REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eight - "Tribulation Ten Days"

 Much like the Christians in Smyrna, the John class and their companions today have been and continue to be "fully put to the test." Their faithfulness under trial marks them as God's own people .  (Mark 13:9, 10) Shortly after the Lord's day got  under way, Jesus's words to the Christians  in Smyrna brought real comfort to the small international group of Jehovah's pe0ple. (Revelation 1:10)  Ever since 1879, these had been digging from God's Word spiritual riches that they freely shared  with others. But during World War I, they met up with intense hatred and opposition, partly because they did not get caught up in the war fever and partly because they were fearlessly exposing the errors of Christendom.  The persecution that they received at the instigation of some of Christendom's leaders  came to a head in 1918 and was comparable to what the Christians in Smyrna received from the Jewish community there.

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