It is wonderful to know that “you may survive Armageddon into God’s new world.”
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This is not a day to be gambling with the remaining time before Armageddon. Christendom has failed its own followers as well as heathendom.
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But our joy, privilege and responsibility are to make haste in announcing the triumphant kingdom of Jehovah God and show people how lo survive Armageddon into God’s new world.
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Table of Contents: 2 The Victorious Fighters at Armageddon 18
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Table of Contents: 5 Building the Armageddon-surviving Temple. 68
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Table of Contents: 11 Gathering of the Nations to Armageddon . . 190
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Table of Contents: 21 The Universal War of Armageddon Breaks Out 331
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Table of Contents: 23 Individual Decision Now for Surviving Armageddon ……… 362
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What was the good news to be proclaimed that brought together such a crowd on a hot July after- noon? It was the good news summed up in the intensely advertised subject, “After Armageddon-God’s New World.”
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The speaker’s very first words were applauded: “Armageddon will be the worst thing ever to hit the earth within the history of man. God’s new world will be the best thing ever to come to distressed mankind and will never pass away.”
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So if we have yet to endure Armageddon, it will be better for us to face it with understanding, in the hope of surviving and entering into a new world of God’s making, a world altogether different from the one mankind has known now for thousands of years, to its sorrow Armageddon will prove a great blessing in disguise.”
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Because there is a great crowd of people of good will today living who will survive the world catastrophe of Armageddon and enter the world of new heavens and new earth without going down into the grave or ever afterward having the need to die and cease to exist. That means that Armageddon is so near at hand it will strike the generation now living.” Then after an explanation came the encouragement to be among the Armageddon survivors: “Avoid perishing with this old world in the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty.’ Get ready now to live AFTER ARMAGEDDON in Goo’s NEW WORLD!”
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7. How was encouragement finally given to be Armageddon survivors, and after the speech what were all in the visible audience given?
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Never before in these twenty centuries of the so-called “Christian era” had there been such a stupendous witness on one occasion concerning this war with the ominous name Armageddon and concerning what it really means to mankind, especially the generation in which we are now living. With the passing of the years since then the warning witness regarding the real Armageddon has been greatly expanded world-wide.
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Faced with what the world faces from its own mad course, even men of this world take seriously their ideas of what Armageddon means and talk about it without embarrassment.
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Secular source: Into the pages of the very Congressional Record of the United States Congress there have gone these words uttered on the Senate floor by the junior senator from the state of Vermont under date of March 9, 1954: “In very truth the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon.
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8. How did that witness concerning Armageddon compare with any previous, and why does it deserve the greatest possible witness?
9. How do even men of this world talk concerning Armageddon, according to their ideas of it?
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Such men of this world, politicians, military men and religious leaders, have not told the true facts about Armageddon, but have merely made the people familiar with the name as meaning something frightful that is stealing up on the human race.
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Look! I am coming as a thief …. And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon [or, Armageddon].” That revelation was given in order to show “the things that must shortly take place.”-Revelation 16:13-16; 1:1, NW.
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But the passing of all those centuries does not in itself argue that the surprise outbreak of Armageddon is near.
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Rather, the conditions and the events of the world in fulfillment of the great prophet’s predictions, the noticeable going forth of the three unclean, froglike expressions inspired by the demons to the kings of the entire inhabited earth followed by the noticeable gathering of the kings to a modern Armageddon, and the irrepressible giving of a foretold witness concerning Armageddon on a globe-encircling scale, make it certain that this unequaled world catastrophe is not far off. It is a time of all times to consider the evidence at hand.
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The Holy Scriptures or Bible, which contains the warning and description of the war of Armageddon, is not a calamity-howling book. God’s new world, which it foretells as certain to follow Armageddon, is no calamity. Armageddon will be a calamitous catastrophe, not for the winners, but for the losers. The winners will enter God’s new world. In this sense those who examine into Armageddon need not fear like those who dread a third world war and for whom the terrible question is, “not who will win a big war if ever there is one, but who will be on hand-and in what condition-after such a war is over?”
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But such is not the question and conclusion for those who inform themselves on the real Armageddon. They are assured that there will be people on earth after the war of Armageddon, and they will be in a blessed condition.
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But the consideration of Armageddon, rightly understood, is inviting and beneficial.
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13. What is it that invites us to a consideration of Armageddon and of what follows it, and how do we show ourselves wise concerning it?
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It is possible now to know the winning side and take one’s stand in advance on it. And this is what invites us to a consideration of Armageddon and of God’s new world that will follow it.
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The Bible is the only book on earth that tells us about the war of Armageddon and about God’s new world to follow it.
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We need not be filled with fear, dread and horror as we take up an examination of Armageddon and what will follow.
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16. Because of what special possibility for us need we not be filled with fear as we examine Armageddon and what follows it?
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No matter how terrible that war will be, we can know its righteous purpose, and always we can let ring in our inner consciousness the cheering thought: “I may survive Armageddon into God’s new world!” This thought is no self-deceiving dream. The same inspired Word that unerringly foretold many centuries ago the very situation that we face up to in this generation also drew many pictures, staged many prophetic dramas and presented many direct prophecies of the ones to be protected all through the war of Armageddon.
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To share this delight with our readers, we hope in following pages to look into at least forty-two of these typical pictures, prophetic life-dramas and direct prophecies regarding the Armageddon survivors.
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For our part, we are thankful thus to carry forward the proclamation of the good news, in the hope that you, our reader, may be one of Armageddon’s survivors, to enjoy forever God’s new world afterward.
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17. From whose standpoint does a considering of Armageddon sharpen our interest, and so what does the book hope to do, and why?
