That identification was made more complete in tile year 1935 (A.D.), when it was revealed by the Lord his people and caused to be publicly proclaimed that the “great multitude” is an earthly company, the “other sheep” of the Lord, which are gathered to the Lord before Armageddon. (Rev. 7:9; John 10:16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 4

 

Christ Jesus the King is the Greater David and is the anointed of Jehovah God and is the agent by whom Jehovah sends salvation and who saves his people from the disaster that Armageddon brings upon the world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 7

 

Sure]y those in this day of God’s enlightenment granted to his people, who trust in Jehovah and Christ Jesus, must see that the Theocratic Government is of paramount importance, because that government vindicates Jehovah’s name, and they must also see that unless one who claims to be the servant of Jehovah God now fully and entirely supports the Theocracy he cannot expect salvation from the terrors and destruction of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 8

 

God set up the “cities of refuge”, to which the unintentional manslayer might flee for protection from tile executioner’s hand (Num. 35:9-34), and which cities of refuge picture the salvation under God’s organization from destruction that shall fall upon the world at Armageddon.It is in that organization that those who will form the great multitude now find shelter and protection, and which shall be to their salvation from disaster at Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 8

 

The religious systems can furnish neither protection nor salvation to anyone from the terrors now upon the world and from the disaster that is about to come upon the world at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 8

 

“Salvation” means deliverance from the world disaster at the battle of Armageddon and the granting of life everlasting to the faithful obedient ones under the kingdom of Jehovah.  Salvation or deliverance was foreshadowed by what came to David and to his companions. They were delivered from King Saul, who pictured the “man of sin” class, “the son of perdition”; and that deliverance to David and his companions came at the battle of Gilboa, which battle pictured Armageddon. (1 Sam. 31:1-10)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 8

 

The battle of Gibeon particularly pictured Jehovah’s “strange act” of vindication at the battle of Armageddon, at which time, that is, the battle of Armageddon, those who are devoted to God will receive deliverance and salvation.  At the battle of Armageddon salvation and deliverance will come to the anointed remnant and to their companions, at which time all the enemies will be destroyed, down to the lowest earthly member of the Devil’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 9

 

“And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore his arm brought salvation unto him [as represented by his faithful people on the earth at Armageddon]; and his righteousness [the vindication of his name], it sustained him.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 9

 

Of necessity the woes upon the world must in- crease until the final climax at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 9

 

His people do know, however, that all the surrounding conditions point to the near approach of Armageddon, when the great issue of supremacy and vindication of Jehovah’s name will be settled for all time.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 10

 

By faith we now see the climax of Armageddon and, like David, continue to say: “But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.”-Ps. 13:5.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 10

 

Now by faith the people of God see the day of deliverance near, and at the climax of the battle of Armageddon they will greatly rejoice and sing: “The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 10

 

So likewise Armageddon will witness the end of the enemy. Then will the faithful behold the destruction of the enemy: “For in one hour is she made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenge you on her.” (Rev. 18:19, 20)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1940 p. 10

 

Christianity warns the people that within a short time Jehovah God, by Christ Jesus, will completely destroy all the governments and systems of this world, including the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Christianity never has to be on the defensive. Christ fights no defensive battles. He will lead in the great battle of Armageddon shortly, which will wipe out the enemy and completely vindicate Jehovah’s name.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1940 p. 28

 

We realize that Armageddon is near and we resolve to “press the battle to the gate” with greater energy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1940 p. 30

 

This and other supporting scriptures which follow show that God has reserved or deferred the execution of the judgment of death against these wicked ones until Armageddon, the day of his vindication, and that until that time he keeps the wicked ones under surveillance and protects his faithful people from them. Jehovah declares his purpose at Armageddon to show the Devil and all his supporters that he, Jehovah God, is the Supreme One; and that day of final conclusion of the matter rapidly approaches.-Ex. 9:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1940 p. 39

 

The other demons, working with the Devil, were active at the same time, which proves conclusively that at that time the judgment against them was not executed, but its execution was deferred from the time it was made until God’s due time, Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1940 p. 42

 

The Scriptures (Rev. 7:4-8; 14:1) make it plain that there will be only 144,000 of the members of “the body of Christ” and that those who shall be spared in Armageddon will be few compared to the great number of people now on the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1940 p. 51

 

The condition of “Christendom” just preceding Armageddon is stated in these prophetic words: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemer, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away.”-2 Tim. 3:1-5.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1940 p. 52

 

Section heading: Armageddon Next

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 72

 

The honest and sincere persons, who give heed to the Word of God, seek righteousness and meekness, and such only find the way of escape and safety at Armageddon. The stubborn and rebellious ones will perish at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 72

 

The foregoing great array of Scriptural testimony, which is not subject to successful contradiction, proves beyond all doubt that all religion originated with and is forced upon the people by the Devil and his associate demons, and that the purpose of such is to turn the people away from God and cause them to go into complete destruction. Now in these last days, and just preceding Armageddon. Almighty God by and through Christ Jesus is clearly and plainly putting these truths of and concerning religion and demonism before the people.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 74

 

After the now approaching battle of Armageddon willful violators of God’s law will all be gone from the earth, and the “great multitude” of people of good will toward Jehovah and his Theocratic Government who survive, being righteous, by God’s grace, and being thus counted by him because of their faith and obedience, may then fulfill the divine mandate, to “multiply and fill the earth”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 76

 

The destruction of the wicked at Armageddon will make room for the earth to be properly filled. The original divine mandate given to Adam and Eve in Eden, and restated to Noah’s family after the flood, will successfully be carried out after Armageddon in righteousness by the “great multitude” of surviving “men of good will” on the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 77

 

That statement of the prophet is a comfort to the remnant because it means that Jehovah will act in their behalf and in behalf of all mankind who stand on the side of Jehovah and remain steadfast at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 77

 

“Organized Christendom,” particularly the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, has heaped up much silver and fine gold, but this will not save her from destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1940 p. 78

 

Concerning such unseen powers the Lord says: ‘They go forth to the kings [ruling powers] of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the great battle of God Almighty [that is, to Armageddon].’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 83

 

All the nations are facing death, and at the universal war of Armageddon, that is, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” all nations shall die.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 84

 

At the battle of Armageddon all such nations shall cease for ever; as it is written: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Ps. 9:17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 84

 

In that great fight at Armageddon no nation will find protection because of religion, neither will God spare individual persons of any nation because of their religion, whether the?’ be sincere religious practitioners or bad religionists.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 85

 

God’s Word plainly declares that the practitioners of religion, and religion itself, shall be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 85

 

