In this way God’s wisdom cries out in our day, proclaiming publicly the good news of the Kingdom and the warning of the fate of this foolish world at Armageddon. 

Kingdom Ministry.  April 1958 p. 1

The dark hour of Armageddon rapidly approaches.

Kingdom Ministry.  June 1958 p. 1

Seeing the nearness of Armageddon, the glorious fulfillment of Bible prophecies, should move us to want to expand our ministry as never before.

Kingdom Ministry.  August 1958 p. 1

Our sermons have been used world-wide to help set the thinking of multitudes straight on “Who is Jehovah?” “Armageddon,” etc.

Kingdom Ministry.  August 1958 p. 2

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

Kingdom Ministry.  October 1958 p. 3

At an international convention in New York city in 1953 more than 165,000 people heard the president of the Watch Tower Society speak on “After Armageddon-God’s New World.”

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 193

The unrighteous “goats” will be everlastingly cut off from all life in the battle of Armageddon with which this old world will end. The righteous “sheep” will be protected during that battle to live through into God’s new world.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 202

It is the demons that lead all nations to Har-Magedon, or Armageddon. What is Armageddon? The word means “mountain of Megiddo.” Megiddo was a battlefield in ancient times.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 203

So the Bible aptly calls the battlefield where God will fight and win his war by the name “Armageddon.”

Armageddon, then, is not the name of a literal battlefield; it is the name of a symbolic one. The literal field of Megiddo in Palestine would be too small to hold all the kings of the earth and their armies. God’s war will be fought world-wide. So Armageddon refers to God’s war by which he destroys this evil world at the “accomplished end.”

Who will fight on God’s side? Jehovah’s witnesses on earth will not need to take part in Armageddon at all. To his witnesses Jehovah says: “The battle is not yours but God’s.”-2 Chronicles 20:15.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 204

The Bible gives us a symbolic picture of Christ on a white horse leading heaven’s armies to battle at Armageddon: “The heaven opened, and, look! a white horse.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 204

The angels that follow Christ to battle are all clothed in white, meaning that there is not a chance of any unrighteousness taking place at Armageddon.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 204

6. What is Armageddon?

7. Will Jehovah’s witnesses fight at Armageddon’?

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 204

When will Armageddon be fought? Jehovah the great Timekeeper has scheduled Armageddon to come at the close of the “time of the end.” That time is near.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 205

We know Armageddon is near for another reason. Jesus said that the generation of people living when the “time of the end” began would not pass away before Armageddon breaks out. When did Jesus say this?

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 205

Many are the people alive since 1914 who will still be living when it is time for Armageddon to begin.

How will Armageddon come? It comes after the earth-wide warning now being sounded by Jehovah’s witnesses. But most people laugh at the warning of Armageddon.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 205

11. What is the rod of iron for? 12. When will Armageddon begin? 13. How do we know Armageddon is near? 14. How do we know that many people alive since 1914 will still be living when Armageddon begins? 15. How does Armageddon come upon this world?

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 205

So Armageddon overtakes the people of this world just as a thief surprises a household at night.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 206

Those of the New World society are awake. They will know when Armageddon is to begin. Why? Because just before God’s war begins the Devil will attack the New World society. When the Devil’s attack begins, the New World society will know that Armageddon is due to begin.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 206

Says Jehovah: “I will rain upon him [Gog the Devil], and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.” (Ezekiel 38: 22, AS) Great will be the terror at Armageddon.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 207

With shocking surprise Armageddon will catch all those persons outside the New World society. Telling us of the terror of the people at Armageddon, the Bible says: “The day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 207

Who will live through Armageddon?

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 210

After Armageddon the surviving sheep of the New World society will go forth to look upon “the slain of Jehovah.”

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 210

28. How do we know that money will not buy protection at Armageddon? 29. What does the Bible say about dead bodies? 30. Who will live through Armageddon? 31. What sight will the survivors of Armageddon see?

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 210

So for seven prophetic months the Armageddon survivors will gather up the bones and bury them.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 211

With Christ’s abyssing of the Devil, Armageddon comes to an end.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 211

Armageddon is over. Gone now are the invisible troublemakers! Gone are all the nations! Gone are all the goatlike people! Gone is the old world-gone forever! A new world begins.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 211

AT THE end of God ‘s war of Armageddon all that is bad will have been destroyed.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 212

Their hope is to live through the battle of Armageddon and into the cleansed earth and to stay there.

