They must proclaim the message of the Kingdom to all nations, as foretold and commanded at Matthew 24:14, and that message must be of the Kingdom as having been established in A. D. 1914. This must be done before the final end comes on the world at Armageddon.-See The Watchtower July 1, 1920.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

Now, however, beginning in 1923, the Teacher at the temple began to reveal that there is an earthly class who become the Lord’s “sheep” and whom he gathers now before Armageddon’s war to the right side of His throne.  From then on, step by step, the heavenly Teacher opened the understanding of the spiritual remnant to see that such “other sheep” must be witnessed to and served with the Kingdom message and thereby enabled to take their stand for God’s kingdom. So doing, these may pass alive through Armageddon into the NewWorld.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

It was a sublime revelation when the perfect Educator opened the Textbook, the Bible, and in 1925 revealed that the name of Jehovah must have its proper place; that his Kingdom was born in 1914 and Jehovah’s purpose by it is to ‘make a great and lasting name for himself’ at the battle of Armageddon; and that such battle is not a fight between capital and labor, conservatives and radicals, or any human parties and nations, but is GOD’s FIGHT against the entire Devil’s organization invisible and visible; and that his servant class on earth have no part in that fight, but must only warn of its coming.-2 Sam. 7:23; Isa. 63: 14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

The “strange” work” which precedes God’s “strange act” at Armageddon is not yet done.  So many of the “other sheep” are yet scattered and in danger of perishing, and need to be fed.  We stand at the threshold of 1944.  It is certain to be a crucial year. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11

 

That will bring its own tests of the faith and faithful endurance of Jehovah’s servant class and their companions, because Satan and his demons will be relentlessly marching all nations to the climax at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11

 

He did so, because it was his purpose to have his name declared throughout all the earth before he shows his power over all enemies at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11, 12

 

Therefore in the final vindication of his name at Armageddon he will vindicate his servant class by the called-for destruction of all enemies that afflict them. (Luke 18: 7, 8)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 12

 

Armageddon, will witness acts of Jehovah on a far grander scale, which will convince, at the cost of their lives, those that scoff at Jehovah’s power to work miracles.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 15

 

All of the foregoing Bible record concerning Joshua is prophetic of these last days, and particularly of the Armageddon Conflict.  In the battles of Canaan, Joshua as executioner pictures Jehovah’s great Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon, when He will annihilate all devil-worshipers.  The battle of Gibeon, in particular, foreshadowed Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon, wherein miracles so wondrous will occur that the halting of the sun at Gibeon will fade into in insignificance by comparison.  (Isa. 28:21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 15, 16

 

Rahab’s activity in gathering her family associates to the only place of safety pictures the zeal of the “other sheep” in declaring the Kingdom message to others, and pointing them to the only safe refuge from Armageddon’s storm. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1944 p. 32

 

The faithful and wise son, that rejoices the heart of his father and makes glad his mother, will so deport himself before men and angels that he will not bring any shame upon the organization and its name. (Prov. 23:22, 24, 25; 19:26)  By such a course he is sure to abide as a beloved member of God’s organization universal, and to have a part with God’s “woman”and her chief Son, Christ Jesus, in vindicating the honorable name of Jehovah God the Father. Also, now, his “other sheep” will honor God’s “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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 44

 

In the final end Satan’s totalitarian organization will itself be crushed and ground to powder and puffed into eternal death at Armageddon, and Satan can’t help it!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 45

 

If the Christian relaxes his vigilance on any pretext he may find himself in the “goat” camp at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 46

 

The Greater Ehud in heaven will sound the assembly call and the armies in heaven will follow him to the Armageddon fight. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 48

 

So it will be in the antitype; and since the days of the Greater Ehud are endless, the rest and peace following Armageddon’s story will never end.-Ps. 72; Nah. 1:9; Isa. 9:6, 7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 48

 

Such plagues are messages of judgment from Jehovah God and are revealed through his Bible. They are expressed against all things of this world of religion, or demonism, and the politics and commerce.  Such judgment messages expose this world as Satan’s and body declare what shall soon come upon it in the battle of Armageddon, now near.   

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

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. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

We have nothing to fear of the Red sea of Armageddon. Through his Greater Moses, Jehovah commands us: ’The Lord will fight for you. Bid the people go forward!’ (Ex. 14:14, 15) And the faithful do so.  Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions will go through the blood-red battle of Armageddon and come out on the other side in the free New World of righteousness. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59, 60

 

40.  Are we near the sea of Armageddon what does Jehovah command through Christ? and what will be the final event respectively to the perusing enemy and to Jehovah’s faithful people?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

The pursuing demon-led Egyptian hosts, rashly pushing on to the final assault against the witnesses of the Most High God, will enter into the Red sea of Armageddon, but will never come out alive.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 60

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 75

 

Hence the twelve tribes of Israel while rejoicing in the peace, plenty and security during the reign of wise King Solomon pictured the obedient ones of human- kind who gather to the King greater than Solomon and who are delivered from all oppressors at the battle of Armageddon.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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 75, 76

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 76

 

Organized religion, forming a part of the Devil’s visible organization, must, together with the other component parts thereof, be wiped out by God’s power at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 77

 

Plainly they seem to be: (1) a clear vision that the time as come to vindicate God’s name, overthrow Satan’s organization, and introduce a new world of righteousness; and (2) a clear vision of the blessed privilege that the remnant now have of being witnesses for Jehovah God and of cooperating with his beloved Son and King in the “strange work” which now has to be done before Armageddon.-1 Cor. 1:9.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 77

 

All those consecrated to God must now learn and take heed to the fact that, to understand and appreciate the unfolding of the truth of God’s Word, we must walk in meekness and humility before God; we must recognize that the truth is the Lord’s, and not man’s, and that the Lord is directing his own work; that God is not pleased with those who attempt to exalt themselves or to give glory to the name of men; that long centuries ago God prepared some precious things to be revealed “in that day”, “the day which the Lord hath made,” and therefore we can recognize that day as having begun in A.D. 1914 and can rejoice in it; that Christ Jesus, as God’s appointed Judge, is at the temple and judgment is now upon the house of God; that those who love God and who prove it by their works will now rejoice in the great privilege of co-operating in the “strange work” of witness that the Lord is doing; that now the name of Jehovah is exalted in heaven because Satan has been expelled from heaven with all his demons and Jehovah’s name is now also exalted among the remnant of His “little flock” and also the multitude o his “other sheep”; and that God has commanded that at this time immediately before Armageddon’s war his consecrated people must be his witnesses and sing forth his praises and tell the peoples of earth concerning Jehovah’s doings in order that the peoples may know that Jehovah is God and that deliverance is at hand by his kingdom under Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 78

 

The position of God’s consecrated people as being indeed ’~Jehovah’s witnesses” has been ridiculed and disputed by all religionists. But the president, taking up the controversy, demonstrated from the Scriptures that Jehovah’s witnesses have letters of recommendation attesting their commission from the Lord more strongly than any ordination that the religious clergy could bestow upon them, just as surely as there has been built up today a great multitude of persons of good-will who shall go through the battle of Armageddon without dying.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 79

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT, by God’s grace, under the leadership and command of the greatest Educator of the Universe, Jehovah, we will faithfully do our part in carrying on this campaign of Free Education for men of good-will until the victory is complete at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 80

 

Other scriptures show these latter words must apply at the “time of the end” before the battle of Armageddon which destroys the entire Devil’s organization

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 94

 

By preserving their integrity toward God the same as do the remnant, not only will the “other sheep” gain eternal life on a Paradise earth, but members of this class maybe hid in the day of God’s anger at Armageddon and maybe borne alive through that battle into the post- Armageddon New World and never descend into the grave; in a word, never die.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 94

 

In this inspiring prophetic drama of vengeance and deliverance Barak pictured mainly Christ Jesus, sometimes as the Leader of the anointed remnant of God’s witnesses yet on earth, and sometimes as the Commander of the heavenly hosts who will march forth at Armageddon.   

