Persons who are desirous of engaging in the political, commercial or religious affairs of the world, supporting them even as they support one another in opposition to the supremacy of the Almighty God, will have to go down with that old world organization when it is destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.
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Ezekiel’s prophecy, chapters 38 and 39, locates the original assault of God and Magog as happening at this end of the world, when lying spirits come out of the mouths of Satan the Dragon and the best and the false prophet to gather the kings of the whole world to the war of Armageddon with which this world ends. (Rev. 16:14-16; 19:18-21) Ezekiel’s prophecy further pictures Gog and the land of Magog as being far distant from God’s approved people and as being evil-minded and covetous and opposed to the faithful orbiters of Jehovah as God. They fight on Satan’s side of the great issue, Who is to rule the world? They prove to be on the losing side and are utterly destroyed at the battle of Armageddon by an “overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone”. (Ezek. 38:22, Am. Stan. Ver.; 39:6)
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This is proof that it is Satan, “the god of this world,” that is using organized religion, politics and commerce to deceive mankind and to plunge them into destruction at the oncoming battle of Armageddon.
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False religion is his chief instrument on earth, and the fact that the politicians of the West keep calling for “more religion” supports the conclusion that the Devil is trying to plunge a deceived world into destruction, at Armageddon.
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The honest and sincere persons of good-will, who courageously heed God’s Word, seek righteousness and meekness, and only such will find the way of escape and safety, whereas the stubborn and rebellious ones will weep and perish at Armageddon.
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How these rich will howl, how much more they will howl than the rest of mankind, when the “breath of Jehovah” at the battle of Armageddon sears all their worldly beauty!
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As for successfully resisting his purposes, they might as well be nothing. He will literally reduce them to an empty waste at the impending battle of Armageddon.
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At the universal war of Armageddon Jehovah God will painfully show them they are not the de facto or actual government of the earth since A.D. 1914.
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Christendom, which clads to be in the new covenant with God, will be totally destroyed at the approaching battle of Armageddon and will go down into destruction as a colossal failure of religious hypocrisy.
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The new covenant will not be needed for the coming new world. There will then be no wicked world out of which to take a name people for God. That world and its political nations will have been destroyed at Armageddon.
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That they will survive along with the remnant right on through the battle of Armageddon into the new world of “new heavens and a new earth”.
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These instances of Theocratic warfare before the days of Christ were prophetic patterns of how Jehovah God will fight the universal war of Armageddon against all the nations of this earth at this end of the world.
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But those persons today who do know and trust in the name of the MostHigh God wait for him to fulfill the prophecy concerning Armageddon: “Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
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Now since the end of the “times of the Gentiles” A.D. 1914 they have been given into the hands of his King Jesus Christ enthroned on Zion, to destroy them completely at the battle of Armageddon.
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They fail to tell them that Almighty God commands them to yield their sovereignty to Christ Jesus, whom He has made King of the righteous new world, and that they must do this so as to avoid God’s fierce wrath and destruction at Armageddon.
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The King is the great Signal whom Jehovah God has planted on Mount Zion and to whom all seekers of life, truth and righteousness must assemble for protection and preservation through Armageddon.
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The battle of Armageddon will end all oppression. That is what Psalm 72:4 means when it says: “He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.”
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The battle of Armageddon, which is just ahead, will open the gates of that glorious, righteous rule of the new world, and that rule will be seen and felt throughout the earth.
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Then further inform yourself of the great truths of God’s Word now due to be understood, seek righteousness, and do right, and prove your integrity to him and his King until his eternal vindication takes place at Armageddon.
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Though the execution of the sentence upon Christendom may seem delayed, it will fall upon her with fury at Armageddon.
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Being “hid”, they may survive the battle of Armageddon in which this wicked world will end. Passing thus alive from the old world into the righteous new world, they will continue to be of the original flesh and blood that they inherited from Adam. But by the curative, reconstructive power of God’s kingdom these Armageddon survivors will be progressively relieved the sinfulness, weaknesses and imperfections inherited from Adam and Eve.
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Their continuing to heed it and tell it out to others guarantees that they too will not come into condemnation or adverse judgment now or at the battle of Armageddon.
