What Will Happen To All The Children At Armageddon?

[Queen Esther]

The  DILUVIAN  (Flood)  saved  ALL  HIS  people,  haha     Jehovah  is  OMNIPOTENT !!

The  GB  is  also  imperfect,  like  you  and  me.....

btw.  I'm  NOT  the  only  one,  knowing,  that  our  Creator  is  a  loving  GOD,  we  can  read  that  in  our  Bble,  also,  many  of  us  JW  worldwide  thinking  the  same,  maybe  YOU  not?  Thats  not  my  problem....    Gnite  from  Germany

 

[Jack Ryan]

15 hours ago, Queen Esther said:

The  DILUVIAN  (Flood)  saved  ALL  HIS  people,  haha   

So at Armageddon Jehovah will  MURDER / KILL / SLAUGHTER / DROWN / BURN / Neutralize / cull... (whatever word you want to select) ALL children who are not of HIS PEOPLE (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Wow......

Very "Loving" teachings you hold there. That is literally BILLIONS of children in India and China who have never even heard of JW's.

[Jesus.defender]

On 6/12/2018 at 12:57 AM, Matthew9969 said:

That's what I was raised to believe, and in really horrible ways according to the pictures in the magazines and books.

 

Then you were taught WRONG.

 

The Bible is clear that only those who are born again enter the kingdom of God.

 

Of course, children cannot make a choice to be born again until they realise that they are dirty, rotten, filthy sinners just like you and just like me, so it follows logic they enter the kingdom of God.

 

[Jesus.defender]

On 6/20/2018 at 8:08 AM, Jack Ryan said:

So at Armageddon Jehovah will  MURDER / KILL / SLAUGHTER / DROWN / BURN / Neutralize / cull... (whatever word you want to select) ALL children who are not of HIS PEOPLE (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Wow......

Very "Loving" teachings you hold there. That is literally BILLIONS of children in India and China who have never even heard of JW's.

Oh, i think "jehovah's witnesses" will be the FIRST in the pit.

[JOHN BUTLER]

Seems like this topic just dried up and didn't get an answer.

Doesn't it say somewhere in the bible that the sins of the fathers will fall upon the children ?

I think we are a long way from Armageddon yet but there must still be millions that have not heard the Good News. 

It does seem to go against Jehovah's loving ways to kill innocent people, but in honesty who are we to judge ? 

I don't think Armageddon will be as horrific as the JW Org has made out in the past. After all, it's purpose is to remove the wicked not to torture people. 

People have often asked, 'What about the mentally ill who cannot understand God's message ?' 

Well it's God's plan of action to remove the wicked, not to remove or kill those who cannot understand. I think God will show great mercy to many. 

I'm sure many JW's have heard the old story about when they 'arrive' in the New world. 

Each will be saying 'How did so and so get through' and the one they are talking about will be saying likewise about the other one. 

Let us not judge each other, and let us not presume that we know God's plans completely. 

Jehovah, working through His son Jesus Christ, will make perfect judgement on us all. 

[Evacuated]

42 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

Let us not judge each other, and let us not presume that we know God's plans completely. 

Jehovah, working through His son Jesus Christ, will make perfect judgement on us all. 

Good viewpoint.

[Jack Ryan]

On 10/3/2018 at 2:23 AM, JOHN BUTLER said:

Seems like this topic just dried up and didn't get an answer.

Doesn't it say somewhere in the bible that the sins of the fathers will fall upon the children ?

I think we are a long way from Armageddon yet but there must still be millions that have not heard the Good News. 

It does seem to go against Jehovah's loving ways to kill innocent people, but in honesty who are we to judge ? 

I don't think Armageddon will be as horrific as the JW Org has made out in the past. After all, it's purpose is to remove the wicked not to torture people. 

People have often asked, 'What about the mentally ill who cannot understand God's message ?' 

Well it's God's plan of action to remove the wicked, not to remove or kill those who cannot understand. I think God will show great mercy to many. 

I'm sure many JW's have heard the old story about when they 'arrive' in the New world. 

Each will be saying 'How did so and so get through' and the one they are talking about will be saying likewise about the other one. 

Let us not judge each other, and let us not presume that we know God's plans completely. 

Jehovah, working through His son Jesus Christ, will make perfect judgement on us all. 

