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

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 6

Maybe the Copenhagen convention of 1961 will arouse these people, or will it take Armageddon? There is a strong aggressive organization there, but during the 1960 service year there was no growth. Here are some of the experiences as reported by the branch servant on Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 120

At the end of a service year it is always good to take a moment to look back to see what occurred during the year, to ascertain where improvements can be made and how to plan for a new year. Jehovah’s witnesses do not take things for wanted and feel that after a good year of service they can relax. No, this good news of the Kingdom must continue to be preached right up until the battle of Armageddon

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 199

Because of their living at peace and unity and their recommending it to others much is accomplished in regard to the great work that must be done before the battle of Armageddon, namely, preaching the good news of the kingdom of God. In Puerto Rico the brothers, realizing the issue before mankind and seeking to pursue peace, have been spreading the good news throughout that island and also on other islands under the Puerto Rican branch office.  Throughout the Caribbean Sea area people know what Armageddon means. 

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 230

A circuit servant turned in another experience about a little irl in one of his congregations. The girl is eight years old and lives with her aunt, who is a special pioneer. The little girl has been begging her aunt to take her out in the service, but for a long time the aunt thought she was too little. One day she said to her aunt, “You know, to be saved at Armageddon you have to preach, and if you don’t let me go out and I am destroyed, it will be your fault.”

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 273

May all of us have the good sense to stay inside of of God, following the lead of his appointed Shepherd King, Christ Jesus, and doing his work with all zeal and joy in peace in these last days before the destructive battle of Armageddon ends all wickedness and vindicates the Word and Name of our God. 

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  p. 293

He will “set astonishing events on the earth” when he comes forth shortly now to his war at Armageddon.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  January 9

Some persons when reading Matthew 6:33 read only “keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom” for that is the extent of their interest. They are anxious for Armageddon, when God will destroy all wickedness and establish a righteous new world. Why so anxious? Because they want to live in paradise, have perfect life, peace and happiness and all the good things that the new world offers.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  January 22

How grand a privilege parents today have a of possibly preparing their children for marriage as survivors of Armageddon into God’s righteous world! W 11/15

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  June 2

Why should any yield to the expressions inspired by demons and be led into a fight with the nations against God and Christ? Rather, let all listen to the good news of his kingdom and seek peaceable relations with God, for upon his mercy depends all their security at Armageddon. It is our privilege to call truths to the attention of all. W 10/15 44-46

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  June 24

This is something to think about for our young people who are coming into marriageable years and who may be dreaming of happy, successful marriage under God’s blessing either before or after Armageddon. 

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  July 8

Faithful surviving couples will continue their married life after Armageddon directly into the restored Paradise. 

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  August 6

In the face of the threatening war of Armageddon there is urgent need for a shelter, a refuge, a place of security different from that which worldly-me men are proposing for surviving a possible nuclear world war.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  August 18

Armageddon over, we shall emerge into Jehovah’s clean, righteous new world there to take up the peaceful work of landscaping earth and welcoming back those worthy of a resurrection.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  August 25

If we faithfully do our part now many will have found the true place of security by the time Armageddon breaks out. W10/15 36

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  September 15

He is above all earthly nations and will get shepherd all the nations with an iron rod at Armageddon. W 12/15 28a

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  September 16

Such is an outright lack of submissiveness to and respect for the means God is remarkably using to perform his will in this pre-Armageddon time.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  September 28

We are at the very threshold of Armageddon when Jehovah is about to destroy this satanic old world and everyone conducting himself according to its wicked standards, to be followed by “new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness is to dwell.”

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  September 30

Now Jehovah is proceeding to put all of Christ’s enemies under his feet to be crushed to death at Armageddon. (Rev. 19:15, 16)

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  October 28

True the man who makes a dedication and fails will not survive Armageddon, but neither will the man who postponed dedication and never took the steps to qualify him for life. 

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  November 19

As awake worshipers of Jehovah, let us earnestly endeavor to rouse others to spiritual wakefulness now so that they will not go down into perpetual sleep with the wicked at Armageddon, but will survive with the awake worshipers into the new world to worship Jehovah forever.  W 9/1 19a

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  December 10

As this tottering old world of Satan hues up for extinction at Armageddon Jehovah provides inspiring hope in his promise of the eternally peaceful new world to follow. (Rev. 21:1-7)

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  December 15

At Armageddon he will execute judgment upon those who follow in the footsteps of their wicked predecessors, but he will also preserver those who show that their hearts are fixed on him by conforming to his righteous ways. W 9/1 13, 16a

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  December 18

Then we shall get away safe during Armageddon.

1961 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1960.  December 21

Shortly, at Armageddon, Jehovah’s righteous Judge and King will put an end to all capitalistic and communistic oppressors. delivering men of good will who willingly submit to the ruler.ship of God’s kingdom. -Ps. 72:4.

Awake!  February 8, 1960 p. 16

Publication title: You will receive the two books “Let God Be True” and “You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.” They are hard bound and contain a total of over 700 pages of basic Bible information. Send today.

Awake!  February 8, 1960 p. 31

Publication title: I am enclosing 7/- (for Australia. 8/-) for the two books “Let God Be True” and You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.

Awake!  February 8, 1960 p. 31

I am enclosing 14/- (for Australia. 16/-) for one full year’s subscription for both The Watchtower and Awake! and am to receive free the following six booklets: God’s Way is Love, After Armageddon-God’s New World, “This Good News of the Kingdom,” World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom, Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’sKingdom Rules-Is the World’s End Near?

Awake!  February 8, 1960 p. 32

What a joy and pleasure it will be to use these gifts after Armageddon, in the New World! Awake!  February 22, 1960 p. 26

While the peace of the growing New World society is evidence of God’s advanced preparations for a world that is free from fear, the big change that will make freedom from fear for all mankind a reality will come at the battle of Armageddon.