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 95

 

The “god of this world” and his wicked angels were forced down to the earth and there kept in custody, pending the final fight between Christ and all of Satan’s organized forces at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 105

 

After defeat and debasement, Satan was insanely mad and proceeded to organize, prepare and train “all rule, and all authority and power” under him for  the final war, the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 105

 

35.  Due to what conduct of the nations has the battle of Armageddon become unavoidable?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 105

 

The battle of Armageddon,”the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” becomes unavoidable, to remove all such opponents, who refuse to bow willingly.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 106

 

Nevertheless, with the destruction of such powers at Armageddon not all of man’s enemies will have been wiped out.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 106

 

A great number of these “other sheep” of the Lord 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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 107

 

IN this fight Barak pictured Christ Jesus, Deborah foreshadowed God’s organization, particularly the holy angels that follow Christ Jesus in Armageddon’s fight, and the ten thousand Israelites prefigured the complete number of the remnant of witnesses on earth. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 111

 

It is proof also that the King’s word is near at hand to be fulfilled upon the earthly survivors of Armageddon: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”-John 11:26. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1944 p. 123

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1944 p. 123

 

In like manner Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon will catch religion’s tools unawares, at the moment when it seems they will certainly quash his witnesses; and at that moment their own destruction will come.  As it was at the river Kishon, so at Armageddon both inanimate forces and angelic hosts will bring salvation to God’s people and vindication to His name.-Judg. 5:20; Rev: 22:16; Ps. 148:3, 8; Ezek. 38:21-23

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1944 p. 127

 

Its further expansion is certain to occur, before God himself climaxes this witness work by his own convincing testimonial through an over- whelming demonstration of divine power at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 132

 

Despite the protests of his enemies, the King rules amid them and goes forth “conquering, and to conquer”, riding gloriously along to the final victory, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 133

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 140

 

Like the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses, 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 unto Jehovah God and his glorious King Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 140

 

During the past 1900 years many persons have professed to be Christians, but only a very small proportion have proved faithful under the test.  Now the time has come when Christ Jesus, the King, is enthroned and is present conducting in the earth God’s strange work, which consists of proclamation being made before the nations and the -people that religion is of the Devil and is a fraud and a snare and a racket, and that Christians are those who are wholly devoted to God and Christ and who must obey him; that it is God’s purpose to soon destroy Satan’s entire organization, and that this will be done at the battle of the great day of God Almighty called “Armageddon”’ and that the only place of safety and salvation is in God’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 141

 

The day of Armageddon is very near, when God will express his wrath and exhibit his great power against Satan and all his forces. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 141

 

At the same time, in obedience to the Lord’s commandments, these witnesses give warning of th impending disaster that shall fall upon the wold world at Armageddon.  Therefore this is the time of great emergency, because the battle of Armageddon is very near. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 142

 

At the battle of Armageddon the end of the “goats” will be destruction, whereas this class of “other sheep” will receive from the Lord protection and salvation to life in the everlasting New World.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 143

 

Jael foreshadows the Lord’s “other sheep” scattered throughout “Christendom”, and who will eventually makeup the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 144

 

This they publicly confess before the Armageddon visit of the Greater Barak, Christ Jesus. Then religion’s forces will literally perish.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 144

 

They would suffer destruction if Armageddon found them allied with religion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 144

 

He and it disagree thoroughly, and that is why he will destroy it at the battle of Armageddon, to which all nations are marching with quickening pace. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 148, 149

 

That statement of Ecclesiastes 1:4 holds good at the battle of Armageddon. Why should the Creator destroy his creation, our planet earth? It is not wicked.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

After this has been done in the final end of the old world at the battle of Armageddon, this globe will be transformed every- where into a paradise for the pleasurable home of those proving worthy to live in the new world, a “world without end”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

The “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors will not include any of those who now “destroy the earth” or who corrupt it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

10.  For whom will God cleanse this earth? and what will the Armageddon survivors do, and who will compose the “new earth” to make it one new world?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

The words of Jesus in the sermon on the mount show that riches thus acquired are not availing or helpful in time of world distress or of great need such as now immediately before the world’s destruction in the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 158

 

So the Greater Gideon, Christ Jesus, declares from the temple the judgments that bring low the Devil’s system in the minds of His followers, and he will grind the blaspheming thing, along with its lord, into the dust under His heel when the execution of these judgments occurs at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 159

 

The actual slaughter and finishing off of the Midianites prefigures Armageddon’s destructive work.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 160

 

They take no part in maintaining or furthering this world, but let it go its way to destruction at the forthcoming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 164

 

The gospel is not meant to transform or convert this world and its organizations and to save them from destruction at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 166

 

To the direct contrary, “every corporate center of power”of this world will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 166

 

Is anything more practical and wise than preaching now the gospel? No. Instead, what is more foolish than to pursue things of this world and frantically to strive to spare them from destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 166

 

At the battle of Armageddon, not far distant, Jehovah God will destroy all ‘the wisdom of the wise’ which they will have demonstrated in the postwar “new order”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 167

 

Jehovah’s preachers know the value of their work, and 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. (Matt. 24:14)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 167

 

(b) Why will the wisdom and understanding of the worldly-wise fail to save them at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 167

 

Those who will escape the terrible tribulation and destruction of Armageddon and who thereafter have the blessings from the Lord on the earth, will constitute the “great multitude” described at Revelation 7:9-17, and they constitute the Lord’s “other sheep”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 172

 

Their regimented “one world” will never hold together when Jehovah’s Kingdom rule exerts its power at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 173

 

As for the modern Abimelechs, their God-defying misrule will be brought up short at The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 175

 

At the battle of Armageddon”,the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” Jehovah will deal out death to all worldly rulers opposing the rule of his Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 181

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 181

 

11. At Armageddon what will God do in terribleness to worldly kings and princes, and what will be their future prospects thereafter?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 181

 

At Zechariah 6:5 the prophet refers to the hosts of superhuman spirit creatures which God has at his command and which he now uses in performing his “strange work” on the earth clear up to the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 183

 

As Noah gave warning at the command of God, so also Jehovah God commands his faithful witnesses now on the earth, at the second coming of Christ Jesus, to give full warning by preaching ’this gospel of the kingdom’ as a witness to the world, and to do this just preceding the time of the complete destruction of the world at Armageddon.  (Matt. 24:14, 21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 190

 

Satan and all his demons are the hidden factors behind all this violence and human woe that now fills the earth and that will be brought to an end by their destruction in the battle of Armageddon which now draws near.-Rev. 12:12, 13, 17.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 190

 

They have been blessed with many victories; there are still future triumphs for freedom-lovers, all to be climaxed by Armageddon’s destruction of “this present evil world” gone totalitarian.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 192

 

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, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  Melchizedek, the king of Salem. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1944 p. 211

 

At Armageddon he rides in righteous warfare as upon a white battle-worthy horse: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

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“Tile words elect and chosen translate the same Greek word and are used interchangeably. The spirit-begotten Christians who share the victory with Christ Jesus at Armageddon are not only called, but also chosen or elect.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1944 p. 218

 

Christ Jesus, who overcomes the united nations of the world at Armageddon, said: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1944 p. 219

 

They must, however, be conformed to the image of the Chief One of the called and chosen and faithful company, Christ Jesus, by keeping faithful to God unto the end, even clear through the big fight at Armageddon. (Rom. 8:28-39; 1 Tim. 3:16, Heb. 12:23)  This entails much suffering upon them, that causes them to cry to God day and night; but God will speedily avenge them at Armageddon.  (Luke 18:7, 8)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1944 p. 220

 

I told him how the perfect pair lost their right to life in Eden and how the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth would be carried out after Armageddon by finding protection at this time under the ‘city of refuge’, Zion, God’s organization. 

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At Armageddon Jehovah’s executioners will not slay such marked ones. 

