Hi Clarity. What I posted is what Christ teaches (and what is written)... not what the jws teach. It is not "new lite". I am sorry for the confusion. I posted it to show that they do not even know when Armageddon occurs.
I will post the scriptures for you though, that support as my Lord teaches. But I believe the jws simply interpret them differently.
Keep in mind that Armageddon is a place... but the war of God... the fire that comes down from heaven: Revelations 20: 7-9
"When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth - Gog and Magog - to gather them for battle. (compare below) In number they are liike the sands on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
The goats... are part of gog and magog, living on the earth but outside of the kingdom and in the darkness. (the goats that Christ did not permit inside the kingdom, from the sheep and the goats parable, so that they remained outside in the darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.) After the thousand years, Satan is released and deceives them into coming against the Kingdom to take it for themselves. (gathering them for battle... and it is not the ones inside the kingdom that ride out for battle; they are just living in peace)
THEN the resurrection of the dead occurs, after that battle is over. Revelation 20:12-15
{As also is stated clearly in the verse (and the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years are over); which the wts twists to mean something else)
But Rev 20:12-15
"Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged accoding to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found writtten in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
There are not two battles of God... before the thousand years and after them. The jws are merging together the tribulation and Armageddon, and by their false teachings may decieve some into returning to "her" when the tribulation begins. But the tribulation... is something man commits against man; against those who claim to belong to Christ, and also those who do belong to Him at some point. Hence the call to come out of HER -"babylon, the harlot and adulteress... of which the wts and other christian religions are a part of. He calls his people to come out of her so that they do not share in her sins, because the world will turn on her first for all that she has done and all the blood that she has spilled; and those days are "cut short for the sake of the holy ones." (matt: 13:20)
The kingdom of Christ is establish after the tribulation when Christ gathers his own (the holy ones)... and only after the thousand years is there the 'great battle'.
If you look at the parallels in Revelation 16, as my Lord just showed me... in chapter 10, the throne of the beast is plunged into darkness. (the outer darkness that the goats are IN, upon the separation of the sheep and goats... shown to BE dark in comparison to the light of the kingdom), then the spirits of demons (the other part of gog and magog) go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them for battle (compare with above) on the great day of God Almighty, gathering them to the place called Armageddon.
Again, I am sorry for the confusion.
Peace to you,
tammy
