"The faithful slave feels that they have fulfilled Matt. 24:14 “This good news has been preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness…” what is the next part of the text says after? Yes “…the end will come.” Do you know that there are only 3 countries in the entire world that there are no witnesses today? Only 3 countries. They are Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan. That doesn’t mean that the literature's are not in those countries, there are no witnesses there. And some of my friends wanted to know why and I will tell you why. Jehovah does not send in His people to any environment they will be killed. That is why there are no witnesses. Those 3 countries bear community responsibilities but the good news of the kingdom has been preached. Matt. 24, Luke 21, Mark 13 & Rev. 6, those scriptures are having its fulfillment, they’ve been fulfilled. So where are you this stream of Bible prophecy? What is the next Bible prophecy to be fulfilled? The next one, do you know?
I am going to read it to you. Turn to Revelation 17: 15-17 (“He said to me: “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. 16 And the ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh and completely burn her with fire. 17 For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, yes, to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished.”)
The words of God will have been accomplished. The anointed, of the faithful slave, is waiting for God but there is one thought in their heart. That is the next Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. For those who know what that one means that triggers the great tribulation and once that starts, all of you would be locked into where you are now. Whatever you’ve done, you’ve done. There wouldn’t be any more ‘O! you know I could have, I thought of that I might do this, if I have the time.’ This is the time. What would you going to do? What would you do about the time in which you are living? Be at it urgently, be quick about it. The time left is reduced. "
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. Looking forward especially to our time, Jesus said: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:10) Has this prophecy been fulfilled? Indeed, it has.
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Matthew 24:14) That prophecy is being fulfilled now, as about six million Jehovah’s Witnesses in 234 lands devote more than a billion hours a year telling others about God’s Kingdom
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5 During this difficult period of human history, what Jesus foretold is being fulfilled. He said: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matt. 24:14) This earth-wide witness work regarding God’s Kingdom is being done on an ever-increasing scale. Today, over 7,500,000 Witnesses of Jehovah, associated with more than 107,000 congregations throughout the earth, are preaching about God’s Kingdom, even as Jesus made it the theme of his preaching and teaching. (Matt. 4:17) As a result of our present-day preaching work, great comfort is being given to mourning ones. Why, in two recent years, a total of 570,601 individuals were baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses!
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So the restoration of mankind would not end with Jesus’ death. It would continue all the way to “the conclusion of the system of things”—the time when God’s Kingdom would begin to take control of our earth. That time is now here. We know this because the sign that Jesus foretold regarding “the conclusion of the system of things” is now being fulfilled.—Matthew 24:3-14; Luke 21:7-11; 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
See Watchtower August 15th 2015, page 14. Read it in the simplified version
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