Commenting on a prominent rabbi’s statement that the world’s great religions are dying, the speaker declared, “In fact, they are dead already, only they haven’t buried the corpse-that will be done at Armageddon, but that is not so of the true religion.”

Awake!  January 8, 1962 p. 24

This old world is destined to give way to God’s kingdom at Armageddon, after which war “the earth will be filled with the knowing of the glory of Jehovah.”

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 8

For years Jehovah’s witnesses have been warning the people of the approach of God’s Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” but how many have paid any heed? “Armageddon? It won’t come in my time,” the people say. “It won’t happen here.”

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 15

Armageddon’s approach is sure, as sure as hurricane Hattie and the typhoon that ripped through Atheris.

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 15

The only way to survive God’s Armageddon is outlined for us at Zephaniah 2:3, which says: “Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth, who have practiced His own judicial decision. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you may be concealed in the day of Jehovah’s anger.”

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 15

In the stormwind of Armageddon all who are in opposition to Jehovah’s reigning King and kingdom will be destroyed.

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 15

Therefore, let present disasters be a warning to you of the greatest of all dis- asters to come upon the earth-Armageddon-and it will come “as a thief in the night” upon this unsuspecting generation.

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 15

At the present time, therefore, the hope is held out for those of the “great crowd” of “other sheep” that survive the coming destructive battle of Armageddon to share in this fulfillment, rearing children under righteous conditions in God’s new world.-Gen. 1:28; Rev. 7:9; John 10:16.

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 27

Quite likely not all Armageddon survivors will, at least not at once, enjoy these blessings, because of the disparity in the number of men and women in the New World society. Then again, among Armageddon survivors there will be some without their mates because of having lost them in death.

Awake!  January 22, 1962 p. 27

Until the battle of Armageddon brings this present wicked system of things to an end, it is usually necessary for people to earn a living by doing business with the old world.
Awake!  February 8, 1962 p. 21

Although we are living in the last days of this system of things and the battle of Armageddon will shortly bring it to an end, that does not mean a Christian should not save money for future use or make business arrangements for future income. No human knows the exact time for Armageddon, so a Christian is obliged to make plans for the months and years ahead until the battle of Armageddon brings an end to this world. His making such plans is no indication that he lacks faith in the certainty of Armageddon.

Awake!  February 8, 1962 p. 23

Soon this earth will experience such an earthshaking change, no, not by a downpour of nuclear weapons, but by the unleashing of natural forces at Jehovah’s war of Armageddon that will shake the very foundations of the earth. 

Awake!  February 22, 1962 p. 7

Publication title: “Here we are referred to the book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, page 197, and also to the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, page 180, and others.

Awake!  March 8, 1962 p. 22

As for the procreation privileges of such persons who survive Armageddon into God’s new world, that is for Jehovah to determine. However, since the new world will see miracles of physical restoration, Jehovah certainly can restore the reproductive powers of such persons if he chooses to do so.

Awake!  April 8, 1962 p. 28

As was true with the early Christians, Jehovah’s witnesses are eager to help you study the Bible, to understand it and to know what God’s requirements are so that you may survive this world’s Armageddon end and realize the hope of everlasting life under the Kingdom of heaven. 

Awake!  April 22, 1962 p. 29

This period of judgment will culminate when the goatlike ones are everlastingly cut off at Armageddon, in the war of the great day of God Almighty, and those who have proved themselves to be the sheeplike followers of the Royal Shepherd will be preserved alive into God’s righteous new world.-1 Pet. 4:17; Matt. 25:31-46; 28: 20; Ps. 2:1-9.

Awake!  May 8, 1962 p. 8

Today a warning is being given of an even greater “storm,” the universal war of Armageddon, but it will not be one that will indiscriminately destroy all alike. Survival will depend, not on youth or strength or geographical location, but on obedience to God. As it happened at Wilhelmsburg in mid-February, so it will occur at Armageddon that many lives will be lost because of failure to heed the warning.

