Chapter Sixteen/Four Horsemen at the Gallop! -Going Forth Conquering - Continue

 The global congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses has shared in many conquests under the guidance of its conquering King. Outstandingly, he protected these Bible Students from annihilation in 1918, when they themselves were 'conquered' temporarily by Satan's political organization. In 1919, however, he broke prison bars to rescue them to proclaim the good news 'to the most distant part of the earth." - REVELATION 13:7; ACT 1:8.

Before and during World War II, the dictatorial Axis powers tried to wipe out Jehovah's Witnesses in many lands where religious leaders particularly those of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, gave open or tacit support of oppressive dictators. But the 71,509 Witnesses who were preaching when the war started in 1939 became 141,606 by the end in 1945, even though upwards of 10,000 has spent long years in prisons and concentration camps and other thousands had been killed. The number of active Witnesses earth wide has expanded to well over100,000 active field ministers, - ISAIAH 54:17; JEREMIAH 1:17-19. 

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