22. Who will not share the high hopes of the overthrowers of all Organized Religion, and what will be the attitude of these to the new ruling powers?

²² However, what will the wiping out of Christendom and all other parts of the world empire of false religion leave behind on the earthly scene? Unreligious political forces, to take over control of all human affairs! They will do so with high hopes of success and feeling relieved at being no longer dictated to by Organized Religion. (Compare Ezekiel, chapter 23.) But such God-defying hopes will not be shared by the Jeremiah class and its God-fearing companions, even though these may show relative subjection to the new ruling powers as the new “superior authorities.”​—Rom. 13:1, 2.

23. What will then cause the remainder of Jehovah’s “day of vengeance” to be fulfilled?

²³ Jehovah’s “day of vengeance” will then already have begun, but it will not be over at the destruction of Organized Religion, the world empire of false religion. It must continue on until full divine “vengeance” has been poured out on all opposers of Jehovah’s universal sovereignty. But first they will try to make the Jeremiah class and their loyal companions conform unreservedly to the godless system of things, just as Johanan and his followers took Jeremiah and Baruch into custody and forcibly marched them down to Egypt. Failing in this, they will make an all-out attack upon those uncompromising worshipers of Jehovah. Like the international hordes under Gog of the land of Magog, they will try to invade the spiritual paradise of Jehovah’s remnant and their inseparable companions. Thus aiming at absolute world control, they will show themselves worthy of having Jehovah’s vengeance blaze out against them.​—Ezek. 38:1–39:20.

24. Who will then counterattack, and will they deservedly be “cursed” for negligence or holding back?

²⁴ Then what? Revelation 19:11-21 shows that Jesus Christ, a conqueror greater than King Nebuchadnezzar, will ride with angelic armies to a counterattack. They will not become cursed because of carrying out their mission from Jehovah neglectfully. They will deserve no curse because of holding back the executional “sword” from enemy blood. (Jer. 48:10) They will execute Jehovah’s vengeance upon the aggressive nations. For doing this they will be blessed with glorious victory, to Jehovah’s eternal vindication.

29. To avoid going in the way of the heedless people after Organized Religion is destroyed, what must life seekers now select?

²⁹ When, in the fast approaching “great tribulation,” the “sword” of divine vengeance strikes down all Organized Religion, the people who have not heeded Jehovah’s “watchman,” the Jeremiah class, will seek refuge with the doomed political elements​—this to their sure destruction in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Har–Magedon. (Rev. 16:14, 16)