The organization of God thus constitutes the place of refuge pictured by the “cities of refuge”; and those persons of good will toward God, and who desire protection and salvation at Armageddon, may flee to the organization under Christ and there find protection and refuge until God’s wrath at the battle of Armageddon is past.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 90

 

Those who are rich in political influence and power, and those who hold great material wealth, trust in their wealth and rely upon religion and their wealth, and in this time of distress they cry out in their fear: “What we need is more religion.” They will soon find, however, that neither wealth nor power, influence or religion will furnish them any protection in the day of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 91

 

Concerning their end the Lord says, “The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.” All such have determined their own destiny by choosing the course of religion or demonism.”The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Ps. 9: 15-17) All such will perish at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 91

 

When the kingdom of Jehovah God by Christ Jesus has destroyed Satan’s organization at the battle of Armageddon, then in God’s due time, the general resurrection of “all that are in the graves” will take place, including the thief (John 5:28, 29)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1940 p. 94

 

It discloses that the day of vindication of Jehovah’s name at Armageddon is at hand, that the battle of the great day of God Almighty is very near, and shows to everyone who hopes to receive Jehovah’s approval that he is now in need of the instruction that is contained in that prophecy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 99, 100

 

December 15 that year The Watchtower published “One Reason for God’s Vengeance”, emphasizing the breaking of the everlasting covenant concerning the sanctity of tile blood of life, and pointing out how the nations had broken this covenant. According to the scripture at Revelation 16:13-16 the marching to Armageddon was then in progress.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 103

 

Those who would not praise Jehovah will be destroyed at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 103

 

The truth concerning Armageddon has been repeatedly and thoroughly drilled into the minds of God’s people since the coming of Christ Jesus to the temple.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 104

 

Prior to the coming of the Lord to the temple God’s people had understood that the battle of Armageddon would be a conflict between the radical and conservative elements of the peoples of earth.  But having received instruction form the Lord since that time, by God’s grace, they have learned and now clearly see that the battle of Armageddon will be Satan’s visible and invisible organization the one side, with Christ and his mighty host on the other, and the battle will reduce Satan’s organization to a lifeless thing without any form of life.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 104

 

He makes then to understand the meaning of his declaration that he has made the earth for man, and made nan for the earth (Isa. 45:12, 18), that is, that His creation  the earth is for those who faithfully serve and only him, and that all creations that fail or refuse to obey him are wicked, and that “all the wicked will he destroy” at Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 104

 

Many religions have been brought forth, and the people have been induced to practice those religions. Such stumbling-blocks have reached the climax in the idolatrous religion used and practiced by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and
upon such stumbling-blocks many have stumbled and been caught in the snare of the Devil, and remaining in that snare they will be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 105

 

The Roman Catholic Action, put into operation by the Hierarchy, has laid the great stumbling-block before the people that has put fear into the minds and hearts of multitudes, deluded them, and caused them to fall into the snare or pit of the Devil. Such stumbling-blocks God declares that he will take away and destroy by the hand of Christ Jesus before or at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 105

 

Having their heart fixed upon money and what it can bring, they have stumbled over the same, have been caught in the Devil’s snare, and will be destroyed at Armageddon: “They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.” -Ezek. 7:19.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 105

 

Here the scripture recorded long ago and applying to the nations at the time of Armageddon is appropriate and exactly fitting: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Ps. 9:17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 106

 

Then every human that has not gotten out of Satan’s organization after hearing the warning and before the battle of the great day of God Almighty begins will be cut off at Armageddon from life.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 107

 

His preaching to them, even indirectly, would imply that there is hope for the deliverance of those imprisoned spirits who take their stand boldly on Jehovah’s side in the day of judgement.  What Jehovah has in store for them the Scriptures do not reveal; but if, at the battle of Armageddon, any of them do take a positive and unequivocal stand on His side and gladly leave it to Jehovah to place them, they may be recovered and return to some place in his universal organization, but not to “fill the earth”.  That will be assigned to the righteous “men of good will” who survive on earth through the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1940 p. 110

 

The “evil servant” class will find no way of escape.  Only those who fully devote themselves to Jehovah and who remain faithful will be spared at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 115

 

Jehovah causes his Word and name to be proclaimed throughout the earth, and by the light of his Word he searches out “Christendom”, and at Armageddon that which the worldly ones will rely upon will be suddenly taken away, to their great chagrin and disappointment.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 115

 

In 1918 Christ Jesus at the temple began the inspection of “Christendom”, which religious crowd have claimed to serve God but have not: and through his prophet he declares that these shall be cut off: “Those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him.” (Zeph. 1:6)  During the progress of Jehovah’s “strange work”, and before Armageddon, God sends his message to “Christendom” by his messengers to give them information and warning, and particularly to the leaders of “Christendom”, but such leaders and practitioners of religion refuse to hear or to seek after God, and put themselves in opposition to the THEOCRAT and his government. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 116, 117

 

Those who seek Jehovah God and his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT before Armageddon and remain faithful thereto are the only ones who find protection and safety.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 117

 

The Almighty raised up Zephaniah his prophet and caused him to announce God’s purpose to destroy Jerusalem, which had become unfaithful; and which foreshadowed the destruction of the antitypical or hypocritical Jerusalem of today, that is to say, “Christendom,” which shall be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 117

 

In this prophecy (verse eight) the words “in the day” mean at and during the actual battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 119

 

Such religious princes of the  religious systems exercise spiritual rulership over  the organization specifically called “the Christian religion”, and these are the princes the prophet describes that shall be punished at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 120

 

Now God, by his prophet and the evidence showing the fulfillment of the prophecy, makes known that the wearers of such strange apparel shall be completely punished at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 120

 

The destruction of religionists will not be limited to the so-called “Christian religion” practitioners, but all kinds of religion will be disposed of at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 120

 

In this verse of the prophecy the words “in the same day” mean in that day of Armageddon, which is now near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 120

 

Those demon-worshipers must be punished before the end of Armageddon, and God declares his purpose to punish them. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 120

 

At Armageddon all fishing of that kind must cease. Such fishermen deal treacherously, and by their religious bait attract and lead many peoples into captivity. (Hab. 1:14-17; Eccl. 9:12) After Armageddon religious leaders will no more be permitted to take men like fish into their nets.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 121

 

Those of Satan’s organization who occupy the highest place in the earth will at the time of the battle of Armageddon be in such dismay that they will cry out for the organization to protect them, that is: “Cover us”; and “to the hills, Fall on us”.  (Hos. 10:8) As stated by the prophecy of Zephaniah, there shall be “a great crashing [destruction] from the hills”. Armageddon will destroy all of those who occupy the high and exalted places in the world organization .

