The Bible does not specifically mention nuclear war. However, it foretold attitudes and events that contribute to this threat, and it reveals how all war will end.

2011年11月1日 · Notes for “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed? —Part Two” 1. Cuneiform is a wedge-shaped form of writing. It was produced by a scribe pressing various signs into the surface of a soft clay tablet, using a sharp stylus with a wedge-shaped point. 2. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, by A. K. Grayson, published 1975, 2000 reprint, page 8. 3.

2 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you.+ These will quietly bring in destructive sects, and they will even disown the owner who bought them,+ bringing speedy destruction upon themselves. 2 Furthermore, many will follow their brazen conduct,* + and because of them the way of the truth will be spoken of …

2012年9月15日 · 12 The nations will have to realize that they are being destroyed because Jehovah has ordered it. Then the people who are on Satan’s side may say the same as did the ancient Egyptians who chased after the Israelites at the Red Sea. They cried out: “Jehovah certainly fights for them”!

“Our first feeling was total despair. Everything we owned had been destroyed by a mudslide and flooding.” —Andrew, Sierra Leone. “After the hurricane, we returned to our home. Nothing was left. We were speechless. My daughter dropped to her knees and wept.” —David, Virgin Islands.

And decades later, Peter assured Christians: “Jehovah . . . is patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Pet. 3:9) What a beautiful hope for Christians when they commit sins —even serious ones!

7. (a) Though Babylon the Great was not destroyed in 1919, how did Jehovah view her? (b) When Babylon the Great fell in 1919, what resulted to Jehovah’s people? 7 True, Babylon the Great was not destroyed in 1919 —any more than the ancient city Babylon was destroyed in 539 B.C.E. when it fell to the armies of Cyrus the Persian. But from ...

On that occasion, an ancient world was destroyed, yet our planet did not disappear. Instead, the Flood wiped out a violent society, or “earth.” (Genesis 6: 11) It also destroyed a kind of “heavens” —the people who ruled over that earthly society. Thus, …

Now, remember, Jesus said that what happened to those people is a lesson for us today. What lesson can we learn?— Well, people were destroyed not only because they were bad but because many were just too busy to take the time to learn about God and about what he was going to do. We need to be careful that we are not like them, don’t we?—

But why would God foretell Babylon’s destruction? In 607 B.C.E., Babylonian armies destroyed Jerusalem and took the survivors off to Babylon, where they were treated cruelly. (Psalm 137:8, 9) God foretold that his people would have to endure this bitter treatment for 70 years because of their own wicked deeds. Then God would deliver them and ...