The Watchtower (Study Edition), “Holy Spirit's Role in the Outworking of Jehovah's Purpose”
“He evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.”
Introduces the 'overlapping generation'; also stated in the 15 June 2010 annual-meeting report (doc 2010446, p. 5).
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower (Study Edition), Holy Spirit's Role in the Outworking of Jehovah's Purpose
Confidence note. Opened on wol; page marker 10.
Corroborated by. src-w-2014-0115-p30-31-two-groups
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-w-2010-0415-p10-overlap