Publication title: You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World
Kingdom Ministry. January 1959 p. 3
Before Armageddon-this is the most urgent time to talk of the glory of Jehovah’s Kingdom rulership.
Kingdom Ministry. October 1959 p. 1
Publication title: You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World-Japanese
Kingdom Ministry. October 1959 p. 3
Publication title: Five more were, in the course of years. Volume II, The Time Is at Hand, was released in 1889; Volume III, Thy Kingdom Come, 1891 ; Volume IV, The Battle of Armageddon, which was originally called “The Day of Vengeance,” appeared in 1897; Volume V, At-one-ment Between God and Man, in 1899; and finally Volume VI, The New Creation, in 1904.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 31
Publication Title: The Battle of Armageddon, of 1897, pp. 613, 614:
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 69
Now too for the first time it was revealed that as a result of the “war in heaven” beginning in 1914 Satan had been cast out of heaven and must confine his operations to the earth till Armageddon. It was learned later that Jehovah purposes to make a great and lasting name for himself at the battle of Armageddon and that this battle is not a fight between capital and labor, as had been previously thought, or by any human parties and nations, but that it is God’s fight against the entire organization of Satan, invisible and visible.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 109
That because Satan will not surrender his wicked rule over the nations and peoples of the earth, Jehovah of hosts with his anointed executive officer Christ Jesus will press the conflict against Satan and all of his forces of evil, and henceforth our battle-cry shall be, THE SWORD OF JEHOVAH AND OF HIS ANOINTED; that the great battle of Armageddon soon to begin will result in the full restraint of Satan and the complete overthrow of his evil organization, and that Jehovah will establish righteousness in the earth by and through Christ the new ruler and will emancipate man- kind from evil and bring everlasting blessings to all the nations of the earth . . .
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 119
Well, of course, there was real comfort in these lectures for persons of good will, but, at the same time, Judge Rutherford was convinced that this was the time for apostate religion to be thoroughly exposed so that those who really loved God might come out and take their stand before Armageddon brought an end to these false systems.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 122
It had been recognized as early as 1923 that these sheep were an earthly group who appear in the world’s “time of the end,” and in 1932 that this class of sheep had been prefigured in the prophetic drama of Jehu and Jonadab, wherein King Jehu pictured Christ Jesus and the remnant of his spiritual brothers, whereas Jonadab represented the class of persons of good will associated with Christ in his destruction of apostate religion and who were destined to live on earth after Armageddon.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 140
This striking talk presented Scriptural arguments to show that Armageddon survivors with the hope of life on earth would be privileged to share in the procreation mandate first issued to Adam and Eve in Eden.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 145
All the major nations of the world were now committed to one side or the other in their fight for spremacy, but as for the New World society, The Watchtower of February 15, 1942, from which we have just read, made this one meaningful comment:
There are several indications that the Lord still has a great work to do before the final battle of Armageddon. To this end it is necessary that his people be in proper condition to fight on as one.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 195
Now it was clear from Revelation 7:8 that the international security beast formerly the League of Nations would be revived after World War II and a period would follow in which the good news must be preached before the end at Armageddon.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 200
Here, then, is the “Go ahead” signal from the Highest Authority to keep going on in his “strange work” of witness no matter what happens before Armageddon comes and desolates the earth of the “goat” class.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 251
For many years it had been the view of The Watchtower that the faithful men of old who served God faithfully before Jesus’ time would be raised from the dead even before Armageddon to join in organizing Jehovah’s modern-day people and to share in shouldering the remnant’s responsibility of representing the Lord Jesus Christ in the capacity of overseers of the flock of God on earth.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 252
Thursday the vivid prophetic portrayal of the “New World Society Attacked from the Far North,” drawn from Ezekiel 38 and 39, held the audience of 112,700 enraptured at the evening session. In no uncertain terms the Society’s vice-president sounded the alarm of Armageddon.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 265
The sign of the nearer approach of the battle of Armageddon is now before our eyes.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 266
He has shaken all the nations by the preaching of the good news of the Kingdom in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations, and the desirable things of the nations have come in already, and an untold number of them will yet come in before Jehovah consummates the great shaking by fighting the battle of Armageddon and totally removing the quaking heavens and earth of the Devil’s organization….
