It is certain that this Holy One, Jehovah, faces-the future with courage, regardless of the fact that the universal war of Armageddon to which all the nations of earth are marching must be fought by Him against all these nations and against all the mighty invisible demon part of Satan the Devil’s organization.  This coming battle of Armageddon will be a battle of the universe.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 4, 5

 

Those who wait upon Jehovah God now that such federation will be unable to save at Armageddon.  They trust in the new world of righteousness which follows Armageddon; and in this hope they find their strength.  However, the postwar era of the nations will continue on down to Armageddon, and till then there are sure to be the most crucial trials of the integrity of all persons who desire to prove worthy of life in the new world of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 5

 

11.  What will the developments at the battle o f Armageddon? and what promise, as cited by Peter, strengthens our courage? 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 5

 

The postwar world and its god, Satan the Devil, will try to intrude it propaganda and religions and hopes into our mind, which things will perish and die with this world at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 8

 

Foolishness and the lack of a wise, understanding hear show themselves up in religious “Christendom” the farther she goes on her postwar road toward the world catastrophe at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 10

 

Just how can anyone seeing Jehovah’s Theocratic organization for protection be strong-hearted now in this atomic age, when all the nations try to line up each and every man, woman and child on their side of the great battlefield of Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 11

 

Jehovah’s witnesses must be stronghearted for the postwar era, all the way down to the settlement of the great issue of Jehovah’s sovereignty at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1946 p. 12

 

At Armageddon, which is the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, those demonic heavens will dissolve as in the searing heat of an atomic bomb explosion and will vanish like smoke. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1946 p. 23

 

The remnant and their faithful companions of good-will are marching to a “new earth”, a new visible organization of righteousness founded by Jehovah God. No enemy fury, not even when unleashed with atomic violence at the battle of Armageddon, can hinder their reaching it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1946 p. 26

 

Like the prophet Jeremiah of long ago, so now Jehovah’s witnesses declare God’s infallible Word and notify the nations that they must drink the full cup, dregs and all, of the furious wrath of the Most High God at the approaching battle of Armageddon. (Jeremiah, chapter 25)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1946 p. 27

 

The world, before its final end at the battle of Armageddon, must know that Jehovah God has a visible organization and that it stands free and fearless as a witness for Him in the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 40

If nothing else, this situation required the vindication of his name, particularly since this is “the day of Jehovah”, from and after 1914 and down till the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” at Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 42

 

He empowered him to fight and push the Devil and his demon hosts out of heaven and to keep them under foot at the earth until the time comes at Armageddon to crush the Serpent’s head in death.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 43

 

The setting up of his Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus in 1914 means that the decisive fight over the issue, the battle of Armageddon, is near. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 43

 

It unfits us for serving and worshiping Jehovah God at his temple with his holy vessels.  We must keep ourselves pure and unspotted from this world down till its destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 45

 

When the flood of the battle of Armageddon breaks loose, it will be too late to do this, for then it will be as  in the case of the ark after the family of Noah went in: “And the LORD shut him in.”-Gen. 7:16.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1946 p. 54

 

The present privileges of freedom which it offers are just a foretaste of the ‘glorious liberty of the sons of God’, which liberty will be complete in the new world following the battle of Armageddon, now near. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 67

 

Showing why Almighty God has permitted the wicked Devil to exist till now, but with his end due soon at the coming battle of Armageddon, Jehovah caused Moses to say to Pharaoh after six destructive plagues upon Egypt: “For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, so that you would have been effaced from the earth; but this is why I have spared you: to show you my power, and to have my fame recounted throughout all the earth.” (Ex. 9:15, 16, An Amer. Trans.; Leeser)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 70

 

Section heading: A Foreshadowing of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 73

 

At last the time had come for him to vindicate his name and sovereignty by a demonstration against his enemies and thereby provide an unforgettable type of his eternal vindication at the final war of Armageddon now approaching.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 74

 

But could the Devil speed their retreat and flight fast enough to salvage at least a remnant of his hosts from the sea-depths?  No more than he will be able to do so at the battle of Armageddon!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 75

We cannot help being in the world, and Jesus pointedly said he did not pray God to take his followers out of this world before the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 77

 

The Red sea of Armageddon just ahead will not stop us. It will stop our persecuting pursuers dead in their tracks, not so much as one of them remaining.  Then, Armageddon past, we shall sing Jehovah’s praises by Christ Jesus everlastingly in the NewWorld of absolute liberty of all servants of God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 77

 

“THAT we will not be moved from this course of faithful service, regardless of all the pressure that Satan, his demons, and the whole ante-Armageddon arrangement can bring to bear;

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1946 p. 78

 

We are very near the time of that vindication.  In this atomic age all the nations, under demonic guidance, are pushing ahead to the great battlefield of Armageddon, where Jehovah God will sanctify himself upon them by destroying all who reproach his name and oppose his kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1946 p. 85

 

And since Christ Jesus sits on the throne at Jehovah’s right hand, then the earth becomes Christ’s footstool also, and that is where all his enemies now are, awaiting destruction at Armageddon.-See Psalm 110:1-6.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1946 p. 88

 

For Christians in this day when “the kingdom of God is at the doors” and when the end of this world faces the nations that are assembling the destruction at Armageddon, the will of God concerning them should be quite plain. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1946 p. 91

 

This troubled world is not at peace with God, but it is at deadly enmity with him and is preparing for the showdown fight against him at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1946 p. 91

 

On the contrary, the present governments, which now trample under foot the Christian ambassadors of Jehovah’s New World government and which refuse to yield up their power to it, will be destroyed, at the coming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1946 p. 99, 100

 

While yet alive in the flesh on earth, this remnant expect to see, shortly, the faithful ones of old brought forth from the graves. According to the understanding of certain scriptures, they expect to see this before the final battle of Armageddon is ended.  That would therefore be toward the beginning of Christ’s reign; for immediately after Satan the Devil is bound at Armageddon Christ’s thousand-year reign begins. (Rev. 20:1-3, 7)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1946 p. 108, 109

 

It is those “sheep” keeping their heart integrity unto God during this time of temptation at the end of Satan’s world that may hope to pass through the battle of Armageddon alive and to enter into the righteous New World.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1946 p. 109

 

Fearlessly and boldly they press on, confident in Jehovah God and his Son Christ Jesus that these “Higher Powers”will direct the work right on to the final end of this world in the battle of Armageddon, where Jehovah will give his own marvelous witness in vindication of his universal sovereignty and holy name.   

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1946 p. 112

 

So doing, they will not weakly seek to please men of this world nor to conform themselves to this selfish doomed world which their Lord will shortly dash to fragments at the oncoming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 124

 

No one doing bad will escape destruction at Armageddon and enter life in the new world. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 125

 

Their hope is not that of the remnant, namely, to lay aside the flesh and to gain a “building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens”.  No; but in their hearts God has kindled the hope of meeting the Judge’s approval and serving Jehovah God without a break in life and without a dissolution of the body clear through the end of this world at Armageddon and on into the unending reaches of time in the new world. Some of these “other sheep” may die in faithfulness before the final war of Armageddon clears away the wicked world that now dominates this earth, but they have hope of the resurrection. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 125

 

Thus, whether by life uninterrupted through the battle of Armageddon or by resurrection from death during the millennial reign of the Lord, the faithful ones of this great flock of “other sheep” hope in the divine promise that they will read the perfect image and likeness of God as perfect men. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 125

 

40.  How does the hope of these “other sheep” differ from that of the remnant?  and what about if some of them die before Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 125

 

These wash their “robes” of identification and make them clean by faithfully devoting themselves to God and to his King Christ Jesus in this interim between the “war in heaven” and the final war of Armageddon(.Rev. 7 :14, 15; 12:7-12)  Concerning these who will form the “great multitude” of earthly survivors of the battle of Armageddon it is written: “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 127, 128

 

The “highway” is open now.  Let the peoples that peoples that stand in peril of Armageddon know about it and take the course that leads to gladness with Jehovah’s people. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1946 p. 128

 

Soon now He will vex them in his sore displeasure by the final universal war of Armageddon.  He will signal to his King, and Christ Jesus will shepherd the opposing nations with his rod of iron.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1946 p. 139

 

All “men of good will” who would avoid being smitten by his iron rod at Armageddon are now under the great urgency to hear the Good Shepherd’s voice and to flee from this world to the fold of God. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1946 p. 139

 

This therefore sealed the end of this world, and its final end waits only till the battle of Armageddon is fought in the near future, where Jehovah’s Shepherd will use the iron rod against the worldly nations to destroy them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 156

 

The gathering of such “other sheep” before Armageddon to the right side of his throne is pictured at Revelation 7:9, 10. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 157

 

These “other sheep” of today, who have no Kingdom hopes, expect to remain upon the earth and to attain to human perfection under Christ’s reign of a thousand years after Armageddon. They entertain hopes of being protected by divine power throughout the battle of Armageddon and thereby surviving the final end of this world. They will makeup a “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 157

 

Since the Good Shepherd laid down his life for all other sheep besides those of the Kingdom fold, the “other sheep” include more than the persons of good-will who are gathered into the “one flock” of the “one shepherd” before Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 157

 

Likewise, the offspring whom the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors bring forth in fulfillment of the divine mandate then reissued wilt be obliged to become numbered among the Good Shepherd’s “other sheep” in order to gain eternal life on earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 157, 158

 

29.  When, and in what vision, was John caused to force the “other sheep” gathered before Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 157

 

THE ancient “cities of refuge” of the nation of Israel foretold God’s refuge for certain ones during the time of the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 158

 

This would clearly indicate that it is reasonable that God would provide a place or condition of safety for those persons of good-will that they might be protected during the time of the world-wide destruction at Armageddon, which trouble comes upon the nations because they have broken his “everlasting covenant”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 158

 

All such willful slayers and provokers of bloodshed will perish in God’s war at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 158

 

Jesus Christ, the great Executioner, will for a certainty meet or overtake all the bloodguilty ones at Armageddon in the battle of the great day of God the Almighty. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 159

 

For centuries the whole world has been under the dominating control of the wicked one, Satan, and his cruel, iniquitous organization. God’s Executioner will completely destroy such at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 160

 

Not later than Armageddon Jesus Christ, the “revenger of blood”, will slay the malicious clergy and their allies.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1946 p. 160

 

It is to this Kingdom class under Christ, numbered at 144,000 (Rev. 14:1, 3), that the expression “born again” exclusively aplies.  but there is a great multitude of persons who are meek and teachable and who will be preserved through Armageddon and live forever on the cleansed earth. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1946 p. 172

 

Those of the priesthood get the atoning benefits now, during this period from Pentecost down to the end of this world at Armageddon, for God now justifies them to life by reason of their faith in Jesus’ blood and its worth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1946 p. 186

 

That would mean, after the battle of Armageddon, which rids the earth of Satan’s wicked organization and clears the way for Christ’s rule over mankind without interference.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1946 p. 186

