REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty - The Great Crowd Makes Its Appearance - Continue

 During the 1920's and 1930's, the John class had stressed the heavenly hope, both in the publications and in the preaching work.  Apparently, the full number  of the 144,000 had yet to be filled.  But increasing numbers of those who heeded the message and who showed zeal in the witness work  came to profess an interest in living forever on Paradise earth.  They had no desire  to go to heaven. That was not their calling.  They were no part of the little flock but rather of the other sheep.  (Luke 12:32; John 10:16) Their being identified in 1935 as the great crowd of other sheep was an indication that the choosing of the 144,000 was then about complete.

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