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.

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.

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.

¹⁹ So Jehovah’s “day of vengeance” was not over when he used the king of Babylon as his instrument to overthrow the kingdom of Judah. The cup of national disaster that had been put to the lips of Judah and Jerusalem deserved to be handed on to those ill-willed nations for them to be overthrown as haters of Jehovah.