Come on you know the real reason they are studying the Rev book again. It is the closest thing to fire and brimstone that they can preach without talking about there being a Hell because JWs don't believe in hell. I remember the Rev book real well, all the doom and gloom, it is right up the JWs alley. They can tie it into the middle east and the conflict there.
The friends I recently traveled w/ are still active dubs. They informed me that the society is changing its view on the King of the North/King of the South crap. Now the middle east is being throw out there. My response was, well give it 10 years and it will change like every other prediction that the JWs have made even though they condemn other religions for making predictions because no one knows what the biblical symbolism means (expect JWs of course)