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Chapter heading: The Victorious Fighters at Armageddon
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The prize of victory at Armageddon is so great, the issues that are to be fought out are so universal, that the war calls for the Almighty God of the universe himself to go into action. That explains why the war fought at Armageddon is Scripturally called “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Revelation 16:14, 16, NW)
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1. Why is Armageddon Scripturally called “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”?
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Does the Almighty God have a name? Yes, and at the showdown fight at Armageddon all men of the nations will come to know the name of Him against whom they are fighting.
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Armageddon will therefore be a battle of gods, gods invisible and spiritual and persons among men who are addressed as “gods” or divinities.
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3. At Armageddon what will men of all the nations come to know concerning the Almighty God?
4, 5. What scriptures show that Armageddon will be a battle of gods, human as well as invisible spirit gods?
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So at Armageddon Satan the Devil, the mighty “god of this system of things,” with all his host of so-called “gods,” will face Jehovah the Almighty God of the new world.
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7. Why is it at the earth that Jehovah’s universal sovereignty must be vindicated, and so why will Armageddon outrank all previous battles?
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The six-thousand-year-old issue will finally be settled at Armageddon, and that is why the battle there will outrank all previous battles.
Since the “whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one,” practically all of mankind are lining up at Armageddon in opposition to the universal sovereignty of Jehovah God.
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8. Who in heaven will stand loyal and true to Jehovah’s sovereignty at Armageddon, and what will the one in the foremost battle position there do to the “original serpent”?
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To demonstrate to all intelligent creation that he commands the love and unswerving allegiance of his wifely organization, yes, the allegiance of the chief and highest member of it, Jehovah has called into combined action with him in the war of Armageddon his first and most beloved Son, now known as Jesus Christ.
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Assigning this Chief Member or Seed of his wifely organization to this foremost battle position at Armageddon, Jehovah said to the first rebel, “the original serpent,” there in the garden of Eden almost six thousand years ago: “I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.” (Genesis 3:15, NW)
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9. Who do the prophecies show will be associated with him in that issue-settling fight, and so why will Armageddon be a universal war?
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The taking part by Almighty God and his enthroned Son and the holy angels in the fight at Armageddon against rebellious spirit hosts will make Armageddon a universal war, involving heaven as well as earth.
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10. How was Jesus different in conduct nineteen hundred years ago from what he will be at Armageddon, and why?
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Therefore the battle of Armageddon must come, although it means the greatest destruction of human life, for it is by this supreme conflict that the chief issue of all time will be forever settled, the universal sovereignty of Jehovah God the Creator and King of eternity.
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The fight at Armageddon will be righteous on the part of God and of Jesus Christ, even if it does mean the greatest tribulation since the world’s beginning.
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13. So what part does Jesus play at Armageddon, and why will it be a righteous war despite its being a tribulation?
14. Nineteen centuries ago how great was God’s love for the world, and so what may he be expected to do at Armageddon for those he loves?
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It was these believers that God loved so much as to make this unselfish provision for them, and at Armageddon Jehovah God by his Son Jesus Christ will fight for those he loves.
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The prophetic Scriptures of the inspired Bible declare that Jehovah God and Jesus Christ his glorified Son have reserved their fighting for the field of Armageddon, when Satan the Devil and all his spirit demons and the kings of the entire inhabited earth and all their armies and peoples are unitedly challenging the universal sovereignty of Jehovah God and rejecting the kingdom of his Son Jesus Christ.
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At Armageddon your life will count for nothing if you are against His sovereignty over all creation.
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Only then may you survive Armageddon, receiving this consideration from the victorious Fighters there.
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So the basis for any to survive Armageddon and to enjoy living on a transformed earth forever must be the removing or lifting of the condemnation of death that has cut short all human life till now.
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Included among such ones will be a numberless crowd of survivors of the war of Armageddon, who must, as it were, ‘wash their robes of identification and make them white in the blood of Jesus’ sacrifice.’
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The applying of the benefits of his sin offering extends from then until the end of his reign over mankind for a thousand years after the battle of Armageddon.
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It will continue toward them, even after Armageddon, until they lay down their earthly lives and are resurrected to life in the heavens with Christ.
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It is this sacrifice of the antitypical goat of the sin offering that lays the basis for an unnumbered crowd of this present generation to survive Armageddon and live on endlessly in the new world without ever dying and going into the grave and needing a resurrection.
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An innumerable crowd of believing earthlings are already be- ginning to enjoy benefits from Jesus’ blood now before Armageddon, but his blood will be applied in heaven in behalf of the twelve tribes of anti- typical Israel immediately after that “war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
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26. What is the “city” to come that Jesus’ priestly followers are seeking, and for what attitude toward the sin offering may any hope to live through Armageddon? Why?
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In the universal conflict of Armageddon the nations of this world will perish forever, including the so-called “Christian nations” of Christendom.
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l. By having what Scripturally based hope shall we not be terrified at the thought of Armageddon, and how will any survive since it means the “end of the world”?
2. What nations will be included among those that will perish at Armageddon, and why such ones?
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5. What about Christendom shows she was typified by hypocritical Israel, and according to what divine rule is her destruction certain at Armageddon?
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There is only one possible outcome of this: God will destroy Christendom. Her certain destruction at Armageddon was typified by Israel’s.
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11. Then how does Jeremiah show that Armageddon will be a universal conflict sucking all nations down to destruction?
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Such survivors of that day of divine anger that then brought an end to those conditions picture those who will be hidden and carried through alive in the coming universal war of Armageddon, in the “great day of God the Almighty.”
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They must also advise the people to do as they have done: seek Jehovah and his righteousness and meekness, and put themselves on the side of his great Servant and King, Jesus Christ, if they want to be hidden and kept alive during Armageddon.