Allow No Place for the Devil! - Watchtower, March 15th, 1986

Pages 19 - 20

If a person is questioning whether we are living in “the last days” of this system, or perhaps is entertaining ideas that God is so merciful that he surely will not cause the death of so many millions of people during the “great tribulation,” then this individual already has prepared his heart to listen to such criticisms.

Pure Worship - Restored At Last! - 2018

Pages 178-179

To survive the coming destruction, individuals need to prove their faith now. As we saw earlier, those who survived Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E. demonstrated beforehand their heartfelt rejection of wickedness and their devotion to pure worship. It is similar today. Before the destruction comes, individuals need to be “sighing and groaning”—deeply grieved at heart—over the wickedness of this world. And rather than hide their feelings, they must demonstrate by words and actions their devotion to pure worship. How can they do so? They need to react favorably to the preaching work that is being done today, to continue putting on a Christlike personality, to get baptized in symbol of their dedication to Jehovah, and to support Christ’s brothers loyally. (Ezek. 9:4; Matt. 25:34-40; Eph. 4:22-24; 1 Pet. 3:21) Only those who pursue such a course now—and who enter the great tribulation as pure worshippers—will be in a position to be marked for survival.

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Loyally Supporting Christ’s Brothers - Watchtower, March 15th, 2015

Pages 25 - 29

“The sheep” and “the goats” represent individuals from all nations. These ones are not anointed by holy spirit. What about the timing of the judgment? This judgment will occur toward the end of the great tribulation just ahead. And what of the reason why people will be judged as either sheep or goats? The outcome hinges on how they have treated the remaining ones of Christ’s spirit-anointed brothers on earth.

 

Therefore, one of the primary ways that those judged to be sheep show kindness to Christ’s brothers is by supporting them in the preaching work.

 

The growing number of prospective sheep count it a privilege to support Christ’s brothers not only in the preaching work but also in other practical ways. For example, they give financial contributions and help to build Kingdom Halls, Assembly Halls, and branch facilities, and they loyally obey those appointed by “the faithful and discreet slave” to take the lead.

 

Soon the angels will unleash the destructive winds of the great tribulation. This will occur after all the remaining ones of Christ’s brothers left on earth have received their final sealing. (Rev. 7:1-3) Before Armageddon breaks out, anointed ones will be taken to heaven. (Matt. 13:41-43) Therefore, now is the time for those who hope to be judged as sheep to support Christ’s brothers loyally.

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Fixing Destinies in this Judgement Period - Watchtower, June 1st, 1952

Pages 341 - 342

This judgment period will be completed during this generation, and when the execution of judgment starts at Armageddon the destinies of all persons then living will have been fixed. Some become perturbed over this, and speculate on the existence of a third class not separated into sheep and goat categories, and which will be resurrected in the millennium for its judgment period. Into this third class they would put all babes and children, and any adults not reached by the Kingdom message by the time Armageddon strikes. Such speculators can produce no solid Scriptural support for their theory. It seems to be spawned either by human sentiment over creature salvation or by a negative, defeatist attitude toward a successful completion of the preaching work. Or by both.

 

In harmony with the illustration of the sheep and goats, Ezekiel 9:4-6 (AT) shows but two classes, those marked for preservation and the unmarked ones appointed to destruction. And in this prophetic picture of Armageddon’s slaughter note that the executional forces do not spare individuals on the grounds of age or sex: “Slay without mercy or pity. Old men, young men and maidens, little children and women—strike them all dead! But touch no one on whom is the mark.”

 

Since Ezekiel 9:4-6 shows that some “little children” are in the class eternally destroyed at Armageddon, on what basis are they put in that class in view of the fact that they are too young to be held accountable for themselves? The Scriptures indicate a family responsibility or a family merit under which the destiny of unresponsible children is determined. Scriptural examples of this principle will help meek and teachable ones mold their minds to fit in with God’s view on this matter, will help them get God’s thoughts on it rather than stubbornly clinging to their own.

 

These facts should make those of Jehovah’s witnesses who are parents soberly reflect on the theocratic training they now give their children. Parents are commanded to instruct their children in God’s ways, and if in these last days parents fail to heed the divine instructions they may bring destruction not only upon themselves but upon their small children at Armageddon.

