36. What happens after the fourth angel blows his trumpet?

³⁶ “And the fourth angel blew his trumpet. And a third of the sun was smitten and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, in order that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not have illumination for a third of it, and the night likewise.” (Revelation 8:12)

39. (a) How did the resolution adopted at the convention in 1925 describe Christendom’s false light? (b) What further exposé was made in 1955?

³⁹ In line with that heavenly proclamation, a capacity crowd of God’s people assembled in convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., on August 29, 1925, and adopted for publication a forthright resolution entitled “Message of Hope.” Again, some 50 million copies were distributed in a number of languages. It described the false light held out by the combine of commercial profiteers, political leaders, and the religious clergy, as a result of which “the peoples have fallen into darkness.” And it pointed to God’s Kingdom as the real hope for receiving “the blessings of peace, prosperity, health, life, liberty and eternal happiness.”

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“Message of Hope” (1925)

This forthright resolution was used to expose Christendom’s supposed light sources as being in truth sources of darkness