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The execution of the wicked will take place at the battle of Armageddon, that final world conflict called the “battle of that great day of God the Almighty”.-See Revelation 16:14-16 and 19:11 to 20:3.
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Now in these last days just before the battle of Armageddon, Almighty God is putting these truths plainly before the people.
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It is the racket of false religious leaders to rob the misguided people. All the practicers of demon-religion will find no place of safety or escape during the battle of Armageddon.
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Likewise Jehovah’s witnesses today foretell the immediate future by crying out to both Christendom and Heathendom the prophecies in God’s Word that show Jehovah’s battle of Armageddon to be close upon this present generation.
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At Armageddon he will vindicate his name, and thereafter restore Edenic conditions to earth. In Jehovah’s vindication lies creature salvation.
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No; for his dealing with the sheep and goats takes place before the wicked heavens and earth of this evil world flee into destruction, at the battle of Armageddon. This parable is fulfilled during his second presence or parousia. Its fulfillment is part of the sign to show his presence or parousia. It takes place in this the long-foretold “day of Jehovah”, which began at the end of the “times of the Gentiles” A.D. 1914 and closes at Armageddon,”the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”-Rev. 16:14, 16.
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Though they were badly hurt by it, they still survive. But when earth’s rightful King brandishes his rod of iron against them at the coming battle of Armageddon, none of the nations will survive.
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He reserves it for the Gentile nations at Armageddon, but with it he protects his sheep and at last delivers them from the nations by destroying these.
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The work of separating the people of all the nations occupies the greater part of the period from 1914 to Armageddon, but finally the time arrives for the King to deal out each one’s deserts. This must be when each one affected by the test has made his decision and demonstrated where he stands on the issue of God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus. This is when the battle of Armageddon is due to start and each one must take the consequences of his stand.
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The prophet Daniel tells us of the setting up of the Kingdom in the hands of God’s Son and how it smashes the entire Devil’s organization at the battle of Armageddon.
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Just so, after Armageddon God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus will extend its realm all over the earth.
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They are today associated with this remnant now under the “one shepherd”, and will be associated with this remnant for as long after Armageddon as these continue on earth before joining the King in his throne above.
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The great flock “other sheep” do not possess the heavenly kingdom, but, surviving the battle of Armageddon under his right hand of protection, they will enjoy the King’s favor from the very start of his reign of a thousand years.
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And now the time comes for the deserved curse to alight upon the selfish, worldly, neglectful goats at the battle of Armageddon. (Mal. 4:5, 6)
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Though they do not see the glorified King personally (an impossible thing!), yet when they behold the sign or evidence of his coming to the battle of Armageddon, they run in fear for cover, looking for lofty, imposing earthly organizations to shield them from being smitten by the curse.
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At the latest this will occur at the battle of Armageddon, although individuals of the “goat” class may die before then and perish.
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When the King orders such “goats” into the “everlasting fire” prepared for their kind, it is the time for Armageddon to begin.
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These “goats” will never survive the fires of Armageddon. With their destruction the wicked symbolic earth will flee away, to be followed into destruction by the wicked Satanic heavens.-Rev. 20 : 11.
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Ah, but the righteous “sheep” enter life eternal, this “sheep” class even passing alive under the shadow of the King’s right hand through the battle of Armageddon into the endless new world.
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Here is our answer: As the years of World War I progressed toward 1918 Jehovah’s witnesses on earth were thinking that the global war would merge right into the “battle of Armageddon”in which world anarchy would prevail with every man’s hand against his neighbor. Under the title “The Beginning of Sorrows” the wartime Watchtower of August 1, 1915, said: “We see the prelude to the great Battle of Armageddon. Our thought” is that the Armageddon itself will be the mighty ‘Earthquake’ spoken of in Revelation. (Revelation 16:16-18)
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But Armageddon did not come in 1918.
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*See The Watchtower of August 15, 1914 page 243, under the title “View from the Tower” and the subheading “Nations Hurrying to Armageddon. “
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If aAlmighty God and his victorious King Christ Jesus had followed up World War I with Armageddon and its destruction of Satan and his organization, we can imagine the slaughter and desolation that the Bible predicts for that “battle of the great day of God Almighty”.