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 121

 

At Armageddon those who have used tile so-called “Christian religion” for material gain shall be destroyed. (Jer. 25:29)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 121

 

The great Judge, Christ Jesus, at the temple is causing the division of the people, and doing so by using his servants to proclaim the truth exposing to view the “goats”, who are the enemies of God. Such searching out must continue until Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 122

 

The light of truth really torments those religionists, and then God visits them with “his act, his strange act”, which means their destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 122

 

An example is that of the dictator of Germany, who has repeatedly said: “We are building now that which will endure for a thousand years.” The Word of God shows that suddenly the bottom drops out of everything for all such rulers. All their work is wasted. Jesus prophesied that they would build right up until the very outbreak of Armageddon. (Matt. 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-30) That prophecy must be fulfilled.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 123

 

All such willful slayers shall perish at Armageddon at the hand of Jehovah’s great Executioner, “the Son of man,” Christ Jesus, earth’s new and rightful King.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 125

 

Not later than Armageddon Jesus Christ, the Revenger of blood wickedly shed, will slay the malicious clergy and their allies.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1940 p. 125

 

The prophecy of Zephaniah 1:14-18 briefly summed up shows the following things and facts, to wit: That the day of Armageddon is fast closing in; that Armageddon will make the stoutest men, and particularly all of the worldly “peacemakers”, shriek in bitterness; that Armageddon will be a dreadful time, dark with terror and vengeance, a time of Jehovah’s war against the proud and lofty strongholds of Satan’s organization, and particularly the key men thereof; that all proud and haughty are spiritually blinded and are sinners against God and that all of these come to their wits’ end; and that at the great battle the blood of all such willful sinners will be poured out and their carcasses will spread over the ground as contemptible; that this is retributive justice for all the savage and heartless spilling of human blood done by the wicked in violation of Jehovah’s everlasting covenant and because of their defiance to God’s supremacy; that they will attempt to find the way of escape, but will utterly fail; that none will be able to buy deliverance from destruction with any material gain they have acquired, legally or illegally, but that God will make thorough clean up of the entire enemy organization; and that he will bring to a terrible end all who disregard his warning message and who therefore willingly continue to hold  to and support Satan’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 131

 

But the power of these so-called “mighty” men, their material wealth and influence, will count for nothing at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 132

 

The peak of the “distress of nations” comes at Armageddon and will cause the nations and the people of the world to cry out in desperation. (Luke 21:25)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 133

 

Furthermore the prophet says : “A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.” The day is dark now, but the greatest darkness will come when the battle of Armageddon is on.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 133

 

This warning of Armageddon was written long ago for the aid and comfort and hope of those who have devoted themselves to God, and these witnesses of Jehovah are commanded to sound such warning that all other persons within the hearing and who may hear and who are of good will may flee to the place of safety.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 134

 

Jehovah’s faithful witnesses now are sounding the trumpet of Almighty God by proclaiming the approaching day of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 134

 

At Armageddon he will lead the heavenly host against the earthly “high corners” or high towers of Satan’s organization, and also against the invisible host of Satan.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 135

 

After the battle of Armageddon begins there will be multitudinous numbers outside of the “city of refuge” because they have held to demonism or religion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 136

 

Jehovah gives his unbreakable word that at Armageddon he will square the account with all such and that this he will do by pouring out the blood of the enemies as dust and strewing about their flesh upon the earth even “as the dung”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 136

 

As “Christendom” shows her rebellion against God and against his kingdom, so Jehovah shall treat them as rebels at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 137

 

The survivors of Armageddon shall see them; as it is written: “And they [the survivors of Armageddon] shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.” (Isa 66:24) No resurrection for such.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 137

 

But wait until Armageddon begins and “the dictator pigs begin to root“.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 137

 

Further considering the destruction that shall come upon the nations of the world at Armageddon, Jehovah says by his prophet: “But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 138

 

While the separating judgment is being conducted by Christ Jesus he sends forth his anointed servants and their companions, his “other sheep”, to sound the warning of the approaching battle of Armageddon and the disastrous results that shall come upon those who refuse to give heed to that warning.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 138

 

Armageddon will mark the end of all the nations of the earth, because all nations have forgotten God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 139

 

Who shall hear and give heed to the commandment of Jehovah from Zion? and who shall abide that terrible day of Armageddon? Neither “Christendom”nor any of the nations of the world shall abide “But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.”-Jer. 10:10.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 139

 

Again totalitarianism has come to the fore, to dominate the earth, in opposition to Jehovah’s Theocratic Government and the people who support that Government. Shortly comes “the battle of that great day of GodAlmighty”, the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1940 p. 142

 

All are commanded to make a self-examination in the light of Jehovah’s judgments, which were written aforetime. This examination must be done before Armageddon arrives, at which time religion and all religious organizations and all who stick to religion shall be destroyed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 147

 

Only those who continue to ascertain God’s will to earnestly give heed thereto will thus fulfill the Lord’s require- merits and have hope of being hid from the great destruction that shall be wrought at Armageddon.

The prophecy further discloses that not alone will the religious elements be completely cleared out during Armageddon, but also the combination of creatures over whom the demons exercise control and all who worship demons, including the political and commercial elements.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 147

 

The faithful remnant and their companions shall come forth from their place of seclusion where they rest during Armageddon and shall, after Armageddon, dispense food from God’s Word to those who worship and serve Jehovah God in spirit and in truth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 148

 

The faithful delight in the law of God and hasten to do his will. (Ps. 1:1-4) Now the final warning is given, and that which is found worthless, like chaff, is passing rapidly away to complete destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

The day of preparation for Armageddon has been in progress for some time. There is now a short period of grace until the battle of God Almighty, and which time brings all creation to the greatest climax ever known.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

God has shortened the  day of tribulation and afforded time and opportunity for his warning to be sounded (Matt. 24:21, 22), and all the Scriptures and all the physical facts relating thereto clearly indicate that the final conflict at Armageddon is very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

Armageddon is a time of destruction, and not a time to begin to hear and obey the commandments of the Lord.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

When Armageddon breaks there will be no further hope of finding the way of escape.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

That class is commanded by the Lord to gather themselves together for the slaughter at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 149

 

The meek here addressed must flee from religion and hence come out from the Devil’s organization and do so before Armageddon begins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 150

 

At the Red Sea God performed a great miracle when he executed his judgment upon the Egyptians, and which pictured the judgment of the Lord from heaven, now being announced and which shall be executed at Armageddon upon all the world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 151

 

These faithful anointed ones are identified as singing praises to the Lord Jehovah, giving glory to his name, after they have been diligent in seeking meekness and righteousness and have been enlightened of the Lord; and to them the following scripture applies: “Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations [that is, the great multitude, that survives Armageddon] shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgements are made manifest.”-Rev 15:4.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 151

