Check out this wacko BS from the 1943 'The Truth Shall Make You Free' book:
Page 342-343
In the postwar "new order" Jerusalem's modern
counterpart, "Christendom," will surround
herself with armies of an international police
force for her continued world domination. The
Roman Catholic Hierarchy will attempt to act
as the. spiritual police force of the entire earth .
"Christendom" will then feel she can cry "Peace
and safety". This international police force, or
the stationing of order-preserving armies according
to the mutual understanding between
allied nations, will be for the maintenance of the
"abomination of desolation" in the "holy place" .
Hence those armies will be really maintained
against God and his kingdom . And when you see this, said Jesus, then you may be certain that
"Christendom's" astounding "desolation" is
nigh. Religion will not save her .
Page 344-345
Before the ten horns of the
seven-headed beast turn upon her in retribution,
organized religion will turn the horns against
Jehovah's witnesses and will ride the beast in a
final savage charge against them . ... (illustration)
Therefore "Christendom" will use her postwar
"new order" and her encompassing armies
(Jesuitic as well as military) for the suppression
of the Kingdom message. She will claim it
is treasonable and disturbing and unsafe to the
postwar rule.
So this is new to me. As a kid in the 60s I remember that the notion was that while Christendom rode the Wild Beast, it was the nations that would turn on religion, and then come after JWs... which is wacko in its own right, but this notion of actual armies under Christendom's rule attacking JWs... hoo boy
or did I just sleep through all those book study meetings?