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 267
Concluding, informal remarks by the president that evening, followed by a song and prayer, brought the assembly to a close, his parting, loving admonition being no matter how small the unit or how great the assembly, the New World society will travel right on through the battle of Armageddon under Jehovah’s protection.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 267
In full recognition of their responsibility before God and their fellow men, Jehovah’s witnesses therefore rounded out four decades of Kingdom service and confidently entered a fifth, determined to assist even greater numbers to hasten their flight to safety before Armageddon should catch them unawares.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 270
Publication title: The outstanding releases were Volume II of the New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Qualified to Be Ministers and You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 274
At any rate the chiliastic doctrine of the Witnesses-who believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ has long since been an historical fact, that His invisible reign will soon be transformed into His visible kingdom on earth, and that all existing forms of the state are therefore satanic and doomed to perish in the approaching Battle of Armageddon-has had an immense appeal to people who live under the more totalitarian and tyrannous forms of government.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 281
It strongly asserted their determination to serve and preach God’s kingdom in love, peace and unity and without letup, like our faithful brothers behind the Iron Curtain, until Jehovah himself brings the witness work to a world- smashing finale by his own act of testimony at Armageddon.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 290
By his heavenly kingdom, which Jehovah God gave to the once “lowliest of men,” Jesus Christ, in 1914, the God of heaven will have his will come to pass in the coming battle of Armageddon and also afterward in the endless new world. With a deepened appreciation of how God accomplishes his will the Assembly applauded the president’s announcement of the title of the beautiful new 384-page book, “Your Will Be Done on Earth.”
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 291
No vacuum will follow its complete end at Armageddon, for God’s everlasting new world of righteousness will glorify heaven and earth after Armageddon, and forever His will shall be done on earth in a paradise state as it is done in the holy heavens above.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 291
Well, that is amazing! Certainly, whatever turn events may yet take before Armageddon, Jehovah’s witnesses have undeniably demonstrated their place in the divine purpose.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 295
In harmony with their determination to minister to God continually day and night, their year text for 1959 was taken from Revelation 16:15, in which the glorified Jesus Christ warns of his coming to the battle of Armageddon and says to his followers at Jehovah’s spiritual temple: “Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments.
Jehovah’s Witness In The Divine Purpose. 1959. p. 295
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Even in these last days, when Christians see the gathering together of the great armies of the earth to the battle of Armageddon, they are not fearful, but they stay on the watch, looking after the things that Jehovah God has put in their care.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1959 p. 14
No matter where anyone lives throughout the world, if he is going to remain a Christian and stay on the watch and be found faithful when Christ Jesus comes at Armageddon as a thief, then he must be paying constant attention to himself and to what he is teaching.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1959 p. 16
So right up until the very end, to the finish of the battle of Armageddon, Jehovah’s witnesses will continue to be on the watch, staying awake, keeping their ministerial outer garments. They will stay at their assignment declaring the good news of God’s kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1959 p. 17
Studying the Scriptures for a short time, they find that everything indicates that we are living in the last days of this system of things, the time just prior to the battle of Armageddon, and it is not long before they believe what Paul said to the Romans at chapter 13, verses 11 to 14: “Do this, too, because you know the season, that it is already the hour for you to awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became believers. The night is well along; the day has drawn near. Let us therefore put off the works belonging to darkness and let us put on the weapons of the light. As in the daytime let us walk in good behavior, not in revelries and drunken bouts, not in illicit intercourse and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not be planning ahead for the desires of the flesh.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1959 p. 19
So with joy and gladness they press on in these last days, knowing that the end of this old system of things is near at hand and that Armageddon is not far distant.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 1, 1959 p. 24, 25
Since this old world will soon come to its end at God’s war of Armageddon, time is life.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 36
At the universal war of Armageddon, which draws near, Jehovah will tell his Executional Officer Jesus Christ to swing down the sword of destruction upon the hypocritical religious organization.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 43
In these days, when the political governments find it advisable to take special security measures and when it is popular for certain religious clergymen to cry “Communist!” because Jehovah’s witnesses foretell the destruction of Christendom in the universal war of Armageddon, we cannot alter our message.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 45
Those who stick inside Christendom by adhering to its religious systems will die in the universal war of Armageddon, just as those who stayed inside Jerusalem and did not go out to the besieging king of Babylon died miserably inside the city.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 46
Jesus Christ, although now in battle dress for the universal war of Armageddon, still says: “Come to me, all you who are toiling and loaded down, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon you and become my disciples, for I am mild-tempered and lowly in heart, and you will find refreshment for your souls. For my yoke is kindly and my load is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 47
If people follow the advice of men like Hananiah and refuse to get out of Christendom and bow their neck under the yoke of the King of kings and Lord of lords, it will go very hard with them at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 47
