Yes most of you in your analysis of the 09/15 WT study ‘OUR ACTIVE LEADER TODAY’ have missed a golden nugget – new prophecy courtesy of the GB.
Very discreet but read carefully the highlighted text:
13 Christ’s “presence” since 1914 has gone unnoticed by most of earth’s inhabitants. (2 Pet. 3:3, 4) Soon, however, he will make his presence manifest by executing Jehovah’s judgments on the various elements of Satan’s system of things. The destruction of “the man of lawlessness,” the clergy of Christendom, will be an unmistakable “manifestation of his presence.”(Read 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 8.) It will furnish concrete proof that Christ has moved into action as Jehovah’s appointed Judge. (Read 2 Timothy 4:1.) The annihilation of the most reprehensible part of Babylon the Great will serve as a prelude to the total destruction of that wicked world empire of false religion. Jehovah will put it into the hearts of political leaders to devastate this spiritual harlot. (Rev. 17:15-18) That will be
the first part of the “great tribulation.”—Matt. 24:21.
The word ‘prelude’ is interesting for several reasons - here’s why. Over the last century the GB has consistently provided a sequence for The Great Tribulation - the destruction of Babylon (false religion) followed by Armageddon. They have never - until now - specifically stated the sequence for the destruction of Babylon the Great. The word prelude according to wiktionary is an ‘introductory event’. They have prophecied that the destruction of Christendom (Vatican & Christian denominations) ‘man of lawlessness’ will be the prelude or initiation of the first phase of the Great Tribulation followed by ‘the total destruction…of false religion’. Read carefully those scriptures, none of them support the assertion that Christendom will be destroyed first. My point is they have made their own unsubstantiated prediction – a prophecy that we are obliged to hold them too. What do you think?