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 4

Thus the battle of Armageddon will sweep away mankind’s many governments, leaving the earth to be ruled by one government, not a human government but a heavenly one.-Ps. 2:9

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 4

Happy are its members, for soon now when the world is destroyed at Armageddon, integrity-keepers will be rewarded with a righteous new world for having persevered.-Prov. 20:7.

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 8

that God will destroy this present wicked system of things at the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:14, 16; Zephaniah 3:8; Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 34:2); that Armageddon will come within this present generation (Matthew 24:34);

Awake! March 8, 1960 p. 24

Publication title: I am enclosing 7/- (for Australia. 8/-) for one full year’s subscription for both The Watchtower.  For mailing the coupon and 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! March 8, 1960 p. 32

And far from letting the present generation muddle through somehow, the Bible shows that God has doomed it to be destroyed at Armageddon.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 4

Therefore this generation will not pass away until it has seen the end of this wicked old world at what the Scriptures term Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 8

When the smoke of Armageddon’s battle has cleared, and the Japanese survivors unite with their surviving brothers from other nations in restoring the paradise earth, it will be interesting to see which of their former ways and customs will be blended into the new-world way of life.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 24

I run enclosing 7/- (for Australia, 8/-) for The Watchtower for one year. For malling the coupon I am to receive free the three booklets ”This Good News of the Kingdom,” After Armageddon-God’s New World and God’s Way Is Love.

Awake! March 22, 1960 p. 31

Destruction of the unrighteous is the only way to insure a peaceful and secure future for the human race. God did it once in the days of Noah, and he can do it again. It will be impossible for anyone adversely judged by him to escape destruction at the coming battle of Armageddon.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 7

Will your future be the same as that of the space-age nations that will pass out of existence at the coming battle of, Armageddon?

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 8

What that mark symbolized and why it was placed on the forehead should be of interest to all persons today desiring to be spared alive at Armageddon when God’s executional forces will march through antitypical Jerusalem, that is, Christendom, and destroy the wicked.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 27

So, too, at Armageddon Jehovah will make a distinction between the innocent and the guilty, between the hardened sinner and the one calling on him for salvation.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 27

The prophecy shows that the “man in linen” class, the anointed remnant, will complete the witness work faithfully before Armageddon. The mark upon the “great crowd shows that have obeyed God. (Rev. 7:9, 10) They, together with the remnant, will survive Christendom’s destruction in Armageddon and live to enjoy life in God’s new world of righteousness.-2 Pet. 3:13

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 28

That is because the battle of Armageddon is fast approaching and only those who have fed on spiritual food in advance will have strength to stand firm.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 32

Publication title: I am to receive free the six booklets After Armageddon–God’s New World, God’s Kingdom Rules-Is the World’s End Near? World Conquest Soon-by God’s Kingdom, “This Good News of the Kingdom,” Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near and God’s Way Is Love.

Awake! April 8, 1960 p. 32

This God will do at Armageddon, the war that he will fight to remove wickedness from the earth.-Ex. 9:16; Rev. 16:16

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 11

The issue of sovereignty is to be settled in our day. Armageddon is at hand.

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 11

if you are interested in happy, clean moral living; if you want to survive the destruction of this system of things in God’s war of Armageddon and be carried over alive to live in God’s righteous new world, then, by all means, lean more about the New World society, for it is God’s answer to persons of good will in this hour of crisis. 

Awake! April 22, 1960 p. 26

To such men life is hopeless. God’s Word and prophecies hold no true meaning. Armageddon is visionary. Catastrophe is unlikely.
Awake!  May 8, 1960 p. 5

Even though wicked men refuse to see in the happenings since A.D. 1914 any evidence that God’s kingdom has come and that Christ is now ruling preparatory to breaking all the nations to pieces in Armageddon, this does not alter matters with Christians. They realize that the reason why Jehovah cut short the days of the great tribulation in 1918 was so that the chosen ones, Christ’s anointed heirs, would be saved.

Awake!  May 8, 1960 p. 8

It should move them with zeal to make known Jehovah’s salvation to as many as possible before He brings on Armageddon. 

Awake!  May 8, 1960 p. 8

As a farmer during a lull in a storm hurries to haul all his crop into the storehouse and considers such a break a blessing, so Christians must view their responsibility during this lull before the storm of Armageddon and must rush to gather in as many of the Lord’s other sheep as possible to the side of Jehovah.

Awake!  May 8, 1960 p. 8

Then with reference to God’s war of Armageddon and the warning Jehovah’s witnesses sound concerning it, the Communist newspaper says that the “criminal ravings” of the Witnesses “are crowned with persistent predictions about the approach of a war of annihilation and the end of the world …. Who could have loaned the money to an underground organization of apostles of a divine powder keg?

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 9

Why are Soviet leaders bothered by Jehovah’s witnesses? Because they uphold Jehovah as the One to worship, not the State; because they seek peace and pursue it, even now beating their swords into plowshares; because they increase in number despite Communist attacks against them; because they preach the kingdom of God as man’s only hope; because they foretell the doom of worldly nations, including world communism, at God’s war of Armageddon.

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 11

Not strange, also, is the fact that the Communist press is familiarizing the people with the word “Armageddon”; indeed, in virtually every major attack on the Witnesses appearing in Pravda and other Soviet publications the word “Armageddon” appears at least once. Said Pravda of March 18, 1959: “Armageddon is a terrible slaughter.

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 11

“‘Armageddon’ is the horrendous and sanguinary encounter between Jehovah and the Satanic forces! . . . And, as you might expect, the ‘Satanic forces’ are the socialist countries, the Communist and the participants in the movement of national liberation.” Said the newspaper Sovetskaya kultura, the Soviet Ministry of Culture tri-weekly, of January 13, 1959: “Do you know what Armageddon is?