Awake!  May 22, 1962 p. 24

That time will come to pass shortly at the war of the great day of God the Almighty, which is called “Armageddon.” That war will give a stunning defeat to Satan and his entire organization, invisible and visible. (Rev. 16:14, 16; Heb. 2:14)

Awake!  July 8, 1962 p. 7

There 194,418 adopted a Resolution which stated: “THAT because of our common descent from Noah, who was the tenth in line of descent from the first man Adam, all the many nations, tribes and peoples of this modern day should recognize that we are one human family, one human race, for whom Jehovah God has made one common provision through his Son Jesus Christ for our everlasting life and happiness in His approaching new world; . . . THAT down to the end, as far as within us lies, God’s will shall be fulfilled in us as regards the preaching of his established Kingdom and the gathering of all other sheep into the fold of his Right Shepherd, Jesus Christ, to enjoy salvation with us, so that we may be accounted worthy of being ushered into God’s everlasting new world after Armageddon, there to worship him unitedly as one family of his creatures without racial distinctions and national boundaries and divisions under one government, His kingdom by Christ, and to do his will forever and ever.” (1 John 2:17)

Awake!  July 8, 1962 p. 7, 8

Armageddon will remove the body of faithless ones who prefer to ignore God’s cure.

Awake!  July 8, 1962 p. 8

They want to share the good news of God’s kingdom as well as warn all about the coming destruction at Armageddon.

Awake!  August 8, 1962 p. 8

A brief discussion regarding beliefs was given. The teen-agers showed much interest in the hope of living on earth in the new world. Armageddon also Interested them.”

Awake!  August 8, 1962 p. 19

Continuing faithfully to serve God and his kingdom under Christ, this great crowd will survive the war of Armageddon into God’s new world with prospects of everlasting life on a paradise earth. 

Awake!  September 8, 1962 p. 28

The generation living in 1914, millions of whom are still alive on earth, will be living when the end comes at Armageddon.

Awake!  September 22, 1962 p. 27

Even if we were to use seventy or eighty years as the length of a generation, this would not enable us to determine the time for Armageddon’s commencement. Because this war of God is not scheduled to occur exactly at the end of this generation. It comes within the generation. Within the span of a generation, the generation experiencing the realization of the events foretold in Jesus’ prophecy, the lives of the majority of persons will be cut short in Armageddon’s destruction. When? The day and hour are unknown to man. -Matt. 24: 36.

Yet, because we cannot be precise in assigning a number of years to a generation and because the time for Armageddon’s occurrence is unknown to humans, that is no reason to delay or procrastinate in doing what is right. (Jas. 4:17)

Awake!  September 22, 1962 p. 28

The utter destructiveness of war now blots out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system Armageddon will be at our door.”

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 3

In the case of modern-day Christendom, it will be, as Jesus foretold, “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now.” That desolating tribulation will come at God’s war of Armageddon.

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 23

By means of his own war of Armageddon he has promised “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Rev. 11:18)

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 25

The nations have perished out of his earth.” (Ps. 10:16) At Armageddon modern man will witness a fulfillment of Proverbs 2:21, 22: “For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.” Armageddon survivors will be those who have proved their love for God and neighbor. This important quality of love will hold mankind together after Armageddon in a perfect bond of peaceful union.-Col. 3:14.

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 25, 26

These united worshipers of Jehovah have the hope of surviving Armageddon into God’s new world, where their unity will never end.

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 27

If you place your confidence in that doomed organization, your hope will be cut short with them in God’s war of Armageddon where all the nations are heading.-Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake!  October 8, 1962 p. 29

The earthly heirs of the new world who prove faithful may be preserved right through the battle of Armageddon into the new world; even if they die, they have the hope of resurrection to life in that new world.

Awake!  October 22, 1962 p. 28

So the term “the rest of the dead” applies not only to those raised literally from the dead during Christ’s reign but to all of earth’s inhabitants at that time. These Armageddon survivors, those born to them and persons literally resurrected- “come to life” after the thousand years and the test of integrity.

Awake!  October 22, 1962 p. 28

The present day of Jehovah’s inspection will be climaxed soon by Armageddon.

