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Has this great crowd had a part in the cavalry charge that got under way in 1922 and that received particular emphasis at the Toronto convention in 1927? Under the direction of the four angels, the anointed John class, it certainly has! At the world-circling "Everlasting Good News" Assembly of 1963, it joined with the John class in rousing resolution. This declared that the world "faces an earthquake of world trouble the like which it has never known, and all its political institutions and its modern religious Babylon will be shaken to bits." The resolve was expressed that "we will continue to declare to all peoples without partiality the 'everlasting good news' concerning God's Messianic Kingdom and concerning his judgments, which are like plagues to his enemies but which will be executed for the liberation of all persons who desire to worship God the Creator acceptably wit spirit and truth." This resolution was adopted enthusiastically at 24 assemblies around the globe by a grand total of 454,977 conventioneers, of whom well over 95 percent were of the great crowd.

The great crowd has continued to declare its unqualified unity with the John class in pouring out the plagues on Christendom. In 1988 this great crowd made up more than 99.7 percent of the work force that Jehovah is using in the field. Its members are wholeheartedly in accord with the John class, concerning whom Jesus prayed at John 17:20, 21: "I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word; in order that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me forth." As the anointed John class takes the lead under Jesus, the zealous great crowd shares with them in the most devastating cavalry charge of all human history!"

That cavalry needs equipment for the warfare. And how wonderfully Jehovah has provided this! John describes it: "For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with these they do harm." (Revelation 9:19) Jehovah has ordained his dedicated, baptized ministers for this service. Through the Theocratic Ministry School and other congregation meetings and schools, he has taught them how to preach the word, so that they are able to speak authoritatively with "the tongue of the taught ones." He has put his words in their mouths and sent them forth to make known his judgments "publicly and from house to house." (2Timothy 4:2; Isaiah 50:4; 61:2; Jeremiah 1:9, 10; Acts 20:20) The John class ans the great crowd have left behind a stinging message, corresponding to "tails," in the thousands of millions of Bibles, books,brochures and magazines distributed over the years. To their opponents, who are these advised of the coming "harm" from Jehovah, these armies of cavalry truly seem like two myriads of myriads. -Compare Joel 2:4-6.

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