Many remaining members of the “little flock” will also live through Armageddon. But sometime after Armageddon the last member of the little flock will finish his earthly service and die and be taken to heaven to reign with Christ.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 216

After the battle of Armageddon Jesus will be in his kingdom without any opposer in heaven or on earth.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 220

He will teach the great crowd of people who will have lived through Armageddon how to take care of the earth.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 220

The first thing that the people who live through Armageddon will hove to do is to tear down the ruins that will be left upon the earth.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 220

Everyone who lives through Armageddon will have a part in this good work.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 221

The people who want to do bad things will have gone down in the battle of Armageddon.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 222

Only the people who are meek and teachable, who listen to God’s Word, who believe it and who do what it says will live through Armageddon into this cleansed earth.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 222

There is something else that will bring great happiness to the people who live through Armageddon into the new world.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 223

So we may expect this command to be fruitful and fill the earth to be give n to those “other sheep” who live through the battle of Armageddon. Happy children will be born into the “new earth.” They will not be brought forth with death in view. But they will be born into on earth from which Satan’s rulership will have been completely removed. So if one lives through Armageddon and into the cleansed earth, one may have a part in fulfilling in righteousness this command 1 that Noah’s sons followed after the flood.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 224

After Armageddon Jehovah will bless the obedience of married couples who carry out the divine command to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.”-Genesis 9:1.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 225

There will be (1) the people who will have lived through Armageddon,

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 226

So even if such people have died now before Armageddon, they will be brought back in the “resurrection of life” to get the same blessings that the people who live through Armageddon will receive.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 229

Their hope, if they happen to die before the battle of Armageddon, is in a resurrection to life on the paradise earth. Theirs is an earthly resurrection.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 232

(3) the people of good will who today take their stand on God’s side but who through sickness, old age or some other cause happen to die before Armageddon is fought.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 232

Also, those of God’s “other sheep” who die now before Armageddon probably will come back soon after that battle to receive the earthly blessings that they have hoped for.
From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 232, 233

In God’s battle of Armageddon they will forever be cut off from life.
From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 237

Everyone who is alive on earth will receive great blessings during that time, but some of the people who are resurrected for judgment, or some who are born as children to the people who live through Armageddon, still may refuse to serve God.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 237

Also, there will be the men and women who were born as children of the people who lived through Armageddon.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 238

Not only these people but everyone who is alive anywhere on earth will have to face this last test, even the princes of the “new earth” and the sheeplike people who lived through Armageddon. Everyone on earth will be judged according to how he meets this test.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 238

The final test will come when Satan and his demons, who were bound and imprisoned in the abyss at Armageddon, will be let out for a little while. Revelation tells how Satan the Devil is to be bound and abyssed at Armageddon and how he will be released a thousand years later.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 238

Now what have we learned about judgment? We have learned that a person could fall away and be judged unfavorably either now or at Armageddon, or during the thousand years of Christ’s reign, or at the end of the final test.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 241

In harmony with that, God will not allow any man to live through Armageddon to see paradise restored to this earth if that man has more than one wife.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 247

Armageddon, “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” is getting ever closer, and Jehovah God has a great work to do before he begins that war for the destruction of all the wicked.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 248

Giving this witness concerning God’s kingdom to all the nations before the world’s end comes at Armageddon is part of our being witnesses of Jehovah.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 248, 249

And when, after your dedication, you are brought into the one flock under the one Shepherd, then you must join in helping to bring in still more of the “other sheep” before the battle of Armageddon comes along and destroys all the goats.

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 250

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

From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained.  1958.  p. 253

The truth that we are in the “last days,” and that there is only a short period of time remaining before Armageddon sweeps this world away in destruction, is a truth most people are not eager to hear.

Awake!  January 8, 1958 p. 4

What makes this spiritual famine so serious is that we are living in a time of judgement, at the very threshold of Armageddon, at which time all suffering from spiritual famine will be destroyed. 

Awake!  January 8, 1958 p. 6

When this wicked world or system of things ends in the war of Armageddon there will be survivors who will enjoy the new world to follow.

Awake!  January 8, 1958 p. 26

The presence of world tensions and fears, wars, great earthquakes, pestilences, food shortages and fearful sights in this generation are the signs that Jesus predicted would precede the complete end of the Devil and his wicked heavenly and earthly system of things in the war of Armageddon.

Awake!  January 22, 1958 p. 8

This mighty war is called the battle of Armageddon. It is not a nuclear war among the nations, but is a war from God with all nations on one side and Jehovah God’s kingdom on the other.

Awake!  February 8, 1958 p. 7

The things he foretold have taken place since A.D 1914. This means we are now living in the world’s last days and are face to face with the mighty war of Armageddon.

