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

 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 distribut publicly, must we conclude thaty have no share in the cavalry?  Not at all!   They have their mouths and authorty 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 wiht their tails in the sense of leaving behind hard-hitting literatrue, symbolic fire, smoke, and sulfur issue forth 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 Christendoms's Bablonish doctrines and ways, bringing her deserved harm in a figurative way. By using updated printing methods, this numerous cavalry in the 68 years before 2005 was able  to distribute, in upwards of 450 of earth's languages,  billions of Bibles, books, magazines, and brochures-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 langs far beyond Christendom, including many where 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 the 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 o fthe 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 coper  and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders not of their  spiristic practices not of their  fornication nor of their thefts." (Revelation 9:20, 21)  There will be no world conversion of such unrepentant ones.  Alll 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 discussed is a 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: The Second Woe - Armies of Cavalry - A Sweet and Bitter Message

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