Awake!  November 22, 1962 p. 28

Every dedicated person has a responsibility before Jehovah God to preach the good news. This Kingdom message is vital to the lives of millions of persons before Armageddon breaks. How did your congregation affect this year’s report?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1962 p. 25

It is also possible for some, not members of the bride or body of Christ, to benefit from the ransom this side of Armageddon and God’s new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1962 p. 39

Because we are living so near to God’s new world of righteousness, the Scriptures show that all those benefiting from the ransom now may hope to be spared by God during the coming destructive war of Armageddon that will mark the end to the present wicked system of things, even as Noah and his family were spared during the destruction of the ancient world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1962 p. 40

From His heavenly battle position the Ruler out of Bethlehem strikes down the Assyrian assailant and all his hordes in the battle of Armageddon, the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1962 p. 52 

This prophecy does not apply to the remnant of spiritual Israel (or Jacob) first in the righteous new world after the remnant have survived the battle of Armageddon, as was once believed. It is being fulfilled now, and has been under fulfillment since the remnant’s deliverance in 1919.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1962 p. 53 

He faces the gathering armies of the nations who are being gathered by Gog of Magog, Satan the Devil, to the battlefield called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1962 p. 54 

Will the great crowd of “other sheep” who survive Armageddon know whether their companions of the remnant proved faithful and gained the prize of immortality or not?—F. C., United States.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 95

Yes, it seems reasonable to conclude that just who comprise the 144,000 members of the body of Christ will be common knowledge to those of the “other sheep” living in the post-Armageddon new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 95

So for those of the post-Armageddon new world to know that certain ones proved faithful and received the glorious reward of immortality would likewise prove an incentive to faithfulness to them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 95

This will be in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 96

Accordingly, by means of his instructions to his twelve apostles Jesus was prophetically telling us today that his anointed disciples or the remnant of spiritual Israel would not complete the circuit of the entire inhabited earth with the preaching of the message of God’s established kingdom before the glorified heavenly King Jesus Christ would arrive as Jehovah’s executional officer in the battle of Armageddon. This means that Jehovah’s witnesses today, who now include hundreds of thousands of the “other sheep” or earthly companions of the spiritual remnant, will not be able to reach personally all parts of the earth with the Kingdom message before the battle of Armageddon breaks out.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 96

Hence it is up to us to cover as much of the territory as possible before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1962 p. 96

People are hearing and taking their stand on the side of God’s kingdom before God will, by means of his kingdom, “bring to ruin those ruining the earth” in his war of Armageddon.—Rev. 11:18; 16:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1962 p. 103

This wicked world is doomed to destruction at God’s war of Armageddon, and the friends of this world will pass away with it. (1 John 2:15-17)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1962 p. 107 

This matter of making friends with God and his Son is urgent because this world is now in its “time of the end,” and will soon pass away at God’s war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1962 p. 110 

Because of these facts witnesses are needed to sound an urgent warning; so that lovers of righteousness can flee to safety and so that the wicked will know why they are being destroyed when Armageddon comes upon them.—Rev. 16:14, 16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1962 p. 120

A mighty deliverance indeed, picturing the great deliverance Jehovah will accomplish for all proved to be his “sheep” when, through Christ Jesus, he strikes down all Satan’s forces at Armageddon, completely destroying Satan’s system of things, the entire world of today, of which Egypt was a small-scale pattern.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1962 p. 137 

It is through this seed that “all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves” in God’s kingdom, after the great deliverance at Armageddon from modern-day Egypt.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1962 p. 140 

Mankind stands face to face with God’s Armageddon! God’s established kingdom must be preached as a witness to all nations before Armageddon strikes. That is what makes the demand most urgent at this time. Will you minister for God?—Matt. 9:37, 38; John 4:23, 24; Zeph. 2:3; Rev. 16:16; Matt. 24:14; 1 Tim. 4:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1962 p. 156

This striking of the nations with the sword by the King of kings means Armageddon destruction for this old world. The time is at hand, though we do not know the day nor the hour.—Rev. 19:11-15; Matt. 24:36.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1962 p. 164

Snow and hail will evidently be used against God’s enemies on “the day of fight and war,” the time of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1962 p. 167

When God opens up his storehouses of snow and hail at Armageddon, his enemies will be in for a terrifying time, and there will be no way of escape.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1962 p. 168

Because there is always happiness in Christian giving, one of the surest antidotes for a depressed, cheerless frame of mind is to seek out others who are “sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done” in this pre-Armageddon era.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1962 p. 184

No matter how much radioactivity is released by nuclear-armed nations now or during their Armageddon destruction, it will not thwart God’s purpose for a paradise earth. Almighty God can miraculously cleanse the earth and its atmosphere of harmful radioactivity. Reversed will be the present trend, that of ruining the earth. After Armageddon, progress will be made every day toward the goal of a paradise earth under the kingdom of heaven.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1962 p. 195

There is another vital reason why no Christian can stop speaking: The need to warn others of the impending destruction of this system of things at God’s universal war of Armageddon. Lives are at stake!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1962 p. 199

They know Jesus foretold for our days that “this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” Before the end comes at Armageddon, the good news of God’s established kingdom must be declared to all the nations.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1962 p. 200

By demon forces she is being gathered with the nations to the battlefield of Armageddon, for their destruction by God’s heavenly executioners, namely, Christ the King and the holy angels under his command. (Rev. 16:13-16; 19:11-21) Come a nuclear world war or no, Christendom will fail to protect the nations of this world from God’s universal war of Armageddon and from destruction in it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 240 

Christianity could not end after Christendom’s destruction in Armageddon. Why not? Because after that the kingdom of Christianity’s Leader, Jesus Christ, will reign for a thousand years for the blessing of obedient mankind. At the climax of the battle of Armageddon Christ the King will bind Satan the Devil, who is the “god of this system of things” and the founder of Christendom with its hypocritical Christianity. Thus true Christianity will have the opportunity to flourish unopposed, earthwide. Jehovah’s witnesses who survive Armageddon will no longer be persecuted for bearing God’s name nor for preaching “this good news of the kingdom” in all the inhabited earth “for a witness.”—Rev. 20:1-3; Matt. 24:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 240 

55. Because of what government could Christianity not end after Christendom’s destruction, and how will Armageddon survivors fare under it?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 240

Political governments married to the churches of a divided Christendom will have gone down in Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 241 

Those who today ruin the earth and exploit it for commercial gain will themselves have gone down in ruin in Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 241 

Ah, but the blessings of everlasting life, peace and paradise on earth are not for just those true Christians who have not failed God and who survive the battle of Armageddon into His new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 242 

To bring death to nothing means not only to lift the condemnation of death off the living survivors of Armageddon but also to resurrect the dead. Those dead ones whom divine justice has not already sentenced to everlasting destruction will return from the death state to the opportunity to live forever on the paradise earth, under God’s kingdom by Christ. (2 Tim. 4:1; Acts 10:42, 43; 24:15) To all those who return from the memorial tombs Christianity will be extended by the Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 242 

61. Besides Armageddon survivors, for whom are those earthly blessings reserved, and what will be extended to these by the survivors?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 242

Armageddon survival                            Rev. 7:9, 10

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1962 p. 247

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

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 260

Those who do not buy out the time to live by the divine will but who continue to ‘live the remainder of their time for the desires of men’ are not living for the new world and will not have divine protection to survive the war of Armageddon into the righteous new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 260

Now is the time of all times to keep steady, clearheaded, walking in the advancing light of the new world. Keep on the watch lest the complete end, at Armageddon, overtake you unawares.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 260

At the Red Sea was pictured the deliverance through Armageddon of those on earth who worship Jehovah.—Pp. 139, 140.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 285

What coming is here referred to? Not Christ’s presence or parousia, which began in 1914, nor the manifestation of his presence, the epiphaneia, which began in 1918 with Jehovah coming to the temple with the messenger of the covenant, but to his coming at Armageddon, his apokalypsis, his revealing, to which Jesus also referred when he said: “Look! I am coming as a thief.”—Rev. 16:15.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 286

Love of neighbor requires them to warn their fellowmen of the urgency of our times, that time is running out and soon there will be no more opportunity to escape Armageddon’s destruction.—Mark 12:31.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 286

These also must be made ready for the final inspection at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 286

Doing that, he will gain Jehovah’s approval and can hope to survive the coming battle of Armageddon to enjoy endless life in God’s new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 286

Amos 8:9 reads: “‘And it must occur in that day,’ is the utterance of the Lord Jehovah, ‘that I will make the sun go down at high noon, and I will cause darkness for the land on a bright day.’” This scripture quite clearly refers to Armageddon. At that time, when the enemies of Jehovah God are expecting to have a bright time, as at high noon when the sun is at its zenith, Jehovah God causes darkness to befall his enemies and destroys all their hopes. It brings them to ruin. It does not necessarily mean a literal darkness, although Jehovah God doubtless will do some strange things in the realm of nature during the universal war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1962 p. 287

