PERHAPS I SHOULD THINK OF A GAG OR TWO!
Kingdom News 37 sneek preview
by Midget-Sasquatch 73 Replies latest watchtower bible
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inthetruth
just to clear up the 70's remark, for those of you who heard the witnesses were sayingthat the end was coming in 1975 that is true, SOME witnesses did say that however, the WTS and most witnesses did not. a small percentage starting saying that they believed the end would come in 1975. This was not a Jehovahs Witness teaching. When the end failed to come, they fell away from the religion and started their own or became apostate. It really irks me everytime people bring that up. It clearly was not a Jehovahs Witness teaching it came from man. & those that came up with it are not witnesses!!
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badboy
SO THERE DID IT COME FROM, INTHE TRUTH?
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Midget-Sasquatch
inthetruth,
Methinks you didn't attentively read the Oct. 8, 1966 Awake. Here's just a sampling of quotes showing it was the WTS that promoted the idea in their official literature:
(from pg.15) If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact thatyou will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. Of the generation that observed the beginning of the "last days" in 1914, Jesus foretold: "This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur". --- Matt. 24:34.
Therefore, as a young person you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? it will be well on the way towards its finish, if not actually gone!
(from pg.19-20) In what year, then, would the first 6,000 year's of man's existence and also the first 6,000 years of God's rest day come to an end? The year 1975. This is worthy of notice, particularly in view of the fact that the "last days" began in 1914, and the physical facts of our day in fulfillment of prophecy mark this as the last generation of this wicked world. So we can expect the immediate future to be filled with thrilling events for those who rest faith in God and his promises. It means that within relatively few years we will witness the fulfillment of the remaining prophecies that have to do with the "time of the end."
(from pg.20) Of course, as to the precise day and hour of the end, Jesus noted that knowledge of this was in the province of his heavenly Father alone. (Matt. 24:36) But when a brief period of years at the most separates us from the great windup of this old system, the vital thing is to stay spiritually awakw. ----Luke 21:34-36.
Not to menion the Oct. 8 1968 Awake, which hopefully someone else can put up some quotes from.