*** w79 1/15 p. 21 par. 10 How the Day of Reckoning Is Worked Out for Our Good ***
Those virgin companions therefore picture the "great crowd" who began appearing in this "time of the end" and who join themselves to the remnant of the bride class before these leave the earthly scene to join the Bridegroom Jesus Christ in heaven. Quite in keeping with this, the "great crowd," as foretold in Revelation 7:9-17, began forming in 1935 and associating themselves with the last members of the spirit-begotten bride class. By being preserved through the coming "great tribulation," they will be alive here on earth when the heavenly marriage takes place. At that event they will greatly rejoice.—Ps. 45:15.*** w84 9/1 p. 17 par. 14 Lining Up With “Jehovah’s Mind” as Now Revealed ***
The "great crowd" of Christ’s "other sheep" expect to be the first ones to enter alive into the millennial reign of Jesus Christ with his 144,000 co-rulers. (Revelation 7:9, 10; John 10:16; Revelation 14:1; 20:4-6) Since that eventful year of 1935 the members of that "great crowd" have been associating with the remnant of those Kingdom heirs, who are walking before Jehovah God with a complete heart.
This is what is in print. These two articles clearly state that the great crowd foretold in Revelation 7:9-17 "began forming" when members of that crowd associated themselves with the anointed remnant in 1935, and this group "will be alive here on earth" when the heavenly marriage takes place, which occurs AFTER the great tribulation and Armageddon (Revelation Climax, p. 277).