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 11

So that is what Armageddon means. Prepare yourselves, and tremble!”

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 12

But this final, all-pout assault by the Communist king eventuates in the Armageddon climax, with the Communist king coming to his end at God’s hands. 

Awake!  May 22, 1960 p. 12

The remedy for these ills is the coming in of a new world, made possible by the greatest change in human history, the universal war of Armageddon, where God himself will wipe away all forms of cheating from the earth.

Awake!  June 8, 1960 p. 11

Now before he moves to eradicate all divisive factors from the earth in the battle of Armageddon, the King is having an announcement made of his kingdom in all the earth for a witness to all nations by means of his representatives.

Awake!  June 22, 1960 p. 7

This means the end of Satan’s disunited world system in Jehovah’s righteous war of Armageddon. After Armageddon, with Satan and his wicked world system gone, a united world will blossom forth.

Awake!  June 22, 1960 p. 7

Knowing now that no materialistic solution, no political formula, no economic policy, no worldly institution can save this divided world from destruction at Armageddon, because it is of the Devil, what, then, is the only reasonable course for us to follow?

Awake!  June 22, 1960 p. 7

By taking our stand for God’s kingdom it may be that we shall be privileged to live forever under its rule after Armageddon in a united world without end. 

Awake!  June 22, 1960 p. 7

In these last days the spirit of God continues to reveal truths that the rulers of this world cannot see or hear, such truths as the Kingdom’s being established in the heavens A.D. 1914; that Satan has been cast out of heaven and is now gathering all nations to Armageddon where he will make his last stand against God; that in this generation that battle will be fought, resulting in the destruction of Satan and all of his wicked organization; that after Armageddon a new earth will emerge wherein mankind will live forever in righteousness to the glory of God.

Awake!  July 8, 1960 p. 28

Publication title: For malling the coupon I am to receive free the two booklets God’s Way Is Love and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake!  July 22, 1960 p. 32

If follows, therefore, that none who perish at Jehovah’s hands at the coming battle of the great day of God the Almighty, Armageddon, can hope to see life again.-Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake!  August 8, 1960 p. 28

Publication title: I am to receive free the booklets “Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near” and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake!  August 22, 1960 p. 32

So like-wise today, the human race will continue uninterrupted, surviving the Delugelike world-wide destruction of Armageddon because of the presence of the salt of the earth, true Christians. 

Awake!  September 8, 1960 p. 28

Table of Contents: What Will Happen to Children at Armageddon

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 2

Of even greater concern, however, is the fact that Armageddon, the war of the great day of God the Almighty, is to strike in this generation. Of it a United States congressman declared: “In very truth the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon.” Serious students of Bible prophecy have warned for some time that since 1914 numerous predicted events have come to pass with precision, clearly indicating that the terrible crisis of Armageddon stares us in the face.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 6

Is such life preserving wisdom available to a generation facing Armageddon? Yes! God’s prophet Daniel foretold that in “the time of the end . . . the true knowledge will become abundant.” (Eccl. 7:12; Dan. 12:4)

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 6

Fear of nuclear war does not paralyze the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses. Jehovah God promises that he will preserve many of this generation alive into his peaceful new world, and of that post-Armageddon earth it is prophesied: “Behold the activities of Jehovah, how he has set astonishing events on the earth.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 6

Fulfilling Micah’s prophecy of the pre-Armageddon era, the international family of witnesses now “beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 6

They know that beyond Armageddon lies the safety from sickness and death promised in Holy Scripture: “Look!” said the apostle John, “the tent of God is with humankind … And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 7

After the Armageddon crisis is safely past, there will be no overcrowded earth or global food shortage, for God has promised: ”The earth itself will certainly give its produce; God, our God, will bless us.” (Rev. 11:18; Ps. 67:6)

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 7

Yes, at Armageddon God’s kingdom under Christ will destroy Satan and his wicked spirit forces, who constitute the present wicked “heavens.” Armageddon will also mean an end to the visible organizations and governments opposing God’s rule, which visible parts of Satan’s world are the symbolic “earth.”
Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 8

BIBLE prophecies foretell that Jehovah God will rid this earth of all its wicked inhabitants at the rapidly approaching battle of Armageddon.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 27

Not only will Armageddon rid the earth of all the wicked but it will destroy them beyond hope of a resurrection.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 27

Since Jesus likened the present generation to that existing at the time Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, it follows that those who perish at Armageddon will suffer the same fate as did those of Sodom and Gomorrah.-Jude 7; Luke 17:28-30.

But what about children at Armageddon?

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 27

So let not parents think that their children will receive such protection regardless of how they may rear their children. Not at all! Children to be spared at Armageddon will have to be bringing forth Christian fruits to the extent their years permit.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 28

Yes, for children to survive Armageddon with their parents, their parents must “go on bringing them up in the discipline and authoritative advice of Jehovah.”

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 28

For those that survive Armageddon such “long time” may well be forever.-Eph. 6:1-4.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 28

No question about it, family merit alone will not cause children who are old enough to learn and obey to survive Armageddon. 

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 28

They too must live for the new world now to live in it after Armageddon.

Awake!  October 22, 1960 p. 28

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!  October 22, 1960 p. 31

At the oncoming battle of Armageddon both will be called to account and will be wiped off the face of the earth, paving the way for God’s new world.

Awake!  November 8, 1960 p. 7

A person does not need to commit sins against God, such as adultery and murder, to bring ruin upon himself; he has only to neglect God’s means of salvation for sinful men and the warning of this world’s end at God’s war of Armageddon and he will face ruin. Yes, “how shall we escape if we have neglected a salvation of such greatness?”