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This is a marvelous fact now amidst the hottest intensity of global war; and what will it be in the postwar period, during which period the work will be successfully finished before the final end of this world at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 235

 

By such fearless testimony faithfully sustained in the spirit of the Lord down till the victorious fight at Armageddon, they faithfully render their part to the vindication of His name.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 236

 

The work assigned to this earthly division is to sing forth the praises of Jehovah’s name now before the fight at Armageddon and also while the fight is in progress.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 237

 

The vision discloses God’s purpose to destroy “Christendom” with his army of destruction, which is in readiness for Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 238

 

It is the “servant” class that must bear to them the precious truths of the Kingdom, that they may see the way to go and what to do now before the battle of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 238

 

Properly Ezekiel prostrated himself before Jehovah and submitted a question, not to indicate that the “servant” class cries out in horror at the Armageddon slaughter and begs for mercy upon the wicked; but rather to indicate that the “servant” speaks to the Lord God to call forth from him a statement to show that the slaughter is entirely justified.  “And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?”  The reply given to Ezekiel proves that the battle of Armageddon will witness the complete downfall of “Christendom”, and that without any quarter or pity from the Lord God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 239

 

God will not spare at Armageddon, but will fully return upon their own heads the wickedness of those who reject and oppose his kingdom.  He will make a clean-up of the entire religious organization, in order that all marked persons who survive may know that Jehovah is the only true God. That the slaughter at Armageddon will be wide-spread the prophet Jeremiah gives testimony.-Jer. 25:33-37.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 239

 

According to this unchangeable rule, the proud and haughty religious clergy of “Christendom”, who exalt themselves and then use their self-assumed authority and power to keep the blinded people in ignorance and away from Jehovah’s Theocratic Government, are due for a fall into destruction at the battle of Armageddon with which this “time of the end” shall close.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 245

 

The wise prefer to keep company with the lowly, those low in their own eyes, because they recognize Jehovah God and Christ Jesus as “The Higher Powers”. Only thus do the wise gain the favor or grace of the Lord God; for He resists the proud. In the battle of Armageddon he will spoil those who have unrighteously spoiled the peoples of earth and persecuted His witnesses, whereas he will raise up his downtrodden and despoiled servants and beautify them with a blessed place in the righteous “world without end”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 246

 

In this “day of temptation”, with the battle of Armageddon as the final end for this pride-ruled world, it is imperative that all who strive for life in the New World beyond Armageddon take heed to their spirit.

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With Satan the Devil and his demons facing destruction shortly at Armageddon and bent on dragging as many of humankind as possible down into the destruction with them, it is now a time of great temptation.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 246

 

This also dooms the world of which Satan the Devil is the invisible prince and god, and it must come to an end at the execution of God’s judgment against it at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 249

 

Lot and is family foreshadowed those persons today who are of good-will and who hear the warning concerning the great destruction that will come upon the world at Armageddon, which warning is now being sounded everywhere by Jehovah’s witnesses.

The destruction of Sodom pictured the battle of Armageddon, particularly its fiery and destructive work against wicked “Christendom”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

Speaking of the conditions that would prevail upon the earth at the time of his second coming, Jesus likens them unto Sodom’s, thus further proving that the destruction of Sodom was a type or foreshadowing of what will befall “Christendom” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

The facts now conclusively prove that in all “Christendom” the men who operate the religious systems do so for selfish reason. By these religious systems they carry on a racket and are entirely oblivious to the warning God is causing to be sounded in their presence as to the approaching battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

Jesus described the conditions to prevail on earth at the time of the Armageddon fight and said: “In that day, he which shall be upon the house top, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife.”-Luke17:31, 32.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

Likewise those who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors now receive the warning to flee, and they must flee to the Lord’s kingdom before the fight at Armageddon, and they must abide under Jehovah’s protection until the fire of Armageddon has completely burned out.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

This was made known to the Israelites by Moses just before they crossed Jordan into Canaan, and this clearly shows that the fulfillment of the picture relates particularly to Christ’s second coming and his kingdom, and what occurs shortly before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

Those six cities, established for the convenience of the Israelites who were on both sides of the Jordan, symbolically pictured the protection which men of good-will receive by fleeing now from Satan’s organization to the High Priest Christ Jesus and his organization and remaining there until Armageddon has ended.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

The battle Armageddon is near, and God declares that all willful and deliberate Milers shall perish at Armageddon at the sword of his Executioner, Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253, 254

 

They may flee to God’s capital organization under Christ and may find refuge and protection until Armageddon is past.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 254

 

The “revenger of blood” mentioned at Numbers 35:19 pictured the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Executioner, who carries out Jehovah’s orders and who will slay all God’s enemies at Armageddon.  If those persons of good-will show their faith in God and in Christ Jesus and their obedience by fleeing to the Lord before Armageddon and then continuing to seek righteousness and meekness and to serve Him as commanded, such maybe spared in the great devastation to be wrought at Armageddon.  Therefore the cities of refuge, and those who anciently found refuge in such, prophetically picture Jehovah’s place of refuge and the people of good-will who seek it and who for ever continue in faith and faithfulness under Jehovah’s deathless High Priest Christ Jesus, and who will consequently make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 254

 

These are the ones who will survive Armageddon and inherit Kingdom blessings.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 255

 

Jesus declared that this short time was mercifully allotted by Almighty God in order that there should be some flesh saved at the battle of Armageddon.  Do not say therefore, Well, if the kingdom of God has come, why does it not fight the battle of Armageddon at once and get it over with and relieve men of this distress of nations? In answer, the Bible replies: ‘If the established Kingdom had proceeded directly to the battle of Armageddon, then there would have been no earthly or human survivors of it, not even a remnant of God’s elect.’ The “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization began in 1914, as signalized by World War I. The final end and grand climax of that tribulation will come at the decisive fight between Jehovah’s hosts and all of Satan’s hosts at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 261

 

In that year, in fact, the oppressed consecrated people of Jehovah were expecting the battle of Armageddon to break loose.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 261

 

If the battle of Armageddon had then struck the earth, the remnant in the flesh would not have been saved to survive the fight.  And if this remnant of consecrated ones was not found worthy unto salvation, who, then, of all the multitudes of human flesh would have been saved and ever gotten through the battle of Armageddon alive? 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 261

 

At that time did Jehovah God give the signal for the battle of Armageddon to begin, the kings of this earth to be struck through in God’s great wrath, and their invisible head Satan to be bruised and bound and cast into the “bottomless pit” and sealed up there for a thousand years?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

After suffering great tribulation in heaven, Satan, now cast down to the earth, was not confronted at once with the battle of Armageddon and destroyed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

And it is first at Revelation, chapter sixteen, after foretelling of vexatious plagues against Satan’s organization at the earth, that the gathering of world rulers under the demons unto the battle site at Armageddon is made known.  It is therefore clear that at the coming battle of Armageddon, which is the “battle of that great day of God Almighty [Jehovah]”, the final part of the “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization, visible and invisible, commences. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

Now is the time for flight in order that ‘some flesh shall be saved’ at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 263

 

The 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.  Such antagonism and persecutions against Jehovah’s witnesses will not cease in the postwar period. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 264

 

It is by that kingdom that Jehovah God will yet go forth against the besieging nations of earth and destroy the mall in the grand fight at Armageddon, just as he fought by that same kingdom against Satan’s demon organization in the historic “war in heaven”, now past.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 264

 

From the birth of his Theocracy, 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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 264

 

In all parts of the earth where his faithful people are, there they confess that he reigns by his anointed King Christ Jesus, and they acknowledge Jehovah God and his King as the true “Higher Powers”. They subject themselves to these “powers that be” and obey them rather than men. (Rom. 13:1; Acts 5:29) And 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”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 265

 

His active witnesses make known these all-important truths, and they pray that He will duly make a demonstration of his power against all foes at Armageddon: “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”-Ps. 83:18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 265

 

This association of Father and Son in this joint reign precedes the Armageddon of destruction for Satan’s hosts.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 265

 

At the same time the thousand-year kingdom of Christ Jesus is near, and it approaches nearer with all the speed of Armageddon’s approach!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 266

 

This gospel preaching must be done now during this day of Jehovah, during this time of His grace between the “war in heaven” and the final battle o f Armageddon, by the inserting of which break Jehovah God has shortened the days of the “great tribulation”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 266

 

That most certainly applies to the postwar period.  Therefore 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 the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 267

 

The political forces behind it will exert pressure to have all men worship the Devil’s visible organization under this final form of man-rule.  Those worshiping it will receive a mark of support and collaboration which will doom them to destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 267

 

The anointed remnant fight on. What they leave of the antitypical temple of Dagon, “Christendom,” Jehovah through Christ will topple over at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 272

 

But the Devil and his demons, during the short time that yet remains till the Armageddon of destruction, continue to entertain humankind with the game of man-made politics under demon overlordship.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1944 p. 276

 

The time to go after these heavenly treasures is now, for no other thing will endure the fire of the surely approaching battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1944 p. 279

 