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Even though now, as in Jeremiah’s case, they have to endure hardships, opposition, false charges of sedition and communism, threats of death, and bonds and imprisonment, Jehovah will hide and preserve them through Armageddon, as he preserved Jeremiah through the first destruction of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.
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A precious promise this, that there shall be others besides the Jeremiah class, the remnant, who will witness the destruction of antitypical Jerusalem, Christendom, at Armageddon and be delivered from their enemies there and survive the end of this doomed world. They are not members of the 144,000 or priestly class, not spiritual Israelites who have been “enrolled in the heavens,” and so their destiny is not a heavenly one with Christ. But they put their confidence in the God of the spiritual Israelites, Jehovah. They are of that great crowd of Armageddon survivors with an earthly destiny in the new world.
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This class will enter into the war of Armageddon, but they may take to heart the divine promise to Ebed-melech, really spoken and recorded for their benefit and comfort today.
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Obedience to Jehovah God leads now to survival through Armageddon.
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By his anointed, priestly witnesses Jehovah now calls to their attention his promise and purpose to spare them through Armageddon and to keep their kind always standing acceptably before him on earth in the new world.
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Thus, in spite of the universalness of the war of Armageddon, Jehovah will preserve all through it those who meet his approval, the modern-day antitypical Rechabites or the Ebed-melech class and the anointed remnant of his witnesses like the prophet-priest Jeremiah.
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26. Thus, in spite of the universalness of Armageddon’s war, whom will Jehovah preserve through it?
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Chapter heading: Building the Armageddon-surviving Temple
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It will therefore survive Armageddon, triumphant over all false, idolatrous religious temples, yes, hypocritical Christianity.
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The consuming trouble that came upon typical Jerusalem A.D. 70 prophetically dramatized the everlasting destruction that will visit Christendom in the first part of the war of Armageddon.
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Christendom’s temple, a religious system of hundreds of confused, pretending Christian sects and cults, will go down first in the throes of Armageddon.
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It will gloriously survive Armageddon, and his worship will be carried on there in purity by an increasing multitude of everlasting worshipers.
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BEFORE all false religion is destroyed in the war of Armageddon a noteworthy even suddenly takes place at God’s true temple.
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1. What event did Malachi foretell to take place before all false religion is destroyed at Armageddon?
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By this he showed that the temple’s destruction back there was prophetic of the destruction to come upon the antitypical religious system at the end of Christendom and of all the world at Armageddon.-Matthew 23:1 to 24:22, NW.
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Against the wrath of the nations Jehovah God matched his own wrath to be expressed through his King, to bring to ruin at the war of Armageddon those ruining the earth.
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Thus this part of the temple was put in a place of security and upon a Foundation Cornerstone where it could never be destroyed at the “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” It will survive Armageddon, to perpetuate Jehovah’s worship throughout the universe, whereas Christendom’s temple of confused religion will perish ingloriously as Jerusalem’s temples did. That heavenly temple will be completed successfully by the glorifying of the faithful living temple stones yet in the flesh on the earth. For a time after A∙do∙nay’ came to the temple in 1918 the position of this remnant of temple stones looked very perilous and their survival of Armageddon was seemingly a questionable matter.
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This is vitally necessary to their being spared during Armageddon and surviving that war, when the stones of Christendom’s temples will go crashing down in ruin.
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It began in 1914 when the “appointed times of the nations” ended and the kingdom of God was set up in the heavens to dash all these nations to pieces at Armageddon and to usher in a new world or system of things.
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6. How did the remnant come under a serious measure of God’s disfavor, and how might no flesh have survived Armageddon?
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Had they been destroyed during this time of fear-inspired captivity to the world at war, there would have been no flesh to survive the battle of Armageddon.
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The cutting short of those days is now taking place by causing a break in the tribulation between its commencement in heaven and its finish at earth in Armageddon.
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There was more to follow at Armageddon, ending up with none of the wicked organization left alive on earth.
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But Jehovah God through his enthroned King did not follow up the hurling of Satan out of heaven by fighting the battle of Armageddon immediately.
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To the contrary of this it was Jehovah’s purpose to have survivors on earth of the battle of Armageddon, primarily the remnant of the seed of his “woman.”
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Of course, this allowed time for Satan to send out his demons and gather the rulers and their armies to the field of Armageddon at the close of the “time of the end”; but at the same time it allowed Jehovah to have mercy upon his remnant yet in the flesh.
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12. Whom, specially, did Jehovah want to survive Armageddon, and so what did his allowing Satan to remain a short time longer permit him to do toward them?
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This has occurred during the “short period of time” by which Jehovah God has interrupted the days of tribulation upon Satan’s organization. Armageddon, the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” lies yet ahead and will climax those days of tribulation, bringing destruction upon spiritual Egypt and abyssing its false god, Satan the Devil, and all his demon angels.
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However, this spiritual remnant of living temple stones will not be the only ones on earth to be spared and carried alive through the oncoming battle of Armageddon.
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This earthly class of people who are not spiritual Israelites but who will survive Armageddon into the new world were typified amid the things that happened to the natural Israelites when Jehovah by his Angel and the prophet Moses rescued his people from captivity and slavery in Egypt in 1513 B.C.
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That pictured God Almighty’s war against his enemies, the antitypical Egyptians, to their complete annihilation at Armageddon.
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Moses there pictured Jehovah’s Greater Prophet, the glorified Lord Jesus Christ, who leads all of Jehovah’s witnesses safely through the battle of Armageddon without their fighting in it, to complete freedom in God’s righteous new world.
