Chapter Twenty-Three -The Second Woe -Armies of Cavalry

 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 sulphur issue from their mouths as they witness tactfully and with discretion concerning Jehovah's approaching day of vindication.

In other places, the Kingdom literature continue to expose Christendom's Babylonish doctrines and ways, bringing her deserved harm in a figurative way.  By using updated printing methods, this numerous cavalry in the 50 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 messages 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 nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.  (Revelation 9:20, 21) There will be no world conversion of such unrepentant ones. All who persist in their wicked ways will 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 2:20, 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: Chapter Twenty-Four -A Sweet-and-Bitter Message

From the book of Revelation