He has been called “Faithful and True,” and in harmony with this he prepares now to fight Armageddon’s war of righteousness, for the purpose of clearing heaven and earth of every last vestige of wickedness.—Rev. 19:11-21.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 300 

This warning carries added weight, as we stand now at the threshold of Armageddon’s war.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 301 

They will continue to rejoice in his name and in his provided protection when shortly he brings the Armageddon of destruction upon this last generation of ‘those who hate him.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 303 

We are now living in the days of that generation, which will reap the climactic stormwind of Armageddon’s fury. (Hos. 8:7)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 pp. 303-304 

They will not be like this modern generation that mocks at God’s great acts of the past and laughs off his declared Armageddon destruction of this evil world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 305 

We cannot yet see those realities of the future, but this does not argue that the prophesied Armageddon destruction for this world will not come. It will come right on time! Just as surely as the stream of time catches up with God’s due time for Armageddon, so this evil world will make its abysmal plunge into destruction.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 305

8. Why is the foretold Armageddon real to us?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 305 

That is why it is necessary both to “brace up your minds for activity” and to “keep your senses completely,” with minds set undividedly upon the hope of “the undeserved kindness that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 308 

The race is nearing the finishing line. Let us, then, exercise self-control, that we may not run uncertainly. (1 Cor. 9:24-27) The awesome day of Armageddon looms close ahead, and also the prize of eternal life.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 308, 309 

Then, as our beloved King, Christ Jesus, reveals himself in fiery majesty at Armageddon, to execute judgment on Gog and his mob, we will receive ‘the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls.’ Though we may not now look upon Christ in a physical way, yet our faith gives us implicit confidence in his power to fight Armageddon to a decisive finish. Since we exercise faith in him, we “are greatly rejoicing with an unspeakable and glorified joy.”—1 Pet. 1:8, 9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1962 p. 309 

If you pay attention to divine wisdom, it will lead you through the coming battle of Armageddon, when God will destroy the present wicked system of things.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1962 p. 324

It is said prophetically of Jehovah’s people that during the “last days” and just prior to the battle of Armageddon, they would ‘offer themselves willingly on the day of his military force.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1962 p. 330 

Then there are some who delay in taking the step of baptism because they feel Armageddon is not really so close and there is time yet to enjoy some of this world’s pleasures.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1962 p. 331 

They forget that now, a short time before Armageddon, the invisible Inspector, Jesus Christ, tells such ones in the congregations who think they ‘are alive, but they are dead’: “Become watchful, and strengthen the things remaining that were ready to die.” (Rev. 3:1-3)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1962 p. 340

And I? When I heard Pastor Russell preach on “Armageddon” and saw the Photo-Drama of Creation, in 1914, the simplicity and sincerity made a deep impression on me, but at that time I had “many irons in the fire.” Now things were different. The terrible thought kept going through my mind: “Christianity has failed.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1962 p. 375

Likewise it is possible to spend valuable time speculating on matters concerning the future. One might ask, In what year will Armageddon begin? Will the faithful angels eventually receive immortality? Will there be factories and machines in use after Armageddon? Will men wear beards again? What will be the medium of exchange in the new world? Will women now past the age of childbearing share in the procreation mandate? If dedicated parents and children happen to die before Armageddon, which parent will raise the resurrected children, since resurrected mates will not remarry? (Luke 20:35)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1962 p. 381

Yes, it is the getting of accurate knowledge of Jehovah’s Word of truth and the dispensing of it to others that should be our concern in these pre-Armageddon days, in harmony with Paul’s letter to the Christians in Philippi, along with overseers and ministerial servants: “This is what I continue praying, that your love may abound yet more and more with accurate knowledge and full discernment; that you may make sure of the more important things, so that you may be flawless and not be stumbling others up to the day of Christ, and may be filled with righteous fruit, which is through Jesus Christ, to God’s glory and praise.”—Phil. 1:9-11.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1962 p. 382

It shows that the generation that witnessed the events that have occurred since 1914—world wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, increase of lawlessness and the preaching of this good news of God’s kingdom—will also see the end of all wickedness. Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God the Almighty, is at the door.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 389