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The mixed multitude’s being saved along with the Israelites foreshadowed that not only will a remnant of the spiritual Israelites be preserved through Armageddon, but also a great crowd of persons who are not spiritual Israelites, who are not of the 144,000 members of the temple class of “living stones.” To be spared and to pass through the Red Sea of Armageddon, this antitypical mixed company must imitate and keep with the remnant of spiritual Israelites and be baptized into the antitypical Moses, the Greater Moses, to follow him as Jehovah’s Mouthpiece and Leader for us.
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But after Egypt had passed the peak of her power, Jehovah still kept Satan the Devil in existence for the sake of at last showing that wicked one the divine power at the battle of Armageddon, where the original Serpent, Satan the Devil, will be bruised in the head by the Seed of God’s woman, the reigning King Jesus Christ.
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At the proclamation of God’s coming vengeance at Armageddon the modern- day Ninevites have repented and turned to Jehovah in hope that he will spare them.
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They have not called the Jonah class “calamity howlers” but have repented at the warn- ing that this heathenish world (including Christendom) is in its “time of the end” and the righteous vengeance of Jehovah God will be poured out upon it at Armageddon.
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But those today who have repented at the preaching of the antitypical Jonah will be spared during the destruction at Armageddon and survive into God’s new world.
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SURVIVING the universal war of Armageddon into God’s new world will not be our experience without our intelligently choosing between life and destruction.
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This separation of people from one another does not take place in a 24-hour day, nor does it take place during the thousand-year reign of Christ after Armageddon.
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When the separation of the sheeplike people to the right and the goatlike people to the left is complete and the time for judgment to be executed is due at Armageddon, how does the Judge Jesus Christ emphasize this fact?
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Christendom will yet hear these stinging words of condemnation unveiling her hypocrisy spoken to her at Armageddon.
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It is not a death inherited by being born from Adam, but it is a death inflicted because of becoming a son of the Devil, a part of the seed of the original Serpent. Revelation 20:10, 14; 21:8 interprets it to be “the second death,” the “everlasting destruction” with which the Lord Jesus will execute them at the battle of Armageddon when he is revealed from heaven in flaming fire of destruction to his goatlike foes.-2 Thessalonians 1:7-9, NW.
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This judgment of the King being enforced at the time of the universal war of Armageddon, it means that these sheeplike ones will live through the war and witness the everlasting destruction of the goatlike ones and then enter upon the opportunities for everlasting life in the new world.
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11. Into what reward will the righteous ones go, and what will this mean for them at Armageddon?
12. (a) Being gathered to the King’s right side, the sheeplike righteous persons are gathered into company with whom? (b) So what does Jesus call them, and will he be through gathering all such at Armageddon?
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So by the time that the judging and separating is complete and the outbreak of Armageddon is due all these sheeplike righteous people will have been gathered to the King’s right side into company with the remnant of his spiritual brothers to whom they have rendered their good deeds, doing them as though they were doing them directly to the Shepherd King, Jesus Christ himself.
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The great droves of other sheep whom the Right Shepherd Jesus Christ gathers into company with the remnant at his right side before Armageddon are merely the first of all the other sheep for whom he surrendered his soul, laying down his human life. After Armageddon he will gather all the rest of these other sheep, starting the gathering work then by the resurrection of all of them that are in their graves.-John 5:28, 29.
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The universal war of Armageddon is likened to a death-dealing tempest or windstorm, in Jeremiah 23:19; 25: 32, and it will bring to a culmination the days of tribulation upon the Devil’s organization, its invisible heavens and its visible earth or human part Jehovah God, in full command of his angelic battle forces, is holding that destructive war in check, although, while he does so, wickedness and violence continue to mount in the earth.
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He has an important work with them and for them on earth before the storm resumes and Armageddon strikes.-Romans 9:22-26; Mark 13:20.
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John describes invisible actors behind the scenes and helps us to understand why Armageddon’s windstorm has not yet struck, as he writes: “After this I saw four angels standing upon the four extremities of the earth, holding tight the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow upon the earth or upon the sea or upon any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the sunrising, having a seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying: ‘Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until after we have sealed the slaves of our God in their foreheads.’ And I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.”
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2. How does the apostle John show in picture language at Revelation, chapter 7, why Armageddon’s wind-storm has not yet struck, and thus who and how many have been sealed?
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They are determined to keep the seal of the living God in their foreheads, until the four winds are let loose. The eastern Angel’s work of sealing them had to be done before Armageddon. Jehovah’s Angel of the covenant will not fail in this sealing work.
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They have learned that the nations, tribes and peoples out of which they have come are doomed to destruction at Armageddon, and so they have experienced a great salvation by having their eyes opened to see the Kingdom Signal and to gather to it as God’s rightful government for all the earth.
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The great crowd are those of the “other sheep” whom he gathers after he comes to the temple and before the outbreak of the battle of Armageddon.
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The vision of them is not a picture of after Armageddon but is one of the present time, particularly since 1931, before Armageddon.
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If they did not now wash their robes and make them white in the Lamb’s blood before Armageddon, they would never get through that universal war alive and enter the new world.
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18. Why is their washing their robes and whitening them in the Lamb’s blood necessary before Armageddon, and so how does God favor them and view them?
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This well typifies that there would be antitypical sojourners or temporary residents, who had been spared alive, whom the Son of David, the King greater than Solomon, would use as his willing slaves in the theocratic building program before the war of Armageddon.
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In appreciation Jehovah spreads his tent of protection over them, and it will continue over them all through his war of Armageddon. Thus they will survive.
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Chapter heading: Gathering the Nations to Armageddon
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THE gathering of the nations to Armageddon is moving forward with rapidity.
