Sound thinking assures us that Jehovah wants his sheep gathered before the storm of Armageddon breaks. 

Kingdom Ministry.  February 1961 p. 1

Bible-trained thinking will not allow us to slow down in February.  Encourage and help all, including the new and the less experienced ones, to keep regular.  This space age is also the pre-Armageddon generation.

Kingdom Ministry.  February 1961 p. 1

Publication title: After Armageddon-God’s New World    – Yoruba

Kingdom Ministry.  February 1961 p. 3

Publication title: After Armageddon-God’s New World    -English

Kingdom Ministry.  July 1961 p. 3

Present distress foretold
-Luke 21:25 26 (mn, par. 46)

World distress to end at Armageddon -Rev. 16:14-16 (mn, par. 49)

Kingdom Ministry.  November 1961 p. 2

This present evil world faces destruction in the approaching mar of Armageddon that Revelation 16:14-16 speaks of.
Kingdom Ministry.  November 1961 p. 2

In spite of man’s search for security, comparatively few are pre- pared for the approaching war of Armageddon. Now, of all times, they need help.

Kingdom Ministry.  December 1961 p. 1

At Armageddon God’s tolerance of wickedness will end. He will root out the wicked and preserve the righteous as he did in Noah’s day.

Awake!  January 8, 1961 p. 6

Publication title: Please send me The Watchtower for one year for the 7/- (for Australia, 8/-) enclose mailing the coupon I am to receive the booklets Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near, God’s Way Is Love and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake!  January 8, 1961 p. 32

Yes, at Armageddon Jehovah will call into service a vast number of these tiny, fragile crystals for a most glorious purpose-the vindication of his great and holy name.

Awake!  January 22, 1961 p. 11

Beyond Armageddon in God’s new world, an eternity will unlock many more secrets that will move man to glorify God for making his home and life so beautiful.-Ps. 115:16.

Awake!  January 22, 1961 p. 26

Revelation 16:16 calls it the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon.

Awake!  February 22, 1961 p. 8

If you heed the Word of Jehovah that they bring to you, you may be one of the survivors of a much greater war than that of Vientiane, namely, the battle of Jehovah, the war of Armageddon, in which he will destroy all those who are against him and will give everlasting life to those who serve him.

Awake!  February 22, 1961 p. 11

Fierce persecution in many quarters of the globe has not weakened their faith, divided their ranks or cause them to compromise their beliefs.  They enjoy unity, peace and joy, looking forward to the time when, in this generation, God’s foretold battle of Armageddon rids this earth of trouble and divisions for all time, and transforms it into a paradise state where all men of good will may live as one united family. 

Awake!  February 22, 1961 p. 24

While God’s Word assures us that the resurrected glorious Jesus Christ, together with his heavenly armies, will conquer this world by destroying it at Armageddon, certain it is that neither Jesus Christ when on earth, nor his followers since, have conquered the world in the sense that these worldly rulers conquered it.-Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11, 19-21.

Awake!  March 8, 1961 p. 27

Jesus in his revelation to John called it Armageddon, ”the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” and said the destruction would be comparable to the flood of Noah’s day.

Awake!  April 8, 1961 p. 7

So now is the time for you to grasp your greatest opportunity of this modern age: ‘Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,’ and then he will remember you with preservation at the time of Armageddon’s calamity.-Rev. 16:14, 16; Matt 24:37, 39

Awake!  April 8, 1961 p. 7

You must then preach this good news to others so that others also can avoid the calamitous end facing this world at Armageddon. The New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses is designed to help you take in this necessary knowledge of your Creator, and then to train you in using it in the ministry. Five weekly meetings are provided, including a ministry school where you can improve your speaking ability to your Creator’s praise.

Awake!  April 8, 1961 p. 8

They will not ward off the calamity of eternity in gravedom or destruction at God’s approaching war of Armageddon.

Awake!  April 8, 1961 p. 8

However, in loving consideration Jehovah God has swung open before youth the grandest opportunity ever enjoyed by young people, that of living through the calamitous end of this old world at Armageddon, never growing old, but, instead, growing to perfection in mind and body in that glorious new world of the Creator’s making.

