REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eleven - Coming "as a Thief" -Continue

 The need for a Christian to  be alert did not end early in the Lord's day.  In his great prophecy concerning "the sign when all these things  are destined to come to a conclusion," Jesus gave a strong warning:  "Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows . . . . Keep looking, keep awake, for you do not know when the appointed time is. But what I say to you I say to all, Keep on the watch." (Mark 13:4, 32, 33, 37) Yes, up to this very hour, each one of us, whether of the anointed or of the great crowd, needs to stay alert and fight against drifting into spiritual sleep.  When Jehovah's day comes "as a thief in the night," we may be found wide awake so as to receive a favorable judgment. - 1 THESSALONIANS 5:2, 3; LUKE 21:34-36; REVELATION 7:9. 

The John class today is itself awake to the need for stimulating God's people to keep spiritually alive.  To this end, special gatherings are arranged throughout the earth several times each year.  In recent year, attendance at 995  district conventions totaled 6,153, 745, and 82,785 new believers were baptized.  For more than a hundred years, the John class has used the Watchtower magazine in announcing Jehovah's name and purpose. In response to bitter persecution during the two world wars, The Watchtower aroused Jehovah's Witnesses to renewed zeal by publishing articles  such as "Blessed Are the Fearless" (1919), "A Call to Action" (1925), and "Defeat of Persecution" (1942).

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