You May Survive Armageddon Into God's New World - Continue

 Toward the close of his speech the speaker emphasized this "hope of surviving" by these words: "Just a while ago we said that the vast majority of the subjects of the new world's King will be people restored to life on earth by the resurrection of the dead. Why only the vast majority,' and not all? Because there is a great crowd of people of good will today living who will survive the world catasprophe  of Armageddon and enter the world of new heavens and a new earth without going down into the grave or ever afterward having the need to need to die and cease to exist. That means that Armageddon is so near at hand it will strike the generation now living." Then after an explanation came the encouragement to be among the Armageddon survivors: Avoid perishing with this old world in the 'war of the great day of God the Almighty.' Get ready now to live after Armageddon in God's new world!" With these words the president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society closed his prepared speech to that 1953 international assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses in Yankee Stadium, after which all the 165,829 in his visible audience were offered free printed copies if the speech.

Never before in these twenty centuries of the so-called "Christian era" had there been such a stupendous witness on one occasion concerning this war with the ominous name Armageddon and concerning what it really means to mankind, especially the generation in which we are living. With the passing of the years since then the warning witness regarding the real Armageddon has been greatly expanded world-wide. The seriousness of it deserves the greatest possible witness to all the nations. Its steady approach and its certainty to break forth in an unguarded hour for mankind inside this generation make it urgent that it be proclaimed on the greatest possible scale and that without letup. 

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