These are the very things that have been making the newspaper headlines during all this present generation, plus now the ‘ruining of the earth’ by global pollution. This fulfillment of prophecy gives sound basis for hope that the time is at hand when man’s disrespectful converting of the earth into a vast garbage dump will be brought to a swift and decisive end, as God brings the foretold “great tribulation.” That tribulation will be climaxed by the ‘war of Armageddon’—not some international battle fought with defoliants, nerve gases and hydrogen bombs with radioactive fallout that leaves the entire planet devoid of all life—but a righteous war in which God’s own Son and his heavenly armies will be victorious, to the blessing and liberation of all those loving righteousness.—Rev. 16:13-16; 19:11-18.

Awake! April 22, 1971 p. 25

The heavenly government of his Son will oversee the earthly activity of all who survive the Armageddon war to assure that God’s purpose is carried out.

Awake! April 22, 1971 p. 25

In fact, it will be because they have changed their thinking, attitudes and sense of values to conform to God’s standards of love and righteousness that these persons will be granted survival through the Armageddon destruction.

Awake! April 22, 1971 p. 26

I would like to receive by mail The Watchtower, for which I am enclosing $1.50. Also send me the three gift booklets World Government on the Shoulder of the Prince of Peace, God’s Way is Love and Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon.

Awake! August 8, 1971 p. 32

That crushing is elsewhere shown as due to take place in what is called the ‘war of Armageddon.’ (Rev. 16:13-16)

Awake! October 8, 1971 p. 23

So, at Armageddon down will come all the divisive national frontiers! Planet Earth, with all its continents, isles and seas, will come under the rule of one government: God’s kingdom by his Son.

Awake! October 8, 1971 p. 23

No wonder, then, that a California newspaper reports that these problems have “prompted some scientists to circle a date on the calendar for an Armageddon sometime in the middle or latter years of this decade.” Their Armageddon would come in the form of global famine, pestilence and war.

Awake! October 8, 1971 p. 28

That day of Jehovah’s anger is the foretold “great tribulation,” including Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1971 p. 31

Questions From Readers

● Can it be stated flatly that only baptized witnesses of Jehovah will survive Armageddon?—A. S., U.S.A.

It would be misleading to answer this question with either a simple “Yes” or a “No.” The Scriptural answer of necessity must be a “qualified” one, and it is easy to see why.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1971 p. 63

It seems clear that at the time of the destructive war of Armageddon God will preserve them on the basis of the family merit of the Christian parent, even though the children are not yet dedicated and baptized.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1971 p. 63

As a free gift you will also receive the booklets “Look! I Am Making All Things New” and Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1971 p. 96

“Well, Don, we are considered the grandfather and grandmother of our Christian brothers here. They use those same endearing terms when speaking to us. Even though we have passed the age of fifty years, we still have years ahead of us to use for the work remaining before Armageddon. Jehovah has certainly blessed us.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1971 p. 190

That is twenty-four issues for only $1. For sending in your subscription you will receive as free gifts the booklets God’s Way Is Love, Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon and World Government on the Shoulder of the Prince of Peace.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1971 p. 224

FOR many persons in Christendom the thought of God’s becoming angry seems strange. In fact, they object when Christian witnesses of Jehovah tell them that God is going to express his anger in the worldwide war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1971 p. 357

Shortly, these will be closely associated with Christ Jesus in heaven in bruising the head of the serpent, Satan the Devil, after God’s war at Armageddon. Thus these “sons of God,” with Christ Jesus, the foremost “Son of God,” will be revealed.—1 Pet. 4:17; 1 Thess. 4:16; 2 Thess. 1:7, 10; Rev. 2:10; 16:14-16; 19:11–20:3; Rom. 16:20; John 1:34.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1971 p. 431

In 1897 the book The Battle of Armageddon, (at first entitled “The Day of Vengeance”) published by Jehovah’s witnesses, said that this trouble would be “more general and widespread, and more destructive, as the machinery of modern warfare signally suggests. Instead of being confined to one nation or province, its sweep will be over the whole world, especially the civilized world, Christendom.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1971 p. 468

They trust that Jehovah God will soon bring a speedy end to all wickedness in his war of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1971 p. 490

The only remaining question is this: On whose side of the issue will you be when God finally brings the struggle to a dramatic close in the battle of Armageddon now drawing near? Will you be found an integrity-keeper? Concern yourself with that question now, because your eternal destiny depends on it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1971 p. 491

By that time the nations will have reached the field of the final battle, that is to say, the critical stage of world developments spoken of prophetically as the “place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon [Armageddon, AV].”—Rev. 16:14-16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1971 p. 623

Just as Jehovah made a great name for himself at the Red Sea, he will again make a name for himself at the coming war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1971 p. 653

The husband is now sharing in the house-to-house ministry, and looking forward to planning a far bigger park after Armageddon.

1971 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1970.  p. 232

Another writes: “A person with whom I study asked ‘Is it because Armageddon is so near that you studied twelve times with me this month?’ Of course, it was because I was vacation pioneering.”

1971 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1970.  p. 268