Awake!  November 22, 1960 p. 6

Because Jesus Christ, the Prophet greater than Moses, is now King, having been enthroned by God and authorized at Armageddon to bring “due punishment upon those who do not know. God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.

Awake!  November 22, 1960 p. 6

The lives of millions of persons, young and old, will be cut off at the impending war of Armageddon.

Awake!  November 22, 1960 p. 8

Do not neglect a salvation of such greatness, especially in the face of Armageddon’s imminence.

Awake!  November 22, 1960 p. 8

This war, called Armageddon, will be no war for selfish world domination. (Rev. 16:16).

Awake!  December 8, 1960 p. 7

For mailing the coupon I am to receive free the two booklets God’s Way is Love and After Armageddon-God’s New World.

Awake!  December 22, 1960 p. 30

Some individuals when reading this text only read “keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom,” for that is the extent of their interest. They are anxious for Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God the Almighty, the time when Jehovah will destroy all wickedness from the earth and establish his righteous new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1960 p. 16 

His personality must have had the quality of one seeking peace, for there in the garden of Eden he was at peace with all the animals, a condition that the prophet Isaiah describes will exist in the paradise earth under the kingdom of heaven after the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1960 p. 17 

By fearlessly warning of Jehovah’s vengeance to be executed at Armageddon, we are doing a tearing down and destroying work.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1960 p. 32

Fraught with meaning for us today is also the prophetic picture of the yoke. Just as Jeremiah back there warned of an iron yoke that would replace the wooden yoke that false prophet Hananiah broke, so we today must warn all those of good will toward God that unless they voluntarily submit to the wooden yoke of dedication to God they will come under the iron yoke of destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1960 p. 32

Jehovah will “set astonishing events on the earth” when he comes forth shortly to His war at Armageddon, where he will blot out “the present wicked system of things” with its politics and its militarism, its temples and its gods. (Ps. 46:8, 9; Job 38:22, 23)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 38 

Her proclaiming the United Nations to be the hope of the world, or her competing with the communistic “king of the north” by stockpiling nuclear arms, will not save Christendom from her Armageddon destruction by Jehovah and his now-reigning King, the Christ that she professes to serve.—Dan. 11:38; Luke 6:46-49.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 40 

It does not stop with a graduation, nor will it stop when great men of modern science are pulverized at Armageddon with their instruments of destruction by what God does to them. It is education that goes on forever, specializing in different studies at different times.—Eccl. 3:1.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 48 

As this tottering old world of Satan, with its false religion and its “crazed” nations, lines up for extinction at Armageddon, Jehovah provides inspiring hope in his promise of the eternally peaceful new world to follow.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 51 

Like the six persons who were preserved through the flood with Noah and his wife, they will be preserved through the coming battle of Armageddon when God’s heavenly forces will bring this judgment period to a cataclysmic end.—2 Thess. 1:6-9; Zeph. 3:8.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 55

When the Society’s publications speak of an early resurrection, it does not mean instantly after Armageddon. In fact, a number of years might elapse. We must bear in mind that immediately after the battle of Armageddon accomplishes the binding of Satan and his demons the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ begins. Consequently, a considerable number of years of that millennial reign of Christ might pass and it would still be early in that millennium. Therefore, early could mean after the Armageddon survivors have cleaned up the bones and the debris and have begun to convert the earth into a paradise under Jehovah’s blessing through Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 64

Doubtless when the faithful pre-Christian witnesses come back in an early resurrection they will be resurrected into the portions of the earth where the Armageddon survivors are and have converted that portion into a paradise locally. Besides this the spiritual paradise condition will also have survived the battle of Armageddon and all those resurrected early will come into that condition also.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 64

Publication title: Send $1 at once for a year’s subscription and you will be sent free the booklets “This Good News of the kingdom,” After Armageddon—God’s New World and Healing of the Nations Has Drawn Near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1960 p. 64

Works of the flesh do not give those who indulge in them true joy and real happiness even momentarily under the present conditions, and, as for the future, all those drinking these dregs will die at Armageddon, at the latest.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1960 p. 72, 73 

First of all, to actually witness Jehovah’s furious and unusual battle of Armageddon, when he will in all his mighty glory and strength uproot and destroy forever the wicked, and then, as “sons of God,” personally to receive an assigned place of service as an eternal possession and inheritance under the Kingdom’s peaceful rule—what a great vindication of Jehovah’s Word and name all this will be!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1960 p. 74 

This persecution is foretold to continue until the king of the north comes to his “time of the end” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1960 p. 91

Thus, in a gradual way, the light of understanding of God’s Word grows brighter and brighter as we draw closer to the divinely set date for Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1960 p. 104

Concerning him Daniel 8:25 (JP) says that he will be “broken without hand” at the universal battle of Armageddon. But many fear that a third world war, a nuclear war, will be touched off by accident or by mistake or by some uncaring madman. Yet the king of the south and the king of the north stand at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1960 p. 124 

Down to the “time of the end” at Armageddon there will be competitive coexistence between the “two kings.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1960 p. 124 

The “beauteous land” into which the king of the north here enters is the key to understanding aright this movement of the king at his “time of the end” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1960 p. 124 

56. What is the king of the south determined to do, but with self-restraint, and yet what will God cause his enemies to do at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1960 p. 124

All kingdoms of earth in opposition to that heavenly government now ruling will come to their end at Armageddon, the war of the great day of God Almighty.—Isa. 9:7; Rev. 16:16; Dan. 2:44.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 131

Salvation through the coming war of Armageddon and from death depends upon obedience to Jehovah God and to Jesus Christ, whom he has anointed to be earth’s ruler.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 135

But now at God’s appointed time for the Armageddon fight the king of the north sets out to destroy the “beauteous land” to wipe it off the earth. In this course he acts as an earthly instrument of Gog of Magog, who is Satan the Devil.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 153

