Actually, with a little searching of the WT-CD 2005 using "24 elders" I found this quote in the Revelation Climax book in connection with Revelation 7:14, the verse they are referencing in paragraph 11 of the last study article in the 1/1/07 WT. JWs are now studying this study book, some for the 4th time but others for the 1st time and may need some reinforcement to believe this unscriptural comment from the WTS/FDS/GB. Notice that the red highlighted part is word for word what is in paragraph 11 of the WT article. (in fact this is the only other place this phrase in found on the WT-CD)
*** re chap. 20 p. 124 par. 17 A Multitudinous Great Crowd ***
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From the time of the apostle John and on into the Lord’s day, anointed Christians were puzzled as to the identity of the great crowd. It is fitting, then, that one of the 24 elders, representing anointed ones already in heaven, should stir John’s thinking by raising a pertinent question. "And in response one of the elders said to me:‘These who are dressed inthewhiterobes,whoaretheyandwheredidtheycomefrom?’SorightawayIsaidtohim:‘Mylord,youaretheonethatknows.’" (Revelation7:13,14a) Yes, that elder could locate the answer and give it to John. This suggests that resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today. For their part, those of the John class on earth got to learn the identity of the great crowd by closely observing what Jehovah was performing in their midst. They were quick to appreciate the dazzling flash of divine light that emblazoned the theocratic firmament in 1935, at Jehovah’s due time.