In the antitypical sense the evidence of God’s acceptance of the greater Sin-offering in mankind’s behalf will shortly be given, after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1946 p. 186

At Armageddon, fiery destruction from heaven will consume the Devil’s organization, but during the thousand-year reign of Jehovah’s royal High Priest God will manifest to a completeness, to all that live on earth, hHis acceptance of this faithful high Priest and his sacrifice. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1946 p. 187

At the time of executing his destructive judgments against them, at the battle of

Armageddon, then God will put into play his forces of destruction like a consuming fire, and it will be very stormy about him as he expresses his wrath against the hypocrites. “For our God is a consuming fire.”-Heb. 12:29; Deut. 4:24; Ex. 24:17.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1946 p. 198

 

At this crucial time of the world, with its end in the battle of Armageddon getting ever closer, this giving God the fruit of our lips in continual praise and thanks, and this doing good and communicating, means publishing the facts about Jehovah God and his purpose, and communication to the suffering bewildered people “this gospel of the kingdom”. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1946 p. 202

 

He will deliver them from the snares of this world and from its destruction by His executioner at Armageddon.  For His deliverance of them from the bondage and condemned condition of this world they now glorify him to all their friends and neighbors and associates.  In the new world after Armageddon they will forever glorify him in life eternal. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1946 p. 202

 

At the battle of Armageddon God will tear wicked, hypocritical “Christendom”to pieces by his “Lion of the tribe of Juda”, Christ Jesus his Executioner, and will blot out her religion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1946 p. 203

 

Now the final burst of Jehovah’s sweeping tempest of wrath against this Greater Babylon merely wits for His appointed time to begin the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1946 p. 214

 

On invitation F. W.Franz, his airflight companion, talked to the group, especially stressing God’s mercy to those of the Belize company, according to the fulfillment of Matthew 24:21, 22, and he urged them to show mercy to others by bringing such the Kingdom message before Armageddon’s tribulation breaks.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1946 p. 222

 

The world-wide testimony to the Kingdom which these Christian witnesses of Jehovah have since given is therefore something new in this twentieth century, something the like of which this world has never before seen.  It is Jehovah’s “stange work” in the earth prior to Armageddon.-Isa. 28:21

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1946 p. 231

 

The enemies shall themselves be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1946 p. 232

 

Not for much longer will that holy name remain forgotten by all religionists, but, after his witnesses have finished their testimony, God Almighty will by Christ Jesus fight the battle of Armageddon, and “my holy name will I make known . . . and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel”.-Ezek. 39:7, Am. Stan. Ver.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1946 p. 239

 

The fiery furnace, too, is symbolic and pictures the place or means of their destruction, the battlefield of Armageddon, the scene of the final war between Satan’s invisible and visible organization and Jehovah’s universal organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1946 p. 254

 

Yet it draws with quickening pace to its death at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1946 p. 255

 

This is because those who seek their comfort in the riches of this world make themselves a part of this world, and the woe of these worldly rich ones will come at the passing away of this world in the worst political, financial and religious crash this world will ever have had, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1946 p. 260

 

They are called attention to in Psalm 107, and there another prophetic picture is recorded foretelling the Lord’s present-day “other sheep” who will form the “great multitude” of survivors of the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1946 p. 270

 

They cry unto God amid this earth’s present distress and particularly in view of the great Armageddon storm that is fast approaching, and he hears them and shows his mercy toward them.  As Psalm 107:28-31 describes it: “Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1946 p. 271

 

Thereby they will escape the destruction which will come upon this world at the battle of Armageddon, and which destruction was foreshadowed by that which came upon the ancient city of Nineveh years after that repentant generation of Nineties had died off, as foretold in Nahum’s prophecy, chapters 1 to 3. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1946 p. 272

 

This “time of the end” is the period of time beginning with A.D. 191 and closing with the battle of Armageddon, and it shows that this world of which Satan the Devil is the god is in its last days and that its time is now short. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1946 p. 276

 

By these we would know that this world is drawing near to its everlasting destruction and that the final end of this eventful period at Armageddon means, therefore, the destruction of this world. (Matt. 24:3-51; 25:1-46)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1946 p. 276

 

The God-fearing parents themselves must take steps looking to the refuge and security of the children during the universal war of Armageddon; and this they must do in harmony with God’s instructions. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1946 p. 277

 

So, too, the “other sheep”, those who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, now place themselves and their equipment at the disposal of Christ Jesus for the service of God and lend full co-operation to the manner of service carried on under Christ Jesus’ directions.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1946 p. 285

 

It marks a courageous forewarn-step in the work of His people in bearing witness to HIs kingdom in all the habitable earth before the disastrous end of this present wicked world takes place at the battle of Armageddon. By a unanimously adopted Resolution the Assembly declared its determination to do this work throughout the length of this postwar period.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1946 p. 294

 

Amidst this disorganized world with so much strife, violence and confusion, it was an impressive sample of how the visible organization of God’s righteous new world will function on earth after the battle of Armageddon will have cleared all the wicked fighters against Jehovah out of existence, thus cleansing this earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1946 p. 296

 

His birth was for a sign of victory; and just as surely as he was born and triumphed over the world nineteen centuries ago, that surely this nefarious conspiracy will be broken to pieces at Armageddon and the “Prince of Peace” will reign evermore, with lasting peace, security and prosperity to all obedient subjects on earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1946 p. 304

 

Unshakable trust in Jehovah God, and with it a confidence in his Word as our Guide, must now be exercised. These are our only strength against becoming drawn into the old-world conspiracy and its destruction in the universal war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 307

 

Let not Christendom think she will be able to escape this might flood of destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 310

 

It will be just before the universal battle of Armageddon is due to break out. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 312

 

All those who are in Immanuel’s “land” by rendering him their unqualified allegiance and serving him do not need to fear, therefore, as they draw nearer to the battle of Armageddon and see the ongoing flood of the hosts of the antitypical Assyrian, Satan the Devil. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 312

 

Therefore Satan organizes all the nations of earth into a resistance bloc not to accept Jehovah’s King but to arm themselves for the fray at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 312

 

In the battle of Armageddon, toward which all the world nations are marching, the plans plots, schemes and boastful words of the old-world organizers will not stand. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 313

 

Hence all those joining in or supporting the postwar conspiracy are being snared and taken to their own destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 315

 

By your proclamation everywhere of the message of this kingdom and of its victory over the world-conspiracy at the battle of Armageddon, be all of you for signs and for wonders to the honor and vindication of Jehovah God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1946 p. 316

 

At the approaching battle of Armageddon between His universal organization and Satan’s world-wide organization, Jehovah by Christ Jesus will further prove that he is true.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1946 p. 331

 

As it is written in his own Word concerning the results of the final war of Armageddon:”And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.”-Ezek. 38:23, Am. Stan. Ver.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1946 p. 331

 

44. How will He provide further interpretation at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1946 p. 331

 

Satan the Devil is the dragon who now makes war upon the rest or remnant of the woman’s seed. He is invisibly bringing about a gathering of all nations on the battlefield of Armageddon for the showdown fight against God’s King Christ Jesus over the domination of the world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1946 p. 347

 

It will be responsible for the destruction of religious Christendom at the coming battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1946 p. 367

 

Present world-builders who seek to whip all nations into line under a United Nations arrangement for domination will fare no better in the end, when Armageddon breaks.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1946 p. 368

 

This “day of Jehovah” will therefore get darker and gloomier until the worldly organizations of rulership go downinto the dense darkness of destruction in the decisive battle of Armageddon, which is now certainly in sight.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 371

 

Those who oppose his Messianic government and who select
instead the political schemes of this world are put to Messiah’s left side in disfavor as “goats”. Destruction awaits these at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 372

 

Hence it is foretold as respects the “great multitude” that is now being formed and that will enter into the righteous new world by surviving the battle of Armageddon: “Behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands; and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.”

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 375

 

The setting up of Messiah’s kingdom and its operation for a thousand years after Armageddon is for the purpose of completely bringing about the full deliverance of all the believing and obedient ones of mankind from the tyranny of sin, death and the Devil’s organization.  Jehovah’s kingdom by his Messiah will utterly wipe out that wicked organization in the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 376

 

On hearing the invitation to praise this heavenly Source of mercy, they realize that they must now act upon the invitation before Armageddon comes, in order to partake of the’ divine mercy through the Kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 377

 

He has had mercy upon the remnant of his anointed witnesses upon the earth since World War I, by preventing it from leading directly without a break into the final tribulation of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 377

 

All such, in order to escape execution with this bloody world at the hands of Jehovah’s Avenger of blood at Armageddon, may flee to refuge under his Theocratic organization of His people, which is the modern-day counterpart of the Israelite “cities of refuge”. (Num. 35:6-33)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 377

 

There is no question that there will be a further fulfillment of the truth of God’s prophetic word in the years to come down till the battle of Armageddon is fought and the new world of righteous new heavens and earth is fully ushered in.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1946 p. 379

These words of James show that riches acquired by injustice and oppression are not availing or helpful in the last days which end up in the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1945 p. 14

 

By such interruption of battle action, God had ‘shortened the days of tribulation for his elect’s sake in order that some flesh might be saved’ at Armageddon when God executes his vengeance against all of Satan’s organization visible and invisible.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 23, 24

 

It is by this work that the King Christ Jesus at the temple judges such nations and separates out from them his “other sheep”, leaving the rebellious “goats” to a fate of destruction with their national governments at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 26

 

In behalf of such strangers the message “Millions Now Living Will never Die began to be proclaimed in America in February, 1918; but its proclamation was quickly interfered with by the Devil and his dupes.  Toward the end of 1919 this message, showing that persons of good-will on earth will survive the battle of Armageddon, was republished, and multitudes of them in many nations were caused to hear and read this message and related Kingdom truths. 
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 26

 

It is because their joy is in the vindication of Jehovah’s name and of his universal sovereignty, and they know the Kingdom will bring this vindication at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 27

 

Just as surely as God makes what he sows in the earth spring forth in glorious verdure and beautiful flower, just so the same invincible God Almighty will, before Armageddon, cause his righteousness, his vindication and his praise to spring forth before all nations. They are forced to see it, because of the reconstruction work done among them by his King and his faithful remnant and his “other sheep”.  And his glorious victory at Armageddon will climax their righteous witness work, and will establish his righteousness and his praise for ever universally, throughout earth and heaven. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 28

 

The destructive work of the flood pictured the coming Armageddon battle and the great destruction it will bring about the earth as well as upon the earth; and the part played by Noah in offering clean animals in sacrifice after coming out of the ark foreshadowed Christ Jesus and his reign of blessedness after Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30

 