Today, near Christendom’s destruction at Armageddon, a sheeplike class like Ebed-melech have put their trust in Jeremiah’s God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 50
But the King’s Father Jehovah will remember his promise to Ebed-melech at Jerusalem’s destruction. So these blessed sheeplike Christians will not fall by the Executioner’s sword at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 50
True to that prophetic picture, Jehovah of armies will deliver us the remnant and the other sheep when, at Armageddon, he fulfills what we have preached and he brings down the old world and brings up his righteous new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 51
A man-centered religion is false religion, and false religion cannot save anyone when God destroys this evil world at the war of Armageddon, “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire, as he brings due punishment upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will pay the penalty of everlasting destruction.”—2 Thess. 1:7-9.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 55
Jesus said, ‘Be on the watch.’ For what? For his return and the coming of his kingdom to Armageddon. Are you keeping watchful? For nearly eighty years The Watchtower has served sincere watchers faithfully, and it is now “Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom” as being here and due soon to take complete control of earth’s rule.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1959 p. 64
AFTER the battle of Armageddon the victorious kingdom of God will restore paradise to the earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 77
Bubbling over with the enthusiasm of a liberated, restored spiritual nation, the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses zealously undertook the final work that was to precede the universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 82
In more and more places congregations were established and were fortified like strong cities, fortifications that will not be needed in the earthly paradise after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 82
It is a sign of the Kingdom, that God’s kingdom is reigning and is pouring down its blessings upon those who submit to it even now before the battle of Armageddon. Yes, this restored spiritual paradise that is flourishing before Armageddon is a sign in the midst of all the enemy nations that Jehovah God has taken his great power and has begun ruling as king by his enthroned, anointed Son Jesus Christ.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 83
By our thus carrying out the divine will until the universal war of Armageddon, our spiritual paradise will continue flourishing right on to the vindication of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty. The battle of Armageddon will not wipe out this spiritual “garden of Jehovah” as the flood of Noah’s day wiped out the garden of Eden. According to the divine will and under the divine protection our spiritual paradise will pass through Armageddon and move into the righteous new world of new heavens and a new earth, there to glorify this earth forever. After Armageddon it will become the right time to build up the earthly paradise for redeemed mankind’s everlasting home.
In this miraculous way all you survivors of Armageddon will be with the King Jesus Christ in the earthly Paradise, yes, ahead of the evildoer who will be resurrected from the memorial tomb in which he awaits the fulfillment of Jesus’ dying promise.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 86, 87
38. What will be the experience of this spiritual paradise at Armageddon, and after Armageddon what will it become the right time for building up?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 86
39. (a) With whom will the survivors of Armageddon come to be, and where? (b) Whom will they be on hand to welcome?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 87
I had decided to pursue my purpose in life and, with Jehovah’s help, I was confident that I could stay with it till Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 1, 1959 p. 93
Indeed, what do all the kings and rulers now gathered with their armies to Armageddon amount to? Nothing, in comparison!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 110
They are madly driving all the political rulers and their armies into a state of opposition to Jehovah God for an Armageddon fight, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 111
Ah, but at the coming battle of Armageddon all humankind will really see Jesus Christ, the “lowliest of men,” fight, in battle action for Jehovah God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 111
We are determined, however, to endure this persecution and oppression because of our exclusive devotion to Jehovah God until his time comes for the enemy persecutor’s end at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 113
Our united prayer to God is, Let his kingdom come in its victorious assault upon the Devil’s entire organization at Armageddon. Yes, let his perfect, righteous and holy will come to pass, as in heaven, also upon this earth, his footstool. Let the wicked opposers of his will be swept out of existence. Let the faithful, loving, obedient doers of his will behold his vindicative victory over all his enemies at Armageddon and let them enter into the new world of righteousness, peace, truth and holiness.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 114
It strongly asserted their determination to serve and preach God’s kingdom in love peace and unity and without letup, like our faithful brothers behind the Iron Curtain, until Jehovah himself brings the witness work to a world smashing finale by his own act of testimony at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 121
By his heavenly kingdom, which Jehovah God gave to the once “lowliest of men,” Jesus Christ, in 1914, the God of heaven will have his will come to pass in the coming battle of Armageddon and also afterward in the endless new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 121
No vacuum will follow its complete end at Armageddon, for God’s everlasting new world of righteousness will glorify heaven and earth after Armageddon, and forever His will shall be done on earth in a paradise state as it is done in the holy heavens above.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. February 15, 1959 p. 122
At the same time, by doing this, Jehovah was giving a warning to modern-day Christendom of what is in store for her soon at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 135
As with Jerusalem in the apostles’ day, so with Christendom in this “time of the end” of this world. She faces execution by Jehovah’s great Servant at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 141
As soon as he decides that their preaching about his reigning kingdom and about the day of his vengeance has gone on long enough, he will take action by his executional forces at the battlefield of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 141