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.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1944 p. 281

 

You may share the fate of those who in the nighttime of the battle of Armageddon will have their misused selfish lives demanded of them and never live to see the morning of the new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1944 p. 281

 

Since the good news is of the Kingdom, he proceeded to show that it is Jehovah’s kingdom that has come and that He has given authority to Christ Jesus to reign as His consort since 1914, for the subduing of his enemies; and that the thousand-year reign of Christ with his church must follow the coming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1944 p. 287

 

And if the test of endurance seems to be applied to the virgin 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 virgin 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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1944 p. 299

 

Although they be many more than the 144,000 of the royal “bride” class, yet, after the full-length test of integrity has sifted out even many of the “virgins” class, those who endure to the King’s final vindication at Armageddon will compose a ‘great multitude whom no man can number’.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1944 p. 299

 

JEHOVAH GOD is approaching the grand climax of his “strange work”, which work precedes the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Because the “strange act” bespeaks destruction at Armageddon to man’s global or earthly organization, the “strange work”that precedes it is so crucially important to the present generation of men.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Ever since the warning concerning the near approach of the battle of Armageddon began to be given in our lifetime the religious-minded men of this world have scoffed at such a thing as too strange to occur, particularly to “Christendom”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Did not Christ Jesus make it unmistakably clear that this work would immediately precede the divine act that brings the calamitous end to this world at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Not only is the world’s most ambitious attempt at human government just before us, but also Satan as “the god of this world” is about to deceive all mankind by his greatest scheme for blinding them to God’s kingdom and putting the misinformed ones in direct opposition to it.  Satan the Devil knows that the battle of Armageddon is unavoidably ahead of his world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 309

 

And since “this gospel of the kingdom” must be preached until the end of that organization, it is evident that the gospel preaching yet to be done, and which sets in with the postwar era, is the final work of witness, the final part of Jehovah’s “strange work”.  After it, comes his “strange act” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 309

 

The possibilities for evangelism that loom up before them, especially as such possibilities pertain to the scattered multitudes of persons of good-will in danger of sudden destruction at Armageddon unless reached, present a challenge to Jehovah’s covenant people.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 310

 

They were not included in God’s judgment concerning those who should be destroyed in the flood; for the reason that they, together with Satan, had previously been sentenced to death, but their execution was deferred to a later date, namely, at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 316

 

The Devil and his angels have been active from the time of the rebellion at Eden until now, and they will continue active until their destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 317

 

After this “strange work” the King Christ Jesus must destroy all creatures and organizations that hate and oppose the Kingdom in the tightest war of all creation’s history, the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 323

 

This they must do, down to the battle of Armageddon, when the Kingdom will destroy all the enemies of The Theocracy and then the millennial reign of Christ Jesus will begin. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 332

 

That which is Theocratic will survive and will attain the new world of righteousness. There, with all national governments gone from earth, the legal corporation will not be needed. The Theocracy will have other arrangements for the Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 333

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 339

 

Since the friendship with this world is enmity with God, his people will be strangers to it until it is totally destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.  (Jas. 4:4)  Of course, while this world is let exist down till Armageddon, God’s people conduct themselves as law-abiding “strangers and pilgrims” amid the human governments of this world, but such governments do not properly appreciate that fact.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 340

 

Since Jesus used Noah as an illustration to picture the Christ, it follows that Noah’s sons and daughters-in-law, through whom the divine mandate was fulfilled in type, pictured the consecrated persons of good-wilt who now share the reproaches of Christ with the spiritual remnant of His body and who wilt fulfill the divine mandate on earth after the world-wide destructions of the battle of Armageddon. This means, of course, that such persons of good-will are to be hid under the “ark” of Jehovah’s Theocratic organization during Armageddon.  They will thereby be preserved alive all through the end of this world, and into the new world.—Zeph. 2:1-3; Matt. 24:37-39; Gen. 9:1, 7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 342

 

If so, they pictured the subjects of Christ Jesus, “the Prince of Peace,” and which subjects will inherit everlasting life upon earth after Armageddon.  Such ones include the “stranger” class, the “men of good-will” of today who will survive Armageddon and who will, together with the remnant, carry the pure worship of Jehovah God through that battle and into the New World without end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 342

 

As Jehovah’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 the battle of Armageddon and to come out safe and sound on the other side, to join in singing Jehovah their Deliverer’s praise in the free NewWorld.-Ex. 14:21-31.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 346

 

Will they sink with Satan’s forces in the cataclysm of Armageddon, or will they ride out the storm of divine wrath in the antitypical ark of the Almighty God and enter into His new world of endless life?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 350

 

Zion’s counsel will guide safely through present perils and Armageddon’s storm.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 352

 

At the approaching world-conflict of Armageddon Jehovah God will perform “his strange act”, of which that at the valley of Gibeon was only a miniature sample.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 356

 

Thus this class will pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and will enter into the Theocratic New World under the Greater Joshua, Christ Jesus.-Isa. 28:21.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 356

 

At Armageddon Jehovah’s appointed Executioner, Christ Jesus, will regard and cherish their right and will spare them from execution in that great tribulation of Armageddon.-Zeph. 2:1-3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 357

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 359

 

In order for them to escape destruction at Armageddon with the blood-stained world-organization, they must forsake all and flee to Jehovah’s Theocratic organization under Christ Jesus the High Priest and must put themselves under it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 360

 

At the latest, therefore, they must suffer destruction with the Devil’s world by the avenging sword of Jehovah’s mighty Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon.—Numbers 35; Joshua 20; Rom. 13:1-5; Lev. 24:21, 22.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 360

 

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’.-Matt. 24:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 363

 

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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1944 p. 378

This means that the remnant must get the revealed Kingdom message out to many peoples, nations, languages, and their rulers before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1944 p. 378

Because religion is given its due place thereto, the leaders and the masses persuaded that it is a Christian “new order founded upon moral principles” and that it is the new world God promised. Under this religious deception many will fight for snell “new order” of the same old world and will choose to abide under it until it cracks up at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1943 p. 3

 

The Greater Jephthah and Jehovah’s Theocratic organization under him will never pass away, but will triumph completely at the battle of Armageddon and endure forever in the “world without end.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1943 p. 12

 

If, now, the Theocratic way is the Lord’s way of carrying on his “strange work” of witness before the battle of Armageddon begin, then fighting against that way or repudiating it means fighting against or repudiating the great Theocrat and his King, because the way is not of man, but is of the Lord God. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1943 p. 14

 

They will attend meetings for the study of God’s Word and will onward with greater earnestness to bring the Lord’s provided food to his “other sheep” before the outbreak of the battle of Armageddon which will turn all nations that forget Jehovah God into hell.  (Ps. 9:17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1943 p. 15

 

Jehovah looks forward to the battle of Armageddon with perfect confidence, knowing He shall there be Conqueror.  (Isa. 42:13; Ps. 98:1)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1943 p. 19

 

The casting of Satan and his demon organization out of heaven was the first conquest of the King at war. It was and is not his last; for it is stated: “He went forth conquering, and to conquer.” At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah’s trusted King will complete his conquests for the vindication of his Father’s name.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1943 p. 19, 20

 

By Jesus’ faithful demonstration to the exhaustion of all tests every wagging tongue in all creation is stopped, and he is proved worthy of the office of Vindicator of Jehovah’s name in the coming display of divine power and supremacy over Satan at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1943 p. 21

 

This final conquest over the scarlet-colored “new order” beast and its female rider means the winning of the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1943 p. 28

 

It guarantees that by continuing to preach and maintain their integrity through the “things present during this total war and, further, by lovingly keeping God’s commandments and the testimony of Jesus Christ during the “things to come” after the scarlet-colored, harlot-ridden “beast” comes out of the abyss, the remnant and their companions will be found MORE THAN CONQUERORS through the thick of the Armageddon fight and when the last foe falls defeated in death.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1943 p. 28

 

He puts them in the goatpen at his left side, with the Devil and his demon  angels. At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah by his King will visit such “goats” with destruction as by fire.-Matt. 25:31-46.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1943 p. 41

 

Such “sheep” Jehovah by his King visits with protection and preservation during the tribulation of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1943 p. 42

 