Although the symbolic Edom, Moab and Ammon may escape from the hand of the Communist king of the north, they will not be delivered from Jehovah’s hand at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 154

So at the coming battle of Armageddon, Jehovah will by his irresistible power throw the symbolic Edomite, Moabite and Ammonite enemies of his sanctuary class into disorder and confusion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 154

Jehovah’s angel foretold further aggressions by the Communist king of the north before his end in Armageddon: “And he will stretch forth his hand against some countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. And he will have control over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the costly things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will follow at his steps.” (Dan. 11:42, 43, Le)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 154

Up to now the sanctuary class, supported by the great crowd of “other sheep,” have been reporting on Jehovah’s universal sovereignty, on the establishment of his kingdom by Christ at the close of the “appointed times of the nations” in 1914, and on the coming “war of the great day of God the Almighty” commonly called the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 156

He meets his end, his Armageddon, at Jehovah’s appointed time for it. He has none to help him, not even the king of the south, for this king also is destroyed at Armageddon: “he shall be broken without hand.” (Dan. 8:25, JP)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 157

76. How do we learn why he must “come to his end” at Armageddon in utter helplessness?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 158

It is therefore extremely urgent that all men of good will toward God be informed about His perfect government so that they can become reconciled to it before it is too late, before that perfect government destroys all enemies of God at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1960 p. 158

The coming event that all righteous persons long for is God’s war of Armageddon, when the Lord Jesus Christ as Jehovah’s reigning King puts an end to all manner of unrighteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1960 p. 164

This crushing will take place at Armageddon, God’s war against the wicked. To follow Armageddon there will be a new world of God’s making, completely free of oppression.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1960 p. 196

Publication title: Send only $1 today and receive free the booklets “This Good News of the Kingdom,” After Armageddon—God’s New World and God’s Way Is Love.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1960 p. 224

That is why the Lord Jesus, at God’s war of Armageddon, “brings due punishment upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1960 p. 229, 230

For the reason that he now knows that he has yet a “short period of time” before he is bruised in the head in the battle of Armageddon, he has great anger, especially against the remnant of the sanctuary class.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1960 p. 249

He will continue to be such a refuge and strong tower to his people during the destruction at the battle of Armageddon, now near at hand.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1960 p. 252

Only if men learn God’s righteous requirements and conform to them will they be spared when this old world goes down in destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1960 p. 253

Before the destruction of this world comes at the Bible-named battle of Armageddon, Jehovah God is giving opportunity to the people of the nations to learn the truth, to conform to it, and then to demonstrate their faith by seeking the way of righteousness, giving evidence that they are the kind of people who would live righteously in God’s perfect new world if given the opportunity.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 271

Daniel’s lot will be an earthly one in God’s new world after Armageddon. He will be resurrected and stand up for his blessed lot under Christ’s rule of a thousand years. He will have everlasting life in view.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 284 

Yet that kingdom did not “come” against the king of the north and the king of the south in an Armageddon battle to destroy all the kingdoms of this world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 284 

There were other parts of God’s will that needed to be done on earth first before the destruction of this system of things at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 284 

Let reject the “good news of the kingdom” whoever wanted to, but those who took to heart the witness and made the Kingdom their only hope of salvation would be spared at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 285 

But the day and the hour when Michael, the Son of God in Kingdom power, again takes up the battle at Armageddon is not known, which leaves also the year of it unknown to us in advance.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 285 

Can we today know when the Son of God comes in his kingdom against Satan’s world at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 285 

4. Was that obligatory upon God, and whom would he raise up for the lifesaving work, and who would be spared at Armageddon?

 5, 6. (a) At what ascertainable date was God’s kingdom by his Son brought to birth, and at what ascertainable date did the flood come in Noah’s day? (b) What did Jesus say concerning knowing when he in his kingdom comes against Satan’s world at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1960 p. 285

Publication title: Included in the new Bible literature introduced at the English-speaking assemblies was the New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 11, Qualified to Be Ministers, You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, and What Do the Scriptures Say About “Survival After Death”?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 294

WE SURELY live in momentous times. A whole world, the present system of things, is madly and blindly rushing toward its destruction in the universal war of Armageddon, when the age-old issue of Jehovah’s supremacy and universal sovereignty is going to be settled once and for all time.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 297 

1. What call is Jehovah sending out before Armageddon, and with what response?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p.297

The man who makes a dedication and fails will not survive Armageddon, but neither will the man who postponed dedication and never took the steps to qualify him for life. Both will be equally dead. Why be in either class?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 305 

Primarily for four reasons, as the Scriptures explicitly show: (1) To have Jehovah’s name and kingdom made known to all the earth. (2) To permit God’s people, who had fallen into error, to recover themselves, clean up and become active in God’s service. (3) To enable men of good will toward God to heed the call: “Get out of [antitypical Babylon, or Satan’s world organization], my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.” (4) To warn all the wicked so that when they suffer destruction at God’s hands at Armageddon they will know it is from God and that he is supreme.—Ex. 9:16; Isa. 12:1; Rev. 18:4; 16:14, 16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 312

Like Noah’s wife, who survived with her sons and daughters-in-law, the remnant of the sanctuary class expect to survive the delugelike destruction at Armageddon along with the great crowd of sheeplike worshipers of Jehovah God, who fully dedicate themselves to Him through the Greater Noah, Jesus Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 313 

True, the remnant of the “spiritual house” expect to survive Armageddon and to dedicate the “new earth” to Jehovah’s worship after the old world’s destruction.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 313, 314 

Those other sheep who survive the end of the old world and its bad heavens and earth will be members of this post-Armageddon new earth. By continued, unswerving obedience to the royal new heavens they will gain the right to endless life on earth and will never die.