They are the “other sheep” of the Lord, to wit, the Jonadabs, who will form the “great multitude” after Armageddon. (Rev. 7:9-15; John 10:16; 2 Ki. 10:15) Christ Jesus, the antitype of Noah, is “the everlasting Father” who ministers life to the obedient ones of the human race, and he does so as the active representative of Jehovah. Noah’s sons were born a short time before the flood. Like- wise the Greater Noah,Christ Jesus, a short time prior to Armageddon, brings forth the “other sheep”, or the Jonadabs, that form the “great multitude”.  Noah’s sons were born near the end of the “world that then was”; and now the Jonadabs appear in this end of this “evil world” and these are to be given everlasting life after proving their integrity, that is, after the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30

 

Armageddon will clear the earth of unrighteousness, and thereafter those who live must be on the side of God and Christ his King.  The Scriptures show that those who survive Armageddon on earth will be those who”seek righteousness, seek meekness”, namely, the remnant of Christ’s anointed body-members and also their companions, the “other sheep”, or Jonadabs.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30

 

The entire number will be but a small number compared with the mass of humanity now on earth. But there is no need to be appalled by the great world-wide destruction of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30

 

But the fact that, as compared with the remnant, a “great multitude” of “other sheep” do keep integrity toward God and are carried alive through Armageddon conclusively disproves and nullifies Satan’s wicked challenge of being able to wreck everyone’s integrity, and it will be a vindication of Jehovah’s name and word.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30

 

If a “great multitude” of Jonadabs survive Armageddon and are wholly devoted to Jehovah and his King, Christ Jesus, what may these do under the righteous direction of Christ Jesus toward ’filling the earth’ within a few short warless centuries?  The sons and daughters-in-law of Noah pictured the Jonadabs, these survivors of Armageddon who will receive life everlasting on earth from Jehovah as a gracious gift ministered to them by Christ Jesus, the Greater than Noah.  Seeing that God’s mandate was and is given only to righteous men and that the survivors of Armageddon are the ones who have obeyed God in seeking righteousness and meekness, is it not both reasonable and Scriptural that Jehovah will use that righteous “great multitude” under the righteous overlord to carry out and perform His mandate to ‘be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth’?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 30, 31

 

The “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors, therefore, carry out God’s mandate to fill the earth with righteous persons, and this before the general resurrection of humankind in the graves. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 31

 

Leet them do this in order that they may be found worthy to have a part in carrying out the divine mandate to be reissued after the battle of Armageddon, and thus have a part in the vindicating of God’s holy name and faithful word. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 31

 

When Satan’s viperous brood is exterminated at Armageddon these proud and haughty blasphemers will be numbered with them, and all those who cast their lot with these pious pretenders will descend into death.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1945 p. 31

 

They are looking forward solely to life on this earth under the Kingdom, and are eager by God’s grace to survive the battle of Armageddon and, continuing obedient thereafter, never to die off the earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 43

 

It must picture their consecration to the Most High God through God, to be dead and buried to their own natural will and to live in the future unto the doing of God’s will, following after Christ Jesus with the remnant of his “little flock” of body members and doing the work now authorized to be done before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 43

 

Water baptism, then, being understood to symbolize the believer’s unreserved consecration of himself to God, who is there to say that water baptism may not be practiced after the battle of Armageddon under the thousand-year reign of Christ Jesus and his body-members?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 44

 

Likewise, the children born after Armageddon to the “great multitude” of the Lord’s “other sheep” who survive that battle and who thereafter carry out the divine mandate to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” will be obliged to make a personal consecration to God through the King Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 44

 

But whether or not during the 1000-year reign of Christ, baptism in water of those consecrating to God by his King Christ Jesus is valid and according to the will of God unto this day, and until the antitypical flood of the battle of Armageddon.-See The Watchtower, October 1, 1916, page 294.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 44

 

22 Seeing that water baptism means what it does, then how about such a practice after Armageddon during Christ’s reign?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 44

 

23.  How about the children born to the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 44

 

I compared Noah’s time with Armageddon, explained the Kingdom condition, and told her our responsibility to get into that kingdom: ‘Shall we obey God or men?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1945 p. 48

 

Terrible destruction came upon the Jewish nation because of failure to keep Jehovah’s sabbaths and related laws, which destruction was symbolic of the final war of Armageddon. Hence this is a question of instant of Armageddon is impending over “Christendom”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 56

 

Such 1,000-year reign of Christ Jesus, as foretold at Revelation 20:1-6, begins after the binding of Satan the Devil; in other words, after the battle of Armageddon, which battle, everything indicates, will begin inside this generation.-Rev. 16:14-16.

That will be a glorious sabbath-day for humankind, both for “men of good-will” today living, whom God will favor with preservation through the battle of Armageddon, and also for the billions of dead ones in the graves who will hear the voice of the reigning Son of God and will come forth to a resurrection of judgment. (John 5:28, 29, A.S.V.)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 59

 

Yet the fact that Jehovah God used her to make this prophetic picture shows that one of low reputation may seek the Lord God and find him, and gain a place of safety and protection during the world-shattering tribulation of Armageddon, which is near at hand.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 60

 

Before beginning the march to the Jordan Joshua sent two trusted men to spy out Jericho, which city pictured the religious organizations that the Lord God has declared it his purpose to destroy at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 60

 

Today the religionists, and particularly the leaders of the Roman Catholic system, the Hierarchy, deliberately at- tempt to besmirch the name and reputation of true Christians. They do this in utter disregard of the message of the King Christ Jesus and his kingdom and the warning that that message sounds to them concerning Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 60

 

Only God’s provision can save these at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 61

 

That part of the picture shows that the Jonadabs, or “men of good will”, must be active in taking the message of the Kingdom to others, that such others may find the place of safety and refuge, namely, in Jehovah’s organization, before the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 61

 

All such refugees must remain under the protection of the Lord God and his organization prior to and continuously up to and through the final tribulation upon the world at Armageddon.  If Rahab and those of her household obeyed and were faithful to the requirements put upon her, their salvation was guaranteed when the city of Jericho fell.  This part of the picture marks the way for those who will survive Armageddon, showing that they must flee to the Lord’s organization and put themselves under it and then continually seek righteousness and meekness and faithfully participate with the witnesses of Jehovah, giving testimony to the name and kingdom of Almighty God.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 61

 

Jericho’s miraculous destruction was a small-scale picture of the approaching battle of Armageddon; hence the timeliness of noting how Rahab’s faith moved her to action and works down till Jericho’s end. This prophetic drama was made many centuries ago and the record was preserved for present usefulness.  The meaning thereof is now made known for the purpose of aiding and benefiting those on earth who love and serve God and his King Christ Jesus, and particularly now for the guidance of all “men of good will”, who will inherit “peace on earth” after Armageddon to endless eternity.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1945 p. 62

 

The nations of “christendom” are unchangeably committed to their ways, and are too far gone to take this truthful fact to heart and amend their course.  Their destruction at Armageddon is clearly in sight. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1945 p. 68

Considering now the modern counterpart of this: When Christ Jesus the King came to the temple in 1918, he saw the immediate need of a great reconstruction work. He saw it must be done before the battle of Armageddon if any flesh on earth, primarily his devoted followers, were to be saved.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1945 p. 71

 

Jehovah God has commanded that the testimony work must be done before the slaughter work of Armageddon begins; and the remnant are now zealous to do it, fully determined that, by the grace of God, nothing shall prevent them from doing it faithfully.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1945 p. 78

 

What, however, is the case for the religious opposers? This: the same fate awaits them at the coming battle of Armageddon as befell those of the kingdom of Israel who refused.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1945 p. 88

 

Once, after a funeral passed by playing “Ave Maria” and then but a few minutes later Brother
Knorr showed that this so-called “queen of heaven” would be unavoidable to save the city of Rome from destruction at Armageddon, the dm of hand-clapping was followed by excited chattering of votes everywhere throughout the Hall, with many gesticulations; and Brother Knorr had to wait for it to subside.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1945 p. 93

 

If they now undertook to share in any responsibilities for the governments of this world and to contaminate themselves with this doomed world, it would also doom them to destruction with such governments at the coming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1945 p. 93

 

That is the truth which Vatican City and the other states of postwar “Christendom” will be forced to learn and to admit at the coming battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 100

 

They look forward calmly and confidently to the fast-approaching battle of Armageddon, knowing that the same unconquerable God shall fight that battle for them too, because the battle is not theirs, but God’s. Note now how the Bible record gives basis for such confidence.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 104

Yes, at the coming battle of Armageddon Jehovah God will preserve his heavenly King and kingdom.  In token of that fact he will carry. His faithful remnant and their companions of good-will through the final universal war.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 108

 

This again reminds Jehovah’s witnesses that the battle is not theirs, but is Jehovah’s, at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 108

 

What admonition, comfort and hope for us lie~ in that strange fact of history? This: At the time when Satan’s visible postwar organization will have made its loudest boasts and direst threats against Jehovah’s servants on earth of his Theocratic Government, then the night of Armageddon will settle down upon this world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 108

 

He will perform his “strange act” at Armageddon, as he did thousands of years ago in the land of Judah, ‘for his own sake and for the sake of his beloved King.’

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 109

 

But the remnant of Zion’s children and all those of good-will who will have come out from all the nations and taken their stand on the side of Zion, will survive victoriously with Zion. Being spared alive through Armageddon, they will know for ever that Jehovah is God alone.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 109

 

To bring present-day meaning into this ancient drama in which Jonadab acted, let this be understood: Jonadab represented or foreshadowed that class of people now on the earth when Christ Jesus, the King greater than Jehu, is carrying on his work amidst his enemies; and which Jonadab class take their stand on the side of righteousness and are the ones whom, if continuing obedient and faithful, the Lord Jesus Christ will preserve during the time of Armageddon, take them through that trouble, and give them everlasting life on earth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 109

 

The question now arises, Are natural Jews of today debarred from joining that unnumbered multitude of persons of good-will, just because of what the national organization of Israel did nineteen centuries ago? Are individual Jews excluded from this opportunity of taking their stand for the heavenly kingdom and living through the battle of Armageddon and entering into life eternal on earth in the NewWorld of righteousness?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1945 p. 116

 

The demons are herding the peoples unto Armageddon for a united stand against Jehovah and His right to rule. (Rev. 16:13-16) Satan’s use of the total-state monstrosity toward this end was pre-figured long ago.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1945 p. 124

 

Satan the Devil is now mustering all his anti-God forces to the battle of Armageddon, and as a part of his preparation he is desperately trying to unify his visible world organizations and peoples into a solid front against Jehovah’s rightful rulership.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1945 p. 125

 

The Greater David, Christ Jesus, has killed that monstrosity so far as its influence over His followers is concerned, and it will be destroyed for ever at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1945 p. 125

 

In that warfare between God’s organization and the enemy Satan’s organization, which warfare culminates in the battle of Armageddon now approaching, Christ Jesus must win.  He must violently seize the wicked organization and utterly destroy it; the enemy gates can not hold him off from doing so.  Thereby Christ Jesus will vindicate Jehovah’s name at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1945 p. 132

 

It is that kingdom which brings “glory to God in the highest” by vindicating his name at the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1945 p. 141

 

