REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty - A Multitudinous Great Crowd -Conclusion

 The understanding of Revelation 7:9-17 was now about to burst forth in all its sparkling brilliance! (Psalm 97:11) The Watchtower magazine had repeatedly expressed  the hope that a convention scheduled  for May 30 to June 3, 1935, in Washington D.C. , U.S.A., would be "a real comfort  and benefit" to those pictured  by Jehonadab.  That it proved to be!   In a stirring talk on "The Great Multitude," delivered to about 20,000  conventioners, J.F. Rutherford,  president of the Watchtower Society,  gave Scriptural proof that the modern-day  other sheep are identical with  that great crowd of Revelation 7:9. At the climax of this talk, the speaker asked: Will all those who have the hope of living forever on earth please stand?  As  large part of the audience stood up, the president declared: "Behold!  The great multitude!" There was a hush, followed by thunderous cheering. How elated was the John class-and also the Jehonadab group! On the following day, 840 new witnesses were baptized, most of these professing to be of that great crowd.

Next time: REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty - Confirming the Identity of the Great Crowd

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