Likewise in this time of the end, when Jehovah’s witnesses are particularly warning Christendom concerning the coming of God’s executional forces at Armageddon. Now her rulers, backed by her priests and prophets, take refuge, not in Jehovah’s provided resting place and place of ease, but in worldly alliances.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 142
Sheol will not open its mouth or enlarge itself to receive us, and you witnesses of Jehovah will never bury our bones after what you call Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 143
As a refuge and place of concealment the League of Nations proved to be a lie, even without the coming of the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 143
He proved successful under test and trial during the war that broke out in heaven in 1914 and that resulted in freeing God’s heaven of the Devil’s presence and in the casting of him and his demon angels down to the neighborhood of this earth, to be reserved here for a short period of time before he is abyssed at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 144
We are still here, immovably resting upon Jehovah’s precious Stone, and we preach and invite all sheeplike persons all around the earth to take refuge and find concealment against Armageddon in Jehovah’s Stone.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 144
So, under the darkening shadows of Jehovah’s deed and work during the oncoming battle of Armageddon, the situation of mankind in trying to take worldly ease and rest becomes bloodchilling.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 145
At Armageddon’s day and hour Jehovah, the God of angelic armies, will rise up as he did at Perazim.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 146
Whatever individual survivors there may be of this strange deed of wiping out the blasphemously false Christian organization, they will not be able to conceal themselves and escape to survive Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 146
He will also remember the leveling instrument by which he executed righteousness, or what was rightly due, upon unfaithful Jerusalem in 607 B.C. and A.D. 70. (2 Ki. 21:11-15) At Armageddon he will make justice his measuring line and righteousness his leveling instrument.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 146
To add to the strangeness of this deed of God and to the unusualness of this work of God, Jehovah may unleash natural physical forces with which the scientists of Christendom have been making us acquainted since around 1914—cosmic rays with all their varied effects upon earth and man, electric currents in the upper air with intensities of as much as ten million amperes, and other physical wonders yet to be discovered by scientists before Armageddon or yet to be revealed during that universal war itself, comparable to the surprising novelty of the flood of Noah’s day.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 147
Even though we go into no detailed description of the astounding doings of Jehovah by Christ at Armageddon, this Scriptural explanation may seem overdrawn, fantastic, extremely sensational.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 147
Their bands, which doom them to execution at Armageddon, will become all the stronger and tighter, making it more certain that the scoffers will be destroyed by Jehovah’s strange deed and unusual work.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 148
He will no more turn aside from his announced decision than he turned aside from exterminating ancient Jerusalem and her temple in 607 B.C. and A.D. 70. Why should anyone scoff and be beaten still more during this “short period of time” before Armageddon? Why should anyone have Jehovah of armies become drastic and ride over him with a symbolic rollered wagon on the threshing floor of Armageddon and crush him out of all existence?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 148
How “precious” that royal Stone will be to us when all of God’s destructive forces are in operation during the war of Armageddon!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 148
When he glorifies his name to a dazzling brilliance by his victory over all Satan’s organization at Armageddon and preserves his witnesses clear through that universal conflict, how much more gloriously our divine “crown of decoration” and “garland of beauty” will sparkle!
His royal Stone in Zion sits in the judgment that is to be executed at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 149
15. Particularly since when has God’s name been glorified respecting us as his witnesses, and what will happen to this decorative crown and beautiful garland at Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 148
In keeping with their name Maher-shalal-hash-baz, they must also call attention to the fact that God’s kingdom is hastening to spoil Satan’s system of things at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 150
It may be that the eventuality of death will overtake one before Armageddon, before the termination of death’s long rule. So make good use of every day you are alive before the universal war of Armageddon to build a good record with your God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 151
This execution of divine judgment through the King, Christ Jesus, will take place at the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 1, 1959 p. 159
We are never too near the new order of “new heavens and a new earth” after Armageddon, nor have any of us been long enough in the Bible truth or been through a sufficient number of temptations, so that we can relax our watchfulness without danger of falling.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. March 15, 1959 p. 169
Page 72 of the book The Battle of Armageddon, written by Charles T. Russell in 1897, tells how some of the heathen would hold up the Christian’s Bible before the missionaries and say: “Your practices do not correspond with the teachings of your sacred book.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1959 p. 206
The present generation has been witnessing since 1914 the world events that were foretold long ago as marking the last days of this world or wicked system of things. We are rapidly nearing the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1959 p. 218
Those persons living until Armageddon and who receive God’s approval will, like Noah and his family who survived the flood, be preserved through that time of God’s wrath.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1959 p. 218
The opportunity to be among the survivors of Armageddon is now being extended to earth’s inhabitants by the worldwide preaching of the good news of God’s kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1959 p. 218
The miraculous cures that Jesus performed when on earth can be considered as examples of what he will do on an earth-wide scale for the Armageddon survivors.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 1, 1959 p. 219
Unquestionably we are living in the “time of the end” of the nations. They are marching to the battle of the great day of God the Almighty, the universal war, which is called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 239
15. What are imperfect rulers doing to the earth today but what, in fulfillment of his dying promise, will the perfect Ruler do after Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 240
After the universal war of Armageddon he will transform this earth into a paradise, from the east to the west, from the North Pole to the South Pole.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 241
At the supreme moment of the battle of Armageddon those wicked spirit forces will have been bound and put into an abyss of complete restraint.—Rev. 19:11 to 20:3.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 241
God’s sure Word guarantees that a great multitude of people of good will of today will survive the battle of Armageddon and live right on into that new world with its perfect government for all mankind. However, the reign of that government will be not only for the living, the survivors of Armageddon, but also for the dead members of the human family, including Abraham, Moses, King David and John the Baptist.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 241
Under the perfect government all those who have survived Armageddon and all those who have been brought back from the memorial tombs will be taught righteousness and truth in a perfect manner.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 242
We should like to see it come in, when the battle of Armageddon rids the earth of the Devil’s invisible rule and of the imperfect governments of selfish politicians, should we not?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 242
If we want to see it come in and to enjoy its blessings without dying, we have to prepare ourselves now before Armageddon to live under it. So now, before Armageddon strikes suddenly, is the time for us to study God’s holy Word, the Bible, and see what his requirements are to survive into the new world under the reign of Jesus Christ the perfect Ruler.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 242
Jehovah’s witnesses are eager to help each one to study this life-giving Book, to understand it and to know what God’s requirements are in order that each one may have His protection and blessing during the great tribulation that is yet to come, reaching its terrific climax in the universal war of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. April 15, 1959 p. 242
Disobedience brought Israel to ruin. Today it is hurrying Christendom on to destruction at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 1, 1959 p. 268
How necessary, then, it must be for each one to be on guard and awake prior to the battle of Armageddon!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 297
When they realize that this old world of wickedness is going to go down in destruction at the battle of Armageddon but that those who conform to the divine requirements will survive into the new world, love of neighbor makes them feel an urgent need to get out and tell others about it and point them to God’s provision for preservation.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 300
In a recent letter from Poland the brother in charge of the work said: “After those in prominent positions were released from prison and again had freedom they informed the brothers that now while the pressure has been relaxed and the work can go on, why not everyone get at it as though Armageddon was going to come tomorrow?”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 301
Everyone should feel the urgency of being on the watch and be looking for the other sheep before Armageddon strikes.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 302
A Christian does not want to drift back into the world to die with it at Armageddon; so he must stay with his Christian ministry and progress in it.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 304
At the time for the final Armageddon war, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” that symbolic Stone will strike the symbolic image with crushing impact.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. May 15, 1959 p. 315
In the Bible this destruction of wicked nations is called God’s battle of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16) Only meek persons, who seek Jehovah and righteousness, may survive Armageddon into God’s peaceful new world. (Zeph. 2:3, AS; Isa. 26:20, 21)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 336
49. (a) What is “Armageddon”? (b) Who only may survive Armageddon?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 336
When will these come forth? Since they are coming forth to a prospect of living forever, it is but reasonable to conclude that they will be brought forth in God’s new world after God’s war of Armageddon wipes out this present wicked system of things, invisible as well as visible.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 347
“The fact that it is Satan and his unclean instruments that are doing the gathering of all the kings of the earth unto Armageddon clearly implies that the troops are Jehovah’s troops and that they are now already gathered into the mountain or hill. In the vision John [the apostle] saw Christ and the 144,000 assembled on Mount Zion. (Rev. 14:1) These are troops of the Lord. (Mic. 5:1) Armageddon therefore symbolically represents God’s mountain, that is to say, Mount Zion, his organization which he has built up and at which he appears; therefore Satan is directing all of his forces against God’s organization. It is against the Lord’s troops that Satan makes war; therefore saith the Lord, ‘Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops; he hath laid siege against us.’—Mic. 5:1. (See Watch Tower, 1928, p. 376 [¶33].)”—Page 56.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 351, 352
However, the nations will be the ones to suffer the Armageddon defeat.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 352
Armageddon will reach its climax in the abyssing of those devils with their wicked machinations. (Eph. 6:12, 13; Rev. 20:1-3)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 1, 1959 p. 352
“At any rate the chiliastic doctrine of the Witnesses—who believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ has long since been an historical fact, that His invisible reign will soon be transformed into His visible kingdom on earth, and that all existing forms of the state are therefore satanic and doomed to perish in the approaching Battle of Armageddon—has had an immense appeal to people who live under the more totalitarian and tyrannous forms of government.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1959 p. 374
Another report, published in the April 1, 1959, issue of The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, while denouncing Jehovah’s witnesses and their activity, has the following to say:
“Do you know about the great calamity that is in store for all of us—the terrible and devastating war that may burst out upon the earth any day?
