Book study this coming week..

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  • skin
    skin

    Letting all know that an artfully contrived false story will be studied in next weeks book study "What does the bible really teach" in the appendix on pg 215.

    1914-A SignificantYear in Bible Prophecy.

    Decades in advance, Bible students proclaimed that there would be significant developments in 1914. What were these, and what evidence points to 1914 as such an important year?....

    The rest of this book does not anwser this question because the only thing the Bible students said about 1914 before 1914 was that this would be the beginning of Armarggetton. But by the end of the study we will all know that what we know today about 1914 was also known by these Bible students back then.

    Infact the year 1914 did not become A SignificantYear in Bible Prophecy until 1943 when the watchtower changed many dates, etc "1799 - Bigginning of the last days", "1874 - Kingdom is est", "1878 - Jesus is given rulership in heaven", etc. TO the year 1914.

  • Ade
    Ade

    in reply to Decades in advance, Bible students proclaimed that there would be significant developments in 1914. What were these, and what evidence points to 1914 as such an important year?.... lol i may attend and put my hand up and say " yes the bible students werent the only ones saying this about 1914 were they - so lots of religions must have had divine interpretation given them "

  • Stealth453
    Stealth453

    Another neat pile of watchliar bull$hit.

    Carefull where you step...

  • blondie
    blondie

    How about this comment:

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    w93 1/15 p. 5 ‘Caught Away to Meet the Lord’—How? ***

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    Watchtower has consistently presented evidence to honesthearted students of Bible prophecy that Jesus’ presence in heavenly Kingdom power began in 1914.

    *** God's Kingdom Has Approached (1973) book chap. 11 p. 187 "Here Is the Bridegroom!" ***

    According to the Bible chronology that was thereafter adopted, the six thousand years of man’s existence on the earth ended in the year 1872 but the Lord Jesus did not come at the end of those six millenniums of human existence, rather, at the start of the antitypical Jubilee in October of 1874. The year 1874 was calculated as being the end of six millenniums of sin among mankind. From this latter date mankind was understood to be in the seventh millennium.—Revelation 20:4.

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    From that understanding of matters, the "chaste virgin" class began going forth to meet the heavenly Bridegroom in the year 1874, as they believed him to have arrived in that year and to be from then on invisibly present. They felt that they were already living in the invisible presence of the Bridegroom. Due to this fact, when Charles T. Russell began publishing his own religious magazine in July of 1879, he published it under the title "Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence." He had already become familiar with Wilson’s The Emphatic Diaglott, which translated the Greek word pa·rou·si´a as "presence," not "coming," in Matthew 24:3 and elsewhere. The new magazine was heralding Christ’s invisible presence as having begun in 1874. This presence was to continue until the end of the Gentile Times in 1914, when the Gentile nations would be destroyed and the remnant of the "chaste virgin" class would be glorified with their bridegroom in heaven by death and resurrection to life in the spirit. Thus the class pictured by the five wise virgins would enter through the door into the wedding.
  • Blueblades
    Blueblades

    Ray Franz in his book Crises of Conscience revealed that the Governing Body was toying with the idea that Christ's invisible presence began in the year 1956. However , the voting was split and they kept 1914.

    Blueblades

  • Alwayshere
    Alwayshere

    It is also stated in "Look! I am making all thinghs new" on page 23 paragraph 46 "For some 35 years prior to 1914, The Watchtower had been calling attention to 1914 as a year marked in Bible prophecy." 35 years ago would have been 1879. The Time Is At Hand" book on page 11 states "Bile chronology shows 1000 year reign of Jesus begin in 1873."

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