The first two study articles of the latest WT raise the usual sense of urgency with more of the same theological quackery Russell would be proud of.
First up, something we've always known, the embarrassing admission that JWs think they are the center of the universe:
even though God’s servants make up only a small portion of the world’s population, they are often at the center of major world events. Why? Because Satan and his entire system have one prime objective—conquering those who serve Jehovah
To further prop this idea up, they say that the "Daniel's Prophecy" book is now outdated and that no 'kings of the north or south' existed during 'the apostasy'. Instead, they come about for some reason before the supposed last days and even before the F&DS:
In 1871, the year after Russell and his associates formed their Bible study group, the king of the north reappeared.
This King is identified as the German Empire under Otto von Bismarck. That's right: Somewhere in Pennsylvania, there was a rich kid with too much time on his hands who read a book or two and was taken in by religious charlatans and then developed delusions of grandeur. This made Satan angry, who rose up powerful fighting empires just to snuff them out! Make sense?
To top it all off, there's a new mega four-page chart. Remember Splane's famous overlapping generations chart? Well this one takes multiple scriptures from different time periods/circumstances and makes one convenient and selective Frankenstein's monster of a 'timeline' of overlapping prophecies. And yes, it does use that word:
The prophecies mentioned in this chart overlap one another
Seriously, I don't know how I'm gonna be able to attend this meeting.