25. How must Jehovah’s Witnesses then imitate Jeremiah after he was dragged down to the land against which he had prophesied?

²⁵ Since the year 1914 we have been in “the time of the end.” (Dan. 12:4) So now the Jeremiah class and their dedicated companions must call the world’s attention to the threatening “sword,” the executional instrument that Jehovah will use during the oncoming “great tribulation.” (Matt. 24:21)

26, 27. What words of Jehovah to Ezekiel as a watchman must the Jeremiah class now take to heart?

²⁶ Now Jesus’ prophetic words at Luke 21:22 apply: “These are days for meting out justice, that all the things written may be fulfilled.” 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.’ Now as regards you, O son of man, a watchman is what I have made you to the house of Israel, and at my mouth you must hear the word and give them warning from me. When I say to someone wicked, ‘O wicked one, you will positively die!’ but you actually do not speak out to warn the wicked one from his way, he himself as a wicked one will die in his own error, but his blood I shall ask back at your own hand. But as regards you, in case you actually warn someone wicked from his way for him to turn back from it but he actually does not turn back from his way, he himself will die in his own error, whereas you yourself will certainly deliver your own soul.”​—Ezek. 33:6-9; compare Ezekiel 9:2-10.