But, above all, it is folly in the light of God’s Word, the Bible. Why so? Because God’s Word assures us that organized religions will be the first to go at the coming battle of Armageddon.

Awake!  January 8, 1952 p. 7

They openly denounce communism and plainly tell the Reds that the whole communist structure will perish forever, not later than Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which is very near.

Awake!  January 8, 1952 p. 15

Modern Babylon is beyond healing, and the almighty God, Jehovah, is not going to let her die a slow, lingering death, but, as Bible prophecy assures us, he will soon give her the coup de grace at the coming battle of Armageddon, so that all may know that Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth and that none can violate his laws with impunity.-Psalm 83; Jeremiah 51:8; Matthew 24; Revelation 16:14, 16.

Awake!  March 22, 1952 p. 8

While justice may never be attained in cases of mob violence in the courts, it will be gotten at Armageddon.

Awake!  March 22, 1952 p. 11

His time is near but he sees to it that everybody is given a fair warning before he strikes.” He was talking about the battle of Armageddon.

Awake!  April 8, 1952 p. 19

Now, as the time of the accomplished end is approaching at the battle of Armageddon, there is still ample time to flee before the wrath of God comes upon this wicked world. The eruption of Hibok-hibok volcano is only the phenomenon of nature, its havoc of lives is only partial, but the fury of Armageddon will be the final execution of judgment, which includes the so-called “vicars”.

Awake!  April 8, 1952 p. 19

In retribution for such cruel dominion over the lower creation, the Scriptures denote that Jehovah God will employ animals in the battle of Armageddon to act against those who have defiled the earth by such hideous practices. Jehovah God will not take joy in the death of the wicked, but justice will be done.

Awake!  April 22, 1952 p. 15

Let those who have made a little god of science in this twentieth century ask themselves if they think God’s justice will be satisfied at Armageddon with the lame excuse that the reckless spilling of animal blood in the laboratories was justified by the demands of the great “science” of vivisection!

Awake!  May 8, 1952 p. 24

Following the battle of Armageddon, any surviving condors will find the whole earth like a sanctuary. Under the reign of Christ the King, the earth will be a peaceful place not only for righteous men, but for birds and animals too-all to the glory of Jehovah God, the Maker of our earth.

Awake!  May 22, 1952 p. 23

How long will God tolerate the oppression of the poor and this underhanded justice? Not for long. Soon at Armageddon Almighty God will balance the scales of justice by destroying the wicked oppressors and establishing righteousness.

Awake!  June 8, 1952 p. 8

Christians will shun gambling as a rotten tree, rooted in demon mythology, prospered by pagan Rome, perpetuated by the false religious, corrupt, criminal element of this world, which will soon be cut down and, along with its rotten fruitage, will be destroyed in the battle of Armageddon.

Awake!  June 22, 1952 p. 16

Christ Jesus will clear this world of all these nationalistic problems by the fast-approaching war of Armageddon and thereafter unite all mankind under his theocratic government. 

Awake!  July 8, 1952 p. 7

A supposed final remaining electrical ring from this process they contend now is moving in on us to eventually wrap the earth viselike and become the Lord’s principal weapon at the universal ivar of Armageddon. Some, with their own personal ideas of chronology, conveniently time the ring’s march to bring its arrival here at the right time to fit their theories.

Awake!  July 8, 1952 p. 12

Will Armageddon, then, interrupt man’s efforts to rocket himself to the top of his atmosphere and on “out of this world”‘?Whether it will or not is beyond the scope of this article, but if God-fearing man were given a view of the universe from the remote exosphere, what then?

Awake!  July 8, 1952 p. 13

Such appreciation is left in store for earth’s dwellers in the endless new world beyond Armageddon.

Awake!  July 8, 1952 p. 13

But no proxy will be available for them when God’s fury comes against them in strength at Armageddon for their final lesson in universal law. 

Awake!  July 22, 1952 p. 4

Not five per cent, not even two per cent, not one-tenth of one per cent will those get in return who follow him, but only death and loss of everything, at the latest, in the battle of Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14-16)

Awake!  August 22, 1952 p. 4

The battle of Armageddon ending this present system of things will bring a wave of destruction far beyond that of even the flood.

Awake!  August 22, 1952 p. 12

It assures us that Armageddon does not depend upon geological calculations, that it is a certainty for the same reason the flood was, God’s judgment against wickedness.

Awake!  August 22, 1952 p. 12, 13

Not until Jehovah’s righteous war of Armageddon has wiped out the most ruthless land baron of all, Satan the Devil, loosening his oppressive grasp of the human society of this wicked system of things and ending the tenure of his tyrannous earthly copycats can true relief come.

Awake!  August 22, 1952 p. 24

Imagine their dismay while toppling to destruction during the colossal rout of Satan’s entire organization at Jehovah’s universal war of Armageddon, pictured by the Bible flood!-Matthew 24:38, 39.

Awake!  September 8, 1952 p. 8

A man nearby shows his good will by supplying us with milk at half price and by taking part in the work himself. He passes out literature to all around here in the hills and says that it will not be his fault if his neighbors get a shock at Armageddon.”

