Thankyou Jan, I appreciate you sharing that. Yes, in the FDS feeds us well, spiritually. In our Revelation book, Chapter 34, par. 3,4, speaking of the "John class" as watchful and under angelic direction (par 2) it states:
par3) "From September 18-20, 1942, at the height of WWII, Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States held their New World Theocratic Assembly. The key city, Cleveland, Ohio, was tied in by telephone with more than 50 other convention cities, for a peak attendance of 129,699. Where wartime conditions permitted, other conventions repeated the program around the world. At the time, many of Jehovah's people expected that the war would escalate into God's war of Armageddon; hence the title of the public talk, "Peace--Can It Last?," aroused much curiosity. How could the new president of the Watch Tower Society, N. H. Knorr, presume to talk about peace when the very opposite seemed to be in store for the nations? The reason was that the John class was paying 'more than the usual attention' to God's prophetic Word.--Hebrews 2:1; 2 Peter 1:19"
par 4) What light did the talk "Peace--Can It Last?" throw on the prophecy? Clearly identifying the scarlet-colored wild beast of Revelation 17:3 as the League of Nations, President Knorr went on to discuss its stormy career on the basis of the angel's following words to John: "The wild beast that you saw was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss, and it is to go off into destruction."--Revelation 17:8a"
par 5) (describes those nations in the League of Nations when in Sept. 1939 the Nazi dictator of Germany launched WWII) "Having failed to keep peace in the world, the League of Nations virtually plunged into an abyss of inactivity.By 1942 it had become a has-been. Neither before this nor at some later date--but right on time---did Jehovah interpret to his people the full depth of meaning of the vision! At the New World Theocratic Assembly, President Knorr could declare, in line with the prophecy, that "the wild beast....is not." He then asked the question, "will the League remain in the pit? Quoting Revelation 17:8, he answered: "The association of worldly nations will rise again." That is just how it proved to be--in vindication of Jehovah's prophetic Word!"
I also found Brother Knorr's words remarkable too, "The association of worldly nations will rise again." He did not say, "The League of Nations," as when it came back, its name had changed to "the United Nations." Again quite accurate phrasing at this most important assembly held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942. How truly blessed we are. :readbible: