Chapter Twenty-Two/The First Woe - Locusts - Locusts Equipped for Battle

 This preaching involves more than the spoken word! "Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months." (Revelation 9:10) What does this mean? As they go about their Kingdom work, Jehovah's Witnesses leave behind them publications-books, magazines, brochures, timely tracts. These contain authoritative statements, based on God's Word, for the people to read in their homes, and they have scorpionlike sting because they warn of Jehovah's approaching day of vengeance. (Isaiah 61:2) Before the present generation of spiritual locusts lives out its life span, its divinely ordained work of declaring Jehovah's judgments will be completed - to the hurt of all stiff-necked blasphemers. 

The locust band was overjoyed when a new magazine, The Golden Age, was announced at their 1919 convention. It was a biweekly magazine, designed to intensify the sting of their witnessing. Its issue No. 27, of September 29, 1920, exposed the clergy's duplicity in persecuting the Bible Students in the United States during the 1918-1919 period. Through the 1920's and 1930's, The Golden Age tormented the clergy with further stinging articles and cartoons that exposed their crafty dabbling in politics, and especially the Catholic hierarchy's accords made with the Fascist and Nazi dictators. In response, the clergy 'framed mischief by law' and organized mob violence against God's People. - PSALM 94:20, King James Version. 

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

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