Awake!  September 8, 1952 p. 28

How will this world’s structure fare in the face of his unleashed fury at Armageddon?

Awake!  September 22, 1952 p. 12

When the transition period from the old to the new system of things for this earth is completed at the battle of Armageddon, a new society will be built on the other side of that climax to this world’s troubles that will be based on the righteous principles of Jehovah God.

Awake!  September 22, 1952 p. 23

Even Jehovah God will not clean it up, but will clean it out at the battle of Armageddon.

Awake!  September 22, 1952 p. 31

It would be paralleled by war in heaven and Satan’s ouster there, the Devil and associate demons being hurtled earthward to roar about in anger and await his now early finish at Armageddon. (Rev. 12:7-12) How futile indeed to now seek lasting happiness through this old system of things and its devil-inspired woes!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1952 p. 3

Yes, God knows rebellious Christendom, knows how she would only use his favor toward her for selfish, sensual pleasure. So he withholds it and warns that her hypocrisy will plunge her to destruction at Armageddon at the hands of the very political princes she has tricked.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1952 p. 4

The bearers of the Kingdom announcement have the confidence of God’s Word that the universal war of Armageddon will throw open the portals on a glorious new world for mankind.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1952 p. 4

Why should lovers of righteousness stay in the old world and go down with it at Armageddon and die for an eternity, when they have the opportunity of pulling away from this system of things and of enjoying life in a new world of righteousness?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1952 p. 19

Their adherents will be taken captive or destroyed by the worldly elements that fight against religion and God’s kingdom, thus making organized religion completely desolate, this marking the beginning of Armageddon.—Rev. 17:16-18.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1952 p. 30

A PROBLEM of great concern to all devoted parents in this pre-Armageddon period is that of properly rearing children in divine favor.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 36

Hence in this day of final judgment since 1918 parents are responsible for the final destiny of their minor children. When Armageddon strikes all minor children who are not under such “family merit” arrangement will meet annihilation with no hope of a resurrection. This is strongly indicated at Ezekiel 9:6 (AS), where it is written: “Slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 43

Not only will this help the youths to be self-supporting and to make a success of the pioneer service later, but such specialized training in the arts and crafts of our day will enable them to make a practical contribution toward the building of Paradise in the earth after Armageddon. It staggers the imagination when one contemplates the post-Armageddon needs for skills

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 45

Its prophecies show us the sign that announces the nearness of Armageddon, the divine battle that sweeps wickedness from the earth to make room for a clean new world of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 50, 51

God-given instinct guides the animals and birds to react to the sign of literal winter’s approach and make the necessary preparations to pass through alive; God-given intelligence should make mankind react to God’s Word and the sign it gives of Armageddon’s approach and make us prepare for surviving it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 51

Its final fall will come at Armageddon, at the latest. God knows human government forward and backward. Judging by the results, human rulers know it only backward.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 52

Would you like to be guided in your preparations to pass through the symbolical winter of Armageddon just as surely as birds and animals and insects are guided in their preparations to pass through literal winters? Then make their Guide your Guide.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 53

Hence those brothers in Hitler’s concentration camps hung onto life’s slim thread for a purpose. So they are alive today and are here at convention and carrying out this purpose, and will keep on doing it to the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 57

Its ring of confidence and the assurance it holds out that pure religion will survive the battle of Armageddon, along with those who practice it, convince us that this is from the hand of Jehovah to guide His people in these crucial days.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1952 p. 61

Yet the facts show Jehovah’s witnesses are the ones preaching of the Kingdom’s establishment, and warning all nations of Armageddon’s approach. Their organization is run theocratically, and it brings forth the spiritual food that is timely.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1952 p. 82

In other words, creatures would be divided or separated, and those who do not honor Jehovah are scheduled for eternal destruction as by fire at Armageddon’s battle.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1952 p. 89

That condition grows worse in Christendom every year. What is the meaning of it? It means the “last days” for Christendom and for this world. Yes, and all those who remain in that low spiritual condition face destruction in the universal war of Armageddon with which this worldly system of things will end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 102

At the battle of Armageddon God will make all this perversion of the Memorial supper and of Christ’s sacrifice to cease by destroying the religious systems guilty of this deceitful abomination.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 109

Under the Shepherd’s protection and guidance they will pass through the final war of Armageddon together and enter upon the eternal destinies which await them in the radiant new world of clean, everlasting living.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 114

We know this old system of things will soon be destroyed at Armageddon, so why the reasons for attending high school when we could be out warning others?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 117

The educational systems are very faulty and the curriculum is of little practical value to a Christian. The short remaining time before Armageddon should be spent as profitably as possible.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 117

The educational systems are very faulty and the curriculum is of little practical value to a Christian. The short remaining time before Armageddon should be spent as profitably as possible.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 117

It is good to impress on your own and other people’s minds the nearness of Armageddon, but you do not need to quit school to do so. (2 Pet. 3:11, 12)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1952 p. 117

By this procedure God’s visible organization will remain clean through the coming battle of Armageddon, on into the new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1952 p. 148

In view of man’s mounting disobedience, his reprehensibility in the sight of the Lord piles ever higher, and soon the curses for disobedience will be climaxed by Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1952 p. 167