 

The religious leaders of the Hierarchy and others will be sorely disappointed when Armageddon begins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 152

 

’Being hid,’ within the meaning of the prophecy, is to be hid from destruction by Jehovah’s commissioned Executioner, who will execute the wicked at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

Jeremiah was hid; so were Baruch, Ebed-melech, and the Rechabites, the sons of Jonadab, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, and this foreshadowed or foretold how the faithful, obedient ones will be hid at Armageddon.—Jer. 39:8-14; 45:1-5; 39:15-18; 35:16-19.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

These prophetic pictures foretell how the faithful ones, who shall compose the “great multitude”, will be hidden and shielded at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

The modern-day Rahab class are those called “Jonadabs”, who hide now the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses from their enemies, and at Armageddon the Rahab class, or faithful Jonadabs, shall be hid as she was hid from the enemy at the fall of Jericho.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

Though some individuals, like Jonathan at the  battle of Gilboa, may die at the hands of the enemy at the battle of Armageddon and die because they persist in maintaining their integrity toward God, yet they will not perish, but will receive life in the resurrection. The “great multitude” as a class will survive at Armageddon, although some individuals may die at the hands of the enemy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

It is therefore imperative for all to seek meekness and seek righteousness before Armageddon begins and to continue faithful and true to The THEOCRACY if they would find a place of safety.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

There will be no place of safety for the enemies of God when Armageddon begins: “For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.” (Zeph. 2:4)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

Ashkelon, another city of the Philistines, also picturing the organization of “Christendom”, will be completely ruined by the Lord at Armageddon, and none of the enemy shall be hid therefrom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

At the height of Armageddon the earthly organization of the enemy shall be completely ruined, and they shall know that the hand of God has done it: “The destruction that wasteth at noonday.” (Ps. 91:6)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 153

 

The following texts apply to all such at Armageddon: “Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.”- Zeph. 2:5.

This means that the commercial religionists will find no protection in the day of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154

 

This latter class of sincere persons, upon hearing the truth and giving heed thereto, will flee from religion before Armageddon begins, and then if they faithfully obey God’s commandments they have the promise of finding a place of safety in the day of God’s wrath at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154

 

Therefore they pictured those who follow demon religion for gain and who persecute the faithful followers of Christ Jesus.  None of such will find a hiding place at the time of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154

 

It has long been the boast of the Roman Catholic organization that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against us”.   At Armageddon that boast shall end for ever and every vestige of that religious  organization shall perish, so that “there shall be no inhabitant” thereof throughout the whole earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154

 

The enemies of THE THEOCRACY  cleared out at Armageddon, as stated in verse five of the prophecy, there will be a complete change of conditions, and then the faithful servants of God shall come into possession of things which the enemy have previously occupied wrongfully: “And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.” (Zeph. 2:6)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154

 

This part of the prophecy shows that the survivors of Armageddon will be those, and those only, who have taken their stand on the side  of THE THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT before Armageddon begins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 154, 155

 

At Armageddon that unrighteous action shall cease for ever. (Ezek. 34:2-10) Dictators and religionists will be for ever disposed of and then the survivors of Armageddon will feed God’s flock: “And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 155

 

The enemy having been completely destroyed at Armageddon and thereby completely deprived of its possession, then the righteous ones, the meek, shall come into their own: “And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.”-Zeph. 2:7.

Armageddon having ended, everlasting peace shall reign.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 155

 

This feeding applies specifically after Armageddon has ended.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 155

 

Later, at Armageddon, all those who faithfully have served Jehovah shall be completely delivered.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 155

 

This prayer will have been fully answered at the end of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 155

 

At Armageddon Jehovah will fully deliver all who have faithfully served him from those who have persecuted them.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 156

 

All who take their stand on tile side of The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT and continue to serve the great THEOCRACY, under Christ Jesus, shall be fully and completely delivered at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 156

 

It appears from the prophecy of Zephaniah that “Christendom”, that is, those people who practice what they have called “the Christian religion”, will first be disposed of at Armageddon and then God’s faithful servants will be fully delivered from them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 156

 

In this part of the prophecy God therefore shows the course and the end of those who oppose his government, and the right way for those who are of good will toward him, and what shall be their happy condition following Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 156

 

A long period of time has been permitted to elapse during which period of time Jehovah God permits Satan to remain and carry forward his nefarious work in order that He, Jehovah, in his own due time may have a testimony given in the earth concerning hm name and Theocracy and then may exhibit his power at the battle of  Armageddon to convince all creation that he is the Supreme One, the great Theocrat.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 158

 

Mother’s Day” was first observed in America in 1914, the very year that the “times of the Gentiles” expired and Satan’s uninterrupted worldly rule ended, at which event he knew his time was short to get ready for the great battle of Armageddon between his organization and The Theocratic Government.  To induce the people to bestow special honor and worship upon mothers would be one step toward turning the people away from the worship of the great Theocrat, Jehovah God; just another one of Satan’s means of preparing for Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1940 p. 158

 

At Armageddon there shall be no hiding places for those in far-off lands nor for the empire builders who have opposed God and persecuted his faithful witnesses.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 163

 

The organization of Satan, made up of political dictators and commercial traffickers who have allied themselves with religionists, shall be basely degraded and forever despised by those who survive Armageddon and who continue to praise Jehovah.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 163

 

At Armageddon Jehovah will make good these promises, fully carrying them out.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 164

 

They attempt to force Jehovah’s faithful servants into the military service and to engage in killing contrary to God’s Word.  All of these things God will not forget at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 164

 

Those enemies of God and his servants will find no hiding place at Armageddon. They will not  be hid.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 164

 

At Armageddon he will demonstrate to all, that he is the living God, the self-existing One, without beginning and without end; that he is the King of Eternity, who inhabits eternity, and that there is none before him. (Jer. 10:10; Dan. 6:26; Deut. 5:26; Isa. 57:15)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 165

 

Thus is the judgment written against them, and that judgment will be executed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 165

 

The totalitarian rule and rulers, the commercial robbers and those who have defied God, shall perish for ever at Armageddon, as the prophecy declares.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 165

 

The modern-day Moabites and Ammon-ites being wiped out at Armageddon, those surviving ones of His “holy nation”, of which Christ Jesus is the King of kings, will come into possession of that unobstructed freedom, liberty of action, and use of the earth which God provides and into its fullness, and which the enemies of God have selfishly used and abused and denied to the servants of the Most High.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 166

 

The wicked deeds the haughty, austere ones who now control the nations will not be overlooked by Jehovah’s Executioner at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 166

 