These Armageddon survivors are not all the “other sheep” yet to be. There are many of these other sheep who will have died before Armageddon and will be resting in the memorial tombs.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 314

At the climax of Armageddon he will have bruised the original Serpent, Satan the Devil. He will have cast him and his demons into the abyss for a thousand years, to keep him out of ruinous, peace-disturbing mischief.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 314, 315 

By means of the great crowd of “other sheep” who have survived the battle of Armageddon, God will begin to fill the earth with a righteous race. Married survivors of Armageddon and the single survivors that will marry will bring forth children conceived in righteousness, not to die but to take advantage of the opportunities of everlasting life on earth that the Kingdom offers.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 315 

After Armageddon all “those ruining the earth” will have been brought to ruin.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 315 

After Armageddon there will be, not seventy, but likely hundreds of thousands of surviving “other sheep” on hand with which to begin filling the earth with righteous offspring.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 315 

At the proper time the glorified Son of man, the “last Adam,” will cause childbearing to cease. He will not let those survivors of Armageddon overpopulate the earth, or even fully populate it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 316 

Past doers of good things, like Daniel, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Moses and King David, and sheeplike ones dying now before Armageddon, will come out of the memorial tombs, doubtless early during the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ with his 144,000 joint heirs. (Luke 20:35-38; Heb. 11:2, 39, 40)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 316 

10, 11. (a) Who expect to survive Armageddon along with the great crowd of “other sheep”? (b) In favor of this expectation, what consoling words of Peter do they have in mind?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 313

13. (a) That his will may be done on earth as well as in heaven, what does Jehovah create and establish? (b) Although they will survive Armageddon, how do they expect to become part of the “twenty-four elders” around God’s throne?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 313

14, 15. Are the great crowd of the Armageddon survivors the only “other sheep” there are to be on earth, and what arrangement by the Right Shepherd shows whether?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960 p. 314

19. (a) What was God’s original purpose for this earth? (b) Under whom and how will this begin to be carried out after Armageddon?

20, 21. (a) How will the Armageddon-surviving great crowd proceed to subdue the earth? (b) As for whom of ancient times will Jehovah do for them, that his will may be done on earth?

22. In the light of what experience of the Israelites down in Egypt for 215 years, why may the “other sheep” surviving Armageddon expect to increase to millions in no great length of time?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1960

As we sailed out into the Pacific and the American coast line faded from view we thought and talked of the experiences that had been ours and the friends and families that we never expected to see again before Armageddon. On the other hand, our minds were forming mental pictures of a new country under different conditions.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1960 p. 342

I know that it is the only work worth while before Armageddon and I feel confident, as I look to the years ahead, that by keeping my dedication vows I will find the greatest happiness and years of satisfying service.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1960 p. 344

How foolish such men and nations show themselves to be! If not before, at Armageddon, all such will be made to know what fools they were.—Ps. 14:1; Rev. 16:14, 16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1960 p. 388

This he will do by destroying Satan and all others who have proved disloyal to Jehovah’s sovereignty, at the battle of Armageddon, thereafter bringing in a new world in which righteousness is to dwell.—2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 16:14, 16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1960 p. 391

So doing, we can hope to be spared when Jehovah gloriously demonstrates that he is the Universal Sovereign and when he clears his name of all the reproach that has been maliciously heaped upon it; and this he will do by destroying all the wicked at Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1960 p. 392

His abhorrence of wickedness will climax with the annihilation of it at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1960 p. 413 

These will melt away in the day of Jehovah in that they will be put out of action at Armageddon, thrown into the abyss for a thousand years.—Rev. 20:1-3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1960 p. 416

Section heading: The Gathering Storm of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 421

However, a far greater storm approaches, one that will encompass the entire inhabited earth. No one will be able to elude it or be unaffected by it. Titanic, awe-inspiring forces will be loosed at that time, dwarfing any yet experienced by man. This storm is Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 421

Some conclude that it refers to events in past history. Others believe Armageddon to be the continuous battle between the forces of good and evil, whether world-wide or in one’s mind. Theodore Roosevelt once applied it to a political battle in which he was involved, saying: “We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.” A great number feel that Armageddon will be a nuclear war between communism and the Western world.

Are any of these views supported by the Scriptures? If not, then just what is Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 421

The word “Armageddon” is derived from the word used at Revelation 16:16, which states: “And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 421

Thus, Armageddon, from the word Har–Magedon, is a Greek transliteration or equivalent of the Hebrew expression Har Megiddo, and is inseparably linked with “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” This precludes its application to mental conflicts, political battles, past wars, nuclear or space wars between Communist and democratic blocs. Armageddon is God’s war.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 421

Only the God of the universe can clear out this global weed patch and its sower, Satan the Devil. He does so at Armageddon in harmony with his attributes of wisdom, justice, power and love

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 422

Since “Armageddon” comes from the Hebrew expression Har Megiddo, meaning “Mount of Megiddo,” some have concluded that the battle would be fought at the location bearing that name. However, there is not, and never has been, a place called Armageddon, Har–Magedon, or Har Megiddo. There has never been a mountain named Megiddo.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 422

Clearly, then, Armageddon is symbolic, but it draws some of its significance from Megiddo and what was done there.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 422

For these reasons, then, symbolic Armageddon, or Har–Magedon, can properly be associated with the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” At Armageddon Jehovah God inflicts on his enemies a decisive, crushing defeat that affects all nations and peoples.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 422, 423

Because they are the ones assembled there, they are represented by the place, the symbolic Armageddon, the mountain of Megiddo. The symbolic Armageddon, then, represents in effect the assembled, gathered witnesses of Jehovah now on earth who are engaged in spiritual warfare, preaching Kingdom truths.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 423