The old world will not survive the zenith of the crisis at the universal war of Armageddon, but Jehovah’s Word, the Bible, which fanatical religionists incited by papal Rome have repeatedly consigned to the flames, will survive and be completely fulfilled.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1943 p. 51

 

Now the trial of God’s elect is reaching its climax as the battle of Armageddon is being approached.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1943 p. 53

 

One of the directors of the NewYork corporation followed showing it was in keeping with God’s due time to institute the college now and that it was a  visible indication of the nearness of the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1943 p. 60

 

Before the issue is finally settled the peoples who will survive Armageddon and populate this earth forever must hear and take their stand for the Kingdom.  Many millions have not yet hear.  A responsibility falls upon everyone of Jehovah’s witnesses now to see that, God willing, these peoples of the world are given the opportunity to hear.  If they hear, they will be blessed.  If they do not have an ear to hear, they will go on into destruction along with the Devil’s organization at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1943 p. 62

 

“By this shall all men know.” (John 13: 35) That means all those associated together in the Lord’s service, both the spiritual brethren of Christ, the members of his “body”, and those “other sheep” whom the Good Shepherd is now gathering into his fold and who will compose the “great multitude” of survivors of the coming battle of Armageddon. (Rev. 7 : 9-17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1943 p. 85

 

It marks the first of his household, then of the nations, and culminates in the execution of all the ungodly at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1943 p. 95

 

Bear in mind that none of these would-befriends can give you everlasting life; none can preserve your life through the coming battle of Armageddon, with which this world is sure to end, and bear you safely into the new world conditions on earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 99

 

Religion and the state, which have thrown Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions into the fire to destroy their integrity and worthiness of life eternal, will suffer the consequences of their ungodly course and will be destroyed in the fire of the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 101

 

The divine record of the past shows the right answer. Soon, God’s preservation of the remnant of his “elect” and their faithful companions clear through the tribulation of Armageddon, and the utter destruction of the persecutors and opposers there, will provide a final and climactic answer.-Ps. 145:20.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 101

 

All the nations under demon rule are but as a drop in the bucket or the fine dust on the scale pan in comparison with Jehovah, who will puff the opposing nations away at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 105

 

Sanctify him in the vital part of you, in the heart, as being Jehovah’s Executioner with all power in heaven and earth to destroy the demons and the religious, political, commercial conspirators at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 106

 

The demons have invaded the nations and have approached the rules thereof and are marching the nations to their “hell” at Armageddon, in the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”. (Ps. 9:17; Rev. 16:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 107

 

When the state and its courts and law officers ban the assembling of his “sheep” and use their power to hinder and prevent the gathering of the sheep, they are scattering and are against Christ Jesus. On them the Shepherd will use his rod; but it will be a “rod of iron”, to destroy them at Armageddon.-Ps. 2:8, 9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 107

 

Suppose one is anxious to get rid of the toils of this life and to have the battle of Armageddon over with and then to be exalted to heaven, and hence he wishes to hear nothing about the service of the Lord.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 109

 

Noah in his preaching pictured those of the remnant who now give warning of Armageddon, something never seen on this earth. By faith they know it will come. As Noah was joined by his sons and their wives, so now the remnant are joined by companions, and all seek shelter from Armageddon’s storm in the antitypical ark, God’s organization, now built up by the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus.   sThese preachers of righteousness give no heed to the scoffers who ridicule the declaration that God will soon act in vindication of His name. These scoffers have opportunity to learn of Armageddon, but willingly remain ignorant thereof.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 111

 

His followers do likewise prior to the Armageddon fight.  But after the flood Noah, in making burnt offerings that had a savor of rest to Jehovah, pictured Christ after Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 111

 

By violence in defiance of it they have defiled the earth. Divine justice will be satisfied and the earth cleansed by the execution of the Lord’s fiery judgments at Armageddon and few men will survive, as it was in the days of Noah.-Isa 24:5, 6

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 111

 

At Armageddon “Things not seen as yet” will sweep the wicked into destruction, clause the earth, and bring rest and comfort to all creation an eternal vindication to the name of the Most High. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1943 p. 111

 

The faithful Jonadabs, or “other sheep” of the Lord, who now prove their integrity to death before Armageddon may also hope for an earthly resurrection to life on earth under these “princes”.  (Ps. 45:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 121

 

To escape the great deluge of destruction at the battle of Armageddon it is now necessary to be baptized unto the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 124

 

Such course brings great reproach upon God’s name, and supports the Devil’s challenge, and ends up in everlasting destruction of the covenant-breaker, at the latest at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 124

 

12 In a like manner, what must those who will escape the deluge of Armageddon now do, and why do that speedily?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 124

 

Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” marks the end of this world. Thither by totalitarian pressure the demons are driving the kings of the whole earth and their subjects. (Rev. 16: 14-16) All nations arc marching down the totalitarian way to destruction with the world. Can any who love righteousness and who desire life in Gods new world of righteousness escape and survive into the “world to come” after Armageddon? Yes; but not by taking the path of least resistance and going along with the nations just to escape suffering for well-doing now in the righteous service of Jehovah God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 125

 

Man must learn God’s will and do it now, before Armageddon’s war, and have the consciousness and assurance within himself that he is doing the right thing according to God’s Word.  He must answer or respond conscientiously to God’s requirements. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 125

 

To seek to avoid suffering for righteousness’ sake means you will suffer the woes that Satan brings upon the nations and at last suffer destruction with them at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 125

 

This resurrected One is “alive for ever- more” as the Greater Noah, and the great Ark under Him is the only organization that will provide survival amid the old world’s final end at Armageddon and bear you safely through into the glorious New World and its marvelous privileges.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 125

 

For so doing he was blessed by being carried over from that world into the post-flood period In this he, along with his brothers, was privileged to play a part in Jehovah’s great flood drama pointing to the time when Jehovah will destroy “this present evil world” by the fiery tribulation of Armageddon, the greatest catastrophe that will come upon the earth.  By associating himself with Noah, Shem pictured the “other sheep” of the Lord who now join with the remnant of the “body” of Christ, the Greater Noah, as companions in Theocratic service warning of the impending cataclysm of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 126

 

The greater disaster of Armageddon, prefigured by the flood, is imminent.  However, the issuance of the mandate to Shem and his two brothers was not in vain; it was accomplished its purpose.  TI served to picture the time when the “other sheep” who will comprise the “great multitude” pass through Armageddon and have restated to them the divine mandate to “multiply and fill the earth”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 126

 

That we will not break our covenant because of arrests, persecution or imprisonment and will push on m the work Jehovah through Christ Jesus has commissioned us to perform until “the cities be wasted” and Armageddon is on.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1943 p. 127

 

The prophecies of God, whois true, will go on fulfilling until, shortly, the demonized old world will have disappeared at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 132

 

Any commonsense view, as well as enlightenment from God’s Word, shows that it is urgent now, before the final end at Armageddon, to be “redeeming the time [that is, buying it out at cost of non-essential things], because the days are evil”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 135

 

Those who do not ’redeem the time’, but who continue to “live the rest of [their] time in the flesh to the lusts of men”, are not living for the NewWorld and will not have divine protection to survive the battle of Armageddon and see the “world to come”. 

