The Second Woe-Armies of Cavalry - Conclusion of Two Myriads of Myriads

Conclusion of Two Myriads of Myriads


A most zealous division of this cavalry is made up of brothers in lands where the work of Jehovah's Witnesses is under ban.  Like sheep amidst wolves, these have to be "cautious as serpents and yet innocent as doves."  In obedience to Jehovah, they cannot stop speaking about the things they have seen and heard.  (Matthew 10:16; Acts 4:19, 20; 5:28, 29, 32) Since they have little or  no printed material to distribute publicly, must we conclude that they have no share  in the cavalry charge?   Not at all!  They have their mouths and authority from Jehovah to use them to express Bible truth.  This they do, informally and persuasively, establishing studies in the Bible and "bringing the many to righteousness."  (Daniel 12:3)  Though they may not sting with their tails in the sense of leaving  behind hard-hitting literature, symbolic fire, smoke and sulfur issue from their mouths as they witness tactfully and with discretion concerning Jehovah's approaching day of vindication

In other places, the Kingdom literature continues to expose Christendom's Babylonish doctrines and ways, bringing her deserved harm in figurative way. By using updated printing methods, this numerous cavalry in the 40 years before 1987 was able to distribute, in upwards of 200 of earth's languages, Bibles, books, magazines, and brochures to the astronomical number of 7,821, 078, 415 copies-many times more than a literal two myriads of myriads.  What a sting those tails have inflicted!

Jehovah purposed  that this plaguing message should "kill a third of the men." Hence, its specific  target has been Christendom.  But it has reached  lands far beyond Christendom, including many where the hypocrisy  of Christendom's religions is well known.  Have the people  of these lands drawn closer to Jehovah as a result of seeing the plaguing of this corrupt religious organization?  Many have!  there has been a ready response among meek and lovable people who live in areas outside Christendom's immediate  sphere  of influence.  But as for the people in general, John describes their reaction:  "But the rest of the men  who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they should not worship the demons and the idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear, nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their spiritistic practices not of their fornication nor of their thefts."  (Revelation 9:20, 21)  There will be no world conversion of such unrepentant ones, have to face adverse judgment from Jehovah in the great day of his vindication. But "everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will get away safe." -Joel 2:32; Psalm 145:20; Acts 20:21.

What we have just discussed is part of the second woe.  There is more to come before this woe runs its course, as we shall see in the chapters that follow.

Next time: A Sweet-and -Bitter Message

From the Book of Revelation