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By not beginning it right after Satan was cast down but by allowing an interval of time between then and Armageddon for the remnant of Christ’s anointed followers to make their “calling and election sure” Jehovah God has shortened the days of the tribulation. Revelation, chapters twelve to twenty, foretold that Satan and his demon hosts would be very active about our earth after their debasement from heaven and would influence earth’s rulers and lead them and their fighting forces to the universal war of Armageddon. They are leading them there now, without a question.
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So this Kingdom preaching is the work prophetically commanded to be done now while Satan and his demons are hurrying all nations to their end at Armageddon.
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Make no mistake about it: divine mercy was extended to us between the beginning of sorrows and Armageddon that we might live to serve Him in fulfillment of his prophecies.
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Isiah’s case is a pointed illustration for these days preceding the battle of Armageddon to show how we should act upon God’s mercy.
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It shortened the days of tribulation upon Satan’s organization and it continues to be exercised toward our generation now while all nations are marching to the battle of Armageddon.
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Determined to drag this present generation of mankind to destruction with him at Armageddon, he brings this mounting woe upon all the earth and sea and at the same time he slanders the God of love by charging him with all this woe.
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Thus the Devil drives deceived and blinded men from God. In this way he lines them up on his side at Armageddon.
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With this in view he has given us special revelations of truth since 1918. This enables us to preach to others and to enlighten them upon what this woeful period of world history means and how amid it all divine goodness is being specially shown to mankind before the devastating battle of Armageddon blots out all of Satan’s organization.
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Now Armageddon, the climax oft he great trouble upon Satan’s organization, looms up before their generation.
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At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will destroy all those who are destroyers of the earth in their heartlessness toward their neighbors and mankind.
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Hence he will show us merciful ones his mercy and spare us from destruction at Armageddon.
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19. To whom will God be merciful at Armageddon, and why so?
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His crushing of the Serpent’s head carries with it as one of its results the transforming of the earth into a beautiful global park after the battle of Armageddon. If God destroyed this earth because of man’s sin, he would frustrate his own original purpose. At Armageddon wha the will destroy will be all those who “destroy the earth”, and then by the kingdom of his Seed he will make all the earth the glorious perfected home for men of good-will who accept the gift of eternal life.-Rev. 11:18.
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For their faith and righteous service these will be carried alive through the end of this “present evil world” at Armageddon and will have a part after that in making all the earth Eden’s garden, a park of perfect delight.-Rev. 7:9-17.
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Its restoration will come after the battle of Armageddon and during the thousand-year rule from heaven by Abraham’s Seed, Jesus Christ the King.
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This is the immediate forerunner of the restoration of the earthly paradise for mankind after the battle of Armageddon.
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Today it has increased almost a hundredfold, to 575,000 copies printed of this issue. This corresponds with the vastly increased importance of the message that The Watchtower has to give, as Messiah’s presence nears its climax at Armageddon.
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Like them, all religionists who expect a visible, fleshly appearing of Christ in his second coming are doomed to disappointment until they get their eyes opened when the revelation of his unmistakable presence blazes forth at Armageddon.
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During the interruption by which the tribulation is shortened, from A.D. 1918 till the battle of Armageddon where the great tribulation is renewed and finished, this remnant in all parts of the earth must be gathered together into a unified organization.
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But you do hear what that “trumpet” symbolizes, namely, the Bible message about the end of the world, the setting up of the Kingdom, the parousia of the Son of man, and the approach of the battle of Armageddon for the vindication of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty. (Ps. 47:2-5)
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The very fact that he must rule in the midst of his enemies proves that he must be present, that his parousia must be in effect among such enemies from the time he began ruling in 1914 until he destroys them at the battle of Armageddon, as Psalm 110:5, 6 foretells.
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The evidence is overwhelming, therefore, that Christ Jesus the King-Priest is present, ruling among his enemies before he dashes them to pieces with the “iron rod” of his power at the battle of Armageddon.
