That took place in 1914 C.E. But, as to the action that God’s kingdom will take in the near future, in the war of Armageddon or Har–Magedon, he goes on to say: “It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms [existing at the time of the end], and it itself will stand to times indefinite.”—See also Revelation 16:14, 16; 19:17-21.

The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life.  1968, 1981 Ed. p. 99, 100

Any death-dealing weapons of war that remain after Armageddon will soon be destroyed forever. (Ezekiel 39:9, 10; Psalm 46:8, 9 [45:9, 10, Dy])

The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life.  1968, 1981 Ed. p. 103

162   17  The King Fights at Armageddon

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 3

With the Gentile Times ending in 1914 C.E., “the Court” properly takes away the authority of “their rulerships,” though there is “a lengthening in life given to them for a time and a season”—until judgment is actually executed on them at Armageddon.—Daniel 7:12; Revelation 16:14, 16.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 142

At the same time you place yourself in line to be one of the “great crowd” that will inherit everlasting life on an earth made glorious. (Revelation 7:9-17) But first the Kingdom must “come” to fight Armageddon’s war! What will Armageddon mean for mankind and our earth?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 161

Section heading: The King Fights at Armageddon

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 162

AS WORLD War II drew to its close, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur said: “Men from the beginning of time have sought peace. . . . Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 162

Some 35 years later, how were the nations making out with regard to this “last chance”? The Times of London, England, had this to say under the headline “West Germans Fear Armageddon”: “The spectre of war has returned to haunt West Germany as the international situation seems to be slipping inexorably out of control.” And in an article entitled “World Stumbles into a Darkness,” the editor of the Miami Herald, U.S.A., asked his readers whether it had dawned on them “that Armageddon isn’t just some allegory that you read about in the Bible, it’s real,” and added: “Anyone with half a logical mind can put together the cataclysmic events of the past few years and see that the world is at a historic threshold. . . . It will change forever the way men live.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 162, 163

True, mankind stands at the threshold of great changes. But do we now face Armageddon? What is meant by Armageddon?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 163

Interestingly, Armageddon is different from what most people think. For the Bible describes the war at Armageddon, not as a cataclysmic war among earthly nations or blocs of nations, but as “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” It is God’s war against “the kings of the entire inhabited earth”—meaning the rulers who refuse to submit when God’s kingdom ‘comes’ to cause his will to be done on earth. (Psalm 2:6-12; Daniel 2:44)

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 163

Revelation, chapters 16 to 18, tells us much about developments on earth just prior to the war at Armageddon.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 163

As a prelude to the war at Armageddon, we are shown an angel pouring out a bowl “of the anger of God.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 164

Are you one of these who are praying even now for God’s kingdom to “come” at Armageddon?—Romans 12:1, 2; compare 2 Chronicles 20:5, 6, 12-17.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 170

Yes, you may be an eyewitness and a survivor of that catastrophic war at Armageddon. You may be an observer as the “King of kings,” accompanied by the angelic armies of heaven, fights in vindication of Jehovah’s sovereignty.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 171

In that day of Armageddon, you may find security, not in any material possession, but in standing firmly on the side of Jehovah and his “King of kings.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 171

For at Armageddon, the King seated upon the symbolic white horse “judges and carries on war in righteousness.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 172

Alas for the U.N., its supportive governments and their amassed military might! Let them assemble at Armageddon “to wage the war with the one seated on the [white] horse and with his [heavenly] army”!

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 172

When the war at Armageddon is finished, Satan, the wicked instigator of man’s misrule of the earth, will himself be seized, bound and hurled into the abyss “for a thousand years.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 173

1, 2. What have people of the world been saying about Armageddon?

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3, 4. How does the Bible view of Armageddon differ?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 163

21. Who will assemble at Armageddon, but why in vain?

22. How do God’s prophets describe the fight at Armageddon?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 172

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS LEADING TO ARMAGEDDON

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 173

? “King of kings” destroys nations, armies at Armageddon

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 173

At Armageddon, those would-be ruiners of the earth will themselves be brought to ruin.—Revelation 11:15, 18; 14:19, 20; 19:11-16.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 174

Our God, Jehovah, has warned us to keep wide awake to what he is about to accomplish at Armageddon.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 174

As the smoke of Armageddon’s battle clears, Jehovah’s visible organization will still be here, ready for use in whatever way he directs. And may we be counted worthy, also, to be here individually!—Zephaniah 2:3; Psalm 25:8, 9, 20.

