The Revelation...Climax book describes Jehovah's Witnesses as being the locusts of Rev. 9:2, 3. But I have never seen with my own eyes the description they give of being a torment to Christendom. A colossal pain in the butt to householders, but hardly a torment to other religions. What I have seen with my own eyes are the effects our collective efforts have had in exposing the WTS for a fraud. Given the knee-jerk reactions, hostile articles, name calling, assembly talks loaded with venom and fear coming from the Governing Body, aimed directly at the swarm of ex-JW locusts ripping them apart at every turn, they seem to fit their own description, penned by their own hand, of the torment caused by locusts!
They just got the players mixed up.
“And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun was darkened, also the air, by the smoke of the pit. And out of the smoke locusts came forth upon the earth; and authority was given them, the same authority as the scorpions of the earth have.” - Revelation 9:2, 3
Revelation...Climax:
At the Bible Students’ convention at Cedar Point, Ohio, U.S.A., September 1-8, 1919, a notable outpouring of Jehovah’s spirit activated his people to organize a global campaign of preaching. Of all professed Christians, they alone, recognizing that Jesus had been enthroned as heavenly King, spared no effort in publishing abroad that good news. Their relentless witnessing, in fulfillment of prophecy, became as a tormenting plague to apostate Christendom.
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That is how it proved to be in 1919. The situation darkened for Christendom and for the world in general. (Compare Joel 2:30, 31.) The release of those locusts, the John class, was actually a defeat for Christendom’s clergy, who had schemed and plotted to kill the Kingdom work for good and who now rejected God’s Kingdom. Evidence of a smokelike pall started to spread over apostate Christendom as that locust band was given divine authority and began to exercise it in proclaiming powerful judgment messages. Christendom’s “sun”—her appearance of enlightenment—suffered an eclipse, and “the air” became thick with declarations of divine judgment as “the ruler of the authority of the air” of this world was shown to be Christendom’s god.
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Moreover, the torment is so severe that men seek to die. True, we have no record that any of those who were stung by the locusts actually tried to kill themselves. But the expression helps us to picture the intensity of the torment—as though by the relentless assault of scorpions.