Those who survive Armageddon will not forget what God has done unto the modern Moabites and Ammonites: “And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts; and I will declare thy greatness.” (Ps. 145:6)  With great awe and wonder the prophet of Jehovah, having a vision of what was coming upon the world at Armageddon, exclaimed: “O Lord, I have heard thy speech [the report of thee], and was afraid.” (Hab. 3:2)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 167

 

Then will follow the destruction at Armageddon of the mighty ones of the commercial, political and military forces.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 167

 

Non of these shall be overlooked or “hid” at Armageddon, but as the Lord says, “Ye shall be slain by my sword.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 168

 

These must turn to God and serve him before Armageddon breaks: “Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.” (Ps. 68: 31)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 168

 

God remembers these at Armageddon, and therefore says: “And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.” (Zeph. 2:13)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 168

 

Thus it is shown that the state is put above Go and above everything that is true, because truth proceeds from God, and the Scriptures and facts further show that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, with its mountain of lies, is pushing its influence into every part of the earth.  This is further evidence that Armageddon is rapidly approaching. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 168

 

In like manner the modern-day Assyrians, the political totalitarian crowd, attack God’s true people, joining with the religious element, and then turn against the religious practitioners. The modern Assyrians must be wiped out at Armageddon just as the Ammonites and Moabites will be destroyed, as shown in the type where they destroyed Edom and then destroyed each other. (2 Chron. 20:1-23)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 169

 

Out of modern Nineveh shall come some seeking Jehovah, and these will be spared at tile battle of the great day of God Almighty; but none of that totalitarian crowd will be spared at Armageddon. All such the Lord will make, as the prophet declares, ’a dry and desolate wilderness.’

The totalitarian monstrosity rule will end for ever at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 170

 

That modern Nineveh now preys upon the peoples of the earth like wild and vicious beasts. She shall have just retribution at Armageddon.-Nahum 2:11-13.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 170

 

Such will he the condition of the modern Nineveh after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 170

 

Such are persons of good will who must flee now and seek meekness and righteousness that they may be hid during Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 171

 

In this hour of distress when Armageddon is approaching God warns the people who desire salvation flee to The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 171

 

That means that, following Armageddon, the totalitarian rule, made up of religious, political and commercial mighty men, shall never function again.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 171

 

The faithful servants of God now have a vision by faith of what is shortly to come to pass, and those persons of good will who now turn wholly to the Lord also see what is soon to come to pass and will have a demonstration of the desolation of the wicked within a short time after Armageddon is fought.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 171

 

Those who love the Lord will do what they can now to aid others to see and to appreciate the great convention that shall follow Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 172

 

Today I called on a businessman in one of the largest offices in the city and presented to him the Kingdom message, and also that the Devil’s organization (which I fully explained) would be utterly destroyed by Jehovah in the great battle of Armageddon to make way for The Theocracy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1940 p. 176

 

Have the religious leaders trusted the Lord God? He answers: “She trusted not in the Lord.” For this, reason “Christendom” has no claim for protection during Armageddon and shall receive none.  Only those who seek righteousness and meekness, trusting fully in Jehovah and his King, have any promise of being hid at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 182

 

To be sure, Satan would induce his servants to persecute Jehovah’s witnesses because they announce the rapid approach of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 187

 

That time is just the hour preceding Armageddon when God begins to maneuver his forces and the forces of the enemy for the final execution of His judgment written agains the wicked.  God sends forth his messengers through the land, and especially throughout “Christendom”, and causes them to sound his final warning to “Christendom” that Armageddon is near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 188

 

Section Heading: The Priest at Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 189

 

Among the titles applied by Catholic prelates to the pope of Vatican City are such as “Melchisedec in Order”, “Abraham by Patriarchate,” and “Sovereign Priest”. He now faces Armageddon.

Section Heading: The Priest at Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 189

 

Since this is Armageddon, the battle of God Almighty against Satan’s organization, and since to “wound”, “strike through,” and “crush” means to render inactive or to subdue, and since “the head” well represents the power to direct the forces of the enemy, the Lord will “wound” Satan, the head over the wicked nations, and will subdue him and bind him, and this he will do in the great and final conflict. (Rev. 20:1-3)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1940 p. 190

 

Jehovah thus states what shall be the result of his final judgment.  He give warning to the wicked which they must hear just before the execution of his judgement at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 195

 

At Armageddon Jehovah will, by his Executioner, Christ Jesus, devour completely Satan’s organization. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 195

 

But as the days of No’e were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man [the Executioner at Armageddon] be.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 196

 

When Armageddon begins and after the Most High rises up to the prey, those who are of Zion and who have maintained their integrity toward God will be safe.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 197

 

But when he fight at Armageddon begins the oppressive city shall go down, and nothing can save her.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 198

 

In this text, Zephaniah 3:9, the word “then” does not mean immediately following the battle of Armageddon. It does not mean that immediately after Armageddon all languages will cease and a new, general language will be adopted. There is nothing in the Scriptures to support that conclusion. The word “then” means that, before the battle of Armageddon begins, the “sheep” class, that is, those who are on the side of Jehovah God, will be given the truth and together speak the truth, a pure, undefiled message.

The Scriptures show beyond all doubt that those who are on the side of The The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT act in harmony with and support of that government will be the only ones that will survive Armageddon. The oppressors will be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 198

 

Only those who speak the truth in unity will survive Armageddon. When the purpose of Jehovah is seen and appreciated, then a better understanding is had and the meaning of the prophecy becomes clear.  This “pure lip” or pure message must be proclaimed before Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 198

 

The Devil makes an attempt to again reunite all the wicked.  Just before Armageddon he puts a desperate effort to turn all the people against Jehovah, and for his purpose he employs the totalitarian methods first put in operation through Nimrod. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 198

 

The apostle Paul quotes these words from the prophecy, and in fulfillment of the prophecy God does his “strange work”, using his witnesses until Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 200

 

It is only those persons of good will, meaning the “remnant” and the Jonadabs, that employ the “pure lip” or pure speech, that stand firm against the Devil and all his agents, and that continue to declare the name of the Lord and his kingdom. It is only such that survive Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 200

 

Until quite recently God’s faithful people on the earth understood that most of the peoples of the earth would pass through the great tribulation of the battle of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 204

 

But now it is seen that it is only those who seek Jehovah God and righteousness and meekness that have the promise of being “hid “, spared and taken through Armageddon. (See Zephaniah 2:3; 1 Peter 4:18.)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 204

 

Sodom is set forth as an example of those whom God will destroy at Armageddon.-Jude 7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 204

 

In this prophetic picture Lot and his family represented or foreshadowed those persons who are of good will toward Jehovah God and his Theocratic Government under Christ and who now hear the warning concerning the great destruction that will come upon Satan’s world at Armageddon. That warning is now being sounded throughout the earth by Jehovah’s witnesses. It is certain that the destruction of Sodom pictured Armageddon, and that Sodom particularly foreshadowed that part of Satan’s organization called “Christendom”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 204

 

Jesus speaking of the conditions that would prevail upon earth at the time of his second coming, in glory as a divine spirit, likens such conditions unto those in ancient Sodom, thus further proving that the destruction of Sodom was a type or prophetic pattern and that it foreshadowed what shall come to pass upon “Christendom” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 205

 

The facts now conclusively prove that throughout the land of “Christendom” the men who operate the religious systems do so for selfish reasons and 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 concerning the approaching time of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 205

 

Hence Jesus, describing conditions that will prevail on earth at the time of Armageddon, said: “In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, 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.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 205

 

Likewise those who form the “great multitude” of persons of good will that will be “hid” during the battle of Armageddon receive the warning to rice, and they must flee to the Lord’s Theocratic Government before Armageddon begins. Further, they must abide under the Lord’s protection, seeking meekness and righteousness, until the fire of Armageddon has completely burned out; otherwise they will be destroyed together with “Christendom” and all the rest of Satan’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1940 p. 205

 

Jehovah’s witnesses must be diligent and very active up until Armageddon, ever rejoicing in their privilege of bearing the reproaches that fell upon the Lord for His name’s sake.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1940 p. 213

 

It refers to deliverance of God’s faithful people, both the remnant and the “other sheep”, at Armageddon. Many times have these been delivered since 1919, and complete deliverance will come to the faithful at Armageddon, and that deliverance will be for the sake of Jehovah’s name. (Ps. 106:8)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1940 p. 214

 

Jehovah as definitely fixed the time for the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 227

 

Then at the beginning of the fifth chapter of Thessalonians he writes concerning “the times and the seasons”, well knowing that Jehovah’s people would desire comfort and would need comfort at the time of approaching the great battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 228

 

Section heading: Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 229

 

Consistently, various features of the day of the Lord and the things that take place in that day, including the destruction at Armageddon as an expression of Jehovah’s wrath. would likewise come upon all the peoples of tile earth who are not enlightened.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 232

 

Referring to the power gathering the nations to the battle of Armageddon, Jesus says: “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief [at the battle of Armageddon].

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 233

 

They know that deliverance is certain to come at Armageddon. But when?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 235

 

But later on, when the religiously misled ones came to more clearly understand their own situation and the purpose of God toward them, they had a change of heart and showed themselves in a proper heart condition to be gathered by the Lord as his “other sheep” into the fold of Jehovah to there find safety and preservation during the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 236

 

But it is interesting here to note that it was not until May31, 1935, at the Washington (D.C.) convention Jehovah’s witnesses, that the “great multitude”, as such, was identified as an earthly class who survive the battle of Armageddon and was thus made known to God’s anointed remnant.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 237

 

This they were compelled to do in order to live. Likewise now those of the “other sheep” that are in the world will have to come to Jehovah’s visible organization, represented by his remnant of witnesses on earth, and learn the way to life by obtain- ing and feeding upon the food which the Lord has prepared and stored up for such.  This they must do before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 237

 

In 1914 the Lord’s people expected many things, which, however, did not seem to come to pass, but some of which began to come to pass in 1918 and which they saw thereafter; but now we are seeing the “vision” most marvelously come to pass, leading on to Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 239

 

Also the time had come for Jehovah to “finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness”. (Rom. 9:28) In righteousness he will stop Satan at Armageddon!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1940 p. 239

 

The faithful are diligent now to seek righteousness and meekness that they may remain in the place of safety during Armageddon and receive complete deliverance in God’s due time.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 243

 

Armageddon is a certainty.  All persons who are now in a covenant with Jehovah and fully devoted to The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT are necessarily looking for evidence that Armageddon is near at hand.  Such being children of light and walking circumspectly in the light, they are discerning the “sighs of the times” and will thereby learn as to the time of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 243

 

Therefore the words of Paul, the inspired servant of the Lord, addressed to the faithful followers of Christ Jesus concerning the beginning of Armageddon, are these: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”-1 Thess. 5.3

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 243

 

“They,” that is to say, the leaders of the big religious system, scoff at the published fact that the Lord Jesus has ‘descended from heaven with a shout [with the command from the Most High], with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump’, announcing the kingdom, and that the battle is about to follow and that victory for the great King is certain at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 244

 

Just how long they will be saying that be- fore the battle of Armageddon begins is not definitely indicated by the Scriptures. That they will be so saying shortly before the battle is quite certain and clear.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 245

 

Without a question of doubt we are now well advanced within “the times and the seasons” of the Lord’s presence and of his judgment of the nations and we are approaching unto the time of Armageddon, but the “sign” immediately preceding Armageddon is not yet discernible. Many nations are now at war and the democracies are rapidly disappearing.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 246

 

All this must be done before they can cry “Peace and safety”; and all the present evidence, therefore, show that exactly these conditions exist, and hence we are approaching near unto Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 247

 

When the faithful servants of Jehovah under the leadership of Christ Jesus see every avenue closed to them to actively and openly engage in advertising The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT ,and when the religious leaders and their totalitarian allies are saying “Peace and safety”, that will be the sign that Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of GodAlmighty,” is just about to begin.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 249

 

All the evidence tends to prove that Armageddon is very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 251

 

As it is written: “Behold, he cometh with clouds [of the storm of Armageddon]; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”-Rev. 1:7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 252

 

It is only a small number who discern his presence for some time after his return until the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 253

 

The coming of the Lord to his temple is soon to be followed by a time of great distress upon earth, culminating in Armageddon, which will destroy Satan’s organization.-See Revelation 16:15, 16

Will Jesus bodily present at the earth at that battle of Armageddon?  It would be presumptuous positively to say one way or another, because we do not know. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 253

 

He can manifest his presence in all parts of the earth, whether his glorious body be in heaven or at the earth.  Armageddon is God’s fight. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 253

 

The same argument must be true with reference to Jesus.  Armageddon will bring knowledge to all creation that Jehovah is God and Jesus is King of kings. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 253

 

Thus is shown God’s provision for and his preparation of his people for a campaign that shortly thereafter began, and that is now in progress, the purpose of which is to proclaim Jehovah’s name, and his King and Theocratic Government, and to announce the day of God’s vengeance against the enemy at the battle of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 255

 

The prophet Isaiah himself did not live to see the destruction of the city of Jerusalem back there, therefore these prophetic words of the Lord must apply to God’s servant class whom Isaiah pictured, and this proves that the servant class must continue and the witness to the name of Jehovah must go on until Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1940 p. 255

 

That will be the “sign” or proof positive that Armageddon is about to break.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 259

 

The Lord Jesus, speaking to his hearers of that very battle of Armageddon, said: “and take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares [suddenly (Diaglott, interlinear)].