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1. (a) During this gathering of nations to Armageddon what question faces each individual?
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In Joel’s prophecy the “valley of Jehoshaphat” corresponds with what the apostle John calls the “place that is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon [or, Armageddon],” for each symbolic expression describes the one place to which the worldly nations are finally gathered.
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The fact that, in that terrible day, Jehovah will be a “shelter for his people and a refuge for the children of Israel” proves that there will be survivors on earth of the universal war of Armageddon and that they will be the remnant of his 144,000 spiritual Israelites and also all those who now call upon the name of Jehovah for salvation.
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13, 14. (a) What really drives the nations to the situation that provokes the war of Armageddon? (b) In the Revelation how was the way prepared for Babylon’s overthrow, and why did the vision associate the Euphrates River with Armageddon?
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True it is that the Almighty God challenges all the nations to come and he maneuvers them into coming against his people, but it is really the selfish desires of the nations and their falling victim to unseen demon powers that drives them to the situation that provokes the war of Armageddon.
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It was in this connection that the apostle John received the vision of the gathering of all nations to Armageddon.
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But by thus associating the drying up of Babylon’s river-defense with the gathering of earth’s rulers to famous Armageddon the Revelation to John shows that the fall of antitypical Babylon is associated with the war at Armageddon. John writes:
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On the other hand, the kings or rulers of the entire inhabited earth march against God’s visible organization, the symbolic Armageddon or mountain of Megiddo for a decisive fight, since the mountain of Megiddo was located in the land that Jehovah gave to his chosen people.
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Publication title: •See the booklet After Armageddon-God’s New World, page 10, ¶1, 2.
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It is accomplishing its purpose; the kings or rulers of the entire inhabited earth are being gathered together to war, not necessarily a third world war, but the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at the place called Armageddon.
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The nations of Christendom or the nations holding to a western style of democracy need not think that at Armageddon they will be fighting for God by fighting against ungodly, political communism.
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To march with the nations to Armageddon means to be led by unclean inspired expressions that come, not from God, but from his great adversary, the Dragon, Satan the Devil, who is the “god of this system of things.”
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17. To march with the nations to Armageddon means what for the marchers?
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There is no question about this, for Jehovah’s victorious fighting against the Philistines was used as a prophetic picture of the battle of Armageddon. (Isaiah 28:21)
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Jehovah’s war of Armageddon by his Chief Executioner Jesus Christ will bring about this subduing of all the worldly nations in their utter destruction.
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Before the complete end of the enemy organization could come then at Armageddon, Jesus’ prophecy had to be fulfilled that this good news of the kingdom established in 1914 would be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations.-Malachi 3:1; Matthew 24:14, 21, 22.
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Because Christendom has a sham Christianity and brings reproach upon the true Christianity, because she has merely a form of godliness but proves false to its power by being worldly the same as pagans, she is judged deserving of execution at Armageddon.
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1o. Why must Christendom also now come under judgment, and why is she judged deserving of execution at Armageddon?
11. When was Ezekiel given a vision of how many not of the “slave” class may be spared at Armageddon, and what conditions then at the temple were enough to make such kind sigh and cry in grief?
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Being symbolized as a linen-clad man with just a writer’s inkhorn at his side, the spiritual remnant or “faithful and discreet slave” class are authorized to take no violent part in the battle of Armageddon. They will not fight there.
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The remnant must work for others also to gain salvation in the new world, and especially to be spared through Armageddon.
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19. How was this illustrated in 607 B.C. and in 70 (A.D.), and how will it be true at Armageddon?
20. Where did the executional forces begin, how was this illustrated with Jerusalem’s priesthood in 607 B.C., and what fact does this point up respecting Armageddon?
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This points up the surprising fact that at Armageddon the false, worldly, hypocritical religious element will be first to be executed, and Jesus Christ the Chief Executioner will not spare Christendom’s religious structure and its exalted clergy just because they are thought to be Christian.
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The “faithful and discreet slave” class, the symbolic man in linen, will successfully finish their work before Armageddon’s execution begins. “And behold, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink-horn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.” (Ezekiel 9:11, Da)
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This helps to explain why God did not permit him to push on without a break to the war of Armageddon after hurling Satan and his demon angels out of heaven and down to this earth. God cut short the days of tribulation upon Satan’s organization by calling for a halt to further violent hostilities against Satan’s organization until the day and the hour for the foretold war of Armageddon to be opened up. God cut short the days of tribulation because the bride of his beloved Vindicator and Son was involved.-Mark 13:19, 20, NW.
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After that the vision of the battle of Armageddon is given, and the Bridegroom, the King of kings and Lord of lords, is pictured as riding on a white horse with his heavenly hosts also on white horses dashing to victory over the gathered enemies.-Revelation 19:6-21, NW.
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The following three verses of the psalm are applied at Hebrews 1:8, 9 to the Son of God, so that we know that it is the glorified Jesus Christ, equipped for the war of Armageddon, whom the psalmist addresses.
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For their life as well as his bride’s he will fight at the battle of Armageddon.
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With unspeakable joy the bridal remnant and the “great crowd” of their virgin companions will rejoice to survive Armageddon together.
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16. How must they prove themselves virgin and companions of the bride, and why will they survive Armageddon?
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This makes her only more like her ancient type, unfaithful Judah and Jerusalem. Armageddon draws near when the blood avenger brings her blood upon her.
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All the people of Christendom who approve and uphold the record and traditions of Christendom have a society responsibility for her blood-guilt and have to face a settlement with God at Armageddon. They face destruction for their common guilt. Is there no way to fly to safety and survival? Yes; and in his laws to ancient Israel God provided a type of the way to flee to safety before his Avenger of blood strikes at Armageddon.