Yes, just as human governments today send out urgent storm warnings, so the government of God, his kingdom, by means of its earthly representatives, the Christian witnesses of Jehovah, is sending out urgent warnings regarding the great storm of Armageddon that is rapidly approaching.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 390

When Armageddon strikes, all the wicked will know why they are being destroyed.—2 Chron. 36:15; Ezek. 35:9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 391

Since the beginning of his heavenly reign A.D. 1914 the nations of Satan’s wicked world dare to rouse him up by defying his right to rule all the peoples of earth. despite Jacob’s warning of long ago. At the battle of Armageddon now so near at hand the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah” will tear the nations to pieces and come up from the prey victorious. So let each one of us never rouse him up!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 393, 394 

All persons who do not now render him their obedience will be destroyed when the end comes upon this wicked old world in an Armageddon disaster.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 395 

Questions From Readers

● The opinion has been expressed by some that the coming of Armageddon can be hastened by Jehovah’s people engaging more zealously in the witness work, since all the “other sheep” are to be gathered before it begins. Is this the correct understanding?—W. S., United States.

With reference to the beginning of Armageddon Jesus said: “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.” From this we may gather that Jehovah has set a definite time for Armageddon to begin and that it waits upon no human activity.—Matt. 24:36, 37.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 415

But if Armageddon were to wait until all had been warned, then failure to assume responsibility by Jehovah’s people would merely make it necessary to postpone Armageddon.—Ezek. 3:16-21.

In times past some have construed the words at 2 Peter 3:12 (AV, margin), “Looking for and hasting the coming of the day of God,” to mean that the day of God, here referring to Armageddon, could be hastened.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1962 p. 415

Today we must accept the leadership of the Greater Noah, Christ Jesus, before the cleansing storm of Armageddon sweeps over this old world system to clear the way for the new world of righteousness. (Acts 4:12)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1962 p. 429

No, money cannot buy God’s protection at the coming catastrophe of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1962 p. 437

It was there that the book Deliverance was released, with its enlightenment on the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1962 p. 444

Has any man created this wonder of beauty and intrepidity and endowed him with these extraordinary qualities? Jehovah is its Creator, and He is the One whom the Bible shows also gives to his enthroned King Jesus Christ and the holy angels of heaven war mounts to charge courageously and swiftly into the war of Armageddon at the sound of the war trumpet, riding forward to God’s victory, as Revelation shows: “I saw the heaven opened, and, look! a white horse. And the one seated upon it is called Faithful and True, and he judges and carries on war in righteousness. Also, the armies that were in heaven were following him on white horses.”—Rev. 19:11, 14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1962 p. 486

Has any man an “arm like God” to abase the proud and wicked and hide them in the dust of the earth, as God will do at the war of Armageddon? If so, then says Jehovah, “I, even I, shall commend you, because your right hand can save you.” It is not man but Jehovah’s arm and right hand that will deliver righteous men from the wicked. Armageddon is God’s battle for the vindication of his sovereignty.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1962 p. 488

Is it not better to be well spoken of by God than to be well spoken of by persons that he will destroy at Armageddon? Remember what Jesus said: “Woe, whenever all men speak well of you.”—Luke 6:26.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1962 p. 492 

Shortly Jehovah will terminate its existence in the battle of Armageddon and usher in a new world of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1962 p. 494 

Be wise by walking the path of obedience to Jehovah before Armageddon, that you may be alive after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1962 p. 495 

On page 367 of the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World is a list of forty-two prophecies in the Bible of those survivors who will live on this earth forever.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1962 p. 528

In Accra I secured the city’s largest theater for the lecture “All Nations Marching to Armageddon—Millions Now Living Will Never Die.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1962 p. 570

Right religion may not seem important to you now, but at Armageddon it will mean your life.—Judg. 12:5, 6.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1962 p. 580

How appropriate, then, for the public address to call on those who profess Christianity to come out boldly on the side of Jehovah and his kingdom! Spontaneous applause rang out when the audience heard that Jehovah will protect the courageous ones at Armageddon, that these will survive into God’s new world. (2 Pet. 3:13)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1962 p. 605

