle of Armageddon. The not distant future, into which the postwar road leads, will witness the end of a work that he will never repeat.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. January 19
Armageddon, to which all the nations are now gathered, will shortly mark his strangest of acts, of which his former acts at Gibeon were mere typical samples.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. January 19
After this “strange work” the King Christ Jesus must destroy all creatures and organizations that hate and oppose the Kingdom in the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. January 20
Whereas their complete dedication of themselves to Jehovah as the one Universal Ruler does not make them a part of the “people for his name”, they do have a large part in now declaring and magnifying His name before it is vindicated in the final war of Armageddon. W 11/15
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. January 21
Since now the Theocratic Kingdom has been set up and Jehovah’s King is gathering to his temple of worship all his “other sheep” before the tribulation of Armageddon, it is incumbent upon such gathered “other sheep” to obey the “one ordinance”, namely, to ‘preach this gospel of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness to all nations’.-Matt. 24:14. W 12/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. January 22
The march out of modern Egypt is under way. Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions are marching in freedom to the Red sea of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. February 5
What is more foolish than to pursue things of this world and frantically to strive to spare them from destruction at Armageddon
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. February 11
But as the royal One who fights against all opposers of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty and whips them at the battle of Armageddon, he was prefigured by that priest upon a royal throne, Melchizedek, the king of Salem.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. February 13
Also, now, God’s “other sheep” will honor His “woman”, joyfully serving under her direction at present, looking forward to the blessed hope of being adopted after the battle of Armageddon as her beloved earthly children through Christ Jesus. W 2/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. April 2
If the test of endurance seems to be applied to the companions longer than they had thought, and if the time till the Armageddon fight and victory of Jehovah seems to be longer than once expected, let these companions not faint or grow weary. Let them remember that the spirit-begotten remnant look forward to surviving Armageddon and are willing to go with the virgin companions all the way thither. W 10/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. April 7
At Armageddon Jehovah’s appointed Executioner, Christ Jesus, will regard and cherish their right and will spare them from execution in that great tribulation. W 12/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. April 16
The tribulation began against that wicked organization in 1914, when the “times of the Gentiles” came to their close. The final end and grand climax of that tribulation will come at the decisive fight between Jehovah’s hosts and Satan’s at Armageddon. W 9/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. April 27
Such judgment messages expose this world as Satan’s and boldly declare what shall soon come upon it in the battle of Armageddon, now near.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. May 6
Why, then, lay up treasures on earth for days to come and neglect God’s service in order to do so? You may share the fate of those who in the night of Armageddon will have their lives demanded of them. W 9/15
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. May 22
In view of the rapid approach of God’s vengeance at Armageddon, bringing the destruction of Jerusalem’s counterpart, modern-day “Christendom”, and of all organized religion, this promise is a great comfort to these “strangers” of good-will.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. May 23
The gospel is not meant to transform or convert this world and its organizations and to save them from destruction at Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. June 5
World regeneration is not yet complete, and will not be until the new earth has been created and all creatures that have constituted the “heavens and the earth which are now” have been destroyed in the battle of Armageddon, toward which all nations of earth are now blindly marching.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. June 23
Satan, now cast down to the earth, was not confronted at once with the battle of Armageddon and destroyed. At Armageddon, therefore, the final part of the “affliction” upon Satan’s organization commences. W 9/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. July 13
All the powers under Satan the Devil have been the enemies of righteous men. Nevertheless, with the destruction of such powers at Armageddon not all of man’s enemies will have been wiped out.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. July 22
Hence the tribes of Israel while rejoicing in the peace, plenty and security during the reign of wise King Solomon pictured the obedient ones of humankind who gather to the King greater than Solomon and who are delivered from all oppressors at the battle of Armageddon. W 3/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. July 31
All the steam-roller regimentation of the postwar world down till Armageddon will fail to break God’s earthen vessels and to rob them of their treasure. (2 Cor. 4:8-12)
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 3
Jehovah God is not at unity with this present wicked and imperfect world. He and it disagree thoroughly. That is why he will destroy it at the battle of Armageddon. This is a cause for alarm, even though it does not mean he will ever destroy this globe upon which we live.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 4
‘l’he worldly nations still keep up the encirclement of them and are conspiring on a world-wide scale to close in on them just prior to the battle of Armageddon to wipe them out utterly.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 9
Christ continues to rule in the midst of his foes. Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” becomes unavoidable, to remove all such opponents, who refuse to bow willingly.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 14
At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will deal out death to all worldly rulers opposing the rule of his Kingdom by Christ Jesus. “He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.” (Ps. 76: 12) In the time of the resurrection under Christ’s rule, God will not send forth his spirit or life-force to restore to life any such as wickedly fight against his King during the battle of Armageddon. At that battle God will demand their life, and his Warrior King will execute them. (Eccl. 8:8; 12:7)
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 15
Like the remnant these “other sheep” appreciate that the only treasure that will survive the fiery battle of Armageddon and continue unsinged and unconsumed into the New World is “this treasure” of the blessed ministry, the service to Jehovah God and his glorious King Christ Jesus.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 18