Awake!  April 8, 1961 p. 8

4. In the Bible, the final war is called [ ] Dooms- day [ ] Armageddon.

Awake!  April 22, 1961 p. 5

Armageddon is a Scriptural name of that final war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

Awake!  April 22, 1961 p. 12

At Armageddon Satan’s visible and invisible organization will be destroyed, but not the physical heavens or the literal earth.

Awake!  April 22, 1961 p. 12

Yet it is possible to recognize the season of Armageddon’s approach, as indicated by Jesus’ illustration: “Note the fig tree and all the other trees: When they are already in the bud, by observing it you know for yourselves that now the summer is near.

Awake!  April 22, 1961 p. 12

God and Christ will soon fight the promised war of Armageddon to end Satan’s system of things and “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Rev. 16:16; 11:18)

Awake!  May 22, 1961 p. 7

The post-Armageddon resurrection will provide ample opportunity even for the dead whom God has retained in his memory to lay hold of everlasting life along with Armageddon survivors.

Awake!  May 22, 1961 p. 8

For the living, survival of Armageddon is the immediate question.

Awake!  May 22, 1961 p. 8

All over the earth men of good will are listening and finding hope and shelter from Armageddon.

Awake!  May 22, 1961 p. 8

At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will again call upon the elements with which to wage war.

Awake! June 8, 1961 p. 6

Yes, antitypical Israel, that is, Christendom, and all the world will come to taste of weather warfare when Jehovah vindicates his name at Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”-Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake!  June 8, 1961 p. 7

After Armageddon in Jehovah’s new world, the God who controls the weather will in a literal way fulfill the promise: “I will cause the pouting rain to descend in its time.

Awake!  June 8, 1961 p. 8

Not by weather scientists will these changes come, however, but by God, who in Armageddon will use it as a weapon of war to destroy the wicked and in the righteous new world as an instrument of peace for the blessing of humankind obedient to his will.

Awake!  June 8, 1961 p. 8

He will be permitted to do this so that Jehovah God will have compelling reason to take action against Satan and all those with him, all those doing his bidding. This Jehovah God will do at Armageddon.-Ezek. 38:1-39:7; Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake!  June 8, 1961 p. 28

True Christians demonstrate not only soundness of mind in whatever they do, but courage in carrying out the greatest lifesaving project of all times-warning men everywhere of this world’s impending Armageddon disaster. By sounding the alarm of Armageddon and by preaching the good news of God’s kingdom earth-wide, Jehovah’s witnesses are aiding threatened mankind to flee to the place of safety.

Awake!  June 22, 1961 p. 26

Not a threat of a third world war but the certainty of the war of the great day of God the Almighty-Armageddon.

Awake!  June 22, 1961 p. 31

Publication title: You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World

Awake!  June 22, 1961 p. 31

Publication title: Please send me the timely 384-page hard-bound book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.

Awake!  June 22, 1961 p. 31

How long will this “acceptable season” last for these members of the body of Christ? Until the last one of the 144,000 has demonstrated his worthiness and there is no more opportunity for others to become members of the body of Christ. There is reason to believe that the oncoming battle of Armageddon will mark that time.

Awake!  August 22, 1961 p. 28

For these it has proved to be the acceptable time to embrace Jehovah’s provision for salvation particularly since 1931, and this will continue until Armageddon.

Awake!  August 22, 1961 p. 28

Section heading: ‘Spectre of Armageddon’

Awake!  September 8, 1961 p. 29

He said that he could not “recall any time when the spectre of Armageddon darkened the thoughts of responsible men the way it appears to be clouding them in Washington today.”

Awake!  September 8, 1961 p. 29

When the due time for Armageddon’s destruction arrives, he will allow it to come, not because he has pleasure in the death of the wicked, but because he loves righteousness.

Awake!  September 22, 1961 p. 4

However, soon, at the fast-approaching war of Armageddon, Jehovah will forcibly disarm the nations by destroying them along with their weapons.

