20. What did Jehovah then do in fulfillment of His defiant message through the prophet Isaiah?

²⁰ “And the angel of Jehovah proceeded to go forth and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When people rose up early in the morning, why, there all of them were dead carcasses.

Isa. 37:36

21. (a) What did Jehovah’s battle action there prefigure? (b) What does the “steward” class of today now face, and since when and to whom has this class sounded out the warning?

²¹ Back there the battle action on Jehovah’s part in behalf of his kingdom at Jerusalem prefigured his still greater act during “the war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Har–Magedon. There his angel of destruction will be an archangel, the installed King, Jesus Christ, in command of all the heavenly angels. (Rev. 16:14-16; 19:11-21)