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All those who, since 1919, have become members of the remnant or of the “great crowd” of anti- typical “temporary residents” and “settlers” in spiritual Israel have likewise had to escape unintentional bloodguilt by fleeing to the antitypical city of refuge to be safe from destruction at Armageddon.
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Should those of the remnant of spiritual Israelites and those of the “great crowd” become self-reliant and leave the city of refuge by losing faith in the High Priest’s sacrifice and trusting no more in its covering of sins, they expose themselves to destruction at Armageddon.
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Those of the “great crowd” of antitypical “temporary residents” or “settlers” must “have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” before Armageddon and they must confine themselves to the antitypical city of refuge beyond Armageddon and to the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ.
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Jesus Christ, the Avenger of all human blood, now stands poised to execute all those of the earth under bloodguilt at Armageddon.
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The only way to flee to safety is to take the road that Jehovah’s Word marks out to the antitypical city of refuge and to continue dwelling in it under benefit of the acting High Priest, Jesus Christ. There is no other way to survive Armageddon.
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Those who become anti-typical Gibeonites quickly take advantage of the remaining time before Armageddon to fulfill these requirements, and they win the promise of being spared alive.
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The spiritual Israelites may not despise this divine provision through the Greater Joshua for these antitypical Gibeonites to live and survive Armageddon.
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21. By what act were the Gibeonites delivered, and of what is this a strong assurance respecting Armageddon?
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He performed his unusual act that it might serve as a type of his still greater act at the coming battle of Armageddon, when he will vindicate his own universal sovereignty and deliver his people from their enemies.
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No stronger assurance could there be than this that in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” when he will perform his unusual act, it will be the present-day antitypical Gibeonites, the “great crowd” of temple servants, that will be preserved and delivered so as to survive the battle of Armageddon.
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It will be extended till God’s own executional fight at Armageddon. Then will come rest from the enemies. -2 Thessalonians 1:6-8.
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They have become active witnesses of Jehovah; this leads to their preservation during the universal war of Armageddon. The nations that hate the glory light of Jehovah and that refuse to lend themselves in support of his remnant, continuing to persecute them instead, will be utterly wiped out at Armageddon.
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The example of the far-traveling queen of Sheba who became a praiser of Jehovah rises up in this judgment day as a condemnation of them and they will be cut off forever at Armageddon.
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There is one place where Isaiah’s prophecy now finds complete fulfillment before Armageddon has to smash the deadly armaments of war-like nations.
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His worship is foremost, more vital than anything else, and is absolutely obligatory upon all who would survive Armageddon and live forever.
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At Armageddon Jehovah will cause the human bomb to explode and the members of the United Nations and the peoples of all other nations will fight confusedly among themselves, every man’s hand being against his neighbor, but the “great crowd” of worshipers at Jehovah’s house will, in spite of their different nationalities, colors and tongues, keep the peace of his house, serving him unitedly, exalting him above all as they survive with his temple into the new world.
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20. At Armageddon how will the conduct of the “great crowd” differ from that of the people of the nations? So now what do the remnant of Israel or Jacob have every reason to say in exhortation?
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They live for the new world that follows Armageddon, and they are preparing to live in it for its duration, forever.
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All must, as it were, put on garments of identification as worshipers of the only living and true God and must show they are in heart accord with his purpose through Christ to destroy all worshipers of false gods at Armageddon.
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5. Whose worship must mark the New World society, and what garments of identification must they put on before Armageddon?
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The antitypical Jehu of today will corner every one of the modern Baal worshipers by the time of Armageddon.
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By Armageddon all will have marked themselves.
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11. How will the antitypical Jehu have cornered all worshipers of Baal by Armageddon, but where will Jehovah’s worshipers be?
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With all the worshipers of Jehovah’s rival fully identified by the time of Armageddon, his anointed and commissioned King Jesus Christ will lead all his angelic executional forces into action and catch the false worshipers red-handed and will make no mistake in annihilating them down to the last man. None will survive Armageddon; neither will the temple of false religion.
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Together they will witness the complete execution of the false worshipers at Armageddon and will survive to carry forward Jehovah’s pure worship in the new world.
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13. What saved Jehonadab from execution, and how will it be similar in the immediate future at Armageddon?
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While Heber was here an event took place that set a pattern of action that the “great crowd” of today must follow in the New World society before Armageddon.
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17. How did a typical battle of Armageddon take place before the prophetess Deborah and Judge Barak, but for whom was the “crowning feat” reserved to be performed?
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By a miraculous act Jehovah knocked the war chariots out of action and put the army of Sisera to rout. It was a typical battle of Armageddon. (Judges 5:19-23, NW)
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Barak typified the Deliverer Jesus Christ, who has a remnant of members of “his body” still on the earth in these pre-Armageddon days.
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The battle fought at and near Megiddo pictured the battle of Armageddon, in which Jehovah will fight by his Chief Executioner, Jesus Christ, for the vindication of his universal sovereignty and for the rescue and relief of his witnesses.
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They must do this before Armageddon, not after when none of the enemy will remain. Even at the risk of their life they show their sympathy with the coming execution of Jehovah’s foes. Even after Armageddon has begun and the organized forces of false religion have been overthrown, they will have to display stanch allegiance to the Greater Barak and loyalty to his remnant and proclaim with them Jehovah’s judgments yet to be executed upon the enemies left, including the Devil himself.
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They do not try to hasten the destruction of this world by in any way subverting its political governments of any kind, and it is likewise contrary to God’s will for them to engage in any violence during the battle of Armageddon.