As a result the chief Kingdom opposer, Satan the Devil, and his demons have been cast out of the holy heavens down to our earth to await here their Armageddon of defeat. And in that universal war of Armageddon God’s angels will fight the climactic battle for God’s kingdom, under the leadership of his King Jesus Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 622 

Armageddon’s destruction of this worldwide system of things will bring the greatest time of trouble that men have ever experienced since the global flood of Noah’s day. That is what Jesus’ prophecy says. (Matt. 24:21, 22, 37-39)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 623 

Only the people having the courage like that of Christ are going to pass through the world-consuming Armageddon that is ahead. The worldly cowards will not pass through that universal war, for the cowards are not on God’s side today nor on the side of his Son, the King Jesus Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 624 

At the decisive war of Armageddon between the forces representing the two worlds the courageous will hold true to God’s kingdom and will never stop preaching it until it has gained a magnificent victory over Satan’s old world and brought in the new world of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 624 

45, 46. (a) What will Armageddon be in mankind’s experience? (b) What will not then be moved, and so whose expressed confidence can we have during the distresses of the world?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 623

52. (a) In view of the new world ahead, why is it necessary to build up Christian courage now? (b) What will be the experience of the courageous during the war of Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 624

Not only survival, but their eternal life depends upon coming into peaceful relationship with God’s King and kingdom before the great war of Armageddon breaks. (Ps. 2:1-12; Rev. 16:14, 16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 625

It is not being done in a perfunctory manner, but with the greatest urgency, because, as Jesus said, the preaching of the Kingdom good news will be followed by the end of this wicked system of things at God’s war of Armageddon.—Matt. 24:14; Rev. 16:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1962 p. 640

The end of the “appointed times of the nations” in that year still left the Gentile “superior authorities” in existence on earth, but under judgment by God’s kingdom that was set up in the heavens in 1914, with his Son Jesus Christ enthroned at his right hand. Those Gentile “superior authorities” still exist, though undergoing many changes and readjustments. Almighty God will continue permitting this until his work of gathering sheeplike people out of the nations is finished according to his will. Then he will begin the universal war called Armageddon in order to destroy them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1962 p. 689 

These present-existing authorities are an operating part of this world that is soon to be destroyed at Armageddon; and Christians are no part of that doomed world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1962 p. 690 

The word krima can mean any individual judgment, at any time, from any quarter, human or divine. It is not rightly restricted to a judgment on a future day of judgment after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1962 p. 692, 693

The laws of these worldly “superior authorities” will pass away with their destruction at Armageddon, but God’s law will remain and apply to us forever.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1962 p. 719 

In obedience to Romans, chapter thirteen, we will continue subject to the “existing authorities” until they are destroyed in the coming universal war of Armageddon. We will subject ourselves to them regardless of whichever

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1962 p. 723 

As Christian neutrals we will take no part in rebellions, mobs, anarchy or other public disorder. Even at the coming battle of Armageddon we will not lift a hand against the “existing authorities” to hasten their destruction.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1962 p. 723 

At the rapidly approaching battle of Armageddon he will be abyssed for a thousand years.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1962 p. 728

At Armageddon this wild beast, Satan’s visible organization, is lined up with Satan and his demon hordes in their fight against Christ, the King of kings, and in that war this beast and its cohorts will suffer total defeat.—Rev. 13:18; 14:9, 11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:19, 20.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1962 p. 730

The Bible Students Monthly, Volume 6, Number 1, with the front-page article “End of World in 1914,” and this distribution was followed up by Volume 6 Number 5, of The Bible Students Monthly trading the subjects “distress of Nations Preceding: Armageddon” and the case of God’s anger-the prophetic aspect of the present European War and its relation to the great Time of Trouble, President T. Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America called on the clergy men of the nation to make October 4, 1914, a day of prayer for peace in Europe.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 307

The remnant of anointed witnesses were greatly comforted, yes. stirred at the outlook for more Christian activity before the coming battle Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 320

In remarkable symbols it pictures the plagues poured out upon Christendom and the final destruction of its “organized Christianity” like a harlot together with her political paramours in the battle of Armageddon. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 327

The address that Rutherford now gave had the ring of truth in identifying the “great multitude” of Revelation 7:9 (AV) with the “Jonadabs,” the “million now living [who] will never die” because they will survive the battle of Armageddon and live obediently on earth under God’s kingdom by Christ.-See The Watchtower, as of August 1 and 15, 1935. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 331

