The First Woe -Locusts -Locusts Equipped for Battle

 This preaching involves more than the spoken word! "Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months." (Revelation 9:10) What could this mean?  As they go about their Kingdom work, Jehovah's Witnesses, using the spoken word and printed publications, issue authoritive statements based on God's Word.  Their message  has a scorpionlike sting because they warn of Jehovah's approaching dayof vengeance.  (Isaiah 61:2)   Before the present generation of spiritual locusts lives out its life span, its divinely ordained work of declaring Jehovah's judgments will be completed-to the hurt of all stiff-necked blasphemers.

That locust band was overjoyed when a new magazine, the Golden Age, was announced at their convention.  It was a  biweekly  magazine, designed to intensify the sting of their witnessing.  It issue No. 27, of September 29, 1920, exposed the clergy's duplicity in  persecuting the Bible Students in the United States during  the 1918-1919 period.  Through the  1920's and 1939's, the Golden Age tormented the clergy with further stinging artciles and cartoons that exposed their crafty dabbling in politics, and especially the Catholic heirarchy's accords made with the Fascists and Nazi dictators.  In response, the clergy 'framed mischief by law' and organized mob violence against God's people.  - PSALM 94:20, King James Version. 

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