 

Some will argue that this text disproves the belief that small children will perish with their wicked parents at the end of judgment periods. But this text is not applicable to youngsters.

 

In view of the eternalness of the destruction of those slain by Jehovah at Armageddon, some will ask about those who may not personally hear the message, especially in some lands that prohibit the witness work. In addition to family responsibility the Bible shows a communal or community responsibility, where a community upholds or goes along with rulers that persecute Jehovah’s people or are otherwise wicked. Did not the Egyptians suffer plagues because of Pharaoh’s hardness?

 

The people must accept responsibility for the nation’s acts. If the government becomes too oppressive against them they oust it, by either ballots or bullets. But wickedness against God they placidly tolerate. To them personal convenience and liberty are more precious than godliness. They revolt from harsh rulers, but support godless ones. They lack the burning love for righteousness and the devouring hate for wickedness that would consume the corruption and immorality now rampant in all human governments. Rulers and ruled wallow in the trough of an international moral breakdown. (2 Tim. 3:1-5) Nations operate according to the principle of community responsibility. Rulers may start wars, but the people fight them. It is upon the people generally, young and old, male and female, that the enemy nation rains destruction, and not upon the wicked rulers. The nations in their wars sow death on the basis of community responsibility. Will it not be just for them to reap it on the same basis at Armageddon? Can they rightly complain if they reap as they sow, are judged as they judged, are shown the same mercy they showed? If the people either actively or passively support what is corrupt and immoral and murderous, do they not bear some responsibility therefor?

 

Today people vote into office politicians known to be corrupt, and thus empower them to capitalize on evil-doing. That the people must bear the responsibility before God is shown not only in Israel’s case above mentioned but by Paul’s counsel to Timothy about appointments in the Christian congregation: “Never lay your hands hastily upon any man; neither be a sharer in the sins of others; preserve yourself pure.” In addition to being warned against hasty appointments, Timothy was told what qualities to require of appointees to service positions. (1 Tim. 3:1-13; 5:22; 2 John 10, 11, NW) Why all this precaution? So that he might avoid being “a sharer in the sins of others”. If he made improper appointments he would become responsible for the sins of such appointees, since he put them in position to commit their sins that hurt the congregation in God’s sight. So the people who either vote wicked rulers into office or allow them to remain in power must accept responsibility for such rulers’ official acts and sins against God and man.

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Questions from Readers - Watchtower, January 1st, 1971

Pages 63 - 64

Can it be stated flatly that only baptized witnesses of Jehovah will survive Armageddon?—A. S., U.S.A.

It would be misleading to answer this question with either a simple “Yes” or a “No.” The Scriptural answer of necessity must be a “qualified” one, and it is easy to see why.

At 1 Corinthians 7:14 the Bible shows that God can consider as “holy” the minor children of a Christian parent. Though they are young and not yet to the point of being personally responsible to Jehovah, their parent is trying to develop in them a love of God and of the way of righteousness. It seems clear that at the time of the destructive war of Armageddon God will preserve them on the basis of the family merit of the Christian parent, even though the children are not yet dedicated and baptized.

 

The reply must also be “qualified” because the Bible does not pointedly say how God is going to handle certain unusual cases, such as those involving mentally retarded persons who never had the capacity to learn about Jehovah and his purposes. Regarding these unbaptized persons, it is possible that family merit may apply as in the case of minor, irresponsible children who have a faithful believing parent or guardian.

 

We are aware that many hypothetical or “What if . . .” cases can be raised, cases that seem to involve extenuating circumstances. What point, though, is there in speculating on these? Jesus’ illustration of the “sheep” and “goats” makes it plain that a time will come when the division between the “sheep” and the “goats” will be clear and final. (Matt. 25:31-46) Instead of looking for “loopholes” in God’s arrangement for salvation, what all humans who desire preservation need to do is take full advantage of God’s merciful opportunity to serve him. And they need to do so now, before it becomes too late to begin thinking about becoming a servant of Jehovah. The “sheep” who are preserved into “everlasting life” will be responsible persons who do God’s will as completely as possible. (1 John 2:17) The Bible shows without doubt that Jehovah’s will for humans today includes being baptized and being public witnesses of him.—Rom. 10:10.