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 259

 

The period of time following 1918 until Armageddon is a period in which the Lord uses his witnesses to gather unto himself his “other sheep” that shall form the “great multitude”. (Rev. 7: 9-17)

When Armageddon begins, that trouble, declare the Scriptures, will be like “travail upon a woman upon child”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262

 

When the battle of Armageddon begins the cries of those who have opposed THE THEOCRACY will be like the trivial of a woman in the death throes. (Isa. 42:14)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262

 

At Armageddon there will be no “twilight sleep” to benumb the pains of “Christendom” giving birth to what she had hoped to be her own government.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262

 

Armageddon will be a clean-up of everything that has opposed Jehovah in the establishment of his government of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262

 

They have made the political and commercial prominent men the principal ones of their respective flocks, and concerning all of these, when Armageddon is on, the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah says: “And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.” (Jer. 25:35)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262

 

The following scripture written long ago is clearly appropriately applied to the day of Armageddon: “I saw the Lord standing upon the alter [place of ‘Christendom’s’ false or demon worship]; and he said, Smite the lintel of the door [entrance into ‘Christendom’], that the posts [(Revised Version) thresholds; the way or path of the clergy] may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them [(Revised Version) and break them in pieces on the head of all of them]; and I will slay the last of them with the sword; he that flesh of them shall not flee away [escape (R.V.)], and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 262, 263

 

This judgment, long ago entered, will be executed at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 264

 

Many of the nations of earth are now at war.  But that war is not a part of the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 265

 

What, then, does it mean that The THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT is now suppressed in many nations?  It means that the hour is rapidly approaching when the “sign” of Armageddon will be clearly revealed and all who are on the side of Jehovah will see and appreciate it. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 265

 

That multitude is one without definite number, and it embraces those of good will who shall seek the Lord prior to the breaking of the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 265, 266

 

“The signs of the times” have been and are clear, and next we shall see the sign that Armageddon is about to begin and deliverance is very near. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 266

 

It appears that salvation may include the preservation of some of the remnant through the battle of Armageddon and their remaining for a time on the earth beyond Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 266

 

When the “sign” of Armageddon does clearly appear may it not then be that the Lord’s promise applies to his people, to wit : “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.”-Isa. 26:20.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 267

 

The purpose of his coming to the temple of Jehovah is to execute judgment as the great Judge. This must take place before the coming battle of Armageddon; and since all the members of the true temple class must be judged by him, it must take place before the last “living stones” are taken from the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 270

 

The battle of Armageddon, now near, will clear the way for the uninterrupted operation of that glorious Theocratic Government. Soon all the selfish governments of this world shall perish. Monarchies, democracies, aristocracies, papism, Fascism, Communism and Nazism, and all suchlike efforts to rule, shall pass away at Armageddon and will soon be forgotten. Those abortive attempts at government will not be remembered by the survivors of Armageddon, because they will have other things to think about.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 270

 

Soon all the great multitude of persons good will who survive Armageddon and live shall know that peace has come to stay for ever; concerning which it is written (Isa 2:4): “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 271

 

When the terrible battle of Armageddon is raging, then many who have been deceived and who have preferred to believe a he will be made to know that Satan is the great liar and that Jehovah alone can give life. Those who survive Armageddon will be the ones who now hear the Kingdom message of truth and who give heed thereto and seek righteousness and meekness, and to such Jehovah promises that they may “be hid” in that time of distress and woe. (Zeph. 2:2, 3)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 271

 

At Armageddon the Lord will remember the indignities now being cast upon his name and people. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 271

 

The others were dumfounded. Then I said to this person of good will: ’It’s people like you that shall find God’s protection at Armageddon.’ I left some literature with him, and we went on our way rejoicing; all the discouragement fled.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1940 p. 272

 

Those humans classed as “goats” at the coming battle of Armageddon shall be everlastingly ‘cut off’ from life, sharing the fate of the Devil. (Matt. 25:32, 41-46)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 283

 

At the universal war of Armageddon, that is, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” all nations shall die. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 283, 284

 

At the battIe of Armageddon all such nations shall cease for ever.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 284

 

The Scriptural evidence is that a “great .multitude” will be brought alive through the battle of Armageddon, and these, the “other sheep” of the Lord, will on earth for ever inherit the blessings under the Kingdom or THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.- Rev.7 : 9-17; John 10:16; Matt.25:31-46.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 284

 

As Ecclesiastes 1:4 declares that “the earth abideth for ever”, this statement to Noah is a positive promise that the earthly survivors of Armageddon, if continuing obedient to the Kingdom, may live happily on earth for ever.  Seeing, then, that we are at the end of Satan’s world and the opening of the long-promised “world to come”, “world without end,” and further seeing that according to the Scriptures many will pass over to the new world, escaping death at Armageddon, it can be confidently announced that a “great multitude” now living will never die, because, these being offered Kingdom blessings, they will joyfully accept them and be obedient to THE THEOCRACY.

It was Jesus who said: “Whosoever  liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (John 11:26) After Armageddon the living ones, the earthly survivors, who are not in a covenant with the Lord by sacrifice, but who believe on the Lord, shall not die.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 284

 

Jehovah of hosts with his anointed executive officer Christ Jesus will press the conflict against Satan and all of his forces of evil, and henceforth our battle.cry shall be, THE SWORD OF JEHOVAH AND OF HIS ANOINTED; that the great battle of Armageddon soon to begin will result in the full restraint of Satan and the complete overthrow of his evil organization, and that Jehovah will establish righteousness in the earth by and through Christ, the new Ruler, and will emancipate mankind from evil and bring everlasting blessings to all the nations of the earth;

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 285, 286

 

“Them that fear thy name, small and great,” seems clearly to mean those who now hear the message of truth and turn to the Lord before Armageddon to become the Lord’s “other sheep”, the “great multitude”, that shall survive Armageddon and be forever on the earth.-Rev. 7 : 9, 10.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 287

 

These wicked ruling factors have so corrupted the earth or organization of men on the earth that God will destroy the wicked organization, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1940 p. 287

 

The Theocratic message, which the Lord has put out on the earth and pushed clear into “Christendom’s” vitals, is there to stay, foretelling the violent destruction of “Christendom” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1940 p. 297

 

Armageddon will begin with completely stripping off everything that hides the Hierarchy behind their “refuge of lies”, and when they are thus stripped the dirt thereof will be fully disclosed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1940 p. 297