In this new theocratic arrangement of things on this abiding, literal earth there will be no more curses for disobedience, since the disobedient ones will have been swept away in Armageddon’s cleansing fury.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1952 p. 168

If a religious house is erected on the shifting sands of tradition and creed instead of on the solid foundation of God’s Word, its crash will be great and destructive at Armageddon’s storm.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1952 p. 171

He made it clear that this is not a post-Armageddon prophecy, but rather, one that is now in course of fulfillment.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1952 p. 188

In that way you may be hid and preserved clear through the universal war of Armageddon and enter into the new world where righteousness and meekness will be the rule for all humans who live.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1952 p. 207

He said that he believed in Jehovah’s promise of the new world under Christ Jesus and that at Armageddon all political governments would be destroyed, including both North and South Koreans that resisted Christ’s government, and that he would not violate God’s law for any human law which was contrary to God’s law.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1952 p. 215

Rather, sow and water to the end that God may give the increase and make manifest his spirit upon the theocratic organization. It will divide the people during this judgment period soon to be climactically ended by Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1952 p. 232

Indeed they had had an assembly and they were determined to press on diligently in aiding the “other sheep” to take their stand before the final battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1952 p. 240

But this prophecy has its fulfillment when the royal Seed Christ Jesus at Armageddon enforces his dominion to the very ends of the earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1952 p. 252

Only those being spiritually healed now can hope to survive God’s vengeance coming upon diseased Christendom at Armageddon and enter the new world of righteousness and life. (Isa. 1:4-6, 18-20)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1952 p. 259

These events were to occur in a transition period during which a great tribulation would come upon Satan’s entire organization leading up to the final test of power at Armageddon which results in its utter defeat and destruction.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1952 p. 274

It opens up the way for you to survive through the coming world catastrophe of Armageddon into the new world which he creates.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1952 p. 305

In view of this God will even carry an unnumbered “great crowd” of them safely through the coming universal war of Armageddon, in order that humanity may continue on earth with an unbroken existence from the start and forever. To enjoy any possibility of surviving Armageddon into the endless new world, it is necessary that each one take the initial step of dedicating himself to God through Christ. You will get the mark for life that way.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1952 p. 314

As only such other sheep have the divine assurance of being spared during Armageddon as Noah’s sons and daughters-in-law were during the deluge, the mark really becomes one of security for them. Surviving Armageddon with the mark, they will enter the new world fully dedicated to God and ready and willing to do his revealed will on earth from that glorious time forward.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1952 p. 317

They will no more be able to furnish protection from God’s wrath at Armageddon than they were able to do so at the Flood.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 327

Quite likely at Armageddon we shall see cataclysmic forces of destruction operated by God to overwhelm this old world and blot it out. (Ps. 46:2, 3)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 327

At Armageddon the fall of the invisible demon hordes will be completed and will land them in the abyss, and the visible realm of Satan will suffer complete destruction. (Rev. 19:11-21; 20:1- 3)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 333

Our present day is also a time of judgment, and by the time Armageddon strikes all persons then living will have fixed their destiny.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 334

If those slain by the Lord at Sodom have no resurrection, then those slain by him at Armageddon will have none, for the former pictures the latter. So in their endeavor to prove their contention that not all slain at Armageddon will remain dead, some seek to show that the Sodomites destroyed by fire will return in a resurrection.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 336

This present satanic system is in its judgment period, and execution will come in this generation, at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 340

This judgment period will be completed during this generation, and when the execution of judgment starts at Armageddon the destinies of all persons then living will have been fixed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 341

Into this third class they would put all babes and children, and any adults not reached by the Kingdom message by the time Armageddon strikes.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 341

To all nations, throughout the inhabited earth, the witness given will be sufficient to meet Jehovah’s purpose, and it will be completed before the “accomplished end” or Armageddon comes.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 342

This judgment period from 1914 to Armageddon is set aside for this separation work and is a part of the sign that we are in “the time of the end”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 342

The judgment work assigned to this period must be completed before execution starts at Armageddon. Judgment at the house of God was completed, not left half done; so will it be with the judgment of the nations during the same judgment period.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 342

In harmony with the illustration of the sheep and goats, Ezekiel 9:4-6 (AT) shows but two classes, those marked for preservation and the unmarked ones appointed to destruction. And in this prophetic picture of Armageddon’s slaughter note that the executional forces do not spare individuals on the grounds of age or sex: “Slay without mercy or pity
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 342

Since Ezekiel 9:4-6 shows that some “little children” are in the class eternally destroyed at Armageddon, on what basis are they put in that class in view of the fact that they are too young to be held accountable for themselves? The Scriptures indicate a family responsibility or a family merit under which the destiny of unresponsible children is determined.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 342

“Jehovah knows those who belong to him,” and that also means little children at Armageddon whose parents belong to Jehovah and who try to rear them according to God’s Word.—Deut. 6:6, 7; Eph. 6:4; 2 Tim. 2:19, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 343

Parents are commanded to instruct their children in God’s ways, and if in these last days parents fail to heed the divine instructions they may bring destruction not only upon themselves but upon their small children at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 343

