The Watchtower, “Part 1—Flashes of Light—Great and Small”
“The very next year, bright light shone on the parable of the sheep and the goats. It was seen that this prophecy was to be fulfilled in the present Lord’s day, not in the future during the Millennium as previously thought.”
“The very next year” is 1923, the year after the 1922 Cedar Point convention mentioned in the preceding sentence. The paragraph records the first of two changes to the timing of Matthew 25:31-46.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, Part 1—Flashes of Light—Great and Small
Confidence note. Document opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; the wording was read in full and the page number taken from the library's own page markers.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-d-w-1995-0515-p1-sheep-goats-1923