I do not know that this is true. There have been more violent times.
In today's supposedly more civilized world with its technology and weaponry? I think not. Have you not seen dictatorships falling one by one in very violent circumstances in one nation after another?
The eighth king of Revelation will rule "one hour" when all the kings of the earth give it authority and power....its actions in bringing down all religions, (Babylon the great) will precipitate the great tribulation. It's rule is coming soon to encompass every nation on earth. It is a global government that will rule with absolute power over everyone and everything. Don't think that is possible?....just wait and see. It is all written in the Revelation....history in advance.
I don't think so. There are things written by the prophets that the governing body say will happen in the future that I am sure have already happened.
Yes, systems of things have ended and pictured future events, just as Jesus said with the end of a wicked world Noah's day. (Matt 24:37-39) Just as he indicated with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. is linked with his future "presence" and the "conclusion of the system of things". (Matt 24:3-14, 21) "The last days" precede each conclusion of a system of things. Matt 24 fits the world situation since 1914 when the last days of the present system began with WW1.
"and he did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people; 6 and by reducing the cities Sod′om and Go·mor′rah to ashes he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come" (2 Pet 2:5, 6)
If I am right, then you are waiting for several events that will never happen.
That is a huge "if". What if you are dead wrong?
The foretold events are happening right before our eyes....but blinded minds will never see it coming. (2 Cor 4:3, 4)
There are people among you in the organization that are wishing for the terrible things to happen so that they might be vindicated, but think about it please. The opposite will happen. Love does not rejoice over unrighteousness. 1 Cor. 13:6
Now that's funny. Does God then "rejoice over unrighteousness"? It is his legally justified action as Creator that determines life or death at his battle of Armageddon.
We rejoice that God's name will be sanctified and that his sovereignty will be vindicated in all the earth. Only the wicked will perish. But what is God's definition of "wickedness"?
Does this description from Ezek 9:5, 6 make you think twice?
" And to these [others] he said in my ears: Pass through the city after him and strike. Let not your eye feel sorry, and do not feel any compassion. 6 Old man, young man and virgin and little child and women you should kill offto a ruination. But to any man upon whom there is the mark do not go near, and from my sanctuary you should start.
God feels no compassion for the wicked, so why should we? He told the destroyers to start at his sanctuary, with the very ones who claim to worship him.
He will not let us feel sorry for anyone when he unleashes his anger on this world.
God has had 'the good news of the kingdom' declared in all the earth 'for a witness to all the nations', therefore none have been left in the dark about God's intentions and what they must do in order to be saved. Not one sheep will be missing on the day of judgment, since the appointed judge is Jesus Christ. He can read hearts so his judgment is certain. No one fools him.
Are the two greatest commands to obey and to teach? No. The two greatest commands are to love and to love. Love does not seek it's own interests which is what the governing body are doing.
You have convinced yourself of that so what is there to say? They are nothing like you paint them.
The fact that you have found no other 'slave' that teaches what you want to believe proves that they don't exist or else they would have found you in their global preaching work, and sustained you in complete unity by a global education program that "feeds" all the flock from one spiritual table. (1 Cor 1:10) If you leave the table, no food will be served to you. If you eat from the wrong table, the food is poisoned by God's enemy. There are only two tables and we are ALL eating from either one or the other. (1 Cor 10:20, 21) God will not force us to eat at his table, he only invites us to do so.
And love does not rejoice over unrighteousness. It is unrighteous that six billion people get executed, and for what? For refusing to be fed by your governing body.
Tell that to the world's population in Noah's day...tell it to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah...tell it to the inhabitants of Jerusalem during two separate destructions. God is not unrighteous and neither are his legal arrangements for judging people as to fitness for life...past or present.
He can select whomever he wants to live in paradise conditions forever. Wearing a label, even if it says "Jehovah's Witness" is no guarantee that one will be saved. The law must be on a person's heart first and then it is translated into sincere action. Meaningless actions are as empty as dead faith. God knows those who belong to him.
"Keep reminding them of these things, charging them before God as witness, not to fight about words, a thing of no usefulness at all because it overturns those listening. 15 Do your utmost to present yourself approved to God, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of the truth aright. 16 But shun empty speeches that violate what is holy; for they will advance to more and more ungodliness, 17 and their word will spread like gangrene....These very [men] have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some. 19 For all that, the solid foundation of God stays standing, having this seal: Jehovah knows those who belong to him, and: Let everyone naming the name of Jehovah renounce unrighteousness. (2 Tim 2:14-19)
We not only have to 'know Jehovah', "the only true God", but more importantly, he has to 'know' us as one of his own. (John 17:3) None found in 'Babylon the great' can expect anything but denunciation and destruction, along with her. (Rev 18:4, 5)