It is bad enough that we indulged self and served sin in the past, not to speak of continuing to do so in the future until stopped at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 135

 

When you exercise faith in and obedience to the Word of God and refrain from going on in the world’s headlong plunge to destruction at Armageddon, what? The rulers and their subjects think you strange and feel self-condemned by their own worldliness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 137

 

It will increase the world’s confusion and it will fail to prevent the scattering and destruction of its builders at Armageddon, just as those of the tower of Babel were frustrated and dispersed by JehovahGod. (Luke 21:25, 26; Rev. 18:9, 10, 16-21; Gen. 11:8, 9)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 143

 

Neither will any of Ins dictatorial prototypes of this day live again after the Armageddon cleanup.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1943 p. 143

 

They are for the New World, wherein the Most High God’s domination will control in both heaven and earth without a single adversary to challenge Him on that issue.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 151

 

Now these demons and their prince are confined to the earth, to await final humiliating defeat and destruction with the visible part of their organization on the earth, and that soon, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 151

 

Quickly thereafter religion’s paramours political. commercial, martial, and social, will follow them into destruction, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 152

 

They must therefore suffer with the world, its great woes now and the judgment executed upon it at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 155

 

The Lord God’s executioners under Christ Jesus, like the “six men” each with a “slaughter weapon in his hand”, await the completion of that dividing and marking work, and the signal from Jehovah God to begin the terrible slaughter of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 155

 

The assault now being made upon the enemy is shaking the enemy’s stronghold, and soon the Lord will completely demolish that stronghold by and through Christ Jesus. The great battle of Armageddon will bring about the destruction of wickedness and the honor of God’s holy name.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 157

 

As God’s Vindicator-King he will destroy the great peace-disturber, Satan, and his entire organization, at Armageddon.  Like Melchizedek, He will give Jehovah credit for the Armageddon victory, and endless peace shall follow thereafter.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1943 p. 159

 

The Lord’s “other sheep” now being gathered into his fold will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, and they are at present seeking Jehovah God because they love righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 169

 

Because of faithfully carrying out their covenant and preserving their integrity, these “other sheep” will be preserved through Armageddon and remain on earth forever in peace and prosperity. Down to the end of Armageddon they hold fast their integrity under the stress and persecution from the great adversary, who strives to turn all humankind away from God. After beholding the majesty, power and glory of Jehovah manifested at Armageddon, and after having survived that greatest catastrophe of all time, they will keep on demonstrating their integrity under most blessed conditions, being faithful at all times after Armageddon even as they always were before it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 169

 

(b) How will the affairs of earth be administered after the battle of Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 169

 

The obedient “other sheep”, who maintain their integrity down to the final battle of Armageddon, God will exalt in triumph over the wicked oppressors by bearing them safely through that battle and giving them the assignment to clean up the earth and bring forth righteous offspring under their invisible overlord, Christ Jesus, their “Everlasting Father”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 171

 

Think of our faithful brethren in Germany, who now, after ten years of suffering under Nazi domination, are still under the torments by the demonized enemy.  They have fallen into the enemy’s power, but they will rise again.  They will be released by God’s power, in his due time, if it takes finally the battle of Armageddon to do it. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 171, 172

 

We may call to mind all the disasters that have overtaken the human race during its existence, all the wars, all the earthquakes, cyclones and other calamities; and then know that none of these equals in woe that which will strike the world during the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 172

 

Then will come from heaven the still, small voice, and the message long ago spoken by the prophet of God will gently speak words of hope and joy to all Armageddon survivors whom he will persevere: “O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.  Say among the [nations, represented by the great multitude of survivors] that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 172

 

All suchlike will have been wiped out by the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 173

 

At Armageddon that Seed “shall possess the gate of his enemies”, and thereafter, endless blessings for earth’s inhabitants.-Gen. 22:17

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1943 p. 175

 

Unlike those shepherds, the religious clergymen of all denominations fail to see and act upon the still higher honor and privilege to testify to a fact of far greater moment and immediate importance, the birth of Jehovah’s Theocratic Government under his Christ in A.D. 1914. That Government now rules from heaven in the midst of its enemies, demon and human, and shall gain glorious victory over them in the impending fight at Armageddon over the issue of universal domination.-Rev. 12:1-12.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 179

 

As college graduates they will be sent forth, as Jesus sent forth his apostles and evangelists, with a broadened appreciation and increased efficiency respecting their divine commission and clearly knowing the work ahead of them until the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 188

 

Their delivery from the oppressive and demonized hordes of “this present evil world” will come solely through the Greater Abraham, Jehovah of hosts, who will gain the victory at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 190

 

This old world will be going along with “business as usual”, mocking at the warning delivered by Jehovah’s witnesses as the Sodomites mocked Lot; yes, it will even be building and putting the “finishing touches” on its postwar government creation when the Son of Man, Christ Jesus, will be revealed in the Armageddon catastrophe that will “finish off” for ever that “new order” and its conceited builders.-2 Pet. 3:7, 10; 2 Thess. 1:7-9.

The two angels, as God’s representatives warning Lot and leading him from the doomed city and pointing out to him the way to safety, pictured the anointed remnant of Christ’s “body” yet on the earth and who instruct the people of goodwill, extend to them a helping hand (as did Jehu to Jonadab) in their escape from religious snares, and point out to them the way into The Theocracy, the only haven during the Armageddon storm. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 191

 

As the angels urged upon Lot to make haste, so Jehovah’s anointed remnant stress to the “other sheep”, FLEE NOW.  Just as the angels must see that Lot and hm family were removed from the city before God’s destructive act began against Sodom, likewise today the “other sheep” of the Lord shall be gathered before Armageddon breaks.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 191

 

So today, the Lot class hear, and warn others of the coming of the Armageddon evil upon “Christendom”, the ’city called by God’s name’ (Jer. 25:29)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 191

 

The Lord is now marking a class typified by Lot for deliverance from all abominations, particularly the postwar “abomination of desolation” Jesus warned of, and marking them for preservation during Armageddon. -2 Pet. 2:7, 8; Ezek. 9:4-6; Matt. 24: 15-18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1943 p. 191

 

Regarding God’s exclusive place Christ Jesus his Son said in the prophecy concerning the end of the world and the time of the final war of Armageddon: “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1943 p. 202

 

Shortly, at the Armageddon, Jehovah by his Associate Judge and Executioner will vindicate that Word.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1943 p. 203

 

It strongly appears that many others, the religious clergy class of mockers and their blind followers, will see Isaac raised from the dead to be a prince of the NewWorld, but will find themselves thrust out and destroyed at Armageddon. (Luke 13:28)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1943 p. 207

 

Consequently, amid the battle clouds of Armageddon it will become necessary for Christ to make every eye see or discern the fact that he has come into his kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1943 p. 211

 

After seeing this, they will go down into perdition at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1943 p. 219

 

Yet it is our hope that we may have the privilege of hying through the approaching battle of Armageddon whereto all opposition to the Kingdom will be destroyed and its earthly princes be installed in office.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1943 p. 222, 223

 

They testify to them concerning the Seed of God’s “woman”, which Seed is Christ Jesus the King, who shall shortly bruise the head of the Serpent at the battle of Armageddon, so vindicating Jehovah’s name with benefit to all creatures of good-will. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1943 p. 231

 

They will have their lives preserved clear through the battle of Armageddon and will enter the New World never to see death themselves.

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He will permit the remnant to survive the Armageddon fight with his “other sheep” and to see the New Earth, wherein “there shall be no more death”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1943 p. 232

 

These prophetic signs, being fulfilled upon this generation, are proof that the end of the world will come within this generation, not the end of God’s creation, but of Satan’s spiritual and earthly organization, and that  anew heavens and a new earth will follow.  Jehovah’s remnant of witnesses, and also their companions as foreshadowed by Noah’s sons and their wives, have faith in God’s Word which tells of the approaching universal tribulation, the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1943 p. 232

 

Only by so doing will they be of that earthly class whom Almighty God’s power safeguards through Armageddon and who thereafter have the privilege of bringing forth righteous offspring in fulfillment of the divine mandate in the New World.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1943 p. 234, 235

 

Thereafter the promise of a new earth beneath righteous new heavens will be fulfilled to “men of good-will”, and the peace of that post- Armageddon “new world” will never have an end.-Rev. 16:14-16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 244

 

It exhorted them to unite in the worship of Jehovah God at his temple by actively serving as his witnesses and praising his name to the peoples before he shows his almighty power at the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 247

 

Yet, when such demon-controlled “abomination of desolation” pits its strength and might against The Theocratic Government at the battle of Armageddon, the peoples will see their idol of worship desolated suddenly and destroyed with amazing speed and ease by Jehovah’s Theocratic Strong Government.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 249

 

The Gentile powers, hanging on doggedly to their dominion of the earth, first setting up a League of Nations and now, shortly, forming a postwar association of nations in opposition to the Theocratic rule of the earth, face annihilation in the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 249

 

The assembled ones rejoice at the present judgments of the Lord and at the prospect of coming judgments at Armageddon by his judicial Vindicator, the Greater David or Beloved One, Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 251

 

Do not lose sight of it: with demon forces unseen and totalitarian forces relentlessly striving to drag all humankind down to utter destruction at the world catastrophe of Armageddon, the care of your spiritual interests is the most essential life-concern to you and those you love and can help.  The battle of Armageddon can not be sidetracked; all nations are remorsely marching nearer and nearer to it, and all we can do is to prepare to pass through it with strength and help and protection which lies not within ourselves, but in Jehovah God

