It has the name "James Rayford" in the file info BTW, not Leon Weaver, and the talk title is "Be Intensely Occupied With God's Inspired Word," which is the headlining talk for the 2006-2007 Special Assembly Day. There is another version of the same talk at the jwproclaimers.org site (which AFAIK lacks these remarks). Here is the text of what is said in the file:
I'm going to put these notes down here for a minute and just say something to you. I'd like you to listen to this very carefully. For those of us at Bethel, we have the privilege of working with the Faithful and Discreet Slave, the Governing Body. And I would like for you to know how the Governing Body, the Faithful Slave, feels about things right now in this system of things, the time period in which you are living. The Faithful Slave feels that they have fulfilled Matthew 24:14, "this good news" has been preached "in all the inhabited earth for a witness." What does the next part of that text say after? (audience replies) Yes, the end will come. Do you know that there are only three countries in the entire world where there are no Witnesses today? Only three countries. They are Somalia, North Korea, and Afghanistan. That doesn't mean that the literature is not in those countries, there's no Witnesses there. And I mentioned this yesterday to some of the friends and they wanted to know why, and I'll tell you why. Jehovah does not send his people into any environment where they will be killed. That's why there's no Witnesses there. Those two countries bear community responsibility. But the good news of the Kingdom has been preached. Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, Revelation 6, those scriptures are having their fulfillment, they're being fulfilled. So where you are in the stream of Bible prophecy? What is the next Bible prophecy to be fulfilled? The next one. Do you know? I'm going to read it to you. Turn to Revelation. Revelation 17:15-17: "And he says to me, the waters that you saw where the harlot is sitting, means peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And those horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will HATE the harlot and make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshly parts and will completely BURN HER WITH FIRE, for God put it into their hearts to carry out his thoughts, or his thought, or even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast until the words of God will have been accomplished." The words of God will have been accomplished. The anointed, the Faithful Slave, is waiting for God but there is one thought in their hearts. That is the next Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. For those who know what that means, that triggers the Great Tribulation. Once that starts, all of you will be locked into here you are now. Whatever you've done, you've done. There won't be any more, "You know, I could have, I thought of, that I might do this if I had the time." This is the time. What will you do about the time in which we are living. Be at urgency. Be quick about it. The time left is reduced.Some observations of my own: (1) The speaker is clearly distinguishing these comments from his prepared talk by saying that he was putting his lecture notes down...this adds to the significance of the material to the audience as well as explains the divergence from the prepared lecture to those following along who have the talk outline. In the other version of this talk, there is some discussion of the fall of Babylon the Great and the current preaching campaign about 31-33 minutes into the lecture, perhaps this is where the speaker here went into his digression. (2) The quotation of Revelation 17 clearly has some connection to the recent Kingdom News campaign. (3) The Society has not claimed since 1920 that Matthew 24:14 has been already fulfilled. It was in the 1 July 1920 Watchtower that Rutherford revised the existing interpretation of this verse in order to justify the existence of new preaching campaigns when the Bible Students were already assured that the Harvest has ended. If the GB wants to change the interpretation of this verse, they risk losing a primary prooftext for the ongoing "preaching work". (4) The speaker asserts that "Jehovah does not send his people into any environment where they will be killed." The first thing that popped in my head when I read this was how Rutherford insisted that German JWs had to preach and spread his literature (which at the time was literally filled with anti-fascist propaganda) within Germany under the pain of "eternal death" at Gehenna. The publication of the "Fear Them Not" articles in 1934 made it clear to German JWs that they risk eternal destruction if they give any let up in the preaching work, and that they should not fear death at the hands of men since Jehovah would otherwise give them the "second death".