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So the prophecy will continue to undergo fulfillment down to the battle of Armageddon that “as the lighting, that eighteenth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day”.-Luke 17:24
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Peter compares this end of the world with that of the antediluvian world and declares that the worldly people will perish in their willful ignorance at the battle of Armageddon.
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But now his presence with mercy and patience is reaching its climax. Shortly, at the universal war of Armageddon, he will reveal his presence in a way that all those hostile nations will understand and feel. That will be by their utter destruction in a time of trouble such as this world has not yet known, and which we can use only the global flood of Noah’s day to illustrate. When giving his prophecy on a sign of this world’s end and of his own parousia Jesus used the flood to illustrate the suddenness with which the climax of his presence of his presence would come at the battle of Armageddon.
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Many will be left to their self-chosen destiny of destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
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Today they rejoice to know his second presence, his parousia as King, is in progress and that shortly he will come to the universal war of Armageddon and fight for the vindication of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty and holy name.
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Instead of executing them at the battle of Armageddon, he destroys their enemy, this world, and reduces it to a dead body, a carcass. So they feast upon this carcass by rejoicing in his victory over it at Armageddon, because it means his vindication of Jehovah God.
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By keeping their integrity through a faithful part in this witness work, they are given the satisfying privilege of seeing Christ the King gain victory at Armageddon and render the .mighty enemy organization like a carcass unburied and left to be devoured by carrion birds.
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For this, her religious organization which she claims to be God’s house has been left to her desolate of God’s presence and favor and at Armageddon it will be made a desolate ruin. All those who stick to Christendom and her ally, this world, will be rejected by Christ the reigning King and be left abandoned to destruction with her at Armageddon.
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In this time when the King’s presence or parousia is being manifested like the brilliance of a lightning flash which shines upon all from east to west, some rejoice in this light and are gathered to the King’s side, to preservation through Armageddon and to a feast of joy over his victory there.
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When the day and hour comes for Armageddon to burst forth in fury their carcasses will fall along with that of their friend and ally, Christendom.-Matt. 24:27, 28; Luke 12:51-53.
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Consistently, then, the King would not begin receiving his congregation, his bride, to him in heaven until after that “war in heaven” was finished and he had halted further operations until Armageddon, in this way cutting short the days of tribulation upon the Devil’s organization. (Matt. 24:21, 22)
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Jesus declared that for the sake of these elect ones the days of tribulation upon Satan’s organization would be shortened, in order that they might deliver the Kingdom witness to all nations before the full end of the tribulation comes at Armageddon.
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Their destiny is heavenly glory; that of the world is destruction at Armageddon.
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The “goats”, separated to the King’s left hand of condemnation, would be sent into the fiery destruction at the battle of Armageddon.
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The religious system of lawlessness was not destroyed at the beginning of Christ’s manifestation in 1918 but has been permitted to stay until the battle of Armageddon.
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At the beginning of Armageddon his manifestation will turn into a revelation of violent power against the “man of sin” system and it will be destroyed together with all others who refuse to line up with the glorious gospel of God’s established kingdom.
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In the battle of Armageddon, when the presence of the Son of manis revealed in that way, it will be as when fire and sulphur rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah after Lot had gotten out.-Luke 17:28-30.
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As he now rides to the revelation of his presence in this capacity at the battle of Armageddon, he is pictured as having “upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, ‘King of kings, and Lord of lords’”.
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All Armageddon survivors will hail him as such!
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But that parousia will be in the new world, for at Armageddon this old world with all his enemies will have been wiped out for all time.
Seeing that, by privilege, we are living in the time of his presence and that the full manifestation of it will take place shortly at Armageddon to the eternal glory of Jehovah God, let us watch that we conduct ourselves in this present evil world as those who have this blessed hope before us.
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When this witness to the Kingdom has been preached to all nations, Jew and Gentile, then the time comes for the King’s power to be revealed by the universal war of Armageddon and it will be too late for conversion, either by individuals or by nations.
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That “abomination of desolation” sets itself up in antagonism to the reigning King Jesus Christ for world domination. It is therefore doomed to destruction at the approaching battle of Armageddon.