As God’s free nation is now on the trek out of Egypt, with the persecuting Egyptians at its heels, the remnant look ahead to the Red sea of Armageddon to rid them for ever of these malicious persecutors. So the modern-day “mixed multitude” of strangers of good-will march along with and after them. They too expect to pass alive through Armageddon and to come out safe on the other side, to join in singing Jehovah their Deliverer’s praises in the free New World. W 11/15
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 25
The spiritual meat was the steady revealments of truth as to Jehovah’s King and kingdom, and the vindication of his name at the battle of Armageddon by means of the kingdom.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 29
From the Theocracy’s birth in 1914 and down till His going forth and fighting and whipping the combined enemies at Armageddon is the famous “day of Jehovah”. This is the favorable day of flight to real security against execution at Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. August 30
A great number of these will never go down into the tomb, for Almighty God will preserve a great multitude of this class through the destruction of the old world at Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. September 3
They will keep on preaching the gospel, without stopping, until the final end of this world and of its wisdom comes at the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. September 11
This leads them to consecrate themselves to God and to identify themselves openly as on the side of the Kingdom. At Armageddon Jehovah’s executioners will not slay such marked ones.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. September 13
Though they be many more than the 144,000 of the “bride” class, yet, after the full-length test of integrity has sifted out even many of the “virgins” class, those who endure to Jehovah’s final vindication at Armageddon will compose a ‘great multitude whom no man can number’.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. September 28
We have nothing to fear of the Red sea of Armageddon. Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions will go through that blood-red battle of Armageddon and come out on the other side in the free New World of righteousness. The pursuing demon-led Egyptian hosts, rashly pushing on to the final assault against Jehovah’s witnesses, will enter into the Red sea of Armageddon, but will never come out alive. Satan’s entire world will be swallowed up in destruction. Then, on freedom’s shores in the New World, all of Jehovah’s delivered people will, under the Greater Moses, Christ Jesus, sing praises to Him who gains the victory, “Jehovah of Hosts, mighty in battle.” W 2/15
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 3
They must, however, be conformed to the image of the Chief One of the called, chosen and faithful company, Christ Jesus, by keeping faithful to God unto the end, even clear through the big fight at Armageddon. This entails much suffering upon them, but God will avenge them speedily at Armageddon.-Luke 18:7, 8. W 7/15
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 6
Before the day is over at Armageddon, Satan and all his demons will see all their agent-kings on earth cleared off by Jehovah’s “strange act” and only Jehovah continuing to hold the field as “King over all the earth”.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 7
This mandate the multitude of Armageddon survivors will fulfill subject to the “new heavens” above, that is, the Kingdom.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 13
For them to escape destruction at Armageddon with the blood-stained world, they must forsake all and flee to Jehovah’s Theocratic organization under Christ the High Priest and must put themselves under it. There they must abide for ever, inasmuch as Christ Jesus is deathless and abides a High Priest of God for ever and sits upon the throne of The Kingdom.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 17
At the latest, therefore, they must suffer destruction with Satan’s world by the avenging sword of Jehovah’s mighty Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon. W 12/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 17
At the battle of Armageddon, not far distant, God will destroy all the “wisdom of the wise” which they will have demonstrated in the postwar “new order”.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 25
This association of Father and Son in this joint reign precedes the Armageddon of destruction for Satan’s hosts.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. October 28
The “strange work” preceding God’s “strange act” at Armageddon is not yet done.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. November 1
It is by that kingdom that Jehovah God will yet go forth against the nations besieging his people and will destroy them all in the great fight at Armageddon, just as he fought by that same kingdom against Satan’s demon organization in the “war in heaven”, now past. W 9/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. November 17
The proud are abominable in God’s sight and are surely headed for a fall. Hence the proud, haughty religious clergy are due for a fall into destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. November 27
The words elect and chosen translate the same Greek word and are used interchangeably. Spirit-begotten Christians who share the victory with Christ Jesus at Armageddon are not only called, but also chosen or elect. (Rev. 17:14)
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. November 28
By such fearless testimony faithfully sustained in the Lord’s spirit down till the fight at Armageddon, they render their part to the vindication of His name. W 8/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 3
Now, in this day of Jehovah, He reigns, and The Theocratic Government of Jehovah by his Son Jesus Christ is here. At the same time the 1000-year kingdom of Christ Jesus is near, and it approaches nearer with all the speed of Armageddon’s approach!
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 4
But in the distant tomorrow, or in the final cubit of my life-measure before the battle of Armageddon, ah, then I shall get in real earnest and give my full time, strength and means to the Lord’s service.’
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 5
As visible representatives of God’s kingdom among such “twelve tribes” after Armageddon, and as God’s appointed “princes in all the earth”, will be the faithful men of old, from Abel to John the Baptist.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 10
Such ones are promised protection by the Higher Powers and will be carried alive through the battle of Armageddon into the regenerated world of righteousness. W 3/1
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 10
Even for a person of good-will to die now before Armageddon does not mean his labors in Jehovah’s witness work have been thrown away.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 14
God’s remnant must prophesy concerning such, not just to hear themselves talk, but that those involved may hear. This means that the remnant must get the revealed Kingdom message out to many peoples, nations, languages, and their rulers, before Armageddon. Jesus’ command just before ascending to heaven, to “go and teach all nations”, must now apply in a more pressing and immediate sense.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 25
Hence Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions may expect that the Satanic warfare under demon influence will be carried into that yet remaining period before the final end comes at Armageddon.
1945 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1944. December 31