Chapter Twenty-Two/The First Woe-Locusts - World Rulers Put on Notice

 The modern-day locusts had a job to do. The Kingdom good news had to be preached. Errors had to be exposed. Lost sheep had to be found. As the locusts went about these tasks, the world was forced to sit up and take notice. In obedience to the angel's trumpet blasts, the John class had continued to expose Christendom as deserving of Jehovah's adverse judgments. In response the fifth trumpet, a particular aspect of these judgments was emphasized at a convention of the Bible Students in London, England, May 25-31, 1926. This featured a resolution, "A Testimony to the Rulers of the World," and a public talk at the Royal Alber Hall on "Why World Powers Are Tottering-The Remedy." the complete text of both of these being printed in a leading London newspaper the following day. Later, the locust bend distributed worldwide, as a tract, 50 million copies of that resolution-a torment indeed to the clergy! Years later, people in England still spoke of this stinging expose'.

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