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    An international “great crowd” of people survive Armageddon

    An unnumbered “great crowd” of people from all nations will survive Armageddon

    What Does the Bible Say?

    What is Armageddon?

    Some people believe . . .

    that it will be a global destruction by nuclear weapons or environmental ruin. What do you think?

    What the Bible says

    Armageddon is the symbolic place of “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” his war against the wicked.​—Revelation 16:14, 16.

    What else can we learn from the Bible?

    • God fights the war of Armageddon, not to ruin the earth, but to save it from ruin by humankind.​—Revelation 11:18.

    • The war of Armageddon will end all wars.​—Psalm 46:8, 9.

    Is it possible to survive the war of Armageddon?

    What would you say?

    • Yes

    • No

    • Maybe

    What the Bible says

    “A great crowd” of people from all nations will survive “the great tribulation,” which will end with the war of Armageddon.​—Revelation 7:9, 14.

    What else can we learn from the Bible?

    • God wants as many as possible to survive Armageddon. He destroys the wicked only as a last resort.​—Ezekiel 18:32.

    • The Bible explains how to survive Armageddon.​—Zephaniah 2:3.

    For more information, see chapter 8 of this book, What Does the Bible Really Teach?, published by Jehovah’s Witnesses

    Also available at www.jw.org