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

Then complete annihilation speedily follows at Jehovah’s “strange act”, Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 256

 

The Esau class and their works shall be as stubble before Armageddon’s fiery judgments.-Obad. 18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 256

 

At Armageddon the complete fulfillment will come, when the antitypical Edomites are desolated for ever.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 256

 

But even before that grand consummation of his deliverances at Armageddon there is a release from subjugation to this present evil world that is possible for men to enjoy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1943 p. 261

 

Were the pontiff of Vatican City then to gain the whole world, of what eternal value would that be to him or his hierarchy?  The unescapable battle of Armageddon will destroy that world and the hierarchy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1943 p. 278

 

When Christ Jesus spoke of losing one’s own soul to gain the present world of religion, politics and commercial business he meant losing everlasting life in the new world that follows the fight at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1943 p. 278

 

More companies of active ministers of Kingdom gospel should be formed by Jehovah’s witnesses.  In view of the Kingdom’s establishment, and the imminence of the battle of Armageddon, and the glorious incoming of the new world, these war years and the postwar era should witness the expansion of education in the most vital field of human interest as never before. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1943 p. 281

 

The waters to Elisha’s left, which continued their descent down to the Dead sea, picture the “goats”, who heed not the educational work of the Elisha class and their companions and who hasten on unprotected to the world-destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1943 p. 283

 

That day is the “day of Jehovah of hosts” beginning with the birth of his Theocratic Government by Christ and ending with the vindication of His name at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 293

 

As the Lord God by Christ Jesus interprets his prophecies to his witnesses, they discern that Babylon has been dislodged from heaven and that the lofty religious organization of modern Moab has been rejected of him, its religion has been exposed as being demonism, and the city of “Christendom” is doomed to utter destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 293

 

An international police force, no matter of what strength and striking power, cannot guarantee a durable peace with freedom and security, nor will it be able to stand the terrible shaking of all man-made, artificial things at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 294

 

Jehovah’s covenant people are here- by advised that they may expect to brush up with the wicked “Moabites” and their allies and to fight against their encroachments continuously until the judgment fire of the battle of Armageddon devours such opposers and persecutors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 298

 

The war of Armageddon is ordained for the wicked, with destruction of all their works; but as for the Lord’s zealous and courageous witnesses the prophecy says: “Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.” (Isa. 26:12, Am. Rev. Ver.)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 298

 

Till Armageddon’s fight they may continue to trouble Jehovah’s people, as did that Moabite named “Sanball at the Horonite”, who accused Nehemiah of sedition and tried to lure or frighten him off from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 299

 

Finally, when those who have in the past lorded it over Jehovah’s people do die and decease at Armageddon’s war of execution, they shall literally go into extinction, without hope of rising and living in the neww orld which is without end.  The sanctimonious harlot of religion leads them down thither. (Prov. 2:16-18; 9:13-18; 21:16) Jehovah’s judgements proclaimed by his witnesses have already visited them and greatly incensed them; but at Armageddon the execution of those judgements will visit and punish them, and Jehovah will destroy them, without a trace left, thus making every memorial of them to perish. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 299

 

The increasing of the Lord’sNation has therefore not yet reached to the populousness he has decreed for it before Armageddon finishes off the envious opposers of such increase.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 300

 

His kingdom under Christ Jesus will bring peace to “men of good-will” of the earth, but only after the greatest of all wars Armageddon.  The peace thereafter established shall continue for ever.-Ps. 72:3-7; Isa. 2:4.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 302

 

In the antitypical fulfillment of Pharaoh’s dream the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine run concurrently, picturing the condition in two organizations from the time of Christ’s coming to the temple to Jehovah’s vindication at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1943 p. 303

 

Shortly Jehovah’s day will bring the end upon the present-operating organization of Satan the Devil and utterly destroy it.  That will be in the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, commonly known as “the battle of Armageddon”. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 309

 

This did not need to wait until the battle of Armageddon reduces Babylon’s organization to a literal heap of ruins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 312

 

They greatly fear for their own future as they hear the fearless servants of God proclaim his judgments about to be executed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 312

 

This feast is spread and enjoyed before Armageddon’s fight.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 313

 

Since the feast is “unto all peoples” of good-will, and which the peoples shall live on the cleansed earth under the rule of the heavenly Zion, it means or includes those truths that apply directly to the Lord’s “other sheep”, such as their surviving the battle of Armageddon and entering into the New World and fulfilling the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 314

 

Since “all peoples” may drink of such at this Lord’s Day feast, it shows that the Lord’s “other sheep”, or persons of good-will, may share the joy of a part in the vindication of Jehovah’s name by taking up and declaring the message of his kingdom and keeping their integrity toward him until Satan is bound at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 314

 

It does not require the thousand years of Christ’s millennial reign after Armageddon to swallow up this “veil that is upon all the peoples, and the web that is woven over all the nations”. (Roth)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 314

 

Shortly, also, at ArmageddonJehovah will rise up to give his own witness concerning his almightiness, supremacy and rightful domination.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 315

 

The “last trump” announcing the Kingdom’s establishment and the approach of Armageddon’s war is sounding; and blessed are those who now die of the remnant, for they do not sleep behind “the gates of hell” awaiting the King’s coming to call them forth. (Matt 16: 18; Rev. 1:18)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 315

 

They will be spared death at Armageddon, and will enter as survivors into the post-Armageddon conditions on earth in the righteous NewWorld.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 315

 

And Scriptural grounds exist to think this shall take place on this day of Jehovah before Armageddon’s war is done.-Matt. 8 :11; Luke 13:28, 29; 2 Tim.1:10.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 315

 

When Jehovah God preserves his remnant and also their faithful companions at the battle of Armageddon, and there when the enemy’s “tongue shall consume away in their month” and such enemy hosts are then killed, this will most completely and for ever remove all reproach from God’s people.-Zech. 14:12; Mal. 3:16-18; Ps. 79:4-13; Ezek. 35:15.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 315

 

All “old world” interests will be destroyed with the “old world” at Armageddon.  Then, why waste time accumulating them? New World interests are the only things that will survive Armageddon.  One of the many NewWorld interests now given to the Lord’s people is “Feed my sheep”. Time spent in witnessing, making back-calls and conducting studies with these is feeding his sheep’.  This labor is not in vain, it will not be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 318

 

In the final chapter of the book, Job’s understanding is shown to be greatly increased, just as Jehovah’s people today have been enlightened in the middle period between the beginning of tribulation in 1914 and its windup at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 320

 

In these days of Armageddon’s approach when evil-doers wax worse, the faithful witness resolves : “But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity.”-Ps. 26:11,1; 7:8; Job 31:6; Prov. 20:7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1943 p. 320

 

The parable of the prodigal son not only is rated as the finest short story ever told by a man but is also a prophecy. (Luke 15: 11-32) It had an interest and a measure of application or point at the time of its telling, but it has a greater interest now, because now is the time of its complete fulfillment. It must have its fulfillment before the battle of Armageddon, because after that “battle of that great clay of God Almighty” no prodigality as described in the parable will be permitted or possible.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1943 p. 324

 

The message Millions Now Living Will Never Die showed that a multitude of human creatures would pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and continue life on earth forever under God’s kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1943 p. 327

 

Further, they desired to enter into the enjoyment of such things during this present time before Armageddon’s war.

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The idea of applying themselves wholly to God’s service out of a mere love of righteousness and leaving the unlimited enjoyment of earthly good things till after the battle of Armageddon and its destruction of this unrighteous world of Satan, such an idea did not appeal to or take hold on them. 

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How, then, did the Life-giver, Jehovah God, divide the “living” and let the “younger son” class have the “share that falleth to me of what there is” now?  It was by shortening the days of the “great tribulation” that began upon Satan’s organization in 1914 and that will be completed in the battle of Armageddon.  When Satan and his demon organization were cast out of heaven by the “war in heaven” and were made Christ’s footstool at the earth, Jehovah did not command his victorious King to push the battle further and to the limit, immediately destroying Satan and all his organization demon and human.  He halted the hostilities and arranged for a “day of his preparation” for the final part of the “great tribulation”, at Armageddon. 