This proclamation of the Kingdom as having come and been established must therefore be fearlessly and vigorously conducted in all nations down to the violent end of this world organization at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1945 p. 151

 

All these, realizing they have received and continue to receive of the tender mercies of God, extend mercy cheerfully to others by making known to all alike, whether foe or friend, the way of escape from the Armageddon of God’s wrath.  All this they will persist in doing by faith in God and with undying faithfulness to Him through Christ. And thus all operates Theocratically, and hence unitedly under God and Christ, for the greatest Kingdom witness of history before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1945 p. 155

 

That time of destruction of the Devil’s world is the battle of Armageddon not so far ahead now, and there Jehovah will vindicate his name and place as the Supreme One.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 164

 

At the oncoming battle of Armageddon Christ Jesus the Son will fight to victory over Satan’s world, for the vindication of Jehovah’s name.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 164

 

They have been pouring down the river-bed that the Devil has carved out for them toward the sea of death and destruction at the battle of Armageddon.  As the children of Israel under Captain Joshua long ago marched between the Jordan river waters and across its open river-bed into the Promised Land, so have Jehovah’s witnesses of this twentieth century been passing, for years since 1918, through the vast waters of hundreds of millions of people.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 167

 

But there will be the final ransom toll to pay for further persecuting and pursuing after Jehovah’s remnant and their companions to drag them back into enforced service of this world. That final toll will be destruction at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 168

 

Since such men and peoples persist in their oppressions upon the remnant and their companions, they must die at Armageddon. They will not be let stand in the way of the establishment of Jehovah’s new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 168

 

The “new thing” that proves Jehovah’s God-ship and universal sovereignty will take on its most convincing testimonial form in the near future, at Armageddon’s universal battle. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1945 p. 172

 

All who put their trust in those religious, political, commercial and social enemies of Jehovah’s King in Zion are sure to be disappointed and suffer crushing defeat and execution by the Stone at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 179

 

They know that the national, commercial and religious organizations will be destroyed in the world’s end at Armageddon, but that individuals who now seek unto Jehovah and his kingdom may be hidden and saved from that destruction of worldly organizations.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 180

 

The end of their proposed postwar world bill come from his hand at Armageddon.  They have refused to learn the knowledge of Jehovah God which his witnesses have promoted and spread among the people.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 181

 

This they must do in order to escape destruction with the old world at Armageddon an in order to enter into the New World of abundance of life. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 184

 

It means being a witness for Jehovah and faithfully fulfilling that position of service until He vindicates his name at the battle of Armageddon and thus brings the great period of witnessing to a close.

Let those “other sheep” that are already catered in follow the lead of their Good Shepherd and fulfill their commission from him to preach, in order for other meek ones to hear, that such may believe on Jehovah God and call on his name, openly confessing him before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 188

 

God Almighty will not all that, when Armageddon falls with destruction upon this world, it should be said that his Kingdom message of salvation was not proclaimed far enough nor given a sufficient hearing. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 189

 

He is under an unrevokable sentence of death, but for His own all-wise reason Jehovah God has suspended the execution of that sentence until the battle of Armageddon, now not far distant.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 189

 

Once the issue has been decisively settled at the approaching battle of Armageddon, Jehovah God will cause the Devil to be bound in death.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 191

 

While such bloody practice may not be carried on by the religionists of “Christendom” today, yet “Christendom” stands exposed as a deliberate violator of Jehovah’s “everlasting covenant”, and for such reason she may expect Jehovah’s vengeance to be executed upon her by his Executioner at the battle of Armageddon. (Isa. 24:5, 6)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1945 p. 198

 

Christ Jesus is Jehovah’s Executioner or Avenger of blood at the battle of Armageddon, against all violators of the everlasting covenant governing the sanctity of life and its blood-stream.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1945 p. 201

 

Satan the Devil knows well he has but a very limited time till the battle of Armageddon is fought, and he has been employing every device to force all men to his side of the great issue and prevent them from turning to Jehovah God for refuge.  Besides the woes which Satan has multiplied upon the peoples, the worshipers of other gods than Jehovah will have their sorrows multiplied at the battle of Armageddon, by a time of tribulation such as never will have been, when Christ Jesus executes Jehovah’s vengeance against all such.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1945 p. 202

 

As for their present loving companions, Christ’s “other sheep”, these also may know that, when any of them die faithful before Armageddon clears out al the Lord’s enemies, their immovableness for Jehovah’s worship will win his favor for them. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 1, 1945 p. 203

 

At the impending battle of Armageddon Jehovah will justify himself or vindicate himself and his universal domination by destroying all those who do not hold to it. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1945 p. 212

 

He will vindicate his name completely at the battle of Armageddon, beyond denial by anyone in all creation.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1945 p. 213

 

Devoted men and women of good-will today, who entertain the hope of surviving Armageddon and gaining life on earth in the NewWorld, should also understand this subject, to ascertain if they too are now “justified by faith” or what their justification will mean to them. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1945 p. 219

 

The zero hour of Armageddon’s battle undelayably comes on.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  July 15, 1945 p. 223

 

In the previous issue of The Watchtower we suggested that our readers of good-will today ought to understand this subject.  They entertain the hope of surviving Armageddon and gaining life on earth in the NewWorld, and they ought to make certain if they are now”justified by faith” or what their justification will mean to them, however it comes to them.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1945 p. 230

 

It is these that the apostle speaks of as being justified by faith now during this “present evil world” and hence before the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 245

 

Suppose that, because of their faith and obedience now before Armageddon, they had justification by faith through the imputation of righteousness.  Then that would mean they could not die before Armageddon, as some are now doing through old age or otherwise. It would also mean that, surviving Armageddon, they would lose such justification in the new world and would gain instead justification actually in the flesh.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 252

 

All the world today is blood-guilty; and to escape the guilt of the world and the penalty therefor at Armageddon, the “stranger” class must flee to the antitypical city of refuge, God’s Theocratic organization under the High Priest Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 252

 

Nevertheless, that does not  bring about their justification before the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 252

 

Likewise, the “other sheep” class, in the Theocratic “city of refuge”, may take part in the activities of the visible organization and may associate with the remnant of the antitypical Levites. And they have the High Priest Christ Jesus as a covering for them from the execution of Jehovah’s righteous wrath against the world at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 252

 

Thus their justification must come after Armageddon, and it must be by the perfecting of them in the flesh to be the children of Jehovah God, the same as the perfect Adam was in Eden.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 252

 

But these faithful ones will become such during his thousand-year reign after Armageddon; and now, by virtue of the prospect of eventually becoming Jehovah’s perfect sons, they address him prospectively as “Our Father”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 253

 

This is absolute proof from Sacred Writ that the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning Joseph and his brethren is now taking place, and the understating of this is now made clear for the benefit of “men of good will” who will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 254

 

Can we not see in this that only those of good-will toward Jehovah, and who give a hearing ear to the message of the Kingdom and hence recognize and accept Christ Jesus as the Savior of the world and turn to him, will be saved, and that all others will go down in the cataclysm of Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1945 p. 255

 

Similarly, Jehovah called to “Christendom” by His witnesses, who bid the people to accept Jehovah’s Theocratic Government and to flee from his day of his vengeance at the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1945 p. 262

 

At the battle of Armageddon Jehovah will further vindicate his almighty power by draping those demonic heavens with the mourning and sackcloth of death and destruction.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1945 p. 263

 

That they yet have a ways to go before they are vindicated at the battle of Armageddon by Jehovah’s victory there, does not make them faint or slack the hand in his service.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1945 p. 266

 

At the settlement of the bitter controversy by the final battle at Armageddon Jehovah will fight and prove that fact.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1945 p. 267

 

They shall lie down in a sorrowful death at the battle of Armageddon; for then this world shall end.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1945 p. 267

 

It is the outbreak of the universal war of Armageddon, between God’s organization and the Devil’s organization, with all the nations on the earth on the Devil’s side and against God’s Kingdom. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 276, 277

 

The world catastrophe of Armageddon is whiter the nations are now marching, even under banners and slogans of peace. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 277

 

Only knowledge from God’s Word, the Bible, is a defense against being swept along with the politicians, financiers, and religious clergy in their willful march to destruction at Armageddon. 

The people of today have a right to know that the condition of religious “Christendom” is the modern counterpart of that of ancient Israel, and that Israel’s fate is due upon “Christendom” at Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 277

 

Religiously inclined people are deceiving themselves when they think that their sacrificial offering of money to priests and preachers, and the “sacrifice of the mass”, and the religious ritual and ceremonies which the clergymen carry on, actually count with God and will screen them from Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 277

 

Certainly the people who seek true security and protection cannot look to such clergy and their political allies for defense against Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 277

 

What is their protection against going along with the captivating religious “strange woman”and falling into the deep pit into which she is leading the nations at Armageddon? Take defense!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 278

 

Anyone anxious to escape being abhorred by the Lord God and falling into destruction at Armageddon will forsake religion, and will seek knowledge and be guided by it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 278

 

“Christendom” has no such knowledge and understanding, and she rebels against the reproofs which God sends against her through the message of His witnesses. For her willful ignorance she will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.  Those who want to avoid her fate will not resist the information and the reproofs which she refuses.  Without first knowing what is the will of God, they would be hastening down the same path of sin in which she hurries toward Armageddon, and would show themselves foolish.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 282

 

If we desire to do what is righteous, we will recognize the people’s absolute lack of defense against what is impending over the world at Armageddon, and we will be diligent to give such endangered ones what is due them, by informing them of the danger and pointing out the way of escape.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 282

 

At Armageddon they will throw their silver and gold and material wealth into the streets, but neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s anger and to buy a way for their lives to be spared. (Ezek. 7:19; Zeph. 1:18) Whereas money may be a temporary defense now, our knowing Jehovah and his purpose is a permanent defense against disaster at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 282

 

32.  For what will “Christendom”, therefore, be destroyed at Armageddon?  and why is it not good now to be without knowledge?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 282

 

Those who are destined to perish think that the savor of our message is death-dealing.  Shall we be influenced by their.opinion? No; but, knowing that
the knowledge of God is a defense against death by execution in the day of his wrath at Armageddon, let us cast up this defense more strongly.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 283

 

As humble King David subdued in battle all God’s enemies in the typical Theocracy, so at Armageddon’s fight the Greater David, Christ Jesus, will clear out all anti-Theocratic forces and will extend and cause to be recognized throughout the universe, including this earthly ball, Jehovah’s dominion.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 287

 

Money is only a temporary defense to be east aside as worthless in a time of crisis, while the knowledge of Jehovah is the only permanent defense against the wrath of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 15, 1945 p. 287

 

They sing of how the anointed King at once went into action as Jehovah’s royal Consort and Executive; how he immediately began “war in heaven”; how he fought successfully against that old Serpent Satan and all his demon seed and cast them out of heaven and down to the earth, to be reserved here a “short time” before the head of tile Serpent is crushed at the battle of Armageddon. They sing forth that God’s kingdom is here, at the doors, according to all the visible signs in evidence on earth since 1914; and that such kingdom by Christ Jesus will come against all of Satan’s abased organization and will wipe it from the face of the universe for ever, at Armageddon. What a new song!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 296