Hence, the battle fought by God in defense of his people can be called by that name: the battle of Armageddon. The world-wide assault on Jehovah’s people, described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, provokes that war called Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” “the day of vengeance on the part of our God.” “And it shall come to pass in that day . . . , saith the Lord Jehovah, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.”—Isa. 61:2; Ezek. 38:18, AS.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 423

Jehovah, rising up to defend his people, brings terror to the hearts of the wicked. The battle at Armageddon is on!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 423

As with a hurricane, those heeding the warning now being sounded of Armageddon’s approach will take steps for safety and survival, for the devastating storm is certain to follow shortly.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 423

A loyal remnant were permitted to go through the fiery test where Jehovah and his Messenger, Christ Jesus, (1) tested them by organization arrangements on their loyalty to Jehovah’s organization rather than to human leaders, (2) tested them by service instructions and provisions as to their zeal and devotion to Jehovah’s worship and witness work, and (3) tested them by revealed truth as to their love of it. What a fiery time it was!—See You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, pp. 303 to 305.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 436 

Just as their Master, Jesus Christ, stood for the rise and fall of many in Israel in the first century of the Christian Era, so now before the whole world the anointed witnesses stand as a guide to survival for a minority of mankind but prove to be an occasion for stumbling into Armageddon destruction for the rest.—Luke 2:34.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 438

They were all fatally heading for Armageddon’s destruction. By 1931 the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy were snoring in even deeper spiritual slumber than prior to 1914. Not an awake watchman among them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 440 

They have come out from a lifeless element, an old world dead in its sins, out from under the threat of destruction at Armageddon, and become alive to God.—Ezek. 47:8, 9.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 442 par. 11

Dependent upon the “fruit” and “leaves” of the treelike individual members of the remnant, these “other sheep” are being richly fed to be preserved alive through and beyond Armageddon’s storm.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 442 

Publication title: See You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, pp. 306 to 310.

See You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, pp. 367, 368.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 442

Such is outright lack of respect for the means Jehovah is remarkably using to perform his will in this pre-Armageddon time. Truly the Society as directed by God’s holy spirit merits our deepest respect and wholehearted obedience.

Yes, the “faithful and discreet slave” was awake to the coming of 1914.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 444

As pointed out time and again in the Watch Tower publications, it is the Devil’s substitute for God’s kingdom, at present the United Nations, for which reason it is disgusting in God’s sight, and it causes desolation in that all those that put their trust in it instead of in God’s kingdom will be desolated, destroyed, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 448

Obtain and read the two fascinating and revealing books “Your Will Be Done on Earth” and You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World. Both give you the Bible’s answers to these questions.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1960 p. 448

Right now, before Armageddon, we thus behold the spectacle of a “new earth” crowd of inhabitants rapidly growing amidst a dying corrupt old world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1960 p. 463

They expect to survive Armageddon along with the remnant of God’s spiritual nation.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1960 p. 463

The remnant, in Jehovah’s due time, will leave the post-Armageddon “new earth,” that they may be with the King Jesus Christ in the eternal “new heavens.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1960 p. 463

These “other sheep” will include not only the “great crowd” of Armageddon survivors and their offspring but also those who are brought back from the dead in the “resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Rev. 7:9; Acts 24:15.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1960 p. 463

The “former heaven” is Satan and his demons; the “former earth” that passes away at Armageddon is the old-world society organized in support of Satan’s world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1960 p. 463

Because he knew that Jehovah God through his kingdom in the hands of Jesus Christ would blot out economic, industrial and social slavery at the war of Armageddon, “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 486

Now is the vital time for the preaching of the Kingdom good news—before the “accomplished end” of this world at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 487

To make one’s religion the “social gospel” instead of the pure worship of the Bible brings futility and ruin. Soon now, at Armageddon, God will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” The “social gospel” cannot reverse God’s decree nor save lives at Armageddon.—Rev. 11:18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 488

They are pursuing activities that are out of harmony with God’s established kingdom and that bring ruin and destruction upon themselves in the day of God’s wrath at Armageddon.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 488

Then you may be spared alive through Armageddon into the righteous new world with everlasting life in view.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 488

“Soon Jehovah through his King, Christ Jesus, will perform his act of deliverance in behalf of his people as in former days at the Red Sea. Emerging from the climactic showdown fight of Armageddon, the survivors will sing songs of triumphant praise and gratitude to their almighty Deliverer.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 492

When working for an unbeliever the Christian cannot take the attitude, ‘Oh, well, he and his business are going down at Armageddon, so what’s the difference?’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 499

And by doing this Jehovah’s witnesses will save from destruction at Armageddon, not only themselves, but many others too who observe their right conduct; for these also will join in glorifying and praising the great Jehovah!—1 Tim. 4:16; 1 Pet. 2:12.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 502 

Another thing you young witnesses of Jehovah must be on guard against is delinquency; otherwise you will never live through Armageddon, for in the paradise earth there will be no juvenile delinquents.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 508 

We are at the very threshold of Armageddon when Jehovah is about to destroy this satanic old world and everyone conducting himself according to its wicked standards.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1960 p. 508 par. 21

Accepting Jesus Christ as the one through whom God provides deliverance is also the means by which it is possible to survive the cataclysm of Armageddon. In Noah’s day only those who put faith in Noah as God’s prophet and submitted to his headship were preserved through the flood. When Armageddon strikes in this generation, only those who have proved their faith in the Greater Noah Jesus Christ as God’s great Prophet and reigning King and who submit to his headship will be preserved into the new world. (1 Pet. 3:20, 21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1960 p. 536 

At Armageddon he will execute judgment upon those who follow in the footsteps of their wicked predecessors, but he will also preserve those who show that their hearts are fixed on him by conforming to his righteous ways.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1960 p. 540

Though men scoff at the idea of destruction of the wicked world in the battle of Armageddon, we do not.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1960 p. 540

