Why EXJWs Don't Need to be afraid of the WTBT$ supposed "Hail"...
The WTBT$ misinterprets the "hail" plague mentioned in Revelation. They take it out of context, like they do with so many other things. The message of Revelation is a composite dream, just like these other dreams in the Bible...
...Joseph dreamed two dreams that meant the same thing, the sheaves bowing down and the sun moon and stars bowing down. (Genesis 37:5-11) They both foretold that Joseph would be a ruler in Egypt.
...Pharoah dreamed two dreams about the seven fat/skinny cows and the seven full/thin ears of grain. (Genesis 41) They both foretold seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.
...Daniel has several chapters with visions of the progression of world powers told from slightly different angles, chapters 2, 7, 8, 11/12.
Revelation is the same way, dreams/visions to be understood by taking them together, not out of context.
The seven bowls of God's anger, the seven plagues, the seven trumpets, the seven seals...they all foretell God's judgment upon hypocritical religious institutions and then on the hypocritical governments. They are not separate events with individual plagues. They are representing that time of the great tribulation from slightly different angles.
The so-called "hailstone message" that the WTBT$ is talking about is non-existent. The "hail" in Revelation is part of the composite vision. The Bible explains itself regarding that "hail" that it is figurative and it is referring to the dissolution of religious institutions...
Isaiah 28:14-29
"So hear the word of Jehovah, you boasters,
You rulers of this people in Jerusalem,
For you men say: “We have made a covenant with Death,
And with the Grave we have made an agreement.
When the raging flash flood passes through,
It will not reach us,
For we have made a lie our refuge
And we have hidden ourselves in falsehood.”
Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:
“Here I am laying as a foundation in Zion a tested stone,
The precious cornerstone of a sure foundation.
No one exercising faith will panic.
And I will make justice the measuring line
And righteousness the leveling tool.
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will flood out the hiding place.
Your covenant with Death will be dissolved,
And your agreement with the Grave will not stand.
When the raging flash flood passes through,
You will be crushed by it.
As often as it passes through,
It will sweep you away;
For it will pass through morning after morning,
During the day and during the night.
Only terror will make them understand what was heard.”
For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the woven sheet is too narrow to wrap up in.
For Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Pe·raʹzim;
He will rouse himself as in the valley near Gibʹe·on,
That he may do his deed—his strange deed—
And that he may carry out his work—his unusual work."
The WTBT$ and other religious institutions think they will never be "touched" by demise ("I sit a queen, and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning" Revelation 18:7) that they "have a covenant with Death" because of helping the UN with all their promotions but they are wrong. Their religious institutions will be dissolved by the governments of the world. It is by the word of Jehovah. The figurative hail will sweep away the refuge of lies. The plagues on ancient Egypt were to show up those gods as false. Pharaoh claimed to be a god, but the plagues showed he was not a god. The plagues of Revelation are figurative, they will also show up the "gods" of the religious institutions as false - "gods" like the "FDS" and the Pope and other clergy.
The "hail" is not a "preaching assignment". These plagues are judgments from heaven, from Jehovah Himself. Jehovah is showing up the hypocrisy of the religious institutions and the governments. The WTBT$ can't make "hail".
The "hail" is going to fall on the so-called "FDS" and the other religious hypocrites. You don't need to be part of the JWBorg to make Jehovah your refuge. Jehovah is sending the "plagues" so that we can be free of such tyranny.