Awake!  September 22, 1961 p. 23

Yes, Protestantism will reap the stormwind of God’s wrath, along with the rest of Christendom, at the fast-approaching “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” generally called by the name of the battlefield in the Bible, Armageddon-Rev. 16:14-16

Awake!  October 8, 1961 p. 23

Since Protestantism stands disapproved by God, reserved for destruction at his war of Armageddon, all persons who desire to gain a favorable standing with him must flee from her.

Awake!  October 8, 1961 p. 24

This is so not simply because they have entered the nuclear and space age, when changes tae place with great rapidity, but because this generation has come face to face with the greatest of all wars, Armageddon, the “wear of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14, 16) To survive that war youths need to be educated to higher levels of thinking, because a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of his surviving Armageddon into the righteous new world.

Awake!  October 22, 1961 p. 27

So knowledge of God gathered in early youth will help boys and girls to pursue the wisest course in this day before Armageddon.

Awake!  October 22, 1961 p. 27

Youths today who apply themselves are also rewarded with privileges of service in God’s organization. In addition, they have the protection that remembering God brings in this evil day. And to top that off, they have the hope of survival through Armageddon and the promise of life in Jehovah’s righteous new world.

Awake!  October 22, 1961 p. 28

Section heading: “Thirty Minutes from Armageddon”

Awake!  November 8, 1961 p. 29

On September 16 former president Dwight D. Eisenhower in a speech at a fundraising dinner in Chicago criticized the Kennedy Administration’s handling of recent events. He pointed to the ever-growing thread of nuclear destruction, which, he said, puts Chicago “but thirty minutes from Armageddon.”

Awake!  November 8, 1961 p. 29

The facts of modern history confirm what the Bible foretold long ago. Peace must come by God’s kingdom, not by the conferences of men. Fulfilled Bible prophecies prove that our generation is on a collision course with Armageddon, the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

Awake!  November 22, 1961 p. 15

Furthermore, there is no doubt that Armageddon is destined to strike all the inhabited earth.

Awake!  November 22, 1961 p. 15

Who will survive that act of God and how? Its purpose answers both questions. Armageddon will remove wickedness from heaven and earth and pave the way for God’s new world of righteousness.

Awake!  November 22, 1961 p. 15

Their deliverance at the coming battle of Armageddon will be another spectacular demonstration of Jehovah’s power.

Awake!  December 22, 1961 p. 6

As the ark of Noah’s day was a place of safety for eight persons during the flood, so the arrangements that Jehovah has made for preserving obedient man- kind and giving them life make up a system of things that provides safety during the war of Armageddon.
Awake!  December 22, 1961 p. 6, 7

Section heading: Armageddon Feared

Awake!  December 22, 1961 p. 29

Secular reference: On October 20 Cardinal Spellman told some 125,000 worshipers assembled on the Washington Monument grounds that the “gruesome competition for nuclear superiority, if pursued, can only end in the total destruction of mankind.” He urged prayers to avert the world from a “thermonuclear Armageddon.”

Awake!  December 22, 1961 p. 29

Publication title: For mailing the coupon I am to receive free the three booklets After Armageddon-God’s New World, Healing of the Nations has Drawn Near and God’s Way is Love.

Awake! December 22, 1961 p.

In the pit is where all the foolish ones will find themselves at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1961 p. 6

Before Jehovah brings Satan’s wicked system to its shattering smashup at Armageddon, the message of the Kingdom must be sounded by his Christian ministers so that the prophecy of Jesus can be fulfilled: “When the Son of man arrives in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”—Matt. 25:31, 32; Rev. 16:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1961 p. 49 

We must not place a time limit on our ministry. We must not think: “I will be a minister for two, three, five or ten years. Then Armageddon will be here and I will not have to preach any longer.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1961 p. 51 

Let the people of the world seek material wealth, power, popularity, prestige and pleasure, but, remember, these goals will last only until Armageddon. But your aim as God’s ministers to share in the vindication of Jehovah’s name, to help other people to know Jehovah God, and to prove yourselves faithful and productive ministers will be a goal that will lead you through Armageddon and on into the new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1961 p. 53 par. 22

