Shortly afterward the League was identified in the Watch Tower issue as of January 1, 1921, as being the “image of the wild beast” foretold in Revelation 13:14, 15, set up for worldwide worship. Furthermore, in 1926, in the public lecture in Royal Albert Hall of London, England, it was proclaimed that the League of Nations was the Eighth World Power foretold in Revelation 17:11.

17, 18. (a) Why did there need to be a reviving of the organization for world peace and security, and how did it occur? (b) What was attempted against the sacrificial work of Jehovah’s “holy people” and how was this foretold in Daniel 11:31?

¹⁷ In spite of being repeatedly put on notice by Jehovah’s “holy people,” the nations of Christendom continued to idolize that “image of the wild beast” until it went into the abyss of helpless ineffectiveness in World War II of 1939-1945. But Revelation 17:7, 8 foretold that the “image of the wild beast” was to come up out of the abyss of inactivity. It did, on October 24, 1945, when the needed number of political powers had ratified the Peace Treaty. This international organization for world peace and security was given the name United Nations.

19. How are the nations thus worshiping what they do not know, and what is the object of worship for the “holy people”?

¹⁹ To this day the peoples and nations hold to this idolatrous “image of the wild beast,” 126 nations being members of the United Nations. Those nations are worshiping what they do not know, their own religious leaders misleading them. But the “holy people” of Jehovah God know what they are worshiping. They do not join the world in worshiping the political “image” of the Devil’s worldwide system of political government. They worship what they know, and that is Jehovah the only living and true God, who forbids image worship. They do not join those of Christendom who claim to be in the covenant for God’s kingdom and yet turn against it in favor of the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, “the disgusting thing that is causing desolation.”