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It seals its doom to destruction with the United Nations organization at the final war of Armageddon.
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But now we see that to go with them means to link up with the “abomination of desolation”, the United Nations, and to doom ourselves to destruction with that abomination at the coming battle of Armageddon.
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It will lead to their preservation through the battle of Armageddon and to life eternal in the new world under the everlasting Kingdom of righteousness.
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The remaining time till Armageddon lived according to God’s will will not drag.
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Then when the time is no more for the work of gospel-preaching and the fateful hour of Armageddon strikes, the zealous Christian will be preserved unto life and endless blessings in Jehovah God’s NewWorld without end.
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Though they exalt themselves as saints and gods, they will be abased as low down as the Edomites and Satan himself when they go down into the Gehenna of destruction at Armageddon!
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It will continue to claim many more of mankind until this old world of Satan the Devil is destroyed at Armageddon and God’s Son Jesus Christ begins his reign of a thousand years.
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As in Noah’s day, the mass of mankind face death and destruction, not from the possible Third World War with its atomic and biological weapons, but from the universal war of Armageddon,God’s fight by his King Christ Jesus.
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Jehovah God shows they have figured wrong, because his battle of Armageddon will break up all their arrangements for selfish, personal safety.
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When the scourge of Armageddon sweeps through all the earth, all their arrangements for peace in this old world will be destroyed.
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However, at Armageddon there will be unnumbered great multitude who will not be touched by death or descend into hell, Sheol or the grave.
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Just as Noah and his family, hidden in the ark, escaped death and hell at the global flood, these consecrated people of good-will are to have a safe hiding under God’s protection at Armageddon in order to survive into His new world under Christ.
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3. Who will escape death and hell at Armageddon, and how?
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Being higher than any and all of the kings of the earth, none of these can resist him and he will trounce them with sore defeat at the battle of Armageddon.
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God will be faithful to his Kingdom covenant and will give his highly exalted firstborn Son the victory at Armageddon over the league of enemy kings and their united nations.
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Jesus now endures them until the time comes for the war of Armageddon, when he will dash them to pieces as a potter’s vessel when smashed by an iron rod.
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In its light their eyes of understanding see Christ Jesus reigning in heavenly glory and power as Jehovah’s Vindicator. They see him riding irresistibly to battle and victory at Armageddon.
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At Armageddon the great Son of David will fight for the peace of the new world.
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The people of good-will who today consecrate themselves to God through Christ are represented as undergoing a deliverance from the Avenger of blood at the coming battle
of Armageddon.
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It is a retribution that will be paid out to the death-dealing enemies of Jehovah God at the battle of Armageddon, and this retribution is paid by the great Revenger or Blood-redeemer, Jesus Christ, as an offset to the blood that was spilled by God’s enemies. Otherwise stated, the Revenger or Redeemer, Jesus Christ, squares the account with the enemies of Jehovah God and oppressors of mankind at the battle of Armageddon.
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In the ancient picture of the cities of refuge the destruction of Jehovah’s enemies at Armageddon is pictured as a redemptive price for those of mankind slain by the wicked enemies.
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But the redemption at Armageddon punishes the deserving wicked ones, that is, the ones who have caused damage intentionally or in willful ignorance.
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Such ones are bound to pay, and they do pay, at Armageddon with their lives.
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In the modern antitype at the battle of Armageddon this exaction of the life of the unrepentant, willfully guilty is made against the wicked by the great Redeemer of innocent blood, Jesus Christ, Jehovah’sExecutioner.
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Such persons as die at Armageddon under those conditions of willful wickedness will certainly never have a redemption.
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But those persons of good-will who now take advantage of the” remaining time before Armageddon and flee to the “city of refuge” under Jehovah’s High Priest will be redeemed from execution in that battle and be ransomed from going down into the grave. That means they will be spared to go alive through that universal war of Armageddon and enter into the righteous new world, with opportunities there for life everlasting in perfect health, boundless happiness, and interminable peace.