 

Now as the day of Armageddon approaches, at which time the “strange work” of Jehovah will be finished and his “strange act” will begin, the Hierarchy is acting in a desperate manner and in the same line as that employed by the Nazis. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1940 p. 298

 

Now that judgment has extended to all nations, and the people are being divided into two classes, the “goats” for destruction at the battle of Armageddon, and the “sheep” for preservation and to inherit everlasting blessings on earth under the Theocratic kingdom.-Matt. 25:31-46.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1940 p. 300

 

While doing so Jehovah’s witnesses have been severely reproached, ill-treated and put in very great danger; yet by the grace of God they have escaped through it all and will continue to escape until their work is finished, before Armageddon begins.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 309

 

The Watchtower sets forth the facts and the Scriptures showing that Armageddon is very near. The darkest hour of all time will soon give way to the most brilliant light that has ever come to humankind.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 311

 

This is another prophetic account, drama or picture of the complete destruction of Satan’s forces that will take place at the battle of Armageddon, and which is fully corroborated by the following prophecy: “And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 311

 

This description here given of the fighting men of Moab, with whom were “all lusty, and all men of valour”, appears to mean that Satan’s visible organization,  which engage in the battle, will be in fighting trim and fully equipped when Armageddon begins, but their strength will quickly disappear.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 311

 

Even so at the battle of Armageddon, the Greater Ehud will have the full support of Jehovah, the Almighty power. (Ps. 110:5)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 311

 

So likewise the battle of Armageddon, led by Christ Jesus, will be decisive.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 311, 312

 

In the battle of Armageddon the demons now controlling the world will completely fail to withstand the onslaught of the Greater Ehud, Christ Jesus the King.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 312

 

The wars that are now in progress, however, are not the battle of Armageddon.  The battle of Armageddon, which is “the battle of that great day of God Almighty”, is yet future, and for destructive results nothing that has ever come to pass can or will equal the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 312

 

When the battle of Armageddon is done there will be so many dead that the survivors will not be able to bury them.  The whole earth will be a place of shambles.-Jer. 25:33

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 312

 

The “other sheep” of the Lord will form the “great multitude” (Rev. 7: 9-17), and these now must hasten to that city of refuge, and must do so before Armageddon, if they would find protection and rest.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 313

 

All persons of good will toward God, who have abandoned religion and fled to the antitypical city of refuge, the Theocratic organization under Christ, and who there remain in faithful obedience unto the Lord, now by faith have rest, and they confidently trust in the Lord for full deliverance at Armageddon, and look forward to deliverance.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 313

 

This part here pictured shows that Jehovah determines the time when the final battle of the day of God Almighty, the battle of Armageddon, is to be fought against Satan and his organization and when it shall end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 315

 

That work, however, could not serve to vindicate the name of Jehovah before earthly creatures.  That vindication will take place at the battle of Armageddon, now near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 317

 

The immediate ousting of Satan from heaven shows the beginning of the exercise of the power of Christ and marks the beginning of a new era in the kingdom of the great “King of Eternity”, Jehovah, and a new era or kingdom beginning before the complete destruction of Satan’s organization and power at the battle of Armageddon near at hand.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 317

 

The reason is to turn the people away from God before Armageddon is fought. Satan sees that his time is short before the battle of Armageddon, when he shall be destroyed, and his purpose and attempt to turn people away from God is to get all on his side. The proclamation of the voice from heaven ends at this point of the Revelation, which indicates that the woes of the peoples of earth will continue and will reach a climax in Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 318

 

This is a warning to all of God’s anointed witnesses, and now also to their earthly companions who form the “great multitude”, that they should expect the persecution of Satan and his opposition to be exercised by and through his agents as long as the “strange work” of Jehovah continues and until his “strange act” at the battle of Armageddon, when tie will destroy all the demons and their chief, Satan.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 318

 

Your speeches have filled us with joy and zeal to continue the fight for The THEOCRACY, despite conditions.  Standing alert for the sign of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1940 p. 319

 

T.he Devil knows that his time is short to prepare for the final showdown at Armageddon, and therefore he resorts to every known means of wickedness to accomplish his purpose.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1940 p. 326

 

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”-Rev. 16:13, 14, 16.

The word Armageddon, as used in this text. means the place of assembly of God’s servants; hence the Devil gathers all his forces against the servants of God and in opposition to the great THEOCRACY.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1940 p. 326

 

That emphatic declaration from God’s Word  alone settles the question as to who will be saved and who will perish at Armageddon. What can be said of the combination made up of Fascists, Nazis, Communists, Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and other opponents of THE THEOCRACY?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1940 p. 329

 

The final judgment of the Lord against the goats will be executed at Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” and none of the wicked shall find any way of escape.-,Jer. 25:34, 35; 1 Thess. 5:3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1940 p. 330

 

In this “Christendom” become negligent, slothful, sinful, and was led into death and shall early be destroyed at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1940 p. 334

 

These include the class of persons of good will whom the Good Shepherd Christ Jesus gathers as his “other sheep” and who will form the great multitude” that shall survive the battle of Armageddon and dwell in the “new earth”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1940 p. 350

 

The Scriptures clearly show that the city of refuge foreshadowed refuge to which the “other sheep” of the Lord, that is, the “great multitude”, flee and find protection and salvation at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1940 p. 356

 

In preparing for the battle of Armageddon the great Jehovah causes the minute details to be mentioned picturing that battle.

protection and salvation at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1940 p. 358

 

Likewise in the fulfillment of the prophetic drama Jehovah is drawing all the enemy into the open and there forcing them to don the garments of identification that they are his enemies, and openly show themselves as against THE THEOCRACY, and thereby to admit that all are worthy to be destroyed by the Lord at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1940 p. 358

 

Thus Jehovah foretold that he will use his inanimate creation and forces of the earth to execute the anti-theocratic forces at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1940 p. 359

 

Jesus specifically prophesied concerning this day of tribulation upon earth, and this tribulation he declares will reach a climax in “the battle of that great day of God Almighty”, which battle of Armageddon is now very near. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1940 p. 374

 

Instead of these religionists being fed and now being aides to the people, God has given the bread and water of life to little children that stand firm for God and his government, that the children may aid others. If such children continue faithful until and through Armageddon, they shall be forever with the faithful prophets of old, who shall be “princes in all the earth”. (Ps. 45:16; Isa. 32:1)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1940 p. 378

 

That great act of Jehovah God at Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” will not be as the worldly wise men have defined it: ‘an inevitable accident against which prudent persons cannot guard.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1940 p. 382

 

Armageddon is rapidly approaching, and Jesus described it as the greatest trouble that ever came upon the world or ever will come. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1940 p. 382