And another, a second angel, followed, saying: ‘She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, she who made all the nations drink of the wine of the anger of her fornication!’

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.

10. With what have those who have got out of Babylon the Great associated themselves, and into what bond of union have they come?

¹⁰ Already a “great crowd” of freedom lovers have responded to the “everlasting good news” and have acted upon the timely call to get out of the Babylonish worldwide empire of false religion. They have flocked to the side of the liberated remnant of spiritual Israelites. Thus they have associated themselves with Jehovah’s visible organization and have themselves become Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have come within that “perfect bond of union,” the love that is a fruit of the spirit of Jehovah God.​—Colossians 3:14; Galatians 5:22.

11. The love practiced by Christendom has been for whom, and when will Jehovah’s Witnesses exultantly take up the words of Revelation 19:1, 2?

¹¹ The dominant part of Babylon the Great is the so-called Christendom. Despite her name she does not practice true Christianity, and her hundreds of millions of members are not held together by the “perfect bond of union,” as witness her disunity in the form of many hundreds of religious sects and denominations. The love with which Christendom has clothed herself is the love for the paramours of Babylon the Great, the political and social elements of this world, with whom she has committed religious fornication. Great indeed will be the joy when, not just the fall, but the utter destruction of Babylon the Great, including Christendom, takes place at God’s time for settling accounts with her.