Repeatedly, the Scriptures admonish Jehovah’s people to stay in wakeful anticipation of God’s judgments. The not so obvious reason being that we don't know exactly how Jehovah's judgments are going to go down. However, the ordering of events once the judgment commences should not be in question. The apostle plainly indicated that the judgment begins with the house of God, and due to Christ’s inspection of his household the Scripture goes on to say that, due to the severity of the judgment, that the righteous one will be saved only with great difficulty. James indicates that elders receive a heavier judgment. So did Christ. He said that those whom people put in charge demand more than usual from them. That being the case, then, Jehovah obviously holds elders and the Governing Body more accountable as to how they discharge their shepherding obligations. The prophecy of Ezekiel the 34th chapter is Jehovah’s judgment yet to be brought to bear against negligent elders.
For example, verse 4 says: The sickened ones you have not strengthened, and the ailing one you have not healed, and the broken one you have not bandaged, and the dispersed one you have not brought back, and the lost one you have not sought to find, but with harshness you have held them in subjection, even with tyranny.
Typically, the Watchtower applies Jehovah’s judgments to the clergy of Christendom, but interestingly verse 21 says: for the reason that with the flank and with the shoulder you kept pushing and with your horns you kept shoving all the sickened ones until you had scattered them to the outside. And I will save my sheep…
Now, if the bad shepherds who are shoving Jehovah’s sheep out are the clergy, wouldn’t that be a good thing if they left the churches? Yet, Jehovah judges the shepherds who do such a thing. It is evident then, that, since those abused sheep are called Jehovah’s sheep, that the fold over which the bad shepherds preside is in fact Jehovah’s organization and not Christendom as we now suppose. That’s what verse 30 plainly says: And they will have to know that I, Jehovah their God, am with them and that they are my people…
According to the satanic reasoning of the faithless apostate, the problems and corruption in the organization is proof that Jehovah’s Witnesses are not God’s organization as we claim. But, rather than Jehovah’s coming judgment against us being an indication that we are not his people, his organization, it will instead be a demonstration that God indeed oversees his flock and that He is cognizant of what is wrong and perfectly able to make the needed corrections.
In the very near term the Anglo-American system of things is scheduled to undergo a catastrophic meltdown, during which time the shepherding shortcomings of the above-described bad shepherds will become manifest. During the heat of trial Jehovah will take complete control over his organization. The angels will forcibly eject all faithless ones and Jehovah will show mercy to the rest. For those on the fringe who have been stumbled and who are leaning towards apostasy, but who have not yet been completely devoured by it, there is possibly a brief period of amnesty that Jehovah will extend to those who have suffered at the hands of abusive elders and who are able to muster the necessary faith to apply. / You Know