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The full expression of his anger must yet come at the battle of Armageddon. They are gathering the rulers of the earth and their armies to the final fight at Armageddon against Jehovah’s newly enthroned King Jesus Christ. Come a third world war or not, one thing is absolutely certain: the fight of the universe, Armageddon, “the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” is ahead of this world.
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Do not be embarrassed because a modern Babylonian tells you you cannot see those heavenly hosts of Jehovah being mustered for Armageddon.
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It is therefore not right for persons with faith in the prophetic vision of Isaiah 13:4, 5 to become frightened at tile gathering of the worldly nations to the fight at Armageddon.
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But his weapons to execute his indignation and wrath in the battle of Armageddon are his angelic hosts under his Greater Cyrus, Jesus Christ.
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But Jesus’ faithful remnant of anointed followers who survive on earth down to the battle of Armageddon will have no part in any violent position to the political nations or in any destruction of these. They are the most peaceable people among all earthly nations. They obey Jehovah’s command and merely warn the people of the destruction coming upon the nations at Armageddon.
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It happened in a local way in Babylon twenty-five centuries ago, and it will occur in a world-wide way in the near future, at the battle of Armageddon.
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Wait a bit longer for Jehovah to fulfill his word against antitypical Babylon at the battle of Armageddon.
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To show the scarcity of man upon earth after Armageddon wipes out old “Babylon”, Jehovah God warns: “The arrogance of proud men I will still, and lay the haughtiness of tyrants low, till man becomes more rare than finest gold, men scarcer than gold ore from Ophir.” (Isa. 13:11, 12, Moffatt; An Amer. Trans.)
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They will be the people who now believe God’s warning-message and who dissociate themselves from any part in Babylon’s wickdedness, and whom Jehovah will spare alive at the battle of Armageddon, because they now seek his righteousness. They survive into the new world.
Armageddon will be no local fight, raging over the field of Megiddo in northern Palestine where sanguinary battles were fought on momentous occasions in ancient times. “Armageddon” or “Harmagedon” may mean “mountain of Megiddo”, but the name is used only because it is associated with decisive battles and not to designate any one historical spot on earth.
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5. Where will the battle of Armageddon rage, and why?
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So now those Satanic heavens are atremble, awaiting their destruction at Armageddon. The earth that is to be shaken out of its place at Armageddon is the visible human part of Satan’s organization. It is not our literary earthly globe which Jehovah God created and which he has decreed shall be transformed into a paradise after the battle of Armageddon.
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Though it may have presented an “indestructible” appearance before Nazi, Fascist and Communist powers until now, that Vatican-controlled system will not prove indestructible at Armageddon, not before Almighty God, the Foe of Babylon.
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Rich persons and wealthy organizations of this Babylonish world need not think they will be able to bribe Jehovah’s hosts and buy their escape from annihilation at Armageddon.
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God established this capital organization in royal power in 1914 (A.D.) when enthroned Christ Jesus in the heavens to rule in the midst of all enemies of the new world and finally to destroy them at the battle of Armageddon.
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The people of good-will yet in Babylon the Great must now break their bonds before the universal war of Armageddon wipes out that organization and all lying under its power.
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This going forth to liberty must be done before Armageddon.
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It answers the rousing call for fearless information, not because we have entered the atomic age, but because the world is fast asleep near the brink of that universal war Scripturally called “Armageddon” and lovers of life in security need to be awakened to the real sense of the news and the pressing issues upon which to decide.
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The procedure which there began toward making the oppressor Satan and his gold-greedy city cease will not halt till they both lie hushed and quiet in destruction after the battle of Armageddon.
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That vengeance is against the king of Greater Babylon and all his wicked organization. It will be executed in full at the battle of Armageddon.
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But Armageddon will lay him low by the blows of Jehovah’s battle-ax, Christ Jesus the Greater Cyrus.
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Sixth: 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 mankind from evil and bring everlasting blessing to all the nations of the earth;
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But Armageddon will lay him low by the blows of Jehovah’s battle-ax, Christ Jesus the Greater Cyrus.
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Some Bible readers have foolishly taken this to mean that Satan will materialize in flesh as a man before or at the battle of Armageddon and, while thus materialized, he will be killed and lie exposed like a human corpse.
