• Sounding the Divine Warning
    The Watchtower—1981 | February 1

    • A SIMILAR GLOBAL DESTRUCTION NEAR

       8. (a) How did Jesus Christ draw a comparison between the days of Noah and today? (b) What event is close at hand, and so what needs to be done about it?

      8 That was the only occasion previous to our time when all humanity was in danger of extinction. It prefigured our day when a world of billions of people is threatened. That is not our pessimistic human reasoning on matters, an extremist idea. It is no more overdrawn than that of a world-famous figure, a prophet greater than Noah. This was Jesus Christ. Pointing forward to our day, he said: “For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.