Awareness of Armageddon’s nearness should spark us to greater service and to give of ourselves wholeheartedly.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1961 p. 55

They will also support Michael in fighting the war of the great day of God the Almighty, Armageddon, even as in times of old they were used by Jehovah God to execute the wicked.—Matt. 13:41; 25:31; Rev. 12:7-10; 16:14, 16; 19:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1961 p. 59

Since no one knows just when the fury of Armageddon will strike, now is the time to prepare.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 79 

It is time to be on the watch, ready for the Master’s arrival for the final inspection of this old world at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 79 

Since we recognize the sign of the Master’s presence in the distressing world calamities of recent years and as we share in the preaching of the good news world-wide before the complete end comes upon this old system at Armageddon, we are helping others escape on the road to safety.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 84 

This light of truth has been getting brighter and brighter since Christ’s heavenly enthronement in 1914. Jehovah God and Christ Jesus, “the kings from the rising of the sun,” are preparing to gather the nations to the great battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 89 

Keep spiritually awake to avoid going down with the nations into destruction at Armageddon. Be among the happy ones, awake to the times, alert to the opportunity to serve with your family and with the congregation as a part of Jehovah’s organization. Then you too will gain Jehovah’s approval and life in the new world after Christ makes his Armageddon inspection.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 89

Apart from the world, in our new system of things, we shall work together joyfully, harmoniously, zealously and unselfishly—a foretaste of Kingdom blessings we shall enjoy in the post-Armageddon paradisaic new world.—Isa. 25:6.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 92

In this troubled world, tottering so near the brink of another total war, and Armageddon, who knows when we shall be able to enjoy further such assemblies?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1961 p. 92

This same Son and Heir, who is now enthroned as King in Jehovah’s “new heavens,” sends forth his angels to ‘collect the weeds’ and “pitch them into the fiery furnace” of Armageddon destruction. But what of true Bible Christianity?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1961 p. 108 

During future trials, and through Armageddon’s battle itself, the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses expects to keep standing faithfully, in the one united, theocratic order.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1961 p. 115 

20. (a) What association should be maintained under persecution? (b) How were our German brothers blessed in this? (c) What association must now be sought, with Armageddon in view?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1961 p. 115

Even as Noah and his family survived the Deluge because of knowing and doing God’s will, so today only those who know and do God’s will will survive the impending destruction of Armageddon. To help you toward that end is one of the purposes of this magazine.—Matt. 24:37-39.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1961 p. 132

This principle of oversight was necessary, not only to care for the preaching work, but also to serve to train all those of the great crowd to submit to God’s will during the time of the end, before Armageddon, so they would be trained and qualified to proceed after Armageddon with cleansing and beautifying the earth in an orderly and theocratic manner.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1961 p. 148 

That is the beginning of the formation of a New World society, which would gather and train the great crowd and which in its organized form as a congregation functioning under the new system of things would be preserved through that war of Armageddon ending this old system.—See “New Heavens and a New Earth,” pages 322-341.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1961 p. 148 

It is our obligation to help as many as possible to take their stand for Jehovah and his kingdom before Armageddon cuts short our work.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1961 p. 150

What can children do to avoid contamination with this old world, thus protecting themselves from being destroyed with it at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1961 p. 179 

Standing now at the threshold of Jehovah’s new world, many youths may want to postpone marriage until after Armageddon, when selection of a wife will be made under righteous conditions and when marriage responsibilities will be carried out with none of the distractions that now plague mankind. Wise King Solomon advised youths: “Remember, now, your grand Creator in the days of your young manhood, before the calamitous days proceed to come.” (Eccl. 12:1) With the rapid approach of Armageddon, youths of the New World society should want to seize hold of the grand privilege that is theirs, that is, to give their all for the sake of the Kingdom, thus safeguarding their position at this time of the end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1961 p. 185 

There are many dedicated Christian girls who would like to marry this side of Armageddon, but there appears to be a scarcity of good, clean eligible mates.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1961 p. 185 

