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

 Has this great crowd had a part in the cavalry charge that got underway ub 19922 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 a rousing resolution. This declared that the world "faces and earthquake of world trouble the life of which it has never known, and all its political instituions and its modern religious Babylon will 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 all will be executed for the lliberation of all persons who desire to worship God the Creator acceptably with spirit and truth."  This resolution was adopted enthusiastically at 24 assemblies around the globe by a grand total of 454,977 conventioners, of whom 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 2005 this great crowd made up more than 99.8 percent of the workforce 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 a request, not conerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith inme 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 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 society!"

That cavalry needs equipmetn 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 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 they are able to speak authoritively 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." ( 2 Timothy4:1; Isaiah 50:4;61:2; Jeremiah 1:9 , 10; Acts 20:20) The John class and 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 opponenrts, who are advised of the coming of "harm" from Jehovah, these armies o cavalry truly seem like two myriads if myriads. - Compare Joel 2:4-6.

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