*** w00 3/1 p. 22 Keeping Life Simple to Serve Jehovah ***
Since things were now going well at home and I was healthy and unencumbered, I decided to leave home and enter the pioneer service, as the full-time ministry is called. My parents encouraged me to do so. Thus, my partner, Agnes Aleta, and I received our assignment, and on August 28, 1928, we boarded a train at 9:00 p.m. Each of us had but one suitcase and a satchel to carry our Bible literature. At the station, my sisters and my parents were crying, and so were we. I thought I might never see them again, since we believed that Armageddon was near.
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w88 7/15 pp. 18-19 Pay Constant Attention to Your Teaching ***One sister in Japan explains our frequent calls this way: ‘Television news will report on the course of a typhoon again and again, repeating the information frequently for the benefit of those who might have missed previous broadcasts. This is done because lives are involved. The frequency of the reports increases as the storm draws closer. So, as the storm of Armageddon draws near, the warning message must be declared as often as possible to save lives.’ Of course, we would make such a statement kindly and with sincerity, hoping to reach the heart of the listener.
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w80 12/1 p. 5 Warnings That Should Be Heeded ***"Impossible!" you say? Yet God’s prophet, Jesus Christ, has never been wrong before. "The war of the great day of God the Almighty," commonly called Armageddon, is sure to come. (Rev. 16:14-16) It will be the final part of the "great tribulation." So does it not make sense, at least, to give consideration to the warnings that Armageddon is near, within the lifetime of most persons now living?
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w80 12/1 pp. 6-7 Warnings That Should Be Heeded ***Bible prophecies are being fulfilled. The evidence is just as clear that Armageddon is near as it was clear earlier this year that Mount St. Helens was due to erupt. Yet many there refused to heed the warnings to keep out of the danger zone. They paid with their lives.
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So today, the ingathering work of itself serves notice to an ungodly world that the battle of Armageddon is very near and will strike within this generation.
*** w61 2/1 p. 92 Attend One of the 1961 Assemblies! ***
. In this troubled world, tottering so near the brink of another total war, and Armageddon, who knows when we shall be able to enjoy further such assemblies? So, by all means attend one of the 1961 assemblies!