In view of the eternalness of the destruction of those slain by Jehovah at Armageddon, some will ask about those who may not personally hear the message, especially in some lands that prohibit the witness work.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 344, 345

Will it not be just for them to reap it on the same basis at Armageddon? Can they rightly complain if they reap as they sow, are judged as they judged, are shown the same mercy they showed? If the people either actively or passively support what is corrupt and immoral and murderous, do they not bear some responsibility therefor?—Matt. 5:7; 7:1, 2; Gal. 6:7; Jas. 2:13. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 345

They are not like those who are marked for preservation at Armageddon, who “sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 346

Those with honest hearts will sicken of this world, and more so as we advance toward Armageddon, for right up to that time “wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled”.—2 Tim. 3:13, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 346

Some argue that ignorance is an excuse that will gain a resurrection for many of Armageddon’s slain, such as those perishing because of community responsibility.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 346

If all those not personally preached to now and who are slain by Jehovah at Armageddon are going to return in the resurrection of mankind, why preach now at all? Even those who oppose the view that all Armageddon’s slain are forever dead will admit that those hearing but not accepting the witness now will perish eternally at Armageddon. Just for the sake of reasoning together, adopt their view for a moment. We preach to one thousand persons now, and perhaps one accepts the truth, while all the others reject it and die forever at Armageddon. But if we refrained from preaching to this one thousand, all would die at Armageddon but all would return in a resurrection, not having heard the message.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 347

Those whom he slays at Armageddon will remain forever dead, for his prophetic pictures made at the time of the Flood and at the time of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction say so, along with the parable of the sheep and goats
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 347

What this means to us today is that those now living in this time of judgment and who fail for one reason or another to take a stand for Jehovah, and are therefore slain by him at the battle of Armageddon, will not be retained in his memory for a resurrection.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 348

At Armageddon Jehovah will baptize this world with destructive fire: “The heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men. . . . Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth

and the works in it will be discovered. . . . the heavens being on fire will be dissolved and the elements being intensely hot will melt.” (2 Pet. 3:3-13, NW) Notice that this period of last days climaxed by Armageddon is called a “day of judgment and of destruction”, after which comes the promised new world of righteousness, the millennial reign.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 348

So fire is unquestionably the symbol for destruction that is final, whether used in connection with Armageddon or with the end of the millennial reign.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 348

It is not the unfinished division now existing that counts, but the finished one that obtains at Armageddon’s start. Though we are in a judgment period, we need not view as finally destroyed all who die from various causes prior to the execution of judgment at Armageddon. Some in the preflood world who died before the deluge may be resurrected; some Sodomites who died before fire and brimstone rained down may return; some Jews of Jesus and the apostles’ day not destroyed by the Roman executional forces may live again. But not those slain by the Lord in the Flood, or in the fiery rain on Sodom, or in the judgments executed A.D. 70, or during Armageddon. Some may die during Armageddon who are not slain by Jehovah, such as some of his people whose physical organisms may not be able to endure the ordeal; but the vast majority will be “the slain of the LORD” who litter the earth like dung. They remain dead forever.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 349

Intense persecutions and conspiracies will doubtless come against Jehovah’s witnesses before Jehovah’s fury rises to the point of launching his Armageddon destruction.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 349

The preaching work yet to be done, the increases yet to come, the persecutions yet to be endured—all of this will be a further manifestation of Jehovah’s spirit working upon his people and will effect a further, sharper division of mankind before Armageddon strikes.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 349

So let all know that this time of judgment of the nations is not a mere dress rehearsal for a future and decisive second judgment to come, thereby making the destruction of individuals at Armageddon not count for eternity. Know that all living at Armageddon will be baptized, either with fire for destruction with the wicked or with salvation for life with the theocratic organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 350

Know that those really concerned in a practical way for their fellow man will not waste time fretting over the eternalness of Armageddon’s destruction, but will zealously preach to save both themselves and others. (1 Tim. 4:16)

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19. Why is the view that ignorance will excuse many of Armageddon’s slain not conducive to zealous witnessing now?
20, 21. (a) Why would that course be folly? (b) How do John 5:28, 29 and Jeremiah 25:33 confirm the view that Armageddon’s slain remain dead?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 350

Questions From Readers
● One child lives because it has consecrated parents. Another dies with its wicked parents. Some persons hear the Kingdom message and live. Others may never hear it and die at Armageddon. Their opportunities are not equal. Would not justice require equal opportunity?—L. S., Ohio.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 350

After God has shown in his Word that he sometimes operates on principles of family and communal responsibility, and after we see that some of such instances pictured Armageddon and involve a withholding of the ransom benefits from those destroyed, on what grounds can we thereafter argue that he should act contrary to these principles?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1952 p. 350

Yet thankfully, the good news of God’s kingdom is sounding out in all these troubled lands and grows louder year by year as Armageddon’s reckoning for this old system of things nears and spiritual prison walls are smashed and the liberating call reaches the ears of prisoners within to ‘go forth’.—Isa. 49:9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1952 p. 367