 

They rejoice that he will make a name for himself by his victory at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 296

 

That of the human courts is quickly to pass away, at the battle of Armageddon; that of Jehovah’s holy courts is never-fading.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 297

 

At Armageddon, however, when the leaders of this “earth” are saying,
“Peace and security !” will come the climax of death-dealing pain: “then suddenly upon them cometh destruction, just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, and in nowise shall they escape.” -1 Thess. 5:3, Roth.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 298

 

By having Satan and his demonic heavens cast down to the vicinity of this earth, Jehovah has made all enemies the footstool of his anointed King Christ Jesus; and Christ Jesus is commanded to wiled the scepter of his power in the midst of such enemies till he finally dashes them to pieces like a potter’s vessel at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 298

In the modern counterpart it is Christ Jesus, the Greater-than-Joseph, who causes the truth to be held forth and who is gathering unto the fold the “other sheep” who will make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 300

 

Because the great death-dealing spiritual famine is on in “Christendom”and will continue until the battle of Armageddon breaks over “Christendom”and all the rest of Satan’s organization and destroys all such.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 300

 

There are many others, like scattered sheep, that the Lord will yet gather into the fold before Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 300

 

Like-wise now those of the “other sheep”, who are in the world, are obliged to come to Jehovah’s visible organization, the Theocratic organization of His witnesses under Christ Jesus, and then to learn the way to life by obtaining and feeding upon the life-stores which the Lord has prepared and stored up for such. This they must do before the battle of Armageddon climaxes the great famine.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 300, 301

 

Hence Joseph’s transactions with the people do not mean the man can buy his life from God.  It does mean that, in order for the great flock of “other sheep” to survive Armageddon and to get life from God through Christ Jesus, these must fully comply with God’s terms which terms are that men shall fully, unreservedly and completely consecrate themselves to God and his faithful service, and shall acknowledge and serve his King, Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 301

 

The “other sheep” surviving Armageddon will likewise recognize the arrangement which the King Christ Jesus makes for them according to the will of God, and they will be glad therefor.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1945 p. 302

 

Yes, he was present in the established Kingdom to rule in the midst of his enemies until he finally destroys them at the coming battle of Armageddon.-Matt. 24:1-22.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 309

 

Now all Jehovah’s enemies are bottled up at the earth, and the battle of Armageddon comes on apace.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 311

 

At the battle of Armageddon he will settle the issue and vindicate his right to universal sovereignty by wiping out all his united organized enemies, visible and invisible, as completely as if by destruction in fire.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 311

 

Refusing to conform itself to the light of God’s flashing truths, this symbolic “earth” continues to writhe and twist as if in birth-pangs, suffering from the sorrows which began in 1914 and which will reach their worst at her death at Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 312

 

But all people will be forced to see the glory of Jehovah’s vindication at the fiery battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 312

Whereas the peoples on earth refuse to receive the testimony of the “heavens”, Armageddon’s stern realities will make them see Jehovah’s glory.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 312

At Armageddon they will fight under him to the utter destruction of Satan’s entire organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 313

 

Satan the Devil has come down, having great wrath because of being ousted from heaven and also because of knowing he has but a short time until the showdown fight at Armageddon; and so he brings great woes upon his earthly organization, to regiment everybody to his side of the controversy.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 313

 

It would be very ungrateful if his consecrated people did not love Jehovah, seeing how he has preserved their souls or lives down to this date and promises to do so clear through the catastrophe of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 315

Therefore, at Armageddon, the brilliant light of everlasting deliverance and gladness will crown all of Jehovah’s lovers.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1945 p. 315

 

Do these words say that the “law” will not be abolished before the heaven and earth (Satan’s invisible and visible organization) pass away in destruction at the battle of Armageddon to be succeeded by the new heavens and new earth which God has promised? No!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1945 p. 325

 

All the world of mankind are “dead in trespasses and sins” and traveling now a swift pace toward destruction at the battle of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1945 p. 331

 

It is so because the nations are bent on continuing their march through the postwar period to the battlefield of Armageddon, which name Armageddon refers to the “war of the great day of God, the Almighty”.  (Rev. 16: 14, Am. Stan. Ver.) In that universal war of Armageddon a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of surviving alive into the new world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 339

 

Hezekiah, prince of Judah, was another who be-thought himself of the Creator in his youthful days. Therefore his reign, which began when he was but twenty-five years of age, was a faithful and godly reign that foreshadowed the time of Christ’s reigning with his Father from A.D. 1914 down to the battle of Armageddon-2 Kings, chapters 18, 19; 2 Chronicles, chapters 29-32.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 342

 

It matters not how few years or many years the battle of Armageddon may be off, now is the time to remember and serve the great Creator of the New World.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 343

 

Getting off in youth to a start in the commercial, political, and religious things of this world, in disregard of the will of Jehovah God the Creator and Promiser of the New World, leaves the man at old age as empty as this old world, which is near its Armageddon of destruction.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 345

 

Such cleansing or purging work continues till now. “Even to the time of the end.” That means until the Lord’s “strange work” is completed, after which his “strange act” will be made manifest at Armageddon-Isa 28:21; Dan. 11:35.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 349

 

Such proclamation must keep on until the beginning of the battle of Armageddon, at which time Jehovah God will show to all his supreme power. While no man yet knows the day nor the hour that Armageddon will begin, the “signs of the times” show that it is very near.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1945 p. 350

 

This devoted son of God would vindicate Jehovah’s universal sovereignty not only by his unbreakable faithfulness to God on earth, but also by reigning at Jehovah’s right hand in heaven and destroying everything of Satan’s wicked world at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 357

 

IN THE November 15 issue of this journal (¶2) it was stated: “In that universal ware of Armageddon a person’s having youth will be no advantage to him nor a guarantee of surviving alive into the new world. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 364

 

Being marked in the divine eyes as a person of good-will is what counts for exemption from slaughter in that universal Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 364

 

Ezekiel, chapter 9, in harmony with other prophecies, shows a separating work conducted by him shortly preceding the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, otherwise called “Armageddon”, and clearly identifies the people of good-will, or Jonadabs.

The mighty executive officer of Jehovah God is Christ Jesus, the one who leads Jehovah’s hosts of heaven at the battle of Armageddon and who executes Jehovah’s judgment upon the enemy organization of Satan the Devil.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 364

 

The heavenly, invisible part does the violent work of execution of the wicked; while the visible, earthly part does the work of publishing God’s message of truth, to the end that intelligent persons may choose which side they will take before the execution at Armageddon takes place.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 364

 

Organized religion of “Christendom”is, as a whole, symbolized under the term “city”, which city God will wipe out at Armageddon.

 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 364

This shows, and let all the youthful ones of today note it, that God’s Executioner at Armageddon slays all except those who bear the mark in the forehead, beginning with the “ancient men”, that is to say, with those high in authority and who exercise governing control over the organization and lead in religion.  As the executioners go down the line, it is the mark that counts with them as to who may be spared. The slaughter of the “ancient men”means the beginning or first part of Armageddon, the battle of the great day of God Almighty: “And he said unto them, Defile the house [temple of religion], and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.  And they went forth, and slew in the city.”-Ezek. 9:7

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 365

 

It is the Jonadab class that are spared and protected by the Lord God during Armageddon because they are marked in the forehead and obey Him. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1945 p. 365

 

The witnesses to the Kingdom are very grateful to God for its establishment in their day, and they sing for joy because that Kingdom will act at the battle of Armageddon for the full vindication of Jehovah’s name by bringing Satan’s world organization to its end in destruction. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 376

 

Only by so doing will they escape destruction with the political nations at Armageddon and enter into life eternal on the cleansed earth in God’s righteous NewWorld.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 379

 

With the postwar epoch ahead of us and the demons hurrying all the political nations on to Armageddon, we are living in the very culmination of the fulfillment of the prophecy Paul quoted.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 380

 

The battle which Joshua later fought with the enemies of that treaty at Gibeon is, without a doubt, a picture of the “battle of that great day of God Almighty”, otherwise called “Armageddon”.  Armageddon’s likeness to the battle of Gibeon is shown at Isaiah 28:21, which reads : “For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.” The act, “his strange act,” here mentioned is the battle of Armageddon, where God’s enemies will be destroyed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 381

 

This shows that those today who are disposed toward God cannot wait until Armageddon begins, to seek Jehovah God, but must act quickly upon hearing the truth as set forth in the Scriptures and as proclaimed by Jehovah’s witnesses.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 381

 

This is further evidence that the battle of Gibeon was a picture of the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 381

 

The Gibeonites were delivered and saved from the destruction purposed upon them by the combined enemy, and this pictures that the persons of good-will who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors by first putting themselves under the command of the Greater Joshua, the Captain Christ Jesus, will be saved at the battle of Armageddon and will enter the new righteous world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1945 p. 381, 382

They must proclaim the message of the Kingdom to all nations, as foretold and commanded at Matthew 24:14, and that message must be of the Kingdom as having been established in A. D. 1914. This must be done before the final end comes on the world at Armageddon.-See The Watchtower July 1, 1920.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

Now, however, beginning in 1923, the Teacher at the temple began to reveal that there is an earthly class who become the Lord’s “sheep” and whom he gathers now before Armageddon’s war to the right side of His throne.  From then on, step by step, the heavenly Teacher opened the understanding of the spiritual remnant to see that such “other sheep” must be witnessed to and served with the Kingdom message and thereby enabled to take their stand for God’s kingdom. So doing, these may pass alive through Armageddon into the NewWorld.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

It was a sublime revelation when the perfect Educator opened the Textbook, the Bible, and in 1925 revealed that the name of Jehovah must have its proper place; that his Kingdom was born in 1914 and Jehovah’s purpose by it is to ‘make a great and lasting name for himself’ at the battle of Armageddon; and that such battle is not a fight between capital and labor, conservatives and radicals, or any human parties and nations, but is GOD’s FIGHT against the entire Devil’s organization invisible and visible; and that his servant class on earth have no part in that fight, but must only warn of its coming.-2 Sam. 7:23; Isa. 63: 14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 10

 

The “strange” work” which precedes God’s “strange act” at Armageddon is not yet done.  So many of the “other sheep” are yet scattered and in danger of perishing, and need to be fed.  We stand at the threshold of 1944.  It is certain to be a crucial year. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11

 

That will bring its own tests of the faith and faithful endurance of Jehovah’s servant class and their companions, because Satan and his demons will be relentlessly marching all nations to the climax at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11

 

He did so, because it was his purpose to have his name declared throughout all the earth before he shows his power over all enemies at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 11, 12

 

Therefore in the final vindication of his name at Armageddon he will vindicate his servant class by the called-for destruction of all enemies that afflict them. (Luke 18: 7, 8)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 12

 

Armageddon, will witness acts of Jehovah on a far grander scale, which will convince, at the cost of their lives, those that scoff at Jehovah’s power to work miracles.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 15

 

All of the foregoing Bible record concerning Joshua is prophetic of these last days, and particularly of the Armageddon Conflict.  In the battles of Canaan, Joshua as executioner pictures Jehovah’s great Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon, when He will annihilate all devil-worshipers.  The battle of Gibeon, in particular, foreshadowed Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon, wherein miracles so wondrous will occur that the halting of the sun at Gibeon will fade into in insignificance by comparison.  (Isa. 28:21)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 1, 1944 p. 15, 16

 

Rahab’s activity in gathering her family associates to the only place of safety pictures the zeal of the “other sheep” in declaring the Kingdom message to others, and pointing them to the only safe refuge from Armageddon’s storm. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1944 p. 32

 

The faithful and wise son, that rejoices the heart of his father and makes glad his mother, will so deport himself before men and angels that he will not bring any shame upon the organization and its name. (Prov. 23:22, 24, 25; 19:26)  By such a course he is sure to abide as a beloved member of God’s organization universal, and to have a part with God’s “woman”and her chief Son, Christ Jesus, in vindicating the honorable name of Jehovah God the Father. Also, now, his “other sheep” will honor God’s “woman”, joyfully serving under her direction at present, looking forward to the blessed hope of being adopted after the battle of Armageddon as her beloved earthly children through Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 44

 

In the final end Satan’s totalitarian organization will itself be crushed and ground to powder and puffed into eternal death at Armageddon, and Satan can’t help it!

