NATIONS

(See also Appointed Times of the Nations [Gentile Times]; Disarmament; Gentiles; Governments; “The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah”—How? [Book]; War)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

attack on God’s people prior to Armageddon: w85 7/1 25-26; su 187; sl 255-263, 345-346; w74 170-171; po 22-24

“be glad, you nations, with his people” (Ro 15:10): w81 6/15 25-30

Christian neutrality: w84 9/15 16, 18; w72 753; w60 43; jp 154-156; g59 6/8 27-28; w55 523; w39 323-333; ne 3-31

citizenship: w80 1/15 18-19; w66 198-199; g61 4/8 28

cooperation among: w76 583

“cup of the wine of rage” all nations must drink (Jer 25:15): w79 9/15 21-29; w66 310; w65 345; bf 273; w55 445; g42 9/30 3-8; w37 348

“curing of the nations” (Re 22:2): w85 4/15 7; w85 12/1 17-18; su 188-189; bf 663-666; w58 72; w57 557-570; hn 3-30; g40 1/24 17-18

destruction: su 187; g82 8/22 9-11; kc 35-36; tr 99-100; w79 1/15 8-12, 15-19; go 178-182; w71 623-626; nc 26-28; w69 246; w67 221; w64 39-40; g64 6/8 7; w61 725-726; w60 53; sr55 56-57, 269-270; w53 564; nh 290; w52 345, 348; w51 286-287; rg 280-282, 329-330, 344; w39 277, 297; w37 348

discussion: ad 1206-1207

emblems: g76 12/22 14; g71 9/8 12-13; qm 271-272; w56 579-580; qm55 271-272; w54 685-686; g52 5/22 17-19; rm 93; w48 19-21; w47 235; ta 289-290; g42 10/28 17-18; g35 10/23 59-60

fight against God: g73 10/8 22-25; w72 31; w71 612-631; nc 3-29

gap between rich and poor nations: g76 3/8 30

God laughs at: w69 232-246

industrial problems: g75 8/22 17-20

interdependence among: w75 612-613; og 6-7

invitation to praise Jehovah: w79 11/1 15

issue of world domination: sl 253, 259-260; w71 614-615; nc 6-8

Jehovah’s woman receives resources and sucks milk of (Isa 60): w85 3/1 17

judgment by God: w78 1/1 16-17; ad 1206; w69 297; w68 49; w67 220-221; g64 6/8 7; w63 501, 681-682; g63 11/8 27; w62 681; g62 5/8 8; w61 724-725; w60 54; w58 658; w57 695; w56 679; w55 199-200; sr55 160; w52 341-342, 348; lg 287, 290; w50 450-451; w46 125; w42 308; cg36 7-8, 23; g36 3/11 356-357, 362-364; g32 11/9 93-95; g30 8/20 762-767

Kingdom preaching shakes the : w75 361-363

maneuvered by Jehovah: w67 220-222; w63 700-701

military governments:

increase in number of: g83 6/8 29

possibility of worldwide military dictatorship: kj 357

number: g64 11/22 20

increase: w78 8/15 7

involved in current wars: g83 6/22 29-30

new, in Africa: w65 8; yb65 11-12

opposing Jehovah’s organization (Isa 60:12, 14): w85 3/1 16

percent of world’s population living in lands where there is freedom of the press, religion, and assembly: g77 3/8 30

political rulership of, worldwide:

pictured by cedar of Lebanon (Eze 31): w77 300-314

post-Millennium: ka 152-153

power behind: uw 63; tr 99; w75 227-230; w60 238; w55 445; w52 263; lg 56; w51 458; ch 172; w31 121-122

proper view of nations’ ‘survival’ through crises: w76 441-442

Satan leads, to Armageddon: w78 3/1 29-30

spiritual nation: w64 108; w63 201-203; w60 463; jp 107-108; w58 148-151, 155-157; pa 214-215; w57 275, 565; hn 20; w55 267-268; w54 221-222; w53 567; nh 161, 165, 221-223, 267; w43 39, 291; w41 78-79; w40 301-303; w35 189-190

birth on a newborn land (Isa 66:8): w82 7/1 18-26

fills earth’s surface with fruit (Isa 27): w85 10/15 10-20

“holy nation” (1Pe 2:9): ad 1206; w68 692-697

nation of “priests”: w78 7/1 23-26

“Table of the Nations”: w76 61

tariffs: g67 6/22 29

tension among: g65 10/8 12-15

Thant’s (U) warning: w70 238

Third World nations: g74 12/8 8-11

conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka: g77 1/8 20-23

increase in tobacco consumption: g80 6/22 29

military coups since 1958: g83 6/8 29

treaties made: w71 299-300

when judged civilized: g71 4/8 11

world’s richest: g76 3/8 31; g76 11/8 30

Quotations

nations live by the code of outlaws: w79 8/1 3

nations must unite into a single government that can prevent war: w82 11/15 26

only remedy a major relinquishment of sovereignty by each country: w76 135

refuse an authority that can tell them what to do in the international arena: w75 516