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Armageddon will not be a global flood, for God said there would be no repeating of such a flood. So the New World society does not build an ark for survival through Armageddon. The ark was typical of something greater, and Jesus Christ is the antitypical Noah who builds it.
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6. What is the baptism of the New World society that now leads to salvation through Armageddon?
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As with the Israelites at crossing the Red Sea, which typified surviving Armageddon, so with the New World society at Armageddon: they will there in a special sense be baptized into the Greater Noah by means of the fiery baptism of Armageddon.
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By preaching the Kingdom news and warning of the approaching “day of vengeance of our God” they upbuild people in righteousness and help them to get into the only destruction-proof shelter for Armageddon, the new system of things with its baptism into the Greater Noah, Jesus Christ.
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Nuclear scientists of today may doubt the possibility of mankind’s surviving a world war with nuclear weapons, but Jehovah’s witnesses with their “wisdom from above” know from that type of Noah’s experience that Almighty God can preserve them through the world’s end at Armageddon, and that this education of the people in the Bible and obeying the commandments of Jehovah God is the only scientific way that leads to preservation.
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Since 1919 this has gone on. The spiritual remnant, the original part and those who have been added to them since 1919 and down to 1931, have done great spiritual reconstructive work, converting their once desolate-looking earthly estate into one that resembles the paradise of Eden. They have built up their citylike organizations, their congregations, and have fortified them spiritually before Armageddon. (Fortified cities will not be needed after Armageddon.)
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Before the Kingdom truth from the temple reached them, they were living in the “shadow of death,” in a dead world under doom of destruction at Armageddon. But when they received and drank up the waters of Kingdom truth, the circumstances changed for them. They came out from a lifeless element, a world dead in its sins, out from under the threat of destruction at Armageddon, and became alive to God.
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It is the drinking of this water and inviting others that lead to survival during Armageddon into God’s new world.
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Because God’s time for the war of Armageddon approaches, God tells Gog of Magog to come on: “Be ready and keep ready, you and all the hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard [a commander] for them. After many days you will be mustered; in the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land where people were gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; its people were brought out from the nations and now dwell securely, all of them. You will advance, coming on like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”-Ezekiel 38:7-9, RS.
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The antitypical Job class continue to live on in spiritual youth as Job did; they have the Scriptural hope of living through Armageddon into the new world. The antitypical ten children, the “great crowd,” will live through with them. After Armageddon the Job class will see these children be very fruitful toward others’ gaining eternal life in the new world.
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In that way they gain hope of everlasting happiness in the new world and the prospect of surviving Armageddon to enter into it.
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IN THE light of the fulfillment of Bible prophecy it is becoming clear that the war of Armageddon is nearing its breaking-out point. Global is the total extent to which war between nations of men can become. Universal, involving the visible earth and the invisible heavens, will be the war of Armageddon, which the Lord God Almighty will fight. The selfish wars of men have never settled anything permanently. The war of Armageddon will settle forever the leading issue before all heaven and earth, the universal sovereignty of Jehovah the Most High God. Ever afterward he will dominate the universe without question as to his right and ability and worthiness. The war of Armageddon, named after the ancient battlefield, spells victory for Jehovah, defeat for his foes.
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1. What will be the extent of the war of Armageddon, what will it settle forever, and what will it spell for Jehovah and for his foes?
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The terrifying fight that follows Gog’s attack and the battle of Armageddon described in The Revelation are one and the same thing.
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Since Satan and his demon angels lost the war in heaven and were hurled down to the earth, they have been allowed to remain a “short period of time” to prepare for this very war of Armageddon. The abased, invisible realm near this earth where they have been confined and are held in reserve for Armageddon is the symbolic “land of Magog,” out from which Gog the Devil operates.
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Since the nations, even so-called “Christian” ones, refuse to “live … on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth,” they are led by what comes out of the Dragon’s mouth to Har-Magedon or Armageddon.
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Against this everlasting kingdom the demons lead the power-greedy nations at Armageddon.
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5. To what fight do the demons under Gog lead the nations to Armageddon, and what will be the purpose of the nations under Gog?
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For Him man’s invention of the hydrogen bomb has not canceled out the war of Armageddon. The possession at that time of stockpiles of the hydrogen bomb by America, Great Britain, Communist Russia and any other nations will not act as any deterrent to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” any more than the proclamation of God’s prophecies concerning Armageddon have acted as a deterrent to the nations in their fight against him and his kingdom.
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6. Why does Jehovah let nothing act as a deterrent to the war of Armageddon, and how does he get the demons and the nations down to the modern “valley of Jehoshaphat”?
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The spiritual prosperity of the spiritual Israelites regathered to Jehovah’s theocratic organization will have reached its pre-Armageddon peak.
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Seeing by faith this invincible host of heavenly executioners, Jehovah’s witnesses will know they do not have to fight or strike a violent blow at Armageddon. No, for it is Jehovah’s fight!
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In the Revelation vision the invisible de- mons lead the assembled kings of the entire inhabited earth to the place called in Hebrew Har-Magedon or Armageddon.
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Though the battle will be fought in all quarters of the globe, still the battlefield will be Armageddon symbolically, because the ancient field of Megiddo was a symbol of gory warfare, of resounding victory for the winners and of calamitous defeat for the losers. Such will be the symbolic Armageddon with its head-on clash of op- posing forces, those of the old world and those of the new world, and the crushing defeat for the former and the all-decisive victory for the latter. -Ezekiel 39:11.
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17, 18. (a) What will the fulfillment of that prophecy at Armageddon mean?
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Was there ever a war of the length of Armageddon’s duration that left even a billion dead?