This trend is so because Satan knows that his time is short before Armageddon and he is making every effort to induce all earthly governments to exalt themselves ever higher to increase their superiority and fear over the peoples.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1952 p. 371

It is also apparent from the Scriptures that it is His will for his established kingdom in heaven to proceed to break in pieces all the kingdoms of this old world in the battle of Armageddon just ahead.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1952 p. 409

Even Satan the Devil will be forced to recognize this great fact in his utter defeat at Armageddon.—Jer. 18:1-10.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1952 p. 410

By conforming ourselves to the present Christian organizational procedures we will be that much better trained to become new world administrators after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1952 p. 413

Now is the time for the honest-hearted persons to respond to Jehovah’s command to “get out of her” before he completely destroys her at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 423

Surely the false religious organizations of the world are building with combustible materials, which suffer damage now as the fire of truth strikes them, and which will be consumed entirely at the coming battle of Armageddon. Politicians and financiers also build with materials that cannot last beyond Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 428

Disturbing world conditions should not hinder persons from making plans to attend. Trust in the Lord. He knows when the battle of Armageddon will come and there is no need for us to be worried about the turmoil in the world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 428

But will Armageddon, which will mark the end of this old world, make such a change in such persons that they will no longer want to do then what they want to do now?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 429

Armageddon will destroy this wicked world just as surely as the flood destroyed the evil world in Noah’s day, but it will not wipe out the fallen tendencies in our mortal bodies. It is the ransom, not Armageddon, that cleanses us from sin.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 429

Then there will be no Satan and his demons to tempt us; neither will there be a filthy, drunken, gluttonous, greedy and sex-mad old world to tempt God’s servants. All that will perish at Armageddon.—1 John 2:16, 17; Rev. 20:3; 21:4, NW.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 429

Actually the new order of things is already taking shape and will be fully operating at Armageddon time to fill the vacuum left after the cataclysmic disappearance of the old order.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 432

Moreover, they have hope of being freed entirely from death either through the resurrection or in passing through alive into the new world at the time of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 444

When zero hour comes for the utter destruction of Satan’s house of bondage in Armageddon, liberated Christians will not be found captive therein to suffer a common fate with the unliberated ones in God’s annihilation of that unclean organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1952 p. 445

So when we are praying for God’s kingdom to come we are praying for God’s kingdom in Christ’s hands to break in pieces and obliterate all the political systems of this world at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1952 p. 477

Not at all. In the prophetic picture of Nebuchadnezzar’s image, the cutting of the stone out of the mountain without hands foreshadowed the Kingdom’s coming into existence or being established in 1914; while its coming against the image and grinding it into powder would constitute the complete expression of the Kingdom’s coming at Armageddon.—Dan. 2:31-45.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1952 p. 477

● What proof have we that the demons will be abyssed with Satan at Armageddon, and that they will return with him at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ?—R. R., Canal Zone.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1952 p. 479

But inasmuch as Revelation 12:9 shows that Satan’s angels are ousted from heaven and hurled down to earth with him, it is logical to believe that when the tribulation started against him then is resumed at Armageddon, after this in-between period of preaching is over, and his fall is resumed and completed at that battle of God Almighty, landing him in the abyss, the demons will go along with him.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1952 p. 479

The “wild beast” and the “false prophet” refer to the visible organization of Satan that is destroyed at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1952 p. 479

Jesus himself, who is certainly no pacifist, has already been named to lead Jehovah’s executional forces at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 483

Instead they practice those things which will survive Armageddon and which identify the new world society: “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self- control,” all component parts of the defense that wins.—Gal. 5:22, 23, NW
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 484

This Noah’s sons prefigured with their wives following the Noachian flood, which Jesus said pictured Armageddon, now near. (Gen. 9:1-3; Matt. 24:38, 39)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 491

He now sees the paramount issue of God’s universal sovereignty and he knows according to God’s Word it will shortly be settled before all creation, once and for all time, at Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 505

I so pray to know about new world and that all Devil’s world soon end at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 509

May Jehovah use me much to get gospel preached in Ethiopia before Armageddon.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 509

I pray God give me the knowledge and faith to spread truth in this country before Armageddon come to destroy all.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 510

Questions From Readers
● 1 Corinthians 7:14 (AV) says that the unbelieving mate is sanctified by the believing mate, and also the children of that union. The Watchtower has shown that such children may be preserved through Armageddon because of the family merit coming from the believing parent. Does such family merit also mean the unbelieving mate will be spared at Armageddon, or just how is such mate benefited?—L. R., Idaho.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 510

He has special advantages, but if these are rejected he will die at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1952 p. 511

They are very zealous and witness as opportunity affords, while awaiting the time when Jehovah will once again open the way for them to bring the message to the people before Armageddon.” The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1952 p. 526

Questions From Readers
● Your publications point out that the battle of Armageddon will come in this generation, and that this generation began A.D. 1914. Scripturally, how long is a generation?—G. P., Liberia.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1952 p. 542