These awake worshipers of Jehovah God earnestly endeavor to rouse others to spiritual wakefulness now so that they will not go down into perpetual sleep with the wicked at Armageddon, but will survive with the awake worshipers into the new world to worship Jehovah forever.—2 Pet. 3:11-14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1960 p. 541 

4. (a) By what means is deliverance from destruction at Armageddon possible? (b) Instead of putting trust in men, what attitude must we have?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1960 p. 536

As Joshua captured enemy chariots and burned them in fire, so shall the Prince of Peace cause “every boot of the one tramping with tremors and the garment rolled in blood” and all other war equipment to be destroyed from the post-Armageddon earth.—Judg. 7:19–8:21; Josh. 11:9; Ezek. 39:8-10.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1960 p. 551

When Satan launches his expected attack on the Christian congregation just prior to Jehovah’s war of Armageddon, Isaiah assures us that the congregation will not be taken over and destroyed: “No more will there come again into you the uncircumcised and unclean one.” (Isa. 52:1)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1960 p. 562

Armageddon over, Jehovah’s people will emerge into his clean, righteous new world, there to take up the peaceful work of landscaping the earth and welcoming back those worthy of a resurrection, including Jehovah’s witness Isaiah.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom  September 15, 1960 p. 563 

15. (a) Those who fear they could never speak for Jehovah have what assurances from Isaiah? (b) Will the Christian congregation disintegrate under Satan’s expected pre-Armageddon attack? (c) What counsel may the congregation have in mind when Jehovah counterattacks?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1960 p. 562

The warning work of Jehovah’s witnesses grows day by day. Take heed to it for your own safety during the coming universal war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 583

Then it can be easily carried in one hand, for efficient use in the world-wide field of Jehovah’s witnesses’ ministry, as they obey Christ’s command to preach the good news of God’s kingdom in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations before this old world ends at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 601

The fiery furnace of the illustration in which the weeds were destroyed finds its fulfillment in the coming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 607

THE nations of the world continue to pile up a mountain of bloodguilt by reason of their wars, persecution of Christians, misuse of blood and the wanton slaying of animals. For all such they will have to make an accounting at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 607

So let all dedicated Christian ministers of Jehovah in the special campaign for October see to it that they do their part so that when Jehovah takes an accounting at Armageddon, we may, as did Paul, be able to say that we are clean from the blood of all men.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 608

To be “clean from the blood of all men” as was Paul, Christians today must in earnest warn all men of the impending danger at Armageddon. To aid them in fulfilling this responsibility, during October Jehovah’s witnesses will offer a year’s subscription for Awake! and three booklets, for $1.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1960 p. 608

How disastrous it would be to complacently follow a religion and find, at divine execution of judgment at Armageddon, that it was good enough for you, but not good enough for God!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1960 p. 616

“The sixth [angel] poured out his bowl [of the anger of God] upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. And I saw three unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon [Satan the Devil] and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. . . . And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon [Armageddon].” (Rev. 16:12-16, marginal reading) The mention of the place of battle here is why the war is commonly called the battle of Armageddon, even by political, military and religious figures of our times.

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Woe, therefore, to the nations who are being gathered by the propagandistic “expressions inspired by demons” to the battlefield of Armageddon for the “war of the great day of God the Almighty”!

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Hence they have not been led into peaceful submission to the divine Kingdom; but, as John’s vision foresaw, they are being gathered by “expressions inspired by demons” under Satan the ruler of the demons to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” at Armageddon. (Rev. 12:1-12; 16:14-16) What will that mean for the nations? God tells us.

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25. From whom has stemmed the opposition to God’s kingdom with his anointed king, and why does it mean woe to those nations being gathered to Armageddon?

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To be “clean from the blood of all men” as was Paul, Christians today must in earnest warn all men of the impending danger at Armageddon. To aid them in fulfilling this responsibility, during October Jehovah’s witnesses will offer a year’s subscription for Awake! and three booklets, for $1.

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It will be by surviving the war of Armageddon not far ahead.

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Faithful surviving couples will continue their married life after Armageddon directly into the restored Paradise.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1960 p. 657 

But the destruction of this wicked system of things in the universal war of Armageddon will greatly reduce earth’s population, as the Flood did.

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4. How did God show that he authorized the marriage of the offspring of the Flood survivors, and what now makes expectant survivors of Armageddon examine their relationships?

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Such wisdom is most impractical. Why? Because not only has it filled the earth with strife, confusion and corruption, but it ignores the fact that only Jehovah God can give security now and at Armageddon.

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Our obedience to God’s righteous requirements will give us a firm foundation that will enable us to weather Armageddon.—Matt. 7:24-27.

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Now that the prophetic Word of God holds forth the hope of surviving the universal war of Armageddon, how grand a privilege parents today have of possibly preparing their children for marriage as survivors of Armageddon into God’s righteous world, in Paradise restored to earth!

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This is something to think about for dedicated Christian young people who are coming into marriageable years and who may be dreaming of happy, successful marriage under God’s blessing either before or after the battle of Armageddon.

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Shortly, Jehovah will withdraw the mercy he has extended to it for over 4,000 years, since the flood of Noah’s day. At the universal war of Armageddon he will execute in righteousness the loveless and merciless ones.

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But the polygamist has to meet this test if he wants to survive God’s coming universal war of Armageddon and enter alive into the “new earth” under the “new heavens,” God’s kingdom by Christ.

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9. To survive Armageddon into God’s new world, what must a polygamist do, and where are many believers meeting this test?

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On the other side of the universal war of Armageddon, now not so far away, there lies the restored earthly Paradise.

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He is above all earthly nations and will yet “shepherd all the nations with an iron rod” and dash them to pieces in the coming battle of Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—Rev. 12:5; 16:14, 16; John 10:4, 5; Ps 2:8, 9

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