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 45

 

If the Christian relaxes his vigilance on any pretext he may find himself in the “goat” camp at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 46

 

The Greater Ehud in heaven will sound the assembly call and the armies in heaven will follow him to the Armageddon fight. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 48

 

So it will be in the antitype; and since the days of the Greater Ehud are endless, the rest and peace following Armageddon’s story will never end.-Ps. 72; Nah. 1:9; Isa. 9:6, 7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 1, 1944 p. 48

 

Such plagues are messages of judgment from Jehovah God and are revealed through his Bible. They are expressed against all things of this world of religion, or demonism, and the politics and commerce.  Such judgment messages expose this world as Satan’s and body declare what shall soon come upon it in the battle of Armageddon, now near.   

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

The march out of modern Egypt is under way, Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions are marching in freedom to the Red sea of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

We have nothing to fear of the Red sea of Armageddon. Through his Greater Moses, Jehovah commands us: ’The Lord will fight for you. Bid the people go forward!’ (Ex. 14:14, 15) And the faithful do so.  Jehovah’s witnesses and the multitude of their companions will go through the blood-red battle of Armageddon and come out on the other side in the free New World of righteousness. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59, 60

 

40.  Are we near the sea of Armageddon what does Jehovah command through Christ? and what will be the final event respectively to the perusing enemy and to Jehovah’s faithful people?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 59

 

The pursuing demon-led Egyptian hosts, rashly pushing on to the final assault against the witnesses of the Most High God, will enter into the Red sea of Armageddon, but will never come out alive.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  February 15, 1944 p. 60

 

World regeneration is not yet complete, and will not be until the new earth has been created and all creatures that have constituted the “heavens and the earth which are now” have been destroyed in the battle of Armageddon, toward which all nations of earth are now blindly marching.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 75

 

Hence the twelve tribes of Israel while rejoicing in the peace, plenty and security during the reign of wise King Solomon pictured the obedient ones of human- kind who gather to the King greater than Solomon and who are delivered from all oppressors at the battle of Armageddon.As visible representatives of God’s kingdom among such “twelve tribes” after Armageddon, and as God’s appointed “princes in all the earth”, will be the faithful men of old, from Abel to John the baptist.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 75, 76

 

Such ones are promised protection by the Higher Powers and will be carried alive through the battle of Armageddon into the regenerated world of righteousness.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 76

 

Organized religion, forming a part of the Devil’s visible organization, must, together with the other component parts thereof, be wiped out by God’s power at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 77

 

Plainly they seem to be: (1) a clear vision that the time as come to vindicate God’s name, overthrow Satan’s organization, and introduce a new world of righteousness; and (2) a clear vision of the blessed privilege that the remnant now have of being witnesses for Jehovah God and of cooperating with his beloved Son and King in the “strange work” which now has to be done before Armageddon.-1 Cor. 1:9.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 77

 

All those consecrated to God must now learn and take heed to the fact that, to understand and appreciate the unfolding of the truth of God’s Word, we must walk in meekness and humility before God; we must recognize that the truth is the Lord’s, and not man’s, and that the Lord is directing his own work; that God is not pleased with those who attempt to exalt themselves or to give glory to the name of men; that long centuries ago God prepared some precious things to be revealed “in that day”, “the day which the Lord hath made,” and therefore we can recognize that day as having begun in A.D. 1914 and can rejoice in it; that Christ Jesus, as God’s appointed Judge, is at the temple and judgment is now upon the house of God; that those who love God and who prove it by their works will now rejoice in the great privilege of co-operating in the “strange work” of witness that the Lord is doing; that now the name of Jehovah is exalted in heaven because Satan has been expelled from heaven with all his demons and Jehovah’s name is now also exalted among the remnant of His “little flock” and also the multitude o his “other sheep”; and that God has commanded that at this time immediately before Armageddon’s war his consecrated people must be his witnesses and sing forth his praises and tell the peoples of earth concerning Jehovah’s doings in order that the peoples may know that Jehovah is God and that deliverance is at hand by his kingdom under Christ.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 78

 

The position of God’s consecrated people as being indeed ’~Jehovah’s witnesses” has been ridiculed and disputed by all religionists. But the president, taking up the controversy, demonstrated from the Scriptures that Jehovah’s witnesses have letters of recommendation attesting their commission from the Lord more strongly than any ordination that the religious clergy could bestow upon them, just as surely as there has been built up today a great multitude of persons of good-will who shall go through the battle of Armageddon without dying.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 79

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT, by God’s grace, under the leadership and command of the greatest Educator of the Universe, Jehovah, we will faithfully do our part in carrying on this campaign of Free Education for men of good-will until the victory is complete at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1944 p. 80

 

Other scriptures show these latter words must apply at the “time of the end” before the battle of Armageddon which destroys the entire Devil’s organization

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 94

 

By preserving their integrity toward God the same as do the remnant, not only will the “other sheep” gain eternal life on a Paradise earth, but members of this class maybe hid in the day of God’s anger at Armageddon and maybe borne alive through that battle into the post- Armageddon New World and never descend into the grave; in a word, never die.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 94

 

In this inspiring prophetic drama of vengeance and deliverance Barak pictured mainly Christ Jesus, sometimes as the Leader of the anointed remnant of God’s witnesses yet on earth, and sometimes as the Commander of the heavenly hosts who will march forth at Armageddon.   

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 15, 1944 p. 95

 

The “god of this world” and his wicked angels were forced down to the earth and there kept in custody, pending the final fight between Christ and all of Satan’s organized forces at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 105

 

After defeat and debasement, Satan was insanely mad and proceeded to organize, prepare and train “all rule, and all authority and power” under him for  the final war, the battle of Armageddon. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 1, 1944 p. 105

 

35.  Due to what conduct of the nations has the battle of Armageddon become unavoidable?

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The battle of Armageddon,”the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” becomes unavoidable, to remove all such opponents, who refuse to bow willingly.

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Nevertheless, with the destruction of such powers at Armageddon not all of man’s enemies will have been wiped out.

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A great number of these “other sheep” of the Lord will never go down into the tomb, for Almighty God will preserve a great multitude of this class through the destruction of the old world at Armageddon.

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IN this fight Barak pictured Christ Jesus, Deborah foreshadowed God’s organization, particularly the holy angels that follow Christ Jesus in Armageddon’s fight, and the ten thousand Israelites prefigured the complete number of the remnant of witnesses on earth. 

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It is proof also that the King’s word is near at hand to be fulfilled upon the earthly survivors of Armageddon: “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”-John 11:26. 

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Even for a person of good-will to die now before Armageddon does not mean his labors in Jehovah’s witness work have been thrown away.

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In like manner Jehovah’s “strange act” of Armageddon will catch religion’s tools unawares, at the moment when it seems they will certainly quash his witnesses; and at that moment their own destruction will come.  As it was at the river Kishon, so at Armageddon both inanimate forces and angelic hosts will bring salvation to God’s people and vindication to His name.-Judg. 5:20; Rev: 22:16; Ps. 148:3, 8; Ezek. 38:21-23

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  April 15, 1944 p. 127

 

Its further expansion is certain to occur, before God himself climaxes this witness work by his own convincing testimonial through an over- whelming demonstration of divine power at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 132

 

Despite the protests of his enemies, the King rules amid them and goes forth “conquering, and to conquer”, riding gloriously along to the final victory, at Armageddon.

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All the steam-roller regimentation of the postwar world down till Armageddon will fail to break God’s earthen vessels and to rob them of their treasure.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 140

 

Like the remnant of Jehovah’s witnesses, these “other sheep” appreciate that the only treasure that will survive the fiery battle of Armageddon and continue unsinged and unconsumed into the New World is “this treasure” of the blessed ministry, the service unto Jehovah God and his glorious King Christ Jesus.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 140

 

During the past 1900 years many persons have professed to be Christians, but only a very small proportion have proved faithful under the test.  Now the time has come when Christ Jesus, the King, is enthroned and is present conducting in the earth God’s strange work, which consists of proclamation being made before the nations and the -people that religion is of the Devil and is a fraud and a snare and a racket, and that Christians are those who are wholly devoted to God and Christ and who must obey him; that it is God’s purpose to soon destroy Satan’s entire organization, and that this will be done at the battle of the great day of God Almighty called “Armageddon”’ and that the only place of safety and salvation is in God’s organization.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1944 p. 141

 

The day of Armageddon is very near, when God will express his wrath and exhibit his great power against Satan and all his forces. 

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At the same time, in obedience to the Lord’s commandments, these witnesses give warning of th impending disaster that shall fall upon the wold world at Armageddon.  Therefore this is the time of great emergency, because the battle of Armageddon is very near. 

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At the battle of Armageddon the end of the “goats” will be destruction, whereas this class of “other sheep” will receive from the Lord protection and salvation to life in the everlasting New World.

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Jael foreshadows the Lord’s “other sheep” scattered throughout “Christendom”, and who will eventually makeup the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

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This they publicly confess before the Armageddon visit of the Greater Barak, Christ Jesus. Then religion’s forces will literally perish.

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They would suffer destruction if Armageddon found them allied with religion.

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He and it disagree thoroughly, and that is why he will destroy it at the battle of Armageddon, to which all nations are marching with quickening pace. 