Even if it did, we could not calculate from such a figure the date of Armageddon, for the texts here under discussion do not say God’s battle comes right at the end of this generation, but before its end. To try to say how many years before its end would be speculative. The texts merely set a limit that is sufficiently definite for all present practical purposes. Some persons living A.D. 1914 when the series of foretold events began will also be living when the series ends with Armageddon. All the events will come within the span of a generation. There are hundreds of millions of persons living now that were living in 1914, and many millions of these persons could yet live a score or more years. Just when the lives of the majority of them will be cut short by Armageddon we cannot say.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1952 p. 543

This is not practical if you wish to build an empire or a great religious hierarchy with yourself placed in one of the high echelons and the people forced to come to you for help and to support the fabulous structure. But these things are themselves impractical, since they will not survive Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1952 p. 548

We climb only a few feet and enter the narrow Megiddo pass, through which in ancient times many armies went to the battlefield of Armageddon, the plain of Esdraelon, and through which many rich camel caravans passed with their goods for Egypt and Syria.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1952 p. 554

This unusual scene is short-lived, however, because as we come around a bend there lies before the sweep of our eyes another more captivating scene in all the splendor of its springtime dress— the fertile valley called Jezreel in the Bible and outside of the Bible by the names “Plains of Esdraelon” and “Armageddon”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1952 p. 554

Then, when Armageddon will have laid low the hosts of Satan, there will be a theocratic new world society standing all ready to be used by the King for his 1,000-year reign.—Isa. 32:15-20. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1952 p. 588

Just how many more thousands of these may be added to the ranks before the battle of Armageddon we do not know. This class will be carried through Armageddon with the faithful remnant when Jehovah rises up and fights for his people as he did in the days of old.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1952 p. 603

If we allow ourselves to lazily drift with the current of humanity we gravitate toward the Dead sea of Armageddon. We must not drift with this babbling flow of humanity, being swept along with it unresistingly, but we must swim against it, which calls for strong effort.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 613

And since when has this place of refuge been made available to such unwitting manslayers, men of good will? Particularly since 1918, when the hope of surviving Jehovah’s vengeance at Armageddon was strikingly advertised in the lecture “The World Has Ended—Millions Now Living Will Never Die”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 619

They pass on the worthiness of manslayers to remain in the city in that they point out to such the Scriptural requirements for being spared at Armageddon, and in that they warn the willfully wicked of their impending execution by the avenger of blood, Christ Jesus.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 619

How long must these remain in the city of refuge? Until the death of the high priest, or until after Armageddon, when the last of the priestly members of Christ’s body die to join their Lord in the heavenly realm.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 619

The climax of that great tribulation will be the battle of Armageddon that the Pope has been moved to mention.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 634

God will do the same thing again. He must do it. As the flood was an expression of his love, it is also love’s expression for him to bring the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 635

destruction of this world and the establishment of God’s kingdom must be preached in all lands and the islands of the sea. (Apocalypse 16:14-16, Dy; Matt. 24:14) Just as Noah learned of the coming flood and was a preacher of righteousness and preached the saving news in his day, so those who learn of Armageddon and of God’s kingdom must preach “this gospel” in all the world for a testimony. There is no way to escape destruction at the battle of Armageddon unless people come to the Lord God and seek the just and seek the meek, “if by any means you may be hid in the day of the Lord’s indignation,” the same as Noah and his family went through the flood. They were hid in the day of the Lord’s indignation against that old world. (Sophonias 2:3, Dy)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 635

Before Armageddon we should seek righteousness and meekness that we may be hid in the day of the Lord’s indignation.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 636

46. How could the battle of Armageddon be any expression of God’s love?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 634

48. How does the flood of Noah’s day show Armageddon will be an expression of God’s love? The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 634

50. What must now be preached before Armageddon, and in order that men may do what?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 635

54. What things should we seek before Armageddon, and why?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 636

To the many friends and relatives who were privileged to be present at the exercises of the nineteenth class of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, and to many more who could not be present in body but were present in “spirit”, Gilead graduations represent additional praise and honor to Jehovah God; because these graduates are willing instruments in the hands of Jehovah to the glorifying of his name and the freeing of many more prisoners from Babylon’s bondage before Armageddon strikes.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1952 p. 637

It and all the nations will go into destruction when they war with the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 658

The generation experiencing the beginning of these things will survive to see their end at Armageddon. (Matt. 24:1-34; 2 Tim. 3:1-5, 13)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 658

But can we rely upon these predictions concerning Armageddon and the new world of righteousness that will follow?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 658

So study God’s Word, act in accord with it, build on rock foundation, and your faith will stand the assaults of men now and the storm of Armageddon later.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 660

As such he fought for his people Israel in times past, and he will again show himself as the God of war at the battle of Armageddon, where he will completely destroy his enemies for the vindication of his supremacy and the deliverance of his people.—2 Chron. 20:15; Rev. 16:14, 16. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 666

When ‘the slain of Jehovah at Armageddon extend from one end of the earth to the other, being neither mourned, gathered up nor buried, but lying as dung upon the face of the ground’, that will surely be the greatest evil, disaster, calamity that will ever have befallen mankind; but it will not be a wrong. It will be a righteous execution of judgment.—Jer. 25:33; Rev. 18:4-8, 20.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 667