19, 20. (a) What problem faces many single Christian women today, and how should they view this matter? (b) With Armageddon so near at hand, what should all Christians want to be, and why?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1961 p. 185

With Armageddon so close at hand, with the new world of promise within reach, “keep yourselves clean, you who are carrying the utensils of Jehovah,” so that he may preserve you alive on into his new world of promise, for you to serve him there forevermore in righteousness. May that be your happy lot.—Isa. 52:11.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1961 p. 186 

God’s war of Armageddon, which will put an end to this wicked world, will depopulate the earth considerably.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1961 p. 200

Although we are no longer looking forward to the presence of the Lord since the start of the sign’s fulfillment in 1914, still we do need to exercise patience until the preaching work is thoroughly accomplished and Jehovah says it is enough at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1961 p. 205, 206 

Continue preaching until Jehovah says the harvest is complete and brings an end to the old world in the destruction of Armageddon. Remember that ‘he that endures to the end is the one who shall be saved.’—Matt. 24:13; 2 Thess. 3:5.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1961 p. 214

The hard-bound book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World has also helped thousands. Send only 50c for this 384-page Bible-study aid and learn God’s way for security and life everlasting.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1961 p. 256

As dedicated ministers of the gospel our lifesaving work is to preach and teach the good news of Jehovah’s kingdom in all the world before the end of this system arrives at Armageddon. (Matt. 24:14; Rev. 16:14, 16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1961 p. 278

Publication title: Then send for the beautiful and revealing book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained. Act now and receive also the booklet After Armageddon—God’s New World. Send only 75c.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom  May 1, 1961 p. 288

The prospects of Kingdom service ahead of us, before the destruction of this present system of things at Armageddon brings an end to our preaching of the good news, are thrilling.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1961 p. 306, 307 

‘We can gather some idea of its impressive size for those days when we realize that Megiddo, the famous fortress city guarding the Valley of Jezreel—Armageddon—covered only some fifteen acres, and the Jerusalem of King David’s time, centuries later, covered about ten acres.’”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1961 p. 319

Thus in the great storm of Armageddon the building will not be toppled, though the evil one Satan and his hordes may dash against it

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1961 p. 339

You know they will perish at Armageddon, while you hope to survive it and live through it into the new world, do you not?—1 Cor. 15:33.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1961 p. 365

But who is directing this insidious campaign of propaganda, the billions of words that pour over television, radio and the printed page every day? The Devil! (Rev. 16:13-16) Be on guard against this arch deceiver! (Rev. 12:9) Many of his schemes appear ever so innocent, but they may accomplish his purpose of consuming your time and controlling your mind. His design is to keep people so busy watching trite comedy programs, western movies, and reading newspapers, comics and immoral novels that they do not have time to learn about Armageddon, where he is leading them!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1961 p. 371, 372 

A mature person does not fight with words over senseless questions. If by research the answer can be obtained, he will make a reasonable effort to find it, but he will not get himself involved trying to find the solution to every problem, such as, ‘When is Armageddon coming?’ or, ‘Do you think man will ever live on Mars?’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1961 p. 373, 374

If you maintain close association with such persons this side of God’s war of Armageddon, you run the greater likelihood of not reaching the other side of it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1961 p. 404 

23-25. (a) In what way should a Christian choose a suitable companion? (b) What can prevent you from being among the survivors of Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1961 p. 404

The prophecy here foretells the coming of God with destructive fury at the battle of Armageddon, which the prophet compares to God’s acts in days of old.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1961 p. 416

What war is He speaking about? Why, the fast-approaching war of Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” which is now so very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1961 p. 430 

In speaking of the trial of our faith before Armageddon he made the statement that it would be an endurance test.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1961 p. 438

I look forward to full-time service to Jehovah right through the battle of Armageddon, sharing thereafter in cleaning up the earth and making it a paradise.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1961 p. 440

He protects us from the calamity of having squandered our efforts, yes, our very lives, in pursuits that may seem good in the eyes of men but that will end in destruction at the universal war of Armageddon. (Prov. 14:12)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 457 

It puts the work that lies ahead of us between now and Armageddon in the right focus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 460 