“It will be a war between God and Satan. Yes, yes—don’t laugh. The day will come when God finally tires of beholding the misdeeds of the Evil One and descends from heaven to engage him in a decisive and deadly battle. Oh, this will be a terrible day for mankind! In the holocaust of Armageddon will perish not only Satan but all those who are in league with him—in the first place, of course, the unbelievers, which means you and me, reader! But it will not stop at us. The majority of believers, since their faith is not the true one, are also doomed to mass destruction. The only ones who will be saved, and who will live in felicity on earth forever, will be the members of the religious sect of Jehovah, also known as ‘Witnesses of the Lord Jehovah,’ also known as ‘Students of the Holy Scripture.’ So that is what Armageddon means. Prepare yourselves, and tremble!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1959 p. 374, 375
This symbolic “land,” this earthly fold of the Right Shepherd-King, will not be desolated by the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. June 15, 1959 p. 384
It shows that the universal war of Armageddon will break out within this generation.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 388
When Armageddon strikes, Jehovah will not only prove our words to have been true but will also bring us safely into his new world. Until then let us make use of every opportunity to give the warning of God’s unusual work.—Isa. 28:5, 6.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 395
The assembly made me realize more than ever before how much the New World society is doing to care for its members and to prepare them for the coming storm of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 415
Whether we return before Armageddon or not, the assembly served the purpose of making me better equipped for New World living.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 415
Questions From Readers
● When the book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained says, on page 229, that faithful servants of Jehovah who die now “will be brought back in the ‘resurrection of life’ to get the same blessings that the people who live through Armageddon will receive,” does it mean that they will marry and share in fulfilling the procreation mandate?—F. B., U.S.A.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 415
Consequently a woman who has been made a widow by the death of her husband now before Armageddon is not obligated to wait for his resurrection from the dead after Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 415
If anyone was sexually sterilized before coming to a knowledge of the truth and he survived Armageddon, it would require a miracle from God through Christ the King of mankind to enable such sterilized person to take part then in fulfilling the procreation mandate.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 1, 1959 p. 416
When the battle of Armageddon strikes, is fought and won, will there be anything left to show that you have worked? Will what is left of your work bring you a reward from Jehovah? Happy the man who will then find that he has not labored in vain!—1 Cor. 15:58; Heb. 6:10.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1959 p. 431
These qualities he must forge not only in himself, but also in persons of good will who desire to be linked to the antitypical ark, the new system of things, and be saved with it through the fast-approaching great storm of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1959 p. 432
Then, when the storm of Armageddon strikes with all its fury, shaking both heaven and earth, your work will not be lost but remain. Survivors of Armageddon will thank Jehovah and praise him that he had workmen on earth who were not afraid to put their heart and soul into their work, men who were willing to exert themselves vigorously for the sake of the Kingdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1959 p. 436
Those outside the encampment pictured the world at enmity with God and which will perish at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. July 15, 1959 p. 439
The fact that we are living in the last days of this system of things; that Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty, when he will magnify and vindicate his universal sovereignty, is at hand; that Christ Jesus is now ruling in Kingdom power and is directing the great work of having “this good news of the kingdom” preached in all the earth; that as a result of this preaching work, persons of good will from all lands, tongues, races and peoples are being gathered together into one united, harmonious New World society.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1959 p. 460, 461
It will therefore perish with this old world at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 1, 1959 p. 479
Soon Jehovah will demonstrate in His battle of Armageddon that His law is supreme and that there is no authority in heaven or on earth above His law.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 501
No cowards and compromisers will survive Jehovah’s judgment in Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 501
Fear of ridicule and humiliation, fear of admitting one’s mistakes, or trying to save face, fear of being called a beggar or peddler when engaged in the high calling of preaching from house to house the good news of God’s kingdom and the scourge of the old world in Armageddon, and fear of being identified by the old world as one associating with the New World society.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 502
In the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will clean the earth of all cowards, compromisers, men-pleasers and fearful people.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 504
This utter destruction will be carried out by decree of the great Judge, the Ancient of Days, at the battlefield of Armageddon, in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—Rev. 16:14, 16.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 508
At Armageddon God’s kingdom, like the stone that struck Nebuchadnezzar’s dream image on the feet and then ground it to powder, will destroy all remaining traces of those ancient symbolic beasts, the fourth beast also.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. August 15, 1959 p. 509
The coming battle of Armageddon will do just that. It will be the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” when he will execute his adverse judgment upon a wicked system of things.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 518
As only peace-loving people survived the flood of Noah’s day, so only peace-loving people will survive the coming battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 519
None will survive the battle of Armageddon to disrupt the peace of the new world that will follow.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 519
While the people of the nations will continue to walk in the name of their god, the god of this old world, right down until Armageddon, those who do things Jehovah’s way are the ones who understand that the personal name of God, the name he has selected as his own, must be recognized and honored.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 526
In the new world we will assemble together at Jehovah’s direction. If we cannot be bothered now, we should not expect to be among those whose seed and name remain to enjoy those post-Armageddon assembly blessings. “‘And it will certainly occur that from new moon to new moon and from sabbath to sabbath all flesh will come in to bow down before me,’ Jehovah has said.” (Isa. 66:23)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 527
Thus these men of good will of all nations come to recognize Jehovah and his provision for life through Jesus Christ before Armageddon strikes down the remaining ones who are worthy of death.—Rev. 7:9, 10; Acts 4:12.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 529
This was explained in the book You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World on pages 299, 300.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 1, 1959 p. 531
To a world faced with the universal destruction of God’s war of Armageddon the good news of salvation must be made known.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1959 p. 548
Great sacrifices are being made to see that the warning of impending destruction and the way of salvation is proclaimed so that millions of mankind are furnished with the knowledge necessary to save them from God’s execution at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1959 p. 548
Draw the family closer together. All members of the family in the fear of Jehovah must help one another to be on the right side. The great battle of Armageddon draws near. Aim at full family survival!