While the Scriptures definitely establish that Satan’s abyssing at Armageddon for a thousand years thereafter runs concurrently with the thousand-year reign of Christ, and that the loosing of Satan for the final test comes after the millennial reign is over and Christ turns the Kingdom government over to Jehovah God, we cannot say at this time whether this final testing will fall within the 7,000-year rest day of Jehovah or whether it will come right after its close. We shall have to wait and see when Armageddon ends and the millennial reign begins before we can be definite on where the final season of testing at the end of the millennium will come relative to the 7,000-year day. If Armageddon ends before we reach the 6,000-year mark in human existence, then the 1,000-year reign would also end before the 7,000-year rest day would, and the final test could occur within the 7,000-year day.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1952 p. 671

How can the “gods” of this world, visible or invisible, save anyone or anything when they will not be able to save even themselves at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1952 p. 676

Not that they will stop preaching then. No, it seems that they will keep on bearing witness after Armageddon begins as a testimony against the godless elements, even though no more marking work will be possible, until the “cities lie waste, without inhabitant, and houses without man”, yes, until all of Satan’s wicked organization on earth has been wiped out.—Isa. 6:11, AT.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1952 p. 681

They wisely spurn the course of the dying old world, which travels the path of least resistance, boards the vehicles of self-gratification and will abruptly dead-end at the final Armageddon showdown.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1952 p. 709

At Armageddon that triumph will be complete.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1952 p. 720

Our prayers for the last thirty years for him to save us and send us prosperity have been answered beyond our expectations this side of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1952 p. 724

Once marked by the enemy for death by their persecutions, we know that God revived us from our deathly state and that our foes are the ones who will die at Armageddon, but we are now marked by God’s power for life in the new world, even by surviving Armageddon’s destructive warfare.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1952 p. 724

The work before the war of Armageddon is not yet done. Our own salvation is not yet complete.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1952 p. 727

Jehovah knows that the clergy of Christendom are serving this old system of things, which he himself is going to destroy at the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 750

The battle of Armageddon is not too far away, when Jehovah God in holy array will strike against all these nations and destroy them utterly.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 753

Now the time has come for those of sheeplike disposition to heed the voice of God as spoken in his Word before his voice will speak from the heavens at Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 754

It is a matter of being faithful to Jehovah God and close to him in his organization, worshiping him in holy array when Jehovah strikes at Armageddon
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 755

They know Jehovah has a great work to be done before he strikes in the battle of Armageddon. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 755

It is the power of nature in all its fury, but behind that power stands Jehovah God controlling it at Armageddon to his honor. Verse three says: “The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, even Jehovah upon many waters.” (AS) Jehovah’s voice is heard in thunder, and at the battle of Armageddon they will know who is striking against the nations of the earth, even as Jehovah struck against Pharaoh in Egypt.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 758

When the battle of Armageddon strikes, the nations of the earth will not hearken either to the voice of Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 759

Now is the time for the people to listen to the voice of Jehovah. Now is the time for them to study his Word and listen to Jehovah’s servants, his witnesses in the earth who are proclaiming the message of the Kingdom. Now is the time to study and find out. At Armageddon time it will be too late.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 759

Those who are proud and haughty will certainly be brought low in the battle of Armageddon, when his voice is heard in the storm in the heavens.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 760

When that battle of Armageddon strikes men will certainly appear small and puny, even though some may be likened to the great cedars of Lebanon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 760

Surely, too, there will be great earthquakes during the battle of Armageddon, even as there are today, only much worse.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 761

And while all this storm is going on, this display of Jehovah’s anger against the nations, this display of his power, this voice of Jehovah speaking to the nations in the battle of Armageddon, he says: “And in his temple everything saith, Glory.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 761

So will it be in the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 762

He is going to show forth his power again in the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 762

18. How will it be likewise at Armageddon, and where will refuge be?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1952 p. 762

Christ Jesus is the Good Shepherd of this great organization which he gathers together in its completion just before the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which is Armageddon.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 10

When Jesus was asked what the sign of the end of this world would be, he gave his apostles many things that they could watch for, and these we see in fulfillment today. It will not be a long time, therefore, until Armageddon.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 14

The big question that comes up in the mind of many people is, Just how long will it be until the battle of Armageddon?

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 19

By Jehovah’s undeserved kindness a far greater crowd will sing these praises before Armageddon, and Jehovah’s witnesses will share in gathering them.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 23

Can we expect such things to happen as we draw nearer to the battle of Armageddon? There is no reason why we should not, if all the good-will people are to be gathered into God’s organization.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 28

This is not the time to become lax and indifferent and to think that the battle of Armageddon is far away.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 31

When these thousands, yes, maybe millions, some- day come into Jehovah’s unwalled city before Armageddon, he will protect them no matter where they may be on the face of the earth.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 32

There is still much to be done. There are many lands throughout the world which are not open to missionaries, but by the Lord’s grace the Society will continue trying to send missionaries to such territories so that all people, whether held under the bondage of pagan religions or any false religion, can be given the opportunity to hear the message of the Kingdom before the final end breaks at the time of the battle of Armageddon. Since we are living in the last days, the Society is very anxious to spread this good news and will continue to establish branch offices in any parts of the world where these seem necessary.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 60, 61

Words are inadequate to describe that thrilling event. It has made a deep and lasting impression on our minds. We are better equipped to meet the problems that now immediately precede Armageddon. We appreciate God’s goodness and we want to swell louder the song of praise to Him.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 238

The work will continue until the battle of Armageddon, because, when God is with us, it makes no difference how many are against us.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 247

Our interest in life is in seeing God’s work done as it pertains to the announcing of the Kingdom and the gathering of the “other sheep”. Time is moving rapidly. Every day we get closer to the battle of Armageddon.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  p. 274

Who will share in giving the final witness concerning Jehovah’s kingdom and this world’s doom at Armageddon?