Now, during this time of “great tribulation” that ends in the battle of Armageddon, is the time that Jehovah God has set aside for calling “out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues” a great crowd that no man can number, persons who will join in publicly ascribing salvation to God and to the Lamb.—Rev. 7:9, 14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 460 

10. What view of the work between now and Armageddon should we have?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 460

No one should feel that being associated with the New World society is in itself assurance of divine approval, or that participation in preaching the Kingdom message is all that God requires for one to survive Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 462 

We are not looking forward to a time when we are to be discharged from the Master’s service. We do not anticipate Armageddon as a time when our service to God will be finished.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 468 

Those who now prove themselves faithful overseers in the New World society will, no doubt, continue to enjoy positions of princely service after Armageddon. There will be much work to do, and it will be done in an orderly way. (Isa. 32:1, 2; 1 Cor. 14:33) After God’s execution of judgment upon the wicked in his war of Armageddon, the earthly subjects of the King will have before them a world-wide cleanup program that will eclipse anything this globe has ever seen.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 469 

As children are born to the Armageddon survivors, and when those persons in the memory of God are raised from the dead, there will be a tremendous program of education. (Rev. 20:12)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1961 p. 469 

They include, outstandingly, Jehovah’s “unusual work” of vindication, his extermination of the wicked at Armageddon, which has been decided upon for this generation. (Isa. 28:21, 22; Rev. 16:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 491 

Hold your position in the New World society as the day of God’s battle—Armageddon—draws close!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 494 

Keep witnessing fearlessly, to the honor of Jehovah’s name! As Armageddon breaks, God himself will thunder “with his voice in a wonderful way, doing great things that we cannot know.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 494 

Oh, may we all maintain our dedicated stand within Jehovah’s New World society down to Armageddon, and right through that wondrous time of battle!—1 Cor. 16:13; Ps. 46:1, 2.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 495 

None of the mighty, missile-brandishing nations of this nuclear age will be able to save face, glory or honor when Jehovah executes judgment on them at Armageddon. The proud clergy of Christendom’s sects, together with the “majestic ones” of their flock, will likewise perish in dishonor.—Jer. 25:32-36.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 498 

Now that his splendor faces extinction at Armageddon, he pursues a vicious policy of “rule or ruin.” He blindly plots a further face-saving exploit, in trying to lead all humankind over the brink into a nuclear abyss.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 501 

On the other hand, you, O man of God, flee from these things.” Yes, remember that such “valuable things will be of no benefit on the day of fury,” Jehovah’s Armageddon fury.—Ps. 62:10; 1 Tim. 6:9-11; Prov. 11:4.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 505

As we look about us we see the world sleeping on, spiritually asleep, oblivious to the threat of Armageddon, which is daily drawing nearer.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1961 p. 539

So much must yet be done before this wicked world soon goes down into destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1961 p. 571

Revelation 16:14 calls that war the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” This will mean an Armageddon disaster for all nations hostile to God’s kingdom, including the nations of Christendom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 622 

This spirit of love is what has made it possible now, before Armageddon, to realize the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy in the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”—Isa. 2:4, AV.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 623, 624 

This loving unity will hold despite the increasing disunity of this selfish, loveless world, even when the whole worldly system of things crumbles in disunity at its Armageddon in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 624 

In order to be hidden and mercifully preserved through the universal war of Armageddon, we must go through that war united in the worship of Jehovah God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 625

54. How must we go through Armageddon, and how too will we serve after it?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 625

This tribulation will be resumed, within this generation, at the fast-approaching war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 631

They show how these events have fulfilled Bible prophecy and that, therefore, Jesus did begin ruling in the heavens in 1914, and soon, within this generation, he will resume the tribulation on Satan’s organization, completely destroying it in the war of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14-16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1961 p. 631, 632

The Watchtower of April 15, 1961, on page 237, quotes Mark 13:19, 20, concerning the cutting short of the days of tribulation, and apparently applies it to a cutting short of Armageddon itself. Does Jesus’ statement here apply to the cutting short of the war in heaven in 1918, or to the cutting short of Armageddon, or to both?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1961 p. 671

Since then the Devil and his demons have been gathering the nations to the battlefield of Armageddon. At the same time he has been persecuting Jehovah’s faithful witnesses.—Rev. 16:13-16; 12:17.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1961 p. 671

This final part is commonly called by the name of the battlefield mentioned in Revelation 16:16, namely, Armageddon.