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That statement of Ecclesiastes 1:4 holds good at the battle of Armageddon. Why should the Creator destroy his creation, our planet earth? It is not wicked.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

After this has been done in the final end of the old world at the battle of Armageddon, this globe will be transformed every- where into a paradise for the pleasurable home of those proving worthy to live in the new world, a “world without end”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 149

 

The “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors will not include any of those who now “destroy the earth” or who corrupt it.

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10.  For whom will God cleanse this earth? and what will the Armageddon survivors do, and who will compose the “new earth” to make it one new world?

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The words of Jesus in the sermon on the mount show that riches thus acquired are not availing or helpful in time of world distress or of great need such as now immediately before the world’s destruction in the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 158

 

So the Greater Gideon, Christ Jesus, declares from the temple the judgments that bring low the Devil’s system in the minds of His followers, and he will grind the blaspheming thing, along with its lord, into the dust under His heel when the execution of these judgments occurs at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 15, 1944 p. 159

 

The actual slaughter and finishing off of the Midianites prefigures Armageddon’s destructive work.

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They take no part in maintaining or furthering this world, but let it go its way to destruction at the forthcoming battle of Armageddon.

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The gospel is not meant to transform or convert this world and its organizations and to save them from destruction at Armageddon. 

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To the direct contrary, “every corporate center of power”of this world will be destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.

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Is anything more practical and wise than preaching now the gospel? No. Instead, what is more foolish than to pursue things of this world and frantically to strive to spare them from destruction at Armageddon.

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At the battle of Armageddon, not far distant, Jehovah God will destroy all ‘the wisdom of the wise’ which they will have demonstrated in the postwar “new order”.

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Jehovah’s preachers know the value of their work, and they will keep on preaching the gospel, without stopping, until the final end of this world and of its wisdom comes at the battle of Armageddon. (Matt. 24:14)

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 167

 

(b) Why will the wisdom and understanding of the worldly-wise fail to save them at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 1, 1944 p. 167

 

Those who will escape the terrible tribulation and destruction of Armageddon and who thereafter have the blessings from the Lord on the earth, will constitute the “great multitude” described at Revelation 7:9-17, and they constitute the Lord’s “other sheep”.

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Their regimented “one world” will never hold together when Jehovah’s Kingdom rule exerts its power at Armageddon.

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As for the modern Abimelechs, their God-defying misrule will be brought up short at The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  Armageddon.

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At the battle of Armageddon”,the battle of that great day of God Almighty,” Jehovah will deal out death to all worldly rulers opposing the rule of his Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus.

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In the time of the resurrection under Christ’s rule, God will not send forth his spirit or life-force to restore to life any such as wickedly fight against his King during the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  June 15, 1944 p. 181

 

11. At Armageddon what will God do in terribleness to worldly kings and princes, and what will be their future prospects thereafter?

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At Zechariah 6:5 the prophet refers to the hosts of superhuman spirit creatures which God has at his command and which he now uses in performing his “strange work” on the earth clear up to the battle of Armageddon. 

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As Noah gave warning at the command of God, so also Jehovah God commands his faithful witnesses now on the earth, at the second coming of Christ Jesus, to give full warning by preaching ’this gospel of the kingdom’ as a witness to the world, and to do this just preceding the time of the complete destruction of the world at Armageddon.  (Matt. 24:14, 21)

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Satan and all his demons are the hidden factors behind all this violence and human woe that now fills the earth and that will be brought to an end by their destruction in the battle of Armageddon which now draws near.-Rev. 12:12, 13, 17.

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They have been blessed with many victories; there are still future triumphs for freedom-lovers, all to be climaxed by Armageddon’s destruction of “this present evil world” gone totalitarian.

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But as the royal One who fights against all opposers of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty and whips them at the battle of Armageddon, he was prefigured by that priest upon a royal throne, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  Melchizedek, the king of Salem. 

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At Armageddon he rides in righteous warfare as upon a white battle-worthy horse: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

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“Tile words elect and chosen translate the same Greek word and are used interchangeably. The spirit-begotten Christians who share the victory with Christ Jesus at Armageddon are not only called, but also chosen or elect.

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Christ Jesus, who overcomes the united nations of the world at Armageddon, said: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

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They must, however, be conformed to the image of the Chief One of the called and chosen and faithful company, Christ Jesus, by keeping faithful to God unto the end, even clear through the big fight at Armageddon. (Rom. 8:28-39; 1 Tim. 3:16, Heb. 12:23)  This entails much suffering upon them, that causes them to cry to God day and night; but God will speedily avenge them at Armageddon.  (Luke 18:7, 8)

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I told him how the perfect pair lost their right to life in Eden and how the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth would be carried out after Armageddon by finding protection at this time under the ‘city of refuge’, Zion, God’s organization. 

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At Armageddon Jehovah’s executioners will not slay such marked ones. 

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This is a marvelous fact now amidst the hottest intensity of global war; and what will it be in the postwar period, during which period the work will be successfully finished before the final end of this world at Armageddon?

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By such fearless testimony faithfully sustained in the spirit of the Lord down till the victorious fight at Armageddon, they faithfully render their part to the vindication of His name.

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The work assigned to this earthly division is to sing forth the praises of Jehovah’s name now before the fight at Armageddon and also while the fight is in progress.

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The vision discloses God’s purpose to destroy “Christendom” with his army of destruction, which is in readiness for Armageddon.

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It is the “servant” class that must bear to them the precious truths of the Kingdom, that they may see the way to go and what to do now before the battle of Armageddon

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 238

 

Properly Ezekiel prostrated himself before Jehovah and submitted a question, not to indicate that the “servant” class cries out in horror at the Armageddon slaughter and begs for mercy upon the wicked; but rather to indicate that the “servant” speaks to the Lord God to call forth from him a statement to show that the slaughter is entirely justified.  “And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?”  The reply given to Ezekiel proves that the battle of Armageddon will witness the complete downfall of “Christendom”, and that without any quarter or pity from the Lord God.

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God will not spare at Armageddon, but will fully return upon their own heads the wickedness of those who reject and oppose his kingdom.  He will make a clean-up of the entire religious organization, in order that all marked persons who survive may know that Jehovah is the only true God. That the slaughter at Armageddon will be wide-spread the prophet Jeremiah gives testimony.-Jer. 25:33-37.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 1, 1944 p. 239

 

According to this unchangeable rule, the proud and haughty religious clergy of “Christendom”, who exalt themselves and then use their self-assumed authority and power to keep the blinded people in ignorance and away from Jehovah’s Theocratic Government, are due for a fall into destruction at the battle of Armageddon with which this “time of the end” shall close.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 245

 

The wise prefer to keep company with the lowly, those low in their own eyes, because they recognize Jehovah God and Christ Jesus as “The Higher Powers”. Only thus do the wise gain the favor or grace of the Lord God; for He resists the proud. In the battle of Armageddon he will spoil those who have unrighteously spoiled the peoples of earth and persecuted His witnesses, whereas he will raise up his downtrodden and despoiled servants and beautify them with a blessed place in the righteous “world without end”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 246

 

In this “day of temptation”, with the battle of Armageddon as the final end for this pride-ruled world, it is imperative that all who strive for life in the New World beyond Armageddon take heed to their spirit.

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With Satan the Devil and his demons facing destruction shortly at Armageddon and bent on dragging as many of humankind as possible down into the destruction with them, it is now a time of great temptation.

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This also dooms the world of which Satan the Devil is the invisible prince and god, and it must come to an end at the execution of God’s judgment against it at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 249

 

Lot and is family foreshadowed those persons today who are of good-will and who hear the warning concerning the great destruction that will come upon the world at Armageddon, which warning is now being sounded everywhere by Jehovah’s witnesses.

The destruction of Sodom pictured the battle of Armageddon, particularly its fiery and destructive work against wicked “Christendom”.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

Speaking of the conditions that would prevail upon the earth at the time of his second coming, Jesus likens them unto Sodom’s, thus further proving that the destruction of Sodom was a type or foreshadowing of what will befall “Christendom” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

The facts now conclusively prove that in all “Christendom” the men who operate the religious systems do so for selfish reason. By these religious systems they carry on a racket and are entirely oblivious to the warning God is causing to be sounded in their presence as to the approaching battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 252

 

Jesus described the conditions to prevail on earth at the time of the Armageddon fight and said: “In that day, he which shall be upon the house top, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife.”-Luke17:31, 32.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

Likewise those who will form the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors now receive the warning to flee, and they must flee to the Lord’s kingdom before the fight at Armageddon, and they must abide under Jehovah’s protection until the fire of Armageddon has completely burned out.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

This was made known to the Israelites by Moses just before they crossed Jordan into Canaan, and this clearly shows that the fulfillment of the picture relates particularly to Christ’s second coming and his kingdom, and what occurs shortly before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

Those six cities, established for the convenience of the Israelites who were on both sides of the Jordan, symbolically pictured the protection which men of good-will receive by fleeing now from Satan’s organization to the High Priest Christ Jesus and his organization and remaining there until Armageddon has ended.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 253

 

The battle Armageddon is near, and God declares that all willful and deliberate Milers shall perish at Armageddon at the sword of his Executioner, Christ.

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They may flee to God’s capital organization under Christ and may find refuge and protection until Armageddon is past.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1943 p. 254

 

The “revenger of blood” mentioned at Numbers 35:19 pictured the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Executioner, who carries out Jehovah’s orders and who will slay all God’s enemies at Armageddon.  If those persons of good-will show their faith in God and in Christ Jesus and their obedience by fleeing to the Lord before Armageddon and then continuing to seek righteousness and meekness and to serve Him as commanded, such maybe spared in the great devastation to be wrought at Armageddon.  Therefore the cities of refuge, and those who anciently found refuge in such, prophetically picture Jehovah’s place of refuge and the people of good-will who seek it and who for ever continue in faith and faithfulness under Jehovah’s deathless High Priest Christ Jesus, and who will consequently make up the “great multitude” of Armageddon survivors.

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These are the ones who will survive Armageddon and inherit Kingdom blessings.

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Jesus declared that this short time was mercifully allotted by Almighty God in order that there should be some flesh saved at the battle of Armageddon.  Do not say therefore, Well, if the kingdom of God has come, why does it not fight the battle of Armageddon at once and get it over with and relieve men of this distress of nations? In answer, the Bible replies: ‘If the established Kingdom had proceeded directly to the battle of Armageddon, then there would have been no earthly or human survivors of it, not even a remnant of God’s elect.’ The “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization began in 1914, as signalized by World War I. The final end and grand climax of that tribulation will come at the decisive fight between Jehovah’s hosts and all of Satan’s hosts at Armageddon.