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No honorable burial, no memorial services, no respectable sepulcher, await this king of Greater Babylon after Jehovah’s King executes that detestable one at the battle of Armageddon.
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With the broom of Armageddon’s destruction Jehovah God will sweep the universe clean of Greater Babylon, the Devil’s organization invisible and visible. What a slaughter it will be! In the new world nothing will bear Babylonish names. Not even a remnant of her wicked seed will survive Armageddon into that world.
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At the battle of Armageddon God will completely wipe out everything that the Devil has brought forward in opposition to God.
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Such men cannot provide for their life or purchase their life by throwing their gold into the streets at the battle of Armageddon.
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In the expression of God’s wrath at the battle of Armageddon the wicked and the willful transgressors must be put to death as the price of freedom for the righteous and the upright.
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This referred back to Israel’s deliverance from Egypt in Moses’ day, and also foretold the deliverance of spiritual Israel, the true Christian organization, from the antitypical Egypt of this world at the battle of Armageddon. The wicked and the transgressors pay with the penalty of their lives, but the righteous escape with their lives, a great multitude of persons of good-will surviving the battle of Armageddon into the new world.
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As to your other question, If the remnant of the members of the body of Christ continue on earth after the battle of Armageddon, how will they then die? We leave this for Jehovah God and his King Christ Jesus to answer in their own due time after Armageddon.
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How could they prove that fact after he became the acting heavenly Ruler except by rejecting his Kingdom message and his ambassadors, his faithful followers? If the end of the persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses were to decide the matter, then the ‘treading down of Jerusalem by the Gentiles’ would not end until the battle of Armageddon, when all those Gentile enemies of the New Jerusalem will bite the dust in destruction.
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So 1914 was the beginning of the end for this world. Its “time of the end” has a beginning and an ending. It had its beginning A.D. 1914, with “war in heaven”. It will also have an ending, namely, at the battle of Armageddon, where this world, invisible and visible, will be obliterated.
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That would have meant the battle of Armageddon would have followed at once.
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So in our own critical period of opportunity before the battle of Armageddon we should give heed, lest we come into the same dire consequences as those unbelieving Israelites.
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Because the world crisis is here the God of mercy causes the knowledge necessary to salvation from destruction at Armageddon to be circulated as never before in world history.
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But after ousting the Devil and his demons from heaven, he shortened the days of tribulation by halting further operations until the climax of the “time of trouble” at Armageddon. Why so? In order that a great educational campaign for salvation might be carried on.
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Just as demon-worshiping King Belshazzar died with his city, so will today’s world rulers that seek to exalt their false religions above Jehovah’s true worship fall at Armageddon along with modern Babylon.
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Because of Christendom’s selfish and cruel worldliness she has failed to copy Jehovah God and be a blessing to mankind and will be destroyed shortly at the battle of Armageddon. But the true church will abide forever to Jehovah’s praise and to the blessing of all men of good-will.
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Many more thousands will be freed by the Kingdom truth prior to Armageddon, and at that battle of God Almighty complete liberation will come to all captives who show good-will and obedience toward Jehovah and Christ. Al1 such honest-hearted ones yet held prisoners in modern Babylon have friends on the outside that will help them make a prison-break. Jehovah’s witnesses declare freedom-giving truths to them now, and the Greater Cyrus will smash the satanic prison-house in a complete liberation at Armageddon.
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No Christian could do that, because he knows that all nations are soon to go down to destruction at God’s hands at Armageddon.
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But even their own eyes of perception will be opened to discern his presence in his kingdom, because at the battle of Armageddon his appearing to them will be made by a revelation with fiery destruction to them and their world organization. (2 Thess. 1:7-9; 2:8)
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Preach the Word! That is God’s command through his Holy Word. The unsound teachings of the day, the doctrines of demons, and the deceptions of the seducers are all leading the masses of Christendom and of heathendom on to early destruction at the war of Armageddon.
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From 1914 to 1918 we had the opening trouble of the “great tribulation” upon the Devil’s world organization. Now we are in the gracious interlude by which the days of that tribulation are being shortened before the final trouble of Armageddon, the universal war.
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