Jesus likened this battle of Armageddon to the flood of Noah’s day and said concerning the battle’s outbreak: “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matt. 24:36) So, whereas we know that we are rapidly approaching the battle of Armageddon, we do not know when it will begin, neither when it will end, and hence how long it will be.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1961 p. 671

This is therefore an interval vital to the salvation of those who will be saved and survive Armageddon. By this interval between the opening feature of the “great tribulation” and the closing feature, Armageddon, the “great tribulation” as a whole is shortened. This shortening operates for our salvation. The Watchtower magazine did not say that God will shorten Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1961 p. 671, 672

Pointing forward to our days, days that have been marked by world war, famine, pestilences, earthquakes and perplexity of the nations because of their approaching end in the universal war of Armageddon, Jesus said: “Also, in all the nations the good news has to be preached first.” (Mark 13:8-13)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1961 p. 690

Is there no hope at all that one of the “great crowd” who dies now before Armageddon will be reunited with his marriage partner as that one’s mate in the new world and share in the fulfillment of the procreation mandate?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1961 p. 703

He would be doing so if he allowed for former marriage mates to be reunited as man and wife by means of the resurrection and to take part with Armageddon survivors in fulfilling the procreation mandate.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1961 p. 703

In the resurrection of the “other sheep” on earth, no former married person will have occasion to envy another former married person, as would be the case if this latter one got back his former marriage mate who had remained single, whereas the envious marriage mate does not get back his former partner because this partner remarried and survived Armageddon with his new marriage mate.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1961 p. 704

His great act of intervention is called “Armageddon.” (Rev. 11:18; 16:16) Will Armageddon leave just one or two survivors on a desolate beach? No, into the post-Armageddon new world of righteousness will go those who have turned to Jehovah in time of stress—survivors “out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues”!—2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 7:9, 10.

But what of personal stress now, before Armageddon? Death causes perhaps the greatest distress today, whatever its immediate cause.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 710

How long are the remnant of the anointed Christian witnesses of Jehovah authorized to strike the religious clergy with this tormenting message? For the period of their life before God’s war of Armageddon, as symbolized by the five months assigned to the locusts.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 718 

Not that the clergy would not prefer to die rather than endure this judgment proclamation any longer; but as the apostle John says of them: “And in those days the men will seek death but will by no means find it, and they will desire to die but death keeps fleeing from them.” God’s execution of judgment, his infliction of death upon these hypocritical Christian clergy, is delayed till he begins his universal war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 718 

From this description we note that the remnant of Jehovah’s anointed witnesses were brought forth in 1919 for warfare, a spiritual warfare from that year till the actual outbreak of the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” commonly called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 718 

For the brief time interval till Armageddon breaks out, “five months,” as it were, the symbolic locusts must use their scorpion-like tails, God’s Word, “the sword of the spirit,” and must strike men against whom God’s judgment is directed. It is not God’s time to spare feelings. His enemies have to be exposed and notified of coming judgment.—Eph. 6:17.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 719 

In the finale of the universal war of Armageddon he will bind and pitch Satan the Devil and his spirit demons into the abyss of deathlike inactivity. (Rev. 20:1-3)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 719 

From Bible prophecy they served notice on Christendom that Almighty God would desolate her in the battle of Armageddon, leaving her like a wilderness in which nothing had escaped being consumed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 721 

In itself the message that called attention to Jehovah’s battle action at Armageddon indicates when the modern locust plague really began. In The Watch Tower, the official magazine published and distributed by Jehovah’s witnesses, there appeared in its issue of July 15, 1925, the leading article entitled “The Remnant.” This article set forth for the first time that Armageddon is not a disorganized “time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation,” or a violent, anarchistic battle between capital and organized labor, but is a universal fight between Jehovah God and the entire organization of Satan the Devil in heaven and on earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 721 

