IN PSALM 19, David extols the glories of God’s physical creation and goes on to express warm appreciation of Jehovah’s law, reminders, orders, commandments, and judicial decisions. The apostle Paul too showed appreciation for these things. He quoted from this psalm and extended its application to the vital work of true Christians. Of these he said: “Into all the earth their sound went out, and to the extremities of the inhabited earth their utterances.”​—Romans 10:18.

These “utterances” are of life-and-death concern to all mankind today, for Jehovah’s judicial decisions are about to be executed on the wicked system of things on earth. (Zephaniah 2:2, 3; 3:8) Mankind certainly needs to know about the good news of Jehovah’s Kingdom. Wherever you look today, there are disunity, lawlessness, crime, immorality, broken families. Oh, yes, there is talk of peace, but the great powers continue to build weapons that are ever more sophisticated, while the membership of the ‘nuclear club’ keeps on extending to ever more nations. Conditions on earth clearly fit “the last days” described by Paul at 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

Happily, Jehovah has sent forth his Witnesses to inform the people that God’s Kingdom is at hand and that it will mean salvation to everlasting life for those who come to know God and his Son, Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 43:10, 12; Luke 21:25, 26, 31; John 17:3) This good news is being sounded forth “into all the earth.”