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The global flood of Noah’s day, which the Bible uses as a prophetic type of Armageddon, drowned all humans except the eight in the ark, and the human population must then have numbered many millions. But Armageddon will be a “tribulation such as has not occurred from the beginning of the creation which God created until that time and will not occur again.” (Mark 13:19, NW; Matthew 24:21; Daniel 12:1)
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With the members of this generation that will not pass away before Armageddon breaks out numbering now two billion five hundred million and with only the remnant and a larger group of “other sheep” inside the Greater Noah’s “ark” surviving, the death toll of the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” will be appallingly all-surpassing, too many for the Armageddon survivors to bury.
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19. How does Revelation 14:18-20 picture that blood will run deep at Armageddon?
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For Satan and his demons a thousand years in the abyss will mean a millennial deathlike powerlessness and inactivity. (Luke 8:31, NW) With their abyssing the war of Armageddon ends.
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The winners in the war of Armageddon will not come out losers, terribly crippled, as by the forevisioned dreaded results of a nuclear-weapons war between nations of this world.
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The victory will bind the triumphant creatures of heaven forever to Jehovah as God and universal Sovereign, and on earth the Armageddon survivors will celebrate his triumph more jubilantly than the Israelites did safe on the eastern side of the Red Sea after Jehovah had brought back the parted sea waters upon the trapped pursuing Egyptian military forces.
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Many will be the days that they will be collecting the material spoils of the Armageddon victory, as the Jews under King Jehoshaphat did after Jehovah won the battle for them against the oncoming combined forces of Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir. -Exodus 15:1-21; 2 Chronicles 20:1-25.
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The desolations that Jehovah of armies will have wreaked on the enemy’s visible organization may be everywhere visible on the earth, yet the Armageddon survivors will start out with a spiritual paradise in the fullest sense.
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2, 3. Though the desolations of the enemy organization may yet be visible, how will Armageddon survivors yet start out with a spiritual paradise?
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The Armageddon survivors, especially the “other sheep,” will have the privilege and obligation of working at the restoring of this natural paradise and maintaining it, Jehovah’s all-necessary blessings upon the soil and climate favoring the regrowth of it.
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The war of Armageddon will not annul the marriage ties of couples that live through, nor will the bringing in of the new world with a “new earth” prohibit the marriage of survivors who are single.
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5 Since the flood was a type of the war of Armageddon, it is reasonable that Noah’s experience immediately after the flood when he came out of the ark of survival with his family should also be a type.
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s. What mandate was issued to Noah and his sons after coming out of the ark, and what may we expect to correspond with this after Armageddon, and to give a demonstration of what?
6. Why will the surviving remnant die after Armageddon, but what will be opened up for the earthly “great crowd” of survivors and their children?
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The earthly “great crowd” of Jehovah’s worshipers will not be spared to survive Armageddon just to die some time later.
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There will not, as a result of Armageddon, be any death-dealing clouds of radioactive particles or contaminated atmosphere floating around the globe for a thousand years, making life impossible or affecting the survivors’ powers to bring forth normal children.
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In the Most Holy of God’s presence Jehovah’s High Priest, the glorified Jesus Christ, will then apply the value of his human sacrifice in favor of his “other sheep,” beginning with these Armageddon survivors.
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This will also be true of their natural offspring who, though born in righteousness after Armageddon, will be born of imperfect parents and hence themselves be still imperfect and in need of the life benefits of Jesus’ atoning sacrifice.
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It follows that a “great crowd” of sheeplike worshipers of Jehovah now living before Armageddon will never die, not by a bodily rapture of them to the skies, but by the curative, perfecting powers of Christ’s kingdom. (John 11:25, 26) They will not perpetuate old nations after Armageddon, nor will their offspring then born produce new nations as was true long after the Flood.
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Others who “did good things” in God’s sight and who will share in the “resurrection of life” will be those of the “great crowd” of sheeplike persons who may die before Armageddon; also the faithful witnesses of Jehovah who died before Pentecost A.D. 33 when the holy spirit was poured out, namely, the pre-Christian witnesses from martyred Abel up to John the Baptist.
Reasonably their resurrection will be early after Armageddon, because many of these will be made theocratic princes in all parts of the earth.
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Even now before Armageddon and since Christ’s enthrone- ment A.D. 1914 many of the other sheep are occupying positions as theocratic princes with those of the remnant in the New World society; as it is written: “Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. Each will be like a hiding-place from the wind, a covert from the tempest.” (Isaiah 32:1, 2, RS)
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11. (a) When will the resurrection of these latter ones take place, and why? (b) Will princely responsibilities carry through Armageddon with any survivors, and why?
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The Armageddon survivors will doubtless have these princely responsibilities carry through Armageddon with them.
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Letting them loose will lead, not to the restoration of the “wild beast” and the “false prophet” and to a new battle of Armageddon, but to an attack upon the “new earth.”
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These many misled ones from the four quarters of the earth are likened to the nations that assaulted the New World society at Armageddon and are therefore also called “Gog and Magog.” They are as indefinite in number as the “sand of the sea,” though they might not be over 144,000.
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Chapter heading: Individual Decision Now for Surviving Armageddon
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EACH informed individual is now faced with he need to make the decision upon which depends his fate at Armageddon.
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If you do not want destruction at Armageddon, be humble, seek humility in the fear of Jehovah.
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As it is Jehovah’s anger that is to be expressed at Armageddon, it is Jehovah whom we should seek now while he may be found and his favor may be won.
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Be like Rahab and be hidden and spared at Armageddon.-Joshua 2:1-24; 6:1-25; James 2:25; Hebrews 11:30, 31; Matthew 1:1-6.
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Joyfully following this Scripturally outlined course, then “YOU MAY SURVIVE ARMAGEDDON INTO GOD’s NEW WORLD.”
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