Awake!  February 8, 1958 p. 7

These meek, sheeplike people manifest a love for righteousness and will be preserved through the destructive war of Armageddon.

Awake!  February 8, 1958 p. 7, 8

Into a furnace of fire these bundled weeds are helplessly pitched, which means their destruction by Christ Jesus in the fiery furnace of Armageddon.

Awake!  February 8, 1958 p. 26

Publication title: After Armageddon-God’s New World

Awake!  March 8, 1958 p. 31

He has expressed his determination to sweep the entire world or system of things out of existence in a colossal war called the battle of Armageddon.
Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

By means of the great war of Armageddon God will bring its wicked career to an end.

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

They make up part of the great sign that was foretold to mark the approach of Armageddon.

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

The battle of Armageddon will culminate the pangs of distress that have plagued the world since 1914.

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

Every person who values his life must give the battle of Armageddon the place of primary concern. 

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

Since preservation through Armageddon depends upon God’s protection, a person must gain knowledge of His will and then do it. 

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 4

It tells you how, on the basis of the ransom sacrifice, you may survive the impending war of Armageddon into God’s new world.

Awake!  April 22, 1958 p. 8

Section heading: Ruin of the Nations at Armageddon

Awake!  May 8, 1958 p. 8

Will God allow the nations to ruin outer space? Since God’s Word declares that the time has come within this generation for God “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth,” we can be assured that no would-be defilers of outer space will escape Jehovah’s destructive wrath at the impending war of Armageddon. 

Awake!  May 8, 1958 p. 8

No opposers of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty will survive Armageddon into God’s new world.

Awake!  May 8, 1958 p. 8

Jehovah’s universal war of Armageddon will make a clean sweep of all who would ruin the earth and other planets; it will make way for a righteous system of things on the earth.

Awake!  May 8, 1958 p. 8

Man’s venture into space, no matter what measure of success it attains, will not defer Armageddon. It will cut short the ruinous policy of selfish men during this generation.

Awake!  May 8, 1958 p. 8

Let the religionists so state, but the belief in a “trinity” will not save the Western nations, nor will materialistic, atheistic communism save the nations under its control at the battle of Armageddon, toward which all nations are marching, because Jehovah the supreme God will then vindicate himself against all who oppose him and his kingdom.-Rev. 17:12-18.

Awake!  June 8, 1958 p. 25

This is pictured at Revelation 12:5 as the catching up of a newborn man-child “to God and to his throne,” where he must rule all nations “with an iron rod,” to dash them all to pieces at the final war of Armageddon. 

Awake!  June 8, 1958 p. 25

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Awake!  June 8, 1958 p. 31

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Awake!  June 8, 1958 p. 31

This modern generation may scoff at the warning of “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” called Armageddon, but as the Flood came on the day marked for it, so will the battle of Armageddon. On that day Jehovah God will war against this corrupt world and its wicked invisible ruler, bringing the entire system of things to an end. Only obedient ones who heed the warning of Armageddon will survive.

Awake!  August 22, 1958 p. 4

This Jehovah promises to do in “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” called Armageddon.

Awake!  October 8, 1958 p. 26

The battle of Armageddon will put an end to all oppression. 

Awake!  October 8, 1958 p. 26

The battle of Armageddon, which is just ahead, will open the gates of that righteous rule of the new world, and that rule will be seen and felt throughout the earth: “The productive land also becomes firmly established so that it cannot be made to totter.”-Ps. 96:10.

Awake!  October 8, 1958 p. 26

Being received by Jehovah and under his protection, such person is in line to be saved from the devastation of Armageddon. -Rom. 10:9, 10, 13.

Awake!  November 8, 1958 p. 26

Therefore, if persons comply with Jehovah’s requirements, he promises to preserve them through his war of Armageddon into the cleansed earth, where his kingdom will exercise full control over the affairs of earth.

Awake!  November 8, 1958 p. 26

Let the worldly nations go on blindly boasting in their futile plans: “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” at “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” Armageddon.

Awake!  December 8, 1958 p. 8

Their “Armageddon climax,” says the new book “Your Will Be Done on Earth.”

Awake!  December 8, 1958 p. 32

Who are the subjects of the heavenly kingdom? Why, the earthly survivors of Armageddon, the offspring of those survivors and those who will be raised from the dead by the miracle-working power of the life-giving Father for eternity upon whose shoulder the government rests. 

Awake!  December 22, 1958 p. 7

It will also prove to all that the wicked are deserving of the destruction that they will reap at Armageddon, God’s. war of vindication.

Awake!  December 22, 1958 p. 25