United for a Special Work

 7. Since 1914 there is need for what on the part of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and this in behalf of what work?

⁷ At this late date in “the conclusion of the system of things” since 1914, there is need for concerted action on the part of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are no part of this system of things. It is incumbent upon them to give a worldwide witness to the most important development in all human history. (Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:10) The situation must take on the outstanding feature that the apostle Paul mentions as notable in his day. Calling attention to this at Colossians 1:23, he said: “The hope of that good news which you heard, and which was preached in all creation that is under heaven. Of this good news I Paul became a minister.” And now, all you ministers of the good news today, what about a similar creation-wide preaching of the good news that has been reserved for our own crucial time?

Yes, from the summer of the postwar year of 1919 onward. Then it was that the mandatory prophecy of Jesus at Matthew 24:14 began to be carried out. Did the surviving remnant then have “everlasting good news” to declare in all creation that is under heaven? Yes, indeed! There were the glad tidings for them to tell about the establishment of God’s Kingdom by Christ in the heavens as having taken place at the end of the Gentile Times in 1914. And, oh, what thrilling good news it was to the remnant of spiritual Israelites to be informed by postwar developments that the oppressor of them in particular, namely, Babylon the Great, had fallen, losing its power over Jehovah’s Witnesses! They were now free to proclaim this major item of good news to all peoples in religious bondage, to tell them to get out of Babylon the Great and to help them do so.​—Revelation 18:4.