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 176

This suggests the joyful prospect of human marriage and the bringing forth of children in righteousness for at least a time after Armageddon. (Genesis 9:1, 7; 10:1-32; Matthew 24:37)

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 178

It is reasonable to expect that such faithful ones who endured persecution “that they might attain a better resurrection,” along with integrity-keeping ones of the “other sheep” who today may die before Armageddon, would experience an early resurrection into the “new earth.”

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 179

However, if you are one of the “great crowd” of Armageddon survivors, where will you fit into this picture?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981. p. 182

1. (a) What is the reason for having confidence in mankind’s future? (b) What will Armageddon mean for ruiners of the earth?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 174

7. After Armageddon, what will remain?

“Let Your Kingdom Come.”  1981.  p. 176

The Bible even has a name for the symbolic battle in which God Almighty puts an end, once and for all, to present-day nationalism, militarism and war. Its symbolic location is called “Armageddon” in the “King James Bible,” known as the Authorized Version.—Rev. 16:14, 16.

“Armageddon?” You may ask, “But are not Armageddon and World War III the same thing?” The answer is NO!

Newspaper pundits may use the word “Armageddon” out of its Biblical context to refer to World War III and nuclear destruction, but the Bible indicates a strikingly different meaning for this term.

Awake! June 8, 1981 p. 11

Armageddon is not the consequence of nuclear war. It is the solution to nuclear war, a solution imposed by the only One powerful enough to enforce his will on this violent, gun-toting system of things. Armageddon will not result in smoking craters of radioactive debris.

Awake! June 8, 1981 p. 11

What will happen to the arms race in this new earth? To Armageddon survivors, used to ever-growing munitions outlays, the change will be astonishing. God’s Word states:

“Come, you people, behold the activities of Jehovah, how he has set astonishing events on the earth. He is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth. The bow he breaks apart and does cut the spear in pieces; the wagons he burns in the fire.”—Ps. 46:8, 9.

Awake! June 8, 1981 p. 11

Are We Nearing Armageddon?

Awake! July 22, 1981 p. 32

My Book of Bible Stories

Dad, where’s My Book of Bible Stories?

Well, son, I had a question about Noah’s ark, and your sister had . . .

. . .a question about Solomon, and my friend had . . .

. . .a question about Armageddon, and. . .

Awake! August 22, 1981 p. 32

Take as an example the Bible word “Armageddon,” which Webster’s dictionary defines as “a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil.” (Rev. 16:16)

Awake! September 8, 1981 p. 25

Section heading: “Closer to Armageddon”?

Awake! September 8, 1981 p. 30

After Israeli warplanes attacked and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear plant near Baghdad, Newsweek magazine considered the problem of spreading atomic capabilities among smaller nations. “No matter how dangerous the nuclear game has become,” said Newsweek, “smaller powers, fearful and suspicious of their neighbors, still seem determined to play. The result . . . will be a world in which all nations live a little bit closer to Armageddon.”

Awake! September 8, 1981 p. 30

Geneticist Herman Muller quails before the biological armageddon mutations threaten us with, but still thinks they will evolve us to “undreamed-of heights.”

Awake! September 22, 1981 p. 26

That takes place at “the end of the world,” when “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”—Armageddon—is fought. (Isa. 34:2; Rev. 16:14-16)

Awake! October 8, 1981 p. 11

Who are these “meek ones” who are “hoping in Jehovah”? They make up the true brotherhood of mankind who will survive Armageddon and enjoy paradise when it is reestablished on this earth under God’s government, when His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.—Rev. 7:9-17.

Awake! October 8, 1981 p. 11

It was his strong hope that, should he die before Armageddon, God would rescue him from the power of the grave by a resurrection to life.

Awake! October 22, 1981 p. 8

How would this period of “woe” end? Not gradually, but suddenly as this foundering worldwide ‘ship of state’ is finished off in a dramatic confrontation between this world’s political forces and Christ’s angelic armies, a final showdown known as the battle of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16, Authorized Version; 19:11-21.

Awake! October 22, 1981 p. 11