Now is the time especially for the Jeremiah class to take to heart Jehovah’s words to Ezekiel, who began prophesying in Babylon in 613 B.C.E., seven years before Jeremiah was carried off unwillingly down to Egypt:

²⁷ “‘Now as regards the watchman, in case he sees the sword coming and he actually does not blow the horn and the people itself gets no warning at all and a sword comes and takes away from them soul, for its own error it itself must be taken away, but its blood I shall ask back from the hand of the watchman himself.’

Ezek. 33:6-9; compare Ezekiel 9:2-10.

28. What is the desire of the Jeremiah class and their companions in this regard, but what is possible to occur, and what would this signify for them?

²⁸ The Jeremiah class of today and their cooperative companions have no desire to become bloodguilty in such a way. But that is possible for them. If, out of fear of man, they should hold back from warning all peoples about the “sword” of Jehovah’s “day of vengeance” and thus fail in carrying out their “mission,” they would make themselves deserving of his curse. For them, this would signify a failure to survive, because of their delinquency.

29. To avoid going in the way of the heedless people after Organized Religion is destroyed, what must life seekers now select?

²⁹ When, in the fast approaching “great tribulation,” the “sword” of divine vengeance strikes down all Organized Religion, the people who have not heeded Jehovah’s “watchman,” the Jeremiah class, will seek refuge with the doomed political elements​—this to their sure destruction in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Har–Magedon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)