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  January 4

He has not changed from then till now and will not change in future days till Armageddon in requiring that praise be given to him. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  January 6

These will be eyewitnesses of the smashing victory he will gain over the enemy world at the coming battle of
the universe, Armageddon!
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  January 11

But till the 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 nevertheless living in it. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  February 3

Their last human king was taken away in divine wrath when Babylon’s armies destroyed Jerusalem in 607 B.C. Like him, the last kings and princely rulers of Christendom will be taken away in God’s wrath at Armageddon amid great tribulation. W 12/15

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  February 24

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.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  March 20

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.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  May 3

When Armageddon breaks over the earth it will be useless for men to start first then doing these God-honoring acts, because the judgment of all living men will have been completed and the executioners will have been given the go-ahead signal. No Armageddon deathbed repentance will be acceptable. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  May 11

Ve are advised not to put all our energies into worldly enterprises, as these things are doomed to destruction at the near battle of Armageddon, and if we give all our time to such things it will be lost.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  June 11

going to be lost. Worse than that, we may be smashed up with them at Armageddon be- cause of not sticking to God’s work and keeping that first in our lives.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  June 11

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

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  July 7

Till we reap the full share in the vindication of his name at his victory on Armageddon’s battlefield, “droop not your hands” but raise them al- ways in praise to him. W 10/1

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  July 12

Today the Watch Tower Society shows the same concern for this generation now facing world destruction at Armageddon. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  July 26

It is for gaining this life that we receivers of his World must be fruitful now before Armageddon. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  August 18

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. 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 eternal life in his new world. W 12/1

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  August 18

So since 1914 is the time for the nations to be no longer on top but underfoot, to be trampled on by the heavenly Rulers till they are ground to powder at Armageddon. W 12/15

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  August 19

The marking of those to be spared at Armageddon goes on. The “other sheep” are being gathered into one fold.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  August 21

They do not devote their time and energies accumulating worldly riches. These will all be swept away completely at the battle of Armageddon. W 7/1

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  September 8

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.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  September 9

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.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  September 14

Hid by his 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 through the Flood, hid in the ark. You survivors of Armageddon will be the first on the field of action in the “new earth”. But what we want is that when, after Armageddon, we do emerge from the ark of hiding we will emerge organized.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  September 14

Today all of us who have heard the truth, by God’s mercy and loving-kindness, must be constantly aware of the fact that he is allowing this brief interval of time between the enthroning of his King and the violent outbreak of Armageddon so that “this good news of the kingdom” may be preached to all earth’s inhabitants.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  September 16

Action to bring this about began right after the kingdom of God was born in 1914. At the bat- tie of Armageddon, after the “short period of time” left to Satan, his world organization, modern BabyIon, will be destroyed.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  October 4

It well pictures the final ingathering of the Lord’s “other sheep”, showing they will be gathered in support of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty before the winter-time of Armageddon begins. When Armageddon begins, it will be too late to do any gathering. (Jer. 8:20)

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  October 12

At Armageddon’s slaughter old and young alike will not be spared. Therefore no guarantee is given that a child will pass through Armageddon by reason of the parent with a field-service record but who is careless toward his own children. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  October 16

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. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  October 18

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!

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  October 18

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 in- crease even this side of Armageddon.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 8

Neither Jehovah nor Christ Jesus nor the Christian witnesses of Jehovah court the favor of this world and its political, commercial and religious elements.  Such worldly elements are opposing the divine purpose and are vessels of divine wrath fitted for destruction at Armageddon.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 11

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.

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 14

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

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 22

When the enemy is destroyed at Armageddon and we come forth from the ark of hiding, we shall march forth organized theocratically, knowing organization procedures.
1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 24

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. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  November 30

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

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  December 9

Many will pay a high price to learn that they wasted their remaining days when their lives are snuffed out by the righteous wrath of God at Armageddon. W 2/1

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  December 11

Jehovah’s theocratic government under 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.  We look to no government agencies to vindicate us of the false charges which the foes of God’s kingdom raise against us to blind the people to the facts and the Kingdom truths.  Almighty God has promised to vindicate his faithful witnesses, and he will do so at Armageddon, in which he will totally destroy godless communism and all other elements of the old world. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  December 13

To escape the destruction which is the destiny of the unfaithful religionists at Armageddon, they offer acceptable sacrifice of praise now. 

1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  December 19

At Armageddon he will not recognize the political powers of this world as the “superior authorities with absolute control over every soul. 

.  1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1950.  December 29