He had pointed out that the peoples of the nations would be divided into two classes, symbolic sheep and goats, and that the sheep class do good to the remnant of Christ’s spiritual brothers and will pass through the battle of Armageddon alive to enjoy earthly blessings under God’s kingdom. (The Watch Tower, October 15, 1923) Also in 1931 these “other sheep” were explained to be the people crying and sighing who get marked in the forehead by the symbolic man clothed with linen, with the writer’s inkhorn at his side, and who are therefore spared by Jehovah’s executional forces at Armageddon. (Ezekiel 9:2-6; Vindication, Volume I, pages 94-116)

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 332

The waters above were held back from this rapid decent into the Dead Sea, like the members of the “great crowd” who are spared by Jehovah’s executioner in this “time of the end” and at Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 333

The witnesses had to arise and shine and preach the Kingdom message till the end of this world world at Armageddon. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 339

The president’s public address was entitled ”Peace-Can It Last? It disabused any minds of thinking that World War II was to wind up in the universal war of Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 340

But this new international organization for peace would fail, and the peace would end with the outbreak of Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 340

Like Elisha, Jehovah’s anointed remnant merely advise publicly what the “king of the north” will do against Christendom and her Jezebelian clergy as part of Jehovah’s judgment against her at Armageddon. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 349

Worse than this may be expected by Christendom not only by “Hazael’s sword” but also by “Jehu’s sword” in the cosmic war of Armageddon. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 351

Publication title: In 1955 a proclamation to this effect was made in such great public messages as “World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom” and the book entitled “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World,” with its chapters on “The Victorious Fighters at Armageddon,” “Executioners of the Divine Vengeance,” “The Chief Executioner Takes a Wife”; also, in 1958, the message “God’s Kingdom Rules-Is the World’s End Near?” delivered first to a convention of 253,922 in New York city. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 352

The Greater Jehu  is not interested in just fighting and destroying the radical “king of the north” (pictured by Syria) at the universal war of Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 353

Publication title: On their part there has been more of an awareness of doing this since the year 1955, when the book was published entitled “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.”

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 357

It is the hour for Armageddon to burst forth!

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 359

57.  At Armageddon, ho will the Greater Jehu proceed against modern Baal worship, as foreshadowed by Jehu of old? 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 359

As King Jehu fulfilled his commission from Jehovah God, so the Lord Jesus Christ will fulfill a similar but larger commission by the end of the battle of Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 360

What a joyful privilege it will be for the Elisha class and their companion, the Jehonadab class, to witness the zeal and the jealously of the Greater Jehu for Jehovah and to survive here on earth the battle of Armageddon and to behold the execution of the judgements of Jehovah God against the modern counterparts of Ahab’s house, Queen Jezebel and the prophets, priests and worshipers of Baal!

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 360

The Elisha class, whose numbers are dwindling year after year, expect to pass off the earthly scene in God’s due time and to enter into the heavenly kingdom by a resurrection from the dead to life in the spirit realm, to join the Greater Jehu.  But the Elisha class also expect to survive the destruction of all Baal worshipers at the battle of Armageddon.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 364

Of some indication of the survival of the Elisha remnant till some time after the battle of Armageddon may be the fact that Elisha of old died a natural death during the rule of the royal house of Jehu, Jehovah’s executional king. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 365

9.  What facts about Elisha’s death may indicate the Elisha class will survive till some time after Armageddon? 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 365

The radical, communistic elements who make war upon Christendom and upon Jehovah’s witnesses will also be executed at Armageddon along with all the rest of the symbolical “goats.” Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 367

13.  (a) At Armageddon will Christendom be the only part of Satan’s organization to be executed by “Jehu’s sword,” and how does the Elisha class point this out?

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 367

It will be a fiery time of judgment for these; and they will be hurled down into the abyss of absolute restraint for the thousand years of Christ’s post-Armageddon reign. 

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 372

Forever he is “the Holy One,” and in the paradise restored to earth and extended all around the globe after Armageddon his name will be held in sanctity as sacred by all obedient subjects of his triumphant kingdom.

Let Your Name Be Sanctified.  1961.  p. 372