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In that year, in fact, the oppressed consecrated people of Jehovah were expecting the battle of Armageddon to break loose.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 261

 

If the battle of Armageddon had then struck the earth, the remnant in the flesh would not have been saved to survive the fight.  And if this remnant of consecrated ones was not found worthy unto salvation, who, then, of all the multitudes of human flesh would have been saved and ever gotten through the battle of Armageddon alive? 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 261

 

At that time did Jehovah God give the signal for the battle of Armageddon to begin, the kings of this earth to be struck through in God’s great wrath, and their invisible head Satan to be bruised and bound and cast into the “bottomless pit” and sealed up there for a thousand years?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

After suffering great tribulation in heaven, Satan, now cast down to the earth, was not confronted at once with the battle of Armageddon and destroyed.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

And it is first at Revelation, chapter sixteen, after foretelling of vexatious plagues against Satan’s organization at the earth, that the gathering of world rulers under the demons unto the battle site at Armageddon is made known.  It is therefore clear that at the coming battle of Armageddon, which is the “battle of that great day of God Almighty [Jehovah]”, the final part of the “great tribulation” upon Satan’s organization, visible and invisible, commences. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 262

 

Now is the time for flight in order that ‘some flesh shall be saved’ at Armageddon. 

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The worldly nations still keep up the encirclement of them and are conspiring on a world-wide scale to close in on them just prior to the battle of Armageddon to wipe them out utterly.  Such antagonism and persecutions against Jehovah’s witnesses will not cease in the postwar period. 

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It is by that kingdom that Jehovah God will yet go forth against the besieging nations of earth and destroy the mall in the grand fight at Armageddon, just as he fought by that same kingdom against Satan’s demon organization in the historic “war in heaven”, now past.

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From the birth of his Theocracy, in 1914, and down till his going forth and fighting and whipping the combined enemies at Armageddon is the famous “day of Jehovah”.  This is the favorable day of flight to real security against execution at Armageddon.

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In all parts of the earth where his faithful people are, there they confess that he reigns by his anointed King Christ Jesus, and they acknowledge Jehovah God and his King as the true “Higher Powers”. They subject themselves to these “powers that be” and obey them rather than men. (Rom. 13:1; Acts 5:29) And before the day is over at Armageddon, Satan and all his demons will see all their agent-kings on earth cleared off by Jehovah’s “strange act” and only Jehovah continuing to hold the field as “King over all the earth”.

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His active witnesses make known these all-important truths, and they pray that He will duly make a demonstration of his power against all foes at Armageddon: “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”-Ps. 83:18.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 265

 

This association of Father and Son in this joint reign precedes the Armageddon of destruction for Satan’s hosts.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 265

 

At the same time the thousand-year kingdom of Christ Jesus is near, and it approaches nearer with all the speed of Armageddon’s approach!

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This gospel preaching must be done now during this day of Jehovah, during this time of His grace between the “war in heaven” and the final battle o f Armageddon, by the inserting of which break Jehovah God has shortened the days of the “great tribulation”.

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That most certainly applies to the postwar period.  Therefore Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions may expect that the Satanic warfare under demon influence will be carried into that yet remaining period before the final end comes at the battle of Armageddon.

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The political forces behind it will exert pressure to have all men worship the Devil’s visible organization under this final form of man-rule.  Those worshiping it will receive a mark of support and collaboration which will doom them to destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  September 1, 1944 p. 267

 

The anointed remnant fight on. What they leave of the antitypical temple of Dagon, “Christendom,” Jehovah through Christ will topple over at Armageddon.

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But the Devil and his demons, during the short time that yet remains till the Armageddon of destruction, continue to entertain humankind with the game of man-made politics under demon overlordship.

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The time to go after these heavenly treasures is now, for no other thing will endure the fire of the surely approaching battle of Armageddon.

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But in the distant tomorrow, or in the final cubit of my life-measure before the battle of Armageddon, ah, then I shall get in real earnest and give my full time, strength and means to the Lord’s service.’

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You may share the fate of those who in the nighttime of the battle of Armageddon will have their misused selfish lives demanded of them and never live to see the morning of the new world.

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Since the good news is of the Kingdom, he proceeded to show that it is Jehovah’s kingdom that has come and that He has given authority to Christ Jesus to reign as His consort since 1914, for the subduing of his enemies; and that the thousand-year reign of Christ with his church must follow the coming battle of Armageddon.

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And if the test of endurance seems to be applied to the virgin companions longer than they had thought, and if the time till the Armageddon fight and victory of Jehovah seems to be longer than once expected, let these virgin companions not faint or grow weary. Let them remember that the spirit-begotten remnant look forward to surviving Armageddon and are willing to go with the virgin companions all the way thither.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1944 p. 299

 

Although they be many more than the 144,000 of the royal “bride” class, yet, after the full-length test of integrity has sifted out even many of the “virgins” class, those who endure to the King’s final vindication at Armageddon will compose a ‘great multitude whom no man can number’.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 1, 1944 p. 299

 

JEHOVAH GOD is approaching the grand climax of his “strange work”, which work precedes the battle of Armageddon.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Armageddon, to which all the nations are now gathered, will shortly mark his strangest of acts, of which his former acts at Gibeon were mere typical samples.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Because the “strange act” bespeaks destruction at Armageddon to man’s global or earthly organization, the “strange work”that precedes it is so crucially important to the present generation of men.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Ever since the warning concerning the near approach of the battle of Armageddon began to be given in our lifetime the religious-minded men of this world have scoffed at such a thing as too strange to occur, particularly to “Christendom”.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Did not Christ Jesus make it unmistakably clear that this work would immediately precede the divine act that brings the calamitous end to this world at Armageddon?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 307

 

Not only is the world’s most ambitious attempt at human government just before us, but also Satan as “the god of this world” is about to deceive all mankind by his greatest scheme for blinding them to God’s kingdom and putting the misinformed ones in direct opposition to it.  Satan the Devil knows that the battle of Armageddon is unavoidably ahead of his world.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 309

 

And since “this gospel of the kingdom” must be preached until the end of that organization, it is evident that the gospel preaching yet to be done, and which sets in with the postwar era, is the final work of witness, the final part of Jehovah’s “strange work”.  After it, comes his “strange act” at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 309

 

The possibilities for evangelism that loom up before them, especially as such possibilities pertain to the scattered multitudes of persons of good-will in danger of sudden destruction at Armageddon unless reached, present a challenge to Jehovah’s covenant people.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 310

 

They were not included in God’s judgment concerning those who should be destroyed in the flood; for the reason that they, together with Satan, had previously been sentenced to death, but their execution was deferred to a later date, namely, at the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 316

 

The Devil and his angels have been active from the time of the rebellion at Eden until now, and they will continue active until their destruction at Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  October 15, 1944 p. 317

 

After this “strange work” the King Christ Jesus must destroy all creatures and organizations that hate and oppose the Kingdom in the tightest war of all creation’s history, the battle of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 323

 

This they must do, down to the battle of Armageddon, when the Kingdom will destroy all the enemies of The Theocracy and then the millennial reign of Christ Jesus will begin. 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 332

 

That which is Theocratic will survive and will attain the new world of righteousness. There, with all national governments gone from earth, the legal corporation will not be needed. The Theocracy will have other arrangements for the Armageddon survivors.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1944 p. 333

 

Whereas their complete dedication of themselves to Jehovah as the one Universal Ruler does not make them a part of the “people for his name”, they do have a large part in now declaring and magnifying His name before it is vindicated in the final war of Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 339

 

Since the friendship with this world is enmity with God, his people will be strangers to it until it is totally destroyed at the battle of Armageddon.  (Jas. 4:4)  Of course, while this world is let exist down till Armageddon, God’s people conduct themselves as law-abiding “strangers and pilgrims” amid the human governments of this world, but such governments do not properly appreciate that fact.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 340

 

Since Jesus used Noah as an illustration to picture the Christ, it follows that Noah’s sons and daughters-in-law, through whom the divine mandate was fulfilled in type, pictured the consecrated persons of good-wilt who now share the reproaches of Christ with the spiritual remnant of His body and who wilt fulfill the divine mandate on earth after the world-wide destructions of the battle of Armageddon. This means, of course, that such persons of good-will are to be hid under the “ark” of Jehovah’s Theocratic organization during Armageddon.  They will thereby be preserved alive all through the end of this world, and into the new world.—Zeph. 2:1-3; Matt. 24:37-39; Gen. 9:1, 7.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 342

 

If so, they pictured the subjects of Christ Jesus, “the Prince of Peace,” and which subjects will inherit everlasting life upon earth after Armageddon.  Such ones include the “stranger” class, the “men of good-will” of today who will survive Armageddon and who will, together with the remnant, carry the pure worship of Jehovah God through that battle and into the New World without end.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 342

 

As Jehovah’s free nation is now on the trek out of Egypt, with the persecuting Egyptians at its heels, the remnant look ahead to the Red sea of Armageddon to rid them for ever of these malicious persecutors.  So the modern-day “mixed multitude” of strangers of good-will march along with and after them. They too expect to pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and to come out safe and sound on the other side, to join in singing Jehovah their Deliverer’s praise in the free NewWorld.-Ex. 14:21-31.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 346

 

Will they sink with Satan’s forces in the cataclysm of Armageddon, or will they ride out the storm of divine wrath in the antitypical ark of the Almighty God and enter into His new world of endless life?

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 350

 

Zion’s counsel will guide safely through present perils and Armageddon’s storm.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 15, 1944 p. 352

 

At the approaching world-conflict of Armageddon Jehovah God will perform “his strange act”, of which that at the valley of Gibeon was only a miniature sample.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 356

 

Thus this class will pass alive through the battle of Armageddon and will enter into the Theocratic New World under the Greater Joshua, Christ Jesus.-Isa. 28:21.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 356

 

At Armageddon Jehovah’s appointed Executioner, Christ Jesus, will regard and cherish their right and will spare them from execution in that great tribulation of Armageddon.-Zeph. 2:1-3.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 357

 

In view of the rapid approach of God’s vengeance at Armageddon, bringing the destruction of Jerusalem’s counterpart, modern-day “Christendom”, and of all organized religion, this promise is a great comfort to these “strangers” of good-will.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 359

 

In order for them to escape destruction at Armageddon with the blood-stained world-organization, they must forsake all and flee to Jehovah’s Theocratic organization under Christ Jesus the High Priest and must put themselves under it.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 360

 

At the latest, therefore, they must suffer destruction with the Devil’s world by the avenging sword of Jehovah’s mighty Executioner, Christ Jesus, at Armageddon.—Numbers 35; Joshua 20; Rom. 13:1-5; Lev. 24:21, 22.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 360

 

Since now the Theocratic Kingdom has been set up and Jehovah’s King is gathering to his temple of worship all his “other sheep” before the tribulation of Armageddon, it is incumbent upon such gathered “other sheep” to obey the “one ordinance”, namely, to ‘preach this gospel of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness’.-Matt. 24:14.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 1, 1944 p. 363

 

The spiritual meat was the steady revealments of truth as to Jehovah’s King and kingdom, and the vindication of his name at the battle of Armageddon by means of the Kingdom.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1944 p. 378

This means that the remnant must get the revealed Kingdom message out to many peoples, nations, languages, and their rulers before Armageddon.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  December 15, 1944 p. 378