The following year (1926) the remnant received fuller enlightenment about the battle of Armageddon in the book entitled “Deliverance.” Its chapter 12 was entitled “The Final Battle,” and its thirty pages gave a magnificent description of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 721 

37. In 1925 what did The Watch Tower make known about Armageddon as a battle?

38. How many were reported celebrating the Memorial in 1925, and in the following year what did the book Deliverance say further about Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 721

That message about Jehovah’s fight at Armageddon and the destruction that he will wreak upon Christendom and all the rest of Satan’s world was not delivered in just five literal months of 1926. It continues down to this day and gets stronger and stronger. Just as long as these symbolic locusts are alive and are witnessing on this side of Armageddon they will keep on inflicting torment by Jehovah’s message of vengeance upon religious hypocrites and upon all his other enemies on earth. Since 1931 the number of the anointed remnant still remaining on earth has dwindled; but since then also these symbolic locusts have been joined in the judgment proclamation by hundreds of thousands of God-fearing, sheeplike people, who begin calling upon the name of Jehovah for salvation and who dedicate their lives to him and get baptized in water just the same as Jesus did.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 722 

With their message of God’s universal war, they made the Bible word “Armageddon” well known, to get into popular usage.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1961 p. 722 

Section heading: Courageous in the Face of the World’s Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 741

Courage brings us joy of heart, a joy that even the outlook of an Armageddon of trouble upon the world cannot remove or lessen.

True, the coming Armageddon will prove to be more than this world can endure, but there is joy in knowing that it is nothing too big for God Almighty to handle.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 741

4. Why does God face Armageddon with courage, and into what will he convert that greatest calamity for wicked people?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 741

He can and will preserve a portion of the human family alive through Armageddon into a righteous, peaceful, healthy new world of paradise beauty. Thus what will be the greatest calamity yet for wicked people he will convert into the greatest benefit and relief for all lovers of true righteousness. With this joyful prospect before Him, he moves on to Armageddon with courage.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 742 

Being in the dark as to how the oncoming universal conflict of Armageddon will turn out makes men feel insecure.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 744 

This satanic attack upon the New World society will bring upon this old-world system of things the battle of Armageddon that will result in utterly destroying this wicked system of things and abyssing Satan the Devil and all his peace-disturbing demons.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 746 

Like David, they will have to prove that the “one thing” that they have asked from Jehovah is to dwell in his house all the days of their lives now before Armageddon and forever on earth after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 749 

It is needful to do this now in view of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 750 

This will fill him with more courage to keep on being God’s minister even in the face of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 750 

38. For doing this what will he behold, and how will he face Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 750

So even with the prospect of forever dwelling in the house of Jehovah in the future after Armageddon, we want to dwell there also now before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 751 

Since then, what a mighty walled or well-protected organization he has built up for them, as they apply themselves to the foretold work of preaching this good news of God’s established kingdom publicly and from house to house, in all the inhabited earth, for a witness to all the nations before the end of these political institutions comes in the threatening war of Armageddon! (Matt. 24:14)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 753 

Now more than ever, let us remember that we, along with the whole world, are moving closer and closer to the “great day of God the Almighty,” which is to be marked by the war of the universe in which God will administer an Armageddon-like defeat upon all the “kings of the entire inhabited earth” and their totally mobilized nations.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 753 

Thus we shall also have love of Jehovah God and of his Son Jesus Christ as the active force pushing us ahead through the trials, difficulties, persecutions, troubles and dangers, yes, through Gog’s attack that provokes God’s war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 755 

In the strength of our hope and faith we can be, yes, we will be courageous in the face of the world’s Armageddon, where Jehovah will triumph gloriously in vindication of his universal sovereignty.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 755 

January 21: Courageous in the Face of the World’s Armageddon, ¶1-28. Page 741.

January 28: Courageous in the Face of the World’s Armageddon, ¶29-38, and Courage Under Divine Protection. Page 748.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1961 p. 768