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To the remnant class he divided the privilege of serving Him in the field by publishing this gospel of the Kingdom; and to the “younger son” class he divided a period of time for the use of their earthly privileges according to their will, to expend their human lives selfishly before Armageddon broke, if they chose.

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Since 1918 and down to and including 1931 the quantity of literature distributed heralding the Kingdom and the opportunity of surviving Armageddon and never dying was exceeding great, being over 110,000,000 books and booklets in many languages, besides hundreds of millions of free tracts, lectures from public platforms, and broadcasts over many radio stations, singly and in networks. The “prodigal son” class squandered the opportunity which such proclamation afforded for getting into God’s service.  Acting on good terms with the “far country”, the world, they spent their money for that which”is not bread and labored for that which satisfies not. (Isa. 55:2) Whether natural children of consecrated parents, or whether persons kindly disposed to Jehovah’s witnesses, yet if they permitted the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches to choke up their lives and to divert them from God’s purposed work for this period of grace before Armageddon’s fight, they have been prodigally wasting time and opportunity and means, unwisely.

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When sufficient warning shall have been given, he will resume his operations and execute his judgment finally against all of Satan’s organization, visible and invisible. (Matt. 24: 21, 22) Thereby some flesh will mercifully be saved from the world-wide destruction at Armageddon.

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Since 1918 the “prodigal son” class have joined themselves to the totalitarian-minded “citizen of that country” for a job and something to eat. As to occupation, they are doing no better than the famished boy in the parable.  The “swine” will be destroyed shortly at Armageddon because they trample under foot the saving spiritual truths which Jehovah’s witnesses make available to all persons.

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Thereby they reject God’s kingdom and renounce him for religion’s makeshift “new world order” “based on justice and morality”. (Job 22:1-28; 11:1-6, 13-20) That is just the outcome the Devil is seeking to bring about in order to prove his boast to God of being able to force every human creature to renounce God and to bring about the destruction of all at Armageddon, none being found worthy to be saved into the NewWorld that God creates. (Job 1:8-12; 2:1-7)

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This doomed old world, oppressed by the ruling “citizen” thereof, will shortly pass away at Armageddon, but the New World will be forever blessed under the heavenly Father’s kingdom by his beloved Son, Christ Jesus.  Besides the “little flock”, who inherit the kingdom with Christ Jesus, God is now gathering the “other sheep”, the “men of good-will”.  These, by now taking refuge under the Good Shepherd’s care, maybe hid during the day of Jehovah’s anger at Armageddon and may pass alive through that tribulation and into the “pleasures for evermore” of the NewWorld.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1943 p. 341

 

They are not touched by God’s Executioners at the battle of Armageddon, but are spared to live in his NewWorld of righteousness. The following year, 1932, the Father caused to be disclosed in The Watchtower who are prefigured by Jonadab, the man who joined King Jehu in his chariot and who witnessed his destruction of the religionists.  Jonadab was shown to picture an earthly class that take their stand for God’s King and kingdom. They get into the “chariot” of his organization and have part in God’s service now and will witness the destruction of all religionists at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1943 p. 342

 

In His prophecy through Isaiah God compares them with a great cloud of homing pigeons speeding to their shelter before the threatening storm of Armageddon: “Who are these that fly as a cloud [for multitude], and as the doves to their windows [of the dovecotes] ?” (Isa. 60: 8)

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In 1918 he sent his King Christ Jesus to the temple, and through him He shortened the days of the tribulation in order to judge the nations and separate them as “sheep” and “goats” before the final part of the tribulation burns forth at Armageddon. 

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The special feature was the speech “Fill the Earth”, which set forth for file first time that the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors will thereafter be given the privilege of bringing forth a righteous offspring to fill the earth during the 1000-yer reign of Christ.-See The Watchtower of October 15 and November 1, 1938.

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Those in line for the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven have been increasingly diligent in their heavenly Father’s service, out in the field and in behalf of the Kingdom interests. As above explained, the ingathering and consecration of an earthly class of persons of good-will from all nations now before Armageddon was not plainly understood.

The ingathering of the spiritual ones, both the final members of the remnant of Christ’s body and, supposedly, a ‘great company’ of a lesser spiritual class, was thought to be the chief effort of Jehovah’s consecrated people on earth. This was particularly the viewpoint down to the year 1931.  First in that year it was revealed from the Scriptures that the ones whom God’s servant class (the man “clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side”) was to locate and ‘mark in their foreheads’ to be spared from destruction at Armageddon were an earthly class, the Lord’s “other sheep”.   (Ezekiel, chapter 9)

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The instructing and gathering of an earthly class of “other sheep” was very vaguely discerned by them or was pushed into the background as being proper only after Armageddon and after the spiritual class had entered the portals of heaven and into their celestial inheritance.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1943 p. 346

 

Hence in 1935 Jehovah publicly acknowledged the “great multitude” as being earthly sons, by revealing then that such multitude of Armageddon survivors will be an earthly class destined to live here below subject to the heavenly kingdom; and that such must come out of Satan’s organization now during these days of grace whereby the time of tribulation is shortened; and that they must serve God now day and night at his house, his temple. 

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That God should cause so much to be written in the Bible respecting the “other sheep” and should cause such to be fulfilled now before Armageddon, rather than after, is no sign of favoritism toward the “prodigal” nor of neglect toward those who have hitherto faithfully served Him many years. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1943 p. 347

 

He has no pleasure in the death of the “other sheep” at Armageddon. 

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They will then arise and go to the Father in consecration before the great spiritual famine of “Christendom” ends up with her destruction at Armageddon.

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The will gladly take part in the feast God spreads for such incoming “other sheep” and will rejoice that these are back at the Father’s house before Armageddon suddenly rips forth. 

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To truly picture the fighting of the Devil and his hosts right up to their bitter end at Armageddon, Jehovah hardened the heart of this ancient Egyptian foe of freedom, and after the Israelites’ departure Pharaoh mobilized all his military might and sped after them. 

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Thereafter such remnant, like Jonah, applied themselves to the work of preaching God’s message to the nations threatened with destruction at the battle of Armageddon by the “strange act” of God. (Jonah 3:1-10) Those Ninevites who repented at Jonah’s preaching escaped destruction which came upon Nineveh in due time.  Persons now repenting at the message of Jehovah’s witnesses will be spared by Jehovah’s executioners at Armageddon to find everlasting life in the NewWorld.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1943 p. 358

 

In this Jeremiah pictured the Lord’s witnesses now engaged in his “strange work” which warns of his “strange act” of destruction upon religious “Christendom” in the tribulation of Armageddon.

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So he proved worthy to exercise the powers of the New World government and vindicate Jehovah’s name at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1943 p. 362

 

There it was revealed that the ancient leadership by Jephthah of God’s chosen people to victory pictures the present-day THEOCRATIC RULE over God’s organization and the blessings it has brought and will continue to bring with victory until the final war for freedom at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1943 p. 365

 

Wicked men will understand the language of force and destruction that He will level against them at Armageddon.

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The “iron rod” of the King must still come against them at Armageddon and dash them to pieces like pottery.

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It will speedily come at Armageddon and will thereafter become the “great mountain” that fills the whole earth without any place left for any other “mountain” or exalted postwar government.-Rev. 16:15; 1 Thess. 5:3.

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It is the “day of his preparation” for the final conflict of Armageddon. 

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Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.” (Rev. 7:9, 10, 14, 15) The good-will “strangers” “other sheep” that shall compose this “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors attribute their salvation to no man-made national government or emblem thereof.

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They turn over their all to Jehovah’s King, Christ Jesus, and ask him to buy them with his sacrifice of redemption that they may get into the way of everlasting life, now, before Armageddon.

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Now, by receiving of the life-giving spiritual food the “other sheep” class come into line to become the children of “The everlasting Father”, Christ Jesus, when he applies the merit of his ransom sacrifice in their behalf during his thousand-year reign after Armageddon.

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There can be no proper prayer rendered for the salvation of those doomed to destruction at Armageddon because of their sin unto death. (Ps. 109:1-7; Jer. 7:16; 11:14; Prov. 28:9; I John 5:16, 17)

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As we look forward to the vindication of Jehovah’s name by his King Christ Jesus at the battle of Armageddon, we continue to pray for Kings, saying: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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