13. Now is the time for us to share with the Jeremiah class in doing what?

¹³ Let us individually live in harmony with the message proclaimed by the Jeremiah class. Let us lay off from selfish ambition, not setting our affections on transitory things of this doomed system of things. This calls for us to share courageously with the Jeremiah class in warning of Jehovah’s coming “day of vengeance.” A divided heart is not the thing for us to have now.​—Isa. 61:1, 2.

14, 15. (a) As a reward for obedience, what was Baruch to have as a “spoil” for himself? (b) Did it work out that way?

¹⁴ What is the reward for doing this? It is set out in what Jeremiah was told to say to Baruch: “‘For here I am bringing in a calamity upon all flesh,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I will give you your soul as a spoil in all the places to which you may go.’”​—Jer. 45:5b.

The Jeremiah class of today as Jehovah’s Witnesses will not lift up a violent hand against Christendom, the antitype of apostate Jerusalem and her realm. Christendom’s onetime political associates and other godless elements will get rid of her without any tenderness, just like the surviving nations that were glad to get rid of Jerusalem and her kingdom as their neighbors.​—Rev. 17:12-18.

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.

25. How must Jehovah’s Witnesses then imitate Jeremiah after he was dragged down to the land against which he had prophesied?

²⁵ Since the year 1914 we have been in “the time of the end.” (Dan. 12:4) So now the Jeremiah class and their dedicated companions must call the world’s attention to the threatening “sword,” the executional instrument that Jehovah will use during the oncoming “great tribulation.” (Matt. 24:21) They must imitate Jeremiah, who, after he was forcibly dragged away from the land of Judah, proclaimed the threatening “sword” of King Nebuchadnezzar against the land to which he was dragged, Egypt, also Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other enemy lands. Even now before the outbreak of the “great tribulation” they are under divine orders to “proclaim . . . the day of vengeance on the part of our God” against Organized Religion and all worldly nations. (Jer. 46:1–49:39) Their “mission” is to sound out the warning message: “Jehovah has a day of vengeance, a year of retributions for the legal case over Zion.”​—Isa. 34:8.