Do two men walk together, unless they have made an appointment? ... If there be disaster in a city, has not the Lord caused it? Surely, he will do nothing, the Lord God, except he reveals his purpose to his servants the prophets. -Amos 3: 3, 6, 7, AT.

In this time of world crisis God is at work in the earth before he performs the terrific act of God which he has foretold. He tells us there must be adequate causes for certain observable effects. He also tells us he would keep his witnesses informed of his purposes and of his coming act. Since he long ago spoke by his recorded Word foretelling the world calamity, and since he now makes this recorded Word of prophecy talk through fulfillment of the prophecy which marks the time of the end, how can Jehovah's witnesses do otherwise than prophesy? (Amos 3: 8, AT) And they are not doing otherwise than prophesy, let the doomed world like it or not. Hence the certain end of the world is the valid reason for giving preliminary witness about it now. W 9/15