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1959 p. 554
And furthermore: “ . . . that we may be accounted worthy of being ushered into God’s everlasting new world after Armageddon, there to worship him unitedly as one family of his creatures without racial distinctions and national boundaries and divisions under one government, His kingdom by Christ, and to do his will forever and ever.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. September 15, 1959 p. 559
Even as Noah was the one with whom salvation and deliverance from the expression of God’s wrath were to be found back there, so today Jesus Christ is the one with whom these are to be found at the coming expression of God’s wrath, Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 582
Baptism for life highlights our relationship to Jesus Christ as the Greater Noah and the part he plays in our being spared at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 582
Jesus showed that this generation would see Armageddon and he stressed the urgency of the situation. Those on the housetop or in the field were to flee at once, for no one knows on what day Armageddon will strike.—Matt. 24:15-18, 34.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 583
Have you been baptized for life? If not, then no longer delay, for Armageddon is coming on apace.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 583
Today the fulfillment of other Bible prophecies indicates that this time of destruction of the old heavens and earth is now imminent in God’s great battle of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16.
If the old heavens and earth systems are to pass away in Armageddon’s universal battle, what will take their place? Again Peter answers in the Bible: “But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to [God’s] promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell.” (2 Pet. 3:13)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 595, 596
Hear the Bible’s words as to this time for freedom and as to the possibility of living on earth forever through the angry storm of Armageddon just ahead: “Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.” (Zeph. 2:3)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 596
On September 1-8 of that year they held a general convention at Cedar Point, Ohio. There the erstwhile imprisoned president of the Society laid out the fearless witness work to be performed from then on until the universal battle of Armageddon. Prophecy became clearer, and on page 12 of its issue of January 1, 1921, the Society’s official magazine The Watch Tower pointed out that the League of Nations was the “abomination that makes desolate” as foretold by Jehovah’s prophet Daniel. (Matt. 24:15)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 599
IN THE January, 1957, issue of The Diocesan magazine, official organ of the Church of England in Newfoundland, appears an article by cleric R. F. Palmer. Under the subject “What to Say to Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Door,” this clergyman writes: “I admire your zeal in trying to forward your beliefs. I am sure you are a sincere person. But I cannot accept your literature. You preach a cruel and unreasonable god who is going to sweep most of his children away in a horrible battle of Armageddon while you witnesses stand aside and look on. . . . I want nothing to do with such a god.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 602
Jehovah’s witnesses, on the other hand, are preaching the God who has purposed a righteous new world, the God who has determined to destroy this wicked system of things, putting the wicked, not in a literal hell of eternal torment, but out of existence forever, at Armageddon, “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire, as he brings due punishment upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will pay the penalty of everlasting destruction from before the Lord.”—2 Thess. 1:7-9.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 1, 1959 p. 602
It is the danger of what the last book of the Holy Bible calls “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” for which the kings of the entire inhabited earth and their armies are described as being gathered to the symbolic place called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 620
It is more real a danger than international nuclear war, because the war of Armageddon is written and foretold in the infallible prophecies of the Holy Bible over God’s own irreproachable name Jehovah.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 620
Hence war, not peace, is what Jehovah God will speak to them at Armageddon, in the “great day of God the Almighty.” That kind of divine speech will bring their eternal destruction.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 622
These humble themselves to keep quiet and hear what Jehovah God has to say through his Kingdom witnesses. They desire to hear what He has to speak now, before he speaks war to their nations at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 622
Remarkably, therefore, Isaiah’s prophecy that the worshipers of Jehovah of one nationality would not lift up sword against His worshipers of another nationality and would not learn war any more is not waiting to be fulfilled after the war of Armageddon, but is being fulfilled now.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 624
For this reason they do not fear the battle of Armageddon, even though it is the greatest danger that has ever existed for all nations. They know that at Armageddon Jehovah God will continue to speak peace through his great Shepherd King to all his sheeplike people out of all nations.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 624
14, 15. (a) What beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount do they enjoy, and why do they not fear Armageddon? (b) How will Jehovah do what disarmament conferences failed to do, and who will see him do it?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 624
These prospective survivors are already committed to peace and friendship with God and will have to take no hand in the universal war of Armageddon. Their course is dictated for them in the prophetic words: “As for you, do not be afraid or be terrified because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.” For this reason they do not now have to arm and train for that war of Armageddon.—2 Chron. 20:15.
When Armageddon ends, the millennial reign of the Prince of Peace will begin over a loyal, peaceable people on earth, saved out of all the present nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth; hence it will embrace all the earth.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 625
Fulfilling that historical prophecy, peace like a glowing rainbow will arch itself over all the earth and its inhabitants, after the storm of Armageddon destroys this present war-racked system of things and cleanses the earth for the peaceful, righteous new system of things.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 625
16. Why will these have to take no hand in the war of Armageddon?
17. (a) After Armageddon, over whom will the millennial reign begin? (b) How does Isaiah verify the enduring of peace then?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. October 15, 1959 p. 625
The “war of the great day of God the Almighty” impends, and at the battlefield of Armageddon the judgment of God against all who refuse and oppose the message of God’s kingdom will be executed.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1959 p. 661
We must warn them of Armageddon and of Gog of Magog who leads mankind to fight there against God and Christ.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1959 p. 661
If we do so, then what? We shall, at the brink of Armageddon, be able to take up Paul’s words and to say unashamed to all the world: “I call you to witness this very day that I am clean from the blood of all men, for I have not held back from telling you all the counsel of God.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 1, 1959 p. 662
Aside from such things of man’s causing, there is the universal war of Armageddon that is coming like a storm upon all those who are wicked in God’s sight. The military scientists freely admit they have no defense against missile warfare. Much less so have they against Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 685
Ah, in this more serious case the nations see no need to negotiate, no need to send now before Armageddon comes like a surprise attack and sue for peace with Almighty God. Yet they cannot possibly win against him. To continue to ignore Jehovah’s warnings through his witnesses until the battle is joined at Armageddon means annihilation for all the nations of this world. So they show no practical wisdom.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 691
With our enlightened eyes we see what the prophetic Revelation has said concerning the “expressions inspired by demons” that come forth through the mouths of impressive speakers: “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 Armageddon.” (Rev. 16:13, 14, 16, footnote)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 691
Now, when the universal war of Armageddon, which will break forth from beyond outer space, is impending, the need of the people here on earth is the thing to take care of, at once.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 693
3. (a) How do we take care of the need that needs to be taken care of now before Armageddon? (b) What will surpass in sight-seeing the proposed space travel?
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 693
Jehovah God and Jesus Christ, then, are the absolutely necessary ones to make our friends, who will really have something into which to receive us gladly after this “space age” world is destroyed at Armageddon and we are discharged from whatever connections we shall have had with this world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 694
Then after Armageddon God and Christ will take us into everlasting dwellings, because we used practical wisdom toward them as Friends.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 695
The pressing need for the ingathering and the upbuilding of the sheep now before Armageddon requires of us to do our utmost in handling the Word of the truth aright.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 696
In the great flood of judgment at Armageddon the religious structure of the foolishly disobedient Christian will cave in.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 697
Amid the storm of divine judgment at Armageddon the Christian structure in which this discreet disciple dwells during this space age will not be destroyed.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 697, 698
Popular evangelists, in spite of all their Bible quoting and eloquence know nothing about the importance of Jehovah’s name and its vindication, about God’s kingdom being at hand and Armageddon being imminent. Yet knowing these truths is imperative for all who would survive Armageddon and gain life in God’s new world.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. November 15, 1959 p. 703
Is it because people are driven by fear to become Jehovah’s witnesses after having heard the message about the coming battle of Armageddon? These and other reasons have been suggested by people who do not understand why Jehovah’s witnesses increase so rapidly everywhere.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1959 p. 720
ALL well-informed dedicated Christians know that Armageddon is drawing on apace. Satan knows he has but a short period of time to turn all men away from Jehovah God.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 1, 1959 p. 735
God has set a specific time for this set length of time called the “last days” to come to its end in the Armageddon climax.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 740
Just after commenting on the fact that Jehovah has set the “day and hour” for the Armageddon destruction of this world, the Lord Jesus Christ said: “Just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as people were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”—Matt. 24:37-39.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 740
True, the battle of Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” is fast approaching. (Rev. 16:14, 16)
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 742
Like those ancient non-Israelite Gibeonites, the “great crowd” of peace-seekers of today surrender themselves in full dedication to Jehovah God through Jesus Christ now before Armageddon breaks out.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 748
It is the work of bearing witness to Him and to his reigning Son Jesus Christ, in all the inhabited earth, to all the nations before these come to their calamitous end at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 754
They know God’s promise that men who unjustly make tribulation for them will be destroyed at Armageddon. (2 Thess. 1:6-10) They are strengthened and comforted in the sure hope that their continual pursuit of peace will be rewarded with an endless measure of it after Armageddon in the new world promised by Jehovah God, the righteous Judge.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. December 15, 1959 p. 754
